Chapter 836: A Familiar Opening
"Jackson Ye" is Ye Zhiqiu's English name, which is also the name of this EP.
This method of using the singer's name as an album title is actually very common in the industry. One of the benefits is that for singers who are not yet well-known, the popularity of the album will directly feed back to the singer of the same name, driving the popularity of the album to increase.
Ye Zhiqiu's first Chinese album is called "One Leaf Zhiqiu", which coincides with the English album.
Although it is an English album, this EP is released simultaneously around the world, and domestic fans can also purchase and listen to it. However, Ye Zhiqiu's own promotion center will be in the US market.
The official release time of "Jackson Ye" is 10 o'clock in the morning on June 10th. Since China is 12 hours ahead of the Eastern Time in the United States, it happens to be around 10 o'clock the night before.
With Ye Zhiqiu's current influence, there must be a lot of people buying this album in China, but this time is also a bit too high. Huahai Entertainment and Ye Zhiqiu combined their efforts to simply advance the release date in China by one day, also to give domestic fans
Better buying experience.
After all, China is our base, and fans can’t treat her badly.
This is the first EP released by Ye Zhiqiu. Since there are only three songs, although the number of songs is not large, each song is equipped with a MV, and the price is lower than that of a normal album, so it is still very conscientious.
And due to the recent popularity of "The Legend of Sword and Fairy", Ye Zhiqiu's image of "Xu Changqing" in ancient costume has been sought after by the entire Internet. This MV happens to have a scene of him in modern clothes. Many fans want to buy one just for this reason.
Going to Beijing, at ten o'clock in the morning, Cai Cai stepped into a relatively large video store on time.
She came here to buy Ye Zhiqiu's latest physical record. Although there is also a digital version on Penguin Music, she feels that listening to the physical record has a different sense of ritual, and it can also be regarded as a kind of support for the singer.
She was already familiar with this store and knew that the owner sitting at the front desk was named Zhang, and the customers called him Zhang Huzi.
It was originally a bookstore and record store with an 8:2 layout. Over the past year, the record area has continued to expand, and the area it occupies has almost doubled.
Usually there aren't that many people, but there are always times a year when it comes in handy - like today.
After Cai Cai entered the door, she didn't need to look for it. She glanced at it and walked directly to the place with the most people.
Sure enough, I saw an album called "Jackson Ye" on the most conspicuous display.
Cai Cai's eyes lit up and he quickly took one and looked at it carefully.
The album cover is on a beach by the sea. Ye Zhiqiu is carrying a guitar and his body is slightly bent as if he is singing in a low voice. The whole picture is gray and black in cool colors, giving it a high-end texture.
The first moment she got it, Cai Cai felt like she couldn't put it down and went to the front desk to pay without hesitation.
——Four.
There are also three roommates. There was a class at school this morning, so she skipped class to buy it as a representative.
When I returned to the dormitory, my roommates had just returned from get out of class. They looked at each other and immediately closed the door in tacit understanding, turned on the computer, inserted the CD, and clicked to play. A series of actions were completed in one go, with an incomparable tacit understanding.
The first song on the album is called "Numb", which translated into Chinese means "numb".
At the beginning, after the very metallic prelude, Ye Zhiqiu's singing sounded.
【I'mtiredofbeingwhatyouwantmetobe
I'm tired of being expected to be who I am
Feelingsofaithlesslostunderthesurface...
Underneath the pale disguise is a soul whose faith has been lost...]
Sounds good!
This was the first impression of several people in the dormitory. Moreover, this style of music, which seemed to be called new metal, was a style that Ye Zhiqiu had never tried before. They had only seen videos of foreign bands playing on the Internet...
In the main song part, Ye Zhiqiu’s voice is calm, but it gives people the feeling that he is gathering strength.
Coming to the chorus, accompanied by intensive drum beats, Ye Zhiqiu's singing voice sounded at the top of his lungs.
【I'esonumbIcan'tfeelyouthere
My heart is as cold as ice, and I am completely unaware of your manipulations
esotiredsomuchmoreaware
I am exhausted physically and mentally, but my soul suddenly awakens]
The powerful and tearing singing made several people's bodies tremble involuntarily, and then they were completely immersed in the singing.
When the song ended, several girls felt short of breath and flushed.
——Excited.
Putting aside the musicality of the song, the biggest feeling this song gives people is "hormone bursting".
For fans like them who are fans of Ye Zhiqiu's good looks and talent, this is simply not to their liking.
After a few minutes of slowing down, several people clicked on the next song - "Believer".
Then, several people were deeply shocked, and then their faces flushed again.
It's also because of "excitement", but the previous time was psychological, this time it's physical...
Every scene in the MV of Ye Zhiqiu, who is shirtless and showing off his well-defined muscles, can bring out a gasp.
If the first song gave people the feeling of overflowing hormones, this song directly means that the hormones are about to overflow the screen.
When the song ended, the dormitory fell into silence.
After a while, someone let out a long sigh.
"That's great."
"That's great." The other three nodded in agreement.
"What did he sing just now?"
"have no idea."
"The focus is not there at all."
"How about...watch it again...no, listen to it again?"
"...No, please take it slow first, I'm afraid I'll get a nosebleed."
"Bah! You pervert!"
"...I am."
After a while of laughing and joking, several people restrained their eager desire to watch it again and clicked on the third song "Yellow".
It can be seen that the MV of this song was filmed in the same place as the cover.
On the beach at dusk, with twinkling stars faintly visible in the sky, Ye Zhiqiu walked along the beach, letting the cold sea breeze blow his hair around, and sang as he walked.
【Lookatthestars
Look up at the stars
Lookhowtheyshineforyou
Watch them shine for you
Andeverythingyoudo
But everything you do
Yeah,theywereallYellow
But so shy and timid]
It's like a psychedelic scene with a sense of weightlessness, sadness, beautiful melody and music are integrated together. The artistic conception of the whole song spreads out like a tide, making people intoxicated.
After the last song of the album was played, several girls took a deep breath, and a thought suddenly flashed through their minds.
This album is so worth it!
Another few dozen seconds passed before a weak voice came.
"How about...the second song..."
Chapter completed!