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Hua Chenyu writing about his creation of “Illusion and Reality” The song "Illusion and Reality" is actually a summary of my album, and it is also my first attempt to use operatic techniques to compose. The content of this song is relatively complicated, so I started to sort out the long Weibo post a month ago, writing and deleting it in the middle, until I published this song today. It's a bit long, and interested friends can take a look. The whole song is switching back and forth between "illusion" and "reality", and the paragraphs are mainly divided into three parts: The first part’s lyrics start from the very beginning till "that tenderness is not pretended". This is written from the first-person perspective, and it talks about the self-contradictory state of understanding and not understanding the world through indoctrination during the growing-up process. Because when people are confused, they don’t know how to talk about their own life, or what appearance, expression, and language to use when facing different types of people, so it’s easy to start thinking about how to solve the conflicted feelings when they are alone. In terms of music, from the beginning of the first section, the bass and the harmonies appear and stop at the same time, and then the dry voice of a person stands out alone, just to highlight the effects of repeatedly switching between "illusion" and "reality". When the person sings, the harmonies come in suddenly. It's like when you are thinking about yourself, sometimes a lot of voices suddenly appear in your head to comfort you, but then they suddenly disappear. The second part is the rock chorus section in the middle. This section is more complicated. I may talk about its content while combining it with music. First of all, it’s narrated from the second-person perspective, that is, the perspective of others, the feeling that a bunch of people talking to you. From the word "pretended" at the end of the previous paragraph, the word "pretended" gradually changed from a normal human voice to a distorted human voice, and then to the appearance of an alarm-like sound that tells you that the "reality" is coming. But the distorted human voice is virtual, so it also highlights the question of whether is it reality or illusion. The whole paragraph roughly means that many people are using their moral standards to examine you and demand you, but in fact, they may not be able to meet these standards themselves. So the way the drums are played in the music part of this section has the feeling of a marching army. The chorus represents a group of people coming to tell you that the world is actually like this, it should be like this, and it must be like this. In fact, I struggled with how to record this chorus for a long time, because I wanted a feeling similar to marching. At first, I wanted to find a choir to record with bel canto, but then I felt that many old battle songs were not taught. People sing such songs to boost morale, so they don't sing battle songs with the standard vocal method, instead, they will sing them while mimicking the feeling of bel canto. So it sounds free and the momentum will feel stronger. It’s hard to control this kind of semi-bel canto-like singing style. After repeated discussions with my producer, I came to the conclusion that only I can record this chorus by myself because only I know which kind of voice is the best. I probably altered my vocals and recorded nearly a hundred tracks to sing out this kind of chorus-like momentum, so it could sound like justice is about to come. The third part returns to a quiet part at the end, and this part has changed back to the first-person perspective, which roughly means that in the face of all this, I start to absorb what’s going on with myself, start to try slowly to resolve conflicts and accept all the good and the bad, and then keep moving forward, even if I may still encounter occasional setbacks in the middle and start to get confused and want to be saved. But life is such a process of constant repetition. As long as you are willing to accept it positively in your heart, you can live well. So many times what you think is real, the reality will tell you it is illusory, and what you think is illusory, the reality will be disguised so well that people still can't find the answer. I am the same, I still do not know what the answer to life is, and I will struggle repeatedly, which may become my normal state in the future, but I still have to work hard to learn to accept the good and the bad. Many people like to use morality to restrain others, to teach you to do things from the highest ground of morality, and if they find out that you are wrong, they will rush to attack you and slander you as if they’ve grasped your lifeline. Can they represent justice? But those who attack you under the guise of justice may have made a mess in their own lives. So, sometimes you will fall into confusion, start to question life, and start to shrink back and escape. If everyone can truly lead a life by example while asking others, then this society may become more virtuous. We have learned to undo ignorance through higher education, but kindness can take a lifetime of life experience to gain. May each of us continue to learn to treat others with self-examination and kindness in our lives.
Such a masterful piece, Hua's piano skills are mind blowing in this fifth album. I mean he's always been an excellent pianist, but in Illusion and Reality and also in When the Whole World Forgets Me, he's just so masterful, I call him the new Beethoven. Looking forward to Madhouse, light music paired with deep lyrics, of course that's HuaHua. You can find the video with English subs on the channel Hua Chenyu for World! Thanks for another awesome reaction, Cheers!
Hua Chenyu did rock opera. 🤗🤯 Love this one so much. He said the songs he composed he himself like the most always turn out to be the niche songs 😉😁. But I don't care because I love his niche songs the most. 🤩🥰 More songs like this one Hua Hua 😘. The choir part near the end... it is all sung by himself. He said he used nearly 100 tracks for the choir part. Woah. Thank you for your videos. 🤗
Thank you for the reaction! This is my favourite song from his 5th album! ❤❤❤ I mean, they are all great, but this one is a real masterpiece, just like Seven Personalities in his 4th album.
Yes!!! Was waiting for this…. Love it so much❤❤❤ Ive got 2 songs playing in loop atm.. this one and When the whole world forgets me (jazzy). Pure brilliance💕💕💕
Must be a good feeling for a reactor to have such a great 'content` - material, to react to. This song is amazing, we really have to listen more than once. Its the kind of song that never disappear. We are bless that he explain to his listeners what he want to express. Thank you for reacting to this one 💥