Chapter 394 - Who could have written this song? (2/2)
The interpretation of the song was too perfect!
What a great pairing of two music veterans!
Even Director Peng Yiyu, who had been insistent on the Spring Festival Gala not needing Zhang Xia and Zhang Yuanqi anymore could not help but be moved by the song. He thought over it for a moment and then quietly took out his phone to send a message to his wife, ”It's been hard on you all these years.”
His wife replied very quickly, ”Ah? What does this mean?”
Peng Yiyu said, ”Nothing, I just wanted to thank you.”
His wife replied, ”Hur Hur, why are you being so mushy? Go work, you are still busy. I've wrapped dumplings. Let's eat them later when you are back from work.”
Peng Yiyu replied, ”Don't wait up for me, I don't know what time I will be back.”
His wife said, ”I will wait up no matter how late. There's no need to reply, focus on your work.”
At the studio.
”There have been songs about women that I felt were quite good before, but when compared to 'Woman Flower', why do those songs feel like they're not that good anymore?”
”That's right. Those songs that sing praises of women only cover the issue superficially and are too dignified in a sense, but this 'Woman Flower' really touches on what being a woman is really about! The song writer must understand women really well to their bones. It's really too understanding of us women! The song is so well written. Zhang Xia and Zhang Yuanqi sang it so well too!”
”It's a perfect work of art!”
”Those two women are really as good as ever!”
The young people did not understand any of this.
”What song was that, it's terrible!”
”Yea, it's so lousy compared to Lee Anson's song!”
”Only the melody was not bad. Everything else was not so good.”
But there were also other younger people who liked the song, ”What do you know? If this song was not good, then there aren't any good songs anymore! Don't tell me you all didn't understand Grandma Zhang and Auntie Yuanqi's message from the song at all?”
A girl said, ”Right, it's really so nice to listen to!”
A guy, whose eyes were full of admiration, said, ”Grandma Zhang and Sister Zhang are too beautiful! That aura, that charm, they really didn't feel old at all! I will fight it out with whoever dares to say otherwise!”
Although this song was about women who were older, the message it sent was not necessarily only applicable to those with age. It also channeled a special kind of energy in the younger ones!
Then, whether it was the audience or people in front of their TVs, a lot of them suddenly had a question! Which master could have written such a good song that so accurately depicted women? Didn't they say that Zhang Xia and Zhang Yuanqi's songs were canceled? Why did they suddenly appear again to sing this song? If it was already composed beforehand, then it wouldn't be possible that their performances would have been canceled. Why wasn't this song brought out earlier to prevent that? The people who watched the gala included children, teens, and old people. There were men....and naturally women too. This was a fitting song singing about women, so why did they not bring it out earlier and instead only bring it out after the last rehearsal had ended?
Could it be that the song was composed spontaneously at the last minute?
It can't be? How could such an amazing song be so ”casually” written and composed at a moment's notice?
The next program had started by now. It was a show of four songs being continuously performed one after the other. The performing artist was a more popular male singer in recent times, but at this moment, most of the audience had their minds on something else. There were limits to how much emotion a human mind could take. As ”Woman Flower” was performed right before the current segment, everyone was too emotionally invested into that and had not recovered from the greatness of it!
There was still a voting round to come!
Every year, during the Spring Festival Gala, there would be a vote!
According to previous years programs, a language based performance would usually be voted to be the top one. Whether it was cross-talking or skits, they were usually the most popular amongst the audience whether they were young or old. In the merry mood of the Spring Festival, everyone would enjoy light hearted and fun programs like these, which was why language based performances usually had an advantage over others!
But this year....
A lot of middle-aged people had gone online to cast their votes!
Every year, they would always cast their votes to language type performances, but this year, they wanted to vote for ”Woman Flower” instead!
Everyone knew that the total votes at the end for a song performance would never outnumber votes for the language performances. Even if this year's language performances were not good, and no matter how good the performance of ”Woman Flower” was, it would never happen, but they still chose to vote for ”Woman Flower” simply because they had been touched by those two great women! Zhang Yuanqi and Zhang Xia had gone against all odds and made it happen, telling the world of their persistence and dedication! And so, they, as the audience, also had a sudden urge to tell everyone else, to tell the whole nation, to tell the whole world, that they were not old at all! Everyone of them were blooming flowers! Even at the end of their lives, they could still contribute that power of theirs to the world!
30 years old, so what?
50 years old, so what?
70 years old, so what?
90 years old, so what?
Even if no one would understand, even if only we felt that we were still worthy of praise, even if everyone thinks that we are a thing of the past, so what?!
We will speak for ourselves!!
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