[ENG SUB] Hua Chenyu Focus Interview: "I Can Accept Not Making Music Anymore" || 华晨宇

Hello friends of Netease, I am Hua Chenyu

Do you still remember the feelings when you first held a concert?

When I first held my concert, I felt I was too excited

And I used all my strength to sing the first two songs

So I was exhausted when it came to the third song

But I was really happy during the interactive segments later

Because there are interactive segments every year in each concert

To have fun with everybody

A kind of very spontaneous interaction

To interact with a lot of people
Feel real close to the audience

I would then remember this kind of feeling

I remembered so much so that I wrote many interactive songs for the concert the second year

What kind of feelings that the interactive activities gave you to let you remember so much and feel so deeply?

I feel it is the attractiveness of live performance

The attraction of live performance

I don't quite hope that within an arena

That you have to divide the area for audience and stage so far away

I don't hope that they are just watching me

I also don't hope that it's always to let tens of thousands of people to experienced me

I hope that I can also feel them

Because they came for me

So I like to interact a lot

Because during the process of interaction

I can fully experience them

If I only sing quietly

It's always them trying to understand me

They would say Hua Hua is singing the song

He's expressing something and they are thinking

But when we are interacting, I am thinking about them

When your name is acclaimed by the whole audience, what did you feel?

I would be very moved

Because since the first year that I stood on the stage

I was still at the back of the stage
Not on the stage yet

By the side of stage, I heard the whole audience was calling Hua Chenyu, Hua Chenyu

At that moment, I almost wanted to cry

Because from my perspective, the whole arena is really awe inspiring

So that feeling was really moving

You would feel
So many people

They came together for me

You would have a warm feeling by doing this thing

It's really heartening

So before I went on the stage, I would want to cry when I heard them calling me

That kind

It's not sad
It's kind of wonderful

What's the style of your new album?

Mainly, there will be more stuff about the big love

It's gentler

Because this year I really want to talk about the New World

After the Birds' Nest (concert)

It's like a summary of the five years

Like a summary of the five years

And this year is the sixth year

And I mentioned at last year's concert

For the following years, we are going to start a new world

With going to welcome the new world

So this album is like a new start

To let everybody take a look of the New World

So perhaps I have written a lot about the big love

And it will be really gentle

And I especially composed a new song for the concert

The new album is a lot gentler, is this change a natural one?

It happened naturally. It must be natural

If I only want to make a change

Actually I cannot write anything

I'm the kind who has to feel it

I only write the melody inside my heart

In these years you said you are more tolerant and the new album is gentler. Why did you change?

It's probably due to the fans

Because I feel this is a mutual process

When I first started I was a bit

Seclusive

And after so many years

I have come from a point when I always talked to them a lot

To joke with him a lot

I have made a change in this process

It proves that I'm getting closer to the fans

So I'm more and more relaxed

Under what conditions would you be more inclined to write a song?

At the earliest time, I would be the most inspired when I was in seclusion

To lock myself in a little darkroom

Pitch black without seeing my hands

I would have a lot of inspirations

Sitting there for an hour, I could be really productive

But now I feel that I can compose under many circumstances

Two travel, to see fresh things

Even when I open the curtains in the morning

I would have the inspiration sometimes

Sitting there and drinking tea while watching the sunset would inspire me

Talking to somebody would inspire me

For every time when I'm in touch with

Something that upset my nerves

I would have feelings

Then I can compose

So it's different from before

I'm more relaxed as I grow older

When you can't compose, how do you relax yourself?

To play Rubik cube

Because sometimes when I'm writing a song

For example I got a inspiration and I started

After while

Because the inspiration can't be the inspiration for the whole song

It's impossible that you just sit there and suddenly a light shines, and you have the whole song out

It's all when a big chunk of melody came in

There's a melody in your head

When you were to sort them out

You would get stuck at a spot

I wasn't able to get it out afterward

I would go play the Rubik cube

Playing Rubik cube would allow me to focus on the Rubik cube

Then I would forget

After I solved the puzzle I would forget

The melody that wasn't good just now

And then I would come back and write
It would feel better

Your songs are seldom about relationships.
So what do you want to express the most in your music?

Actually my music is different every year

But I always want to convey some energy

Actually most are about myself

For example my first album

I would describe myself as a kind of tiny energy

A tiny glimmer

For example the song "Glimmer" and "Ashes from Fireworks" are all very small

I just want to say with the stuff

I'm really insignificant

But I'm still shines

I don't need to light up a lot of people

As long as I can warm one person, it's enough

Or at a certain place in your heart

Very deep place

Or a tiny corner

If it can be lit up a little bit
I feel it's enough

Many people say that singing sad love songs can resonate with people. This is characteristic of pop music. What's your opinion?

After so many years in the industry

There are a lot of record labels

They would request a certain kind of album

That is to say we want this album to be made in a certain way

To put a certain kind of songs on the album

Whether it's sad or jazzy

On whatever the type

Or something similar

To express a main theme or something

It's set by somebody else

Then you go compose

Or they find songs for you to sing

In this way, they maybe considering the market

But for me all these years

My whole team really understand me

Including my company

They can't demand this from me

For me if must be that

Because I feel to cater to the market

I never know what the market wants

I'm thinking if you really set this for me

And after you set it, I listened to you and released the songs

Will that really satisfy the market?

To do it that way

I feel that it must be a work in extreme

It wouldn't always be heard by somebody

And you should not be catering to the market

You should set the trend for the market

After six years since debut, are there things that you need to remind yourself?

No, I grow freely

I never demanded that I have to do this or that

Perhaps you're still young. Have you ever thought of where your music is going to?

I feel that maybe

How should I put it

I feel that I should always be able to compose

Because you will always be in a different mood

Your music would change your age

For example

It must be the mood is right to write a song

Just like what I said

The melody is the melody inside my heart

Have you ever thought that one day you may not do music?

I have thought of this
I feel it's possible

A lifetime is pretty long

I have only lived one third of it, right?

So I feel that I have done a lot with one third of it

I went to school to study

I make music

I have a lot of hobbies within only one third of it

I think I might pick up other hobbies later

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