The background for the creation of Quasimodo s gift

Quasimodo's Gift" is a sudden inspiration for Hua Chenyu when he saw a very abstract painting in an Italian church when he participated in the European tour of the "Flowers and Boys" program. At that time, because of the regulations of the program, the mobile phone was handed in, and there was no equipment to record this melody, and I couldn't think about it after returning to China. Two months later, Hua Chenyu, who was composing a song for the record, suddenly recalled the painting and immediately recorded the melody with the piano.

The song has a bit of a classical style, but there are popular ** elements in it.

When Hua Chenyu created this song, the picture in his mind was that in the church at night, a pillar of candlelight, a lonely and painful person kneeling in front of the candlelight. After the sample came out, everyone liked it very much. sent out to fill in the draft and received about 45 words, among which the words of the son moved Hua Chenyu, and the singing also fit Hua Chenyu's personal characteristics.

About ** name.

When preparing for the **, Hua Chenyu thought of his own ** as "40 yards", and 40 yards is his own shoe size. He doesn't think you need to have too much of a world, because you only have two 40-yard feet, and you only need to stand in such a position. It's good to live as it comes, because as long as you stand here, you are there and valuable.

Later, when I got the lyrics of the song of the same name "Quasimodo's Gift", I liked it very much, it was the feeling he wanted, and it was very close to the melodic line of the song. I also use this name, hoping that everyone will learn to accept those so-called bad things on the surface, because they may also have its beauty in it. There are two sides to everything, learn to see the good in it.

Record production. The production lasted 9 months, selected from 20,000 samples, including the works of cutting-edge composers in China, Hong Kong and Denmark, including rock, lyrical, drama, classical, punk, British and other genres. Except for Lin Xi's lyrics, all the others use young lyricists born in the 90s, and each work is compared from more than 40 lyrics.

The producer of the whole album is Zheng Nan, who arranged the music for 9 of the songs, which have both an international rock style and the most concise and soulful piano and guitar versions. American mixer Ken Lewis was also invited to do the mixing, and Joe Laporta was the master engineer. The plane shot was by Chinese-American artist Fan Xi and Taiwanese photographer number 223.

The cover shot was taken in the middle of a sweltering, humid and rainstormy woods, with thunder and lightning until late at night.

The record packaging design is responsible for the gravitational space design office, and the domestic version is a white gift box with a green cover**. The overseas version is a simple and clean blue and white design style gift box standing in the sea, reflecting his pursuit of simplicity. The copywriting is in charge of Wu Mengzhi, and she accurately captures the characteristics of Hua Chenyu's inner world:

A poet who sings in the darkness with a childlike heart.

The record uses a combination of Internet electronic **** and physical distribution. The domestic physical version is sold by JD.com**. The launch of overseas entities in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan** and iTunes is published by Sony**.

**Videotape.

On November 7, the ** video of "Quasimodo's Gift" was first released on Tencent. On November 10, the whole network was launched. It tells the story between Cassie, a Hugo star who lives on Earth, and Nebula, a comedian.

The whole film is 40 minutes long, produced by Gravitational Space, director Peng Youlun boldly fused ** with the story, and chose "Quasimodo's Gift" and "Dust in the Fireworks" in Hua Chenyu**. Later, the video was edited into the MV of the two songs.

A representative of "truth, goodness and beauty".

Quasimodo. It was the French writer Victor Hugo.

Created ** "Notre Dame de Paris".

A very important character in . He has a geometric face, a square nose, and a mouth that protrudes outward. God gave him all the ugliness, but He repaid the world with kindness.

A deformed child abandoned by his parents in front of Notre Dame Cathedral, known as the ugly-looking and deaf bell tower eccentric.

Quasimodo's appearance, character, and life experience are not simple author's settings, but a very complete metaphor for the mental state of the industrial producers at that time, and Claude is a metaphor for Catholic religious thought, Esmeralda.

It is used as a metaphor for the new bourgeois idea of freedom and fraternity, and with these basic understandings, we can more accurately understand the expression of the work.

For example, in the end, Quasimodo's bones left Esmeralda and turned into powder, because the author believes that the ideas of industrial producers do not have a solid foundation (strong skeleton), and their feelings for Esmeralda (free fraternity) are the worship and attachment of the good and beauty in free thought (originally attached to religious thought), but because of the serious incompatibility of the congenital situation, it cannot be combined with it to produce any meaningful results.

Inspired by Notre-Dame Cathedral.

The ugly-looking but kind-hearted bell ringer, knocking this text, always comes to my mind, wearing a mask and singing "I Am a Little Bird" affectionately

of him. Loneliness was his truest confession at that time.

A child who grows up alone is forced to be lonely, and gradually learns to get along with loneliness, and that little inner world belongs to him, which will not be shown to others, let alone allowed to be spied on by outsiders. Quasimodo.

The gift of enjoying solitude".

In fact, Tongdu is the same, the more he grows up, the more lonely he becomes, because "We Are All Lonely", "Whose dream, no one cares", the call of dreams, the stability of reality, which one is more important? In addition to sticking to the loneliness in my heart, I continue to work silently for my ideals.

Quasimodo's gift.

Hua Chenyu. Composer : Hua Chenyu.

Lyrics : 孛子.

The bells rang in the night, and the wind extinguished the candles.

Outside the bell tower, his singing echoes in the night sky.

The monster in the mirror, wearing the same clothes.

In the helpless eyes, there is boundless loneliness, woo

The sad song is telling that it's not anyone's fault, oh

Quasimodo's gift to enjoy solitude.

The sun never patronizes, and the moonlight dances for me.

The first bell of the Parisian night is my note.

If you get used to pain, tears won't be bitter.

If you are sad, let me bell, and comfort you, Woo Husky song, With tears, And bless you, Shirt old Woo Quasimodo's gift, Enjoy solitude.

Hua Chenyu's first ** name.

Summary. I've seen Quasimodo's gift three times, but I'm still in tears after three times. It's probably all in the eyes of Cassie and the heroine, Cassie's memories when she was a child, and the heroine and the little alien pointing at each other.

I think Hua Chenyu has deduced his loneliness and uniqueness, because this is himself.

He also once said that when he was a child, he longed for love, but refused to communicate with others. I also have some sympathy for this song, because I also grew up alone when I was a child, and I am very introverted, I don't like to communicate with strangers, and I am easily bullied by others but my parents don't care.

Quasimodo's gift.

Quasimodo's gift I watched the bridge three times, but I still shed tears after three times. It's probably all in the eyes of Cassie and the heroine, Cassie's memories when she was a child, and the heroine and the little alien pointing at each other. I think Hua Chenyu has deduced his loneliness and uniqueness, because this is his own ascension.

He also once said that when he was a child, he longed for love, but refused to communicate with others. I also have some sympathy for this song, because I also grew up alone when I was a child, and I am very introverted, I don't like to mingle with strangers, and I am easy to be bullied by others but my parents don't care.

What to fill in.

Quasimodo's gift" means "the best gift for someone you don't like."

Quasimodo's Gift is the first ** after the debut of Wu Xun Liang Hua Chenyu, with Zheng Nan as the producer. **A total of 10 songs are included, including three original songs by Hua Chenyu. On September 18, 2014, it was launched on iTunes worldwide, and on the 19th, it was sold by JD.com**Entity**Mainland, and Sony** was simultaneously released in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.

On November 7, the **** video was first released by Tencent, which lasted for 40 minutes On December 10, 2014, "Quasimodo's Gift" won the most popular ** award of the year at the 2014 Tudou "Choice of Youth" annual ceremony. On January 18, 2015, **** Luchang Film won the Best New Director Award and three other nominations at the 4th Beijing International Short Film Festival. On March 30, it won the best ** in the 22nd Oriental Billboard.

Quasimodo's gift is a ** sung by Chinese singer Hua Chenyu, the songs in ** have a variety of styles, covering pop, rock, electronic and other **elements, and are deeply loved by the majority of listeners. According to statistics, Quasimodo's gift** was a huge success in just a few months after its release. Up to now, the sales volume of this ** has exceeded 10 million sails, becoming a classic in the history of Chinese**.

Quasimodo's gift** is a classic Chinese ****, and its success lies not only in the excellence of this sedan chair, but also in the emotions and values it conveys. The success of this ** has also won Eason Chan countless praises and fans, and has become an important milestone in his ** career.