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I am finally about to write this song. I first heard this song many years ago. I always thought it was very good. It was the key track in Nico's first solo album "Chelsea Girls", but I didn't pay much attention to it. After picking up the guitar again in June, I came across this song again and immediately felt that I could play it. In order to play it, I listened more carefully, read the lyrics more carefully, and found that this is an amazing song. After further digging into the background, it turns out that it has long been an extraordinary place in the European and American semi-popular world. For a while, I was fascinated by it, and I gradually realized the beauty of every note and sentence of it. I watched the movie Royal Tenenbaum again last week. This song was used as an interlude. The moment when Margot, played by Gwyneth Paltrow, walks off the airport bus and walks towards her brother, who is also the love of each other, is presented in extremely slow motion. These Days suddenly sounded, forming a classic scene in this movie (see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bl6FbeoXeHQ ).
This scene is like this: Margot stepped off the airport bus, and his brother Richie went to the airport to meet him. They are playmates since childhood, and loves in their hearts when they grow up. They haven't seen each other for many years (maybe Richie traveled for a year and haven't seen each other for a year, and forgot the specific time). Margot walked towards Richie slowly, her charming face showing a nervous smile that could not be captured-what kind of charm is this, what kind of half-length blond hair lifted by the wind, what kind of clear face, what kind of smoke drifting in front of her eyes , Everything was still, the green airport bus stopped motionless, all the background seemed sluggish, time stopped, she walked towards him slowly-Richie behaved even more nervously. For the same nervous expression, the two actors handled it appropriately, contrasting each other and setting off each other. Margot is arrogant or even a little cold on the surface, and at the same time cannot hide the innocence and pure love in her heart. The bohemian, at this time, shows the anxiety when she meets the true lover as a woman; Richie is nervous on the surface. In response to what Eli said later, Richie was "sick", he was nervous from start to finish without saying a word. The film writes about this relationship more from the perspective of Richie. Richie has always been in the light, whether he wrote to his friends at the beginning and said that he loved Margot or later participated in the investigation of Margot or committed suicide because of despair, and Margot is a mysterious person. , A weird and slutty person, a charming person who can kill men. The director's perspective determines how the two actors deal with the surprise and nervous performance in this slow motion moment.
Next, the camera turns to Margot’s subjective perspective. Richie gets closer and closer, Nico’s lyrics begin, yes, these days, I look back on the road I’ve walked these days, maybe I’m wrong, maybe I regret it, I’m alone One person, sitting on the side of the street, meditating on the past, reflecting on himself. Maybe I was wrong, maybe I was injured. So and so... The movie uses this song at this moment, and probably adds these days, how am I missing you? In an instant, the days of separation became a playful past, and the loved one was finally in front of his eyes, now getting closer and closer. This slow motion moment condensed Margot's lovesickness. The similar appearance of the fancier Nico and Margot made me believe that the director got inspiration from this and chose the song These Days.
Margot said: Stand up straight, let me get a look at you... And it's nice to see you, too. Richie didn’t say a word, where did Margot come from too? This is probably the film a bit like Woody ·The humor of Allen's language is also the humor of the tacit understanding between brother and sister.
The scene ends with a warm embrace of two people, but the story does not end. The two people are still far away from true love. Until later, when they confessed, they still said hide-and-seek language like "you know what I mean". Their status is 90% certainty, but that 10% makes people worry about the certainty and uncertainty of love. The comparison between 99% and 1% is always the actual contrast between 50% and 50%, because of this. It is a binary judgment problem. When the audience watched the movie, they returned to Margot and walked off the bus to smile, and Zhuge Liang would realize afterwards that it is a smile that only one loves, even though she has been slutty since she was 14 years old, playing truant. many years. However, if the person goes back to the moment Margot stepped off the bus and smiled at her, he would still linger in the torture of binary judgment.
These Days is a song written by Jackson Browne in 1965 when he was 16 years old. If you hear Nico's version, you can't imagine that a 16-year-old boy could write such a song. If you hear Jackson's own version, you will know that Nico's version has long surpassed the connotation of the original book. This album produced by Bob Dylan, Jimmy Page and others has already regarded this as a relatively high-level ballad. The work has been sublimated to another level. Taking the famous Vincent as a coordinate, the original of These Days is much lower than Vincent, but the Nico version is much higher than the latter. The guitar playing method of These Days is based on the suggestion of pop art master Andy Wharhol. It’s not surprising why Nico’s These Days can be transformed from the original to another level of great work, and inherited from the original Velvet Underground. The aesthetic orientation that has always been in the Banana album-a more psychedelic than psychedelic, noble and noble, more melancholy than melancholy, petty bourgeoisie than petty bourgeoisie. But in fact, it is more authentic and far away from the aesthetics of pretending to be 13, just like The artistic style presented by Andy Wharhol's Monroe head portrait and Big Banana cover, together with the music of the Velvet Underground, constitutes an art genre that has a far-reaching influence on modern art, but does not have a huge commercial success in itself.
Including Jackon Browne's own version, any other covers can't look back on Nico's version. For this song, I bought an electric guitar. When I played it, I felt a lot. First of all, Nico was scolded by Lou Reed, who she had always followed, for not being able to sing. However, her voice gave These Days a unique connotation. This unique voice was paired with a difficult German-style English pronunciation, completely eliminating greasy singing skills. , Replaced by the temperament of non-cannibalistic fireworks. Furthermore, the arrangement and timbre of the guitar cannot be duplicated. In the vast modern pop/rock music, this timbre is rare. When I got the score, I was surprised to see that the chords that created such a sad mood turned out to be major triads-C and F. At most, only the relatively common minor chords like Em were used. Even if the string music is sobbing away, the guitar accompaniment can still hold up most of the artistic conception, and I can't help but sigh that the arranger's artistic feeling is really superb. In particular, the rhythm of the guitar can be happier. The last two bars suddenly change, and a G chord that is brighter than the C chord in C major comes out. Such a bright and cheerful arrangement, the final result is sadness. The effect of expressing a person's regretful and sad introspection is indescribable and cannot be copied. In the "Chelsea Girls" album, even the more meticulously crafted title song of the same name is less than the radiant inspiration of These Days.
I don't need to write the lyrics, it's almost impeccable. The last sentence "Please don't confront me with my failures, I had not forgotten them", coupled with the last G chord, allows the audience to step up to the next step on the basis of the already mesmerized one, which is the highlight of the whole song.
I often say in my heart that today's world is so impetuous, material, and ignorant, how brilliant and beautiful what happened 40 or 50 years ago. After I came to the United States, I sometimes heard Led Zeppelin being put in the store, and sometimes I saw guys in their early twenties, like old hippies, singing songs from the 60s, even if these don’t cover up their music. Towards an increasingly hollow, I think their culture is inherited from the next, unlike the celestial dynasty, which has undergone tremendous changes in recent decades. My father’s generation listened to model dramas, but the old ones were overturned and the new ones. It’s too late to copy others, and my own culture is far from the climate. It often makes the difference. Whether it’s music, various art categories, or the entire society, I only quickly learned the depravity and ugliness, and quickly surpassed European and American masters. These, I say in my heart, and I will say it in my mouth, but now I am tired of my own clichés.
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