Chapter 634

"Q magazine", 100 points, "pure and simple melody, sincere and profound lyrics, moving and graceful deduction. Langley hall reawakes up his deep attachment and preference for music, and reminds people of the time of Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash. There is no doubt that this is one of the best albums of the 21st century. "

"Observer", 100 points, "excellent." Don Quixote is undoubtedly excellent. If you wander quietly in the melody, you will simply fall in love with music again. "

"BBC music", 100 points, "hall gives music the simplest and hottest emotions: sadness and joy, bitterness and happiness, pain and beauty in the soul. Sometimes, it's as if the music is too simple and too weak to carry the full emotion in Hall's voice line; But most of the time, deep and mixed emotions are mixed in the music, touching

"Telegraph", 100 points, "it's hard to imagine that hall is only 21 years old. Many artists are still confused in their small world when they are 31 years old or even 51 years old. They can't find the direction. However, this 21-year-old shows enviable and exciting talents. Don't forget, there's another singer just 22 years old this year: Adele Adkins. "

"Independents", one hundred points, "Don Quixote" is a hot, wild, rebellious, rough, primitive, but also a very proud album, which smashes all discontent and protest in a thunderous way. Just like Don Quixote

"Filter", 100 points, "it's almost hard to find such an album, so warm, so simple, so wonderful, so intense, so pure, so moving, so sweet, so shining, so unforgettable. Hidden behind the mask of Don Quixote, what kind of soul is it? So clear, so transparent, so simple. "

Praise! Praise! Or praise! The unanimous praise is even stronger, stronger and crazier than "crazy love". Like the tide of general praise, still can't vent the surging and stormy waves in the heart of these critics, but "100 points" can, simple and clear, straightforward and calm, completely present the most real ideas of the critics, with perfect full marks and no flaws, and the reputation can be called perfect!

However, since there are so many favorable comments, why is the news of Don Quixote still unknown? The reason is very simple. All the above media are British professional magazines. First, they are professional music magazines. Second, they are British music magazines.

In the era of globalization, even British magazines can be read on the Internet in every corner of the world; But the question is, is anyone willing to read?

Under the background of global music market downturn, American music market is becoming more and more commercialized. Electronics, dance music, pop and hip-hop are popular, catering to the hedonism of fast food era. Music, like movies, is becoming an assembly line product; In contrast, the British music market has always stuck to its own insistence.

Does the UK market like electronics? Do you like dance music? Do you like fashion? of course! Young people respond to rhythm and melody regardless of nationality or culture. But in addition to these popular music, folk music, rock music, soul music, jazz music, blues music, reggae music and other different types of music are competing to open up on this land, not only to have a place, but also to create a popular wave.

Simply take ed Sheeran as an example, you can see the whole picture. After its release in the UK, the single "top" has successfully landed on the major lists, ranking third in the UK pop music list; In the United States, however, it received a cold reception. It was released half a year before it entered the list, with the highest ranking of 16.

Of course, this is just an example; However, what is hidden behind the case is the essential difference between the two markets.

After the release of Don Quixote, there was no wave in the American market, and almost no one was interested in it; The British market, however, has received much attention and praise. Such bipolar treatment is really happening.

Of course, the US market is not completely stagnant. As Jay mentioned on the "Tonight Show," mixer, an independent music magazine, noticed Don Quixote.

Mixer's focus on indie music has always been the same, and although Don Quixote doesn't have any form of publicity, they have noticed the album - two weeks after it went on sale. After listening to the whole album, their professional music critic Clyde Kauflin was amazing.

At the beginning, Clyde praised Cleopatra and Ophelia. This time, he gave all the words of appreciation to lenley hall.

"As a double CD album, 'Don Quixote' is destined to be an album that is hard to be accepted by the market, but it is just such a bloated album that carries the soul weight of Langley hall as a singer, an artist, a performer and a dreamer." Don Quixote shows the contradiction and persistence between life and dream. At the same time, it also shows the solitary and thorny journey of dream. No one knows what the end of the road is, Nirvana and rebirth? Or will it go up in smoke? But, along the way, the scenery is so magnificent and magnificent, people tears!

Brave, crazy, heavy, deep, mixed. Just as everyone is cheering for '21', my best album of 2011 has just come out. This is undoubtedly one of the best albums in the 21st century. In my mind, it's even better than Nora Jones's "far away." Is Don Quixote the best? Maybe Bob Dylan's "love and theft" and Brian Wilson's "smile" are all worthy of consideration. But for me, the answer is yes. "

A hundred points, Clyde is not stingy to draw the end of the whole review with full marks, once again showing his praise and affirmation of Langley.

After the "Tonight Show", Clyde's comments were dug out by netizens, and then came to be criticized by the Internet: because he slandered the annual classic album "21" in the eyes of countless audiences, and also drew a lot of hatred for "Don Quixote". Many fans can't wait to start shouting abuse even before they have time to listen to the album, Spotify's audition message area is really spectacular, being inundated by a long period of rude language.

In January 2011, Adele released her second studio album "21", which quickly exploded the market. The album not only produced three champion singles, "rolling in the deep", "someone like you" and "set fire to the rain"; Moreover, "falling into the abyss" has become a phenomenal single, winning the championship for seven weeks in a row, and has become the target of countless people's cover songs on Facebook, oil pipe and other social networks.

Not surprisingly, the single "falling into the abyss" will win the annual single sales champion in North America this year. At present, the sales volume of "21" in North America has exceeded 4 million, and the annual album champion is also in sight.

There is no doubt that "21" is one of the most popular albums in 2011. But now, does Clyde compare "Don Quixote" with "21"? And more definitely don quixote? This... This is absolutely unacceptable to the general public.

But in fact, from the perspective of professional music critics, this is an irrefutable fact.

The media comprehensive score of "21" is 76, including professional music critics from the United Kingdom and the United States, with a total of 34 media scoring results; So far, Don Quixote's comprehensive score is 100, a total of seven media ratings.

Of course, "Don Quixote" has received too little attention at present. After paying more attention to the media, it is almost impossible to maintain the full score evaluation. Nevertheless, we can still see the attitude of Music Critics: among all the media reviews of "21", there are only two full marks; Now Don Quixote has seven.

In the eyes of music critics, "21" is indeed an excellent album, or even excellent. It is definitely the album with the most market potential since the 21st century; But from an artistic point of view, it's not a complete album:

First of all, the quality of the single is uneven, and the three winning singles are indeed better than others; Secondly, the injection of popularity will inevitably sacrifice the artistic value, the overall emotion of the album is not coherent, and the personal emotion is too strong, but not complete; Thirdly, Adele's depth and sincerity in her debut album, especially her spirituality in "chasing loves", gradually began to fade away.

In contrast, "Don Quixote" sacrificed commercial popular elements and showed incredible artistic talent. From creation to emotion, from song to deduction, every link was sincere and profound, which naturally attracted the enthusiastic pursuit of music critics.

It seems that all art, film and music are the same. The pursuit of art by professional critics and the pursuit of business by mainstream market are two contradictory factors.

That's why Kanye West's album "my beautiful dark twisted fantasy" released last year was so popular that it established his position in the industry.

After the "Tonight Show" was broadcast, "Don Quixote" was pushed to the top of the storm in an instant. Almost everyone inevitably began to discuss the album. More importantly, it discussed the singer identity of Langley, a part-time amateur singer who had released two singles and created live on the show, and actually released the album. Curiosity or onlookers, the hot focus of attention has gathered over, even 11 work is also killed by surprise.

Is this the precursor of sales explosion?

However, whether the sales volume can usher in a climax is still unknown; What is certain is that the attention of the media has gathered, and the comments on Don Quixote's album have gradually increased. In just 72 hours, the number of professional music critics has soared from seven to 29, more than quadrupling.

Publicity effect, immediate effect.