爱情⼀阵风

⼀．这张唱片的主题：

竟然是歌咏爱情和青春。想不到吧？这青春恐怕也是仅有贺尔蒙过剩但情怀不算太单纯。翻译成你们最喜欢讲的Vibe⼤概就是：⽤极浪漫的⾳乐糖衣包裹着⼈类⾏为的不确定。

『爱情亲像⼀阵风　来无影去无踪

　乎我笑容乎我悲伤　乎我怨叹在⼼中 』

⼆。这张唱片可能的⽬的：

这样说好了，你本来是个⽂青，打算把那些你在电影里看到的，⼩说里读到的⼈⽣⾦句都写进你歌词里。⽽的确有效，你的⽂青歌迷认出你跟他们是同⼀路的，真好。

然后李权哲可能某天发现，我猜啦，这些狗屁根本都不重要，⾳乐想表达的应该就是⾳乐本⾝，情歌听了就会湿，不是因为引⽤了罗兰巴特，就像是最烂的电影里所有演员总是被导演逼着讲⼀堆对⽩，⽽不肯⽤划⾯来交代现在到底发⽣什么事。

综观这张专辑里的歌要不就是很直⽩，没有⼀丁点你想挖掘的隐喻，若听起来隐晦不明的那些歌，就是真的没有想告诉你什么。

甚⾄有⾸歌他在正式版本里还把歌词咕哝着唱，因为听清楚太烦了，你根本就没在听⾳乐快承认吧。歌词可能在他的⼯具箱里，是店⾨⼝挂着⼀颗⽺头，吆喝着你进来听⾳乐，吃狗⾁。

你们还是忍不住想问这⾸歌在讲什么？

难道你不就是因为不想听别⼈讲话才听歌的吗？

Don’t Think, Feeeel! — Bruce Lee

AI-CHING

Jerry Li

Ai-Ching=Love

1. Theme of a Record Called AI-CHING

Love. Youth. You say Yeah, OK, whatever. But know this beyond that, there is something real happening here. Something more than just hormones and impure thoughts. There is a true vibe beneath the smooth, sugar-coated shell of these songs, a vibe that cuts to the deepest of all human joys and insecurities.

Love's like a gust of wind…it has no shadow, it leaves no mark

It makes me smile, it makes me sad, it make me sigh

with blame in my heart

2. AI-CHING. The (Likely) Motivation Behind a Record.

Or…let's put it this way. There's always the latest young, hip singer. Sees all the cool films, reads all the cool books, and writes all the clever lyrics. Yeah, this is it, say hipster fans. This is our story.

(Please.)

This is just a guess on my part, but I think with AI-CHING, Jerry Li wanted to make something more than empty BS. To me, this is his take on music we make it to make ourselves feel. A good love song should throw you into ecstasy – or despair. No need to name-check Roland Barthes, or the latest cookie-cutter film or book that defines a generation. No need for fancy platitudes for people to regurgitate as slogans. A good love song is about that hard-to-define true vibe, where scenes and images – not words – drive the story.

Action, motion…emotion. That's Jerry Li's game, to serve it up straight. No twisted metaphors to dig through. No obscure lyrics murmured in half-embarrassment.

The jaded will probably say we don't need another record about love. Whatever…Jerry Li ain't listening. He's just doing what Bruce Lee tells us Don’t Think, Feeeel! — Bruce Lee