C.N. Blue(Code Name Blue) 是身高均在180cm以上,实力派的band,是FnC Music/Ai Entertainment公司继FTIsland后又一打造的banc,他们被称为“secondFTIsland” 是因为他们与FTIsland有相似的音乐盒风格,但更加偏于街头一些。(原本5人组合的,但由于个人原因由4人组成)其组合由两位吉他兼主唱,一位贝斯手,一位鼓手组成。C.N. Blue (Code Name Blue) 作为独立乐团于2009年8月19日在日本发行首张mini专辑<Now & Never>,虽然目前还未正式出道,但在日本已有很多的支持者。
01.Now or Never
Lyrics & Music by Shusui/Family Business
Arrange by Hirofumi Sasaki
through the day, through the night
my selfconfidence was out of site
you came alone, came on strong
and you change the things that fell so wrong
she said
if you heading for the right direction
if you're ready, you can do it too
gonna rise up to the right occasion
cause together we can see it through
baby it's now or never
this time is right oh oh
i got a feelin' it's for good without a doubt oh oh
we are forever me and you
deep in your heart you know it's true
baby it's now or never yeah
feel so right
goin' up won't go down
there's know stopping us was livin ground
you can do what you do
not a thing i could deny for you
if you heading for the right direction
if you ready, you can do it too
gonna rise up to this one occasion
cause together we can see it through
baby it's now or never
this time is right oh oh
i got a feelin' it's for good without a doubt oh oh
we are forever me and you
deep in your heart you know it's true
baby it's now or never yeah
feel so right! feel so right!
baby it's now or never
this time is right oh oh
i got a feelin' it's for good without a doubt oh oh
oh baby it's now or never
this time is right oh oh
i got a feelin' it's for good without a doubt oh oh
we are forever me and you
deep in your heart you know it's true
baby it's now or never yeah
feel so right!
02.Let's go crazy
Lyrics & Music by Shusui/Family Business
Arrange by Yoshiko Chino
let's go crazy let's go crazy
i can feel the hit in my flesh and bone
i don't wanna be here on my own
might miss a chance turning every stone
a moment or two and it's gone
i only wanna play for fun
come let's get together every one
if you wanna know, stay till the end
i could be lover or a friend
i'll be damned if i do
i'll be damned if i don't do too
i find a way to get through
that is you
let's go crazy you gotta show oh baby
let's go crazy go with the flow and maybe
not so hasty takin' it slow it's so easy and let us go crazy again
some of the days gonna pass you by
not always great and you don't know why
i will if you up till you touch the sky
cause i'm gonna make you fly
i'm gonna go break now i'm gonna uh go break now
i'm gonna go break now i'm gonna go uh uh uh woo
let's go crazy (crazy) baby let's go crazy (crazy)
oh baby let's go crazy (crazy)
it's so easy and let's go crazy again oh!
03.Love Revolution
Lyrics by Yong Hwa
Music by Han Sung Ho/Kim Jae Yang
Arrange by Owl
something like in the sky
uh... i can't define
but certain thang in my heart, you know i can't realize
like fairy tale i heard
precious thing in my hood
tell me how you feel, what what? uh same i do
something like a toy i got
yeah i can remind
my love is shining in my heart, it is so clear and mild
like fairy tale i heard
precious thing in my hood
tell me how you feel, what what?
i want you, in my life (in the castle, in the air)
i want you, kiss me everyday (i take your hand, my dear)
i want you, in my life (i don't want you fly away)
i want you, smiling at me everyday (you're my dreaming days)
if your love won't stay with me forever
i'll be loving you, whenever
you in my life (tell me everything's alright)
i wanna be ur shining light
holdin my pillow tight
oh girl, i can smile
you are the part of my place, i don't tell you a lie
you're every breath i take
you're every step i make
it's not a fake thang my love, oh let me remind you
i'm feeling it inside
the heaven in the sky
you are the part of my life, girl it's not a lie
rolling down to my bed
gather and through my head
it's not a fake thang my love
i don't wanna make your love an illusion
i believe in you, don't tell me lies
i don't wanna make your love and illusion
baby girl, your love is so true
i don't wanna let you go
04.Just Please
Lyrics by Yong hwa
Music by Yong Hwa / Owl
Arrange by Owl
do you know this song is for you
the most incredible baby, ya heard
just please know why my heart is beating for you
just fix what is inside my shadowed mind
i can't live without you don't leave me alone
baby, listen to me grawling
this song's for you, dear miss
it's a tale of painful love
from the codename
i'm containing a dizzy chain
that is what? i couldn't do it cause of myself
i was so sick and sick, couldn't handle it myself
i thought she and i were the bonnie and clyde
laugh at me or heal me and wanna know what i'm singing
just thanks
i woke up with the sudden notion
and i can't get out of my compunction
even if i knew how you feel
now, how you feel setting such a line of action
every time i hear your voice
just staring at the overcast blue sky
from the beginning to the termination
i stand on my silly position
should i ask you for your remission
i'm thinking like that and exploration
cause my mind is not so fine
why don't you come into my mind
hey please listen to my rhyme
so you can look into my life
all of this is not imaginations
i can feel my heart go down
can someone relax my mind my mind
just please know why my heart is beating for you
just fix what is inside my shadowed mind
i can't live without you don't leave me alone
baby, listen to me grawling
can you know that?
how do you think that
this way is the right way? or go back
it reminds me not so bad
what can i do i thought she was my boo
but i'm good one day she will know my truth
just please my mind my mind is truth
i'm good so sorry my boo can you hear?
05.Teardrops in the Rain
Lyrics & Music by Shusui/Thomas Gson
Arrange by Hirofumi Sasaki
i wish upon a star i wonder where you are
i wish you're coming back to me again
and everything's the same like it used to be
i see the days go by and still i wonder why
i wonder why it has to be this way
why can't i have you here just like it used to be
i don't know which way to choose
how can i find a way to go on
i don't know if i can go on without you oh
even if my heart's still beating just for you
i really know you are not feeling like i do
and even if the sun is shining over me
how come i still freeze?
no one ever sees no one feels the pain
i shed teardrops in the rain
i wish i could fly i wonder what you say
i wish you're flying back to me again
hope everything's same like it used to be
ROMANJI
Mayoi nagara ooi motomete
Yatto fureta kimi no kokoro no
Bonyari toshita rinkaku
Shoujyo no youna karensa ga
Yureru shinkiron mitaide
Sashidasu te wa karaburi No No!!
Senaka no sazanami urunda machinami
Donna fuantei na Swing demo
Sora ni hanatsu koe ooi kaze ni nore
Boku no biimu ga kimi wo furuitataserunosa
Himeta negai ga tashikana omoi ga
Sou todoku nara hibiku nara
Ima koko ni umareru sutoorii
Kiseki no meguriai nara
Wasurekaketa nukumori sae
hakkiri toshita kankaku Go Go!!
Hitomi wo awasete suikomu tameiki
Owari no nai Future he to
Kasanari au koe saa kotoba ni nare
Tatoe chiipu na fureezu ha karidemo kamawanai
Himeta negai ga tashikana omoi ga
Sou mune no naka yadoru kara
Ima koko ni umareru sutoorii
Namida no mukou no tooku nai ashita wo
Boku to futari de mukae ni ikou
Yami no tanima kara ukabi agaru kara
Tori nokosareta yume mo
Sora ni hanatsu koe ooi kaze ni nore
Boku no biimu ga kimi wo furuitataserunosa
Himeta negai ga tashikana omoi ga
Sou todokunara hibiku nara
Ima koko ni umare ru sutoorii
02.Wanna Be Like U
Lyrics&Music BY Shusui,Tony Nilsson
Arranged BY OWL
Let’s make a run from all we know
We’ll find a way and get back stronger again
Too many times I’ve wondered why
I feel ashamed only to be around
I’m living a lie, but trying to find away
Out of this
I wanna feel I wanna bleed
I wanna live like there’s no tomorrow
I wanna scream Out in the night
I wanna make love like there’s no tomorrow
I wanna be like you
Let’s run away into the dark
We’ll find a light and get back stronger again
I’ll get around,I’ll come around
I’ll stay awake cause I am dying for more
Been living a lie,more than a lifetime
Now I see
03.Never too late
Lyrics BY CUL
Music BY Jong Hyun / J.Soo
Arranged BY OWL
U said me why you live so boring it maybe so right,didn’t denial
I wanna make a time to seek me alone just I wanna keeping on my step
You come up in front of me I wonder in my eyes
I know that how wonder brilliant things are in my life
It makes me changed all because I have a dream that is a song for U
I can a sing a song till to the end
If I can’t meet u still,forever
I don’t know what will be happen to me now
I know that it something most important now yes that is you
Even if slow compared with other one,It doesn’t matter anymore to me
It is a timely encounter of destiny its never too late
I say u listen to my breathing
It is a belief of dreaming yeah certainly
I won’t be I’m in the past any more. Former trivial every day
Was practice of the purpose which can meet you at all
I wanna shout and unbearable to the anymore
It makes me changed all because I have a dream that is a song for U
I can a sing a song till to the end
If I can’t meet u still,forever
I don’t know what will be happen to me now
I know that it something most important now yes that is you
Even if late compared with other one, it doesn’t matter
Anymore to me it is a timely encounter of destiny
Its never too late
04.Y,Why…
Lyrics BY Yong Hwa
Music BY Yong Hwa / Ryo
Arranged BY OWL,Ryo-ta Fukuoka
I know I’ve fallen in love when you’re coming down to my eyes
Wanna make you,wanna feel the beauty as you are
Girl,I wanna tell you some I’m not a man who say in lie
Wanna love you I wanna hold you can you be the part of my life
You can have it your way girl you mind
I don’t wanna bend you girl, all the life all the life
I’ll feel your love forever I wanna know your feeling
This feeling is so true, girl I’ll need your love forever
I can feel your heart So please breathe with me forever
If you wanna one time
I gotta give you more than whenever wanna some thang
I’m gonna with you somewhere
I gotta show you what I’m gonna do when your eyes
Contact to me
It doesn’t work it out you know too hard to breathe it
Baby I love you indeed Nothing is lie we need
I can’t see it any teardropin’on your face, girl
I just wanna say I love it
When you come in my life see my eyes
My life is never the same
My eyes tell you truth I wanna live
In your life
05.One of a Kind
Lyrics&Music BY Shusui,Mattias Hakansson
Arranged BY OWL, Ryo-ta Fukuoka
On the floor, you’re moving in a way a can’t ignore
I’m in heat, I caught a glimpse and now I’m at your feet
I can’t escape it , there’s nowhere to hide
This feeling I got I can’t deny
I don’t know your name but It’s all the same
Coz I can feel your heart and now I’m sure
Don’t you know, there’s nothing I can do,
I gotta get to know you
I have to see this through I want it all
《NOW OR NEVER》乐评
我是在看完美男第二集之后的一个晚上,躺在寝室的床上,下载了《NOW OR NEVER》这首在当时我唯一能下到的C.N.BLUE的歌。从前奏开始,我的心情就变得激动,情绪异常亢奋。当时我在寝室公放的时候,其他的三个人都觉得还不错,却也谈不上特别的出色,总有一种说不出的不和谐感。这是在第一次完整听完《NOW OR NEVER》时的感想。接着听了第二遍,然后发现了点问题。当时在不熟悉整首歌的情况下听到副歌部分时,总觉得在“baby it's now or never”之后有一种硬生生被人中断之感,可能是“never”这个音被吊高了的关系,以及副歌结束时“baby it's now or never yeah”,用了一种听上去断断续续的唱法,让我当时听得非常不舒服,也许是在追求种音乐效果吧,到现在听惯了也就没什么便扭的感觉了。特别需要在这里一提的是
“goin' up won't go down
there's know stopping us was livin ground
you can do what you do
not a thing i could deny for you”
这部分由钟贤起头并统领整段,中间穿插进勇华的和声,是我在这首歌里最喜欢的一段(大家也可以反复放来听听,真的很不错)。而将《NOW OR NEVER》作为专辑的主打歌,并且放在第一首,的确是个明智的选择,以勇华令人惊艳的声线打开听者的耳朵,再将钟贤的独特嗓音铺设开来,造就了这对于新人而言值得称赞的一曲,并为C.N.BLUE之后的街头摇滚风格开了个好头。
《let's go crazy》是首适合在现场演奏的歌曲,“let's go crazy”的歌词不断被重复着演唱,可以很好地起到带动全场气氛的作用。其实我对这首想法并不是很多,只是对于新人而言当初听来觉得还可以。可能带有点美式朋克的影子,我不是很了解,所以只能谈自己的第一感觉。总觉得这类型的歌我听过很多,没有多大的新鲜感(听到这首歌,我第一反应到了L'Arc~en~Ciel的《stay away》,其实C团可以做一些华丽曲风的歌,应该会有不错的效果)。
我非常喜欢《JUST PLEASE》的前奏,因此我也把这首勇华谱曲并填词的歌设为手机铃声。在还不知道勇华创作了那些曲子的时候,听完了整张专辑,就被这首歌迷惑住了听觉。我要收回之前希望C团能做些华丽的曲子,其实《JUST PLEASE》就已经有够华丽美妙的了!前奏是勇华的低呤,如同一场爱情电影的开场旁白一般,爱情气息在空气中缓缓流动着,紧接着就是激昂的副歌部分,想要告诉对方自己想念她的心情,然后是较为缓慢的Rap(一直感觉这段Rap放得很是位置,恰当地起到承上启下的作用)。我比较推崇的是下面这节:
“i woke up with the sudden notion
and i can't get out of my compunction
even if i knew how you feel
now, how you feel setting such a line of action
every time i hear your voice
just staring at the overcast blue sky
from the beginning to the termination
i stand on my silly position
should i ask you for your remission
i'm thinking like that and exploration
cause my mind is not so fine
why don't you come into my mind
hey please listen to my rhyme
so you can look into my life
all of this is not imaginations
i can feel my heart go down
can someone relax my mind ”
这一段所表现的音效和勇华的演绎都处理得异常贴合,融合出一种迷离与徘徊不定的情感。(这首歌的评论有瞎扯的成份,请原谅我看美男有点伤心过度,大家看过算过~)
最后以钟贤演唱的慢板抒情摇滚《tear drops in the rain》作为整张专辑的结尾,与《NOW OR NEVER》相互照应,先扬后抑,带出一种意犹未尽之感,只叹“巧妙”二字。我原本是不太喜欢这首歌的,没有什么特点,也没有将钟贤应有的嗓音特色凸显出来,失望是不用说的。可是后来才发觉其实也是首值得细细品味的作品,虽说钟贤情感的表达还稍显稚嫩,但也只是个时间问题而已,就第二章的专辑最后的成果看来,钟贤的进步是显著的,毕竟他和勇华在演唱和创作上还都隐藏着无限可能……
韵味。但是,当第一次听完完整版后,我都快疯了。就第一感觉而言,我觉得副歌部分毁了整首曲子,乱了,就是这样。Rap也做得很出色,我就是对副歌非常不爽。随着以后把这首歌反复听了几十遍后,这种不爽的感觉才渐渐减轻了些。比起这首,我更爱第一张mini里的《JUST PLEASE》(我会另写一篇关于《NOW OR NEVER》的乐评,其中的我还会细评勇华创作的这首我非常喜爱的歌)。作为一个89年出生的音乐人,创作中还存在些不成熟的因子也是可以理解的。(请各位勇华亲千万不要打我 ,我只是凭第一感觉实话实说,纯属个人意见,不必拿来做参考~)
不得不提《One of a kind》,这是在专辑中唯一一首勇华&钟贤两人双主唱的歌。其实他们两人的声音都带有自己独有的特色。《One of a kind》有钟贤磁性厚重的声线为基底,虽不是很稳定,但衬着勇华出色的技巧和亮耳且标志性的嗓音,就如同钟贤的声作为箭矢的箭羽,而勇华的音就是箭矢尖锐的箭头,径直刺穿听者的耳膜,为整张专辑做了一个很不错的收尾。
《VOICE》整张专辑就对比上一张《NOW OR NEVER》来看,C.N.BLUE的演绎水准和创作力有了大幅地提高,我已经有点迫不及待地想要听到他们明年要在韩国推出的正式的第一辑了,希望他们能发挥依旧蕴藏着无限潜力,带着听众一张与众不同的新专辑。FIGHTING~