A General Review On Classical Lyrics From Chinese Contemporary Popular Music Lyrics

In the history of Chinese contemporary popular music lyrics, the topic for the lyricsof pop songs going classical is purely new. But it winds through the contemporaryChinese musical circle in lightning speed. It seams as at the same pace as the poplyrics going classical, and it can not be ignored under the condition of a phenomenonthat the lyrics has developed as a popular culture system."Lyrics going classical" is agood attitude for contemporary Chinese musicians to excavate the literariness oflyrics further. This thesis mainly focuses on probing the special forms after thecontemporary lyrics go classical. And it combined the creation psychology criticismand cultural criticism to explore each dimensions of the classical poetry’ influence onthe contemporary lyrics. And through those criticism methods, it also explained howcontemporary lyrics transcend the classical poetry in all aspects. As a saying goes:what is rational is actual and what is actual is rational. The thesis analyzes therationality and superiority of the existence of contemporary lyrics deeply, and alsocalls for a rational thinking on contemporary lyrics.This thesis mainly includes three parts. In chapter1, it discusses the status quo andreasons of contemporary pop music lyrics going classical comprehensively. It roughlyconsidered three reasons for contemporary pop music lyrics going classical: thecharm of classical poetry, the need for lyrics to show elegance, the impact of foreignpop culture. And in this part, it deeply digs the contemporary lyrics creationpsychology from the perspective of cultural criticism and psychological criticism.Among them, it comes in to do a more rational analysis on why the lyrics goclassical.In chapter2, it expounds the contemporary pop music lyrics on use of classicalwriting by means of impact study and comparative research emphatically. It discussesthe contemporary lyrics continually using the music and image beauty from classicalpoetry. It improves the lyrics’ music beauty by using of assonance word, doublesound, interjection, dual poems and so on. In addition, the lyrics are on use of kinds of symbolism from the classical poetry, it builds scene but also pay attention to thefeelings, it shows the shadow of some scene but also gives a real one, thus it enhancesthe artistic appeal of songs.In chapter3, it gives a general review to contemporary pop music lyrics bypsychology, cultural criticism. In the process of classical, contemporary pop songsappeared innovation on classical writing. And from this part, we can acknowledgemany contemporary musicians makes new exploration on the lyrics. Finally the papercomes to talk the problems from the process of contemporary pop music goingclassical. In this part, we can see the road to lyrics’ classical is not easy, but the lyrics’classical has shown strong vitality, so it makes the classical pop songs to show themeanings of existence.