Hua Chenyu - Illusion and Reality (Live @ Mars Concert 2023) | Reaction [中文字幕]

[@HuaChenyuEnglishSubs-HCYES]

I really appreciate your analysis. Even for Chinese speakers, Hua Chenyu's lyrics may not be fully understood, but every time I listen to your analysis, it always gives me a deeper understanding!

[@MFPReacts]

Thank you so much, I’m glad you enjoyed it! And thanks again for making his music more accessible to foreigners such as myself with your translations, and also for providing Chinese subtitles for my videos, making them more accessible to non-english speakers as well; I am eternally grateful 🙏

[@DahliaKuo]

每次看这个现场真的都会有一种难以形容的感动，这首歌真的艺术性太高了！ 谢谢你分享的歌词分析

[@peggy_tan]

It's been too long. You are my favorite reaction for Hua's music ❤ I miss your reaction so much.

[@MFPReacts]

Having my videos be considered interesting and enjoyable enough to be labeled as a favorite, even after such a long absence, means more to me than I could possibly explain. Thank you so much!

[@peggy_tan]

I would like to suggest "The Flower in the Small Town (MV)" also from Hua's 5th album if you are interested. Hua wrote this song while taking care of his late mother with cancer in the hospital. This song was also written in classical Chinese pentatonic scale like Arrival. Hua doesn't like making music video unless he has specific images/ideas he wants to present, because he prefers listeners to form their own images when listening to his music. This is one of the few MV of Hua and the MV itself is a piece of art IMHO. kzbin.info/www/bejne/fqq7e2avltF1epYsi=WipE86EVyZtz5IkM

[@jeannefong9401]

Thanks so much for your reaction and analysis of this song. You have provided a wonderful in depth analysis of the lyrics. It has given me an even a greater appreciation and understanding for this incredible song, the complexity of the music and the lyrics. 💗💗

[@MFPReacts]

It is my pleasure! I am very happy to have received a request for this song, it is fantastic 👏 Thank you for the kind words, I am delighted that I could add to the enjoyment of this song.

[@Huamazing]

有中文字幕！很喜欢你的分析，让我对歌词有更深入的理解。谢谢 这首歌本身就很华丽，层层的堆叠听起来让人觉得很爽快，华晨宇的声音太棒了！

[@cyann410]

So good to see you again!!!

[@MFPReacts]

Thank you! It feels great to be back 🙌

[@tanleechew1975]

So glad to see you again with excellent analysis of this song 🙏🙏🙏

[@MFPReacts]

Happy to be back, and to be reacting to some more Hua Chenyu 😀 Thanks for watching!

[@monskiethemonsk6461]

Thank you for an excellent and well-considered reaction., ❤ I loved this song from first listening and it quickly became one of my favourites, both lyrically and musically, it's like a mini-opera split into parts each with its own mood and meaning. There are very few artists out there who have the talent and diversity of Hua. 🥰 I am so pleased to see you react to Hua Chenyu again. I really need to go back and re-watch your earlier reactions!. I'd recommend "When the whole world forgets me" also from the 5th album. Thank you again for this wonderful reaction. 🌺🌺

[@MFPReacts]

Thank you so much for watching, I truly appreciate it! I've seen that song get recommended to me here a few times now, so it definitely has to happen, y'all have me all hyped up for it😛Thanks for the recommendation!

[@gladysbeatrizorfano2991]

Gracias por tu excelente reacción y análisis ✨ Celebro tu regreso 🌺

[@joymcvey8331]

So happy to see you back! I've watched your previous Hua Chenyu reactions several times and hoped you'd find your way back to him, so this makes me smile. Hope to see more of your reactions to come!

[@MFPReacts]

I'm happy to be back! Thank you so much for watching my Hua Chenyu reactions. I've had a lot of fun listening to his music for the first time on camera, and sharing that experience with viewers while also trying to interpret the lyrics. You can definitely expect to see more Hua reactions from me 😀

[@vijandrav.6095]

Hi welcome back. I love this song so much. Looking forward to watch your analysis to this song this afternoon. 💕

[@MFPReacts]

Thank you!! The song is amazing. Hope you enjoy the video!

[@Wkd183]

Great seeing you back for Hua reaction. You have so much more to see. Love seeing Hua live as he is always magnetic. May I suggest listening to the audio version as you will even be more impressed. It really shocked me when it first came out as he released the audio version before performing at his concert. When the whole world forgets me, is another audio version I hope you will react to. Again another surprising style you have not heard from Hua. ❤

[@MFPReacts]

Thank you for watching, and for the suggestion!

[@elisifuentes6551]

Thank you for choosing this song.. 🙏🙏 it is so beautiful. Also a favourite of mine😊🌺🌺

[@MFPReacts]

It is my pleasure! Very happy to have received a request for this song. I was, and continue to be, completely blown away by it.

[@elisifuentes6551]

@@MFPReactsFrom his latest album my faves are.. When the whole world forgets me, Flower in a small town and Illusion and Reality, but when it comes to his own music i dont really have non-favourite songs. 😂 Love them all. There are however a few rearrangements or covers i dont like much. Always because of the genre.. never his performance. Not even HCY can make me like pop love songs .. or generic music in general

[@peggy_tan]

I would like to suggest "The Flower in the Small Town (MV)" also from Hua's 5th album if you are interested. Hua wrote this song while taking care of his late mother with cancer in the hospital. This song was also written in classical Chinese pentatonic scale like Arrival. Hua doesn't like making music video unless he has specific images/ideas he wants to present, because he prefers listeners to form their own images when listening to his music. This is one of the few MV of Hua and the MV itself is a piece of art IMHO. kzbin.info/www/bejne/fqq7e2avltF1epYsi=WipE86EVyZtz5IkM

[@MFPReacts]

Ouuuu I love a good music video, and I loved Hua's music video for Bullfighting, so I'll have to check that out. Thanks for the recommendation!

[@elisifuentes6551]

You made me go back and rewatch all your previous hcy reactions .. yay 😅

[@peggy_tan]

Me too 😂 I rewatched his HCY playlist.

[@MFPReacts]

Haha, sorry, but not sorry 😅 Thank you so much for watching 😀

[@siewhwawo3395]

Hua Chenyu always so amazing ❤❤❤

[@MFPReacts]

Indeed he is! 🙌

[@Amanda-ik1wv]

It's been so long since I've seen you! You've been missed, I really have always loved your breakdowns :)

[@MFPReacts]

I'm so happy to be back, and I am thrilled to see the positive response. Very much looking forward to making more of these to share with you all 😀

[@wongmeewah4207]

Glad to see you back with Hua Hua's reaction. He was so good! Love his music so much! 🌺🌺👍👍👍💕💖🙂

[@MFPReacts]

Thank you, very happy to be back, and listening/reacting to some more Hua Chenyu. He is fantastic! Thanks for watching 😃

[@vijandrav.6095]

Amazing. Thank you for reacting to HuaHua again. Love your analysis. Please check out more of his songs. 😊 "When the whole world forgets me" maybe next. 💕 Side note: I think you also might find Ren Hi Ren interesting to analyse ( if you haven't heard it already) and NF Hope.

[@MFPReacts]

Thank you so much for watching, glad you enjoyed the video! I'll definitely be reacting to some more Hua, so thanks for the song suggestion! I haven't heard of Hi Ren before, so I will keep that in mind for future reactions. As for NF, I do have an NF reaction playlist, though I haven't reacted to any of his music in a really long time, so that could be a great song to check out as well. Thanks!

[@xiaomoonli1859]

大棒了，我太喜欢你的解说和反应了，迫不及待看见下一条你对他的影片了🤩🤩

[@NahIamgood]

This is such a throwback, I remember I used to watch your Hua reactions back in 2019 so Welcome Back! If you are up to throwing in some other artists on the channel I think you would love Sleep Token since you like twenty one pilots and Hua. They are an anonymous band from UK that are genre-fluid and also have some really juicy lore.

[@MFPReacts]

Thank you for the warm welcome, very happy to be back! Thanks for the recommendation as well! I'd love to have some more artists on this channel to add a little bit more variety. Won't be right away probably since twenty one pilots building up to their album so my reactions will probably mostly be split between them and Hua for now, but I'll definitely take note of that suggestion for the future. Thanks!

[@YipCY]

Totally agree

[@choilin2527]

👍👍👍👍👍🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@lila1957]

Merci pour le retour et celui de Hua Chenyu sur la chaine . Vos analyses sont super ❤

[@MFPReacts]

Ça me fait plaisir! Je suis ravi d'avoir l'opportunité d'explorer la musique de Hua Chenyu à travers ces réactions/analyses et de partager cette expérience avec vous tous.

[@yutinghuang7967]

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[@mimid.9965]

Thank you for this reaction, Welcome back, I am happy to hear from you again. It must be so interesting for you to have artists like HuaHua to react to, because theres a lot of content in their songs. I benefit a lot from your analysis, its helping understand more deeper and when I will relisten to this song, Illusion and Reality, I will have your interpretation in mind. Just love it! Thank you!

[@MFPReacts]

Thank you!! Having an artist like Hua Chenyu to react to is an absolute pleasure. There are so many intricacies to his performances, the music, and lyrics, and I find it fascinating to see what elements of it leave a lasting impression after that initial viewing. As I mentioned in this reaction: the thoughts you get from immersing yourself into a Hua Chenyu performance or song tend to linger. It places me in an introspective state, and I love that. Thank you so much for watching!

[@Oreoyu]

Hua posted about this song on his Chinese social media (Weibo): wonder if u read this before! Just sharing here: Hua Chenyu writing about his creation of "Illusion and Reality" The song "Illusion and Reality" is actually a summary of my album, and it is also my first attempt to use operatic techniques to compose. The content of this song is relatively complicated, so I started to sort out the long Weibo post a month ago, writing and deleting it in the middle, until I published this song today. It's a bit long, and interested friends can take a look. The whole song is switching back and forth between "illusion" and "reality", and the paragraphs are mainly divided into three parts: The first part's lyrics start from the very beginning till "that tenderness is not pretended". This is written from the first-person perspective, and it talks about the self-contradictory state of understanding and not understanding the world through indoctrination during the growing-up process. Because when people are confused, they don't know how to talk about their own life, or what appearance, expression, and language to use when facing different types of people, so it's easy to start thinking about how to solve the conflicted feelings when they are alone. In terms of music, from the beginning of the first section, the bass and the harmonies appear and stop at the same time, and then the dry voice of a person stands out alone, just to highlight the effects of repeatedly switching between "illusion" and "reality". When the person sings, the harmonies come in suddenly. It's like when you are thinking about yourself, sometimes a lot of voices suddenly appear in your head to comfort you, but then they suddenly disappear. The second part is the rock chorus section in the middle. This section is more complicated. I may talk about its content while combining it with music. First of all, it's narrated from the second-person perspective, that is, the perspective of others, the feeling that a bunch of people talking to you. From the word "pretended" at the end of the previous paragraph, the word "pretended" gradually changed from a normal human voice to a distorted human voice, and then to the appearance of an alarm-like sound that tells you that the "reality" is coming. But the distorted human voice is virtual, so it also highlights the question of whether is it reality or illusion. The whole paragraph roughly means that many people are using their moral standards to examine you and demand you, but in fact, they may not be able to meet these standards themselves. So the way the drums are plaved in the music part of this section has the feeling of a marching army. The chorus represents a group of people coming to tell you that the world is actually like this, it should be like this, and it must be like this. In fact, I struggled with how to record this chorus for a long time, because I wanted a feeling similar to marching. At first, I wanted to find a choir to record with bel canto, but then I felt that many old battle songs were not taught. People sing such songs to boost morale, so they don't sing battle songs with the standard vocal method, instead, they will sing them while mimicking the feeling of bel canto. So it sounds free and the momentum will feel stronger. It's hard to control this kind of semi-bel canto-like singing style. After repeated discussions with my producer, I came to the conclusion that only I can record this chorus by myself because only I know which kind of voice is the best. I probably altered my vocals and recorded nearly a hundred tracks to sing out this kind of chorus-like momentum, so it could sound like justice is about to come. The third part returns to a quiet part at the end, and this part has changed back to the first-person perspective, which roughly means that in the face of all this, I start to absorb what's going on with myself, start to try slowlv to resolve conflicts and accept all the good and the bad, and then keep moving forward, even if I may still encounter occasional setbacks in the middle and start to get confused and want to be saved. But life is such a process of constant repetition. As long as you are willing to accept it positively in your heart, you can live well. So many times what you think is real, the reality will tell you it is illusory, and what you think is illusory, the reality will be disguised so well that people still can't find the answer. I am the same, I still do not know what the answer to life is, and I will struggle repeatedly, which may become my normal state in the future, but I still have to work hard to learn to accept the good and the bad. Many people like to use morality to restrain others, to teach you to do things from the highest ground of morality, and if they find out that you are wrong, they will rush to attack vou and slander vou as if thev've grasped your lifeline. Can they represent justice? But those who attack you under the guise of justice may have made a mess in their own lives. So, sometimes you will fall into confusion, start to question life, and start to shrink back and escape. If everyone can truly lead a life by example while asking others, then this society may become more virtuous. We have learned to undo ignorance through higher education, but kindness can take a lifetime of life experience to gain. May each of us continue to learn to treat others with self-examination and kindness in our lives

[@陳瑞月-b7w]

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