小人物的浅吟低唱:李宗盛歌词创作风格浅析

Soft Singing of Nobodies:On the Style of Jonathan Lee’s Lyric Composition

李宗盛的词作婉约含蓄,在平淡朴实的语言中,传递着温婉细腻的情感。其词作的叙事方式是:歌词大多展现的是他不同阶段的生命轨迹与情感体验,长于个人化叙事;采用细腻独特的女性视角,委婉地抒写都市女性的小情绪。其作品富有人文内涵,主要体现在三方面:映照小人物的悲喜人生,深刻洞悉世事人情;富含生活哲理,实现对个体生命的存在价值、生命尊严与人性本质的观照;构建大众文化的审美空间,激活受众的审美表达诉求,突显其歌词的人文思想与社会价值。

Lyrics by Jonathan Lee are graceful and unpretentious,in that gentle and fine sentiments are communicated with plain and simple language.His way of story-telling largely focus on his lifespan development and emotional experiences,which is highly personalized.With a unique female perspective,he depicts meticulously joys and sorrows of modern females.The lyrics have got deep insights into concerns of human nature in three ways:dramatic life-stories of nobodies,industrious observation of the world,and inspections of existence values of an individual human beingby means of his philosophical reflections and intellectual expressions.Meanwhile,he has developed an aesthetic space of popular culture with his music compositions to facilitate affective interaction with audiences,and activated their appeals for aesthetic expressions,and their humanistic connotations and social value are accordingly intensified.