First of all, the situation about this album is like this. "duplicity" is actually a love song album, but it is different from commercial pop records. Although it is also composed of ten unrelated love works, Tom Chang put ten works under the names of ten famous Chinese and foreign works of art in his copywriting, and the arrangement of each work itself is diverse and wonderful, so it is easy to sublimate such love songs with the word literature and art, and there can be many subtitles, such as A Review of a Middle-aged Literary Music Edition, such as Ten Love Fragments of a Middle-aged Literary Man, such as A Middle-aged Literary Man Falling in Love. ...
The most admirable thing about the album is that it broke through the standardized arrangement of mainstream pop music in Taiwan Province Province at that time, and showed a singer's imagination and artistic pursuit to the greatest extent. In this regard, Zhang Dongjian has really done a good job. In addition to being good enough, Tom Chang is not like those musicians who are powerless, and can only win people's sympathy. On the contrary, the work of 1 1 in "duplicity" (the track of "Love ……" is not only a short piece of music, but also a prelude to "Fancy …" after eleven tracks of the record) is absolutely integrated with the song in terms of technical content, and the diversified appearance does not affect the essence of the work at all, so it is rich in listening sense. Among them, The Name of a Rose uses a combination of classical music and heavy metals. Its fast and slow posture is not like a pop music work at all, but like a popular version of epic metal. The most important thing is that their combination is not annoying at all, and it is definitely not an arty response, especially the neutral tenor of Tom Chang's signature, which extends the artistic conception of the work itself and the temperament of metal music. River is a perfect collage of stage solo and rock music, which skillfully blends the beauty and evil temperament in Tom Chang's music. "When you lie flat, I become a river, winding around your neck and drying up on your lips" is the trend of Tom Zhang's "crescent school". No wonder this kind of performance will make Polar Music Biweekly, which has always been ashamed of the mainstream pop music at that time, give them a thumbs up.
In addition, the modes of rendering strings and harps in love ... and ..., the teasing between jazz bass and stage play, the way of comparing baroque music in No matter Who You are with rock guitar, the folk Bossa Nova in Spirit, the duet between true and false voices in Twilight Before Melting the Colors of the World, and the application of "What if I tell you that I only love you".
In fact, Zhang Dongjian's music career can always be divided into two lines: Chu River and Han Dynasty. One line is pure popularity, including my early future is not a dream, I miss you every day, and my later works for May, such as sisters, missing you, bad boy, and the other is free songs and karaoke Taipei. The former shows that Tom Chang, as a singer, has a strong identity with his unique neutral tenor, and he can also use this advantage to turn it into a driving force for making music popular. At the same time, it also shows that as a creator, he also has a strong melody sensitivity and can turn his sensitivity into popularity. The latter shows that as a musician, Zhang Dongjian knows his conscience and sincerity, as well as his ambitious artistic ideal.