Eazin talks about the creative process behind his new song, “Shakespeare’s Bruises,” and more!
Eazin:
The music video for this song mainly highlights dancing with some small designs added, so mixing it with funky dance beats feel fresh, like a creative collision. The significant moment should be when I started learning street dance in university. At that time, in university clubs, we often performed at the school theater and I really love the feeling of being on stage. This song was the first time I collaborated with a talented team of American lyricists and composers specializing in singing and dancing. The earliest demo was completed by a lyricist and composer specializing in singing and dancing. There are more considerations when writing lyrics for singing and dancing songs. It’s important to ensure that the lyrics, dance, and rhythm are unified. In terms of the completeness of the work, the sound and rhythm are more important than the literal expression. For this song, I wrote the lyrics within the framework of singing and dancing making the expressions I wanted without affecting the rhythm and sound. This kind of creation was very interesting. Since the album is called The Great Novelist I wanted to try to create a scenario where modern novelists have a cross-temporal dialogue with historical predecessors. In the history of European and American literature when paying tribute to great writers Shakespeare is the obvious choice. Almost all the earliest templates for modern Hollywood genre films and heroic journey stories originate from him. Additionally, Shakespeare himself is quite mysterious with many of his works are widely known, but not much information about himself.
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This story originally appeared on Billboard
