After listening to 爱过谁, I can understand that it's not a song befitting a legendary tale like LOCH. It does have a great opening, but the remaining of the song seems to be so disconnected from its own grand opening. Unlike the 80s songs where they had grand opening tones, and then even the tempo changed, they still maintained that grandness...
So yes, I agree with the producers' decisions to change the Opening Theme to the instrumentals of "Iron Blood and Loyal Heart".
By the way, is the director Jeffrey Chiang related to David Chiang? If so, Jeffrey might have been raised in the classic 80s tradition, hence his affinity with the 83 OST (not that others don't, but him particularly might have been so attached to it).
Is it going to air on Dragon TV in China?
爱过谁 - it sounds like a song from Zhou Xun's version? Can't remember whether it is the opening song?
Using instrumentals of "Iron Blood and Loyal Heart" - but with no vocals? It's a bit strange. But then, if they change the vocals, they can get "sued" by the original singers/producers?
No, I think the producers would have asked permissions from Roman Tam's (or his recording company) representative. The Iron Blood & Loyal Heart is such a big OST that a production like LOCH 2017 would not just rip it without permission. I do love it that the opening theme has no vocals. It feels grand, and I don't think we can find someone with the vocalisation of Roman Tam these days... not even Hu Ge...
Doesn't Langya Bang (Nirvana in Fire) use non vocal opening theme as well? It suits the series well, IMO...
Pretty sloppy eh? (I meant the Drafon TV etc marketing)
Oh I was wrong with the Langya Bang opening theme. This one below is the correct one, but it still was instrumental music instead of vocals. It was the same music as the one I previously uploaded, but the correct arrangement is this one below.
Last edited by Icha Parvati; 01-07-17 at 09:24 PM.
Yes, producers tend to shorten the opening theme with some instrumentals. I think that was the case with Langya Bang too. Also some Western series (Spooks and Charmed came to mind) have the short, opening theme version and the longer version as well (not used in opening themes).
OK I am on Weibo!!!
Nothing yet. Waiting game for what's to come next.
http://weibo.com/hwshediao
Last edited by Don Yu; 01-07-17 at 09:56 PM.
Yep, Shediao hasn't posted anything as of this hour... oh, and it was amazing that you could create Weibo, Don Yu. Your Chinese must be very good then. I had to ask a Chinese friend of mine to create me a weibo, and i even used her AU phone number for that cos my number somehow doesn't work...
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I had to Google translate.
They will post an update at least to say 1 day left...
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