On May 18, the nominees for the 33rd Golden Melody Awards were announced. Netease musician Jude was nominated for the Best Chinese Male Singer Award for his new album “The Last Aquarium”. This is Jude’s second nomination for the Golden Melody Awards. Two years ago, Jude was nominated for the Golden Melody Award for Best Chinese Male Singer with the album “I Want to Be Absent When Presenting the Awards”, and was the only male singer from mainland China to be shortlisted that year.
It is understood that Jude’s new album “The Last Aquarium” was produced by NetEase musicians, and Jude used this album to be nominated for the Golden Melody Award, which fully reflects the online music platform’s support for original musicians.
As the largest original music platform in China, NetEase Cloud Music promotes original music to the public and boosts music through a series of support programs such as the Stone Project, the Cloud Ladder Project, the Hard Floor Around the Fireplace, the Hard Floor Original Music List, and the Star Collection and Songwriting Competition. People continue to grow. By the end of 2021, the number of original musicians on the NetEase Cloud Music platform has exceeded 400,000. In this year’s Golden Melody Awards, Jude, Lu Yanliang, Xu Jun, Yuan Yawei and many other outstanding mainland musicians were shortlisted for the award.
Jude is a new generation of post-90s singer-songwriters in mainland China. He is a young Chinese-speaking musician with artistic image temperament and genius creative strength. In 2018, Jude was excavated by NetEase Cloud Music’s “Stone Project” in the second season and released his first personal EP “Sci-Fi Boy”. It is understood that the “Stone Project” is an original musician support program initiated by NetEase Cloud Music, which aims to provide original musicians with comprehensive, innovative and systematic support and help musicians gain more exposure and music revenue.
In 2019, Jude released his first solo album “I will be absent when the awards are presented”. This album was produced by NetEase Musicians and is a high-quality album invested and released by NetEase Cloud Music to support original musicians. Subsequently, NetEase Cloud Music and Zhongshuizhiyin Cultural Communication Co., Ltd. released the album in Taiwan and recommended it to participate in the selection of the 31st Golden Melody Awards. Jude was also nominated for the Best Chinese Male Singer Award for his cutting-edge singing style.
On December 24, 2021, Jude released his second solo album “The Last Aquarium”, and was recently nominated for the 50 Best Albums and Best Male Singer of the 15th Freshmusic Awards in Singapore. It is reported that “The Last Aquarium” is financially supported by the “Liu Huan Original Music Special Public Welfare Fund”.
“The Last Aquarium” is a series of 11 songs from the album based on the disappearance of visitors to the Future World Aquarium. The album uses a large area of blue blocks and water images, a grand narrative method, and shocking scenes to create an impactful song rhythm. The combination of jazz style and paragraph-style arrangement renders a very shocking audio-visual scene.
Jude said in an interview that he hopes to express the theme of “human beings who are accustomed to seeing other living beings as objects of appreciation, and maybe one day they will also become objects of appreciation for other creatures” through this album. The 11 songs in the album are: “Tour Guide”, “Blue Whale Concentrate”, “Jellyfish Galaxy”, “Floating Island”, “Temperature Difference”, “B-Class Shark”, “Scribbled on Fire”, “Bionic Turtle”, “I Dreamed Last Night” See I Learned to Swim”, “Maglev Train”, “The Last Aquarium”.
“The Last Aquarium” MV shooting scene
On April 22, after the MV of “The Last Aquarium” was launched, the NetEase cloud music playback volume rapidly soared to nearly one million, and the music critic Erdi praised, “His music is gorgeous but sincere, the image is illusory but the needlework is fine, He gave his best but tried his best.” Mai Zi, an invited producer of the album’s theme song MV, and a young and cutting-edge director, described his music as “like Debussy’s Impressionism, always wrapped in a lot of intentions, deep sea, doomsday, big color blocks, and depicting the picture with music”.
Since 2016, Jude has accumulated hundreds of original works, and the cumulative number of plays has exceeded 210 million. Jude gradually became well-known to the public after his outstanding achievements in the second season of NetEase Cloud Music’s “Stone Project”. Jude is good at integrating jazz elements into popular music, and blending with other styles in this tone, with obvious personal style characteristics. Nominated for the Golden Melody Award for the second time, the audience has a further understanding of Jude’s musical style and is full of expectations for his future works.
Original title: Several singers of NetEase Cloud Music were shortlisted for the Golden Melody Award, and the results of online music platform support are beginning to appear
[Editor in charge: Xu Ziming]