翻唱流行歌曲之填詞模式分析—以1975－2010年間「日翻中」華語流行歌曲為例

Abstract

Popular songs can reflect the culture thoughts and the lifestyles. Sometimes the lyrics can influence even the sentiments and society phenomenon. In the past 30 years, Taiwan has been the most important market of Chinese Pop Music, but many popular songs were rearranged from J-Pop Music. Most of these songs get sympathetic responses and were spread to the different generations. This study chooses 150 well known Mandarin Chinese versions of Japanese songs between 1975 and 2010 by network opinion poll, and discovers that among these, 70% songs were selected as title songs. That means we often use J-Pop Music to boost record sales in Chinese Pop Music market in the past 35 years. The researchers also sorted 7 songwriting modes of cover version popular songs, and found that most frameworks of these songs have been changed. Many songs' topics have been changed to ”Modern Love”, which often contain negative morale. Furthermore, they also found that the main point of the Chinese lyrics follow the epoch background. The functions of popular music are not only for entertainment but also for education. Most of the respondents believe that pop songs had motivated them to learn Japanese via J-Pop Music, and they also got curious of the differences between the original version lyrics and the cover ones. For these reasons, we may study the popular songs not only in Mass Communication, Music Anthropology, Psychotherapy, but also in the viewpoints of Foreign Languages Teaching and Learning.