Many people say that he sings out of tune, and many people say that he can't speak clearly, but this does not affect his becoming a maverick independent musician, writer, and artist - Zuo Xiaozu. Maybe you don't like his singing voice, but that doesn't mean he's not classic, it's just not too easy to be accepted by everyone!
Performance artist Ai Future once said, "No matter how bad it sounds, Zuo Xiaozu mantra is the best, his personality is better than lyrics, lyrics are better than novels, novels are better than art, and art is better than music." ”
Thirty years ago, when Zuo Xiaozu was still Wu Hongjian, he probably didn't really want to change the world, but simply longed for books to pass the time. He was extremely hungry for books but was not interested in test education at all, and his grades were not good.
The school's unyielding makes the teenager's fantasy of music begin to haunt, and singing is a cool thing. It doesn't matter if it goes out of tune or not, it doesn't matter if it affects singing.
In 1993, at the age of 23, Zuo Xiaozu created the avant-garde artist tribe "Beijing East Village", which has a profound influence on Chinese contemporary art, and formed the band NO, which served as the lead singer, guitarist, fiddler and songwriter of the band. Of course, before that, he also spent a period of adolescence selling jokes.
His No band almost changed Chinese punk music, and while the punk bands in Beijing were tirelessly imitating Europe and the United States, he appeared in the Chinese underground music scene with a unique posture.
(Lost Master album)
You can't understand exactly what he's singing, you can only hear almost perverted shouts and crazy guitar playing, if you don't have a certain amount of endurance, you can't listen to it, if you're curious, you can buy two albums from his NO band , "The Lost Master" and "Temple Fair Journey".
(Temple Fair Tour Album)
Both albums have achieved extraordinary results, and these two revolutionary and unique records have won the collective praise of many Chinese music critics.
Among them, "The Lost Master" won the best Chinese record of the year by many media, including magazines such as "Popular Song Rock", and the Top Ten Rock Records of the 20 years at the Chinese Pop Music Awards. "Temple Fair Journey" won the Best Rock Artist of the Year Award at the Chinese Music Media Awards; Appeared on the cover of Popular Songs Rock magazine.
From forming a band to flying alone, from the underground jianghu into the Chinese music scene, every moment, Zuo Xiaozu is changing and surpassing himself. He has become one of the most appealing and ideologically influential rock singers in the hearts of Chinese rock fans.
One of the most memorable songs I've ever heard is the title song of the self-titled album I Can't Sit Next to You Sadly. I was depressed when I listened, and I couldn't find a cathartic intersection. There are thousands of feelings, and the music that fits needs thousands of kinds, but this kind of knocking on my heart.
Even Han Han recommended that he be one of the few good poets in China.
You threw that gun
I didn't say I couldn't use that stuff
I need it to kill someone yesterday
I can't sit sadly beside you
This album, which Zuo Xiaozu called his best album, hit the nerves of all fans and the recording industry who liked his music with 150 yuan, and this sky-high price almost shocked everyone, and this crazy man constantly used his favorite performance art to play with people's aesthetics, making people unable to understand what he was thinking! Artists are just hard to guess.
Write books, draw, make records, engage in performance art. In short, all the artistic tricks with poetic meaning, Zuo Xiaozu cursed in his East Village, and they were almost successful, and they have left their names to this day.
He once said: "I am not from a science class, and I can do what I am today, and I have slowly explored it." Writing the novel "Rabid Barking Grave" in the late 90s and also publishing two rock albums, "The Lost Master" and "Temple Fair Journey", these two things are very important to me. Many people even think that my later works can't surpass these two. ”
Zuo Xiaozu also wrote a novel, "After writing, I will seal my pen, writing a book is too hard, I still like to shout and scream, maybe my body needs to be discharged like this." Oh, I remember, in 1995 I also did a performance art with my friends in Beijing's East Village, called "Adding a Meter to the Nameless Mountain", which is quite prominent in the history of performance art. During that time, I did three things: literature, performance art, and music. ”
Taiwanese singer Chen Sheng once said of his friend, "Zuo Xiao, who lives in a framework society, has broken through the predicament that he may not know himself." I like Zuo Xiaozu Mantra, I think he is very brave, he does not consider the auditory reactions of others, his music is destructive, but it makes you feel funny. ”
This old whimpering is now the lament of the so-called prosperous world. The unstoppable rock and roll attitude and the artistic gesture of not wanting to be secular are his attractions!