Author | Willow into branches
Some people jokingly say that people can't step into the same river twice, and Zuo Xiao curses can't sing the same song twice. Incredibly good, but also incredibly ugly, maybe it is the two sides of the left small body.
He said on the show, "There are so many people in this world who sing out of tune, why am I scolded the most? ”
But in any case, Zuo Xiao is not a person who can use only a few words.
Jazz hat, sunglasses, long hair, it was like a part of Zuo Xiaozu's body. Even if you wear sunglasses, you can still see his mood from Zuo Xiao's conversation, because he rarely hides all this.
But when you think that Zuo Xiao will definitely appear with a hat and sunglasses, Zuo Xiaozu will casually take off his hat on other occasions, as well as the pair of sunglasses that isolate others. Perhaps, this is his performance art. If you ask Zuo Xiaozu a mantra, he might say, "You think art is too complicated." ”
"You may not understand what I am saying."
This is zuo Xiao's most common expression in some interviews, but his interviews are never the same. Sometimes he needs to think for a long time before he spits out a sentence, "I don't know if you can understand this?" He didn't know what to say in order to let the other person understand what he wanted to say.
Only in people who are not so confident do we see situations where we try to say something but can't spit out a word.
I wanted to talk and stopped, but I tried to tell myself.
But sometimes, Zuo Xiao's speech speed will become particularly fast, gushing, he will tell you about his performance art, he will talk to you about rock and roll, he will tell you about his past. Zuo Xiao will tell you: "Because your question is interesting." ”
He's like someone looking for the same frequency.
He is very natural and frank, thinking of what to say, and letting others say what he can't think of how to say it. He may be eating fruit when he speaks, and he may be walking straight out of the camera when he asks others to speak. His natural frankness makes people feel that people should be, but it doesn't seem like we can do it.
Someone asked him about the soundtrack, and he made a very special metaphor: "Just like we have a game now, people will say, the dish is coming." But the crab can not be on the first ah, once the crab is on the first, eating other tasteless ah! What's not on the crab? The poor say, what is the crab on? Serve ice cream! But after eating ice cream, eating anything else has no taste! ”
After the air condensed for a few seconds, Zuo Xiao still said the same sentence: "I don't know if you can understand such a speech?" ”
On March 4 and March 14 this year, Zuo Xiao successively released a new album "Manna" and "Immortal Society". This is the first and second part of his "Four Masterpieces" series, and the remaining two "Mona Lisa" and "Jianghu" will be released in the next few days.
"'Four Masterpieces' tells the story of a Mongolian strange thing that happened in Gannan, Southwest, Xinjiang, Tibet, Nepal and India," the album transcript reads. The album is 190 minutes long, the longest song is 19 minutes long, and the shortest is only 30 seconds, for a total of 38 songs.
Zuo Xiao particularly emphasized that the "Four Masterpieces" is his "most brilliant cultural epic in his life." From the conceptual and formal point of view, it can be seen that Zuo Xiao's ambition is small, but it is also as difficult to understand as usual.
The new album "The Manna" has a song called "The Story of Dog teeth", and the lyrics are about an ancient legend. There was a young man whose mother repeatedly asked him to bring gifts from India, and after repeated forgetting, the young man brought back the dog's teeth as a gift because of his mother's deep belief in Buddhism.
This song, Zuo Xiao completed in a telling way.
Zuo Xiao also has many songs circulating among literary and artistic youth, such as the most classic "I can't sit sadly next to you", or his and Chen Sheng's "Love Gun", or the romantic "Xiaoli".
Zuo Xiao's music has some less popular melodies, less popular lyrics, and perhaps most importantly, his less popular singing style. Sometimes, he doesn't necessarily sing.
When many people talk about out-of-tune, they will mention Zuo Xiao.
When many people talk about judging ugliness, they also mention Zuo Xiao.
Zuo Xiao has sung with several singers, such as Chen Sheng, Huang Bo, and Jiao Zhong Xintong. Zuo Xiao, who sang with these singers, maintained his usual absurd walking board, while Huang Bo and Ah Jiao, who stood next to Zuo Xiao, were like gentlemen and ladies, which was particularly moving.
It may not be Zuo Xiao's singing voice, but it may also be Zuo Xiao's lyrics, such as the sentence "That gun was thrown by you / I didn't say I can't use that thing", or the sentence "Xiao Li, who dares to treat you like me / He is not afraid that I will break his head". Zuo Xiao's song does not have the problem of rhyme, and there is nothing to be avoided.
So Zuo Xiao also wrote those romantic or very literary lyrics, such as saying "The place without you is his hometown / Wandering without you is wandering", such as "If I kiss you you smile I will kiss you / Xiao Li, who can treat you like me".
A singer who is often ridiculous to write such lyrics in the lyrics may also be absurd to many people. But Zuo Xiao may tell you: "In our life today, everything is absurd, this is absurd, you can't explain." It's also ridiculous for us to chat here. ”
Zuo Xiao became acquainted with a group of artists because of the early sale of mouth belts, and before we knew the name Zuo Xiaozu, their group of artists, like everyone else, was troubled by basic life. But Zuo Xiao thinks, "These people will be poor for a lifetime, and I may be rich." ”
He went from being a man who sold mouthbands to a singer who sang rock 'n' roll.
"Music is not like this Luo Dayou, or Jiang Yuheng, or Qi Qin." "I found out that music didn't do that to Madonna, michael Jackson did it."
Zuo Xiao really, as he said, did not make us feel like he was like a well-known singer. Even if some people think that Zuo Xiao is a rock singer, probably no one will say that Zuo Xiao's style is very close to Cui Jian, or very close to Dou Wei.
"Rock 'n' roll is not noisy, everything you write is closely related to life in this world today, to warn people to care or provide imagination." 」
Many people mention Chinese rock, or write any article titled "The History of Chinese Rock and Roll", and most likely will not mention Zuo Xiao. But Zuo Xiao has his own definition of rock and roll, he believes that rock music is a northern thing, he calls himself a "rock master".
Zuo Xiao's music is absurd, but he knows exactly what he is doing, and his performance art also gives people this feeling. When many people mention Zuo Xiao, they will mention "Adding a Meter to the Nameless Mountain", which is the performance art that makes Zuo Xiao famous. Later, Zuo Xiao even encouraged his father to raise pigs for the concept of "I Also Love Contemporary Art".
If you ask Zuo Xiao if he thinks these are performance art, Zuo Xiao may ask you, "Am I doing art?" ”
On the day of the interview of "Strange Flowers Conference", Zuo Xiao, who came out from the backstage, wore a jazz hat, but he did not wear sunglasses. On this day, he seemed very happy.
In other words, other people who often wear sunglasses may be dressed like they are naked, standing naked in front of others.
Ma Dong told everyone that if they failed to invite Zuo Xiao to this show, it might be a regret for "Strange Story". This statement is not false, because standing in front of Ma Dong, Gao Xiaosong, Cai Kangyong, Zhao Youting and others, Zuo Xiao seems to be more in line with the "strange" theme of this show.
But as Zuo Xiao himself said, he was not the first to do these things. When Ma Dong asked him if he agreed with the statement that "no one can define art", Zuo Xiao did not comment, he only told Ma Dong: "Selling well is the most important thing." Ma Dong then asked, "Are you selling well?" Left Novel: "I sell very well!" I'm the most expensive record seller in the world. I sold for 150 bucks, they said I was hyped, and then I turned it around and sold 510. ”
The uncle who wanted to talk and stopped, but in other interviews, he became an uncle who couldn't stop.
When he identifies you as he does, he will never stop talking, or even eat fruit halfway through. But he will still tell you at the end, "Uncle Zuo is going to dinner, and we will talk about it next time." ”
Zuo Xiao believes that there are two types of artists, one is used to influence the public, and the other is used to enlighten artists. He flaunted himself as the second, though always accompanied by skepticism and even considered grandstanding.
But he seemed to be at ease, "I was born a noise, boredom and absurdity rooted in childhood memories." ”
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