Maybe you don't know who the "old fan next door" is, but you may have heard the name; you may not have heard the name, but you should have heard his songs. The popular "More want to embrace you in a mediocre life", "I have been", "Ji and not as good as" ... All are his original works.
I stumbled towards you You can't go away alone We said it together We've been through the storm together anyway Plain and quiet to grow old Plain and quiet old age
The sad melody and the heartfelt lyrics, under the vicissitudes of a man's voice, seem to be able to withstand few people. This man is the old fan next door.
It may be a little inappropriate to say "man" because the old Fan next door is not old, but a 21-year-old college student. But the first time they hear his songs, who would think he's only in his 20s. Whether it is the voice or the story in the song, it seems to come from a middle-aged man with rich life experience. From the time he released his first original single "Ji He And Not as Good", to now only a year, billions of works have been played, he has been completely on fire. So, what kind of a boy is he?
The first time Mandarin Letan noticed Lao Fan next door was in the sixth issue of "China Song Club" in June this year, when he sang the song "More Want to Embrace You in a Mediocre Life" on the stage. It was also through this appearance on TV that many people knew that the old Fan next door was only 21 years old. The guests of the tasting group were shocked by the contrast between his singing and age, and gave this work a very high evaluation. Some people ask, with his limited experience at the age of 21, why can he make such a song? The old fan next door revealed that he had a different growth experience from ordinary people.
The old Fan next door, whose real name is Fan Kaijie, is a native of Chengde, Hebei. From the sixth grade of primary school, he left his hometown in Pingquan, Chengde, and went to Tianjin to study martial arts school and study Sanda. He also won the top three in the national sanda competition, but did not develop in the direction of career. After the age of 16, he returned to Hirazumi to attend high school. But he didn't study seriously, he didn't have any ideals, he skipped class, fought, and fell in love, but there was one thing that saved him in the end, that is, music. He bought a cheap guitar on Taobao and started practicing and singing according to the tutorial on the Internet.
In his sophomore year of high school, he tried to drift north once, trying to find a bar where he could sing, but he tried and failed, stumbled all the way, and finally had to go back to school. After returning to school, he still did not study seriously and opened a sanda training class. But soon after, the opportunity to sing was ushered in.
On that occasion, after drinking at a bar with a group of friends, he was drunkenly pushed onto the stage and sang a song. Later, the boss invited him to stay and sing. Although the remuneration is as low as 50 yuan a day, it is necessary to sing for 8 hours, but Fan Kaijie did not refuse, and finally he can sing, and he can still make some money.
Singing and singing Lao Fan has become famous in the county, and later participated in the 2016 "China New Song" audition and entered the final of Chengde District. Because of this, Fan Kaijie once again took music as his goal, and entered the Beijing Contemporary Music Academy after high school. In order to solve the high tuition fees and his own living expenses, he went to various bars in Beijing to find opportunities during his school days. This time I was finally accepted, and it got better and better, and it was best to get 1500 yuan a night, which was equivalent to singing in Hiraizumi for a month.
Since 2017, Lao Fan has begun to cover songs on the Internet and become a member of the vast army of Internet celebrities. In the second half of 2018, Fan Kaijie ushered in two popularity outbreaks through the Internet. One was in August, when he sang a video of Jin Weiqi's song "Goodbye Hello", with the help of the artist Kan Qingzi and Ji Lingchen's breakup, he was suddenly pushed as a hit, receiving 1.24 million likes, and the number of fans on the whole network soared; the other was in October, he uploaded a video of the school singing competition, which was his own creation and singing work "Ji He Is Not as Good". Through this song, he realized the transformation from a cover Internet celebrity to an original singer, becoming one of the most popular original musicians in NetEase Cloud, and also attracted the attention of many brokerage companies, and even issued invitations.
Fan Kaijie's current boss, Duan Xiaolin, the founder of Good Music, is interested in signing him because he heard "Ji He is not as good as". He said that he was very touched to hear the singing voice of Lao Fan next door, "there was a feeling of listening to Xu Wei's "Elsewhere" at that time."
As it turned out, Duan Xiaolin didn't look away. The first work of Lao Fan next door was launched, the influence on the Internet was geometrically multiplied, the album was released, and the national tour was also in full swing in major cities such as Qingdao, Shanghai, and Hangzhou, and each ticket was sold out in a few seconds.
If this is just a reflection of popularity and is not enough to explain anything, then the unanimous affirmation of the old fan next door from experts on the "Chinese Song Club" further proves that the old fan next door is indeed a real singer-songwriter. Mr. Zhong Chengxiang, chairman of the China Literary and Art Critics Association, did not hesitate to praise: "I think that you, who are 21 years old, sing the feelings of me, a person in his 70s... You sang a lofty philosophy of life born to die... You are good looking! ”
Chinese Le Tan also noticed that under some of the videos of Lao Fan singing next door on the Internet, netizens' comments appeared in a rare round of applause, although many of them were the first time they came into contact with Lao Fan's singing. Netizen "User 208749085" said: "He is a late 90s, singing the tear marks of our 70s and 80s", netizen "Xiaoliang 887" said: "I pinch my finger to calculate that he is the reincarnation of the family colt", netizens "go to the sea with a little bit" said: "I am very curious about what he has experienced to write such a deep and rich song", and some people say that Lao Fan is what "Wang Jie when he was young", "God looks like Liang Bo", "The second Mao is not easy" and so on...
I remember that when Mao Buyi first became famous through "Children of Tomorrow", he also received a voice of praise, and also won the reputation of "Young Li Zongsheng" because of the young and old cheng of his works and voice. From this point of view, the old Fan next door and Mao Buyi are indeed somewhat similar, and they are both young and old musical talents.
However, what we did not expect at all was that we did not see any negative comments against lao Fan next door on the "troll rampant" network platform, but in the Zhihu platform of "everywhere is a big god", we saw a completely opposite scene. If you don't believe it, you can go to Zhihu to search for "old fan next door", the hottest "how to evaluate the music of the old fan next door" question, there are more than 200 answers, I probably browsed it... At that moment, I was glad that I was not a fan of Lao Fan, if I was a fan of him, I might be particularly lost, very lost, extremely lost, because one by one, it was all demeaning and mocking Lao Fan, and it was as if I walked from one world to another, and a moment ago Lao Fan was still a genius teenager born for music, and at this moment it seemed to have become a useless music.
Received more than 3600 likes and ranked first, from the answer of the Zhihu user "Zheng Xia": Next door lao Fan, sorry I can only see one word, soil, and it is pretentious soil without knowing it.
The second answer came from the user "Silent Resident", who believed that the pretentious style and singing method were all embarrassing... Can't rate... It's not music at all, it's a cliché that I see as a bit of frustration and world-weariness.
Zhihu user "Xu Fei" also said in the answer: (Lao Fan) Later a series of songs such as "The Normal state of things", "About loneliness I want to say", "I was", "I want to hug you in a mediocre life", are the same as "ji and not as good", especially vulgar chord sets, most of the lyrics are very watery and very earthy... The recent four-and-a-half chick has risen to the level of disgust, and I can't bear to look at it directly...
There is also an anonymous user said: This next door old Fan, singing what I have the impulse to drill into the mobile phone to strangle him, the singer is 0, according to the songs I have heard I suspect that his singing skills are not as good as Xue Zhiqian, I have heard these songs are all interpreted with hysterical cathartic singing, seriously doubt that his high pitch will not be weak singing at all...
I kept flipping through, including other topics related to lao Fan next door, trying to find a person who said a fair word, and finally I was disappointed, saying more politely, at most saying that he pretended to be vicissitudes and deep, and said that he was worried about giving new words, and almost did not see an answer that expressed affirmation and appreciation.
I was shocked, for the evaluation of the old fan next door, why is there such a contrast between ice and fire? So, what kind of singer is the old fan next door?
Chinese Letan believes that it is not surprising at all for a kind of contrast. It must be admitted that the cognition of users in professional theory is indeed generally one level higher than that of users of other platforms, and has always regarded themselves as a high-pressure personality of a few people. Not to mention newcomers like Lao Fan, even the music industry predecessors with a wide audience such as Mayday, Daolang, and Huang Jiaju are often the objects of disdain by the gods. They only talk about heroes with forced frames and technology, and selectively ignore the most direct and natural touch of popular music on ordinary audiences, which seems objective and calm, but it is actually a bit too harsh and sharp.
As far as the old Fan next door is concerned, he was a non-committal teenager who engaged in sanda before, and it is meaningless for you to investigate how deep his musical literacy is, whether the music theory is solid, and what kind of artistic standard his work has reached! But on that basis, he can write such songs and sing them into the hearts of many people, which proves that he still has a musical talent that is different from ordinary people, even if his works do have something worth complaining about. There may be many academics who are more theoretical and technologically advanced than him, but they may not be able to do what he does. This is the same as some of the music industry big names attacking Dao Lang's songs at all, but we really can't ignore that popular music is not an academic study, and its biggest significance for us is not to show off X, but to whether it has entered the hearts of popular fans.
As a 21-year-old singer who has just debuted, the old Fan next door certainly has a lot of room for progress, and his works are not perfect, but it cannot be denied that he has great potential, I believe that his next works will get better and better, and he is a young musician worth looking forward to.