Recently, at the 2021 TMEA Tencent Music Entertainment Festival, Jay Chou (hereinafter referred to as Zhou Dong) contributed an eight-minute skewer of "Give Me a Song Time + I Don't Deserve + Quiet + Track".
Who won the award is really not paid attention, but these eight minutes, evoked the memories of Zhou Dong in those years, due to platform restrictions, can not insert the video, interested students to search for it themselves.
Today is a fragment of thoughts, interested friends can play while looking down, not interested in do not delay your time.
First acquaintance with Zhou Dong.
The first time I came into contact with Zhou Dong's songs was on the major music charts on TV, and the first song I heard was "Qilixiang".
Well, I admit it's quite late, after all, "Qilixiang" is already Zhou Dong's fifth album, but there is no way, at that time, the access to new songs was too limited, except for television, which was pirated tapes in the street video store.
"Qilixiang" has a beautiful melody and poetic lyrics, but Zhou Dong's unclear style of spitting words is too deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and the songs listened to by his parents' generation are completely different, they like to spit clear words, full of positive energy music, and occasionally listening to a song "Big Scalp Shoes" is already very "trendy".
Occasionally, when I listen to Zhou Dong's songs, they will persuade me to listen to something else, for fear that I will not learn well.
What they don't know is that such a cool, bad-looking Zhou Dong, the fourth album "Ye Huimei" is named after her mother, and in the seventh album "Still Fantasia", the song "Listen to Mother".
Let's put it this way, children who listen to rock and roll advocate freedom, children who listen to hip-hop will bring a little cynical, if your child likes Zhou Dong, then congratulations, he is most likely filial piety.
Piping hot Zhou Dong.
I really realized the great influence of Zhou Dong around me through the song "My Territory".
I was born in the countryside, in the early years in addition to the inconvenience of transportation, there is a problem is the slow dissemination of information, although "My Territory" was created by Zhou Dong in 2004, but it was not until 2005, just after high school, and after having the first mobile phone in his life, as an advertising song of China Mobile's "dynamic zone", I felt that Zhou Dong's song was really popular in the streets.
At that time, the hottest was the color ringtone, how many people still remember the advertising slogan: want to listen to Jaylen's new song, dial 12530, M-Zone is free.
It's really brainwashing, and even though it's been 16 years, I'm sure I haven't misremembered a word.
Walk into Zhou Dong.
Before it was a few songs of Zhou Dong scattered, at the same time I liked JJ Lin Junjie, "Jiangnan", "West Boundary" and so on.
But they all listen to one song occasionally, and do not systematically and completely appreciate Zhou Dong's music, and the real entry into Zhou Dong's music world should be when he was in his third year of high school, influenced by the same table.
Say that it is the same table, there is only less than a year, remember that the school had a rule at that time, every month after the test results came out, it would rearrange the seats according to the level of the score, the first place was selected first, and the last one was not selected.
I like to sit in the back, avoid the teacher's line of sight, and desert, and he is the same, so most of the time, unless the teacher intervenes, we will definitely choose to sit together.
He is a die-hard fan of Zhou Dong, holding tapes of all of Zhou Dong's albums, which are a bit embarrassing to note that they are all pirated.
Zhou Dong's fans sprayed lightly, there is really no money, there is no place to buy the genuine version, can not be sold at all, on these tapes, most of them are still he thrifty, plus begging the family to gather.
The same table was true love for Zhou Dong, at least at the time I thought so.
He likes Zhou Dong, as long as he has time, he will listen to Zhou Dong's songs repeatedly, and even sometimes when he is addicted to class, he must wear a headset and then cover his hands to listen to songs.
In autumn and winter, he likes the most, because wearing a coat is convenient to listen to songs, putting the tape recorder in the desk, the headphones are worn from the chest to the sleeves, and then from the cuffs, and the palms are covered with the ears when listening to songs, as long as you don't put too much in, it is generally difficult for the teacher to find.
It is also through his Amway, the initiative to share my headphones, I will listen with him over and over again, just listened to some doubts, Zhou Dong is really diverse in style, the more I listen to the back, the more I like, but also sing with him.
Speaking of singing reminds of one thing, not at any time is appropriate, others will say that you are narcissistic, neurotic.
Therefore, you must choose to study early and read in the morning, while the students are reciting the text, under that kind of sound, no matter what sound comes out of your mouth, as long as you take the textbook and shake your head together, no one can see it.
After listening to it together for a year, Zhou Dong's early songs were basically learned, and it was really difficult to at least hum two sentences.
However, what impressed me most at the same table was that once at the end of the morning self-study exercise, he rubbed his hand on the desk, looked at my desk obliquely, but did not look at me head-on, and said: You sing well, better than me.
I don't remember how I answered him that day, or whether I answered him or just smiled sheepishly, but I remember what he praised me to this day.
One more thing, it's about pirated tapes.
In 2007, Zhou Dong released the album "Cowboy is Busy", the classmates bought pirated tapes for the first time, wrapped in a piece of promotional paper printed with lyrics, although Zhou Dong tried his best to spit out words better, but the businessmen who made pirated tapes still heard it wrong.
For example, the song "Blue and White Porcelain", the original version is "Azure and other smoke and rain and I am waiting for you", the lyrics in the pirated tape, were heard as "the sky is waiting for the smoke and rain and I am waiting for you", and "The secret of your hiding in the kiln for a thousand years", written as "the secret of your hidden in the medicinal effect for a thousand years".
So I once thought that the characters in this song were related to Chinese medicine, and I didn't know until I saw the original lyrics later, which was really humiliating.
Zhou Dong's company.
Due to the general performance of the first year of the college entrance examination, coupled with the voluntary is also randomly filled in, even if it is no longer willing, finally chose to re-study and entered the fourth year of high school.
The life of repeat reading is more stressful than the third year of high school, because you deeply realize that it is because you have not worked hard enough that the year has stagnated and there is no way back.
It is also a consolation, the school will be the fresh class and the repeat class separately, my class is the largest class in the school, there are more than 250 students, sitting in the last row it is impossible to see the blackboard, the teacher lectures must be amplified, but looking at the class are repeat students, psychologically comfortable, know that they are not lonely.
Still, the pressure is certainly high, and it varies from person to person.
There is a classmate around, usually one or two in the class, the first year of the college entrance examination results can be on an ordinary book, he is not willing, when re-reading together, his results are still among the best, the teachers all say that Tsinghua Peking University picked casually.
But the fact is that although his second college entrance examination is better than the first, he still has an abnormal performance and cannot enter the door of Tsinghua Peking University at all.
After the second year of the college entrance examination, I graduated, and he re-read, listening to the later classmates said, the third time he still failed to do as he wished, and finally chose to go, the school he went to was still quite good, it was Southeast University, but he took his requirements for himself, there should still be regrets.
How to pass the time by re-reading, some students like the NBA, every time they go to the game, students with mobile phones will be entrusted with heavy responsibilities, use 2G network to watch NBA game text live, and timely inform other students of the progress.
In addition to mobile phones, we also scrape together money to buy a weekly magazine, there is a magazine called "Vista To See the World", and until now I still pay attention to articles through the public account.
At the time of the magazine, the attribution of the first page was important because the first page was full of posters, sometimes NBA stars, sometimes male and female stars.
So we made an agreement, if it is an NBA star, they will divide, if it is Jay Chou, I want, if it is another star, as long as everyone agrees, they can take it.
I clearly remember that in 2009, when Zhou Dong was 30 years old, the cover of that issue of the magazine was Jay Chou, needless to say, naturally belonged to me, carefully folded up, in order not to let the crease more, I clipped in the largest textbook, if it were not for the parents after graduation to sell those books, I believe I can save them until now.
It was with Zhou Dong's songs that I survived the difficult third year of high school.
Lost youth.
Since liking Last Week Dong and fanning Last Week Dong, every year new songs will be listened to and listened to repeatedly.
I'm ashamed to say that I have been listening to piracy before, I have not paid for Zhou Dong, and the only time I paid was in 2019.
On September 16, 2019, Zhou Dong launched the latest single "Say Good Don't Cry" on QQ Music, which has prostituted Zhou Dong's music for so many years, which is the first time in his life that he has paid for a piece of music.
Most of the small partners mentioned above are no longer in touch, but every time they hear Zhou Dong's song, their eyes will be a little moist, as if they have returned to that time, reliving those memories, and these melodies have also reminded the era of never going back again.
Recently, Mango Station's "Time Concert" is very popular, invited a lot of old singers, if you can, I hope to invite Jay Chou, I think at that time, whether through TV or mobile phones, those old friends, are watching, right?
No contact, later life?