#崔健60岁 #
August 2 is Cui Jian's birthday, and on this day in 2021, he is exactly 60 years old. At this time, it had been 35 years since he appeared on the stage of the Workers' Stadium in 1986 and sang "Nothing" in that voice.
Compared with his 1980s and 1990s, Cui Jian's opportunities to perform publicly over the years have been much less, which cannot but be said to be directly related to his age. From the appearance point of view, since wearing the white hat embroidered with red five stars more than a decade ago, Cui Jian has never taken it off. In fact, it is not difficult to imagine that this is also related to his gradually increasing age.
In recent years, Cui Jian's opportunities to speak out in public have also decreased, and young people have not paid as much attention to him as in the past. Although many people also like rock and roll and are willing to pay money to watch various music festivals, "Summer of the Band" is also very popular, but there are all indications that young people are less interested in Cui Jian, who is in his fifties and sixties — at least not as interested in the post-60s and 70s.
And for the post-60s and post-70s who once loved the old Cui so much, they are gradually growing up and gradually reaching middle age, and Cui Jian, as their idol, is also old.
I've only been listening to Cui Jian since the 1990s, and I'm familiar with many of his old songs, and I've seen his concerts twice over the years. In 2016, at the Workers' Stadium, Cui Jian was five years younger than he is now, but at the scene, I already heard the old age in his voice, and I couldn't help but feel sad on the spot: The idol is old, what should we do?
01
On September 30, 2016, the night before the National Day, I watched Cui Jian's "Roll thirty" rock concert at the Workers' Stadium. It was his performance commemorating his debut in 1986.
I was looking forward to this show beforehand, hoping it would be more exciting than the last one I watched in December 2012. In fact, there are indeed many differences, such as Cui Jian invited the drummer of the European and American rock band they loved, the singer of "China Star" took the stage to help sing, and Tan Weiwei and The Autumn Wild of the Ziyue Band also came to help.
There was only one "difference" I didn't expect — the high-pitched part of the song Cui Jian almost didn't sing.
02
At the beginning of the concert, Cui Jian sang two new songs that he did not often hear, both of which were rap songs based on talk, and could not hear anything unusual. The first classic song is sung "False Monk", the first half is no problem, and when it is sung "If you want to fall in love with me, you don't have to be afraid to regret it, one day I will go far and fly high", you can hear his hard work, and when you get the water in the sky, but not your tears", it has completely become a downture.
Hearing Cui Jian's performance in these few sentences, I was first shocked, I had not listened to his voice for more than three years, and then I was sad, especially when I heard "I don't want to believe that there is really a devil, nor do I want to fight against anyone", I can't help but be a little lost - the idol is old.
We have long been aware of the changes in Cui Jian's image, the wrinkles on his face have become more, and the hair on his head has become white, which is a common sentiment of people. And the sudden change in voice is something I didn't expect.
That night, Cui Jian sang a lot of songs that he wanted to sing, that is, more exotic songs and new songs, the form of these songs was mainly rap, and the requirements for the voice were not high, and the remaining classic songs such as "Nothing", "A Red Cloth", "Flower Room Girl", "Let Me Sprinkle Some Wild on the Snow" and "Rock on the New Long March Road", each with a high-pitched part, he did a low-key treatment when singing.
03
The old brother sitting on my left nodded his head in understanding: Alas, how old are these, and I can't shout.
After listening to one or two such songs, I had psychological expectations, and when I reached the high-pitched part of some of the later songs, I sang hard and tried to sing as high as the recorded version I usually heard. A brother sitting behind me worked very hard to hear every classic song being sung in his throat, and the feeling was: Old Cui, you can't sing it, we will help you sing it.
The same singers, the same old, rock singers are probably at a loss, most of the songs they have sung are very high-tune, the older they are, the more difficult it is to control, it is inevitable that their fans will be disappointed, this is no longer the high-pitched voice they remember.
Singing is also different from acting, people of different ages can perform plays of different ages, formerly playing daughters-in-law can now play mother-in-law, and people listen to singing or wishful thinking to hear a voice closer to the original.
04
Not just singing. In 2015, I took my college classmates to see a special performance of a cross-talk actor, who I had heard almost all of his cross-talk works when he was young, and I liked him very much. Now that he's in his 60s, I've heard some questions since he opened his mouth, but I didn't tell my classmates. After listening for a while, my classmate leaned into my ear and said: Do you hear it, his mouth is already a little out of the way when he speaks.
I was very sad to hear it, I heard it from his first sentence, but I didn't want to accept that fact.
The people we often meet, the process of their aging we witness the whole time, this change is difficult for us to detect, so it is easy to accept. And some relatives or friends who do not meet often have not met for many years, and for you, his suddenly old appearance is difficult to accept.
We don't want to see idols get old, but because we don't see them often, when they suddenly change their appearance, it's as if the sky we follow their dreams is broken.
05
Some people say that idols can be changed. Difficult, can change almost only means that it is not your real idol.
People's perception of literature and art is concentrated in the years of youth, listening to a lot of songs and watching movies, and the idols in their hearts are established. With the growth of age and the change of life stages, everyone's involvement in literature and art will gradually be limited, unwilling or difficult to contact new literary and artistic works as in a large area as when they were young, looking for one person after another who may become an idol. Therefore, there are only so many of your true idols, and it is difficult to change them after they are established.
The literary and artistic value created by the idol when he was young is deeply accepted by you, and your past and the idol are inseparable, so the real idol is irreplaceable. When the idols can't sing, can't move, we don't want to accept it, but we also have to sincerely thank the young man.
Only those who are different from you and do not take your inner idol seriously will easily say: He is old.
Happy birthday, Old Cui.