Recently, the friends who have visited Douyin and Weibo have not been brainwashed by a song? A milk tea brand has a theme song, and there is no automatic single loop after listening.
After reading the reaction of netizens, do you want to listen to it more?
Repeated lyrics, familiar melody, is not very magical, are you almost forgetting how the original song "Oh, Suzanne" sang? This feeling is that a few years ago, the feeling of "meow meow meow" and "learn to cat call" in the world is back. Many netizens complained: "Under the bombardment of these saliva songs, the brain is getting less and less bright!" ”
Saliva songs, there is no accurate definition, probably refers to a period of time repeatedly played, men and women of all ages will be popular songs, in the art may not be written very well, but very catchy. If you move out of the "music contempt chain" that has become popular in recent years, it should be at the bottom.
The singers who write this kind of song are generally not particularly famous singers, most of them are advertising promotion songs, or Internet singers in the early years. Once a singer with a name in the music industry writes a work that is slightly "salivating", he will be ridiculed by the group. For example, in the early years of "Perfume Is Poisonous", "Mice Love Rice", and some songs sung by singers such as Daolang and Phoenix Legend. However, netizens are so "mouth suspect integrity", while saying that they are square dance standard, while casually huming out a few words...
But do songs with repetitive lyrics and catchy melodies always get ridiculed by the crowd? Didn't "this netizen" like simple melodies when they were young? Yi Xuanjun suddenly thought of a person.
It's him, Ah Niu.
Do you remember his "Peach Blossoms"? The whole melody is repeated, and the lyrics only revolve around "I am here waiting for you to come back, waiting for you to come back, watching the peach blossoms", without expressing too deep and complicated meanings, but this song was a fire at the time, and people in the streets and alleys will sing.
Until this afternoon, when Yi Xuanjun used NetEase Cloud Music to listen to this song, he saw that its cumulative number of comments had reached more than 13,000, which was not a small number, and just today, there were many post-00 comments that they were listening to this song.
Speaking of Ah Niu, the singer, the post-80s and post-90s should be very familiar, he is a Malaysian singer, his real name is Chen Qingxiang. Originally from Fujian, he grew up in Malaysia and has been versatile since childhood, not only enjoying singing but also writing, and has also worked in film and television companies. When he was less than 20 years old, he began to compete with his own works. Around 1996, a song by Ah Niu and Ah Hua received a good response in Malaysia.
His first influential work in China was "The Girl Across from Me" sung by Ren Xianqi, in 1999, Ren Xianqi took this song to the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, the concise melody and playful lyrics made it an instant fire, after that, more people know Ah Niu's song and this person.
Later, Ah Niu and Ren Xianqi cooperated many times, and there was a song that wanted to shake his legs and sing with him. In 2000, the two of them composed music and filled in the lyrics together, and created the theme song "Waves and Flowers" for the movie "Summer Momo Tea". At that time, whether it was a spring and autumn tour in school, a few boys would play guitars and sing this song, and now, it is also a classic memory of a generation.
Ah Niu also has a song that is also very classic, that is, "Love Me for a Long Time", which is the ending song of Zhang Zhilin and Jiang Qinqin's version of the TV series "White-Haired Witch", so many people have heard it.
This is a particularly magical TV series, I have seen it naturally and understand it, and I will have the opportunity to tell you more about it later. Although "Love Me for a Long Time" is its ending song, it is obviously not customized for it, because there is a lyric in it that says: "When I like to sit on a motorcycle, gently lean on your back, let the wind blow your hair, and whisk away all my sorrows." "This can't be a scene in a costume drama, but "one drama + one song" was really a mess at the time.
Around 2000, it was really the peak of Ah Niu's red fire, until 2007, he also went on the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, singing the "Peach Blossoms" just said. Since then, people haven't listened to his songs much since. In fact, Ah Niu gradually shifted from composing songs to becoming a film director, and in 2010, he directed and starred in his first film "First Love Red Bean Ice", which was released, and singers such as Liang Jingru and Pinguan have starred. But...... Have you seen this video? It is said that the box office is very dismal...
Ah Niu slowly disappeared from our sight, then again, if you only look at his lyrics and composition, these songs of Ah Niu are relatively simple, in recent years, Yi Xuanjun has also seen that some netizens call his songs saliva songs, but still many people like to listen, like to sing, is it just because of childhood filters?
Many people say that it is because the number of songs that could have been listened to was small, and these songs were released, so they had to listen; others said that the Internet was not developed in that year, even if the listeners did not like it, criticizing it as simple and salivating songs, these evaluations did not have channels to be known, so these songs could be popular.
Although these reasons exist, Yi Xuejun feels that these songs are still very different from the drool songs brainwashed by today's short video platforms. Even if the songs "Peach Blossoms" and "Waves and Flowers" are salivated and the lyrics are simple, it also describes a scene in life, a picture that can be restored, and expresses the real emotions of "waiting for you to come back" and "growing old with you". Moreover, in the lyrics of "Waves and Flowers", the future is imagined at this moment, "beautiful women become old wives" and "I am already a bad old man" Although the words are simple, there is still a certain literary expression in the deduction and span of time. And what kind of life is "Learning to Cat Call" and other similar saliva singing? If you have to say that this is the life of modern people, then I can only say that the life of modern people is quite boring...
Although Ah Niu's music is relatively simple, he is not without thinking about the times, like this song "Old Abel who pedals a tricycle to sell vegetables", he sings "how the surrounding cars run faster and faster, and how the houses around him rise faster and faster", but the old Aber who sells vegetables can only ride a tricycle to "step on and step on", "just like this stepped on an era". Many netizens said that when they listened to this song when they were young, they felt that they were the "young people" in the song, and now when they listen to it, they feel that they are the "old Abel", which is the meaning of being unable to listen.
Looking back now, Ah Niu's composition is indeed simple in style and straightforward in words, but his "simplicity" can be called a sense of youth, and now the "simplicity" of some songs can only be called sentimentality.
Source: Yixi Public Account | Reporter Han Xuan
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