"No, you're getting closer and closer."
Admit it! If you're a post-90s, you've definitely heard this song when you were younger. The song comes from the little mp3, and the other end of the headset is the girl you like.
In the ignorant period of junior high school, there were three men who dominated the music platform list, they were Xu Song, Xu Liang, and Wang Sutaki.
And the above song "Guest Officer Can't", it comes from Xu Liang.
This boy who sings a little lightly and has broken his mind has become a symbol of the youth of the post-90s. But when we grew up, Wang Sutaki was frequently active in major variety shows and became a treasure boy in the hearts of the public.
Xu Song also became the music director of Haidi, and the new songs brushed the screen again and again, and the concert venue was full, and the popularity remained high. And Xu Liang seems to be the worst mixed, the great Internet can not hear his voice, it seems that if he does not mention it again, he will be forgotten. The former "bad boy" turned out to be a short-lived musical wizard in the non-mainstream period.
Xu Liang, are you okay now?
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In 1987, Xu Liang was born into an ordinary family in Qingdao, Shandong Province. Poor family, but he has a wealth of interests, he wants to be a scientist, a pilot... Because I drew a kettle, my grandmother said "not bad", so I entered the painting class and began to learn to paint.
In junior high school, Xu Liang entered a period of rebellion, smoking and fighting to skip class and fall in love early... Omnipotent, it is also common to be punished by teachers for writing reviews. But Xu Liang's review is different from others, a review is written in a brilliant and sincere manner, and is often used as a model by the teacher and read aloud in front of the whole class.
He also seems to be aware of his talent for writing and has always been interested in developing his skills in this area. Xu Liang, who drew from elementary school, was successfully admitted to the Department of Visual Communication of Qingdao University of Science and Technology, and after graduation, he engaged in a job in fine arts. Playing music is a complete coincidence.
2009 can be said to be the golden age of Internet singers, Xu Song and Wang Sutaki have become famous on the Internet. At that time, Xu Liang was just a senior, and he accidentally entered an original music website and saw a whole new world.
"It turns out that a person who doesn't know how to sing, can't play an instrument, or even doesn't know music theory can become an original singer."
This idea ignited Xu Liang's inner love of music.
This small website has also become the starting point of Xu Liang's music road. However, 0 foundation + late start, Xu Liang's initial musical road was very bumpy. He began to learn from scratch, to feel the music, to become familiar with the rhythms.
When he was a senior intern, he worked during the day and sang in a cramped rental house at night, which was the happiest time of his day. In an interview, he said: "At that time, the network was not as developed as it is now, there were very few tutorials on music on the Internet, when I learned to arrange music, I found only two videos on the whole network, I repeatedly watched those two videos, imitated countless times, and groped for myself." ”
In the thorny music road, Xu Liang's only weapon is happiness.
In 2010, Xu Liang taught himself that his music equipment was only an inferior microphone bought for 40 yuan, and with this microphone, he recorded his first original song "Chest". This song is my single loop in junior high school, and it is no exaggeration to say that Xu Liang became a blockbuster and finally caught fire.
A year after the release of "Chest", Xu Liang signed a record label with his super internet popularity, and the follow-up song was the first hit.
"Slut", "The Guest Officer Can't", "Bad Girl", "Red Dress"..... Every song has over 100 million downloads.
The first album "Bad Boy" won the 2012 "China Mobile Wireless Music Miguhui Best Selling Golden Melody Award" and "2012 QQ Music Annual New Force Best Popular Singer".
Xu Liang also became a super-fire singer who could compete with Xu Song, and it swept the Internet for a time. At that time, Xu Liang, with his own non-mainstream hairstyle, was an uninhibited and arrogant face under the thick bangs. Although his songs will definitely be disliked by the post-00s and post-05 generations, I have to admit that they are all tears of the post-90s era.
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Xu Liang's music road seems to be smooth sailing, but in fact, it is under a lot of pressure. For a traditional family with financial constraints, singing is not doing business. Not to mention that Xu Liang switched from studying painting for more than ten years to the 0-based music industry, which is simply gambling on life. After all, you can't feed yourself with only a passion for blood, and the real problems are in front of you and you have to face them.
In an interview, he said: "At that time, the family's financial situation was very bad, a little bit of a feeling of not being able to open the pot, and I just graduated from work and became a (role) to pay for the family, but I chose to change careers at this time, in fact, it was a bit willful." ”
Therefore, when Xu Liang listened to the story of Wang Sutaki and Xu Song complaining about being forced to practice the piano by their parents when they were young, their hearts were both sour and envious. Because he had always wanted a piano, he wanted it in his dreams. Later, this matter was known to his father, who bought him a plane without saying a word.
It turned out that his father also liked music when he was a child and wanted to buy a guitar, but the family could not afford to buy it, and since then he has secretly swore that if his future son likes music, he will fully support it.
For Xu Song and Wang Sutaki, their musical dreams have the support of family money and a way out. For Xu Liang, music is a big battle, and he can only choose to move forward alone!
In order not to live up to his parents' expectations, he studied music even more desperately: "What about starting from scratch, I just want to create miracles!" ”
He really created a miracle, and an era that belonged to Xu Liang came.
His slightly green voice became the deepest throbbing in the hearts of young boys and girls, and although the songs seemed to be very distant now, they would still leave waves in their memories.
I still remember the Lantern Party in my second year of junior high school, the program prepared for the little sisters was "Red Dress", after class, I ran to the outside of the library square to practice in a similar way, and the laughter overflowed all winter.
But youth will also have a lost day, and no one will be spared. Xu Lianghong was dug up by beautiful music, and since then, he has begun to go downhill.
At the beginning, Xu Liang's resources were still very good.
In 12 years, he appeared on CCTV's New Year's Day party; in 13 years, he held more than a dozen concerts across the country; in 15 years, he and Ben Xi, who was also a Network singer, endorsed anti-terrorist actions...
But gradually, Xu Liang woke up from his fame and found that the company was stealing the rights to his songs, so he quickly terminated his contract and jumped out of the fire pit. However, this termination of the contract made him seriously injured, he fought a lawsuit for three years, compensated about 5 million yuan in termination fees, and everything returned to the original point.
Since 2015, Xu Liang has never been on fire again.
Entertainment industry newcomers for old people, the Internet has no memory, Xu Liang was completely forgotten.....
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Today, I have long been an adult, and I talk about the former junior high school male god, and I feel a thousand emotions in my heart. Clicking on Xu Liang's Weibo homepage, there are only 1.58 million fans, similar to the third-line small Internet celebrities.
An old fan asked Xu Liang, "Why don't you continue to make music?" ”
Xu Liang was very helpless, but he could only answer a little gamblingly: "I am still doing it, I am producing a new album every year, but you have not paid attention." ”
Yes, everyone didn't care about Xu Liang anymore.
But if you listen carefully, his voice has actually been with us. He sang many well-known film and television interludes, such as "Rumored Chen Qianqian", "Fourteen Years of Chenghua", "Take My Brother Away", "Lu Yao Zhi Ma Li" and so on. Although most people's impression of Xu Liang is still in the non-mainstream period, he has not stagnated.
He tried new breakthroughs in the field of music, such as the new album "East and West World", which is a work in which he went to ten countries to collect style, combining exoticism with electronic music style.
While he was collecting wind in India, the money was stolen and fed mosquitoes by the Ganges for one night, he wrote:
"I recorded the sound of the river on the Ganges, the mosquitoes flying in the sky, just to go crazy for the music and make my dreams to the extreme."
How romantic, and how sad.
The album "East and West World" has been highly praised by many professionals, but not many people have listened to it. What makes Xu Liang feel helpless the most is that even the plagiarized songs are more popular than his own.
The "Learning Cat Calling" and "Buddhist Girl" that exploded in Douyin in the previous two years seem to be copied from Xu Liang's "Constellation Lovers". The song of the main lord is not cared about, but the copied song is sung by everyone, which is undoubtedly a big blow to Xu Liang.
Whenever those innovative songs, there are not many people who always listen to them, and there are very few who can understand them, especially when they see that old fans do not like and do not understand, Xu Liang feels more frustrated.
He said: "I don't make music is particularly wayward, I feel that as long as I like it, because I am making songs and posting them on the Internet, so fans are like my partners, accompanying me all the way and even giving me advice, I must care about their feelings, my music should combine my ideas with the fans' ideas, and then find a way to move forward." Since this year's new song "Hua Kui", I have begun to try new musical styles, and I want fans to say to me, 'Xu Liang, you are great, and we like it'. ”
In addition to music, he also insisted on writing, creating his first collection of short stories, "Please Leave a Message After Crying". This book contains 20 of the world's truest emotional stories, claiming to be a book that people will be moved by after reading it.
Now Xu Liang is no longer arrogant, and his Microblogs are all smiling selfies. In the face of music, he still insisted. Write one song a day, hum a melody, compose 300 songs a year, and pick 10 more to make an album.
Although no one listens, no one understands, so what?
The times will remember his misery and splendor in music.
After all, although Xu Liang has passed, our youth has not!