A song called "Baby's Face", the familiar melody, the moving lyrics, brought me back to that era.
At that time, the back string, red all over the country, the theme of Chinese style, let him and Xu Song, Jay Chou together become a generation of post-90s youth memories. However, the current back string has become a symbol of the times as if it had disappeared.
We have grown up, and those who we hear songwriters are like getting old, not keeping up with the trend of the times, slowly forgetting by the times, and now the Chinese music scene has become a new generation of singers Hua Chenyu, Mao is not easy to era. Why did that former back string disappear into the music world?
The content of the Chinese style tune has not changed
When we were young, the back strings were like hanging, and one classic song after another appeared, such as the familiar songs "West Wing", "Bridge Section" and "Baby's Face". Of course, these songs have become his masterpieces, and they have also become our KTV must-have tracks. Same style, same story,
As a singer of Chinese style, houxin's "West Chamber", "Painting Style", "Smile Outside Suzhou", "Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, Qing" are representative songs, and the lyrics and tunes of these songs are also very beautiful combining tradition and modernity. It also brought the Chinese style to a climax in that era. However, because it has been adhered to the Chinese style, the content is not innovative, and the tune is single, which is easy to make the audience have aesthetic fatigue.
Such a full creation makes people feel that the songs of the back strings have become devoid of spirituality, more like a set of formulas, eating the old books. Although Jay Chou's Chinese style has always been adhered to, Jay Chou's tunes have integrated Western music, combining rock and hip hop together to become a unique Jay Chou style. This is one of the reasons why Jay Chou has always been the pillar of the Chinese music scene. It is also the main reason why the backstring is slowly going downhill.
The brokerage company is not professional, the team is not professional
Jay Chou debuted in Wu Zongxian's company, and later became the boss of the company, all the company's resources can be used by Jay Chou, not only Fang Wenshan, a professional lyricist, to serve him, but also has a professional composing team to serve him.
Xu Song, who is familiar to all of us, has long since become the director of Sea Butterfly Music. After the string sign-in company is seriously delayed. Fate is like a joke, just red back string, the company treats him as a cash cow, there is no intention to package the back string, unwilling to publicize of course, do not want to spend money, the filming of the MV is only casual shooting, even the male protagonist can not see.
In this way, the musical talent of the back string is wasted in this company. The company's non-support and publicity mistakes have gradually turned the back string into a marginal figure in the entertainment industry where opportunities are fleeting. At that time, the Hallyu was in power, and domestic entertainment companies wanted their artists to be Koreanized, and the company of the back string also molded him into a typical wash and cut blow. You can imagine how a singer who is mainly Chinese style and wears Korean makeup is a crying and laughing thing.
The change of the times, the fast-paced fast-foodization of music
The times are changing, people are getting faster and faster, people's demand for music is more and more like to watch on some short videos, the need for change has been changing, is the long prelude to some songs do not have, we go to flip through the popular songs on vibrato, are simple, catchy a few lyrics, who does not write such a long prelude. The audience's tastes have also become fast-food.
In fact, sometimes I feel that the once beautiful songs and moving melodies have always been there, but I am used to the fast pace and do not slow down to appreciate it.