Speaking of rainy days, when you lean against the window sill to watch the rain outside the house, which one will you think of?
Office workers are probably most familiar with the song "Even if the rain makes the city fall, the boss will count you late", and every time it rains, the melody that lingers in my mind is "What to do if it rains, I miss you so much...".
I didn't miss anyone, but this song lingered, and the loop in my mind was much more, so I couldn't help but want to understand what the singer who sang this song was in now, only to find that the dynamics of Nanquan's mother had not been updated for a long time.
Nanquan Mom is a pop music creation and singing group in Taiwan, in 2004, under the impetus of Jay Chou, his four friends debuted, several people originally cooperated with Jay Chou behind the scenes, Ju Cannon (Zhong Zuohong) is a music producer, but also the music director of Jay Chou's tour, Gehry (Yang Ruidai) is Jay Chou's recording engineer, Warhead (Song Jianzhang) is Jay Chou's ball friend, is also an instrument purchaser, YuHao (Zhan Yuhao) is Jay Chou's righteous disciple, At that time, he studied at the Music Department of National Taiwan University of the Arts.
The origin of the name "Nanquan Mother" is also related to Jay Chou, and Jay Chou's pen name when he was a student was "Nanquan". It is said that there is the name of "Nanquan Mother" in the mobile phone contact of a friend, Jay Chou asked, only to find that it was his mother's phone, so "Nanquan Mother" became a pronoun, and later used by Jay Chou to name the combination: "Nanquan" represents the heavy blow and strength of creation, and "Mother" represents the warmth and tolerance of creation.
After the group was founded in 2004, the group released its first album "Summer of Southern Fist Mother", which contained 11 songs. This album is produced by Jay Chou, and the album setting is mainly based on rock and roll. In terms of album content, in addition to "Disintegration" created by Jay Chou, the rest of the songs are created by the members of the Southern Fist Mother Group, Jay Chou also served as the arranger and producer of many songs, and even Fang Wenshan also wrote the lyrics of four songs.
They did not be because it is a group formed by Jay Chou, so they avoid suspicion, and Jay Chou's musical style to do a cut, this album has many of the musical elements we are familiar with Jay Chou, but they interpreted it, but there is another unique feeling, the group also won the 5th Pepsi Music Award for Best Rock Newcomer Award with this album.
However, the first generation of Nanquan mother is fleeting, after a period of running-in, Ju Cannon and Gehry re-turned into the background, as the producer of the group, and introduced Taiwanese singer Zhang Jie and female singer Lara (Liang Xinyi), becoming a more familiar "Nanquan Mother" of the three-man and one-girl group.
After the reorganization of the group, they released a second album "Meal No. 2", the producers of the album are Jay Chou and Gary, they tried to integrate a variety of styles in 12 songs, Lara also created songs also joined the album, they won multiple awards with this album, and also nominated for the 17th Taiwan Golden Melody Awards Best Vocal Group.
The reorganization of the group was successful, the run-in was also very smooth, and the follow-up Nanquan mother was active in the state of 4 people, and successively launched the album "Palette" and "Treasure Map", contributing a number of excellent songs, which was a great success in the Taiwanese music industry at that time. They also participated in the film "The Secret That Cannot Be Said" directed by Jay Chou, and I don't know if everyone has an impression.
In 2008, the group released their last album on Alpha Records, and their first compilation album "Yoji Ryogo Minami Kid", which reviewed the group's musical journey from its inception to 2008, and added 4 original songs to the album, including "Rainy Day", which we know. This song won the first place in the KKBOX on-demand chart for three weeks, which shows the popularity of the song at that time, even today, when the song title is mentioned, we can still hum two lyrics.
But this is also the peak of Nanquan's mother, and after that, Lara and Zhang Jie have flown solo, the group has disbanded again, and although Slug and Yuhao have not quit, they are still releasing songs, but there is not much splash. In 2015, Cao Jinghao, Yan Zhenglan and Hong Yanxiang joined the group, and in 2016, they signed a new agency in the mainland and launched the album "Fist New Attack". Although this album still has the addition of Jay Chou and Fang Wenshan, the title song "Comeback" explains the ambitions and expectations of the group, but the reality is heavy, in March 2017, member Yan Zhenglan decided to leave the group as an actor because of filming, so the group added new members, they launched the single "Miracle" in 2017, after which the group has no other news, in addition to commercial performances and offline performances, everyone can only see them at Jay Chou's concert.
Looking back at the musical history of Nanquan's mother, they are actually a combination with original musical ability, and can perfectly switch between various genres and different musical styles, although because it was formed by Jay Chou, and he served as the music director, the early musical style was inseparable from Jay Chou's songs, but later also tried and came out to cross their own way, but Jay Chou's limelight at that time was too grand, after all, it was to suppress them and bring an impact on their subsequent development.
As a group, Nanquan Mother has changed members several times in the years since its establishment, and now there are basically no members of the original generation among the members, which can be said to have become a completely new group, but it is only alive under the name of the group "Nanquan Mother". This is very unfavorable for the development of the group, not conducive to fans to remember the identity of the members, but also not conducive to the cultivation of fan stickiness, so they also lack the soul and long-term fans, and even many people who know this combination can not remember the faces of the members of the group.
At the same time, the process of the combination of Nanquan mothers gradually "losing their voices" is synchronized with the process of gradually "losing their voices" in the Taiwan and Hong Kong music circles, after the end of the golden decade of development of the Chinese music scene, the record market was greatly impacted by digital music, the mainland music market began to develop rapidly, people's demand for entertainment was quickly filled by various new things, many Hong Kong and Taiwan musicians failed to catch up with the rhythm, nor could they survive the conversion period, there may still be fans in Hong Kong and Taiwan, but they are gradually marginalized in the mainland.
Although Nanquan's mother signed a contract with a company in the mainland, after the album was released without any splash, the group was obviously abandoned by the company. As Jay Chou gradually faded out of the circle, the number of songs was reduced, the group also had a lot less resources, and coupled with the inability to keep up with the rapid development of the mainland entertainment industry, they also disappeared.
From the first generation of the group to the current four generations of the group, the development of Nanquan Mother seems to be the epitome of the development of many groups in the mainland, love music, strong creative ability, but the appearance is not outstanding people gradually retreated to the background, or fly alone to create their own careers, the people who join the group are getting younger and younger, but it seems to be contrary to the original development concept.
Joining newcomers, choosing high-value people to cater to the market, there is nothing wrong with bringing traffic, but when an original music group no longer has excellent, commendable song creation, it also means that the vitality of this group is weakened, and I hope that the "new" Nanquan mother can bring us new surprises, bring more music that belongs to their group, and show us their charm.
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