From 2010 to 2022, the Chinese music scene is not as good as a year.
What is puzzling is that there are more people learning music than before, more singers than before, more new songs, and more diversified styles.
But why just pull the crotch?
Mandarin, is there still a music scene?
At the beginning, cantonese was popular in the 1980s and 1990s, and mainland rock influenced countless people, and although the Guangdong music scene was short-lived, there were also golden children and jade girls such as Mao Ning and Yang Yuying.
After 2000, the singers represented by Jay Chou have wave after wave, and even later online songs are several grades higher than the current one.
At that time, everyone thought that the Chinese music scene would recreate the peak of the 90s.
But in the end, it turned out to be the end.
What has happened to the Chinese music scene over the years?
One
On July 13, 1985, a large-scale rock concert called "Save Lives Live Aid" crossed the Atlantic and began simultaneously in London, England, and Philadelphia, USA.
David Bowie, Bob Dylan, Madonna, Queen, The Rolling Stones, Police, Elton John, Paul McCartney and more than 100 other emperor superstars sang on stage.
The 16-hour show was broadcast live to more than 140 countries via a global communications satellite network, with a total of 1.5 billion television viewers watching the show.
This is the greatest day in the history of world music, and it is from this moment that global pop music opens a new era.
The "Save Lives Live Aid" concert, which aims to eradicate global poverty, has successfully raised more than $50 million to save countless Victims of Disaster in Africa.
American pop singers are naturally not behind, and the popular Michael Jackson and Leonard Ritchie collaborated on a song "We Are The World" to echo it.
After this world-renowned concert, in the far East, two young people were deeply moved.
One is Luo Dayou from Taiwan and the other is Guo Feng from Beijing.
Luo Dayou found Zhang Aijia, Li Zongsheng and others to imitate the public welfare model of "We Are The World" and created a song "Tomorrow Will Be Better".
In addition, they gathered a total of 60 Chinese singers from Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia to sing the song together.
Guo Feng, who was far away in Beijing, was touched by "We Are The World" and "Tomorrow Will Be Better", and then composed the song "Let the World Be Full of Love" with the support of China Audio and Video Publishing House and the Oriental Song and Dance Troupe.
On May 9, 1986, Mao Amin, Tian Zhen, Ding Wu, Wei Wei, Cui Jian, Cai Guoqing, Fu Disheng and more than 100 fledgling singers gathered at the Beijing Workers' Gymnasium to sing "Let the World Be Full of Love".
During this period, Cui Jian sang "Nothing" on the stage.
The sound of the roar was like a sharp sword breaking through the long sky, and Chinese rock was born.
Can you imagine?
The Chinese of that era, still wearing really good pants, black and white cotton shoes, was full of collectivism.
Cui Jian's shout seems to have opened the floodgates of mainland pop music, and the rolling torrent can no longer be stopped.
Although in 1979, Wan Xing, Li Shichao, Ma Xiaoyi and Wang Xinbo formed the band "Wan Li Ma Wang", they mainly covered the music of the Beatles and BeeGees.
Therefore, it is Cui Jian who really knocks on the door of mainland rock.
Two
When mainland rock and roll first began, the Hong Kong music scene thousands of miles away was even more radiant.
After Hui Guanjie, Xu Xiaofeng, Luo Wen and Lin Zixiang, the Hong Kong music scene ushered in the first myth - Tam Wing Lin.
After experiencing the Loosers band and the Wenner band, Tan Yonglin chose to fly alone.
Since 1981, he has been a regular guest at the Hong Kong Top Ten Golden Songs and Top Ten Chinese Golden Melodies Awards Ceremony.
At that time, he was in the limelight, and everywhere he went, fans screamed and flowers were everywhere.
However, fate played a joke with him and quietly arranged an old enemy for him.
This old enemy is Zhang Guorong.
The good wind, with its strength, sent me to the clouds.
A song "The Wind Continues to Blow" made Zhang Guorong's popularity soar rapidly, and the "Tan Zhang Battle" officially began.
Although the back and forth between the two sides illuminated the Hong Kong music scene in the 80s, it also burned itself.
In 1988, at the 10th Chinese Golden Melody Awards, Tan Yonglin announced that he would withdraw from all substantively competitive song awards.
In 1989, after 33 concerts, Zhang Guorong announced the closure of the wheat.
After the end of the "Tan Zhang Battle", Jacky Cheung, Andy Lau, Huang Jiaju and others ushered in a highlight moment.
At this time, Mei Yanfang and Chen Huixian also fought each other because of "Song of the Sunset" and "Song of a Thousand And One Passes".
In the same year, Wang Jie came to Hong Kong and won the Top Ten Chinese Golden Melody Award and the Top Ten Golden Melody Award for "Who Knows the Heart of the Prodigal Son".
These people compete with each other, but the competition is benign.
In 1992, a song "Vulnerable Woman" made Faye Wong flat.
This year, the Oriental Daily used a full-page report to crown the "Four Heavenly Kings".
Jacky Cheung sings invincible, Lau Dehua is popular, Dawn is responsible for his appearance, and Aaron Kwok sings and dances well.
Since then, the Hong Kong music scene has officially opened the era of the rule of the "Four Heavenly Kings".
Three
As long as there are Chinese, there is Teresa Teresa.
Her influence is unquestionable, and in the '80s she haunted the dreams of a billion people.
In fact, in the early days of Taiwan's music scene, in addition to Teresa Teng, there were also big celebrity singers such as Liu Wenzheng, Ouyang Feifei, Fei Yuqing, and Feng Feifei.
In the early 1990s, the "Four Heavenly Kings" were established in the Hong Kong music scene, and the Taiwanese music scene also had the "Four Heavenly Kings".
They were Wang Jie, Qi Qin, Zhou Huajian and Tong Ange.
Wang Jie is like a lone eagle, after he was excavated by singer-songwriter Li Shouquan, his debut album "A Game, a Dream" sold a staggering 18 million copies.
You know, Aaron Kwok's "Can't Finish Loving You" sold 1 million, Zhang Guorong's best-selling album "Love", and the global circulation is only 2 million copies.
Qi Qin is like a lone wolf, he is a singer-songwriter who combines talent and business, and his humanistic degree and richness of songwriting are second only to Luo Dayou and Li Zongsheng, while his own commercial achievements directly follow Wang Jie and Zhou Huajian.
Songs such as "I Am a Wolf from the North", "About Winter", "The Outside World", and "Once Upon a Time with the Wind" have made him popular on both sides of the taiwan strait.
A native of Hong Kong, Chow met Lee Chung-sheng while working in Taiwan and invited him to join Rolling Stone Records.
Since then, Li Zongsheng has become the most important Bole on his musical path, and the two are also teachers and friends.
In 1987, Li Zongsheng tailored a new album "The Direction of the Heart" for Zhou Huajian.
The album soon sold 200,000 copies in Taiwan, and he took advantage of the chase and released two new albums in quick succession.
Zhou Huajian has too many classic songs, such as "Friend", "Flower Heart", "Let Me Rejoice and Make Me Worry", "Wind and Rain", "Sword Like a Dream" and so on.
Tong Ange has the reputation of "Prince Charming in the song world", and songs such as "Yelia Girl", "In fact, you don't understand my heart", "Tomorrow you still love me" are his representative works.
In addition, Wu Qilong can become a member of the "Little Tiger Team", and Tong Ange is indispensable.
Four
During the "Tan Zhang Competition" in the Hong Kong music scene, rock bands in the mainland flourished and were invincible.
In 1987, Ding Wu found Li Tong to form the Band Black Panther.
In 1988, Ding Wu quit Black Panther, dou Wei joined, and served as the lead singer and songwriter.
Soon after, Ding Wu formed the greatest Tang Dynasty band in the history of Chinese rock.
In 1989, Cui Jian went to London to participate in the Asian Pop Music Festival, marking the official entry of Chinese rock music to the world.
At the same time, the first female band in rock history, Cobra, was formed.
In addition, this year, the first juvenile band was formed in the mainland, the Face Band.
In 1990, Chinese rock ushered in its most glorious moment, and bands such as the newsboys, the dark horse band, the yellow race band and the red troops sprung up.
In 1991, Dou Wei quit Black Panther to form the band Dream.
Wu Tong, Zhao Wei, Zhou Xu, Shang Wei and others formed a reincarnation band.
Overload Band, Self-Education Band, and Rusty Iron Band were also formed in this year.
In 1992, the bands D.D. Rhythm (English rap), New Truth, Acupuncture Points, Pink Mist, wa music and other bands were formed.
In 1993, nominations for the National MTV Music Awards were announced, and Tang Dynasty Band was nominated for Best MTV in Asia for "Dream Back to tang Dynasty".
This year, Tengger formed the Wolf Band in Inner Mongolia.
The first rock school in the mainland, the Midi Conservatory of Music, opened.
Wang Feng's Baojia Street No. 43 Band, Xu Wei's Flying Band, Tomahawk Band, Death Bell Band, Iron Kite Band, Underground Baby Band, and Skinny Man Band were all formed in 1993.
On December 17, 1994, Dou Wei, He Yong, Zhang Chu and others together with the Tang Dynasty Band held a concert of "Rock Chinese Music Forces" at the Hong Kong Red Pavilion.
The three-and-a-half-hour performance, with nearly 10,000 spectators and media crews, was almost entirely in an incredible state.
While rock and roll in the mainland is booming, pop music is also shining.
Cheng Fangyuan, Cheng Lin, Mao Amin, Na Ying, Liu Huan, Wei Wei, Tian Zhen and other powerful singers are the youth memories of generations.
Five
No one has a thousand days, and no flowers have a hundred days of red.
In the mid-1990s, bad news came from the music scene one after another.
Chen Baiqiang, Huang Jiaju and Teresa Teng have died one after another.
The other three of the former four heavenly kings have also jumped ship, holding several positions, leaving only Jacky Cheung to focus on music.
Fortunately, the afterglow is around the beam, and the song is still there.
The time soon came to the millennium, Jay Chou, Tao Zhe and others took the lead in breaking the sad love songs of the last century, as well as the pattern of carrying Japanese music, and creating a new Chinese pop music based on R&b.
At the same time, "girly" K-pop stars have also entered the mainland music scene.
They are unique with exaggerated shapes, street dance, rap, and the content in the lyrics is not limited to love, but more to express some of the thoughts and troubles of rebellious teenagers.
In 2005, with the supergirl fire, the draft star-making mode was officially opened.
These people are influenced by the Korean Wave, and almost all of them wear the "kill Matt" costume.
Next, the major variety shows followed the example of SuperGirl and held a variety of talent shows, providing a lot of fresh blood for the music scene.
Singers who came out through the talent channel include Li Yuchun, Zhang Liangying, Shang Wenjie, Tan Weiwei, Zhang Jie, Xue Zhiqian and others, who have gradually become the backbone of the mainland music scene in the future.
In fact, the appearance of these people did not really provide valuable works, but formed a kind of chaos of fans canvassing for idols, which also laid the groundwork for similar "pouring milk" incidents in the future.
At this time, the pattern of Taiwan's music scene is basically stable, and there are jay Chou, Wang Lihong, Lin Junjie, Pan Weibai...
Females include Sun Yanzi, Jolin Tsai, Liang Jingru, Xiao Yaxuan, Zhang Shaohan and SHE (Group).
Around 2009, a group of Internet singers led by the "three giants" of Xu Song, Xu Liang and Wang Sutaki suppressed the mainstream singers.
Originally, a truly powerful singer-songwriter like Dao Lang could match it, but who had wanted to be inexplicably suppressed, and the mainland music scene gradually deviated from this moment.
Six
In 2013, the online music that had dominated for many years came to an end, and the public began to abandon this so-called "non-mainstream song".
Next, capital began to sweep the Chinese music scene, and all kinds of shoddy saliva songs mushroomed.
Under the packaging of capital, idols jump up and down all day long, and the really talented people have no day to emerge.
Some people say that because their songs are simple and catchy, they are popular.
Some people also proposed that "music does not distinguish between good and bad, only like it or not".
Zheng Jun once said: "Listeners in the mainland only listen to singing, not to arrange music, nor to listen to musical instruments. ”
These so-called "slobbers" are not useless, at least they are cheap and free.
And those "tall" songs need to spend silver to enjoy.
It is undeniable that the public's standard of living is high, but this "high" is limited to food, clothing, shelter and transportation.
They are willing to pay for good food and good clothes, but they can save money for music unless they go to a live concert.
Mainstream singers believe that the current public lacks aesthetics for music, in fact, the reason is not in the public, it is capital that controls the market.
Their disorderly expansion has disrupted the benign development of the music industry and turned the "showbiz circle" into an "entertainment circle".
These company teams, it is too easy to win an idol singer, they rely on big data analysis target groups, and then targeted money, packaging, hype, rubbing heat to seize the market.
Of course, there are failures, but as long as one success is a thousand times the return.
Seven
In the current Chinese music scene, how many people are still engaged in creation?
Their meticulously polished works are easily overwhelmed by people who buy a hot search.
Pure musicians like Park Shu have been squeezed by today's chaos to the point that the problem of food and clothing can hardly be solved.
Many powerful singers turn to variety shows when they can't make money.
They have also changed, and have to compromise with capital in order to "break silver and a few pairs".
Over time, the Chinese music scene no longer attaches importance to the musical environment, many previous music awards have slowly disappeared, and the remaining Taiwan Golden Melody Awards are not as good as a year, and even began to inject a lot of water.
In recent years, although there have also been talented Li Ronghao, the talented Mao is not easy, but their existence is only a carnival within the fans.
With the sweep of short videos, various divine comedies have followed, the public aesthetic has once again sunk, and good music has been shelved.
With the full blessing of capital, idols search for hot searches every day, take endorsements, receive announcements, and occupy public media resources everywhere. And the extremely enthusiastic fans, raising funds to buy album sales, creating a traffic idol without any representative works to become the sales champion of major music platforms.
It doesn't matter what's sung on the album, it doesn't matter if the song is good or not.
In this atmosphere, the Chinese music scene does not pull the crotch.
Some obsessive fans are reluctant to face this embarrassment, but the spirit of A Q will never win.
Once the Chinese music scene, a hundred flowers bloomed.
Today, there is dry grass everywhere.
If you think about it, no one really can carry the banner of pop music.