Text: Wen Dao Rice
"When there is something you want to say and a lot of creative energy, singing can also become a way to know yourself." A "also" word somewhat implies that he has other creative outlets.
How do I get to know Cupy?
First of all, it's not just the singers.
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If you've seen Cupy's MV, it's hard not to be drawn to the poster-like image, and it's not a lively and exciting poster in the pop music world, it's more like a graphic design masterpiece that is alienated from the trend.
There is a song called "Mama" on the album "Big Release", and the MV starts from a drop of water to leave the "mother" and begins its cruise to unfold the whole story, and almost every frame of the picture can withstand the pause button.
"Mom" MV screen
The cinematographer is Jang-gun, a name that often appears in Cupy's MV, and the director is himself.
They have produced a lot of MVs together, and Chubby himself may not even appear in the camera, but he has output a wonderful audiovisual script that makes people think.
In the "Nude" MV, a plastic model makes the picture look more like an advertisement for a fashion brand through photography and post-design.
《Naked Imitation》 MV Screen
Reflection uses a large number of kaleidoscopic images, sci-fi and avant-garde.
《Reflection》 MV screen
Compared with the current entertainment industry, the image output of artists mostly relies on "selling" themselves, he is more like the name "Cupy" into a fashion brand, he himself is the creative director of the brain, the music, images, singing, text and so on into works.
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In 2016, the star reality show showed a blowout state, and among the various entertainment-oriented programs, the third season of "China's Good Songs" is still the hottest professional selection variety show of the year.
24-year-old Qiu Bi, wearing a sleeveless black robe, appeared on the stage to sing his own creation of "After the Heavy Rain All Night", just sang the first sentence, as a mentor Hu Haiquan slightly surprised to raise an eyebrow.
The face of the teenager who can be described as "beautiful" sings with some cold breath:
"I didn't expect to see it in the rain,
I didn't expect to hear it in the rain,
The rain has fallen like this,
The mountain should also collapse.
That whole night of blue,
Perfectly extinguished all street lights.
...”
The prose poetry of the words matched his ethereal and slightly soft voice. With the music, his body was constantly moving, and some small movements made the body language look special.
Hu Haiquan, Liu Huan, Tao Zhe, Fan Xiaoxuan, four mentors all pushed for him, and the name Qiu Bi was the first time to face a wider audience.
Previously, within a niche range, his name was already circulating slowly.
Bibi was his first nickname, and his first brokerage company owned an experimental gallery in Taichung that played ambient music every week, and for a period of time, he kept creating fanciful music to play in the gallery. One day, Shi Rencheng, a well-known lyricist who wrote words such as "Later" and "Lovers Are Not Enough", bought all his experimental works.
Cupy was curious: "How can an account be willing to buy such a niche pure music, so I sent an e-mail to thank him." ”
That's how the two creators met.
Shi Rencheng's friend and poet Xia Yu wrote a poem "Heavy Rain All Night", Shi Rencheng suggested that Qiu Bi compose a song to try, and they liked it after trying it, so they posted the song on the Internet.
There is a lot of criticism in the internet age, but there are good things that some talented people can get a path to fame.
Even in his own cognition, his music belongs to the minority, but when he searched for his name on the Internet, he still found traces of recognition, and some netizens sent the original music of this unknown singer to Shrimp Music.
"Just because I can't tolerate my own page clutter. I registered an account to sort out the 'Cupy Shrimp Mi personal homepage', and then my graphics and music aesthetic style were noticed by the owner of the website, and then the story of the light search plan, the Wu Mo Shuo plan, the good song, the rolling stone electric sound, etc. everyone has heard more."
This experience of entering the industry with the characteristics of the times has made him often reflect on whether he has the determination to "enter the industry"? "Do I want to be a singer, do I want to be an entertainer?" That's why I feel like I'm chosen by music. ”
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In elementary school, he used to play pop singers' records while writing homework, holding an automatic pencil and acting and singing like a music video. The lamp at night made the image he reflected on the window like makeup. For more than a decade, such a small game may have trained his ability in front of the photographer's camera, and he is often praised as "good shot".
Of course, just being at home with high should not have been able to practice his strange and flexible body language later.
"Since I was a child, I have shown a strong tendency to cultural and artistic cells, for example: I am very sensitive to sound, and I have a lot of good feelings about beautiful things. All of this made my family decide to cultivate this child in a more professional way. ”
In addition to learning painting and piano, his parents arranged many physical activities in order not to make him a "weak artist". In high school, he was sent to study at the Youren Shengu.
Youren Kamikaze drum is a very unique performance group. The members are stationed in the primeval forest, punching, meditating, drumming in the forest, and everything in nature accompanies them in their search for inner peace, which inspires delicacy and sensitivity.
"There was a meditation class in high school, and I learned the sacred dance in the meditation class and was very interested. The help of sacred dance to meditation and the highly harmonious beauty of a particular dance with a specific music also refreshed my standard of good or bad music, and with a new self-value judgment, I think: music that can fully match my life story is a great music creation."
This kind of training is hard and simple. When Qiu Bi first entered the class, there were thirty people, and he was admitted with the first grade, and eventually became one of the eight people who passed the graduation, and was successfully admitted to Taipei University of the Arts.
The unusual study of high school allowed him to discover what kind of mental state would be in a highly competitive environment, and how to return to the journey of self-pursuit.
Knowing these pasts makes it easier to understand However, Insistence and Relaxation on Music today.
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"I tried painting, drama, fashion, etc., and finally chose music as my profession, and electronic music as my carrier. Switching between many fields has led me to have different models of thinking, and I am better at examining whether a thing is objective enough with various subjective concepts."
Just as his writing is not so catchy and less understandable, his electric tone is out of step with the trend.
Things that are not lively are not easy to cause heat at the moment.
And his loyal audience is obviously addicted to this, under his personal public account article, the most praised message is:
"Follow Teacher Qiu to become a Buddha."
There are more and more idols and fewer musicians.
Making music is expensive, and Cupy is very demanding of all the content produced, although it is not far from the market, but it is really not trying to please the market. Does the delicate niche have a "hematopoietic" function at the moment?
Dealing with such a problem that can be complained about, Cupy's company ROKON Rolling Stone Electric Sound is very peaceful:
"The good times and bad times of the music market are really not easy to define, and each era is a blessing and a curse. However, in the face of market demand is a topic that every music marketer cannot avoid, the mainstream alternative, the red ocean and blue ocean have their own survival rules, the music industry has too many accidents, and there are more relative opportunities, and creative music will definitely leave a note for the times."
When "China Has Hip Hop" was a hit, Cupy thought he should make a "Cupy-like tone" rap. His distancing with the trend is not tough, let alone cynical.
For example, talking about the variety show: "My experience in participating in the show in the past is very good, although my approach to the world is more independent, alone, and occasionally go out to see what everyone is doing to help me." 」 Looking back now, the show was all about keeping me disconnected from the entire music market. Let me know what the taste of the director's team is? What is the theme of mass communication? How does the audience understand me? ”
There should also be resentment, which only appeared in an article on his public account in early 2019.
He wrote: "Where are my fans when I'm having psychological difficulties?" ”
In the past two years, Cupy will do a national tour, and the venue is not too large, generally less than a thousand people. He is extremely demanding of every detail, from light to image, trying to give the best cost can afford. When he met with the team to discuss the next tour, the above question was triggered, and he used the term "hammer must be compared" when describing the cost of the tour.
"This year, I was urged to hold another concert, but before it was decided, my team was still worried about the progress of ticket sales and whether the venue would be full for 700 people."
Fans often leave him a message: "This kind of music is so good, I don't want to tell others at all." ”
He understands this mentality very well, because he will not do such things as expanding publicity and soliciting people to hear his new album. But in real life, he's very keen to share.
The name of the production team of the MV will appear in his public account, how to think, how to execute will be explained in detail, in his world, you can get the names of many people in this circle, such as the photographer Zhang Jun, who is often cooperated, such as Liu Li, who was pulled by him to be the MV director of "Lost DAZED" (who was the drummer of "No Party in Caodong"), etc., as well as various good works of art he has seen, and he has also written an article about the costume designer Ban Xiaoxue to tell each other." Strive to maintain your own style and embrace innovation" in mind.
Qiu Bi who wears Ban Xiaoxue
"In the absence of anyone to force and encourage me, I assisted my colleagues to sort out all our MVs and images, almost three hundred and sixty-five days to publicize where we are?" Where is the excellence? “
Really a very gentle and restrained person, even in the face of such emotions, he only complains:
"All I can say is that the person who really loves me, you are also too honest."
Fortunately, last year's tour went smoothly and continued to maintain high quality, and even tried to sprinkle YSL's black opium perfume to the concert site to increase the audience's sensory experience. The stage lighting, the visual scheme, and even the conversation sessions with fans are all designed by himself.
There are media comments that watching his tour is like watching a multimedia art exhibition.
5.
I can find a small story about Chubby on the intellectual.
The story comes from a description of Zhang Xiaolei, a netizen who makes stationery brands, who once received an order to send the product to Taiwan, because the pen has a magnet, which is quite painstaking, but also allows buyers to have more communication with her. During the chat, she learned that the pen was given to a singer named Cupy by a fan.
A month later, netizens received an email from Taiwan, signed by Qiu Bi.
Screenshots are self-aware
Modesty and earnestness flow between the lines, making the reader feel comfortable. Perhaps he would never have imagined that such a small thing would be recorded on the Internet and become evidence of his character.
A Chubby who really doesn't look like a star.
6.
Most authors prefer to communicate directly with respondents, whether face-to-face or on the phone, because it's easier to dig out what's under the surface because you come and go.
But Cupy chose the text.
Seeing his interview responses, you can understand why he chose this way.
Chubby, who published his novel The Last Consolation in 2016, has another outlet for his mastery of words.
14 topics, he carefully replied more than 6,000 words, the sentences with a typical Cupy style, just as each of his personal public accounts must be written by himself, expressing his ideas in detail.
Although some of the answers are incorporated into the above content, some of the questions are published in the original text, presenting a most appropriate Cupy.
Q&A
Wen Dao Rice:
Can you talk about your cooperation with Ban Xiaoxue?
Cupy:
Originally, when I was on my first tour, my manager had a friend working at Xiaoxue's teacher," and just when the well-known photographer Deng Manbo accompanied me on a month of touring the mainland, Xiaoxue sent me a lot of clothes for me to wear on the tour, and also asked Mambo to take some clothing photos for him. Later, Ms. Xiaoxue told me that almost the whole company was a fan of my music, and they had been using my single as a noon bell for several years.
When I think of Mr. Xiaoxue, I think he may not know that he has brought me a lot of encouragement, but once I am tired, but I will cheer up a little when I think that he is creating so many interesting clothes. Every collaboration is different and I always like the latest one. The next time is always the best one.
I don't think our relationship is about music and clothing, I think our friendship also involves a heart-to-heart relationship with "trying to maintain our style and keep innovating."
In every important show, awards occasion, and music film, I can see the figure of Ban Xiaoxue's clothes. Xiaoxue's sponsorship is definitely a reward, and our respective passions for fashion are also the energy of this relationship. But a good relationship does not necessarily have to have what is needed, which is the sublimation of the relationship, and what is closer to the virtue of selflessness than this relationship?
Qiu Bi dressed in Ban Xiaoxue
You wrote on your WeChat account: "In my heart, "Zhongli" is the best Chinese record in Taiwan in 2018, and the one in 2019 will also be." But the health imbalance can make people realize what is the most valuable, and today's record world is really binary, either marketing or money-driven, it seems that there is no third way to go, but I am looking for an elegant posture to enter and exit, because it needs not only to see, but also to be moderate, clear, and self-ordinary."
At present, the domestic music industry is almost integrated with the entertainment industry, and a singer often needs to participate in variety shows, often to participate in some work that has nothing to do with music, it seems to be able to maintain its own topicality, how do you think? Indignant? Or does it matter?
If I want to support a piece of music, I'm affirming a state of mind, that's my attitude, and the way I love music.
Maximize profits, everything to the money, utilitarianism as the only criterion, if you can not see the business prospects, no matter how great the sense of social responsibility is zero! Many examples show that if a society can tolerate only one value, sooner or later it will run out of oil.
Some people feel that the world is changing rapidly, it is noisy, and it makes a lot of things not simple. That's not how I see the environment I'm in. I like to study history, and once I go deep into history, it is not difficult to find that what people pursue, need, love or fear is often the same, but because the background of the times is different, the form of the pursuit and need is different.
The spiritual desires of past and contemporary people are actually similar.
What is the role of singing? In the past it was a song that attracted a lot of attention and temporarily synchronized the life experiences of all people. A singer wants to express a message to many people at the same time, and hopes that the message itself can carry more complex emotional thinking, and this one-to-many communication activity must be sung on the spot, because singing can be louder than the chirping. So "What message do you want to say to the world?" "It's the creative logic of a musician at the bottom."
If he writes a particular kind of lyrics, sings in a particular way just for material enjoyment. Then the people who listened to him singing were invisibly and over time also affected by this fluctuation. While this is realistic, it is also true that some people have other pursuits.
Variety shows often have a large number of advertising products implanted, that's because when you listen to music, according to what I just said, your senses are fully open, and you are receptive to the message. Advertisers take the opportunity to implant links of goods and drive consumer behavior through the medium of music.
Advertising in the past was mental occupation, and now it is full of behavioral inducement, while music is only an effect on variety shows, and the audience starts from the first advertising touchpoint to his final formation of a purchase called "completion". The musician is more like a shouter in it, but he may not even know what kind of goods and services he has completed the show for. I mean, participating in variety show recording is equivalent to: "I like this platform, and what this platform wants to say is very consistent with what I have to say, and we have achieved a sense of identity with each other!" "Under such a premise, it should be good to participate in the show, and there is no need to compete with the world or be self-indignant. A topic musician, what is not related to music?
You care if your audience understands, but you think they mostly don't. "If you don't understand it, it means that the wall is very high, and if the wall is very high, it means that you have something very precious, and it is to resist some people who can't come in." What do you think is precious to you?
What is the most precious, luxurious, and superlative record in the world?
It's that you spend a bunch of time, a whole company's effort, a whole year of creative assets, and the whole record just to say to the person you like: "I love you so much.". He didn't even say it, and the other party didn't hear it, but the message appeared in the sea, like an ancient drifting bottle; it drifted in the ocean, waited for a century, and was accidentally picked up by a really lucky person... and changed the next century!
I think it's very moving, the message of this record will always be understood only by you and me, it will travel through time and space, but gain the temperature of both of us personally, or a line of tears.
I did something that only you understand, you did something that only I knew. If you don't understand it, I don't know. But the precious, true message is there – "I love you so much." This kind of spiritual satisfaction is precious, is it not needed at all?
How is the daily day spent, can you describe it?
I usually have an annual goal as the main theme, all monthly goals serve the annual goal, and the daily goal serves the month goal.
In the last week, I would wake up at about eleven o'clock in the morning, eat lunch, read the latest news on the Internet in the afternoon, then climb the mountain with my family and discuss my thoughts, and after dinner I would deal with the MV script that "The Most Complicated" was shooting, and some of the work assigned by Rolling Stone.
It was about 1:20 a.m. when everything was done, and then I would go to the bathroom and go back to bed and listen to all the albums that had been released recently.
About 05:00 tired will sleep, if the spirit is still very good, may carry out research work all the way to 07:00 a.m., everything is possible?
What kind of books do you usually like to read, can you recommend some book lists?
The categories I read are very sensitive to the needs of the moment.
Reading books is a very private act, and in 2019, my most inspiring book is "The Journey of Christian Inner Retreat".
Every day, I will also read the public account articles from the circle of friends and the general collation of various traces and histories on the Internet;
In short, one of the books I was most recently reading was STRANGE LIFE of Ivan OSOKIN, which I hope I finished during the Chinese New Year.
You said that this era needs more voice and space for discussion, do you now have more voice and space for discussion? Or do you have the sound and space to discuss to your satisfaction?
When young people feel that they dare to be true and dare to speak out, this is a trend of the times, and expressing themselves out loud is undoubtedly a very trendy thing. Therefore, I think the space for discussion is definitely increased, as long as you are not afraid of being attacked by the acid people culture! This is because, on the other hand, the topic will become more and more divided year by year, because not everyone wants to, or has patience with what they are about to express or discuss with each other.
Am I satisfied with the discussion sound and discussion space? Maybe I have to wait until I completely let go of all this and give up my retreat, and I will be satisfied and it doesn't matter, right?
The last question given to Cupy was the least word count, a fill-in-the-blank question.
Cupy ( ) red. You can fill in a word in parentheses, such as no need, no matter, hope, etc., how will you fill in.
The answer he gave was:
Cupy (health) red.
This question was also asked to his Rolling Stone colleagues, and the answer was:
Cupy (got) red.
As an audience member, I also wrote down my own answer:
Cupy (worth more) red.
Tomorrow I will publish the original answers to all of Chubby's interviews, which, although very long, are worth reading.
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Wen Daomi, a media person, curator and designer, has won the Best Fashion Critic of the Year at the China Fashion Awards.
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