Hello everyone, I'm Chai Xiaohuo.
Today I want to talk about a folk singer: Chen Hongyu.
The first time I met Chen Hongyu was through the stage of the third season of "The Voice of Heavenly Gifts".
A "Song of the Late Night" makes people remember the man's voice.
Later, I searched for NetEase Cloud Music, and I couldn't help it, and a hot song with 480,000 comments broke into my field of vision.
Listening to this song, it feels like this person has been healed.
Like what
Just get old, don't wake up lonely!
Just sing, eyes narrowed!
or
No more senseless emotions
Thought I understood
The place where the dream collapsed is now covered with moss
Why, at this moment, "Ideal Thirty" moved me so much. Because of the recent stress of work, it needs to be cured.
Chen Hongyu's voice sounds like the kind that makes people stable and calm, so it touched my heart.
Here is a talk about his personal experience, I hope to give you a little inspiration for the confused.
Thirty and standing, how is he doing?
Chen Hongyu, born in 1989, is from Inner Mongolia, and this young man who looks weak and weak is not at all like the "mighty and majestic" Mongolian Han.
However, 4 years ago, in 2018, he released his third solo original album, With the Wilderness. The inspiration for this album is the vastness of Inner Mongolia.
Therefore, for the love of the hometown, everyone has their own way of expressing it.
At the same time, the album also prominently expresses a point of view:
Everyone has encountered the dilemma of the grass, but after walking through thousands of mountains and rivers, they will eventually meet with the rich self.
This view stems from Chen Hongyu's own predicament, so he wrote all this into the song.
What dilemma? Listen to me slowly.
This album is different from the previous two "Poetry Radio Under the Smoke" and "Like a Young Man" in that the songs on the album add a lot of rock elements.
You know, Chen Hongyu should be regarded as the best among folk song creators.
So, when he is almost 30 years old, make such a big change, not afraid of losing fans?
To answer this question, we have to start with the famous song in 2015.
As a singer who grew up in the Internet era, he is very good at using the Internet, and in 2015, in addition to being a radio anchor, he launched "Ideal Thirty".
Once it was launched, the storm suddenly arose, and the lyrics that swept the circle of friends gave the young Chen Hongyu a taste of fame.
In the same year, he founded the "Choruki", a music organization focused on folk songs.
Its main purpose is to encourage a group of people to do something memorable about music!
Taking advantage of the opportunity, he released two albums in 2016 and 2017, "Poetry Radio Under the Smoke" and "Like a Young Man", which allowed him to quickly gain a foothold in the circle.
However, there are not many people who are popular, and many people begin to criticize him, the repetition of the songs, and feel that he is exhausted.
Perhaps, it is for this reason that he launched a different "And the Wilderness".
The 7 songs in this album, 6 faces of life, and 1 square world have become the "self-reserved land" in Chen Hongyu's heart.
However, behind everyone's fame, there is a bitter past.
In 2010, Chen Hongyu became a North Drifter. He has done catering, delivered takeaways, worked as a radio planner, spent time on music crowdfunding sites, opened a fast food restaurant for a year, and hitchhiked a documentary across the country.
It is said that "Walking Song" is the deepest feeling written after the national hitchhiking.
Once, a boss refused to join the company because he had not done any music-related work.
Therefore, being the boss yourself is forced out.
And those past experiences have also allowed him to be less than thirty, and he has been able to stand in the fiercely competitive music circle.
The representative meaning of the ideal thirty
After talking about Teacher Chen's story, what does the work "Ideal Thirty" mean to him?
Some media asked him, do you feel that you are on fire?
He said that there may be a little fire in the indie music circle, but what is more important than the fire is not fire, how long it can be fired.
However, I think the point of this song is to find the power of peace.
I searched, and there were probably 479592 comments underneath the song, from nostalgia for love to healing depression, from breaking the confusion to thirty standing, including many stories and lives.
Some people try to prove their excellence to their parents, some people fail to take up the abacus of beating workers, and some people stand alone by the Huangpu River at night to bear the pain of losing their loved ones...
Among them, there is a comment of more than 400,000 likes that makes people see the hope of hard work:
He, a college student, graduated from college, and finally succeeded in World War II, in addition to thanking the people who helped him, he also thanked himself for not being willing.
Therefore, whether it is happiness and prayer, or loneliness and blessing, it is fully grown behind a song.
It's the power to find peace!
A person will experience a lot in life, and only a dime can be poured out, and those who are unknown are pinned on a folk song, which is the direction pursued by music creators.
Someone once compared the classic golden songs of 2000 and 2020, and the biggest difference between the two is:
The former has crossed the barrier of time and is still sung;
The latter fixed the space and was trapped in the platform of short videos.
You know, "Ideal Thirty" is ostensibly reminiscing about love, but in fact it is asking for ideals.
Someone listens to it as a cigarette, and he only has one cigarette, but he has to last all night.
Some people listened to the song and got the acceptance letter, and their brothers and sisters had just graduated, listening to the song to bid farewell to the slowly out of the station of the high-speed rail.
As for the thirty years, it is not the upper and lower levels of each month, but the time when the ideal will not be achieved.
Of course, some people compare thirty years to thirty years, and a person spends thirty years to pursue his ideals, perhaps most of them have been realized.
Therefore, I think the reason why "Ideal Thirty" is popular is not how attractive the folk song is, but that it pokes at the small emotions of the big times.
This small emotion can be seen everywhere and fleeting.
For example, the launch of the 003 aircraft carrier, the "leading big brother" of the Tangshan beating incident, and Dong Yuhui selected by the East.
From the national strategy to the governance of people's livelihood, from the economic transformation to the whole people with goods, these particles hidden in the cracks need some containers to store them up and then grow slowly.
Write at the end
The expression of bitterness has never been there, and everyone has been exploring.
This is what Xu Zhiyuan said when interviewing papi sauce in "Thirteen Invitations", and papi sauce expressed his approval.
Her popularity is because she is funny, and it is funny in life (some bitterness has nowhere to express).
Shakespeare once said that people who like to be lonely are either beasts or gods.
Then, in this changeable era, after a hard day, go home and lie in bed and listen to a folk song, or be satisfied.
If nothing else, just to lament every passing yesterday, and every fading yesterday's self.
About the Author:
Chai Xiaohuo Siege Lion, a project manager who loves to write.
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