The first time I listened to Chen Hongyu, it was in the high school era a few years ago, the sunset was gone, walking around the playground, and in the headphones he sang "You long to leave, but there is nowhere to stop."
A few years later, when I saw Chen Hongyu in reality, it was still the night when the sunset was gone.
Unlike the bespectacled, shy boy I saw in the usual photo, this one-meter-eight Capricorn boy casually greeted me.
Casually playing guitar between photos, wearing minimalist and wide white and black pants, and talking to three or two people from time to time.
This is the first impression that Chen Hongyu, who is "as young as a young man", gave me.
The voice of the young man is the initial impression of the outside world on him.
Cold-eyed and enthusiastic, it is his evaluation of himself;
From the steppes of Erguna to the deserts of Namibia,
From the poet of the Ideal Thirty to the walker of "With the Wilderness";
Three years later, he did not want to be bound by any style anymore,
Tell the world with countless creations and actions:
I am a unique individual being,
I am Chen Hongyu.
# 1
Grain Rain
In the northernmost part of Inner Mongolia, there is a small city called Erguna, where Chen Hongyu grew up.
Some unexpected moments in life are turning points that you will identify when you think about them in the future.
In Chen Hongyu's memory, the earliest musical enlightenment came from the loudspeaker of the medical center in front of his home, which played popular songs from the 90s every day.
His love for BEYOND and his motivation to form a band began at that time.
When he was in junior high school, a guitar class registration leaflet that was accidentally sent to Chen Hongyu on the side of the road opened his initial intersection with music.
The twelve-year-old boy who just received the leaflet in his hand actually already understood that the path and destiny of life must be controlled by himself.
In high school, Chen Hongyu and his classmates formed a "stream" band.
In 2005, at the age of 16, he and his band friends worked out the album of the same name, "Flowing Wounds", by taking leave, skipping class, and borrowing money.
Adopting the design style of the band members' photo and lyric text, Chen Hongyu at that time was young but first emerging.
In 2015, after the launch of "Ideal Thirty", countless people knew Chen Hongyu, and when he found that all the tickets were sold out the following year, he realized that he might be on fire.
High-speed trains, airplanes, hotels, the same urban buildings, everything runs like a machine... Maybe that's the kind of cookie-cutterity that comes with a fire.
Chen Hongyu didn't want that. This may be the original intention of the free-ride tour he and Ma Yuyang launched at that time.
Faced with the questioning of the ability to create lyrics and the evaluation of the performance form being greater than the content, fans asked him, "Will you worry that one day the fans who once were fans will no longer support and like you?" ”
Chen Hongyu just smiled and said, "If I think like that one day, I won't be able to do anything."
#2
The first stadium concert was named after the masterpiece "Ideal Thirty", which seems to be a rather ritualistic thing.
But Chen Hongyu quickly used cold humor to dispel the meaning behind it, "In fact, I took this name because I thought it would be helpful for the audience to find performance tickets." ”
After causing everyone in the room to laugh, he became serious again and talked about his way of getting along with "Ideal Thirty".
Like many musicians, Chen Hongyu has also experienced the ups and downs of a song's popularity.
Nowadays, "Ideal Thirty" has more than 400,000 comments on NetEase Cloud Music, and it has brought popularity to the singer himself by its own efforts, and has also left a certain stereotype in the hearts of the audience.
"In fact, I am like the process of two people getting to know each other, when I first met, I felt awesome and happy, and then I slowly discovered each other's shortcomings." 」
Chen Hongyu introduced another metaphor here. "'Ideal Thirty' began to bring me a lot of gains, but slowly, like many artists or musicians, I always felt that my famous work was not perfect.
At the same time, it also gave me the label 'folk' without defining myself as a 'folk singer'. ”
Youcai interviewed Chen Hongyu with such a question: "What should I do if the future is not red?" ”
Chen Hongyu said: "If it is not red, it will not be red, this thing is not under my control, I still make music well."
Chen Hongyu said before posting on Weibo:
"The environment is like a wave, there is no ideal before entering the wave, or there is no reflection after entering, it will be swept away,
I can no longer remember the imaginations that were born out of love, because of youth.
Fame does not have to be early, until you can distinguish where is the wave, where is my time, just right. ”
#3
"Ideal Thirty"
A song that has been listened to for a long time.
Chen Hongyu walked on the train from north to south, alone. I remember that I was not alone before, but I vaguely remember the person who used to take a car to the south to walk to the neighbor's seat, and there was her around.
Thinking that I have been standing for a long time, I am still drifting.
Where to go to find where to belong.
"Like a Teenager"
Grow up to the age when you can raise a glass with your father,
Grow up to be old enough to talk to your elders for a long time,
This is an age where you can speak out about love....
I gladly accepted these unaccustomed, and then,
I don't know if I can still watch cartoons when I put on my suit.
If I smoke a cigarette, will there still be children playing with me...
Hey, did you see my teletubbies?
"Burning Clouds"
The years are nothing but the scorching heat of a burning cloud, only because the light of this world is like a raging fire,
Burned out all wandering and confusion,
Burned out all the bad and the past,
Burned out all growth and despair,
Burn out a twilight year, burn the chest of a young man.
Ends at the end
I couldn't help but remember his last hidden lyric in "With the Wilderness" that impressed me particularly:
"The answer is not here, you know where the answer is"
I thought, yeah, Chen Hongyu knew it all the time.
May you walk out of half your life and return as a teenager