On the evening of November 19, the Chinese music scene was very lively. Asian king Jay Chou opened an online "brother club", singing five golden songs "Still Wandering", "Peninsula Iron Box", "Sunny Day", "Rice Fragrance" and "Missed Fireworks", with more than 1 billion likes in the live broadcast room and more than 10 million viewers. And the unplugged concert brought by the original "top returne" Luhan next door was launched synchronously, which is also a good data.
Interestingly, in the case of both "brother games", Jay Chou connected with Fang Wenshan to review the friendship years together, while Lu Han and Mao Buyi, Wang Mian and others met friends with fun and shared interesting life stories. However, compared with the harmonious atmosphere scene on Luhan's side, the "business" picture of Jay Chou and Fang Wenshan is very strange.
Jay Chou Fang Wenshan connection. Live screenshots
As soon as the "Brother Friends Association" was launched, Jay Chou complained about Fang Wenshan: "I didn't have a good impression of him at first, so I felt that this person was very rude", "Fang Wenshan's lyrics are really difficult to memorize" and "It's rare to hear his praise". And Fang Wenshan is not to be outdone, "Jay Lun asked his friends to play the MV, generally there is no good ending" "Jay didn't wear underwear for a while" "Jay slept in the company at that time, taking advantage of the company" ...
Look, you ridiculed me, I ridiculed you, really responded to the name of Eason Chan's song - "Best Loss Friend". Netizen evaluation: Die of laughter, is this the social difference between young people and middle-aged people?
In fact, the word "loss of friends" is not enough to define the relationship between Jay Chou and Fang Wenshan. Having known each other for many years, they are close friends, confidants, and the "best partners" on each other's acting path.
Friend
Have accompanied each other through the unknown
"We were all new at that time. He had no money to rent a house, so he lived in Wu Zongxian's office, slept on the floor, used a sleeping bag, and acted like a homeless man. At the "Brotherhood Association", Fang Wenshan recalled the hard life of the two of them, "When I came from Taoyuan to Taipei, I rode home on a motorcycle every day, and it took two hours to come by motorcycle the next day. When he arrived at the company, Jaylen was still sleepy and sometimes didn't get up. ”
Perhaps genius and genius always go hand in hand. The life trajectories of this golden pair have some wonderful overlaps. Jay Chou and Fang Wenshan both have modest families: Jay Chou's parents are divorced, and his mother Ye Huimei is a middle school art teacher; And Fang Wenshan, who has a strong foundation in Chinese studies, was not from a scholarly family, he grew up in an ordinary blue-collar family.
The two have also had a bumpy star path: after graduating from high school, Jay Chou twice applied for the music department of Taipei University and failed, and could only work in a restaurant while preparing for his music dreams; Before joining the industry, Fang Wenshan worked in the maintenance of anti-theft systems in a town near Taipei, where he joked that he was "a plumber." The two were successively excavated by Wu Zongxian and entered Alfa Music Company, opening the first experience of the entertainment industry that Huai Cai did not meet.
Screenshot of Jay Chou's first album "Jay" QQ music
Initially, Jay Chou was the only composer in the company, but because his personal style was too avant-garde, he was often "returned", and the popular "Ninja" and "Ninja" in the future were actually waste songs that others did not want. At that time, the future music king felt that "his singing is not very good", he was distressed that he could not sell songs, and he never cherished the so-called star dream.
And Fang Wenshan is also facing the darkest moment of his life. In his first year in the company, he did not publish any works, which caused Fang Wenshan to have a huge psychological gap. He took the initiative to ask Wu Zongxian - I automatically cut my salary and write songs at home.
Later, the two became partners and accidentally ran into a spark while co-creating "The Sound of Falling Rain" by Hokkien diva Jiang Hui. At that time, the record company called Fang Wenshan and said that the song "Falling Rain" is very good, but can you just buy songs without words.
"The song was written by Jay Chou, and the words were written by me. After submitting more than 100 copies, the first song that sold out, he actually called and said, can we just buy songs without words. Fang Wenshan was shocked, but after a month and a half, the record company decided to buy the lyrics together, because they were better than compared, and felt that the words filled in by others were not as good as the original.
Regarding this period of unknown years, Fang Wenshan said, "Life is interesting because there is no way to do whatever you want. Setbacks become landscapes, and life memories are landscaped piece by piece. ”
The gears of fate turn from this moment. The tsunami that will sweep the Chinese music scene in the future is ready to unfold.
Each other's Bó Lè
Alpine flowing water to find the soulmate Golden partner is now in its embryonic form
Perhaps no one expected that two talented people would get together and become a pair of golden partners who will become famous in the Chinese music scene in the future.
Jay Chou is talented, unique in singing, and imaginative in creation, and miraculously Fang Wenshan, who loves Chinese studies and has a literary and artistic face, can actually keep up with Jay Chou's changeable style.
Jay Chou wanted to express his youthful love, and Fang Wenshan handed him the love words "You suddenly said to me that Qilixiang's name is very beautiful"; Jay Chou loves classical beauty, and Fang Wenshan wrote "Azure and other smoke and rain, and I am waiting for you"; Jay Chou created avant-garde songs with the theme of "vampires", and Fang Wenshan wrote the bizarre "Fort William".
Screenshot of Jay Chou's "Seven Fragrances" MV
What's more interesting is that Jay Chou, who was quite unruly when he was young, once spoke publicly, saying "Don't let the Korean Wave become more and more arrogant, the Chinese Wave is the best." And in the "Compendium of Materia Medica", the shy Fang Wenshan wrote the lyrics: "Let me adjust a home remedy and specialize in treating your internal injuries outside the world"... It can only be said that intellectuals scold people, really without a dirty word.
As a pioneer of modern pop music "Chinese style", Jay Chou's debut album has included a Chinese-style song "Lady". "It's not because I want to be popular, I just think Chinese style is very special." Jay Chou's initial attempt was just a whim, "Foreigners will feel very special when they hear it, how can there be pipa and erhu, and merge with other instruments." ”
Screenshot of the MV of "Lady"
In this regard, Fang Wenshan showed a tacit understanding with Jay Chou, "The melody of that song is not a traditional Chinese minor, and for safety, I wrote several versions of the lyrics for him to pick, and it was unexpected that he would pick "Lady". Fang Wenshan was pleasantly surprised, "The hero saw the same thing, it turned out that he could also accept what I imagined." ”
Mountains and rivers look for acquaintances, as they should. From "Chrysanthemum Terrace", "Blue and White Porcelain", "Hair Like Snow" to "Nocturne", "Rosemary" and "Shanghai 1943", the cooperation between the two can often achieve the effect of 1+1>2. There is no need to worry about the melody becoming a foil for the text, nor do you have to worry about the words not reaching the meaning.
Loss of friends
The first time we meet you doesn't look good at you
At the "Brotherhood Association", Jay Chou and Fang Wenshan talked about their first impressions of each other, and the answer was very consistent - "I don't have a good impression of him." "To be honest, I'm not very good either."
At first, Fang Wenshan felt that Jay Chou could not sing, and Jay Chou felt that Fang Wenshan could not write lyrics. Wu Zongxian took two songs for Fang Wenshan to hear, and Fang Wenshan said that the other song was better - he didn't know, Jay Chou was behind the door at that time. Jay Chou once joked about this incident: "I just heard it outside, and I want to say that this person is finished with you." ”
Jay Chou and Fang Wenshan teased each other. Live screenshots
Later, Wu Zongxian took a thick book containing hundreds of lyrics to show Jay Chou. Wu Zongxian said that this person is called Fang Wenshan, and he has found many record companies to submit articles, but no one paid attention to him. At that time, Jay Chou secretly complained, "When I heard this, I felt that Wu Zongxian was really very good, because I read a few lyrics, in fact, honestly, the writing was not very good." ”
However, after a period of running-in, the two slowly discovered each other's shining points, and Jay Chou felt that he was in tune with Fang Wenshan, "He is improving very quickly and jumping out of the entire market." There are no such lyrics in the entire market, and you can see at a glance that this was written by Fang Wenshan. And Fang Wenshan was impressed by Jay Chou's talent, "In the block he is good at, he is a genius. ”
After getting acquainted with each other, the two quickly became friends who could ridicule each other, and the "loss" was more than 20 years, quite a "old husband and wife" feeling. No, at the "brotherhood meeting" that night, the two demolished each other and had a lot of fun. Jay Chou revealed that in order to prank Fang Wenshan, he once arranged for his friends to dress up as punks to scare him. Fang Wenshan broke the news that when Jay Chou slept in the company, he did not wear underwear for a while, and also complained that he took advantage of the company, "Use the company's water, use the company's electricity, use the company's resources, sleep in the company." ”
Over the years, every "mutual loss" of Jay Chou and Fang Wenshan is inseparable from the "dispute of lyrics". Jay Chou often said that the words written by Fang Wenshan were too profound to understand, and Fang Wenshan was worried about Jay Chou's unauthorized change of the lyrics of "The Lady", and once asked Jay Chou to re-sing, "I told him, I don't want to take money for this song, please re-sing it, he said, then I can also not take money, I just don't want to re-sing." ”
Jay plays the piano. Photo by Xu Peijun
At the "Brother Friends Association" that night, Jay Chou once again complained to the host, "Fang Wenshan's lyrics are really difficult to memorize. "How difficult it is to memorize the words written by Fang Wenshan, Jay Chou has the most right to speak. In 2004, the incoherent concert gave birth to a famous scene, Jay Chou brought the classic song "Forgetting Words Territory" (formerly known as "My Territory"), the whole song from beginning to end he only sang one sentence, "In my territory you have to listen to me, harvest the music with hearing to find happiness", the rest are all directly edited on the spot.
Freestyle even forgot, he also made up lyrics on the spot to spit on Fang Wenshan: "Fang Wenshan, it's too difficult for you to memorize this lyrics, I memorized it for a week, I can't remember it, what should I do?" I sing casually, it's okay, it's already here, so many people come to see, will I feel very guilty, is there a little, it doesn't matter, I called the warhead out to back, okay. ”
"Warhead" is the god man who later wrote "If you don't love me, pull down, brother's chest muscles, if you still want to lean". In Jay Chou's works, in terms of grounding, only the lyrics of "What Kind of Man" can compete with "If You Don't Love Me, Pull Down", and the lyrics of "What Kind of Man" are personally handled by Jay Chou, just because Fang Wenshan is the king of dragging manuscripts.
Fang Wenshan's large-scale art exhibition "Fang Dao Wenshanliu" opened in Shanghai. Photo by Kang Yuzhan
""What kind of man" was originally going to be written for Fang Wenshan, really, but he didn't hand it over to me after several months, I said forget it, it's too late, I wrote it myself."
Jay Chou also specially came out with a song to ridicule Fang Wenshan for writing slow lyrics, and the opening lyrics were: "Wenshan, when you finish writing the lyrics, I will release the next album, it's okay to take your time, I'll do this song myself." This song is called "Terraces", and in 2004, Jay Chou was shortlisted for the Best Lyricist Award in the Pop Music Works category of the 15th Taiwan Golden Melody Awards with this song, which is also a bonus.
Screenshot of the "Terraces" MV
For Jay Chou, how many Fang Wenshan can there be in life? The same is true for Fang Wenshan. They are close friends because they have walked through the darkest hours together; are confidants, because they appreciate each other and have common musical dreams; It's a bad friend, because even if you and I have achieved fame, in front of each other, we will always show the most unguarded childish appearance.
At the "Brother Club" that night, "Sunny Day", "Peninsula Iron Box" and "Rice Fragrance" sung by Jay Chou were songs voted by netizens. These three songs are all written by Jay Chou's own lyrics, and Fang Wenshan's "Chrysanthemum Terrace", "East Wind Break" and "Red Face Like Frost" did not appear on the song list, but he also had a good mentality.
Screenshot of the MV of "Sunny Day"
Fang Wenshan said: "Because music is a catalyst for emotion, the votes are high, and these songs have their youth, their stories, and their past. ”
These youths, stories and pasts are not "theirs", but "you" and "us". Tonight, thank you for bringing us such a beautiful youth, and at the same time, honoring your own unique and brilliant years.
Source: China News Network