Why does Li Ronghao's song seem to be more and more "dirty"

Text | Ling Hu Boguang

After the Spring Festival, domestic pop culture tends to be silent, the newly released movies only Marvel two blockbusters but have pounced, the TV series "Daming under the Microscope" are over, there are no hot new dramas broadcast, and variety entertainment programs have not been broadcast, at this time, the always silent Chinese music scene has a song.

That is Li Ronghao's "Wumeizi Sauce", this song was released on November 25 and has recently become popular on short video platforms, and as of the publication of this post, a short video platform has shown that the number of views exceeded 2 billion times. But after this song became popular, it received a lot of complaints, many of which were "too dirty", degenerate, and did not compare with previous songs.

If you want to ask me my personal opinion, Li Ronghao's song is not so bad, as a pop ballet arrangement and production, or hang a group of short video singers, as well as singing and dancing idols singers. But Li Ronghao, as a well-known singer-songwriter in the Chinese music scene, is now writing this song.

How to say it? It is the same as the five who released their third album "Take You to Fly" on February 14 some time ago.

It is clear that he was a pop music leader with a distinct musical style, and his works have a large audience, and they have long achieved professional and marketable success. At a time when the Chinese music scene is in decline, when everyone hopes that you can lead the Chinese music scene, you deliberately cater to this market trend. Most people don't understand the song, so let's talk about the lyrics of this criticism.

The lyrics of the new album "Take You to Fly" are shown above.

The lyrics of Li Ronghao's new song "Wumeizi Sauce" are shown above.

It is really the same Chinese music scene, and the same Chinese music scene urban ballet is all common to the same nest. When they write lyrics, they love to use a metaphor like a schoolboy's essay to show their love, a strong Chinese rural style mixed with the smell that short video platforms will become popular. That's right, it's wrong that they used to be good musicians.

The Chinese music scene has been sung down? The answer is simpler than you think

The history of Li Ronghao's popularity is not to be reviewed, in a word, he was a producer himself before, and he has produced albums for many well-known singers, and later walked into the stage to become famous with the two albums "Li Ronghao" and "Model", and Li Ronghao became popular around 2015.

During this period, Taiwan's Zhou King Tao Lin had passed his peak, and although the music was still at the top, the production of his works was greatly reduced. The mainland variety show selection is in full swing, but it still contributed Hua Chenyu, Deng Ziqi, Huo Z, Liang Bo, Chen Grain, Mao Buyi and other newcomers.

But this generation of mainstream pop musicians is recognized as inferior to the previous generation, if evaluated from the previous standard of the Chinese pop music scene. After 2010, the leader of the Chinese music scene in the past decade is almost Li Ronghao, and the other female singer-songwriter is Deng Ziqi.

After all, when Hua Chenyu became popular, everyone did not recognize it, let alone "the collapse of the human design", Liang Bo was low-key, Huo Z had an accident and now there is no such person, Chen Ren and Zhao Lei are independent folk songs, and the commercial value is still worse. Mao Buyi has a high audience like Xue Zhiqian, but because of the style of the song, not many people think that they are "leaders", right.

When we talk about Deng Ziqi and Li Ronghao, Deng Ziqi should be recognized by the vast majority of people. After all, in the past ten years, the professional field, traffic popularity, commercial value, including music style leadership of the Chinese market, only Deng Ziqi is the most balanced.

Speaking of returning to Li Ronghao, we feel that Li Ronghao seems to be the leader of the Chinese pop music scene in the past decade, but he faintly feels that he is not worthy of the position, that is, in the early stage, you think he is quite pressing, but it is almost something, let alone now. I have written about this question many times, whether the melody is good or not, whether the lyrics and arrangement are forced to these details.

From a macro perspective, the modern Chinese music scene is the process of learning the Western music style system, integrating localization, and finally establishing your own style.

The so-called godfather of music in the Chinese music scene before basically did this, plus humanistic values and artistic pursuits.

You see the godfather of Hong Kong music in the 70s is Hui Guanjie, who brought Cantonese songs into the Hong Kong music scene, the godfather of Taiwanese music music is Luo Dayou, the musical style promoted rock, Taiwanese folk songs; The godfather of rock in the mainland is Cui Jian, and he is directly the godfather of rock. The pop music scene is changing rapidly, and different music styles need to be innovated in combination with the market environment and audience needs.

At the end of the 90s, this first Tao Zhe revolutionized Chinese R&B, so Tao Zhe is called the godfather of Chinese R&B music. Later, Jay Chou and Wang Leehom were called Heavenly Kings, but the two innovated and established a lot of musical styles. There are R&B, New Chinese Style, Chinese Rap, Chinese POP, etc.

Among them, there are also music styles that integrate different musical styles, Lin Junjie is the urban love song that Taiwan's music scene is good at, that is, pop.

Strictly speaking, what rock, jazz, folk, punk, R&B, hip-hop, electronic, Chinese style, etc., are also popular from a large scale, but you have to open a sect, lead the status and forcing of future generations to get up, right, only talk about market success and fan pursuit, the "traffic economy" after the rice circle is not pure?

Jay Chou, a leader in the Chinese music scene? How did Li Ronghao become popular

I have always thought that Hua Chenyu did not become a leader in the Chinese music scene, not what kind of dancing god satirized by netizens, early low chanting and shallow singing in the later stage tearing treble + rap, and then what kind of character collapses, if everyone can't even tolerate the dancing god, the acceptance of music performance is too narrow.

What makes Brilliance Yu bad is that he did not integrate localization, and finally established himself and the music style that led the Chinese pop music scene.

Hua Chenyu's music style has Western classical pop and psychedelic rock, the first album "Quasimodo's Gift" is typical, later the second album "Alien", the third album "H" added rap elements, and also loves to do Western religious dark wind elements.

There are many musicians of his generation who play this musical style, Xilou, Qi Zitan, Wen Zhaojie and so on. As a result, you will find that Hua Chenyu's professionalism and proficiency are not as good as Xilou and Qi Zitan; And the influence of their musical style seems to be less than that of Chinese hip-hop artists in the new era.

Liang Bo is new age rock and pop rock, Huo Z is Chinese style and ancient style; Zhao Lei, Chen Ren and Mao Buyi are folk songs. Deng Ziqi is complicated, the early "bubble" Hong Kong music scene pop new era peak, the middle stage lyrical rock, Chinese R&B and American R&B, and then the later stage is Tang's hip hop and rap.

In fact, Deng Ziqi is not as good as Jay Chou's generation in terms of leading music style, but in this generation of creative vocal Chinese pop music, Deng Ziqi currently has no opponent in all aspects.

So, what is Lee Ronghao's musical style? Soul, R&B, plus all kinds of urban pop.

You see that he is still in the R&B style or in the successful fusion of Tao Zhe, Jay Chou, and Wang Leehom. I don't know if this is the case, so the songs on the first two albums are similar to the songs of Jay Chou and Eason Chan. Li Ronghao in this style is mainly similar to Xu Song, Hou Xian and Wang Sulong.

It is like they are all new Chinese style, Xu Song and Houxian make their own characteristic music style, but the breakthrough and promotion of this musical style is not great. Because Li Ronghao has been a music producer, he beat Xu Song and others from the early wild road in arrangement, production, and instrumental music matching and performance.

As for Soul, it is the same as jazz, because of language and cultural habits, the localization of the Chinese music scene has always been only a musical element, as the mainstream style localization is more successful is Yuan Yawei, but you see that she sings too much, the style of music is biased towards Europe and the United States, has always been praised in the professional field but the public acceptance is not enough.

This point Li Ronghao is probably better than Yuan Yawei in that it is more localized and popular, so the audience is higher.

In general, I think Li Ronghao's status in the Chinese music scene is similar to Hu Yanbin, and he is still half a gear stronger than Xu Song in Yeluzi. Made its own characteristic and more professional musical style, but not pioneering enough. Why do you have to compare Xu Song, because Xu Song has pursued from the wild road to the mainstream, but Li Ronghao has fallen from the mainstream to the bad custom.

The new song is tacky, and the new album layout is too small? How did Li Ronghao become "dirt" step by step

Li Ronghao's "Wumeizi Sauce" and several recent new albums, a creator's creation must have a peak age, just like the voice, timbre, vocal range, singing voice has a comfort zone, and when the age comes, it will turn the voice. When they were hot before, the music style they were good at, and the areas in which their voices could sing were almost written.

Therefore, the biggest problem with established singers writing new songs is that if you break through the musical style and singing voice, the audience will feel that it is not that tasteful. If you keep it before and it is difficult to write good music at your peak, the audience will scold you for eating the old book. This can break through to a whole new field, and can also ensure that the music is good, and such musicians are rare in the world.

A musician has ten years of peak creation (more than 5 peak albums), this is the national treasure of various countries, not to mention twenty years, thirty years, that is not the creator, that is the production team's donkey - in this case, what to do?

Generally, such veteran musicians have money, status, and popularity; You don't have music to pursue mixed variety shows as mentors, just make money in the merit book to retire, if you can train and promote a few successors is a good story. If you want to write songs and release new albums, it is difficult to break through.

Then try to break through the musical style, as well as use better arrangement, stronger production level. It is used to ensure professionalism, to put it bluntly, it is to protect your qualifications, after all, your status is here.

The public is always chasing the popular pop may not know that you released a new album, for example, I said that after 2020, Dao Lang, Cui Jian, Xu Song, Wang Feng, Zhao Lei, Xue Zhiqian, etc. have all released new albums, how many do you know? Maybe last year, Deng Ziqi, Jay Chou's new album knows, after all, they are very popular, and the whole network has been popular.

The real core audience will not be strict, not many people really think that he can lead the music scene for how many years, people have had a brilliant age, really treat people as the donkey of the production team, right——

Li Ronghao and the five of them belong to the time when the Chinese music scene is recognized as declining and the divine comedy is everywhere. After all, you are not short video Divine Comedy singers, you are mainstream musicians with your own distinctive musical style, strong professionalism, and good sounds, everyone has blown and liked.

It's better to tell the five, because last year's fire just this year just rotten money, you can scold the newcomer for not pursuing.

But Li Ronghao's status, popularity and popularity in the Chinese music scene, including the audience are too high, and he has repeatedly been on music variety shows as a mentor in recent years, which is not impossible, but your status is there after all. Softly speaking, the rotten money is not pressed, the point is that you also have a share of responsibility for the festering of the Chinese music scene.

Li Ronghao's "fall" is the sadness of the Chinese music scene? No, but the pop is even sadder

Finally, last year's Jay Chou's new album was somewhat perfunctory (MV, concert is the same), Deng Ziqi's new album is sincere but popular is almost popular, Wang Feng, Xue Zhiqian, Zhao Lei is through the peak of the song is not so popular, but conscientiously for the development of the Chinese music scene to make their own strength.

There are three people who have to mention here, one is Cui Jian's "Flying Dog", and the other is Xu Song's "Breathing Wild". Cui Jian is a veteran who debuted in the 80s is unambiguous, and Xu Song is a wild road to the mainstream with a higher pursuit. The last one is Hua Chenyu, who released a new album this year.

Hua Chenyu's new album is only a little worse in arrangement and production, but there is a breakthrough in the style and musical style, really. You scold me again, everyone scolds Hua Chenyu so much, people still have a pursuit in music.

In such a comparison, Li Ronghao, who is less and less pursued, is no wonder that the audience is more and more disappointed with him!