Wen 丨 Liang Jialie
"Love is a Word", released more than 20 years ago, is more like a love song in the cognition of most post-90s, which is related to the indomitable and passionate love of love.
But in Douyin's music complex "Baichuan Music Time and Space", a single mother gave another interpretation, the song "I hope you, have not forgotten, I will always protect you, regardless of the blows of wind and rain, wholeheartedly", contains a thousand words she wants to tell her daughter.
The same song, people of different ages will have different interpretations, not so much that this allows us to see the difference between generations, but that good music can enter everyone's heart, which is the charm of music.
Generation is not as indestructible as people intrinsically recognize, and "Hundred Rivers Music Time and Space" allows the outside world to see that the power of music can cross generations and even cross time.
Step into the intergenerational observation experiment
In "Baichuan Music Time and Space", singers need to sing face-to-face for strangers of different ages under the premise of disguising their identities, and I have to say that this design is really bold.
Before the broadcast, some people speculated that the effect of the program may be "embarrassing to burst", indeed, from the street interviews of the program group alone, it can be seen that the intergenerational problem seems to be impossible to ignore, most of the older generation does not know young singers, and young people's evaluation of old singers is either "outdated" or "not popular".
But when a contemporary collision does occur, the chemistry of the two generations is very different from previous predictions.
If there is no generation gap between Generation Z and Generation Liujin, it is obviously unrealistic, which is clearly presented in "Baichuan Le Time and Space". When singers of different ages chat with amateur guests of different ages, the entry point is each other's comfort zone, and after Zhang Xinzhe learned that Ding Ding and Dangdang are twin sisters, he cleverly opened the children's chatterbox with topics such as "how old is the sister" and "I heard that twins have telepathy".
In addition, the difference in musical preferences between the two generations is also obvious. In the face of "Love is a Word", a lyrical golden song in the Chinese music scene, the two generations gave a strong sense of contrasting response, Orange Sister's mother burst into tears when she listened to the singing, but Orange Sister, who is no stranger to Zhang Xinzhe's songs, is still more identified with Anthony, a singer of similar age, and in terms of musical style, she prefers songs with a strong sense of rhythm.
"My biggest feeling is that the audience has become differentiated, it used to be a big circle, but over the past few years, everyone has constantly emphasized that everyone must be loyal to themselves and have their own ideas, how can you ask people with different personalities to stay in the same circle? Asking for a thing that everyone likes in an era of diverse personalization? It's impossible. ”
The trend of fragmentation on the Internet has indeed accelerated the aesthetic differences between generations, but in Zhang's view, generational separation does not affect the appreciation of different types of music by different age groups. The two are actually not contradictory, and what we see in "Baichuan Le Time and Space" is more about seeking common ground while reserving differences.
After singing "Love is a Word", Zhang Xinzhe only mentioned that "in fact, love has many different loves", and the two little girls Ding Ding and Xuan Xuan immediately thought that "the love of sisters and sisters" is also one of the expressions of love, and thought that their love for their sister is in line with the context of the song. The children's keen insight and perception shocked the guests of the observation group, and also touched Zhang Xinzhe a lot.
"We usually think that children don't know too much, just eat, drink and have fun every day, but after contacting them through "Baichuan Le Time and Space" and chatting with them, you will find that these children are actually more delicate than we think. They may not necessarily understand the clear meaning of every word and sentence in the song, but they can feel the power of the music or the song. ”
Looking at it from another perspective, the works of young singers in the show are also read by a group of uncles and aunts. Wang Yuan's "Pride" is not as straightforward as "My Old Father", which was popular all over the country in the last era, but the family bond it conveys is simple, so it can sing the eyes of the elders.
In recent years, intergenerational communication barriers have become a hot topic, and in repeated discussions, the outside world may also invisibly reinforce the stereotype of generation. But in fact, the generational barrier is far lighter than we think.
In Zhang Xinzhe's view, there is no age difference in good songs, only whether they have the opportunity to be heard by the public. The problem of audience fragmentation brought about by the trend of Internet differentiation can also be solved by "a suitable opportunity", as long as a good song is given a right environment, it must be empathized, this is the charm of music, and "Baichuan Music Time and Space" brings this "right environment".
Healing in the intertwining of laughter and tears
As an intergenerational experiment to observe the music ensemble, the perception of "Baichuan Music Time and Space" is completely different from the previous music ensembles, this special perception is best described by "emotional pull", one second the audience is still laughing, the next second may unconsciously follow the singer and guests to tears.
In a generational collision, laughter does not need to be deliberately made. In the scoring link of "Love is a Word", the orange sister can be said to let Zhang Xinzhe experience the two days of ice and fire, when hearing the evaluation of the child giving a full score of five, Zhang Xinzhe's joy was overflowing, but it didn't take long to be amused by the child's next sentence "If it were Anthony, it should give a hundred points, ten thousand points".
Although he lost to the little girl's idol, it also brought another interesting experience to Zhang Xinzhe. "It's funny, you will find that they are really direct, there will not be too many mincturns, like is like, don't like is dislike. Then I asked her if I changed my singing path and I started being a singing and dancing singer, and she said, 'This is a must,' and I thought it was cute. ”
In "Baichuan Le Time and Space", laughter and tears are healing.
I have to say that this show is a little ruthless in the presentation of the singer's real situation. In the time and space transfer station, Zhan Wenting was asked "After leaving the Fei'er Orchestra, do you still know you", the answer was pessimistic. But if there is no slightly ruthless truth, how can people know the value of affection?
Among the amateur guests, a young female teacher was very engaged when she listened to Zhan Wenting's singing of "Our Love", and once choked up and cried, and the guests of the observation group thought that she had just experienced emotional trauma. After the singing, she told Zhan Wenting that she had an idol she had liked for 17 years and once wanted to write to the idol, but chose silence for fear of disturbing the idol.
No one thought that the girl in her mouth, the idol who accompanied her through her entire youth was Zhan Wenting, and the reversal came by surprise. After the letter that was more than ten years late was read, it was not only the girl who burst into tears, but also Zhan Wenting. A fan who has never met has brought her a healing journey and made her look forward to the future.
In the mode of "old singers sing classic songs", "Baichuan Music Time and Space" does not focus on memory killing, but excavates the emotional embodiment brought by the interaction between people in music time and space, and the strong color of humanistic care determines its warm and healing background. This high-quality human emotional interaction is reflected in the interaction between singers and fans, as well as in the interaction of strangers.
In "A Hundred Rivers Music Time and Space", the face-to-face live performance has become a bridge between the singer and the audience, and they have invested the most sincere feelings in this journey to get closer to each other. After Zhang Xinzhe sang, the senior girl who loves music was excited to see the original singer, she was not a fan of Zhang Xinzhe, but after being moved by "Love is a Word", she firmly said the sentence "I will definitely share his song with more people to listen", Zhang Xinzhe also happily compared the victory gesture in the audience after hearing this.
What the audience sees in "Hundred Rivers Music Time and Space" is the flow of music in the long river of time, and it is also the extension of music to people. The show is not deliberately valuable, all the warm and healing undertones are naturally formed in the interaction between people, which is the most rare.
Another possibility of sound ensemblage
Over the years, the music complex market has indeed given birth to many classic programs and stages, but it is undeniable that now the music complex has fallen into homogeneous repetition, and it is difficult to come out of the explosion and no longer popular, which is a problem faced by the industry.
In "Baichuan Music Time and Space", we see another possibility of sound ensemble, that is, to find a purer content expression.
The first step towards purity is to abandon the competitive nature and the format. Competitive music ensemble has been popular for many years, and naturally has its own unique charm, as Zhang Xinzhe said: "The competition performance needs a live atmosphere, so it is usually either complicated and difficult to arrange, or it is very burning, and the scene brings a more exciting audio-visual experience." ”
But in "Baichuan Music Time and Space", the music performance is more life-oriented, Ren Xianqi handed the microphone to the amateur guests, and Huang Qishan sang with the amateur guests, all like the picture when relatives and friends gathered in KTV, it may not have exploded the appearance of the competition stage, but it broke the distance between the singer and the audience.
Those singers who have loved or heard for many years are close at hand, and the musical experience of only singing for you to listen to alone is undoubtedly more personal and brings a stronger emotional transmission. This form of face-to-face singing is a novelty for both guests and singers.
"Singing one-on-one, trying to make the listeners feel what I'm talking about through performance, is an interesting experiment for me, it shows me how our music has had an impact on the listeners. How does it impress you? At what point did it impress you? How will your emotion ferment? How will it last? All have the opportunity to observe through the state in which they listen to the song. ”
Perhaps infected by the strong emotions conveyed by "Love is a Word", or inspired by Zhang Xinzhe's phrase "the most important thing in love is to show it", Ding Ding and Xuan Xuan sang "Love is a Word" for their sister when they were on a video call, and those endless feelings were condensed in the childish singing of children. This is the "influence" mentioned by Zhang Xinzhe.
The second step towards purity is to explore the spirit of music and the initial power of music in a musical space-time that is linked by people.
The embodiment of musical spirit is diverse, and the most impressive thing in "Hundred Rivers Music Time and Space" is the spirit of the singers ignoring their own obsession with the inheritance of their works. Zhang Xinzhe doesn't care if he will be forgotten, for him, "as long as these good songs are there."
As long as the song is there, the power of the music is there. As for what the power of music is, many bridges in "Baichuan Music Time and Space" also give a concrete definition.
Among the amateur guests Huang Qishan met, there was a young rapper who left the impression of "not approachable" to the observation group when he first appeared, but in the music exchange, his story gradually surfaced: due to congenital developmental deformities in his hands, he had spent an unpleasant school time, so he chose to "drag up" to disguise himself, in the darkest moment of life, music saved him, so even if the road of music is hard and tiring, he chooses to persist and not give up.
After listening to the boy's story, Huang Qishan couldn't hide her move, she squeezed the hand that the boy had been hiding behind her back, and said: "What music was created for, it is a witness to you, it comforts you." ”
A healthy music complex market needs competitive music ensembles, and also needs the content of "Baichuan Music Time and Space", the so-called return to the basics refers to slowing down, but also to a deeper value dimension, digging deeper into the power of music, looking for another expression of the music ensemble.
"In retrospect, the music itself and what it conveys is the most important thing." Zhang Xinzhe said.
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