Notes by Dr. Hou
Editor|Dr. Hou's notes
preface
Now the lyrics are really getting less and less standard, and some lyrics not only reveal vulgar and non-nutritious things, but some even directly expose the poor cultural level of the lyricist.
This musical phenomenon can't help but make people sigh: "Cows and horses can make songs"!
And even what is the reason why the Internet Divine Comedy is so "rampant"?
The Internet Divine Comedy pervades the entire music scene
Nowadays, some musicians only need some simple lyrics, combined with brainwashed melodies, to create a divine comedy with more than 100 million or even 1 billion plays.
I think everyone still remembers the song "Learn to Cat Bark" that exploded on the Internet some time ago.
The magical rhythm is paired with the magical lyrics: "We learn to bark cats together, meow together..."
Can this be considered a song? There is no cultural skill at all, however, it is such a saliva song that has no nutrition at all and has reached more than one billion plays, which can't help but make people jaw-dropping.
But there are countless such songs on the Internet, "Learn to Cat Bark" is just a microcosm, among which there are also "A of Spades", "105 degrees of you" and so on:
These songs all have one thing in common, which is a non-nutritious, proper saliva song.
When listening to these songs, it is embarrassing to pick the dead skin on the feet, I really don't know what songs these creators can make to shock people's jaws in order to win traffic.
If we leave these "song tumors" alone, then whether we can hear good songs in the future has become a problem.
Not only that, some creators don't even know the most basic music theory knowledge, and they dare to create songs, which is really surprising.
Once in a music column in 2018, Li Yuanjie took his original song "Leaving People" on the stage.
You know, this song was popular all over the country at that time, and the platform alone had as many as 700 million hits.
Moreover, Li Yuanjie also won major awards with this work, but Li Yuanjie, who has won so many music awards, can't even play the most basic ensemble.
On the stage of this show, Li Yuanjie sang his "original" song "Leaving People's Worries" in front of many music mentors.
After singing, the music instructor Hua Chenyu heard the clue and said to him: "You play a Hexuan accompaniment, and I will compose music for you."
Originally, this was a great opportunity, you know, the opportunity to cooperate with contemporary music instructor Hua Chenyu is not available to anyone.
But. Faced with Hua Chenyu's questioning, Li Yuanjie was stunned in place for a while, as a musician, he couldn't play the simplest and dazzling!!
At this time, Li Yuchun also raised a question: "Since he can't even play the most basic Hexuan, how did he compose songs?"
This sentence hit the nail on the head, and after the show, many netizens began to pick up the song "Leaving People".
In the end, it was found that Li Yuanjie was not an original singer, and his song "Leaving People's Sorrows" was actually composed after 6 songs.
Among them are Zhou Dong's Red Dust Inn, Fireworks Easy to Cold, Xu Song's Qingming Yushang, and so on.
The proper music "tailor", the whole song is not his own, and it is this patchwork of lyrics that has become popular all over the Internet.
Moreover, this song ethos has a tendency to become more and more intense.
In these online divine comedy, "A of Spades" not only poisons the majority of netizens, but also poisons children, why?
Because of the brainwashing melody of "A of Spades", many kindergarten teachers teach this song to children.
This kind of song and arrangement that does not match the arrangement, or even a little nutritious thing to teach children, which makes people wonder if the aesthetic trend of the current education industry is off.
So many parents are also questioning, is the song "A of Spades" really suitable for teaching children?
And the content in this song is really not flattering:
"Hey, hey, you're my baby....."
The values of this song are likely to be ingrained in the hearts of children, and this kind of poisonous children's song is really not recommended to be taught to children in kindergartens.
Moreover, the whole network is not only the song "A of Spades".
Where there is a "crouching dragon", there will be a "phoenix chick".
Let's take a look at the lyrics of the fire "Itch" some time ago:
"Come on, be happy, anyway, there is a lot of time, come, make a crime, anyway, there is a lot of desire."
Hearing this kind of song, I can't help but sigh that the current music scene has been made by these people, songs are not like songs, and people are not like people.
Now with the rapid development of new media, short videos are in a mixed stage, so all kinds of online divine comedy emerge one after another.
For example, a new song "Wa Coffee" just some time ago quickly spread throughout the Internet, and you will find that just brushing two videos will have one of the dubbing of "Wa Coffee".
The whole song is not nutritious, there is not even the most basic rhyme between the words, all rely on the magical rhythm to become popular.
Although people's aesthetics have changed now, people's aesthetics have not reached the point of deformity.
Moreover, this atmosphere has gradually changed the entire Chinese music scene, and even the musical talent Li Ronghao has committed this problem.
Li Ronghao - "Wumeizi Sauce" was brutally attacked
When it comes to Li Ronghao, everyone will definitely think of his works, for example, Li Bai, Bu Jiang, etc., and Li Ronghao not only his own songs, but also the songs he wrote for other people.
Like "Slowly Like You", "Butterfly", "What Did You Take Away" and so on are all from Li Ronghao's hands.
Although Li Ronghao, who is so powerful, was also affected by the "mudslide" in the music industry after marriage, recently, his "Wumeizi Sauce" has also been frequently clicked on major platforms.
After the release of this work, it occupied the list for several days, and several Internet celebrities also rushed to cover it, and for a while, Li Ronghao's new song was well known to everyone.
But just when the work was on fire, another musician questioned it.
Music critic Ding Taisheng expressed a new view on Li Ronghao's new work, he said that Li Ronghao should not create such a song, although this song is very popular, but according to Li Ronghao's talent, his work should not be so vulgar!
He commented on "Wumeizi Sauce": "This song enters the chorus, and a strong Chinese rural atmosphere mixed with elements of the short video platform comes to the face."
Perhaps because Li Ronghao won the Golden Melody Award, the audience had great expectations for him.
But after the new work comes out, it is inevitable that there will be some gaps in the hearts of these listeners.
They feel that Li Ronghao's songs should be as deep as the previous songs of "Young and Talented" and "Old Street", and at the same time very good.
But I didn't expect that the works he created would show a downward trend, and they would be like the short video Divine Comedy.
Compare his previous lyrics, such as in "Old Street": "A faded photo seems to bring me a little nostalgia.."
Or in "Young and Talented": "If I am young and not inferior, I know what is precious.."
In contrast, Li Ronghao's previous works are indeed emotional, and the singing carries a story.
On the other hand, now, "Plum Sauce" is like a formula piled up with saliva songs, pieced together.
This inevitably makes people feel that Li Ronghao has really regressed a lot in terms of creation.
In this era of entertainment trends, traffic is full of temptation for everyone, seeing Internet celebrities making money, everyone wants to go over and get a piece of the pie, in this case, Li Ronghao may also be moved by this.
But then again, if everyone is only interested in making money, who will save the Chinese music scene?
If every creator is like those Internet celebrities, copying a song and changing two tones to become their own new work, then all musicians will only be addicted to this phenomenon of "making money", and since then, there will be no good works.
Fortunately, in the "mixed music scene", there are still many professional musicians who stick to their hearts. Throughout the Chinese music scene, these people have created many intriguing masterpieces for people.
These people can be called real "musicians"
Musical talent - Fang Wenshan
Fang Wenshan, born in 1969, liked to write his thoughts in the text since he was a child, which also laid the groundwork for him to become Jay Chou's royal lyricist in the future.
Fang Wenshan has become an excellent lyricist step by step from an ordinary young man, which is enough to prove his writing skills.
Later, Fang Wenshan met Jay Chou, and since then, Fang Wenshan has been playing his talents beside Zhou Dong like a fish into the sea.
Jay Chou's singing skills and vocal line, combined with Fang Wenshan's lyrics, is really a perfect match.
And after Jay Chou met Fang Wenshan, it was like Maxima met Bole, and the two have been working together for several years.
And during this period, Fang Wenshan's lyrics for Jay Chou also exploded.
Among them, "Orchid Pavilion Preface", "The Secret That Cannot Be Said", "Blue and White Porcelain", and so on are all from Fang Wenshan's hand.
For example, in "The Secret That Cannot Be Said": "The most beautiful thing is not a rainy day, it is the eaves that has sheltered from the rain with you" Just this sentence alone, Fang Wenshan can see that Fang Wenshan has put himself into songwriting.
This kind of beauty between the lines makes people stunned, and he uses words to describe the epitome of a couple in love.
Rainy days are beautiful, but it is even more beautiful to be able to watch the rain under the same roof with someone you like, no matter what the external conditions are, as long as you are with you, it is the most perfect.
Fang Wenshan used the delicate relationship between rainy days and eaves to express the beautiful scene of lovers keeping rain foam.
Moreover, Fang Wenshan's writing is by no means more than that.
He always uses the talent of the ancients to perfectly combine it with popular music, such as "Huo Yuanjia", "Compendium of Herbs", etc., and each of his works tells people a story.
Such in-depth works have undergone the precipitation of time and polished several times before they can finally be presented to the public.
Not only Fang Wenshan, but also many lyricists in the Chinese music scene are sticking to their own hearts and creating a variety of high-quality works.
On the other hand, there is no comparison with the current Internet songs, and these Internet singers have always maintained a mentality - traffic!
Therefore, these people simply cannot calm down to create good works.
They only look for traffic passwords, after all, traffic is money.
In the end, more and more people followed suit, and everyone applied the same "music formula" in order to earn money. Then take someone else's work and copy.
At the end of the day, the things made can't be heard at all, so what's the point of that?
epilogue
With the development of the Internet, everyone began to pursue crimes for profit.
Everyone writes songs for money, and the production threshold is too low, and video soundtracks are distributed on various platforms, so that the degree of singing is very high.
But a high degree of singing does not mean that it is a good work.
You know, touching works can often wash people's hearts, and the Chinese music scene really doesn't need saliva songs created by Internet singers.
What it lacks is musicians who really create with heart. Sometimes I really miss the songs of the 80.90s, when the creators were more talented than the other, and the lyrics were very beautiful, and whispering the lyrics was a cultural enjoyment, but I don't know if that era will be repeated.