Text | Yuan Jiaqi
In the sweltering rain of Wuxi in early June, in a building backed by a wave-making pond in an industrial park, 38 groups of girls who have been summoned to this place by love are preparing for the unknown future. Earlier than the "future", it was the car to Suzhou early the next morning, and they had to go to another city first to accept the first look and evaluation from the outside world.
The waiting place was in the girls' rehearsal room, and the first person to walk in was the big bun DBZ. Putting down his huge backpack and wearing a black T-shirt printed with the cover of Pink Floyd's classic album Dark Side of the Moon, DBZ sat straight into the couch with a large bun. When answering life planning questions, it is clear that there is a certainty after thorough consideration. DBZ, the big bun of "daily social fear", will also unconsciously mobilize a warm expression when talking about new friends he met because he participated in the show.
Compared with the restrained big bun DBZ, Bambi Bambii, who went to Miami alone at the age of 13 to learn ice hockey, is even more chill. The support of her family and the musical talent that is lit up make her personality as flow freely as her own "melody trap rap", she will care about whether the light of the recorded video "will look good", and she will not help but mutter to herself when thinking about the problem, and the unintentional "cute" state and juvenile feeling in that relaxed state are completely different from the "Cardi B" style on the appearance.
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The last dirty one to appear in the rehearsal room deliberately changed out of the loose performance costume and put on a more loose set of folded shirts. After encountering the Dianshengqi label in 2017, Old School MC, which ended its "tights" career, was dirty, and skillfully "optimized" an ID video into a freestyle when interviewed. Money, fame and a 300-square-meter recording studio are dirty and undisguised demands that come to the show.
When it comes to black fear, people usually easily associate adjectives such as fierce and direct, unconventional, and distant, while the girls who appear in front of them and in the show are humorous, playful, kind, cute, introverted, relaxed, and diverse.
Most of the girls in the "Black Afraid Girl" program are post-90s and 00s, they were born in the Internet age, and the channels to contact black fear and other cutting-edge cultures are more convenient and direct, but they also face various judgments that have not yet been rejected by the times. When this group of colorful girls gathered together, they also used the diversity of the growth environment and the pluralistic convenience of the Internet age to explain what is arbitrary and undefinable arbitrary growth.
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Before coming into contact with Black Fear, big bun DBZ was playing rock'n' roll.
In 2012, Dabaozi DBZ uploaded its first online song, which stemmed from a helpless attempt at "social terrorism". Big Bun DBZ loves rock and roll, likes Shiina Hayashina and her band Tokyo Incident, after playing garage bands in high school and college for a few years, Big Bun DBZ knows that "forming a band is more troublesome than finding a partner".
Driven by a combination of unpunctual teammates and social fear, big bun DBZ finally began to try a music that could be done independently - rap. "At that time, I thought rapping was too simple, there was no threshold at all, and I could say it up under the accompaniment."
DbZ, who still loves rock and roll, in order to realize his childhood dreams, also formed a limited band SOLID FLOW solid stream in the first two years, and released an EP in 2019, although "no one listens, but it is OK to give yourself an explanation".
In the program, on the seniority, popularity and strength are at a high level of the big bun DBZ, still believes that its music "no one listens", the big bun DBZ admitted that most of the audience's cognition of themselves is still stuck in 2015.
So far, big bun DBZ's hit song Top1 on QQ Music is "Summer's Gone" with Jony J, from the 2014 album compilation. "The songs I made after 2015 are really unheard, probably because they are not widely disseminated enough or they are too esoteric."
The black fear culture of 2015 is in an era of Battle prevalence. At that time, the Yunnan Dianshengqi factory had just been established, and the single-handed Kunming girl MC was dirty and was active in the battle competitions in various regions of Yunnan. Next, she will win the regional championship of famous battle competitions such as "Three Inches" and "Dry Yunnan" and become a powerful female Rapper.
The timeline is pushed back two years, and the dirty in 2013 established a fate with black fear music for the first time through QQ "drifting bottle" and indirectly came into contact with egg castle. At that time, Egg Castle had already been selected for the Top Ten Chinese Records of the Year at the Chinese Golden Melody Awards with the black fear album "Moonlight", and at that time, at the age of 16, he was beginning to be interested in doing black fear, and received an online reply from the producer's friend, "It is not appropriate now."
In 2017, in a certain battle game, Dirty touched the Dianshengqi brand, "At that time, when I saw them wearing that kind of huge clothes, I thought it was very handsome, why are there such people?" I went to contact them and said I like you very much, can I join you? ”
Dirty remembers that the next day, the teammates took themselves to the ancient market to buy oversize clothes, "when you put it on, you can't say you don't like it, you can only say that you still don't fit in, but you are very excited in your heart." Since that day in 2017, Dirty ended his "tights" career and has never changed.
The summer of 2017 is also a milestone for the culture of black fear. This year, the black fear culture officially "broke ground" through a variety show and broke into the public vision. Freestyle, battle, respect, hook, flow and other professional words are no longer obscure terms that people in the circle understand, the emergence of rap variety shows, so that more and more rappers appear in people's vision, and the big bun DBZ is slowly losing its voice in the black circle.
Big bun DBZ recalled, just do black afraid of the years, there is no reference, you can write the most want to write things. Driven by capital, black fear has become a kind of "popular culture", with established standards, "When I find that I am far from my own standard, I want to go further." 」 ”
In 2018, 22-year-old Bambi Bambii returned to China, and by chance, he met a group of friends who played black, some of them played skateboarding, some of them made clothes. Soon, Bambi Bambii came into contact with a domestic accompaniment producer who specializes in "melodic trap rap". In a humble version of his friend's recording studio, Bambi Bambii tried his hand at writing his own songs for the first time, and then found, "Wow, it seems to be well written", which made him interested in being afraid of black.
At the age of 13, Bambi Bambii, who went to the United States to study ice hockey because of his "love", immersed himself in the black fear culture in Miami for many years, and after really getting in touch with the production of black fear music, he found that his original love for music and ice hockey was "incomparable".
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The balanced relationship between music hobbies and careers is also a long-term topic faced by the culture of the black fear circle.
The context of the times is changing. Before his sophomore year, Zeng Yike did not think of music as a profession, and after the broadcast of "Happy Girl" in 2009, the torrent of the times almost pushed people forward, "At that time, we were all growing more barbarically", Zeng Yike told entertainment unicorns.
Ten years later, the elected show variety show has boosted the birth of wave after wave of young idols; vertical variety shows are no longer self-contained, surrounded by entrants into the embrace of capital; various support programs for original music, trying to help content creators multi-dimensional output... Girls who have more of the "references" of the times understand what they need.
For the Buddhist big bun DBZ, to come to a program like "Black Afraid Girl", to a smaller extent, is to let their music be heard by more people, to make the black fear culture more diverse, to the larger and may not even be understood, is to pass on love.
In the first episode, in response to the promoter's questions about music and careers, DBZ frankly stated that even if there are many ideas that want to express, they are not accepted by the mainstream, and there is no commercial value. To participate in this show is to explore ways to both enter the audience and retain one's own characteristics.
Big Bun DBZ thinks it gets everything it wants, "except for money." After writing songs for ten years, I earned less than 10,000 yuan from music. Still, business resonance never seems to be a priority for big bun DBZ.
In 2020, dbz, which has experienced several unreliable companies, signed a beautiful record, and the director of the label is the guitarist of the well-known Chinese rock band P.K.14. The choice of this record company is also due to the fit of musical philosophy, not for the purpose of making money and business, simply publishing music, publishing the kind of music that pays attention to musicality.
It is not difficult to feel that for the large bun DBZ, black fear is more like a way of communication, an outlet for the expression of ideas. Because of this, her musical style is constantly changing, from the well-known jazz hiphop in the early days, to the "Snow Girl" performed in the first phase of the show, to the formation of a band to play rock, the musical genre is just a different form of transmission of ideas.
Of course, the basics are the foundation on which it all is built. Big Bun DBZ believes that the lyrics of teammate Li Dongqin are very poetic, but the basic skills of rap must also pass, "Her progress after that is very great." ”
Big Bun DBZ values the basics, while Dirty sticks to the Boombap style, known as the foundation of Black Fear music, for years. The original rough mood is straight to the point, with the fewest instruments to create the most rhythms, so that the Dianshengqi brand and dirty are called the "golden age" of seeing oldschool.
Pure oldschool style, solid skills, Kunming dialect, crisp boombap, wang jiaer called "the purest and cleanest black stage in the whole game", and also let dirty pass the first stage with 41 votes.
Black fear is dirty, it is a "save my life" relationship, she seriously tells the entertainment unicorn.
Dirty, who is mixed in street rap, is the only girl among the 11 people in Yunnan Label Dianshengqi, but Dirty himself and the members do not regard themselves as "girls", "They will feel very strange if you put on makeup today." The label's first album was made in the captain's house, in a small room, all stuffed inside the couch, accompanied by frequent complaints from neighbors. This scene is not difficult to imagine, so that the need for a "300 square meter recording studio" in the program can not be more specific.
When I first started to do black fear, I ran out at both ends for three days, and the place I went to was full of boys, and the family definitely did not agree, and then the family came to watch the business performance, and only then did they change their views on doing black fear. Dirty smiled and said, "I only wrote a song this year that I can listen to my parents."
Not making ends meet is almost the norm for pure music. Earlier, Dirty also tried various part-time jobs, because "full-time music is really scary", the 24-year-old Dirty did secret room NPC, coffee shop, sales, and when he was a bar resident singer, he was also asked to sing Michael Jackson with two other people.
"Do you know how terrible it is for a label person to make music full-time?"
Nowadays, at this stage, the dirty people who are full-time black are afraid, and there are still "flowers" to be repaid. But on the stage of the first show, after singing "Brooklyn", Dirty firmly said, "I think what I am doing now is what I want to do the most."
Compared to the big bun DBZ and dirty that gradually figured out a way to balance music and life, Bambi Bambii, who entered the industry a little later, is firmly committed to the path of professional musicians, and participating in "Black Afraid Girl" is also a planned step on the road.
After junior high school and studying in the United States, the black scare culture atmosphere of the beach city of Miami made Bambi Babii impressed. The various music festivals held every weekend, the latest rap music in the club, and the tour of the powerful Rappers of various styles are "very interesting".
Young Thug, Migos, Lil Gotit, and many Atlanta's Melody Trap Rap artists are Bambi Bambii's favorite singers. Florida has produced a lot of new generations of rappers, and Miami, florida, has also given birth to a new generation of Rappers, "sometimes a little exchange, it feels quite fresh."
The domestic environment is more and more similar to foreign countries, and many people are doing a very new black fear style, tattoos, skateboarding, street dance, painting, album covers, clothing, jewelry, etc. are also readily available.
After returning home in 2018, Bambi Bambii sang songs at home almost every day. School ends at five or six o'clock, dinner at seven o'clock, sings until two or three o'clock in the morning, and the cycle is reciprocating. In the first EP "BAMBIILAND", the lyrics of the two works "Peony" and "Emerald" touched Bambi Bambii's mother very much, and she did not expect that Bambi Bambii, who has been studying in the United States, could write poetry-like lyrics.
Mom told Bambi Bambii that from today on the two are no longer mother and daughter, but friends, "I have nothing to teach you, the only thing I can do now is to support you to break through your dreams." 」 ”
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If you put a female rapper who is born in battle and is known for her fierceness, and a popular idol who smiles and shows eight teeth, into a competitive show; if you throw a champion of the domestic hip-hop variety show "Listen Up" into a colorful black girl program; if you let the popular singers of Douyin compete with the young college students who are white paper, what chemical reaction will occur?
This is what the "Black Afraid Girl" show is doing. As label producer Vanida said on the show, "There is more than one flower in the garden."
Zeng Yike told the entertainment unicorn, "When I saw Xi Yuan, I felt like I saw my 19-year-old self. At the age of 19, I don't know anything, and I saw a big change in her just after that performance. ”
In an interview with the show, Li Wei CeiYai believed that "black fear is a light for a poor child", "At that time, when I ran away from home, my parents went white overnight, and then when they were ready to give up on me, I was exposed to music." ”
And D Ley Zhang Chenlei, who was sent by her parents with her sister since she was a child, realized even more cruelly that at that time, "the older generation felt that providing you was losing money." During that time, I was more depressed, so I began to write songs, wanting them to see and let them hear. A song "The Generation of Female Streams" resonated with the audience after the first program was broadcast.
Knowing more girls who are afraid of black is one of the important demands of the girls who come to participate in "Black Afraid Girl". Bambi Bambii told the entertainment unicorn that to participate in "Black Afraid Girl", he also wanted to have a good girlfriend who could share the joy of being black afraid together, "Most of the people who make my kind of music are boys, and there are too few girls doing this line, and it is not easy to recognize it." ”
On the stage of the first episode of the show, you can also intuitively feel Bambi Bambii's desire to communicate about music production. In the first episode, Bambi Bambii performed the Chinoiserie "Melody Trap Rap" "Peony", and before the performance, she reminded everyone to pay attention to her lyrics and accompaniment drum sets, as well as the way flow felt. After the performance, she continued to share the production concept, "a fusion of Eastern and Western instruments, electric flutes and Atlanta drum sets." ”
Bambi summed up his genre of music to entertaining unicorns, a "niche music that is about to become pop".
And big bun DBZ also said that compared to the previous communication barriers of the band, because the show is "all girls, communication is also very convenient." Coming to the show, in addition to meeting Zeng Yike, a musician he has liked for many years, DBZ has also gained important excellent musician partners such as Jinx Week.
Shortly after the program was recorded, I felt that I was "more able to speak" dirty, and assumed the role of "peace messenger", "they are more than I can speak", when the members disagreed and misunderstood, Libra's "peace" characteristics made dirty become the "lubricant".
After the interview, the girls' singing continued in the rehearsal room. A month and a half later, the first episode of "Black Afraid Girl" was fully broadcast, and the audience's initial evaluations were different. Some people like Bambi Bambii and Cassien Cacien who look like Barbie dolls; dirty "tomboys" who are dashing and comfortable, Xigga Wanwenyan; others prefer the big bun DBZ for stage art expression, Hu Yanzhi Jinzy and so on.
Interestingly, many of the girls' performances brought unexpected surprises. The sweet-looking Jinx Week's first performance work "exposed the unspoken rules of the industry"; the beautiful girl Yoshida from Japan opened her mouth to be a hardcore black fear; Bambi Bambii, whose image was close to Cardi B's, proved that the two were "not at all hanging" with a smooth Chinese style "melody trap rap". The girls' performance seems to further enrich the "undefined" core of the show. Next, the girls' growth trajectory and collision with each other are also worth looking forward to.
After learning more about the girls, you will find that black fear does not symbolize rebellion, distance and unconventionality, nor does it fully represent humor, playfulness, and kindness.