Why did I go back to school after participating in "Children of Tomorrow"?
"Because it's not hot, there is no work arrangement, so I will finish my studies." Deng Dian was interviewed by Ma Le Music to promote his debut album "Contrived". In the second half of 2018, after winning the fourth place in the program, Deng Dian, a sophomore, returned to the Sichuan Conservatory of Music.
"When it catches fire, you may be suspended from school." The direct reason is that there is no work arrangement, just go back to school, you can't wait here. ”
What has changed in the past two years?
"I've been talking more directly in the past two years, and if I had asked me this question a year ago, I would have said: I want to finish my studies first, and then I can do a good job." But I will tell you now that it is true that I will go back to school because there is no fire and no work. ”
Deng Dian felt that he was more real, because art came from life, "I have to start with the truth." And I also want to give you the most intuitive answer. He filtered out all the grandiose-sounding wording and was straightforward.
Deng Dian's Weibo profile reads: I want to subvert your cognition. Today we will summarize the original words of his interview into blocks to subvert your understanding of "Deng Dian Style".
Written by: Ma Le
1 I am the product
I want to see what my own inch looks like, last year when I saw Wu He's inch, I wanted to cut, but at that time the broker did not let me cut, the agent said that I am the company's product, do not change the appearance of the product, there is no shaving. Later I changed agents, and now I discussed with the current agent, whether to shave once to change it, try it, my agent IS OK, I shaved, after shaving found that it is not OK, so I am now keeping hair.
Because the inch has been over, and the inch activity is not very good at styling, just keep it up, more than 30 years old, play attitude, and then shave.
Before the agent said that I was a product, I very much recognized, originally, the current rhythm and structure is like this. I'm too free now, time management sucks, I have time every day, I don't want to be so free right now. In the first few months, I can concentrate on some of my own creations at home, and summarize the works I have written in the past two years. The only impact of the epidemic on me is that there is no income in the past six months, and nothing else has had any impact.
2 The climax of the dance
Dance was learned before my competition (Children of Tomorrow), but before the competition I just wanted to work out and wanted to lose weight. After the game, it was my life, and I itched without dancing. I get pleasure and orgasm in dance, I will be uncomfortable if I don't dance, I feel that my artistic cells have no place to exude, the charm of my body has no place to radiate, and I exude charm generally on the stage and in the dance studio.
If you sing, it should be a kind of presentation in private, you write out the idea in the lyrics and put it in the book, but if you get it on the stage, it is the climax.
3 "Contrived"
The album name is my WeChat name, because at that time the competition felt very contrived, some people said that I was contrived, but I did not want to face this thing, almost finished when I found, it seems to be like this, I reflected on why I did not accept this thing, I started the word "contrived".
For example, at that time, the agent asked me: Why buy cheap clothes on Taobao? I said because it looked good, and second because it was cheap. But in fact, no, I just like women's clothing, and women's clothing is cheap and good-looking, but I am not willing to say that I like women's clothing, I am not willing to say that I want to make something different. But at that time, I did make a difference, that is, I was a maverick, and I didn't want to admit that what they asked me, I was always right or wrong.
I reflected on it later, which is artificial. Whatever he asked me, I should have said. He didn't want to know that, what he wanted from me was my opinion, and my opinion was that I just wanted to do these things, and I didn't tell him at the time. So when I realized this problem later, I said no, you can't do this, if you want to ask me anything, I can just say anything, be more realistic.
"Mischief" is because of some vanity of the game at that time, the previous vanity is at work, which led to some regretful things, when this idea came out, I changed the WeChat name to "pretentious" to remind myself.
In the past, WeChat was called "Exuberant Vanity", and at that time I realized that my vanity was very heavy.
4 Deng Dian Style
In the previous interview, I said that there must be an album called "Deng Dian Style", but now I don't want the album to be called "Deng Dian Style" because I think it is too low.
If I could go back to that year, I would never say it again. Because I understand now, "Deng Dian Style" can't just be a written title, because it's useless, you just need to say that Deng Dian Style's attitude is in it after the album is released, and you don't have to make the album name "Deng Dian Style", because that is too limited. The name must be something you really want to say, not "Deng Dian Style".
The new album is sung by me, and I also sent it, which is definitely 100% "Deng Dian Style". In fact, I don't know what "Deng Dian Style" is, but I feel that everything I do is "Deng Dian Style".
5 Touch it
My trait is my timbre. At the beginning of this album I was also resistant to those lyrical songs, all the songs in it, to be reasonable, except "Cry", "Don't Stop", "Make You Feel My Love", I was resistant, because these songs are not myself.
But the problem is that I can't come out with an attitude of "these songs are not my own" and "so annoying", because I represent Wow, and Sony came out with this album, what is this album going to do? It is to enter the music market, everyone is touching, to see if it can come out, if it does not come out, it does not matter, because everyone is trying.
So my idea for this album is to use my best qualities in each song and play my own tone to the extreme. You have to say whether these songs can express me, but in fact it can't. Because the song was not written by me first, all I could do was make it as pleasant, nice, and comfortable as possible.
6 25% VS 5%
"Don't Stop", "Don't Want to Wake Up", "Cry" are the songs I wrote in the creative camp. The rhythm of the creation camp is not the same as the rhythm of my usual songwriting, the rhythm of the creation camp should be fast, there is a task, in two days to write two songs out, the first day must write one, including songwriting arrangement, within one day to finish. The pace is too fast for me, of course, Cry, Don't Stop, I do participate in this thing, and some of the melodies are thought up by everyone together. These two songs are the only ones on the album with 25% of me, and the others should probably only be 5%.
The lyrics of these songs don't have much to do with me, like "Pupils", which is Max's emotional experience, but it has nothing to do with me. The only thing I can do is to take my tone to the extreme in this song, and the same is true of other songs, as is "Unique" and "Sad and Blissful". But this kind of mourning song of "Sorrow and Extreme Happiness", I will like to put the lyrics on my own body, there is a picture, of course, it is difficult to paste, because I have never done anything because of the constellation, to calculate the constellation or anything.
The process of cultivating feelings with the songs in the album is the process of recording songs, and there is only the process of recording songs, because I can't participate in the post-mixing, I can't participate in the lyrics, only when I record songs.
7 Do the first experience of the album
I learned what the beginning and the end of making an album is, and what the process of harvesting the album is like. I didn't know what I was going to do with an album — how many people I had to meet, how much communication I needed to make this thing, how long each song would take, where I needed to find a recording studio, what kind of producer I needed to find — that's what I learned, and I made a bunch of friends.
The planning meeting was about a year ago, when I didn't know how to express myself, and I was good at planning everything. Because at that time I really didn't know how to say what I wanted to say concisely. I couldn't at the time because I couldn't, and I really didn't have any ideas about the first album, and I didn't write much of my own songs at that time, so everyone could post anything. As long as I can sing, Sing it well.
8 Teacher Xu Jun
The most impressive co-teachers are Xu Jun and Chen Shimu.
The song "Make You Feel My Love" was a cover of Bob Dylan, made by Teacher Xu Jun. Teacher Xu Jun is different from other producers, after Mr. Xu Jun finished arranging the arrangement, he sent a memorandum, writing the purpose and reason for him to add every timbre, every drum, and each instrumental music, and he will tell you why he added this and how he felt.
Later, I went to the recording studio to record, and the style of Teacher Xu Jun's recording was very compatible with mine, and Teacher Xu Jun came to tell me what I needed, and what you wanted, I gave you what. It will not be like before I did not participate in the program, find some inexplicable teachers at school to record, those teachers after I sang a sentence and said: I think you are not singing well, you are not in the right position, sing again... It was the teacher who came to ask me to teach me how to sing, and I was not convinced.
But Mr. Xu Jun wouldn't teach me how to sing, he would tell me what he needed. What you need, I'll give you, it's simple. Teacher Xu Jun is very direct, not bent: I need a low octave bass here can you sing? I said I could, then we'll start recording, and that's it.
I feel that Teacher Xu Jun has fully understood me before, and he may read the text posted by me on Weibo.
9 To sing, to dance!
I once wrote on Weibo to thank Deng Dian in the small county, envious of his perseverance and persistence, because I was in school, even the teachers looked down on me, the teachers all think that Deng Dian every day in school to engage in that kind of fancy, what! What a song to sing! What a dance! Don't study well! At that time, the school teacher still took me home and shaved my head, but I didn't care at that time, I was going to sing, I was going to dance!
I definitely went back to school, otherwise I wouldn't be able to go to college no matter how I went to Chuanyin. I was still studying hard in high school, that is, dancing and singing in my spare time, but the teacher looked down on this kind of student who engaged in other students in addition to studying, and I belonged to the kind of thinking of doing something else.
I danced in the dorm. I tell you, we leave class at 10:30 p.m., turn off the lights at 11 o'clock, walk from the teaching building to the dormitory for ten or twenty minutes, 10 minutes to wash, you can only dance for 10 minutes, but as soon as I go back, I will dance directly, do not wash, turn off the lights and wash again.
I sang in class, early self-study and evening self-study. Everybody's endorsing it, and of course you're going to sing it out loud. My table mates usually scold me, who cares! The teachers all knew what I was urinating, so they didn't care about me at all. And some students like to sit next to me and listen to me sing, he (she) will sit next to me and listen to me sing when he or she goes to self-study, and some will leave on their own and will not listen.
10 Take my hair away
At that time, music and dance did not cause any burden on me. They didn't look like hair, at the time because I was too top-notch in school, too handsome... It's not because I'm handsome, it's just too different.
The school leaders picked me up and went home because he thought I was too eye-catching, and at that time I left a middle score, which was the hairstyle selected by the "Voice of China", and I was the only boy in our county who left a middle score. Because I brought a wave, when I was a sophomore in high school, the boys in the first year of high school began to keep middle scores, and the principal felt that it was not very good, so he killed the chicken and the monkey and asked me to go home and shave my hair into inches.
But when I went home and didn't want to shave, I came back again, the school leaders came to our class to find me, my class teacher came to protect me, and after 10 minutes, the class teacher came to me and said: Deng Dian I can't protect you, you still go home and shave it...
I went home and shaved my hair, and I cried because I thought he had taken my hair away, but things like music and dance couldn't be taken away at all, there was nothing to worry about. Even if they confiscated my phone, confiscated my speaker, confiscated my lyrics book, it was useless, they took away these useless, but they did take my hair.
Suddenly the hair is gone, I am shy, afraid that everyone will talk about it, dare not look up, there will be people to comfort, because everyone knows why I went back. There are also people who deliberately make me angry, especially can't speak, he will stand in front of me and say very seriously: You really still have good hair.
At that time, the class teacher admired me very much, he said don't meet with these school leaders, you must get ahead, the class teacher told me that I must go out, he wanted me to go out of this county.
11 Ear evolution
When I was a child, I listened to the Phoenix legend's "River Pond Moonlight" and "All Love", as well as Xu Song, Xu Liang, and Wang Sutaki. At that time, my mother gave me a very small MP3, about a quarter of the size of the AirPods, an MP3 that could be plugged in with headphones.
The song of phoenix legend is in MP3, there is no choice. Wang Sutaki and the like are the "three giants of primary schools", you don't want to hear it and there are everywhere, every day on the road is playing "Su Yan", so it will be, as well as "The Funeral of the Rose", "Gray Head", this is the primary school.
Later, when I got to junior high school, I transitioned to English songs, starting with Lady Gaga's "Poker Face", then "God is a Girl", Rihanna's "Love The Way You Lie", because it was rotten, so I would know that our small county town is slower to receive information.
When I got to high school, we went home one night a week, and I used that night to download songs, and by that time I had already switched to a subwoofer. A big subwoofer sound, tucked under the sleeve, put to the lowest volume, pasted to the ear, and I listened alone. Because you wear headphones at school and get picked up, you will become the kind of "bring electronic products into school" to be taken home.
When I heard English songs, I always wanted to listen to English songs, just good, and I never heard Chinese songs again. In high school, I listened to Maroon 5, Rixton's "Wait On Me" and "Me And My Broken Heart" and listened to the songs of the group at that time. I didn't know the music style at all, I thought it was good to listen to, and at that time I started to read the european and American charts, and I would download the top few of the list.
12 Abandoning reason and art
I didn't know how to sing like R&B and Soul, which was instilled in me by professional teachers, and I only knew these things when I went to college. High school to participate in the "Voice of China" audition, at that time the singing was the worst, but at that time I felt that I sang very well, and won the local first place, the teacher's ear problem, I sang like that are the first place, really can't stand it, may slowly understand the intentions of the teachers, because at that time with me were some of the running field of the earth shake, may be those judges saw the young blood.
I firmly wanted to take the road of music because I did not have good academic performance, and if I did not take the art student, I would not be able to go to college, so I went to study music. I studied science, 6 points in chemistry, 9 points in physics, I want to go to college, I can't get into college at all. In the last few months of my sophomore year of high school, I went to apply for the art student, learned to sing, and turned to liberal arts in my junior year of high school.
At that time, I bought an excerpt, very small, the kind of book that can be put in my pocket, the book is full of lyrics, so that I can read it anytime and anywhere, the book is full of some magic red lyrics, "Love The Way You Lie" and the like, a whole folder is the lyrics of English songs, and that folder is still in the hands of my first girlfriend in high school.
I put every printed lyric in it, and it was very thick. Maybe it was too embarrassing not to want to break up at that time, I said you help me keep it, and it turned out that she was still really keeping it. I was messaged the other day because I couldn't find my lyrics book and didn't know where to put it, and she said your lyric book is still with me... Memories killed a wave, suddenly thought of her, thought of her, missed her again.
13 Let me sing today
Since I was a child, I was not a child who loved to perform, but the teacher told me to go up and sing, and I could sing. I've always had a desire to perform, but I don't expose it, and I'm not the kind of person who desperately wants to perform.
But I would secretly say to the teacher: Let me sing today. When I was in junior high school, we had a music lesson every week, and before the music class, I would go to the teacher's office and tell him: I have a song ready for today. He would make me sing in this class, and every week after that, I would go to his office and tell him that I had learned a new song this week and ask him to let me sing.
Sing the songs of Lincoln Park in the QQ speed car, and "Gee" of Girls' Generation. At that time, I played games every day, and I would go to my classmates to play games when I had nothing to do. Singing Korean songs is a talent for language, and I remember everything I sing. The teacher may also be defeated by my funny, because the teacher does know that I am singing blindly, and I am indeed singing blindly, but when you tell the teacher when you are a child, you want to sing, and the teacher cannot prevent you from going. Isn't that destined to be a star!
After that, I reported the pop singing music performance, and I learned it very energetically and seriously, because I could sing it myself and learn it systematically. In fact, singing is really nothing to learn, mainly to learn music theory, music theory is very bad, just sing OK.
14 Kwon Ji Lung is my destiny
Kwon Ji Long is my life, without GD there would be no me today. It was GD's MV and GD's dance that allowed me to survive in high school without any musical atmosphere. GD's "Good Boy", bulletproof youth group's "Man", EXO's "Monster" are these Korean boy bands.
The most powerful is GD, GD's clothing style, typhoon, I am affected by him, and I am imitating him. At that time, it was GD's "Good Boy", BIGBANG's "Bang Bang Bang", and EXO's and BTS's dancing back to the dormitory.
I dropped the video down on my phone, cached the broken-down video of Good Boy with potatoes, and smuggled the phone to school.
15 Find someone to beat you up
It is because I danced "Good Boy" on the stage once when I was a sophomore in high school, which attracted people to look down on. Because do you know what the atmosphere of a small county town is? The fact that you are the best person shows that you are a person who is pretending to be *, and you who are pretending to be * looking for someone to beat you. Small counties are like this, and you must accept this fact.
I remember very deeply, the New Year's Day party on the evening of December 31st can go home to rest, the next morning January 1st I returned to the class, my classmates called me out, I said what's wrong, he said: This afternoon someone will block you at the school gate, want to beat you.
I was nervous and I said why. The guy who wanted to beat me wasn't in our school, and he learned that my performance at the New Year's Day party — singing GD's "If You", dancing the bulletproof youth group's "Manhood", and dancing T-ara's "Cry Cry" - gained a lot of fans. The boys at school looked down on me and looked for someone to block the school door.
My classmate was also a big bull, and he also fought every day, and he told me that it didn't matter: You'll be fine if you walk with me after school. When I was out of school, there were a lot of people at the door, the kind of yellow-haired social youth, all waiting at the door, and I didn't dare to say a word, so I walked behind my classmates. Nothing happened, and if it did I would be miserable.
16 Get √ beaten
I was beaten once.
When I was in my second year of high school, my former junior high school classmates came downstairs to call me by my name, and he said you come down, I will come down. As a result, he called a few seniors of the junior high school in front of me, chatted with me, chatted and pulled me, directly to the sand pile next to our road, laughing and hiding knives, huge scary, four or five people, they have stopped going to school and started working. Talking in front of me, he slapped me directly, kicked me directly on the sand pile, and then helped me up and sent me home.
The reason is that my classmate liked a girl in junior high school, and that girl had been in love with me for less than a month, two weeks, and because he liked the girl, the boy probably hated me for two or three years, from the second year of junior high school to the second year of high school. He also found someone to beat me once, but at that time, because my good friend was very good*, he fought every day, and was my best friend, so he stopped. Four years later, they called me out and beat me up.
When I was in junior high school, there was a fight in the toilet every day, and I was afraid that one day they would hit me, and since that time I hadn't been beaten, every time I went to the toilet, as long as I saw a fight, I hid far away, and I didn't pee directly, and went straight back.
17 Straight men love women's clothing
I would cut the cuffs of my uniform into waves and draw on the uniform, and I would draw an old man on my left arm. When I was in high school, I didn't have the same clothes every day, I went to school a week to bring seven sets of clothes, and after I wore them, I went home to wash them, and then I brought seven sets.
Two years ago, I said in an interview that I was Taobao aesthetics, quite low, why did I say that I was Taobao aesthetics at that time?! Can't get back haha. Times are progressing, and I'm improving, and that's me at 19.
The aesthetic has changed, from the previous flowers and greenery, to some of the colors are now more monotonous (clothes), before the emphasis was on bells and whistles, now pay attention to simplicity and texture. At that time, I knew that Taobao things were cheap, and I was finished.
I simply think women's clothing is good-looking, not that I want to wear women's clothing, but Taobao every time I push good-looking clothes are women's clothing, but I think women's clothing is good-looking.
There was no problem with sexual orientation in our county, and there was no gay or no gay in the small county at that time, everyone didn't know, I didn't know, I didn't know until I went to college. In my freshman year, as soon as I entered the class, after a few months, everyone asked me if I was gay.
At that time, I would ask everyone what is gay, and I would tell everyone: I am not, why do you think I am gay? Now that I look back at myself, I think I was pretty gay.
I wear women's clothes, but I'm not a women's big guy, and I haven't struggled with my sexuality because I've always liked girls and never liked guys. I'm curious, I'm so gay and no guy has ever chased me.
I would love to wear a skirt, but now I can't wear it, I'm a star now, I can't wear it, I have to put aside my own selfish interests.
I rarely wear Taobao clothes now, but the clothes I buy Taobao are also more expensive than before, and now I buy fewer clothes, but expensive. Because I bought clothes, the living conditions are not good, I have to save money to buy these expensive clothes, and after buying them, the living conditions are not good. But if you don't buy these clothes and insist on buying Taobao now, life will definitely be very good and rich.
18 UnknownStyleSexy
As for the dressing experience, boys are simple, generous, and handsome, but boys must have a decent pair of leather shoes. Girls should try to wear high heels and skirts, and save money for themselves to buy a pair of more textured high heels.
I look at shoes first when I look at them. No matter who I see, the first thing I see is shoes, for example, one day I attended an event and found that someone around me was wearing Balenciaga shoes, I would say that this boy was good and tasteful, and at this time I would look at people and look at his dressing style.
The Weibo name "UnknownStyleSexy" is missing a letter "y" because the number of words is not enough. When I was interviewing The Son of Tomorrow, the questions asked by the boss stimulated me, so I went back and changed it to this Weibo name. Weibo name is written for myself to see, is there no restriction on the sexy, I wanted to play sexy, now consider this name has to be changed, because this "sex" meaning is not very good, but I can not play more than a y, later consider changing.
19 Strive to have solo
Weibo sent a broken staircase handrail, I was recording the "Children of Tomorrow Concert", went downstairs to find that the handrail is broken, think this thing is quite interesting, send a Microblog, do not want Weibo so serious, I have not posted that kind of very sad thing on Weibo for a long time, I have not lost at this stage recently.
In fact, things are not going very well, not going well at all, Weibo is a platform to tell everyone what you are doing, it is not for me to vent my dissatisfaction.
Yesterday (September 26) my stage did not solo, can this be called smooth? I released the album today, I don't have a solo stage, and this thing is not going well. I also asked myself this, but there is no way, it has been broadcast live, strive for next year, strive for this year's annual meeting I can solo, this does not matter.
I just want to release albums now, I want to release works, it's very simple, no. Maybe if you want to make money, it will also be put in the back, you say I want other things, you can not, you have to have works first.