"Treasure Island Culture Memorandum" Music Chapter: Teresa Teng Tao Zhe Jay Chou continues to be wonderful, and the imagination has become a classic in itself

Some personal memories triggered by "Endless Treasure Island Season", let's write it, you can also read it.

The first person to introduce Taiwanese pop music into the mainland, saying that Teresa Teng should not be denied.

At that time, we were still humming sonorous revolutionary songs all day long, and Teresa Teng's "quiet sound" was quietly immersed.

The gentle voice, soothing tunes, and erotic themes have even been criticized by some conservative apologists as "the poisonous weed of capitalism".

However, human nature's yearning for beauty is common, and no one can and does not need to be righteous and awe-inspiring all day.

Music, on the other hand, can provide a variety of aesthetic experiences.

01. Teresa Teng opened the era of folk songs

So Teresa Teng came in, Liu Wenzheng came in, "Lu Binghua", "Grandma's Penghu Bay", "Wine Dry If Sold Nothing", "Only Mother is Good in the World", "Love to Fight Will Win", and constantly poured in.

This has enabled mainland listeners to begin to understand the diversity of music, exciting, soothing, loving, longing, admiring, reminiscing, shouting, affectionate or heartbreaking, all of which can be expressed directly through melody and lyrics.

In this process, there are also important "folk song movements", Hu Dev in the first issue of "Treasure Island Season", Li Taixiang who wrote music for Sanmao and Qi Yu, Wang Menglin, a taxi driver in "Scene in the Rain", and Li Shouquan, the original singer of "Zhang San's Song", are all representative figures.

One golden song after another was all the rage, not only achieved singers and creators, but also allowed more capital and record companies to pour into Taiwan, promoting the continuous development and maturity of the music industry in Baodao until it became a leading area for Chinese music.

Then came the appearance of two important people. Luo Dayou and Li Zongsheng.

Luo Dayou is a thinker, he broke out from Yingying Yanyan's love songs, broke the pattern of folk songs gradually becoming shackles, with a rock style and a hoarse voice, began to touch current politics, homesickness, philosophy, the teenager of "Lugang Town", telling the story of "Time and Shade", looking at "Shining Days", looking for "Comrade Lover", even if writing love, you must also "My Hand Through Your Black Hair".

Even in the dark of night, always have hope, because "Wild Lilies also have spring".

Luo Dayou adds a sense of heaviness to pop music, so that pop singers can also participate in current politics and people's livelihood, and express their inner cries with music.

Similar to him is Zheng Zhihua, a disabled singer who starts from his own defects, sings the confusion and unwillingness of "Middle Class", remembers the loneliness and sadness of urban people from "Your Birthday", jokes about the wild unbridled nature of "Young Times", and clamors for "Game on Earth", but still retains the tenacity and bravery of "Sailor", because there is "Stars Lit" in the distance, illuminating the future of lost children.

Then there is Li Zongsheng, a man with a simple face and a gentle smile, who writes about the entanglement and tearing in love, and accurately portrays women's psychology, who really understands women better than women.

He and Lin Yilian "When Love Is a Thing of the Past", nostalgic for "no matter how beautiful the spring breeze is, it is not comparable to your laughter", and it was not until "Loneliness is Unbearable" that he "comprehended" to "The Price of Love".

On the surface, he laughs at himself that "you and I are mortal", but in his heart he is so affectionate, he would rather "suffer the cold wind for you and me", would rather "cross the ocean to see you", and finally exchange for "Scars", and then start "Laughing Red Dust".

Li Zongsheng has achieved himself with a large number of excellent works, achieved a large number of singers, and also successfully promoted the "Taiwan trend" of record companies such as Rolling Stone and EMI. Taiwan's music industry is prosperous, mature music production industry, mature consumer market, mature entertainment agency, let Taiwanese pop music lead the two sides of the strait and three places for decades. It is still difficult to surpass.

02. Tao Zhe: Jay Chou continues R&B and Chinese style

Then, there is the era of R&B and Chinese style led by Jay Chou.

Some people will say that Zhou Dong's guidance is not appropriate, because Tao Zhe must be mentioned first, the singer who explained his extramarital affairs in PPT, and was the first man to bring R&B back to Taiwanese music.

Tao Zhe was still studying in the United States at that time, and his musical works were favored by Wang Zhiping, and he gave Tao Zhe full remuneration with sincerity, or Tao Zhe, a student, was frightened by this "huge amount of money", and even brought a gun when he was paid in the past.

This story fully illustrates the respect that Taiwanese music has for the original.

Tao Zhe dedicated "Melody"'s ex-girlfriend Melody Yin Yue, who became popular from "Kangxi is Coming" and is still co-hosting with Shen Yulin.

Wang Zhiping's baby daughter Wang Ruolin is the best bel canto singer at the moment, because she can only cover and cannot send originality, she once cried on the show.

Tao Zhe in the United States contacted and studied the trendy rhythm and blues, light rhythm and trendy singing voice, instantly filled the ears with novelty, plus writing the story of first love, growth and youth, Tao Zhe and Ma Ji (Huang Licheng and Huang Lixing) respectively led Taiwan's R&B and hip-hop rap, these thirty years ago trend culture, we have only begun to really become popular in recent years, surfacing the surface.

But Tao Zhe is still a little well-behaved, just like the current mango singer Zhang Jie, his singing skills are no problem, but he is so far from the superstar and loses his spirituality.

Until an introverted and silent otaku, came out.

Raised by a single mother, this otaku began playing the piano at the age of 4 and did not know anything else to do but make music until he became an adult. Later, he went around in circles, was taken in by the record company, nestled in the office every day to do miscellaneous water and poured water, slept in the company at night, and never stepped out of the threshold if no one shouted.

He came up with his own record and dreamed of it.

Wu Zongxian, the owner of the record company, was moved by his persistence and made a bet with him that if he wrote 50 songs within ten days, he would pay him to release an album.

As a result, the otaku really had so much inventory, and the boss denied that he could not find the arrangement, and the idea could not be landed, and the otaku said that he could arrange the music himself.

So Wu Zongxian reluctantly gave him his first album, which was in 2000, on the cover of the first album "Jay", this musical urchin listened to the music sideways, as if he hadn't grown and hadn't woken up. Who knows that he will explode so much energy in the Chinese music scene in the future.

Zhou Dong was born. Genius can only be admired, not understood. So far, no one can explain how so many wild and unrestrained ideas have sprung up in his head? One moment the Kokujutsu Hall in the Iwayaki shop teaches "Ninja", and the next time a "Ninja" jumps out of the streets of Japan; one moment to resist domestic violence "Dad, I'm back", the other to play basketball "Bullfighting"; One moment the Italian gangster's "In the Name of the Father", the other time watching the old man play chess "General" on the street, and the other spinning and jumping in Prague Square without stopping.

The most amazing nature is Chinese style, Zhou Dong added folk music such as erhu and pipa to R&B and Western instruments, traditional tunes with Fang Wenshan's classical poetry, traditional Chinese poetry culture shined in popular music, and Hualiu also surpassed the Japanese and Korean Wave, becoming the top. "East Wind Break" starts, "Blue and White Porcelain", "Orchid Pavilion Preface", "Chrysanthemum Terrace", "Hair Like Snow", "Red Dust Inn", and "Thousands of Miles Away" with Fei Yuqing.

Dongxiao guqin is beautiful and leisurely, the ancient rhyme of the national style is thick and light, such a long and profound traditional culture, used by two young people so skillfully and moving, how can not let every Chinese intoxicated and proud?

The following source: @冰川09, a designer who loves Zhou Dong.

03. The integrity of the industry has led to the explosion of music

So the trend culture returns to itself, the east wind blows, the war drums beat, and we Chinese to sing our own songs.

So Jolin Tsai, Zhang Huimei, Mayday, SHE, Soda Green, all from Taiwan Province to the whole country, and then to the world;

There is no need to go into detail about the works and stories behind each of the above names, each name is a presence that resounds throughout the Chinese-speaking world. Because as long as you like them, you must have been obsessed with your favorite tracks and gossip.

If the list is expanded a little further, it can actually be listed as Liang Jingru, MUJI, Penny Dai, Wu Qixian, and A Niu, although they are all from Malaysia;

Also list Sun Yanzi, Hui Meijing, Adu, Lim Junjie, Wong Yida, Chua Tanya, although they are all from Singapore.

Some friends come from afar, and they are happy. As long as we are friends and love to sing, we can stand on the stage of Baodao and let excellent music resound all over the world.

This year's Golden Melody Award shortlist has also been released, and I have interpreted it accordingly. On the whole, without the leadership of top geniuses, the overall state is flat, but the musicality of the Golden Melody Awards is still there, from the music of this Baodao season, many good songs are composed by Baodao musicians, and everyone must continue to strengthen exchanges, jointly promote the sustainable development of Chinese music, and shine in the future.