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Text | Sun Dasheng
Editor|entertain
"Just like Dao Lang back then, he never appeared, and I believe he will still be fired."
This was Han Hong's divine prophecy to Dao Lang many years ago.
As it turns out, Han Hong is right!
01
After the millennium, the Chinese music scene ushered in its golden age in its last decade.
Na Ying, Han Hong and other veteran singers Yu Wei remains.
Sun Yanzi, Jay Chou and other newborn singers are menacing.
They compete in the record era, and the competition is fierce.
But at this time, the Chinese music scene broke into an "uninvited guest"!
This person is Dao Lang.
In 2004, he made a grand debut with the song "The First Snow of 2002".
As soon as the song was released, it instantly became popular throughout China.
Beat those mainstream singers one by one.
The album sales of this song are even more terrifying, with 2.7 million copies of the genuine version alone.
This surpasses the results of any "mainstream" musician, even Jay Chou, who has just exploded.
What makes the mainstream music scene embarrassing?
However, this is just the beginning of Dao Lang!
After the first snow, he successively released such hit hits as "Impulsive Punishment" and "Wolf in Sheep's Clothing".
He didn't become as short-lived as other "grassroots" singers.
On the contrary, with these excellent songs, he has already gained a place in the Chinese music scene.
Watching Dao Lang's masterpieces come out frequently, the mainstream music circle finally can't sit still.
They tacitly rejected Dao Lang's music.
"Dao Lang's music has set the Chinese music scene back ten years!"
"I'll throw Dao Lang's music album in the trash!"
The album could not be sold, so they completely rejected Dao Lang musically.
One of the most infuriating events was the selection of the top ten influential singers in the mainland in 2010!
In 2010, the Mainland held a selection of the top ten singers.
The selection of other singers went very smoothly and there was no objection.
But for Dao Lang, Na Ying, who is one of the judges, said:
"Dao Lang does not have an aesthetic point of view!"
In this way, Dao Lang and the "Top Ten Singers" passed by.
In the end, there was one vacant on the list of "Top Ten Singers", and there was no name.
In the face of multiple suppressions in the mainstream music circle, he only left the sentence "I can't fight them" and disappeared from the Chinese music scene.
Where did Dao Lang go?
After the silence, Dao Lang deliberately kept his distance from the mainstream music circle.
He travels around, "wanders" around, and concentrates on creation.
Even if he is excluded, he is at ease and lives a dashing life.
What is the mainstream music scene doing at the same time?
After 2010, the Chinese music scene declined rapidly.
The saliva song that was ridiculed at the beginning is now popular.
Those mainstream musicians never came up with decent work again.
On the contrary, after the arrival of the traffic era, they have chosen to embrace business.
Music is abandoned!
When the listener's ears can no longer stand it, the Dao Lang King returns!
His new album "Mountain Song Few" directly stirred up the entire Chinese music scene.
One of the songs, "Rakshasa Sea City", is even more lethal.
The lyrics such as "dog camp", "horse household" and "bird" make people have to "take a seat".
A storm of public opinion has begun!
The first to bear the brunt was the "four evil men" of that year.
Netizens kept storming their comment area like a punch in.
Up to now, Na Ying's recent Douyin comment has exceeded 10 million.
This may have broken the Guinness World Record!
In the face of surging public opinion, except for Wang Feng, who chose to respond positively, everyone else was silent.
Especially Na Ying, she used to be whistling, but this time she was uncharacteristically quiet.
Some time ago, she resigned from the Shanghai Music Festival, and recently her concert in Macau was boycotted.
I wonder how long the anger of netizens will last?
02
It has now been more than a month since the release of "Rakshasa Sea Market".
In the middle, there was also a Li Min incident.
But Dao Lang's popularity has remained high.
In the face of the enthusiasm of netizens, Dao Lang finally appeared!
Recently, he opened a Douyin account.
Without releasing anything, it gained millions of followers.
After posting 4 videos, his number of followers has exceeded 14 million.
Such a powder rate can be called explosive!
Why is his status so high in the hearts of the public?
The first is his excellent work.
Dao Lang has many songs that are highly sung.
And these songs are catchy, easy to understand, and have a very wide audience.
This laid the foundation for Dao Lang's strong mass base.
Another reason is that Dao Lang's personal experience is empathetic.
He left due to repression, and now he returns with the king of "Revenge".
Isn't this a proper realistic article?
And this "revenge song" is also very lethal, making people shout out painfully!
Now Dao Lang is not just a singer, he has become a cultural phenomenon.
People lament the strangeness of this "Rakshasa Kingdom" by talking about Dao Lang.
People reveal some social phenomena through the second creation of this song.
It turns out that Dao Lang has lived to become a "symbol" of this era.
What is the attitude of Dao Lang, who has become the "symbol" of the times, to all this?
Are the songs he wrote really aimed at mainstream musicians such as Na Ying?
In the face of these problems, Dao Lang never said a word.
But we can still see a thing or two from what he did.
In the first TikTok video he posted, he quietly finished the entire song, only thanking the audience for their love of "Rakshasa Sea Market" at the end of the video.
This practice is very "knife lang", even expressing gratitude is silent.
He did not stand on the moral high ground to criticize the population that overwhelmed him.
Instead, he chose to settle things!
And through the Douyin video released by Dao Lang, what we see is the persistence of a musician.
After more than ten years of silence, his appearance has changed a lot, and his figure is also slightly blessed.
But the only constant is his seriousness about music!
It is obvious that his singing skills have improved a lot, and the aesthetics of his songs have also improved a lot.
At that time, the mainstream criticized his songs for their simple content.
Now his songs have to be annotated to be understood!
How can such a person who is so pure about music have a small belly to write songs to connote others?
"Rakshasa Sea City" may just be some of his life insights, but the vast number of powerful netizens have made up a big drama in their brains!
But whether it is the "elegant" Dao Lang now, or the "plain" Dao Lang before.
The audience's love for him has not changed.
Why does his work have such strong empathy?
This goes back to his upbringing!
03
Dao Lang is from a proper "grassroots" background.
He does not have the support of nobles like Na Ying.
It's not like Wang Feng, who is from the academy.
Not like Gao Xiaosong, who comes from a famous family!
He is just from a small place, Zizhong County, Neijiang City, Sichuan Province.
Dao Lang was born in 1971 into a family of workers.
As a child, he was stubborn, but he loved music.
In 1989, before graduating from high school, he chose to drop out of school and go to the Neijiang City Song and Dance Hall to learn keyboard instruments.
Thus began his path of "folk idle singer".
Not long after learning the keyboard, he formed a band.
The name of the band is "Scalpel", which means: to cure the "incurable diseases" of this world with music.
But dreams are full, reality is skinny.
He was quickly hit by a realistic crit!
The band "Scalpel" has a loud name though.
But you can only mingle in various large and small dance halls.
Due to the lack of performance opportunities, the band often struggled to make ends meet.
To make matters worse, he also suffered a failed love at this time.
While singing in the concert hall, he met his first wife, Yang Na.
The two soon entered the palace of marriage.
But soon after, life's firewood, rice, oil and salt quickly crushed the love.
"You can't give me the life I want, I'm gone, don't look for me."
When their daughters were forty days old, the wife left everything behind.
Dao Lang looked at the infant child with tears streaming down his face.
In desperation, he could only send the child back to his hometown for his parents to raise.
And he went to the distant Hainan alone.
In Hainan, Dao Lang began to pursue his musical dreams again.
He formed a band called Children of the Earth, and he himself remains a keyboardist.
The band became famous in Hainan, and he finally made a fortune through music.
At this time, he also met his second love.
While performing in the band, he met Zhu Mei, a girl from Xinjiang and the host.
Zhu Mei is beautiful and generous, and she is a warm-hearted girl.
He not only fell in love with Zhu Mei at first sight, but also yearned for Zhu Mei's hometown of Xinjiang.
In 1995, he came to Xinjiang with Zhu Mei!
In this frontier of China, Dao Lang felt more at ease than ever.
In the past, he wandered around and made the world his home, and he always felt that he was a prodigal son in his bones.
But in Xinjiang, he felt that his soul was placed, and even developed an inexplicable sense of belonging.
So, he decided not to "wander" anymore and settled in Xinjiang with his wife Zhu Mei!
He set up his own studio in Xinjiang and still makes his favorite music.
Before "The First Snow in 2002", he released songs such as "Desert Love Song" and "Western Regions Love Song".
These songs have a very strong national style and are widely spread in Xinjiang.
But gold will shine!
Soon after, he became popular from Xinjiang to the whole country with his extraordinary talent!
epilogue
Behind Dao Lang's refusal to dissipate is Dao Lang's seriousness about music.
In this entertainment industry where fame and fortune are everywhere, Dao Lang is undoubtedly a clear stream.
It's not so much that everyone likes Dao Lang's music, but that everyone likes Dao Lang's spirit.
With his extraordinary talent, he cut off the high-spirited attitude of those "nobles".
People talk about Dao Lang, entertain Dao Lang, and pay attention to Dao Lang, in fact, they want to become Dao Lang!
Finally, I hope that Dao Lang can never change his original intention and bring us more and better music!