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The 90s are angry!
The news of Xu Liang's elimination in "Through the Thorns and Thorns Season 3" came out, and instantly rushed to the first place in the hot search.
Mango Station did not expect that a hodgepodge of feelings for all ages of the post-70s, post-80s, post-90s, and post-00s was collected, and in the end, it was Xu Liang, who had few lenses, who supported the KPI.
Xu Liang, who ranked last in the show, rode the dust with 600w+ votes, 4 times more than the second place votes, and the top ten added up to not him.
Frightened, the contestants who will help the voting channel overnight changed from the original ranking by popularity to sorted by age.
The "QQ Music Big Three" is not just talk, and the song "Bad Girl" directly made the post-90s collective tears.
Three years after disappearing, Xu Liang stood on the stage again and said the words that he had not had time to say before:
"Your youth did not disgrace you."
Hearing this sentence, the post-90s generation was completely strained:
"When the Big Three were around, I felt very humiliated listening to their songs, and now I find that the shame is that I didn't dare to face the youth I liked in those years."
Once, it was a generation of unspeakable youth.
Everyone in the wave, after growing up, does not want to erase its existence.
After the aura of the "QQ Music Big Three" dimmed, the three tried their best to shake off the label of "Internet singer", either confrontation, evasion, or ignorance.
The post-90s generation is also trying to forget the black history that makes people scratch the ground, non-mainstream, QQ space quotes, and even the songs of the three were thrown into the trash can of youth.
In the blink of an eye, ten years have passed, and the mood has long been different.
The "QQ Music Big Three" has become a thing of the past, and the three who once dominated the music chart are now going on different paths.
The post-90s generation finally dared to face up to that immature experience, and whenever the three returned to the public's vision, they would always shout "Yeqing back".
In the past ten years, whether it is Xu Song, Xu Liang, Wang Sulong, or the post-90s, we have walked on the road from confrontation and evasion to reconciliation with the past.
QQ Music Big Three
In 2006, a sophomore student at Anhui Medical University uploaded an original song to the Internet, and the author column was filled in as Vae.
After the launch of the song "Funeral of Roses", many people began to search for this young man, and the name of "Xu Song" was gradually revealed.
Funeral music of roses: Xu Song
Subsequently, songs such as "Broken Bridge and Residual Snow" and "If You Become the Wind" created by him exploded one after another.
In 2009, Xu Song, who graduated from college, released his first album "Custom".
The lyrics, composition, and arrangement of each song are followed by the same name: Xu Song.
With this album alone, Xu Song ranked third on the QQ Music list as a popular singer.
The top two are Jay Chou and Lin Junjie.
Xu Song was also shortlisted for the "Top Ten Singers of the Year" that year, and he was on the same list as Li Yuchun, Zhang Jie, Zhang Liangying, and Phoenix Legend who had debuted for many years.
The following year, a college student at Shenyang Conservatory of Music came out with songs such as "Little Star", "Love Without Breakup" and "Three Kingdoms Killing".
Love music that doesn't break up: Wang Sulong
Another art student at Qingdao University of Science and Technology left home halfway and crossed into the field of music, and after studying music for eight months, he put a 40-yuan microphone on a 5-yuan stocking cover to open the music road, and sang the first original song "Chest" that became popular on the Internet.
With a wave of fate's big hand, the "QQ Music Big Three" has since gathered, opening the youth of the post-90s.
Why the "Big Three"?
Because during the period when the gods of the Chinese music scene were fighting, their songs could still sweep the QQ music list, slaughtering the list at every turn, and the album playback easily exceeded 100 million.
At their peak, Xu Song, Xu Liang, and Wang Sulong took turns to top the popular singer list, often pushing Jay Chou, Eason Chen, Lin Junjie and other seniors behind.
For a while, the stereos of almost all stores on the streets and alleys were playing their songs.
Years later, Wang Sulong laughed at himself:
"When I go out, as long as I pass billiard halls, shops, barbershops, wherever the per capita consumption does not exceed 20 yuan, I can hear my songs."
These songs filled the entire youth memories of the post-90s generation.
In the 90s, when they were students, they wrote down their songs densely in their collection of lyrics, and the lyrics were circulated in the class.
Between classes, the campus radio station played one after another, and the songs of the three people filled the campus in turn.
Back home, open QQ, and the songs of the three follow the avatars of their classmates in unison.
In a minor key humming a three-person song, the post-90s generation spent their youth.
Break free from the label of "Internet singer"
At the conference, Zhang Shaogang complained about the "QQ Music Big Three":
"The 'QQ Music Big Three' has sung and written many familiar songs, but one thing is very strange, everyone is reluctant to admit that they have heard their songs."
Although the three of them left behind a number of music industry seniors on the music charts, at that time, they were labeled as "Internet singers" and "non-mainstream", and they were always outside the mainstream.
The prejudice and criticism from the outside world has never stopped.
Their songs are considered saliva songs without technical content and do not appear on the stage.
The Internet put them on the altar, and after the heat faded, the label of "Internet singer" became a burden for them.
For five or six years, Xu Liang was in a state of "hard searching".
He tried many ways to let everyone see him and his music, such as participating in various music variety shows, but the results were not satisfactory, "I worked very the stage, that is, I was eliminated everywhere".
After frequent setbacks, he thought, "Never sing again."
The decision was made in 2019.
At that time, he participated in "This is the Original" as a trainee and was eliminated again.
His original work of ancient style "He Muqing" was criticized by Xiao Jingteng for not being innovative enough:
"This was actually done 10, 15, 20 years ago."
After that, Xu Liang left the stage without looking back.
In order to be able to concentrate on doing behind the scenes, he personally cut off all retreats, and he set himself rules:
"It is not allowed to earn a penny as an artist, and you will not go in any form of performance."
That disappearance is three years.
Unlike Xu Liang's escape, Wang Sulong did not want to admit defeat, and he chose to fight to the end.
He riveted his music, like a child returning from school to show off his new knowledge to his mother, desperately seeking recognition.
In 2019, participating in "I am a singer-songwriter", Wang Sulong constantly challenged Liang Bo, who he thought was the strongest, losing twice in a row, but becoming more and more courageous.
In the program, he used this to write a song "Disobedience" as an outlet, venting the public's doubts and denials about him over the years:
"Where is the way back, let me be proud;
I will never be satisfied and gamble with this life. ”
For years, Wang Sulong has struggled to shake off the label of "Internet singer".
He maintained the rhythm of his annual release, constantly experimenting with new styles, from classical to jazz, from retro to electronic, desperately trying to cut the image of the previous little love song, but the response was mediocre.
In fact, he didn't like the process of "proving", but he had to admit that "everything I did was proving myself," and until now, he didn't know when he would be recognized.
Unlike the above two, compared with "Internet singer", the more eye-catching label accompanying Xu Song is "Little Jay Chou".
Because of popular Chinese-style songs such as "Broken Bridge and Remnant Snow", "Qingming Rain", "Luzhou Moon" and "Half City Smoke and Sand", he was once called "Little Jay Chou" by fans.
Xu Song has covered many Jay Chou's songs in the early days, and also served as a moderator of Jay Chou.com, and his song style is inevitably influenced by Jay Chou.
These experiences became a reason for black fans to attack him.
He fell into a "plagiarism storm", and black fans listed more than a dozen pages of "plagiarism evidence", accusing him of plagiarizing Jay Chou.
In the face of doubts from the outside world, Xu Songtan was frank:
"The whole country is learning from Lei Feng to imitate Lei Feng to do good deeds, then the people of the whole country are fools? You learn Lei Feng to improve yourself, but you will eventually return to you and cannot become Lei Feng. ”
It was not until 2012, when Xu Song and Fang Wenshan collaborated on "Mulan", that the turmoil gradually subsided.
In fact, the transformation of the three giants is difficult, and it is inseparable from the influence of the times.
The non-mainstream era is a past that this generation does not want to recall, so the songs they liked back then also want to erase.
As Wang Sulong said with some weakness:
"If they want to prove that they have grown up, they are denying me, and they are denying their once immature self."
Give up the struggle and the joy explodes
After a thousand sails, the entangled, angry, and evasive ones are all left in the dust of time.
Now, Wang Sulong no longer wants to be entangled in labels or not, and does not want to be in the unexpected world, it is better to "give up the struggle and explode with happiness".
In recent years, Wang Sulong has changed tracks and created a number of film and television dramas OST, and songs such as "Year Ring" and "A Smile in the City" have exploded one after another, as if returning to the grandeur of the year.
A smile in the city music: Wang Sulong
At the same time, he has participated in more than 30 variety shows, and his high emotional intelligence in the show and the terrier terrier with a sense of variety show make him brush his sense of existence.
Most importantly, he still loves music, even if he doesn't make money, the pace of new albums has not stopped, and this year, Wang Sulong also held a concert tour.
Now Wang Sulong feels that the previous behavior of trying to tear off the label and fight is still too young:
"The world is not worth it, put your limited life on worthy people and things."
Xu Song kept a low profile, as he told fans at his concert in Shanghai in 2019:
"Since I was twenty years old, I have spent all my youth in creation, except for a few stage moments, most of the time I am a behind-the-scenes person, and I really enjoy the creative space of one person and one world."
He is now the music director of Sea Butterfly Music, both behind the scenes and focusing on his songwriting.
The album no longer presents too many "wind and snow", but joins his deep thinking about society and speaks for the disadvantaged groups at the bottom.
Even if this serious style did not make him as hot as before, and even sink into the sea, he still chose not to go against his inner will, adhering to the principle of "I have the sea, do not catch the wave", and sing more and more courageously.
"Global Cooling" advocates more love and care between people; "Illegal Animals" directly refers to the violent law enforcement of chengguan; "Great World" uses the Syrian war to advocate world peace.......
Because of these songs, Xu Song was rated as "Contemporary Du Fu" by netizens.
Although countless fans and friends want to see him become popular in a high profile, he does not seem to be moved, and he responds to the expectations of the outside world with songs:
"Retreat between mountains and rivers, vows and floating names."
Wang Sulong and Xu Song gradually converged with mainstream singers, but Xu Liang said frankly many years later:
"I'm not a singer."
Xu Liang chose to develop in his comfort zone and set up a company focusing on online hit music, and today, his company has developed into the largest popular music company in the country.
"Fickle", "Just Forget", "Once Upon a Time Said", "I Will Wait", "Unwilling" and so on are all musical works produced by Xu Liang Company.
Although the title of the song is a little unfamiliar, it feels familiar when the music starts.
Shocked, netizens quipped:
"The Internet celebrity songs I listened to more than ten years ago were written by Xu Liang, and the Internet celebrity songs I listened to more than ten years later were still written by Xu Liang's company."
Previously, as soon as the Tencent Music Top Ten Hot Songs List was announced, it was ridiculed by the outside group that "the Chinese music scene is over", including the works of Xu Liang's company.
In the past, Xu Liang was very mindful of the label of "Internet singer", but now he has learned to be consistent, and he can naturally say the so-called boundary between the Internet celebrity hit songs they produce and the singer's songs:
"Unlike the songs sung by artists, the songs of artists are to let everyone know what I am thinking, and the music I am making is to provide emotional value to others, and there are certain methods of creation, which is relatively less rational."
Although popular songs are often spread in fragments, Xu Liang's attitude towards songwriting has never been perfunctory.
He confessed that he is a content controller, and he will carefully craft every lyric and every syllable, and the song "Guest Officer Can't Not" back then was actually recorded more than 100 times.
Guest officers are not allowed to music: Xu Liang
As Xu Liang sang back then:
"They say that singers should be smart, and they should write songs more elegantly in the future, and I'm sorry I don't know how to be thoughtful."
How about Yangchun Baixue, how about Xialiba people, since the popular song can explode, it means that it has hit the hearts of many people, and it is not a success to provide emotional value for others?
After all, life is only more than 30,000 days, can have a song that makes you happy, and care so much:
"Me and music, go back to the first day, the day I wrote songs, and have fun again."
Now Xu Liang has returned to the stage, on the one hand, to fulfill his wish to sing, and on the other hand, to give everyone's youth an explanation.
As part of the youth of the post-90s, he wants to stand up and prove that he can overcome difficulties, and over the years, he has not become depressed, has not stopped, but is growing with everyone.
"Your youth did not disgrace you," he had the confidence to say.
When the three of them took off the aura of the "QQ Music Big Three" and returned to the public's vision, we found that our youth was not disappointed.
Although the three of them are going in different directions, they are similar to each other and are all guarding our youth, and the non-mainstream ones have always been just that era.
Those unbearable years, the post-90s generation can also laugh and ridicule.
Previously, there was a contrast on the Internet: the youth of the mother's generation is fashionable and beautiful, the youth of the 00s is exquisite and gorgeous, and only the youth of the 90s is the earthy killing Matt.
While laughing in the post-90s generation in the comment area, they did not forget to add a few more self-blackening sentences.
Source: Little Red Book
Ten years later, we are all relieved.
In the first two years, Xu Song and Wang Sulong successively appeared on the graduation song party of Station B, plus Xu Liang appeared on the Phi Ge stage, and every time, the comment area and barrage would be covered with "Ye Qing Hui".
The post-90s generation finally stopped stingy to express their likes, bravely admitted that their youth had them, calmly accepted their imperfect youth, and at the same time, shook hands with their immature self.
Whether looking backwards or forward, every life is a valuable growth experience, and every life is worth remembering.
Click "Watching" to pay tribute to youth and pay tribute to the "QQ Music Big Three" who have brought emotion to our youth. (Crisp)
Some references:
1. Southern People Weekly "Wang Sulong: Give Up the Struggle"
2. The most popular character "Xu Song is not red, heaven is unbearable"
3. A show that is not gossipy at all "It's time to re-nag Wang Sulong"
(Excerpted from WeChat public account visual journal)