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Looking back at the rivers and lakes, Dao Lang rose to prominence again.
His new song "Rakshasa Sea City" instantly swept the entire entertainment industry, and there are new legends on the rivers and lakes. Once, there has been no news of Dao Lang in the rivers and lakes for a while, only his legendary story is constantly being passed on. "Wolf in Sheep's Clothing" became your dad's phone ringtone, "Lover" became your mom's color bell, and "Impulsive Punishment" was accompanied by a supermarket loudspeaker, which was noisy every day. Maybe you haven't even heard his songs in their entirety, but in KTV, you'll suddenly grab the microphone and bravely sing "The First Snow of 2002" at the urging of others.
Today, however, everything has changed.
Rakshasa Sea City reappears in your clan as the most common greeting. Sir watched him sweep traffic again across major platforms, with one platform being played 360 million times. Today, we're going to dive into the song, and the story behind it.
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It's Dao Lang again
Dao Lang released his new album "Mountain Song Few" on July 19, which includes the song "Rakshasa Sea City". To be honest, when Sir first listened to this song, he didn't understand the meaning of the lyrics at all. Only after understanding the allusions behind the song did I gradually understand what those unfamiliar nouns in the lyrics represented.
However, although the lyrics are obscure, they have become hot because of the heated discussion among netizens. Various "Leeuwenhoek" are looking for clues to understand the true meaning of the song. The background story of the song is taken from "Rakshasa Sea Market" in "Liaozhai Zhi Yi", telling the story of a handsome young man Ma Ji who comes to the Rakshasa Sea City, where beauty and ugliness are reversed, he is regarded by the locals as "extremely ugly" and reduced to the bottom of society, while those who are extremely ugly can be promoted to high officials and respected.
Does this plot of black and white upside down and beauty and ugliness reflect the reality of today's entertainment industry? Netizens began to associate the lyrics with reality, explaining the words in the lyrics, and found clues that matched the plot of the mentor "turning around" for the trainees in "The Voice of China". When Dao Lang became popular in the entertainment industry, Na Ying publicly stated that he "did not have an aesthetic point of view" and was not suitable to perform at the Olympic opening ceremony.
Then, netizens pointed the finger at Yang Kun, Wang Feng, Gao Xiaosong and others, leaving messages asking them to come out for dialogue. Everyone thinks that this song has the significance of needle and needle time, because the lyrics are vaguely written, covering a wide range, and the "name-calling" of real problems can be heard everywhere.
Throughout Dao Lang's album, in addition to works in the love song genre such as "Painted Skin" and "Flower Monster", there are also songs such as "Upside Down Song", "Lu Nanke" and "Overture", which are based on the fields and countryside, on the one hand, popular and spicy, on the other hand, they reflect the concept of "the nation is the world", which is considered broad and profound.
This is why Dao Lang's songs can cause a sensation. His songs were used to attack social issues and were praised among netizens, becoming a sword to "kill demons and eliminate demons".
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Why Dao Lang
In an interview, Lu Yu asked Dao Lang what kind of singer he wanted to be. At that time, the Internet was not yet very developed in China, and Dao Lang had already achieved great success. He replied that he only wanted to be a second- and third-tier singer. But fate set him on an unusual path, with his album selling more than 2.7 million genuine copies and an estimated 10 million pirated copies.
However, the traditional media and recording industries are not ready to embrace this emerging force. He once drove to a small place in Dingxi, Gansu Province, to escape the storm of public opinion, but found the most eye-catching magazine cover on the newsstand with the headline: "Cold Eyes at Dao Lang." His name seems to be everywhere. On the spring evening of 2009, Xiao Shenyang imitated Dao Lang and sang "The First Snow in 2002", and Zhao Benshan's sketch also ridiculed Dao Lang's name. Dao Lang himself was not angry about this, and even laughed silently.
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Lang's success did not make him high-profile, and he kept a low profile and avoided too much public attention. Even when he was invited to an interview show like "Lu Yu Has an Appointment", he agreed to attend after years of waiting. However, his music is not immune to all kinds of comments and speculation. Traditional musicians have speculated about which group of Dao Lang's fans are, migrant workers, white-collar workers, small-town youths or middle-aged people?
Gao Xiaosong once conducted a survey in which he believed that the main group of people who buy records is people who graduate from junior high school and within two years of graduating from university, and migrant workers are obviously not this main consumer group, because they may not even have the equipment to listen to records. "They might buy it, but it's piracy, and we can't design music for pirates, that's crazy," he said. This also shows that Dao Lang's success is not what the traditional music industry can predict.
Dao Lang's music became popular not only in the mainland, but also in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Alan Tam came to work with Dao Lang and became a guest at Alan Tam's concert. The executives of Universal Records even went to Xinjiang three times to sign a contract with Dao Lang, and the album quickly topped the charts after it was released. Famous producer Li Zongsheng served as the producer for his new album "Kashgar Huyang", which has a guaranteed minimum of 5.2 million copies. Li Zongsheng once said that he was not optimistic about Dao Lang, but just found the case interesting, and he wondered why so many people listened to his songs. He came to the conclusion that Dao Lang had a special charm.
Dao Lang's success is not surprising, as Gao Xiaosong said, his music has impacted the traditional music industry, embarrassing some. He represents the flesh and blood of the working people, and the core of China's recording industry is intellectuals, and this conflict has led to the success of the unfavored Dao Lang in the entertainment industry.
Dao Lang's music has a special charm, his songs are easy to understand, express universal values, do not need high-end sound, but the more simple the more infectious. His songs touch people's hearts, speak straight and resonate with many people. Dao Lang's music is rooted in the countryside, close to life on the one hand, and has broad cultural connotations under the concept of "the nation is the world" on the other hand. This allows his music to touch the depths of people's hearts and become a catharsis of emotions.
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It is the triumph of music, but also the triumph of expression
Before Dao Lang's new album "Mountain Song Few", he had already released similar works. However, these works did not attract the same level of national attention as they do today. Dao Lang created this new album in 2020 based on the Suzhou lyric script. He practiced the pipa for more than ten hours a day, riding a battery car through the streets and alleys of Suzhou, listening to books and attending Suzhou Chinese classes. Written since 2013, this album connects stories such as Du Shiniang, Angry Treasure Chest, Sigh, and Pearl Tower in music, which is similar to the legendary "Mountain Song Few".
Today, the era of prosperity in the Chinese music scene has passed, and people no longer expect their favorite singers to release albums every year and listen carefully to 12 songs. Now, just a song on an album that can be listened to is already satisfying. There are almost few such phenomenal works, so Dao Lang's success this time is also due to the foil of his peers.
Looking back at the songs that have been able to become top in recent years, there are not many of them. allow
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