Autumn life check-in season, it seems that this year's popularity is a little flat, but suddenly, the circle of friends was brushed by a song. Various messages poured in: "Open, listen, I can't cry." "If you look closely, it turns out to be "Big Dream". This song has recently become very popular, and the words that appear most often in the barrage of major video websites are "crying" and "a little stamina". Not only became the best song of this issue of "Le Xia", but also became one of the most memorable music of the season. So, how does a song mobilize the emotions of so many netizens? And what charm made this peasant band successfully break the circle and even hit the hot search topic?
Let's listen to this song "Live", a song by the band Waina and Ren Suxi, which shows the life of every ordinary person in 7 minutes and 55 seconds. From the age of six to eighty-eight, from toddlers to old age, every stage of this song allows us to find our own shadow. The most heartbreaking thing is that at every turning point in life, when facing the anxiety and entanglement of the status quo, the lyrics weakly utter a sentence of "what to do". As if questioning why fate is so bumpy, it also truly depicts the struggle and unwillingness of modern people in life.
I tried to find common sentiment in the song, and found that under the video of the song, one of the most popular messages touched the hearts of many people: "I am the same as the cow, although I have my own shortcomings, but I have the same desires." The life of the cow is only about grass, and my life is only about food and clothing. Scared, powerless, not knowing what the future holds. I just hope to have three meals a day and get basic food and clothing. "After experiencing a series of changes such as masks, personnel optimization, and salary structure adjustment, this has become a common sentiment for many people under the pain of the times.
The charm of this song is that it touches people's deep emotions, makes us empathize, and resonates with the characters in the lyrics. No matter how different our identities and circumstances are, we can find our own shadow in it and feel the helplessness and struggle of life. Perhaps, it is precisely because of this strong empathy that this song can cause such a large-scale pursuit and discussion. Whether it is for the band of Vaina or Ren Suxi, this is also a huge breakthrough and success. However, as listeners and viewers, how do we understand the meaning of this song?
Perhaps, it reminds us to cherish the present, do not easily give up the desire for life, no matter what difficulties and difficulties we face, we should maintain a positive and optimistic attitude and bravely face the future. At the same time, the song also reflects the anxiety and uneasiness that prevails in contemporary society, making us think about how to change the status quo and create a better living environment for ourselves and others. All in all, this "Big Dream" is not only a song, but also a catharsis of emotions, a kind of thinking and reflection on life. It makes us feel the fragility and tenacity of human nature, and at the same time arouses the attention and discussion of society.
Perhaps, in this fast-paced era, we need more music that can make us stop and think, and make us re-examine our hearts and lives. Now, I want to ask you, how do you feel after listening to this song? Have you had similar experiences and thoughts? Welcome to share your thoughts and opinions in the comment area. Why do so many 25-year-olds like Wu Bai's songs? Despite our ages, we all experience pain and confusion in our lives. For example, the song "Big Dream" may make some people feel deeply, but for others, it is not conspicuous.
This is because suffering, contradiction and confusion in life are inevitable, and we are all trying to cope with these challenges. "Big Dream" also has lyrics that are more relevant to life in the original version. The confusion when I graduated from college, the loneliness after starting a family, the depression after middle age, the grief of the loss of loved ones... These are real-life pains. Is the recurring "what to do" in the song really looking for a solution? In the final lyrics, we may find the answer: "If life were just a big dream, what would you do?"
"This is a question worth pondering, because life is only once, and we should cherish every moment. Rock music is the voice of that era. It represents a rebellious, struggling attitude, a young person's response to reality. Under the tide of reform and opening up, rock music in China in the 80s and 90s began to rise, which became the best way for many people to express their inner feelings. These songs flow with thoughts on life and the times, recording the changes of ordinary people and ordinary families over the years. The passage of time brings endless changes.
Xu Fei's "Prose Poems Written by My Father" and Pharaoh's "Intimate Lover 2017" and other songs show the changes in ordinary people's lives with time nodes. Through their delicate lyrics, they touch people's heartstrings and make everyone feel the same way. These songs have become witnesses of the times, recording the trivial events of ordinary families in the years. However, not all music needs such neat lyrics to mark the changing times. Some songs only need a word, a shout, to bring people into the collective era of the present.
The melodic music, the power and emotion conveyed through the song, can touch people's hearts and make them feel empathy. These songs may not be as precise as describing the changes of the times, but they can immerse people and feel the atmosphere of that era. The power of rock music is not only its rebellion and perversity, but more importantly, it represents a tenacious and indestructible musical power. It can express hope and compassion, pain and peace in a unique way, and bring people into a thick sense of fatalism.
As the lyrics in "100,000 Hippies" of the Universal Youth Hostel sing: "Mr. Dong Erqian, who dreams a lot, push open the window and raise the binoculars", in the absence of a road and no way back, we can only bear in silence and live. This is life, there is no perfect answer, only the process of constant pursuit. Although Vaina's music does not belong to rock, in their song "Vaina", it shows similar vitality and emotions to rock music. The impact conveyed by this song is no less than the rebellion and perversity of rock music.
Its lyrics express an alternation of hope and compassion, a coexistence of pain and peace. This is the sense of fatalism of this era, and therefore it can touch the heartstrings of the whole people. Looking back at these musical works that breathe with the times, they record people's feelings and thoughts during the reform and opening up period. They resonate with confusion and confusion, giving them courage and strength. In this rapidly changing society, we should also learn to cherish the present moment and enjoy the present life. Questions aren't always answered immediately, but it's the existence of these questions that keeps us growing.
We need to believe that as the years go by, life will tell us the answer. Finally, I would like to ask you a question: how much do you think music has recorded and influenced the times? Please leave your comments to share your views with us. Music is a footnote of the times and the voice of the people. From "Girl Beautiful" to "God Bless the People Who Have Finished Eating", from Dou Wei's "Sad Dream" to Luo Dayou's "Zhihu Zhijiye", each song carries the emotions and thoughts of an era. And those music that can go out of the circle paints a picture of the life of a person at the bottom.
In He Yong's "Girl Beautiful", the anger and helplessness shouted out make people feel empathy. And in Dou Wei's "Sad Dream", the questioning and helplessness of the current society touches everyone's heart. Zhang Chu's "God Bless the People After Eating" expresses the people's desire to live. Back in 1982, Luo Dayou's "Zhihu Jiye" describes the separation between homesickness and personal belonging in the era of rapid change. In "Lukang Town", he expressed his longing for his hometown and doubts about reality through several conversations.
And the few sentences at the end of the song are even more poignant. All this out-of-the-loop music exists to represent the times and the people at the bottom. Those five people who walked out of the city village wearing slippers and the Jiulian real people who walked out from the mountains used their music to tell the lives and struggles of the people at the bottom. Music is a footnote to vitality and the voice of the people. We should pay more attention to these out-of-the-loop music, and among them, we can also find more real stories about the times and the people at the bottom. We need to applaud these music, and we need to applaud the changes and progress of this era.
And how can we help and support ordinary people who are still struggling? Why did they become phenomenal "top" bands? It's because they sing our songs. They use music to analyze the current life, and use the fragments of ordinary life to piece together the next living little people of this era. In the movie "Big Buddha Plas", there is a "disgraceful" dish called "noodle dish". Because the families of prison inmates are too far away to visit, they will send money to the shop owner to bring food to their relatives in prison. Although the dish is simple, it has an earthy warmth.
This meal made the last meal of Belly Cai's life so warm, and the soundtrack "Noodle Dishes" in the movie also made this scene the most touching place. The whistle makes the originally heavy elegy light, and the guitar melody without lyrics seems to be the sound of ordinary wealth but has been healing his life. They are poor but want to change their lives against the sky, but they cannot control their own destiny. Even a chicken leg left over from a guest has become a "good luck" for today. His death was like this fluttering music, like a ditty humming casually by the edge of a field, floating briskly, leaving only a white circle.
This song "Noodle Dishes" also made more people hear the "Shengxiang Band". Lin Shengxiang's works are full of compassion and contemplation for small people, and it is precisely because of these songs that urban migrant workers return to their hometowns in frustration and find a way out of life again. These musics grow between land and suffering, and allow our wandering souls to find a home in it. These music portrays the times and will transcend them. They carry the interpretation of the times and have epochal significance. Music is going to be ahead of its time. Relive the music and travel through time. Music is the bearer of memory, connecting the past and the present.
In movies, we often hear those soundtracks with the characteristics of the era, which do not appear randomly, but carry the memories and emotions of an era. Director Jia Zhangke is good at integrating this music into the film, allowing the audience to feel the documentary nature of history and the reaction of social emotions. In the movie "Xiaowu", he chose the most representative "vulgar" songs at that time, making music a tool for expressing emotions. In the movie "River Departed", different characters express different emotions through the same song, among which Teacher Chinese played by Zhang Aijia has a special relationship with this song.
Through these music, we can travel through time and space and feel the emotions and memories of history. "Precious" is a song that recalls the parting of friends. When the song was released in 1990, what was the atmosphere like in Hong Kong at that time? A song by Luo Dayou: "A confidant goes to this city in his life." "Maybe give us some references. In those days, friends who had known each other for many years suddenly went their separate ways and distanced themselves from each other. Therefore, in "Precious", it is sung that "the future may have snow flying", where the white snow refers to the distance, and friends have also gone to distant places. Did they leave voluntarily?
Therefore, the song will sing "I hope that the world will always turn around", and the torrent of the times will scatter people, and individuals are powerless to change. So, when Zhile chatted with Chinese teacher Mia about where she came from, the melody of "Precious" sounded again. When Le asked her why she came to Australia, she avoided the question. When Shen Tao heard "Precious" in the video store, she couldn't understand it, she only thought it sounded good. She didn't know that the parting sung in the song was really happening to other people. This is the so-called first hearing of the meaning of the song, and understanding is already the person in the song.
Goodbyes are so long that they often begin before we know it's about to be. A song "Precious" can connect several generations and connect strangers with huge time and space spans. There is also Chen Guo's musical use adapted in "Durian Fluttering". In one episode, Xiaoyan returns from three months of sex work in Hong Kong to spend time sitting by the railway with her classmates from the drama school. One of the male classmates adapted the "Wedding March", which turned the solemn "wedding" into: get married, be stupid. One person earns money, two people spend. Divorced, silly. I'll have to pay for the cannon in the future.
Is this distrust of marriage? It can be said that in that era, young people felt confused and panicked, and they mocked the eternal and mocked the present with this distorted song. Next, Xiaoyan was not to be outdone. The beauty of primitive society, perhaps we can feel it from a song. As the train sped by, masking their voices and shouting their voices loudly. They will not be carried away by the times, nor will they stay completely in that era. There is an episode in a movie "You, Me He She", which echoes the "Big Dream" at the beginning. Why did you go to school? Why go to work? Why eat? Why sleep?
Don't ask me why, I am like that, don't want to say. Why do I drink? Why sing? Why laughter? Why have sex? Don't ask me why, I'm just like that, not qualified. In different eras, people still ask the same questions, which is the ultimate proposition facing every era. From music to film, and from film back to music, it seems that there is a fateful connection between art. No matter what form it appears or deduces, it explores the common propositions of human beings, about all aspects of life, about desires, about the meaning of life.
These issues are grand and profound, but they can also be as small as a lyric and a why. However, it is these dusty details that make up the life of each of us. Whether it's "Big Dream" or this movie, they provide us with an outlet in this world to put those small lives together. Now let's reflect together, why do you like this song? What do you think is the meaning of life? Please leave your comments.