In the recent "Brother with Thorns" program, Huang Guanzhong and several brothers played music in the dormitory, playing and singing a CLASSIC SONG "Like You" by BEYOND, which successfully triggered a wave of memory killing.
When Huang Guanzhong posted this video online, he said: Thank you for your liking, I hope that rock can bring you happy positive energy! See you tomorrow on stage!
Unexpectedly, it attracted the attention of his wife Zhu Yin, who commented under the video: I like you too!
Huang Guanzhong quickly responded: I have never doubted this sentence.
Oops, this couple came and went, and the netizens who were still immersed in the memory killing just now were caught off guard by being fed a wave of dog food.
In other words, "Like You" was originally a sad love song at that time, and now listening to Huang Guanzhong's singing, it has been interpreted as a sweet confession of an old husband and wife.
Looking back, the song "Like You" has been around for 33 years, and it was one of Beyond's earliest popular songs.
In 1988, BEYOND officially entered the mainstream music scene in Hong Kong with the album "Secret Police", which became a turning point in the fate of the band. There are three works on the album that have become popular: a Chinese style "The Earth", a metal song "Rush Everything", and a slow love song "Like You". The combination of multiple styles also marked the beginning of their quest for a balance between rock and business.
The style of "The Land" is refreshing and has become one of the important masterpieces of Hong Kong's non-love song movement; "Rush Everything" and "Secret Police" are the rock and roll they insist on; and "Like You" is the first work to cater to the mainstream love song market. The popularity of "Like You" is equivalent to declaring to the outside world that BEYOND has its own style, but it can also make the style you want.
So how did the song "Like You" come about?
In fact, "The Land" and "Like You" are both melody samples written by Jiaju in previous years, and it was not suitable for publication until this year that this record was released. "The Earth" asked Liu Zhuohui to fill in the words, and "Like You" wrote the words by Jiaju himself because it was written about Jiaju's own emotional experience.
For many years, there has been debate about who Jiaju's "Like You" was written for. According to my examination, this song was written for his second girlfriend, Akim. Akim's real name is Pan Xianli, and her sister is the 1985 Hong Kong sister runner-up Pan Xianyi, who later became the girlfriend of BEYOND manager Chen Jiantian. Then Akim also became the girlfriend of the foal. Akim also loves to sing, and once formed the band Unknown with Jiaju, Jiaqiang and two younger brothers, and participated in the "Carlsberg Pop Festival" in 1986, and Akim was the lead singer at that time.
Iekoshi and Akim fell in love for about 84-87 years. One day, The Foal wrote a melody and pulled Akim and hummed it to her while playing the guitar. Akim thought it was very good to hear, but because it was too popular, the demo was shelved at that time.
In 1987, Jiaju broke up with Akim. That year, Jiaju, Guanzhong and Lin Chuqi starred in a movie "Storm Boy's Black Boy Strong". Perhaps because of the drama, Jiaju and Lin Chuqi began to communicate. Therefore, some fans accused Lin Chuqi of being a small third. Akim, who was broken up, was very hurt, and later her sister Pan Xianyi wrote to Jiaju, saying that Akim had been crying or something.
Huang Guanzhong and Lin Chuqi
In 1988, when preparing for "Secret Police", Jiaju remembered the demo that Akim liked, so he took it out and filled in the lyrics of "Like You" with an apology to his ex-girlfriend. Originally, the sample was not sad, but after filling in this word, it suddenly became sad.
From the timeline and story analysis, the heroine of "Like You" is most likely Akim. Some people say that it is for the first love, because the first love has passed too many years, and the young people are ignorant at the time, it is unlikely that the family colt suddenly wrote a song in 1988 to miss her. The foal may also feel indebted to Akim, and he also has a grudge, so he published this love song for the first time.
Walk alone at night every night
Swinging around/how cold
Struggling with myself in the past
Never know/her pain...
These few lyrics fully reflect the mood of the family colt at that time. Some people may say that jiaju is heartwarming, but the truth is that as young people who play underground bands, on the one hand, they are full of enthusiasm for music, and on the other hand, they have to bear the ruthless whipping of realistic pressure, that is, the so-called "struggle for themselves", the dream of music may not be able to persist at any time, and it is difficult for them to be particularly invested in love, which is passive love, so it is easy to be interfered with by Lin Chuqi. But when he realized that he had failed a girl's sincerity, he also felt ashamed, but he could not step on several boats, and could only express this apology and nostalgia through music...
In 1993, after the accident in Japan, Akim rushed to Japan with Chen Jiantian and wanted to go to the hospital to see the family koma. However, because the relationship between Chen Jiantian and BEYOND had already deteriorated at that time, for fear of affecting the mood of patients and their families, they were not allowed to enter the hospital.
If we could meet, even if it was the last time, perhaps Akim would like to sing this passage with the unconscious foal:
May I caress you again/gently
That cute face
Hold hands and talk about dreams
Like yesterday/you with me
In this way, when she first listened to the demo, she was still his legitimate girlfriend, and when "Like You" spread through the streets, she became an ex; until the end of his life, she never had the opportunity to hear or sing this song written for her in front of him.
The girl pictured above is pan xianli today
There is also a hot knowledge worth mentioning, when jiaju sings this song, there is a constant repetition of English lyrics at the end, but I don't know what is sung, some people say "she be do", some people say "should be do", and then various interpretations. But then I saw the most reliable version of the claim that this is actually a meaningless humming "Shoobie do ho ho", which is a word often carried after the climax of black songs in the last century, and the world famous song "yesterday once more" has a sentence "shoobie do lang lang".
Also, at the end of the concert version, Jiaju added a sentence of "Oh, my love, my darling, I hunger for your tougch", which is also borrowed from a lyric from "Man Ghost Love", which probably means "Oh, my love, my lover, I long for your tenderness".
"Like You", as one of BEYOND's few love songs, is a compromise work for the market, but it is also a song of true feelings. In the 33 years since its inception, it has long been passed down as a classic. Seven years ago, Deng Ziqi covered this song in "I Am a Singer", which once again made him shine.
It's just that Jiaju must not have imagined that his sad song of nostalgia for his old love is now conveying warm love between his brother A Paul and his lover. This must have pleased him.