In Chinese music, there are countless talented singers: Jay Chou, Huang Jiaju, Tao Zhe, Wang Leehom, Lin Junjie, and even Li Zongsheng, but no matter which genius singer it is, they will also give the highest respect to a person who sings badly in their music career, and this person is Luo Dayou. He is respected as "the only godfather of Chinese music" by Chinese music, so why is Luo Dayou considered by all musicians to be the person with the highest status in Chinese music?
The main reasons why Luo Dayou is respected as the "Godfather of Chinese Music" are as follows:
1: Luo Dayou is the pioneer of "Chinese pop music", there was no concept of pop music before Luo Dayou, and pop music began to be born and took root after Luo Dayou. This means that all the latecomers after Luo Dayou are actually standing on the shoulders of Luo Dayou's giants in order to complete their sense of belonging and mission for Chinese music.
2: Luo Dayou is "one of all music artists who has the most family and country feelings, and who cares for young people the most and is most willing to help young people." The greatness of a singer lies in what kind of musical and artistic value he provides, and it is precisely Luo Dayou who has put forward a perfect artistic idea in pop music and musical art: caring for young people, we will have an endless future. Whether it is Tao Zhe, Jay Chou, Li Zongsheng, Lin Xi and others, they have all received direct help from Luo Dayou.
3: Luo Dayou's works have broadened the boundaries of music, and the pop music, which is full of commercial attributes, has transformed from a capital product to a humanistic product with complex properties such as art, philosophy, and sociology, with a very high cognitive development ability. Luo Dayou's works are the most important treasures of Chinese music: "Childhood", "The Story of Time", "Pearl of the Orient", "Tomorrow Will Be Better", "Love Song 1990", "The Way You Look", "Lukang Town", "Queen's Road East" and so on, each of which is the embodiment of Chinese music, not only commercial, but also has artistic and philosophical beauty. The biggest difference between Jay Chou and Luo Dayou lies in this.
4: Luo Dayou has established an excellent singer, how should he maintain his pursuit of self-art in the materialistic flow of business. Luo Dayou's own insistence on music is the best living fossil and benchmark for Chinese singers.
These four points correspond to Luo Dayou's achievements, Luo Dayou's concept of music and art, Luo Dayou's works, and Luo Dayou's spirit. In terms of musical achievements, the pioneering credit is the greatest and cannot be surpassed.
From the perspective of music and art, Luo Dayou's care for young people is difficult for all other singers to have, whether it is Tao Zhe, Jay Chou, Lin Junjie, Wang Leehom, they are actually based on love songs, and it is difficult to have Luo Dayou's national feelings.
In terms of musical works, Luo Dayou's works are unprecedentedly excellent, including four or five generations, especially "Childhood", "Pearl of the Orient", "Tomorrow Will Be Better", "The Story of Time", "Love Song 1980", "Your Look" has become an excellent work in education, as long as the higher the education, Luo Dayou's gold content will always be improved. And anyone who only needs to have one of the above can leave a name in Chinese music history. Keluo Dayou is all-inclusive.
From Luo Dayou's spiritual point of view, compared with the current Chinese music that has collapsed a bit, especially Jay Chou and others, their music goals have gradually shifted from quality to profit, and Luo Dayou's new works still maintain the serious attitude of the year, even if his works are not paid attention to, there is no hot search. But the earth-shattering shock of "Zhihu Ye" back then was the same. This kind of perseverance and spirit of music is very rare. Because like Jay Chou, when the income is large, it will be easy to lose yourself.
1: Why is Luo Dayou the beginning of Chinese pop music? Because: Since Luo Dayou, Chinese pop music has had its own life and bid farewell to imported products
Chinese music, this is a name that everyone thinks is very old, but in fact, it was born only more than 40 years ago. In the chronicles of Chinese music, the earliest work that really gave birth to pop music, and still has a high degree of dissemination and musical beauty at the moment is Luo Dayou's "Zhihu Ye".
Long before Luo Dayou, in fact, the entire Chinese music belonged to one: a vassal state. The mainstream of music in the mainland is opera, especially Huangmei opera. The mainstream music of Hong Kong and Taiwan is a copy of European and American singing. It was not until this time that Luo Dayou, Li Zongsheng and others, and Alan Tam and others began to learn the Beatles and play their own musical direction for the future. Among Alan Tam, Luo Dayou, and Li Zongsheng, Luo Dayou is the one who promotes the progress of music.
In 1982, Luo Dayou released his first album "Zhihu Zhiye", which included the strongest song that later dominated Chinese music memory - "Childhood", including "Lukang Town" which represents the feelings of the family and country, "Love Song 1980", which includes the peak of Chinese classic love, "Four Rhymes of Homesickness" which includes Taiwanese nostalgia, "The Story of Time" that everyone will hum in the future, and "Zhihu Ye", which includes the first Chinese music criticism and reflection trend.
This album really does it: Chinese music has its own Beatles. Starting from Luo Dayou's "Zhihu Ye", Chinese music finally got rid of the vassal status of European and American music, and began to give birth to the product of Chinese music itself. This kind of product is mainly focused on ideology and humanistic values. It's hard to imagine that there are so many excellent works in an album, especially the four songs "Childhood", "Lukang Town", "Zhihu Ye", and "The Story of Time", which will be 42 years old in 2024, and they are still classic and beautiful.
The significance of Luo Dayou is that Chinese music began to become independent and began to have a complete industrial chain and a perfect spiritual system. We began to think about the music that the Chinese people liked, rather than simply taking European and American music as the norm and making it fashionable to not understand it. Luo Dayou brought music into the market, pulling the perspective of musicians from commercial attributes back to the simplest music touching.
This transformation has allowed Chinese music to complete a breakthrough from 0 to 1. The construction of spirit is the foundation of culture, and Luo Dayou is the root of pop music, before him, Chinese music did not have a cultural home and spiritual home that can be called Chinese, but after Luo Dayou, in "Childhood", in "The Story of Time", in "Lukang Town", "In Zhihu Ye", everyone can proudly say this sentence: This is Chinese music.
2: Luo Dayou's help to newcomers: In 2000, Tao Zhe, the godfather of R&B, was knocked off the stage by the audience in Beijing, and Luo Dayou was able to protect it;
The most admirable point of Luo Dayou is that Luo Dayou echoes caring for young people in music, and giving help is not pretentious, in reality, Luo Dayou implements his musical ideal - caring for young people. Among the people Luo Dayou has helped, Tao Zhe, the godfather of R&B, is a very special one.
Those who know Tao Zhe should know: Tao Zhe is a top singer who did not have any fame in the early days. Tao Zhe started making music in 1993, but he only made his debut in 1997 and entered the mainland for the first time in 2000. It wasn't until 2007 that the first phenomenal announcement was completed by relying on Jolin Tsai's "Today You Are Going to Marry Me", but in fact, Tao Zhe's musical talent is the closest to Luo Dayou.
In Tao Zhe's career, the most important performance is: in 2000, Luo Dayou invited Tao Zhe to participate in his concert. All the audience in that scene came for Luo Dayou, but Luo Dayou did the following things:
1: When singing "Childhood", Luo Dayou handed over the stage to Tao Zhe. Tao Zhe's classic strange scream, and R&B's pitch fluctuating singing style, made everyone resist. Even Tao Zhe adapted "Childhood" into a combined version of R&B and rock. It was boycotted by the audience.
2: After "Childhood", Luo Dayou asked Tao Zhe to sing a solo song "Love is Simple", this weird style made the audience boo, and some people shouted: Let Tao Zhe go down.
3: After the end, Tao Zhe was devastated, and Luo Dayou wrote a letter to Tao Zhe, encouraging him to continue to stick to music. Tao Zhe also ushered in his career progress in 2003, and finally won the Golden Melody Award in 2007 with "Today You Want to Marry Me".
At the moment in 2024, Tao Zhe's R&B has officially taken over the banner of Chinese music from Luo Dayou, and R&B has become the mainstream of a new generation of pop music. And Luo Dayou seemed to realize the future 24 years later in 2000, he helped Tao Zhe, gave youth care, and made the youth become the person he was back then, and he didn't seem to help him at all. This is Luo Dayou.
At the same time, Tao Zhe is also a singer who is very willing to promote young people, and he is also willing to give more care and praise to young people, and all this starts from Luo Dayou. Luo Dayou blocked a lot of bad things in the music industry.
To sum up, Luo Dayou is called the godfather of Chinese, and he deserves his name.