Can Hua Chenyu become a "leader in the Chinese music scene"? So is Zhou Shen okay

Rei Hou Guang

2024-05-27 00:16Published in Chongqing film and television creators

Text: Linghu Boguang

"Singer 2024" caused a big discussion because foreign singers came to the stage to fight and the domestic players on the show were defeated, so netizens called on a large number of Chinese singers to come to the rescue, because of the nature of this music variety show (more emphasis on singing skills), those old-timers didn't mention it. And among the young Zhuang faction in the Chinese music scene.

This Deng Ziqi, Yuan Yawei, Tan Weiwei, Zhang Jie, Huang Xiaoyun, etc. were all mentioned without mentioning.

Among them, the voice is very high, naturally there is Zhou Shen, the first singer in the current Chinese music scene, and Hua Chenyu, who has been collapsing and being complained by netizens before. So today, I will write from another point, they are also the leaders of the new generation of Chinese music, who is the leader of Hua Chenyu and Zhou Shen?

Are they also leaders? Hua Chenyu and Zhou Shen, who is better

Don't sell anything, let's talk about the answer first: If you talk about the so-called leaders of the Chinese music scene of this generation after 2010, Zhou Shen is the first male singer of the new generation, and he was probably Zhang Jie before him. And Hua Chenyu is not necessarily, because there are many singer-songwriters in his era.

Because these two people are not a line at all, Zhou Shen is a pure singer who can't create, so his main business is singing. There is nothing to say about Zhou Shen's status in the new generation of Chinese music, although pure singers have become more and more unpopular in the market over the years, and we also feel that there are fewer and fewer pure singers, except for Zhou Shen, this generation of male singers with good singing skills, I only think of You Changjing and Zhou Feige.

Now the audience really likes to listen to heart-to-heart songs, as well as short video songs, so the musicians are mainly singer-songwriters.

But if you compare Zhou Shen with the previous popular pop singers in the Chinese music scene, I think that except for the old-timers Sun Nan and Tan Jing, Zhou Shen's singing skills are outstanding in the entire Chinese music scene. Zhou Shen's song flows into his heart and sublimates with the song. Ordinary songs have become no longer ordinary through Zhou Shen's interpretation. At least for the time being, the level of singing, personal morality, and popularity are impeccable.

Singers of pop music, rarely sing songs of positive energy to make people feel positive energy and sound good, singing red songs makes people devoted, in fact, I hope Zhou Shen will release a red song album. Zhou Shen except for black music (that is, RB, soul music, hip-hop, this kind of rhythm and pitch conversion is not very good at songs), most other music styles can be controlled, and they can be sung naturally.

Zhou Shen is definitely a unique existence among Chinese music singers, and now the music scene is not enough for a hundred schools of thought to contend, there are fewer and fewer young people who sing well, the threshold is lower, there are more tailors, and there are more people who can't sing accurately, so let's just say that the party is full of those faces every year, but at least we have a Zhou Shen.

Hua Chenyu is a singer-songwriter who mainly composes his own music (lyrics and arrangers are not, and neither are many singer-songwriters), because after 2010, the world's music scene is dominated by singer-songwriters, so there are quite a few well-known singer-songwriters in his generation.

is like a singer-songwriter in the mainstream music scene, Li Ronghao, who debuted in the Taiwanese music scene and is good at RB and barbar, then Liang Bo, who is the hottest rock in the market in this generation, and then Zhao Lei, Mao Buyi, etc.

Liang Bo and Zhao Lei actually went from the independent music scene to the mainstream, but they returned to the independent music scene, so they are very low-key. Then you say that Mao is not easy, Li Ronghao completely surpassed Hua Chenyu? Has it reached an era like Zhou Wang Taolin and Jay Chou who obviously surpassed other singer-songwriters and ruled the entire music scene?

I believe that even people who don't like Brilliance anymore can't come up with this answer, right?

Therefore, these two people are two directions of development, Hua Chenyu has more personal characteristics, which is also the characteristic of a singer-songwriter, it is difficult to be surpassed in his own original songs, people's energy is limited after all, so as long as this kind of singer outputs his feelings and wants to express his self-core to the audience, people who empathize with him will like him, because what he expresses may be what those people want to express.

Zhou Shen is more about expressing other people's hearts, such as songwriters, such as storylines, such as these with thematic colors, so such a singer must be proficient in all eighteen martial arts in singing, so that when he gets the song, he can better interpret the true core of the song.

The direction of their efforts is different, just like when they were in school, some people were good at science and some were good at humanities, and their aspirations for the college entrance examination were different.

Compare Hua Chenyu and Zhou Shen, their status in the Chinese music scene? That's where the difference comes in

If you want to compare the two in the past few years, it is probably Zhou Shen at the level of film and television OST and various commercial songs, obviously throwing Hua Chenyu to more than one position, you feel as if Zhou Shen is singing, and it is the same on various occasions and commercial activities, including the public occasions of the United Nations.

You will find that Cui Jian, Jay Chou, Tao Zhe, Wang Leehom, Lin Junjie and other OSTs are not as high as Zhou Shen, so are they not as good as Zhou Shen? If you want to say that Cui Jian is too old, and Jay Chou is also the previous generation, have you ever thought about a question, why is the first person in China to be the first OST to be Zhang Jie?

In fact, there are not so many twists and turns, the so-called film and television OST looks at two indicators, and the strength is never just one thing.

First, the current popularity is relatively high, with basic traffic and popularity, in contrast, Cui Jian and Jay Chou are in line with the social fashion of that era, and domestic film and television dramas have never paid attention to soundtracks and songs, and generally use the most popular and more popular ones at present.

So you will find Chinese film and television dramas OST, for a period of time there are always one or two people.

Like Zhang Jie, probably after "Counter War" in 2012, Chinese film and television dramas, games and commercial OSTs are all him, and his final film and television OST peak should be "I Am Not the God of Medicine".

Do you still remember Hu Xia after "Those Years" became popular? "Do You Know" contributed another wave, and then it was all him in those years, and Yu Kewei also had a bunch of film and television OSTs, has he been invisible in the past few years?

Hua Chenyu Film and Television OST around 2018, probably "The Legend of Wukong" and "Apostle Walker", what "Breaking the Sky" is also used.

Now the OST of Chinese film and television is male Zhou Shen, female Zhang Bichen, hip-hop uses GAI, and the May Day movie "Peacekeeping" is GAI.

The second is that the musician has been producing popular models, what style will he bind, and the capital will always use it if you see that you have always been popular, which is like the current film and television song creators Qian Lei and Tang Tian, who are always popular, always popular, and have always been popular, it may be more expensive, but the capital will definitely always use you.

Zhou Shen is a singer with a changeable style, Chinese style, two-dimensional, and even science fiction films, he will always use it if there is a hit, which is a normal thing.

Like Zhang Bichen, even if he started again after giving birth to a child, the film and television OST hit has been reduced a lot, until the "Cage" of "Disappearing Her" will become popular in 2023, and it will probably continue for several years. In reality, many things are not as complicated as netizens to take sides, take positions, and then criticize things, which are not as complicated as everyone imagines.

Zhou Shen or Hua Chenyu? The Chinese music scene has long been out of "leaders"

In the end, no matter how Hua Chenyu is a creator, writing songs by himself is not the same way as a pure singer like Zhou Shen, there is nothing to compare. Since the collapse of the record industry, this has completely changed the living ecology of musicians. Like Chinese independent musicians (who release their own singles, or albums to survive in music festivals and live tours), ordinary mainstream creators are similar, but like Hua Chenyu, there are also concerts and other commercial activities that are popular in China, so it is more frequent to post their own songs and albums.

Hua Chenyu debuted in 2013 and has released 5 pure music albums, Zhou Shen debuted in 2014, he is a singer with no creative ability, everyone recalls, in the past, most pure singers had an album or even several albums a year, and the four kings and other veteran singers had more than a dozen albums in their careers, or even dozens of albums, and even covers had to release albums, why?

Zhou Shen has only had one album in 7 years, and now he is about to release a second album. A big reason is that the market is different, singers don't rely on albums to survive as before, domestic ecological music variety shows, OST and commercial activities are the majority, so you will see a group of singers on music variety shows all day long, singing OST and various commercial songs.

There is no other meaning here, now that pure singers are developing more and more, Zhou Shen must be the top. The question is, how many singers like Zhou Shen are there in the Chinese music scene now?

This time, "Singer 2024" was beaten by foreign singers, netizens moved to rescue soldiers, basically the elderly, the new generation of good singing skills came and went, and the age was lower, and the pure singers were almost gone.

These two have strength in this generation of Chinese music, Zhou Shen's singing skills have nothing to say, in terms of music style, stage control ability and musical diversity, Hua Chenyu must belong to the ceiling level in the domestic generation. Zhou Shen's singing voice is beautiful, like a heavenly sound, Hua Chenyu is talented, and he has very little play in the Chinese pop music scene in that style.

Of course, Zhou Shen is suitable for all ages, Hua Chenyu is not something that everyone can get, most of Hua Chenyu's popularity will be persuaded by the mage, and if you don't listen to Hua Chenyu's works, you may not feel how good he is, Hua Chenyu can show his works mostly in the evening party and more in concerts, which has certain limitations.

And Zhou Shen is different, film and television OST has a great and certain degree of wide dissemination, of course, his other works are also very good, and they are indeed more suitable for the public, I just said that there are a lot of niche music of Hua Chenyu in terms of passers-by, including "Seven Personalities" and "Bullfighting", which many people will never listen to.

In the end, whether it is Hua Chenyu or Zhou Shen, they are actually musicians who debuted more than ten years ago. The peak of the pop music scene is almost ten years, and it can be twenty years to thirty years to maintain a breakthrough in function, you see that Zhou Wang Taolin is actually at the peak for more than ten years, Wang Leehom and Lin Junjie are longer, and middle-aged people can't carry it like young people, and the same is true at the creative level.

Speaking of people, what leaders do not lead leaders, in fact, Hua Chenyu and Zhou Shen are both of the previous generation.

The current Chinese music scene not only does not have Zhou Shen, but also Hua Chenyu.

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