"Disgusting, tacky, it's not a song."
"There's no technical content, no melody, no arrangement."
In 2020, when the online divine comedy "Thunder" was on fire, Yang Kun was in the live broadcast, and "made a big fuss" about the divine comedy.
So after the live broadcast, he was happy to mention the hot search.
Searching for news related to Yang Kun, this is not the first time Yang Kun has fired at Internet songs, as early as when he was just famous, he said that Internet songs such as "Rats Love Rice" have set pop music back 15 years.
In addition, Yang Kun also said that Daolang's songs are not music, publicly debunked Yang Mi's fake singing, and even said that Andy Lau is not a singer in the strict sense.
Some of these remarks have made him highly criticized to this day, and some have won him the favor of passers-by.
Some people think that he is just rubbing heat, and some people think that he really dares to say it.
Some people are more curious, 30 years old to successfully become popular, in the pop music circle for more than ten years, Yang Kun, how to be like a hairy boy, can say anything?
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In 1972, Yang Kun was born in Inner Mongolia to an ordinary dual-career family.
Because his parents were busy at work, he was fostered in the countryside by his grandparents' house, flocks of sheep and wheat stacks, and grew up with him.
When he reached school age, he returned to his parents.
His father was in the unit and was a professional erhu hand in the propaganda team.
He was very strict with Yang Kun, but Yang Kun found that as long as he was immersed in music, his father became literary and gentle.
Is this the power of music? Yang Kun was curious and unconsciously immersed in it.
At that time, children who wanted to show their talents could only achieve it through the Children's Palace.
Yang Kun, who loves music, also wants to sing a song in the Children's Palace and declare his talent.
Anyway, the first time he performed, he had no experience, he was too nervous, he stood on the stage and practiced the song a thousand times, forgot everything, and could only look at the audience and judges who laughed under the stage with a blank mind.
This time, the teacher was unfavorable, so that his parents felt that he was too humiliated, and also thought that he should no longer cling to useless hobbies, and even forbade him to practice singing.
Yang Kun also began to doubt himself and became more introverted.
Li He has a poetry cloud: "The young man's heart should be cloudy, who reads the cold sitting uh- ”
Although his parents did not ask Yang Kun that he should have Ling Yun's ambition, they believed that he should master a technique that could support his family.
So after graduating from high school, his father arranged for him to enter the steel factory and become a welder.
The cookie-cutter sound of welding, the tapping of mechanical tools, and the piercing sound of steel bars and chainsaws drowned out yang Kun's budding musical dreams.
But for a teenager in a rebellious period, the more boring the reality, the more active the dream.
As material life became more secure, the steel mills set up a club to enrich the spiritual life of the workers.
Yang Kun, a teenager who has not yet learned to balance the conflict between reality and ideals, has finally found a place to release his troubles.
He watched the singers on the stage who were about the same age as himself, and the dreams of singing that he had once had revived.
He is no longer the child who can be controlled by his parents, he is eager to stand on the stage and sing the songs that have not been sung again; to put the dreams that were once forced to be shelved into life.
So Yang Kun tried to overcome his shyness and introversion, tried to associate with the people in the club, and occasionally sang to them.
In this way, he finally waited for a chance to perform.
It was the second year of Yang Kun's becoming a welder, the club's lead singer took a leave of absence because of illness, and the staff who had heard Yang Kun sing suggested that Yang Kun try it.
Yang Kun restrained his excitement and sang the most skilled song "Annie".
At that time, his voice was not yet hoarse, and after singing a song, the club owner found that this guy who did not talk much was actually better than the lead singer.
So the boss gave him 5 yuan and invited him to become a full-time singer for the club.
Of course, Yang Kun was willing, and Yang Kun's parents, seeing that the money he earned from singing was much higher than that of the welder, went with him.
Yang Kun did not expect that the stage of the club was the starting point for him to become a singer from a welder.
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After becoming a full-time singer in the club, Yang Kun finally integrated reality and ideals.
It was supposed to be a good time, he participated in many singing competitions, and the ranking was not bad.
Later, with the support of his parents, he entered the Inner Mongolia Armed Police Cultural and Labor Troupe, not only learning related musical instruments, but also participating in various literary and artistic performances.
In the 90s, bars and nightclubs sprang up, and many young people with musical dreams would sing in them.
Yang Kun, who wants to make singing a lifelong career, naturally does the same. And as he began to make a name for himself, the price of a song has risen to 50 yuan.
Yang Kun, who is not yet 20 years old, is considered to be young and ambitious.
However, because Yang Kun did not receive professional training and improper singing methods, after a long time, he suffered from vocal cord summaries and had to go to Beijing for surgery.
Yang Kun, who came to Beijing for the first time, saw a world completely different from his hometown.
There are so many bars and nightclubs, singing opportunities everywhere, the singers here are trendy and cool, and the music here is rich and diverse.
Yang Kun looked at this colorful and bustling city, and the thought of wanting to stay came up irrepressibly.
So after the vocal cord surgery was completed, he returned to Inner Mongolia, forgot the doctor's admonition, and began to sing before his voice could recover, resulting in tearing the vocal cords and making his voice hoarse.
But Yang Kun didn't care, because he had only one thought in his mind — to go to Beijing to sing.
When Yang Kun was demobilized from the armed police force at the age of 22, he packed his bags and ran non-stop to Beijing, where he had longed for.
With a passion for youth, he decided to realize his musical ambitions in this metropolis.
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People always say that the ideal is very full, the reality is very bone.
Beijing seems to have many opportunities, but young people like Yang Kun are also everywhere.
In Inner Mongolia, Yang Kun can be regarded as the best singer, but when he arrives in Beijing, he is just one of countless ordinary north drifters with youthful enthusiasm.
After wandering around Beijing for a while, Yang Kun finally found that the bustling City of Beijing, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and those ordinary bars and nightclubs, there is no shortage of good singers.
What is even worse is that Yang Kun's hoarse voice is too unique, and no one has yet understood how to appreciate it.
As he became more and more financially stretched, his music became a distant dream, and the daily priority was to survive in Beijing.
For this reason, he slept in the bathhouse hall for a month, ate only one bowl of noodles a day, and rubbed everywhere... In short, during the turbulent and displaced years of north drift, Yang Kun later recalled that he moved as many as 55 times in 1 year.
Maupassant said that the world is not as good as you think, nor as bad as you think.
Although the hardships of life exceeded Yang Kun's imagination, it was during this time that he met the most unforgettable relationship in his life.
The girl was his fellow countryman, dancing at night shows and earning a steady income every month.
In the face of Yang Kun, who has no fixed place and is enough to support herself, she not only chooses to be with him, but also uses more than 1,000 yuan of income, so that Yang Kun does not have to be hungry and full, nor does she need to move frequently.
It's just that Yang Kun's future has been chaotic.
He did not know how to please the guests, nor did he know how to be close to the boss, and Yang Kun, who was stunned, was very sloppy in the night scene of red wine and green.
From 1994 to 1998, Yang Kun's career did not grow at all, the night singing did not know how to cater, always half a month to be fired, sent to the record company to write their own songs, but also all returned.
All along, Yang Kun's eating and wearing degree has relied on his girlfriend, and the long-term unmotivity has also made him more and more sensitive, and even unable to face himself.
In a tough reality, he and his girlfriend argue and hurt each other until they are exhausted and eventually break up.
After all, his girlfriend still loved him, and when Yang Kun left, she gave him the most valuable gold chain on his body.
Yang Kun, who was rubbed on the ground by reality, exchanged the gold chain for 800 yuan and lived in a dark, damp and cramped basement.
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Thomas Fuller said that it was darkest before dawn.
Yang Kun, who has lost his career and lost love, has been coming to Beijing for almost 6 years, and Sha Baoliang and Man Wenjun, who drifted north together, have successively released records and begun to become popular.
Only he, with no fixed singing place, sent out songs, is still being returned.
At that time, Yang Kun was already "completely hopeless and ready to fend for himself." ”
But the habit of writing songs that he has developed over the years has made him a little unwilling.
Those pains of life, emotional wounds, he all recorded in the song, at the moment of wanting to give up, looking back at these creations, Yang Kun still decided to try again.
In 2002, Yang Kun finally ushered in a turning point in his life when he was 30 years old and drifted north for nearly 10 years.
Chen Lin, a singer who was in the limelight in the mainland at that time, accidentally heard a musical sample sent by Yang Kun, was attracted by his unique voice, and recommended Yang Kun to the company.
At that time, Chen Lin had already ascended to the throne of the mainland pop music.
With the blessing of the song queen, Yang Kun's signing was very smooth.
And Yang Kun faced the sudden arrival of the opportunity, there is no youthful blood boiling, some are a drum after the vicissitudes!
Based on his ten years of experience, he wrote and released his first album, It Doesn't Matter.
Yang Kun does not feel that he can soar to the sky, can make a record, let people begin to know him, it is enough to support himself to continue to work hard.
But the response of "It Doesn't Matter" was unexpectedly good, the streets and alleys were his singing, Yang Kun was on the street, and even some people recognized him!
Soon, he released his second album, the title song once again spread throughout all audio stores, and successfully won the Newcomer Award, Golden Melody Award and other music awards.
The 31-year-old Yang Kun has finally changed from a North Drift singer who was rejected everywhere to a popular singer recognized by the public, the market, and the music scene!
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Yang Kun once said in an interview: "I am a person with a bad life, and I always can't understand the world." ”
Originally ten years of tempering, once popular, life to the peak, Yang Kun's story, is a great and complete inspirational model.
But life is Pandora's box, and that belated popularity has not brought Yang Kun's long-lost achievements.
When making the second album, Yang Kun's concept and the company were not unified, and he had been deadlocked with the company.
At the same time, because too many announcements have compressed the time for song creation, Yang Kun has borne great mental pressure.
The world was never what he imagined, and he didn't know where he was going or whether to continue.
In the constant self-entanglement, after the second album was reluctantly released, Yang Kun's work could not continue, it was completely suspended, and he himself suffered from depression.
The entertainment industry has an inspirational meme: "Bitter is not bitter, tired is not tired, think of Yang Kun's old predecessors." ”
At this time, Yang Kun was not easy to become popular, and it seemed that he had entered a dead end in life.
As if it was a flash in the pan, he who had just become popular disappeared into the public eye.
Until 2014, Yang Kun, who had been silent for a long time, finally came out of the trough and ushered in the red again.
He not only appeared on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala, but also was invited to become the mentor of "The Voice of China".
On the stage of "The Voice", when he saw the boy who had drifted north for 8 years, singing with his eyes closed and clenched his fists, the same sad past made Yang Kun can't help but cry on the spot: "I know that kind of bitterness too well." ”
Since then, Yang Kun has also participated in many music programs, and when he hears those songs full of stories, Yang Kun is always easily moved.
In the era of the rise of various talent shows, Yang Kun envied the trainees for catching up with the good times, and always did his best to give the trainees a better chance.
Some netizens have commented: Yang Kun in the singing program has a sincere pursuit of music, and has a love that is not deliberate but from the heart.
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Yang Kun, who is now 49 years old, has his own villa and mansion in Beijing, and no longer needs to move away from home.
After entering the Chinese music scene for more than ten years, he has achieved fame and is no longer the young man who is rejected everywhere.
In those bitter and intertwined days, Yang Kun never took a memory, but occasionally, he would think of himself who had no money and no fame, but had a pure love and yearning for music.
The torrent of time is rushing forward, under the rolling pressure of the great wheel of the times, everything has changed.
In the face of changes in the music market, Yang Kun will no longer force himself to depression because of the problem of ideas.
Outside of music, he also tried to be a variety show, an actor, and a host.
It's just that whether it's thinking or speaking, Yang Kun is far from the rhythm of the show, and every time he finishes recording the show, he can't recognize his performance: "I acted too much in the show, and I earned some money to come back and blame myself." ”
Whether before or after he became famous, his stunned personality that did not know how to pander and did not know how to please seemed to have not changed.
Whether it is Yang Kun who calls for network songs, or Yang Kun who debunks fake songs, scares Knife Lang, and questions Andy Lau, through many controversies, in fact, he has always been the dream seeker who has a musical dream, but in the reality that he can't understand, the head is broken and bleeding, and he still insists.