2004 was the most prosperous year in the Chinese music scene. Countless classic songs have spread to the streets and alleys, known as the "first year" of the Internet Divine Comedy.
Jay Chou's "Qilixiang", Lin Junjie's "Jiangnan", Fan Weiqi's "Initial Dream", etc., this year, countless songs circulated are representatives of an era, and they are still sung by people.
"Dear you fly slowly, be careful of the thorny roses in front", for the post-90s, this lyric will not be unfamiliar. The singer of this song is named Pang Long.
Speaking of Pang Long, many slightly younger friends may feel strange, but our parents basically chose to use his songs as their own call ringtones in the era when smart phones were not yet popular.
Back then, the streets and alleys were occupied by this song. With this song, Pang Long won various awards.
However, after the carnival, it is lonely, and many people are very curious, why did Pang Long suddenly disappear when he was red and half of the sky?
01
Pang Long, a native of Northeast China, was born in 1971 in Liaoning. There are 4 brothers and sisters in the family, the family is poor since childhood, relying only on the father to earn money to support the family, and the mother is only a housewife.
At that time, the 35-year-old Father Pang was very fond of this old man, and as the only man in the family, although he did not have a solid family situation, he still had no worries about food and clothing.
When he was young, Pang Long's father gave Pang Long great expectations. I hope that Pang Long can be admitted to the university and honor his ancestors. But in junior high school, Pang Long became obsessed with music and aspired to become a singer ever since.
After graduating from junior high school, Pang Long did not go to high school as his father expected, so as to enter the university, but directly chose a vocational high school near his home.
At the age of 18, his father died of lung cancer, leaving 20,000 yuan for him to beg his daughter-in-law to live a solid life, but he turned around and bought a musical instrument and left his father's last wish behind.
After entering the high school, Pang Long did not give up his pursuit of music. In the evening, they go to the nearby bars to sell songs, one can increase their income, and the other can improve their professional level.
After graduating from high school, Pang Long began to enter the society to become the pillar of the family, worked as a skilled worker on the construction site, and later inherited his father's business as an electrician.
But this is all a hard-working job that does not earn money, and it is impossible to support a large family. But this is not the improvement, once fell to the bottom of the Pang Long, confused and helpless is often there.
02
After spending seven years in this way, watching his sisters grow up, Pang Long could also support himself, and the burden on his family was not so heavy, so he once again embarked on his own music path and applied for the Shenyang Conservatory of Music.
After graduating, Pang Long was full of ambition, thinking that he could become famous in one fell swoop, but unexpectedly ushered in the first ordeal in his life.
In 2000, when Chinese music broke out, Singers such as Liang Jingru, Jay Chou, Eason Chan, yuquan and other singers were simply immortal fights, and the divine comedies "Courage", "The King of K Songs" and "Cold to the End" spread throughout the land of China, and also made many singers popular.
So he smashed the pot and sold iron, spent 500,000 yuan, and made an album "Life Trilogy", which can be said to have spent all his money on this album.
He thought he would become popular and become the next music superstar, but reality gave him a slap in the face. I didn't expect that after the release of this album, no one cared at all, and the 500,000 yuan was also a loss, which made the confident Pang Long suffer a great blow.
In a moment of despair, Pang Long thought of suicide, and then his friends around him pulled him back on the verge of suicide. Let him stay in a bar in Xi'an, so that he can barely make ends meet.
Pang Long was very depressed during that time, when Niu Chaoyang was working as a producer of the TV series "281 Letters", which was supervised by Liu Xiaoqing and had a large number of interludes.
Originally, these songs had been set up as singers, but before the recording, the singer had a car accident and could not sing, so Niu Chaoyang had to find Pang Long to help.
But Pang Long refused, feeling that the song was not suitable for him. In the end, under the repeated requests of Niu Chaoyang, Pang Long was helpless to start singing this song.
After Pang Long sang, he felt that this song was too warm and would not be hot at all, but he did not expect that this song was not only on fire, but also "fire", a household name, from the elderly in their fifties and sixties to the children of six or seven years old, more or less will hum a few words.
At the same time, the song "Two Butterflies" became the most popular color bell, and also in 2004, Jay Chou debuted at the Spring Festival Gala, and he launched the album "Qilixiang" to sell three million.
That year, "Mouse Loves Rice" earned 170 million yuan, and often occupied the first place in the music charts, while the emergence of "Two Butterflies" quickly overshadowed the limelight of "Mouse Loves Rice" and also earned 240 million.
Later, under the strength of the agency, Pang Long quickly became popular and became a popular Internet singer.
03
When Jay Chou firmly grasped the market of young people, Pang Long's songs were more in line with the market of middle-aged and elderly people.
The next year Pang Long took advantage of the victory to pursue, he released the album "You are my rose", the same is a catchy, simple lyrics, a little earthy love song,
Once the song was published, it once again created a monopoly on the charts. This album proved the strength of Pang Long, who won several awards for best male singer that year.
At the same time, he was also invited to participate in Jackie Chan's charity party and sang "True Heart Hero" with Jackie Chan. Four times on the spring festival gala stage, but also opened a concert, for a time Pang Long is like the sun in the sky.
Although Pang Long's singing career is in the sky, at the same time, it is also criticized. Some people even said bluntly that Pang Long's songs have pulled down the trend of Chinese music for 20 years.
Many professional musicians in the music industry think that his songs are too earthy to be on the table, and many young people also scorn them. It is like The Daolang who became popular in the early Pang Long for two years also brushed the music scene with a song "The First Snow of 2002".
After that, it triggered a scolding war in the music world.
Wang Feng said that such music makes the aesthetic backwards, and Na Ying said that if Dao Lang goes to the Spring Festival Gala, she will smash the TV. The criticism of DaoLang at that time was completely appropriate for Pang Long, and his songs also had a strong earthy taste.
In particular, Pang Long's fifth album "Start If You Marry Me" in 2007 will carry out the earthy flavor to the extreme, and the lyrics of the title song, 'Many people say that I am the most handsome, thick eyebrows and big eyes look like a hair brother',
Such unimposed lyrics are sung so bluntly, and they are also popular with many middle-aged men, especially in the northeast region.
Friend Li Jian believes that Online songs will not become recognized classics, and advises him not to sing songs all the time, but he can't listen to them at all.
04
Pang Long, who floated up, hit the iron while it was hot, held a concert directly in Beijing, and invested a lot of money for publicity, and the media told him that Andy Lau and he had a concert one day, advising him not to have a hard confrontation with the King of Heaven.
But Pang Long confidently believed that his popularity would be full, and said that the king's song was not as attractive as his new song. Pang Long also said unashamedly that I have a high degree from the Conservatory of Music.
He felt that his fans were young, the two fan groups were different, and there was no conflict at all, so there was nothing to worry about. Even if his assistant asked him to postpone the concert, he was adamant and said that he was ashamed.
Unexpectedly, on the day of the concert, two singers and two venues, one was overcrowded, one was cold, Pang Long's concert tickets only sold 2,000 tickets, and Andy Lau's concert was difficult to find, so the next door King's concert on the same day earned a lot of money, and Pang Long's side of the blood loss.
Since then, Pang Long's popularity has plummeted, and he has truly seen the power of the Heavenly King, realizing that it is easy to be red for a while, and it is too difficult for a lifetime for red. There is still a difference between Internet singers and regular singers in the music industry, and how can saliva songs compete with classic golden songs?
05
At this time, Pang Long had become a once-in-a-lifetime, vulgar singer, and it just so happened that he went to participate in the warm-up of an awards ceremony, when he was shortlisted for best male singer and went to a university to solicit votes.
When Pang Long opened his voice, the students at the scene welcomed him in a warm way, throwing waste paper, banana peels, and garbage on the stage, booing, and even a paper ball was thrown on Pang Long's body.
At this time he stopped the music and said very angrily, I am a singer, you can't insult me when singing, I have never seen such an unqualified audience as you.
Pang Long was then confronted with more intense ridicule and insults, as well as various attacks, and in the end he failed to complete the performance.
At this time, Pang Long began to reflect on himself, he believed that all his fame and fortune and infamy were brought about by this series of songs such as "Two Butterflies".
So he proposed to his agency that he would no longer sing and create songs with the same musicality as "Two Butterflies", but he did not expect to suffer from the company's dissatisfaction.
To know that the copyright of this song, commercial performances and other income has reached 240 million yuan, giving up this song undoubtedly gave up a cash cow, the company naturally will not agree.
In the end, Pang Long reached an agreement with the company, he gave up the singing rights to this series of famous songs, and he was voluntarily hidden in the snow. In those years, "Two Butterflies" was still constantly covered, but the income no longer went into Pang Long's pocket, he also faded out of the music scene, and after the contract with the record company expired, the two sides ended the cooperation.
06
After leaving the company, Pang Long did not sing his original famous song again, even if he sang it in the program, he changed his face beyond recognition.
After that, he pursued his musical dreams and successively produced music with his own unique style such as "Brother Hug" and "Brother Cheers".
Because he is insisting on his independent creation, even if he "disappears" in the music world, he must also adhere to his own creative concept. Since he could not return to his peak moment, Pang Long did not have a special attachment to still pursue his inner music.
Although Pang Long now has lost the fame of his peak period, he still insists on creating the music he loves.
On his Weibo, there are still many fans willing to support him, although there are few dynamics, but at least it proves that Pang Long has never given up.
Although Pang Long does not often appear in the public eye, he has not left music for so many years, and is said to have become a tenured professor at a conservatory, teaching and educating people, and cultivating the next generation of musical talents for China.
In any case, Pang Long chose his original intention of making music, which caused dissatisfaction from the agency, so he was "snow hidden", the contract expired, and Pang Long chose to become a free man.
07
After 2010, the music market began to slump, the output of Jay Chou and Sun Yanzi declined, the song world was no longer a hammer, and many popular Online songs were short-lived.
Pang Long occasionally appears in CCTV's variety shows, and he is still a well-known mainstream singer, but he no longer accepts interviews or participates in commercial performances, and has become much more low-key.
In life, Pang Long has a very loving wife, who once revealed at the new album launch in 2013 that he and his wife have been in love for more than twenty years.
At that time, Pang Long was only 42 years old, it seems that the two met when they were teenagers, it is said that his wife is also a teacher, the two have a son, now more than ten years old, studying in Beijing, the family of three is very happy.