After "Music 1999", "Listen to a Song and Then Say Love" once again recounted the Chinese music scene twenty years ago through a series of articles.
Yesterday we talked about some of the lucky ones who were nominated for the Golden Melody Award for Best Newcomer, in addition to them, there was also a group of newcomer singers in 2001 that should not be ignored.
From Hondo RuRu, Huang Guojun, Zhuo Wenxuan, to the Sweet Plum Band, Mizuki Nianhua Group, and then to Wong Kar Wai's support of Wu Enqi, although they did not receive the nomination for best newcomer, they had their own development opportunities.
01
On February 24, 2001, HondaRu released his debut album Beautiful Mood.
Compared with most newcomer singers, this female singer who was born in Shenyang, debuted in Japan, and then flew solo to Taiwan to re-debut, can no longer be simply regarded as a newcomer.
The experience of her debut in Japan has made her debut album incorporate many elements of Japanese pop music, and the album's title song "Beautiful Mood" is a cover of Miyuki Nakajima's "Province".
However, now it seems that Bendo RuRu's highest moment in the Chinese music scene is this "Beautiful Mood".
A year later, the Chinese album Single, released on January 8, 2002, turned out to be her last Chinese album to date.
02
Huang Guojun from Malaysia released his debut solo album "Love Time" on April 4.
This is a good album that has been overlooked by many people. Also an R&B singer, Huang Guojun's works have a unique natural freshness, and the whole album does not deliberately show off and does not have any aggression.
Although there are no particularly popular songs on the album, it is extremely comfortable to listen to in one breath, and works such as "Forget It", "Delete", "Retreat for Love", "Who Loves You to Eternity" and so on are not tired of listening.
Unfortunately, Huang guojun did not get much attention in 2001. Even though a year later he composed and sang the famous song "True Love Your Cloud" for the hit series "Wind and Clouds", he slowly became a behind-the-scenes producer.
By July 27, Rolling Stone Records had thrown out their secret weapon. Zhuo Wenxuan, who is only 15 years old, released his debut album "1986".
The name of the album is Zhuo Wenxuan's birth year, from the album name, cover design and song selection, it can be seen that the Rolling Stones are the main youth this time, hoping to reproduce the magic of Su Huilun and Xu Huaiyu.
However, Zhuo Wenxuan also rolled stones, and defeated also rolled stones.
Although after her debut, Rolling Stone Records used a lot of resources to create Zhuo Wenxuan, trying to make her a three-habitat superstar with the comprehensive development of film and television songs. However, it must be admitted that after entering the new century, Rolling Stone Records has lost the ability to create girl idols and national idols.
Coupled with the company's top management of Zhuo Wenxuan's positioning is too messy and complete, Zhuo Wenxuan's years in the Rolling Stones seem to be lively, but awkwardly in a tepid state, thus wasting the best youth.
03
A month after Zhuo Wenxuan's debut, the three-person band "Sweet Plum", composed of lead singer and guitarist Huang Jianxun, bass guitarist Li Baiye and drummer Lin Youqing, came out.
On August 25, Sweet Plum, which has been in the army for nearly three years, released their debut album "Is There Something Missing".
This is an album that opens the game and blows up, and it is this album that makes Sweet Plum a sub-band with a back shake in Taiwan, and even looking at the entire Chinese back rock circle, Sweet Plum is one of the best characters.
It's just that this band was born at the wrong time and didn't catch up with the best era of post-shake. Even though the albums after their debut were still shining, Sweet Plum had to announce its dissolution in March 2014, stopping their voyage.
Coincidentally, on September 26, 2001, a month after the debut album of the Sweet Plum, Lu Gengshu and Li Jian formed the Mizuki Nianhua group to launch their debut album "A Lifetime with You".
Although the 12 songs on the album contain the styles of different music genres such as Latin, classical, and world music, the mood created by each song has a distinct campus humanistic atmosphere.
Listening to this album, you will feel that the two singers are the young people who toss and turn on the college lawn every night, they sing about the life and the future, love, thinking and expectation of life when they were students.
It is a pity that this album is also an album that is the peak of the debut of "Mizuki Nianhua".
Soon Li Jian withdrew from Mizuki Nianhua, and from then on, no matter how the members of the group changed, their music lacked the original aura.
04
Finally, I have to mention the female singer Wu Enqi, who wong Kar Wai supports.
In 2000, after the release of Wong Kar-wai's film "Fancy Years", Universal Records released Wong Kar-wai's cross-border producer EP "The Colorful Years in the Eyes of Liang Chaowei".
Many friends will certainly not believe that the EP title song "Fancy Years" is not a chorus of Liang Chaowei and Maggie Cheung, and the woman who sang with Liang Chaowei was actually a newcomer Wu Enqi, who had not yet debuted at that time.
Everyone will not believe that Wong Kar-wai actually praised Wu Enqi and Liang Chaowei, who would speak with their eyes.
While Ng was preparing her debut album, Wong Kar-wai also helped her invite Korean king singer/producer SETH SHIN to produce songs.
On November 28, 2001, Wu finally released her debut self-titled album.
As if it were a joke, this confident album was actually Wu Enqi's first and last album as a singer.
It seems incredible, but it is logical.
The singer's profession is also a metaphysics that will be accomplished one by one.
Tomorrow's notice
Tomorrow we will continue to talk about new singers, but when these new singers released their first solo albums, they were already more famous than many popular singers.