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A few days ago, Song Yaxuan and Liu Yaowen of the Times Youth League sang the masterpiece "A Red Cloth" by Cui Jian, a veteran of domestic rock, on the hot search, and even some media called it the most intriguing event in the Chinese music scene in 2020.
The reason is because this representative rock song has been adapted into a complete boy band song. This infuriated rock lovers Chinese mainland, accusing the two post-00s teenagers of desecrating the spirit of rock and roll. But some people have stood up and said that "A Red Cloth" was reinterpreted in their own way after 00.
In the past two years, we can often hear rock songs in talent shows, and it seems that more and more musicians sing rock music are also increasing.
Rock and roll, as a form of music, is interpreted on stage and covered as a very normal thing.
Yao Zheng's photo of a happy boy in 2007
In fact, if you push forward more than a decade, no one will sing rock songs on the talent stage at that time, and there are few rock songs in entertainment programs.
The first person who dared to sing rock and roll to the draft stage was the fast man of the 07th class - Yao Zheng.
Friends who have watched that session of Happy Male Voice should remember Yao Zheng, the 11th strongest in the country, and even many fans call him his own rock initiator.
Yao Zheng kuainan sang the message under "Wait for the cake to eat and then say"
As the hottest happy male voice, Yao Zheng became famous overnight, full of dreams of reviving Chinese rock, but he did not expect that the fire would be extinguished quickly, and the voice of the fast man was constantly silent, and Yao Zheng also fell silent.
Yao Zheng, who is now the head of netease cloud music production department, has participated in the production of blockbuster songs such as "囍", "The Rest of My Life", and "Can You", and the number of songs played has exceeded 20 billion. Discovered and promoted countless excellent musicians, such as Yan Renzhong, Lao Fan next door, Ge Dongqi, and Jude, who was nominated for the Golden Melody Award for Best Chinese Male Singer.
Yao Zheng Weibo
I thought that Yao Zheng, who excavated one new star after another, should be successful and self-satisfied, but thinking of the last issue of "Le Xia 2", which blew up Yao Zheng's rock "love wounds", RollingStone big splash sniffed out yao Boss's story that seemed to have some "ambitions and unpaid" from this Weibo.
So sent an interview invitation to Boss Yao, I didn't expect him to agree very happily, this interview also made RollingStone big splash to see that the original person can be so back, and the record company signed a month on the company can not open a salary; in order to make money to make records, he sang in the excavator, sent takeaway, did live broadcasting; finally figured out the decision curve to save the country, and the result was that the boss ran away on the first day of LeTV's report...
RS: Rolling Stone Splash
YZ: Yao Zheng
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Boss Yao has something to say
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Yao Zheng Yao Zheng © in the Happy Boys in 2007
RS: Why did you choose to sing rock songs in the 2007 competition?
YZ: I just want more people to know about the existence of rock music and understand rock music.
But at that time, the music on the ground and underground was particularly clear, the ground is above ground, the underground is underground, if you go to entertainment programs as an underground band, others will think that you are a pseudo-shake, and then very repulsive to you.
When I was a child, watching the 94-year Hung Hom concert, including from Black Panther to Magic Rock Sanjie, I felt that these things were particularly good, more content than traditional pop music, more direct to people's hearts, but no one seemed to know.
At that time, Amway gave a lot of people that this musician and band were very good, but others might not pay the bill at all.
In 2007, I wanted to bring rock music to the mainstream platform of this happy male voice, so that everyone could hear these voices, and the biggest dream at that time was to revive Chinese rock.
RS: The message you posted on Weibo about the end of lexia, I feel that there is a lot of helplessness and sadness behind you for rock and roll.
YZ: At the end of "Le Xia", I saw Baojia Street performing on it, singing not "Little Bird" but "Good Night Beijing". "Goodnight Beijing" is more like the predecessor of "Beijing Beijing", a deeper and more heartfelt content, but it is not well known to the public, while "Goodnight Beijing" is silent in the sea, which is like a process of a little despair and hope.
When I saw that, a lot of memory lines were intertwined, and I felt that in the past 10 years, including the bands of "Le Xia", we were not known to the public at that time, and now there may be a better media platform or variety show, so that they can be known to everyone again, feel particularly pleased, and there is also a little bit of mixed feelings.
Because the first song I wrote was called "Wait Until There's Bread." A feeling that there is a bit of a conflict between reality and ideals is that especially in the state of everyone in the band, I hope that everyone can satisfy life, and then chase the dream, the material foundation and the kind of ridicule of the superstructure.
Yao Zheng Yao Zheng © when performing in a university band
RS: So how did you start singing, how did you get on the path of music?
YZ: When I was a child, I liked music, a bit almost obsessive, and even didn't want to go to the college entrance examination for music. And I myself have better academic performance My family does not want you to take the road of music, under the traditional education system, parents hope that their children can have a higher education to find a better job later, and music seems to be a partial door in the eyes of adults.
At that time, my family was very reluctant to let me make music, so they broke all the tapes for me and smashed the guitar.
RS: But you went down the path of music anyway.
YZ: Yes, the rebelliousness and restlessness of adolescence at that time, the more people objected to me, the more I had to do it.
Especially in college, you often feel that your soul wants to rush out of your body, and that's when rock 'n' roll saved me, and he let you find an outlet in real life and confusion about the future.
Yao Zheng Yao Zheng © in college
RS: Did your dream since childhood was to sing rock 'n' roll?
YZ: When I was a kid, all the dreams of band people were to be rock stars, but when I was in college, I seemed to understand that when my college band was at its hottest, I smashed the guitar, and I wanted to do business and make good money. Then open a LiveHouse in the local area, bring in all the bands I like, and sing a song with him.
When I was 20 years old, I made a few wishes, the first of which was that I wanted to go to Beijing and see the Midi Music Festival; the second was that I wanted to tour the whole country, and I got a bus to tour with my band; and the third was to release an album of my own.
As a result, I realized it in half a year, and I also improved the original forced grid a lot, but there was a feeling of swallowing dates, and I didn't really feel it at all.
At that time, the music production team was all the highest pressing, and the MVs and magazines were the best at that time. The national tour is also the kind of 80,000-person stadium. The stadium was full, and all the performances were full after 13 performances.
In 2007, Yao Zheng, the top © 13 national voices of Happy Male Voice
RS: What was it like to be in the top 13 and become famous overnight?
YZ: It's okay, material life hasn't changed much, it's just that people are on fire, and they can't get on the streets.
We were almost on fire with Li Yuchun at that time, our first trip to Chengdu, the flight attendant chased down directly from the plane, said I don't do it, I will chase you, and then the whole Chengdu airport was paralyzed, behind are crazy fans, chasing the car almost 500 meters.
The hotel is full of fans, and your clothes will be torn apart by the fans around you, which is really no different from the overnight fame in the movie.
But then you need to burst these flashy bubbles one by one and re-examine yourself, otherwise you may not be able to clearly judge and decide for your future.
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Yao Zheng performed when © Yao Zheng
RS: What do you think of the older generation of Chinese rock singers whose songs are actually imitated by American rock songs from the 60s?
YZ: In fact, we were imitating the band in the early stages, after all, the form of rock band is an imported product. But I think the older generation of rock bands have done better than they are now in terms of Chinese rock characteristics, such as Cui Jian, Xie Tianxiao, second-hand roses, will add a lot of Chinese elements in the song, I think this kind of Chinese characteristics is our vitality.
Yao Zheng yao zheng © at work
RS: So how do you think rock 'n' roll has changed from a decade ago?
YZ: Everyone did not have the previous competition and screw, before everyone for the style of rejection is particularly obvious, what above and below, rock folk songs are particularly small circle layer, now the entry of the capital market, everyone seems to understand, in fact, this is what I wanted to see 10 years ago rock music should have, do not exclude the platform does not exclude the media, things are good to take out, the market will naturally give you the answer.
Mainly because the whole environment is too impetuous now, the things that appear are fast moving consumer goods, in this era can make people deeply understand that you are really difficult, everyone uses music as a purposeful content, such as afternoon tea song list, fitness song list.
But the more this time period, the kind of music that can really stab you like a knife deeply can stay for a long time, and I hope that more bands with content and attitude can appear.
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"A Cheerful Song of Lost Love" single cover © Yao Zheng
RS: When did you find it hardest since you raced in '07 to now?
YZ: The hardest time is when your parents think you can't do it.
RS: What have you done all these years?
YZ: After the race, everything went quiet and I decided to make an album for myself. This album, from the lyrics, songs, arrangements, recordings, to the cover, the design of the inner pages, the entrance printing, etc., are all handled by me.
It was made from 2009 onwards, and it was done for two years, which was really bloody. At that time, there was really no money, eating a cage of steamed dumplings a day, and every time I received the performance money, I began to give others recording fees and studio fees! I began to live with the piggy bank.
Finally the album was finished, the recording industry was finished, and then I finally signed a contract with a company, and the company collapsed within a few days, and finally only the albums I didn't sell were left in the shed.
The album was finished, but there was no promotion, and certainly no fire. In 2013, I went to participate in the good voice, went to be able to make money to continue to make music, than the end and caught up with the limited entertainment, our commercial performances that year were basically nothing, more is the performance of the government class of national enterprises, similar to "China's good voice - China's good kitchen cabinet, China's good furniture, China's good motorcycle".
Once, at a performance by an excavator manufacturer, the boss said who can sit on the excavator and sing me plus money, and I said I came.
At that time, in order to save money to make a new album, I dared to come to anything.
Yao Zheng's debut album cover © Yao Zheng
RS: It's really not easy for you to stick with it all the time.
YZ: At that time, my girlfriend thought that I didn't have a play, that I couldn't make money from music, and that I couldn't give her a stable future and run away with others. When this kind of bad bridge in the TV series makes you encounter it in life, you will still feel that your three views and life have been subverted.
Later, I felt that my relationship with music was getting more and more wrong, and I originally felt that music should be like a "lover", raising eyebrows and foaming at each other, and paying was rewarded.
Later, I found out that the music I was looking for was a "lover", every time you made a table of dishes to call her, she would always say, sorry these two days are a little busy, can't go, that feeling, and then you are hurt again and again, every time you eat this table dish, and then find that there is no gain, feel the music pressed on the ground again and again, when you are about to be beaten and begged for forgiveness, I am thinking, I can't serve, I should live first, before I have the opportunity to find you again.
Yao Zheng Yao Zheng © at the time of the chicken bully
At that time, various IP and co-branded restaurants were relatively popular, and I opened a brand called Jibaba at that time. It was very hard, every day at five or six o'clock to get up to go into the chicken, deliver food at noon, and drink with friends in the evening. Going out to deliver food, being stopped by security guards in high-end communities, and being picked up by dogs in remote villages have become commonplace.
I don't really want to remember that decade, and sometimes I often tell musicians now, your times are really good, and I'm glad you haven't experienced ours.
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Yao Zheng
RS: What do you think is the biggest difference between netease cloud users and shrimp and tencent?
YZ: NetEase cloud has its own music content, now independent musicians registered in NetEase cloud there are 200,000, NetEase cloud more users are really like music, like to dig new music and songs on it, they are a wave of people who have appeals to music, not only this APP as a listening software, but a social platform.
RS: You've now listened to a lot of songs because you're a producer pushing a lot of singers or songwriters, what do you think is the fun of music that the public likes now?
YZ: Actually, it hasn't changed in so many years. First of all, from the composition point of view, or the most commonly used harmony trends in our previous music; the other is that the chorus must have a social trend, what is the social trend? It is what this society lacks, what you give. Why will this kind of song be popular for the rest of my life, because of the lack of sincere love. The other is the sinking ground, which can resonate with anyone.
There is also a favorite of the public, that is, the lyrics are idiotic men and women, 70% of the songs in the fire are in love, for example, the song "Green", although it is green, but he uses a very ridiculous way to describe it, basically you analyze the Chinese song is unable to run away from these roads.
The last thing is to be unique. The story you just started telling must be something that everyone loves to hear, and then there's a thing that you have your own characteristics in it, and that's complete.
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"Baiziwan Road" single cover © Yao Zheng
RS: Are you still making music?
YZ: I wrote a couple of songs later, but I wanted to wait until I was really relatively free. Because I still have the status of a music producer, like I just said, I know what songs can be fired.
I just want to be a little more egotistical, and I don't want to think about these things and those things before I make music seriously.
Now I feel that the opportunity has not arrived, and I will not be satisfied with making it, not the quality of production or the song, but the satisfaction of my own mentality. Because, sometimes I watch music recordings and songs, and I'm very hot-eyed and want to try, but I've never stepped into that field, and I don't want to touch it now.
Maybe one afternoon I figured it out and did it.
RS: It may also take time to recover from a previous injury that is too deep.
YZ: When I was 30, I wrote a song for my 20-year-old self. I especially wanted to talk to myself. One of the lyrics goes something like this, "I want to talk to my 20-year-old self and rest assured, I don't blame you for the realistic ferry tickets you discarded, please look me in the eye, listen carefully, keep quiet, I'm afraid you'll lose, I'm afraid you'll lose your original pride." ”
RS: Will you continue to write rock-and-roll songs later?
YZ: Definitely!
RS: Why do you have such a deep affection for rock and roll?
YZ: Because, in itself, the songs that my people sing with are all hanging, and they can't change.
I think what I'm so good about now is that I often tease myself, and I tell myself that it's okay, it's all right, it's all right, special A Q.
In fact, the songs I have written have always been very Q, like the first song "Wait until there is cake to eat", as well as "I am not married", "A cheerful song of lost love" and so on.
In fact, "Wait until you have a cake" was a dream I had the night before I entered the competition. I was going to sing another song before I went to auditions, and then I had a dream that I was bare-buttocked, in a forest-like place, and everyone around was laughing, there were my neighbors, and there was a university teacher or something, saying that he didn't even have clothes to wear when he saw music. I got up in the middle of the night and wrote paragraph A with tears in my eyes.
However, the lyrics of the chorus are written on the first page of my civil service examination, "In fact, we are all opponents of fate, but I don't want to sit sadly next to you, in fact, we are all the saddest members." ”
At that time, I just wanted to express that I could take the civil service exam, I could become a member of your world, but I would not change my personality, and one day I would still leave.
This song is like a harbinger of my 10 years.
Tonight I applied to have another dream
In my dreams, I am no longer an angry youth
I dreamed that I had a little money to drive a car
I'm okay with drinking a little wine and singing a little song
I sang desperately in the bar that day
Suddenly, I saw my second eldest wife next door again
She cast envious glances at me
In fact, that kind of gaze hurts me even more."