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In a way, it's already hard for you to escape your new pants.
"Do you want to dance", "people without culture are not sad", the life material collected from short video platforms such as Weibo, Douyin, kuaishou and so on has been mixed together, absurd, funny, bitter, bitter, and BGM that always adapts to new pants.
In 2019, "Summer of the Band" pushed the old band that was established for more than twenty years to a peak, variety shows, advertisements, and even square dances, all of which are playing songs of new pants, and the announcements of band members are more than Peng Lei's Weibo spitting bitter water, "Recently I am not happy, I am forced to work every day, very annoying." Band members frequently appear on the side of stars, singers, and bizarre debaters.
It's almost certain that New Pants is already the most popular rock band in China today.
This isn't the first time new pants have become famous, or rather, new pants aren't such a boost. One statistic can corroborate this: in March 2019, before participating in Lexia, New Pants held a "New Wave" concert at the Beijing Workers' Gymnasium, and tickets were sold out within ten minutes.
In 1998, the band released their eponymous debut album New Pants, which was named one of the top ten albums of the year by Audiovisual World and Popular Songs magazines.
In 2006, new pants that began to play new wave and popular electronic music released their fourth album "Dragon Tiger Ren Dan", which directly led to a wave of fascination with retro and domestic products.
In 2013, the former Disco Queen Zhang Qiang made a comeback, peng Lei and Pang Kuan produced the album "Don't Ask Me What Disco Is" for her, "successfully pulling the focus of attention in the 21st century back to idealism and the beautiful feelings of the 80s".
In 2016, New Pants wrote the highly popular "Life Is Hot Because of You" and "Do You Want to Dance", and the media called New Pants "an idol rock band with live vitality and creativity" and "the most fashionable band in China".
The new pants that have come to the "ground" are receiving more and more scrutiny, such as sisters on the waves, singers, parties, strange talks, dancing girl group dances, and changing lyrics with the program group, the flow is accompanied by controversy, and all kinds of rock fans are arguing.
Once, they wrote "This is our time" and "I would like to, enjoy every day of suffering.". Later, they wrote "Forget about the era of rock 'n' roll, galloping and never ending". Most recently, they wrote "On the street at midnight, we are talking about the day / Literary video electronic music / Don't say goodbye Please don't go far".
During the winter vacation of the first year of high school, several students who loved rock and roll gathered at Pang Kuan's home for rehearsals, and Shang Xiao and Liu Bao, two Beijing children who lived nearby, also joined in. Because the technology is too poor, and there is only one acoustic guitar, in order to create a heavy metal distorted guitar effect, several people installed a pressure electromagnetic film on the acoustic guitar and connected a tape recorder that broke the horn to simulate. At that time, Pang Kuan had not yet joined the band, but only gave them the band name of "Shape Master of the Metal Workshop".
In 1992, a heavy metal band called Tang Dynasty released the self-titled album Tang Dynasty, which sold 12 million tapes, including pirated copies. The aggressiveness of the distorted guitar, the cool shape of long hair, leather coats, sunglasses, and the girls around the musicians have an irresistible appeal to Peng Lei and Pang Kuan, who have just been admitted to arts and crafts school. "Maybe because I am too inferior, I don't have anything to show off." Rock music preaches rebellion, no culture, there are girls, anyway, the music is very noisy, very noisy. ”
Peng Lei, who followed the trend, also tried to grow long hair for a period of time, but the hair grew to the front of the ass groove, and the heavy metal was outdated.
The next wave is punk, a form of music that does not advocate musical technique and emphasizes the expression of a counter-mainstream position. Several people heard the music of the punk rock band Ramones for the first time, which was right in the heart of the teenager.
Lead singer and guitarist Peng Lei, bass Liu Bao, drummer Shang Xiao, three incoherent young people walked in the form of a punk band. The first official performance in 1995 ran to Xianghe, other bands sang Tang Chao, Zheng Jun, and the shape masters in the metal workshop could not understand it, and they were driven off the stage halfway through the singing.
Bó Lè suddenly appeared in the summer of 1996. Shen Lihui, the lead singer of the same school brother and sober band, a rock man who opened a printing company and earned millions a year, happened to see the performance of the three people at the University of International Business and Economics, and extended an olive branch to them, and the band quickly signed the modern sky founded by Shen Lihui, changed its name to New Pants, a punk band with a new meaning, and recorded the first single "I'm OK".
The timing of the birth of the new pants coincided with the dissolution of the myth of the Three Masters of magic rocks, and the concept of "Beijing New Voice" was put forward. Unlike the rockers who came out of Beijing's Tree Village at the time, New Pants sang "We don't have girlfriends" and "Why do I endure loneliness tomorrow", expressing a very different understanding of rock and roll , which turned out to be not always resentful, roaring, and painfully rebelling against everything. While also discussing the unhappiness in life, The New Pants sings cheerfully: "I will, I will, enjoy every day of pain!" ”
In 1998, the band released their self-titled debut album, New Pants, which was named one of the top ten albums of the year by Audiovisual World and Popular Songs magazines. In 1999, "New Pants" was released in Hong Kong and was named the second place in the "Top Ten Records of China, Hong Kong and Taiwan in the 1990s" by the authoritative music magazine "Music Colony" in Hong Kong. The band was invited to participate in the "New Forces of Chinese Rock" concert in Hong Kong, and the mainland bands invited by the same batch included Lucid and Tang Dynasty.
In December of the same year, Taiwanese female singer Su Huilun covered "Don't Say I Lost Baby" in new pants, and used it as the album's title song.
The name of the new pants is destined for this band to catch up with the trend. From heavy metal to punk, where to go next in the new pants, Pang Kuan is an important person.
Before 2000, Pang Kuan was a mysterious person who always appeared in the background of new pants. The classmate who provided the rehearsal venue (at home), the friend who named the band, and the staff of the Modern Sky Computer Design Department. Compared with his peers who were addicted to metal and punk at that time, Pang Kuan was addicted to computers and synthesizers, liked electronic music in the 70s, and listened to New Order and Kraftwerk, which was both retro and science fiction.
When everyone plays with metal, the new pants play with punk; when everyone plays punk, it's time to dig up things that no one digs. Take, for example, new Waves. In October 2000, the band released their second album, DiscoGirl, in which Pang Kuan officially added to the new pants with a synthesizer as a keyboardist and a robot.
At the turn of the century, in the millennium, the golden age of mainland rock and roll, shouted by Cui Jianyi in the late 1980s, came to an abrupt end in less than two decades, and Beijing New Sound was unable to defeat pop music that was better at pleasing the public. According to Peng Lei's recollection, "Disco Girl" actually sold well, but it was obviously not enough to feed these young men who had just entered the society, and even Modern Sky, there was only one employee left at that time.
Putting down their instruments, new pants, and the band-playing young people of the '90s started working. Peng Lei changed five or six website jobs a year, and later entered the Beijing Film Academy, developing a side job as an animation and director, and in 2002, drummer Shang Xiao put down his new pants and went to Japan to study.
The third album, We Are Automatic, was produced and launched against such a turbulent background. The new pants, while singing "We don't listen to pop music", returned to the retro music of the 80s to find inspiration, and the punk style is almost invisible to them, and people call the new pants "China's top Pop-Punk orchestra".
Since "Disco Girl", New Pants has tried to match its own music with a visual experience with a strong personal aesthetic preference, such as "I Love You" is the first MV produced in mainland China using clay animation, which won the Best Music Video Award in the Global Chinese Music Chart that year. "We Are Automatic", the new pants directly replace the musician with the cartoon image of the robot. South Korea's SM company's latest girl group Aespa is also playing with such a futuristic concept.
In 2003, New Pants won the CCTV-MTV Music Festival Mainland Band of the Year Award, but unfortunately the trophy could not be exchanged for livelihood, and the band members were still in boring classes, doing animation work that survived the dead.
Can't go on like this anymore, the same troubled Pang Kuan, took a song he wrote to Peng Lei, called "French Nightlife", listened to it for half a day, did not hear where France is, but felt special soil, the two people patted their heads and changed their names - "Dragon Tiger Man Dan". The ultimate retro, retro to the earth, and the soil into the trend.
The new punk pants left completely, and in 2006, the new pants wearing plum blossom sportswear, stepping on the pullback, playing with tin toys, wielding martial arts moves, and breaking dancing "kicked him to death" returned to the public eye.
Since there is no drummer, Peng Lei and Pang Kuan use a lot of drum machine preset drum beats in their music, which makes the song take on some electronic music feeling, plus half of the works on the album are written by Pang Kuan, who likes synthesizers, and new wave and pop electronic music have become the new label of new pants at this stage.
With "Dragon Tiger Man Dan", New Pants won the Best Rock Band and Best Rock Album Awards at the 2007 Music Chart Awards, won the first of the Rolling Stones' top ten Chinese records of the year, and opened the band's first national tour in more than ten years, 18 in 16 cities, and 27 in Australia, the Museum of Modern Art in Brisbane, Australia, commented: "I haven't been to China yet, but I seem to smell the morning in Beijing from their music."
Playing with new pants of New Wave and synths, the band released their fifth album "WildLings Have Love" in 2008, which was nominated for the Best Band Award and the Best Rock Artist Award at the 9th Chinese Music Media Awards. One music fan said of the new pants: "They always have an inexhaustible supply of new things. ”
The media praised them: a band that has always been at the forefront of the industry. The new pants have reached heights that many Chinese bands can hardly reach, and it is no longer a rock 'n' roll myth to be able to live well when making music.
The huge change in musical style has allowed the new pants to lead the trend again, but for Beth Liu Bao, peng Lei and Pang Kuan's ideas have gone too far, and in 2009, Liu Bao left on the grounds that "new pants have become girly" and joined the veteran punk band Honey Three Knives, and the newly recruited bassist is called Zhao Meng, who is also the lead singer of the Shining Star Band. More than a decade younger than Peng Lei and Pang Kuan, the two uncles plus a cool girl's new pants were born.
In 2011, New Pants held a concert called "Our Time" on the day of the release of his seventh album, Sex Drugs Internet. Peng Lei said at the concert, "New Pants is a band that can do whatever you want, which makes us feel very lucky."
The trend is elusive, and only after the "Dragon Tiger Man Dan" pandemic, people chasing the trendy and western school will feel retro and disco is a treasure retrieved from the garbage heap of history. In 2013, former disco queen Zhang Qiang signed a contract with Modern Sky, and Peng Lei and Pang Kuan also set out to create the album "Don't Ask Me What Disco Is" for her.
Rather than thinking that new pants like retro, they're just looking for something that no one has played with yet. "The '80s stuff was fascinating, but then slowly, so many people were doing it, and it didn't mean anything." What really motivates them is the stuff that hasn't become trendy yet.
New pants require a lot of tentacles, which makes them look unprofessional and therefore different.
In addition to the band, Peng Lei did directing, drawing comics, engaging in design, opening toy stores, creating two classic cartoon images of Mimi and Gaga, and also won the Best Director Award of the Asian Newcomer Award at the Shanghai International Film Festival, Pang Kuan engaged in a retro domestic label called "bye bye disco", and also claimed to be a researcher at the China Galaxy Robotics Research Institute, continuing to tinker with robot aesthetics.
Back to sex drugs internet. The year the album was released, New Pants, as the first band in Asia invited to participate in the Coachella Music Festival in the United States, went to California, where the new pants, which were already fashionable enough in China, were impacted by the more fashionable international music scene, "Now the biggest problem of Chinese creative youth is that they like blind worship and imitation of the West, but we are Chinese, and Western life actually has nothing to do with us." ”
What is fashionable? What are we? "I don't want to imitate you / I don't want to be you / I don't want to follow you / I don't want to be you / We are not Raymonds" Perhaps it is too advanced to follow the trend, the sales of the album are extremely bad, Pang Kuan reflected, "You have to conform to this era, to know what kind of music is needed in this era, some are particularly out of place, and it is still quite scary to make it unheard." ”
All along, the new pants have a clear stage division of their own musical style, from punk to disco, in 2013, a song "No Ideal Man Is Not Sad", all the members wore the old rock style black leather jacket, "Now we are a local rock band", referred to as "earth shake".
The most obvious change is the lyrics, the new pants began to sing the life state of ordinary people, because "now everyone is fast and efficient, everything has become faster, there is not much time to think about your music content and the like, every day on the phone may push a lot of songs, he came to find one, can catch him in an instant, in fact, this thing is very difficult to do."
In successive years, the "golden songs" of new pants have been frequently released, "Life is Hot Because of You", "About the World of Insomnia and Night", Which Peng Lei himself described as "the dark age of the heart". It cannot be said that it has become bitter and vengeful, but there is a feeling of thousands of sails and seeing through the ups and downs, Peng Lei's image has changed from a punk youth and a complex eccentric coffee to an ordinary middle-aged man who also laments that life is not easy and has to continue, the cigarette butt is extinguished, "Forget the era of rock music, galloping and never returning."
After several ups and downs, the new pants have never gone down from the trend. In 2019, New Pants won three consecutive awards: the 2019 Chinese Song and Music Festival Annual Most Popular Band Award, the 2019 Asian New Song Chart Annual Most Popular Band Award, and the 2019 TMEA Tencent Music Entertainment Festival Annual Rock New Force Award. The band's summer also made their fans and appearance fees soar, becoming the big number one in Modern Sky.
Once, in 2018, when New Pants held the 22nd anniversary of the "Chinese New Wave" national tour, Peng Lei announced on Weibo that the next tour would be ten years later. In 2021, the new pants that are too hot broke the agreement and held the stadium tour "The Last Band", which is also the first time in the 26 years since the band was established to hold a large-scale stadium tour, and the maximum ticket price is set at 980 yuan. 15 years ago, the first national tour "Dragon Tiger Man Dan", student tickets 20 yuan, give Coke.
Pang Kuan once said at the 2019 New Pants "New Wave" concert, "I think the trend is that you don't follow it, it passes, but you have to follow it, you are stupid x"
In the face of the trend, the posture of new pants is always sober, at least they make many people believe that new pants are always smart, dashing and comfortable. The new pants with red hair are, the new pants in the plum brand sportswear are, and the new pants of the priceless sister are also. Well, this issue of new pants is introduced here, the next issue of everyone wants to know which band, welcome to leave a message in the comment area Oh.