Li Shizhong, vice president of Fenghua Records, recalled Peng Guohua in the special program of the Golden Melody Awards.
At that time, Peng Guohua was one of the founders of UFO Records, and his identity showed that he was a businessman. But in Li Shizhong's heart, Peng Guohua is also a rare businessman in the world, not talking about money, not talking about data, only asking you whether the record is interesting.
Zhang Yusheng, who was under the flying saucer at that time, was a singer who was close to Peng Guohua.
"He likes Yusheng very much, but the things he creates are very unmarketable." Every time Peng Guohua sits in the office and gets into trouble alone, he treats Yusheng as his own child, and lets his child go out and get hurt?
Zhang Yusheng sold the worst time, selling more than 10,000 copies.
Zhang Yusheng, Jiang Yuheng, Zheng Zhihua, etc
Sales fell, and Peng Guohua consulted with Yusheng: "Use your voice to help us, record an album that the market wants."
When the commercial album was a big hit, Peng Guohua soon received an original plan written by Yusheng, and was touched by his literary and rich musical feelings, and was willing to let him give it a go.
Peng Suqiu, deputy director of UFO Records, said: "Who talks to you about ideals in the commercial market?" But again and again, we have been "deceived" by Yusheng's letters that "have no regrets about music to death"! ”
Records are slow to sell losses, the boss Peng Guohua still praises him, but Zhang Yusheng and his music, why did he "cheat" people?
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In the past two years, a song released in 1997 on major social platforms, "Duplicity", inadvertently broke into the ranks of cover songs.
The affection, love, enthusiasm, absolute love, sentimentality, indulgence, pure love, and indiscriminate love in the lyrics are released with the melody, and the emotional status quo of young people is "ruthlessly pierced".
The mouth is not your face
All imprinted in the corners of the soul
There is nothing to say about the result of my indulgence
It's like a broken and bare mountain
It was a throbbing sensation of my pure emotion
Once the most boiling rhythm
Don't pick up your abusive abandonment
All crystal clear feelings
The popularity of the cover song has led to the public debate about "which version is better". Many people are attracted by the new version, and later they all fall in love with the original: more than 20 years later, to find Zhang Yusheng, a musician who sings, lyrics, composes, and arranges musicians with deep internal strength, there is really nowhere to be found.
In the past, Zhang Yusheng was mentioned, saying that it was more of his high voice. The video playing at the front of the network is also a high-pitched duel between him and Lin Zhixuan.
At that time, it was the penetration of sound that made Zhang Yusheng selected by producer Weng Xiaoliang to become the singer of "My Future Is Not a Dream", so it became popular all over Taiwan.
The label of the high note makes people overlook Zhang Yusheng's highlights in other aspects. In the relatively unpopular songs, Zhang Yusheng's singing voice is no longer so high-pitched and soaring, and rich feelings are hidden in it, into the ears, gently caressing people's tired souls.
I am an autumn tree
The sparse leaves seem somewhat lonely
Occasionally swallows would fly over my shoulders
Describe the haste of the world in song
- "I Am an Autumn Tree"
Collaborated with Wang Jie on the film "Seven Wolves"
< h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > sing "Moon" during the love-selling period</h1>
Saying that Zhang Yusheng's "change" has shown signs very early. At the beginning, his interaction with Peng Guohua was mentioned, which is the epitome of Zhang Yusheng's compromise between business and ideals, balance, and change little by little.
Back to the starting point of the original album in 1992, Zhang Yusheng handed over "Take Me to the Moon", different from the public love songs at his debut, this record has a rich and full of youth ideas, and each song can be a life proposition.
People are not so much listening to songs as they are reading literary works, and the lyrics are neat, strange and poetic.
Expressing a crush, he pretended to be reserved: the grass in the heart of the lake is deep and long, and my heart has nowhere to hide.
Showing rebellion, he compares resistance to battlefield fighting: I have learned a few points about the human world, and I have also vomited bloody anger.
Even if he can't sleep at night, he still wants to "call out to the starry sky outside the window and let me turn into an elf in my dreams."
In the title song "Take Me to the Moon", the boy who seemed to be wearing a student uniform yesterday changed his painting style and was dressed in astronaut equipment, inviting you to the moon to see.
Some people will joke that Zhang Yusheng has intellectual baggage and runs into losses in the commercial market.
Zhang Yusheng was secretly unconvinced, he felt: "No matter how exquisite the production of leather dolls, after all, it is still a puppet."
Starting from "Take Me to the Moon", Zhang Yusheng has become more and more insistent on his creative ideals, his goals are ambitious, and he wants to go out of the frank road of rock and roll. At this time, Peng Guohua was actually more and more "conniving" with Zhang Yusheng's talent.
In 1996, Zhang Yusheng's "Iran-Iraq War" was released. This album is very interesting, and has been set up to tell the world that personal creation is separate from the creation of others.
The combination of two EP can be understood as "two Zhang Yusheng", one wandering in business, and the other struggling for ideals.
The title song "Goodbye Girl", is the person who wants to say goodbye an old lover? If it's an "old audience", it's okay.
If she wants to go, let her go, stay and stay to make a vendetta
I can't say what I ask her to say
To love her is to be free
- "Goodbye Girl"
There are always people who are willing to embrace the new, self-pursuing Zhang Yusheng. But there are also people who still prefer the past, the obedient student Boy Zhang Yusheng. The choice between the two is understandable.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > the ending of the story is full of regrets</h1>
There is a "reversal" at the end of the story. Some reversals are surprising, and some reversals are regrettable.
Zhang Yusheng himself has been a "sales poison" for many years, and his turning red has exploded due to his strong alliance with Zhang Huimei.
Zhang Yusheng's two albums, "Sister" and "Bad Boy", achieved the amazing record of Zhang Huimei's "first place in record sales of female singers in Taiwan's history".
The cooperation between the two came to an abrupt end in late 1997.
Previously, Zhang Fei called Zhang Yusheng "Million Master".
Zhang Yusheng listened and let out a familiar hearty laugh: "Huh? Haha don't dare to be! ”。
For the music of "no regrets to death", he has already confided his heart, and the sense of accomplishment is not a pile of fame and fortune.
But "If in the future, someone says, 'I came out to sing today, or I made music like this today, more or less under the influence of Zhang Yusheng', then I feel very, very satisfied." ’”
It is not only Peng Guohua who has been "deceived" by Zhang Yusheng's true feelings and talents, the Zhang Yusheng who wrote "This is by no means the last" in the copy of the album "Duplicity", just like the long-nosed puppet on the album cover, telling a complete lie. The musical talent who wrote "I look forward to it, I will be back one day" was scattered with us at a fork in the road at the end of the century.