This article was first published in: Shenzhen Renaissance (public number ID: sz_wyfx)
For many fans in Cantonese-speaking areas, the biggest surprise of last night's "Singer 2017" should be to hear Side Tian sing the LIVE version of "Hard Life" again.
The song "Hard Life" was composed by Side Field and lyrics by Huang Weiwen, and many people began to powder Side Field from this song.
People who don't know the Cantonese music scene may not know that the unconscionable love described in this song has become a war song for minority groups for several years.
The lyrics sing: "After two hundred years together, you should not be afraid of others being unconvinced." The reunion may be twenty years late, and it is still not abandoned. ”
However, in the "Hard Life" of that year, Side Field sang about his love with his girlfriend, and last night's "Hard Life", Side Field sang about his current life.
He said on Weibo: "Others use Weibo to record their mood, but I use music to record."
After experiencing the rapid fame that ordinary people have not been able to achieve, and experiencing unimaginable being in the mud, on the stage of "Singer 2017", the song "Hard Life" was sung again, and everyone could hear the attitude he wanted to express.
Last night he challenged successfully, he said: I only prepared a song ("Destiny Hard") because I did not expect to be successful in the challenge.
However, The side field failed to stay a few more issues, and the Weibo blogger @Lamp Hoho broke the news that the side field was eliminated in the next issue.
Counting the return of the two programs, although Sidefield can only sing only three songs on the stage of "Singer 2017", it is enough for fans who really like Sidefield and have hope for him.
Although the interpretation method and arrangement form of "Hard Life" sung by Side Tian last night have made many old fans feel uncomfortable, on the contrary, many fans can get Tonda's intentions and hear the different moods of Latera in the past and present.
Fans who expressed "dislike" said: "When I was in the field fire, I didn't like such a pompous performance, and he was disdainful of such an arrangement." ”
"Maybe he cares too much about this stage, and the mood of Man Wenjun should be the same as that of The Manchu Army."
Instead, fans who expressed "like" said: "I personally think it's more like an expression of a determination to fight a war." ”
"Ten years ago, the fate of the hard is to intercede, and the fate of ten years later can really see from the performance that the side field experiences after the free, the performance is not excessive, and just right, because he can come back again!" 」
The rapid rise of The Sidefield in the Hong Kong music scene, and the unbelievably rapid FLOP, is a process that cannot be described as dramatic. The ups and downs of The Side Field on the road of music are linked to the background of the entire music scene, which cannot be described as lamentable.
Born on July 1, 1976 in New York, USA, from a musical family, He is a singer-songwriter, he tried to play the piano and compose music on his own at the age of 6, learned guitar at the age of 10, and has been a member of the choir since childhood.
At that time, the talent of the Hong Kong music scene withered, Jacky Cheung retired, Eason Chan became popular, and there was no successor, so The Yahoo programmer Side Tian, who was outstanding in both voice and talent, was favored by Lei Songde, and he also gave up his american job to return to Hong Kong.
(with Ray Songde)
The all-round musician Side Tian first wrote songs for Gu Juji until 2005, when he signed a gold medal gale under the high appreciation of Huang Cedar.
(and Cork High)
On November 28, 2005, the 29-year-old Bantian released his first solo album "Justin", in fact, the name Bantian is Justin's Cantonese English translation.
The album was composed by More than half of the songs arranged by SideTa, and songs such as "Destiny Hard", "Good Man" and "Erica" are among them. The album sold 15,000 copies on its first day, and at the end of the year, Bantian won the award for all the newcomer male singers at the Four Media Music Awards in Hong Kong.
There is no shortage of assembly line singers in the Hong Kong music scene, and what is urgently needed is the voice of the soul, so the popularity of the side field is expected.
In March 2006, only four months after the release of the first album, Side Tian appeared on the Hong Kong Red Pavilion to hold a solo singing.
His second album "No Protection" was released in March 2006, which won him the Gold Award for Outstanding Performance at the 2006 Top Ten Golden Melody Awards, and won the Bronze Award of "Male Singer in the Music Scene" and one of the top three "New Town Male Singers" that year.
From newcomer to A-list male singer, he only took more than a year.
(Standing side by side with Eason Chan on the podium of the male singer's top three)
His third album, JTV, was released in 2007 and won individual awards for all of the "Top Ten Song Awards" at the 2007 Hong Kong Four Music Awards.
The three albums that debuted won the Golden Disc Award, and the third album "JTV" won the "Top Ten Selling Local Singer Awards" at the 2007 IFPI Hong Kong Record Industry Sales Awards Ceremony.
Debuted in 2005 and reached its peak in 2009, Sidefield not only had a smooth ride in the music world, but also developed into movies, participating in "Born a Couple", "The First Song of Love" and "Keep Loving You".
The peak period of the side field came quickly, but it also came to an abrupt end because of a "sound off the string"——
A drunken fight with Cao Ge in 2009.
Side Tian and Cao Ge have always been good brothers, and being photographed by reporters beating each other on the street after getting drunk was also a big news in that year.
As soon as the news came out, public opinion was in an uproar, and As a public figure and a first-line singer, Hetian was accused by many people of being a "bad example". Although the news filmed that the side field was beaten more, Cao Ge kicked the side field more than once, and also took the roadblock to hit the side field.
In the taxi car, it was Side Field, and the white coat was Cao Ge
Cao Ge was holding a barricade in his hand, and the side field in the plaid shirt was their friends in the middle
In fact, it is not that the public overreacts, because during that time, the Hong Kong music scene was really not very peaceful, the female singer Wei Shi was arrested for hiding drugs in Japan, and the public was in a sensitive period of behavior for singers, and resistance was on the verge of erupting.
In addition, later, Beida was also involved in an incident in which he was accused of being attacked by a taxi driver because he was drunk. It is said that the female friend of the side field at that time was the taxi driver who was drunk and "chest attacked", not the side field, but who made him a public figure, the friend's misconduct is equal to his misconduct, and this incident is finally related to the side field.
After the brawl was exposed, the Hong Kong police stepped in to investigate:
In the process of fighting the lawsuit, Because He could not wear a hat in court, he simply shaved off his head.
Yes, this habit of not leaving his head is actually to cover the "M" hair, which is strong in hormones and rare in hair.
And this move, but also attracted the negative evaluation of Hong Kong netizens, this period of the side of a hundred mouths indisputable and a hundred steps, the image plummeted -
The drunken brawl was an inflection point on the star road in The Side Field, and it was also in time for the internal changes of the Gold Medal Gale Company, and there was no good public relations to save him from the decline.
Two years later, in 2011, after the Red Pavilion concert, Hetian tearfully announced his withdrawal from the Hong Kong music scene and his transfer to Beijing.
At the concert, Lei Songde, who single-handedly excavated the side field, said, "I don't know who the side field has offended." ”
In fact, there is another reason why Sidefield went north, he was in contact with a Korean girlfriend at that time, this girlfriend worked in Beijing, and Sidefield was considered to be drifting for love north.
However, Later, Bantian broke up with the girlfriend.
In fact, the reason that prompted Bian Tian to leave Hong Kong, in addition to personal factors, is also the reason for Huang Cedar Gao.
Huang Baigao left the gold medal gale in January 2011, and it is said that he once conspired to leave the gold medal gale transfer with these love generals such as Gu Juji, who changed the emperor in 2009, and joined Sun Entertainment Culture in 2012 after Huang Baigao left the gold medal gale in 2011 (the company of zhou Zhuohua, the male protagonist of last year's two-daughter husband-winning news).
At this time, that is, in early 2012, Sidefield joined Huanya Entertainment with a salary of tens of millions.
In February 2013, a new album "Hard Battle" was released.
In May 2013, Bantian stepped on the stage of the Red Pavilion and held a solo concert of "Sideways Destiny Hard World Tour (Hong Kong Station)".
The time of dormancy in the side field is not long, from the exit of Hong Kong in 2011 to the re-release of the film tour in 2013, but the golden age that belongs to him, the luck that belongs to him is forced to plan.
After 2000, under the environment of the increasing decline of the Hong Kong pop music scene and the increasingly few people, the name Ofita has gradually become synonymous with "exposed age", and when we often see The famous songs of Latera in KTV are hit, Cantonese songs are more and more equated with "nostalgia".
Last year, Sideta participated in "The Masked Singer", appearing under the pseudonym "Little Prince".
For so many years, the "little prince" who was wayward and intimidating the Hong Kong media and spoke with all his talent has not changed his voice and his skills have not been wasted, but the personality in his voice has changed.
He said that he "calmed down" and "also changed a lot, it is a good thing."
Sadly, there are still so many non-Cantonese-speaking audiences who have never even heard of The Side Tian's name, even though he has already released Chinese album and left Hong Kong for the mainland market for several years.
Last night on the stage of "Singer 2017", the host introduced the side field as: "I was regarded as jacky Cheung's successor" -
In fact, I rejected this title, because whether it is Jacky Cheung, Side Tian, or Eason Chan, who was also known as "Jacky Cheung's successor", they are unique individuals that cannot be copied, not whose successors. In my opinion, the word "God of Song" is only Jacky Cheung.
I think it can describe what kind of singer Side Field is, or Lei Songde's evaluation is the most appropriate -
"In Hong Kong, one person can support a concert, except for Zhang Guorong, there is only side field."
Unfortunately, time cannot be turned back, and we cannot imagine: if there had been no fight with Cao Ge in 2009, would Biantian have caught up with Eason Chan today to become a representative A-list singer in Hong Kong?
Now, I just want to get back in the public eye of The Side Field, like he did in the past, let us REPEAT his songs over and over again.