Recently, there is a musician whose name frequently makes headlines with "The Voice of China", and his name is Guo Ding.
Who is Guo Ding? Many people said it was very strange. Neither a good voice instructor, nor a good voice student, why does he always "rub" the heat of a good voice?
It turns out that he is a good voice in the form of "works", and more than once, so far the first three episodes of Good Voice have had one of his works in each episode:
In the first period, a song "The Best" was sung by student Pan Hong. This song originally sang Xue Zhiqian, and the songwriter Guo Ding.
In the second period, a song "Journey in the Waves" sung by the student Taikinyuki. The original singer Liu Xijun, songwriter Guo Ding.
The above two songs, although the original song is not Guo Ding, but the common creator is him, should also be copyrighted by him. After two episodes, Guo Ding posted a serious statement on Weibo on August 29. It turned out that the program team and the producer did not get his relevant authorization when using these two songs. Guo Ding said that the other party was "using the most vulgar way to dissipate the goodwill of music, destroy the efforts of the industry, and flout the justice of the law", and he needed a minimum of respect. It was Saturday, and he wanted the other person to give him an apology "before next Monday."
On August 30, Guo Ding said that he would not wait for Monday, because he had heard that in addition to the above two songs, his works would continue to appear in the show after the good voice. How did this become a good voice infringement "hard-hit household"? Therefore, he is ready to entrust a lawyer to defend his rights.
On September 2, Guo Ding's Universal Music also came forward and officially sent a letter expressing support for Guo Ding's rights protection.
On September 3, the dare to be a good voice finally instigated. Guo Ding received an apology letter from the other side that afternoon, although it was late, but he said that the content was quite sincere.
In the third episode of the recently broadcast good voice, student Fu Xinyao sang a song "Thinking of You", which is Guo Ding's, and he is both the original singer and the creator.
Three consecutive programs, with Guo Ding's works in the period, this is also a miracle. I don't know if there is any more behind. Is The Voice intending to use the hardest way to praise this excellent musician who is not known to the public?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > so, who is Guo Ding? </h1>
In recent years, on online platforms such as Zhihu, as long as the topic of "what are the buried good singers (musicians)" in the Chinese music scene, there must be a name that is frequently mentioned below, that is, Guo Ding.
What kind of musician Guo Ding is, let's take a good look.
Guo Ding, a native of Huaihua, Hunan, was born in 1985, he comes from a musical family, and he can be said to be gifted in this regard, and he was able to independently compose and produce songs at the age of 15.
Although he is not a popular singer now, Guo Ding has been in the music scene for 15 years. In 2005, he released his first solo album, Guo Ding D.Kwok., an R&B-style record that sang the true voice of "post-80s people". Although he did not cause any repercussions in the music world, as a fledgling singer-songwriter, he served as a concert guest of Dongfang Shenqi and Jay Chou that year.
Four years later, in 2009, Guo Ding released his second album "Weiwei". Guo Ding is more mature than the first record in singing. The work has also begun to receive attention and likes from some listeners. But in general, the attention in the entire music scene is very limited.
Perhaps because both albums were frustrated in the market, Guo Ding has not released his own new songs for 7 years since then. But instead of retreating, he turned his main energy behind the scenes and began to write songs for others.
During this period, his works mainly include: "Be Your Half" written for "Male Talent and Female Appearance", "So What" written to Na Ying, "How to Sing Love Songs" and "Come", "What Will We Do Later" written to Liu Xijun, "Foreshadowing", "Child", "Is There Any", "Trend Season" written to Xue Zhiqian, "Sherlock Holmes", "Close Friends", "Flower Bottles and Flowers", "Rolling Eyes", "Wall Flowers" written to Zhou Bichang...
Seeing these song titles, perhaps most people are still very unfamiliar, maybe you have said in your heart "no wonder he is not red". First, we will not rush to conclusions, and then we will analyze the reasons why Guo Ding is not red.
By 2016, in the absence of everyone's defense, Guo Ding "made a comeback" again, as a singer-songwriter newcomer under Universal, brought his third full-creation concept album, which is also a "Execution Cycle of The Flying Machine" that can shake the industry and is still praised by fans as a god. "Thinking of You", which was covered on the good voice this time, and "Poignant Land", which was covered by Yuan Yawei last time in "Singer Dangda Year", and "Mercury" covered by Many singers such as Lin Yilian, Chen Ming, Wang Junkai, etc., are all from this album.
Guo Ding spent years writing and recording this album, aiming to build a theme and style hedge but full of imagination for fans. He said: "The album sounds like a crack in a huge canyon unfolding from each person's own story and eventually forming an exit to get you where you want to go. And the well-known music critic Zou Xiaoying sighed heartily after listening to "The Execution Cycle of The Flying Machine" for the first time: Chinese music finally has its own "space opera"!
Guo Ding retained the real texture of the music in this album, abandoning the factory production method and returning to the 60s and 70s full of real instrument playing. The work is full of metalness and alienation, his voice seems to have a hoarse hoarseness and a thick nasal tone, and his singing style seems to reveal a unique coldness. The album's 10 songs, whose titles are connected like a poem, also happen to form a "flight machine execution cycle":
With this album, Guo Ding won numerous awards at major awards from 2016 to 2018, including Best Singer-Songwriter, Best Album, Best Single, etc., including "Best Chinese Album", "Best Composition" and "Best male singer Chinese" at the Taiwan Golden Melody Awards. "Flying Period" was once hailed as "a new benchmark for singing and composing in the music world".
Guo Ding made a big splash with "Flying Execution Period", after four years have passed, he has not yet been able to hear the news of the four specialties, which shows that he is really a musician who will not be satisfied, is it necessary to have another seven years? This posture has a fight with Wanqing.
However, during this period, he created more good songs for other singers, such as Xue Zhiqian's "Camel", "Animal World", "The Best", Liu Xijun's "Traveling in the Waves", "Like Me", "Finished", "Dream Galaxy", Yi Qianxi's "Dear, There Is No One Here" and so on.
Even if there is a well-known reputation in the industry, Guo Ding is really not popular. In the 15 years since his debut, his Weibo has only 300,000 followers so far. Of course, although the number is not much, these 300,000 fans are impossible to mix, and they are all loyal fans who really appreciate his talent. Guo Ding's state is very satisfying to the careful thinking of some fans that "treasures are not willing to share with others".
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > Why is there such a huge difference between Guo Ding's reputation in the industry and popularity? </h1>
There may be two main aspects:
1, Guo Ding's song is more "ugly"
This "ugly" has two meanings: First, when ordinary fans listen to it, especially for the first time, they think that Guo Ding's songs are not good, and the melody is not scratching their ears, just like that. The second meaning is to "reshape" Huadong in "Le Xia" said that their songs are very "difficult to hear", and "difficult" is difficult and difficult, because the songs have requirements for the listener.
Many fans who like Guo Ding have said that listening to his songs for the first time is not amazing, but when you listen to the second and third times, you will feel more and more enduring, there is a special taste, the more you listen to the more addictive.
It is no wonder that it is not easy to fire, and now fans pay attention to "one ear and one heart" when listening to songs, and there are not many who can have the patience to listen to a song completely, let alone repeatedly listen to a song whose first impression is not strong.
2, Guo Ding himself is unusually low-key, obsessed with music itself, is the insulator of traffic.
If Guo Ding's song may not be difficult to hear, his name is also occasionally impressed, but his own figure, there are not many people familiar with it. Over the years, in addition to his obsession with music creation and production, he has only appeared in various music festivals, and has hardly ever appeared on any variety shows and evenings for the public, let alone any gossip. His social media, too, never intentionally interacts with his fans, at most reporting his itinerary or simply saying a few inexplicable words.
With such a posture as Guo Ding, how can there be traffic leaning over? But his fans must have loved his work.
Although songs such as "Mercury", "PoignantLy" and "The Best" have become the favorites of many people, Guo Ding has always been like this. This time, "The Voice" unexpectedly "favored" his work, although the way is a little unfriendly, but it also brings some traffic to Guo Ding. It's a lost horse.
This year, it is really difficult to become popular entirely by relying on works, and not the works of mainstream saliva songs, but I still hope that more and more people will know how to appreciate Guo Ding.