Just when Guo Jingming and Yu Zheng had been dead for many years and finally bowed their heads to apologize for their plagiarism, a suspected plagiarism scandal broke out on the Internet.
A singer named Luo Cong, whose original song "Simple Happiness" was accused of copying Xu Song's "Why Not".
However, netizens were still shocked who had such a big guts to dare to copy the Internet Divine Comedy of that year, and Luo Cong himself came out to speak.
He not only denied plagiarism, but also thought that he was more popular than Xu Song: "Now Douyin is my song every day, is this what he can compare?" "
This made the netizens who ate melon completely confused, and they couldn't help but ask: "Who is Luo Cong?" "Plagiarism is still justified?" "Which madman is he?"
<h1>01 Who is Luo Cong? </h1>
Most people, like me, have certainly never heard of the name Luo Cong.
On the website of Luo Cong's brokerage company Peacock Gallery, there is his personal profile.
Luo Cong was born in 1999 in Zhangjiajie, Hunan.
He is a songwriter who has formed bands as lead singer, arranger and guitarist.
He is known as the Young Boy of Vitality, and his live performance is extraordinary.
In 2015, he was promoted to the top 20 in the South Central China Division of "Youth Trainee Recruitment" and entered the top five in the Guangdong Division of the fourth season of "The Voice of China".
In the same year, he also won the gold medal in the national finals of the CCTV National Youth Talent Television Grand Prix.
In 2016, he won the overall championship of the World Chinese Youth Art Festival and the gold medal of the 6th China Little GoldenBell Global Finals.
Two years later, he officially signed a contract with Peacock Gallery and released his debut solo album "Little Happiness" in the same year.
In 2019, he released a number of singles such as "Brave Expectation", "Thinking of You", "Occasional Loneliness" and so on.
"Simple Happiness" is a song from the album "Little Happiness".
At the beginning of this year, with a simple melody and lyrics, "Simple Happiness" quickly attracted public attention and became the background music of many short videos.
However, before it was too big to become popular, Luo Cong fell into the plagiarism storm
<h1>02 Suspected of plagiarism</h1>
In the Luo Cong plagiarism incident, Xu Song, who innocently lay a gun, has always been very low-key.
For the post-90s generation, there may be people who do not know Xu Song's face, but basically have heard his songs.
When Xu Song's songs were popular all over the Internet, some schools were playing his songs on recess exercises.
Wang Sutaki once said in the "Spit Conference" that the three giants of QQ music, one is him, one is Xu Liang, and the other is Xu Song.
However, Xu Song has always been concentrated on creation and rarely appears on variety shows.
Therefore, Xu Song has recently been passively on the hot search because netizens have found that Luo Cong's song "Simple Happiness" is suspected of plagiarizing "Why Not".
The power of netizens is powerful, just like the god-like existence of the "masses in Beijing's Dongcheng District".
Netizens carefully compared the two songs, commenting: "Can't say that it's quite similar, but at least it's exactly the same." "
Some netizens said: "Why can't you be more popular that year, this can also be copied?" "It's still plagiarized."
These netizens stopped doing it and ran to Luo Cong's Weibo to scold.
Even a fiction author on Weibo, whose name is also Luo Cong, is innocently lying with a gun.
Luo Cong, who wrote the novel, said he didn't know what the singer with the same name had copied, but since so many people scolded him, there must be a reason.
He listened carefully to the two songs, and commented: "I listened to "Simple Happiness" and "Why Not" very carefully, and I was also angry, this is not plagiarism, it is simply copy and paste! "
He also said: "Such a naked theft of the fruits of other people's labor should go to jail!" Otherwise, the original creator will always be in a weak position! "
However, Luo Cong's brokerage company, Peacock Gallery, does not think so.
The company issued a statement denying that Luo Cong had copied Xu Song.
In the Peacock Gallery's statement, it is stated that the two songs are just "6 notes that overlap cleverly".
Luo Cong, the party concerned, not only did not admit that he had plagiarized, but also said that he was better than Xu Songhong.
This made netizens completely angry, and the incident escalated further.
<h1>03 Netizens angrily rebuked: if there is a disease, go to the treatment</h1>
On social media, netizens almost one-sidedly scolded Luo Cong.
Some people mocked Luo Cong as a fan of Guo Jingming. Poor Guo Xiaosi also innocently lay down the gun.
Some netizens also found that Luo Cong not only had one "Simple Happiness" suspected of plagiarism, but also the 7 songs of the entire album were suspected of plagiarism!
For example, some netizens found that the prelude melody of Luo Cong's "Wounded City" is exactly the same as Eason Chan's "Love Transfer";
The chorus of "I will spend my life with you" is suspected of plagiarizing Wang Lihong's "Need someone to accompany"...
In front of powerful netizens, Luo Cong was overwhelmed.
On January 9, he appealed on Weibo, saying that he had been victimized by online violence, that his family and friends had been harmed, and that he had become a sinner for eternity and a synonym for "robbers."
He then said the pressure of public opinion suffocated him and "depression was severe."
Netizens did not buy it, saying that plagiarism is not right, do not take depression as a "deathless gold medal".
Some netizens even used a lyric from Xu Song to give to Luo Cong: There is a disease to cure the disease!
On the contrary, Xu Song was as Buddhist as ever, and he was on vacation in Sanya and did not respond.
Xu Song, who is low-key and Buddhist, is only willing to immerse himself in his own music creation.
Born in 1986, when he was a sophomore at a medical university, he began publishing online songs under the pseudonym "Vae".
Many people know him, probably starting with the song "The Funeral of the Rose".
The sad and gentle melody hit the hearts of countless young boys and girls at once.
After graduation, his first solo album "Custom" won the 6th place of QQ Music's top ten albums in 2009.
The lyrics of the entire album were all written by him.
Since then, Xu Song has been a regular on the QQ music charts.
Since his debut, he has released 7 solo original albums and nearly 40 original singles, and won numerous awards.
All the songs are also composed by him and produced by music.
For more than a decade, he just quietly made his own original music, did not participate in the variety show, and indulged in his own music world.
Perhaps in this impetuous era, what we need is musicians like him.
It is said that Xu Song, after learning that Luo Cong copied his own songs, only responded faintly: "It is known that people are in Sanya." "
Instead, Xu Song's Sea Butterfly Music issued a statement:
In the statement, Sea Butterfly Music said that it has collected relevant evidence and submitted it to the appraisal agency, and reserves the right to safeguard the copyright of Xu Song's music works through all legal channels.
<h1>epilogue</h1>
Whether Luo Cong copied or not, we need to wait until the authoritative institutions to identify, we can know the results.
In any case, as a male singer of the new generation in China, Luo Cong still has some strength.
He not only has a sunny and handsome appearance, but also can compose lyrics and music, sing well, and the future is unlimited.
The most important thing, as he puts it in his profile, is a "man with musical dreams."
If it is indeed plagiarism, admit a mistake and apologize, and then write songs like Xu Song in the future, isn't it also possible?
Don't be like Guo Jingming and Yu Zheng (please forgive Guo Xiaosi for lying down the gun again), dead for many years, the future is ruined, it may be too late.
As long as you make works with your heart, even if you don't become popular quickly, I believe that through your own efforts and persistence, you will eventually be able to become popular.
If you have not copied, don't speak wildly, saying that you are better than Xu Song.
Compared with these, it is better to compare the works, speaking through the strength of the works.
Be humble, keep a low profile, maybe you can go further.
After all, the road ahead is still a long way off.
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Author: Night in Ulaanbaatar
Editor-in-charge: Zeria
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