In Norse mythology, Freya is not only a goddess of beauty and abundance, but also a god of war who dares to pursue her love. In 2018, the image and essence of this ancient goddess were finally expressed by a female singer - she is Xu Ruyun.
After four years of disobedience, Xu Ruyun finally released a new album "Blooming Bloom bloom" in September this year. In the title song "Furea", she "willfully" rewrites "Ya" to "Ya", "because 'Fu' is already very beautiful," Xu Ruyun folded her hands, leaned on the single sofa, and talked freely to the Beijing News reporter about the new work, "'Lie' represents Gang, 'Ya' is more neutral, I think this combination is the breath I want to convey in this song." ”
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Xu Ruyun is of course soft. "If the Clouds Knew", "One-Man Show", "Good Listening"... In one classic song after another, the leader of the "Yun-style singing voice" has already exerted the delicate and long affection and gentle temperament to the extreme. In addition to music, she always maintains elegance and gentleness - before the interview, when Xu Ruyun walked into the Sony conference room and removed the scarf, she first cared about whether the reporter had lunch. When the interview was over and she left the company, she said goodbye to all the staff members who were sitting at the workstation, whether familiar or unfamiliar. In the more than twenty years since her debut, the three words "playing big cards" have never been related to her.
In addition to softness, Xu Ruyun's heart is also extremely sober and brave - she has never been the "little princess" who asks others to hold her in the palm of her hand, but a cool girl who likes to dress up in black in her daily life; she does not blindly indulge in the fame and profit brought by those golden songs, but she is a little distressed; she dares to love and dare to hate, when she meets the true destiny of life, she will complete the lifelong event and form a lifelong fate in less than half a year of knowing each other.
"I seem to have always been like this," Xu Ruyun's music and life, perhaps like her smiling words, do not participate in too much right and wrong, do not mix too much scandal, there is no sharp impurities, there is no extreme struggle. However, under the softness and comfort, what is hidden is her never-slack attitude and unchanging persistence.
Photo / Beijing News reporter Guo Yanbing
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In her memory, it seems that she never really had a rebellious youth that "always wants to run away from home".
Ge Dawei, a famous Taiwanese lyricist who wrote "Furya", told the Beijing News reporter that in terms of intimacy, Xu Ruyun is definitely one of the best singers in his mind. Whether on stage or offstage, Xu Ruyun always smiles and exudes a real sense of happiness. Perhaps, this stems from the fact that "love" has never been absent in her life since childhood.
Xu Ruyun's real name is Xu Hongxuan, and her close friends like to call her "Xu Xuan". "Xiao Xiao" has mentioned many times that she has a happy and happy family, and in her memory, she never seems to really have a rebellious youth that "wants to run away from home at every turn". As for whether you have done anything that gives your parents a headache? The answer is also – "it seems okay".
"Because I don't like to see my parents sad," Xu Ruyun recalled a small thing, that is, in the high school era, she was once as playful as many classmates, "I remember when I first entered the school, the senior sister would take us out to play, at that time I thought it was fun, and as a result, one day I played with the senior student sister too late, after 12 o'clock, I forgot to call my parents." Then my dad got angry and he said, 'How can you not call!' Xu Ruyun imitated his father's angry voice and said seriously, "This is the first time he was very angry, and then 'snapped' with his hand." ”
Although dad didn't use his hands hard, Xu Ruyun didn't really feel very painful, "but I'm still sad, because I think dad hit me, that's a very serious thing." And for my daughter, I was even sadder to see him sad, so no matter what, I will remember it next time. ”
Because of the nourishment of the family environment and the learning of piano from an early age, Xu Ruyun's original dream was to become a music teacher or a housewife when she grew up. However, after graduating from the music department of Guoguang Art School in 1993, when she was 19 years old and sang in a folk song restaurant, she was recommended to Shanghua Records by chance to audition. Xu Ruyun immediately obtained a pass token to enter the music world after singing Faye Wong's "Cold War", Xin Xiaoqi's "Understanding" and Lin Yilian's "For You and Me by the Cold Wind".
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Maybe it is equal to "calm", maybe it is equal to "not being alarmed", maybe it is equal to "contentment and happiness".
Xu Ruyun said that in her personality, there is a kind of 'flat' color. And this kind of "peace" may be equal to "calm", may be equal to "not alarmed", and may be equal to "contentment and happiness". Around the 1990s, Shanghua Records gave birth to a number of outstanding female singers such as Gao Shengmei, Li Yijun, and Meng Tingwei. But entering such an environment did not stir up much waves in Xu Ruyun's heart.
Although she loves the songs of many predecessors, she admits that she has never had the experience of "chasing stars", "I don't have to know anyone, or I must get an idea of something, I silently appreciate it offstage, or silently like it." And being a singer, never on her plan, "I don't think this kind of thing will happen to me one day." Any work is the same for me, there must be a good and bad side, but to know how to cherish it, it has the opportunity to lead you into a better state. ”
Xu Ruyun thinks that he is a lucky person, "but this kind of luck does not mean that I have not really encountered any problems, my problems are there all day long." Looking back, she has safely passed many levels of her music career — whether it was Shanghua's meticulously produced but "unfavorable" debut solo album "Please" in June 1995, or the merger and reorganization of the record company that she repeatedly encountered in the future, "I always feel that every life will have its own problems," Xu Ruyun said, "especially whether it is an international record company or a local record company, it seems that as long as I join, there will be changes, which makes me feel very interesting." If everything can be sorted out and happened as you think, it is too boring, then it is not called life. ”
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Chaos can't see the days ahead, so she chooses to drop everything and go to the United States alone to recharge and empty.
Of course, when the difficulties really came, Xu Ruyun was not without hesitation. In the millennium, after collaborating with a sea of people on "Rare Good Weather" and then releasing two rather avant-garde albums of "Hana-chan", a switch in Xu Ruyun's body was turned on, "I just thought, wow, how can there be such good music, and then start to explore." ”
Album "Hanazawa"
However, when Xu Ruyun joined EMI Records and opened up a new world of music, she faced a new round of personnel changes, and at that time, she was about to enter the age of 30, "At that time, I was very confused. My life is facing a lot of changes, I don't know if I will continue to be a singer, is my persistence right or wrong? What exactly is it for? I've been thinking about this for a while. I certainly love the music career, and I think it's an important part of my life, but not all of it. We have a long life. ”
Xu Ruyun does not like to drag mud with water, twisting and pinching, in the chaotic days of not seeing the future clearly, she chose to drop everything and go to the United States alone to recharge and empty. After mentioning the year-long free time many times in the future, Xu Ruyun will still remember its preciousness. During her days at Chinese School, she learned yoga, roast chicken, paint oil, and even tap danced. After a year of whispering, a student finally plucked up the courage to ask her at the end of the semester whether it was Xu Ruyun herself, and she nodded happily to admit it. After returning from New York, Xu Ruyun sorted out many troubles and slowed down. She published poetry collections and beauty books, participated in Lin Yihua's plays, and had a cameo in the movie, but in the end, she returned to her favorite music.
"In fact, in my personality, there is not only a soft part. Along the way, maybe everyone is used to the 'Yun-style' singing voice of Xu Ruyun's logo, which may have been a so-called commercial standard before, and every record company will like or pay special attention to this part, of course, this is something I am very happy about, because as a singer, you have a logo that makes everyone like it so much, which is a very happy thing. But relatively speaking, this is a boost and a resistance for me, because music is fluid, it is alive, and when it becomes a standard, it will be terrible. When I was put into a frame, I started to resist. She chose not to say the titles of the songs that had shackled her, "because I was afraid that the fans who liked them would be sad." ”
Album "If the Clouds Knew"
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"Every time I heard someone say it, you knew it when that person appeared. But when it happens, it doesn't know it's true. ”
It may be more appropriate to describe Xu Ruyun with a famous quote from his friend Wu Qingfeng - "Bravely stand up for yourself and gently overthrow the world." Whether it is the entry experience, the musical concept, or the lifelong event, this sentence is the best annotation.
In her childhood, she wanted to become a housewife, and she once made a secret decision: she would have a boyfriend at the age of 23, get married at the age of 24, and have children at the age of 25. "As a result, by the time I was 39, I had only had a boyfriend, and the last two had never happened." She laughed.
Finally, in 2013, at the age of 39, Xu Ruyun met the Mr. Right in her life , Choi Ji-sung, whom she called Mr. Big, a senior executive of SM in South Korea, and the two decided to get married after less than half a year of acquaintance. "Everyone thinks that my personality is not like a person who flashes marriage, but in fact, I belong to this type," Xu Ruyun said, before meeting her husband, she did not believe in love at first sight, "Every time I heard people say, when that person appeared, you knew, I felt please don't talk nonsense, who will know?" But when it happens, it doesn't know it's true. Although I don't understand why, I just feel that there is a kind of smoothness. Like some previous emotional experiences, most of you need to have some adjustments and some cooperation. But when you meet the right person, a lot of things don't need to be deliberate, and it will happen like a cloud. ”
Xu Ruyun and the Mr. Right of her life
In 2013, after entering the palace of marriage, Xu Ruyun and her husband went out together for the first time, that is, to Beijing. "So Beijing can be said to be our honeymoon place." It was his first time in Beijing, and I took him to see a lot of places, Tiananmen, the Forbidden City, and some of the hutongs of old Beijing, and he liked it. ”
Fresh Q&A
Photo / Beijing News reporter Guo Yanbing
Beijing News: Your first album title song of the same name, "Please", is a cover song by Tori Amos, do you like her music?
Xu Ruyun: She is my ultimate goddess, (Reporter: Your good friend Qingfeng also likes her and also posted a star-chasing diary on Weibo. Yes! And Qingfeng had also taken pictures with her, which was so lucky. I was envious, extremely envious.
Beijing News: What is the most memorable memory that Beijing has left for you?
Xu Ruyun: In fact, there are two, the first is that I sang on a large stage in Beijing for the first time, when in 1997, When Brother Qi Qin came to hold a concert, he took me to Beijing for the first time. Everyone is not very familiar with me, and Elder Brother Qi Qin very kindly introduced that this is my little sister, and I hope that you will love Wu and Wu, and love me and love her. Because of the introduction of the little brother, as soon as I came on the stage, everyone gave me a warm applause, saying that the little brother's sister should take good care of her, so that time, although I was very nervous, as soon as I came on the stage, everyone gave me a lot of encouragement and enthusiasm, and I slowly relaxed, which made me very unforgettable. The second hutong, which I think is very much liked in Beijing, and I like the feeling of mixing old and new memories.
Beijing News: Whose songs do you usually sing when you go to KTV?
Xu Ruyun: In fact, the number of times I go to KTV is that ten fingers can be counted. In KTV, I will sing the songs of my good sisters, the songs of GIGI (Liang Yongqi), the songs of the heart, the songs of Cai Ni, and then the songs of Tanya (Cai Jianya), the songs of Jingru, I have quite a lot of friends' songs to sing, Sandy Sister (Lin Yilian) songs I also like, and then Sister Fei's songs, that sister's songs.
Xu Ruyun and her "sister Tao" (Picture 1: with Yang Caini and Li Xinjie. Figure 2: With Leung Wing Ki. Figure 3: With Liang Jingru)
Beijing News: What is the secret to maintaining beauty?
Xu Ruyun: I think it is to keep a soft heart.
Beijing News: Will you stay up late? What do I do at night when I'm not sleeping?
Xu Ruyun: I will stay up late, because sometimes I am reluctant to sleep, and I will feel that the time at night is good, and I feel very good about writing. When I'm not sleeping, I check things online, chat with friends, or talk to my husband, or cook a bowl of instant noodles to eat, and I can do many things at night.
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