The F.I.R (Fei'er) Orchestra, which made its debut, threw out a pair of Wang Si 2, and recently held a press conference in Beijing to officially announce the replacement of the lead singer, and the new lead singer Lydia replaced the original lead singer Faye (Fei).
Although the new lead singer Lydia has steady singing skills and can control Fei'er's songs, when it comes to whether Lydia can replace the position of Flying in everyone's hearts, fans who are accustomed to the original members of Fei'er's original group react simply and directly and consistently:
"There were three people in the orchestra, one blind, one paralyzed, and we just came to see the flying."
"The new departure, the result is that the new lead singer is called Lydia, and also sings Lydia, and even has the suspicion of imitating Faye, is it the dove occupying the magpie's nest?"
The new lead singer is not bad, but why do fans disagree? The reason is simple. We use the human body to play the analogy of music.
If the drum kit is the skeleton and the bass is the blood, the lead singer is more like a "face" existence. Just as we usually see a person who reluctantly pays attention to the appearance first, a music with a vocal presence is also the first thing to pay attention to is the lead singer. When you have become accustomed to everything about a person, suddenly one day the person changes his face, even if everything else is familiar to you, will you still not accept it all at once?
Even if TFboy suddenly changes a member one day, it will not be accepted by their fans and the market!
But in any case, we have to refresh our understanding: there is no fish in the fish and meat shreds, there is no wife in the wife cake, and the Fei'er Orchestra does not fly.
As early as more than ten years ago, when I started a band as a guitarist, my mother told me that in the Chinese people's perception of music, they always remember only the person who stood in front and sang, and could not remember those of you musicians who created notes in the back. This truth is simply too appropriate to use in the matter of not casually changing the lead singer.
What will happen to the Fei'er Orchestra after changing the lead singer, time will give us the answer. But what happened to the other bands that had changed lead singers? Are they doing well?
The Fei'er Orchestra did not fly, and the Xin Orchestra did not believe.
In 2002, the five-member Xin Orchestra was formed in Taiwan, and in the same year, it released a number of songs that swept the country, such as "Dead To Love". Su Jianxin, the high-pitched lead singer, is widely regarded as the "façade representative" of the Xin Orchestra, and since then, the albums launched by the Xin Orchestra have also received very good sales and word-of-mouth.
However, on March 20, 2007, Su Jianxin officially announced his solo flight, and Ai Hui Records signed the letter's personal management contract for a price of 10 million Taiwan dollars, and the original "Letter Orchestra" disintegrated. The reason for this is also very simple, the five people at the beginning is not signed a band contract, nor is it a contract in the form of "lead singer + band", but five different artist contracts, and "Dead To Love" is still written and recorded by the letter itself, and the record company released it in the name of the band three years later.
So before the contract expired, Ai Hui Records first made a strong move, poached the letter, and became the first singer to sign the contract.
Since February of that year, the musicians have been unable to contact the lead singer's letter, and several people later read the letter in the newspaper announcing the single flight. The remaining four musicians of the Xin Orchestra were selected after a period of "closure" and finally selected Liu Wenjie, a young man from Guizhou, as the second lead singer of the Xin Orchestra.
Just with the situation that F.I.R is now facing, Liu Wenjie, who also has strong strength, is not accepted by the fans of the letter orchestra, not only that, the fans do not accept it, and the performance is also smashed with eggs, saying that it is a "copycat version of the letter orchestra". As a result, the performance fee of the Xin Orchestra plummeted from 2 million to 20,000, and finally Liu Wenjie withdrew from the team, and the original musicians of the Xin Orchestra have now returned to their respective lives.
Fei'er and Faith, what is the biggest lesson for us? Don't change the lead singer? wrong! Don't use the lead singer's name as the team name!
The band that has changed the lead singer the most in the history of Chinese rock.
The Panthers are both a positive and a negative example.
According to incomplete statistics, in the 31 years since its debut, the Black Panther band has experienced no less than 10 lead singers. On the negative side, it is because a normal and healthy band will not experience frequent changes of musicians; it is positive because the predecessors have already deeply rooted the rock label of "Black Panther", so no matter how to change, but everyone always recognizes this band - it is not excluded that no one cares.
The original lead singer of Black Panther was Ding Wu, but together with Li Tong and Wang Wenjie, he took the name of the band "Black Panther" and formed the Tang Dynasty. After the addition of Dou Wei, the second and first lead singer of the band Black Panther, the Black Panther quickly became the most popular rock band in China. In 1991, the band signed to Rolling Stone Records' "Hong Kong Jinshi", which spread throughout Hong Kong and Taiwan, and the 1.5 million album sales quickly became the highest-selling Chinese rock band at that time, at that time in Hong Kong, the band had a BP machine worth 10,000 Hong Kong dollars, and the monthly salary was 2,000 Hong Kong dollars.
In just three years, lead singer Dou Wei directly brought the black panther into the heyday, and the black panther works that are still constantly covered and replayed are from the Dou Wei period.
After Dou Wei left the team, he formed his own "Dream" band, and Black Panther pushed the keyboardist Luan Shu to the lead singer position through internal digestion, and then replaced multiple lead singers. However, in any case, although Dou Wei left after recording "Black Panther" in 1991, the batch of classics he performed laid a solid market foundation for Black Panther, so that Black Panther could fry cold rice for twenty consecutive years and continue to sit firmly in the position of China's rock pioneer.
Zero point becomes 100 points.
Zero, or 〇, resembles the head feature of Zhou Xiaoou, the lead singer of the Zero Point Band. Is there no Zero Point or Zero Point of Zhou Xiaoou?
On February 25, 2008, Zhou Xiaoou, the lead singer of The Zero Point Band, suddenly published an article in his blog titled "There is no feast in the world", And Zhou Xiaoou announced his withdrawal from the Zero Point Band, but the Zero Point Band did not disband. In 2014, Xue Xiaoguang, a former resident singer at the bar, joined the band as the new lead singer, and last year held an album celebration concert at the Beijing Workers' Gymnasium.
In 1989, Zero Point Band was founded in Hohhot, except for the lead singer Zhou Xiaoou from Beijing, the other musicians are from the professional literary and art group in Inner Mongolia. Zero Point, which has three complete albums, actually has 27 songs to listen to, but the band that became popular and attracted attention in 1997 because of "Love Me Or Not Love Me" has only been remembered for this song.
Is there no Zero Point or Zero Point of Zhou Xiaoou? It may or may not be, after all, it is also a Chinese rock "elder" band that the public does not pay much attention to.
But both Black Panther and Zero Point illustrate a fundamental problem: the original nature of the band and the individual musicians is the same — there's no external cause to blame, everything speaks for itself.
High is not low, Mizuki is old.
When it comes to Mizuki Nianhua, the first reaction in everyone's heart is Lu Gengji and Miao Jie. However, the founding members of Mizuki Nianhua are Li Jian and Lu Gengji.
In April 2001, Li Jian and Lu Gengjiao, who were also Tsinghua students, formed Mizuki Nianhua (the band name comes from 'Mizuki Qinghua') and released "A Lifetime with You", which is enough to be famous for the history of Chinese folk songs five months later. Only later, because of the different musical concepts, Li Jian left the team, and in 2003, guitarist Yao Yong and high-pitched Miao Jie joined, and after sending a "New Song + Selection", Yao Yong left the team, leaving only Lu Gengji and Miao Jie until today.
Mizuki's heyday was when Li Jian was there. At that time, Mizuki was full of academic style and literary and artistic smell, revealing a polite and elegant temperament from the inside out. Then Li Jian withdrew, from obscurity to today's music celebrity; on the other hand, Mizuki Nianhua still continues the fresh musical image that Li Jian created decades ago, but the influence is not as good as it was at the beginning, more is just mediocrity and loneliness, and the only thing left is the name "Mizuki Nianhua" in the jianghu.
I wonder if Li Jian had not become the focus of the masses in some entertainment programs, the still-existing combination of "Mizuki Nianhua" might have been forgotten long ago.
As the founder and songwriter of the songwriter, Li Jian's main role in "Mizuki Nianhua" can be seen, and the name of the musical poet is not a waste of time.
There is no longer band 43 on Bower Street.
From all the bands in the country at that time and now, the 43 Baojia Street band is an excellent band no matter what era it is in. No. 43 Baojia Street is the door number of the Central Conservatory of Music, because of more than ten years of serious music training, the band members have a very professional musical technology and theoretical skills, so from the beginning of the formation of the band in 1993, it has clearly positioned the right path for itself: starting with the foundation of rock music - blues music.
The first stunning debut of the band 43 Baojia Street was at the then famous rock mecca, the Beijing Maxim Western Restaurant. Wang Feng later recalled: That night Cui Jian, Black Panther, Tang Dynasty and other old cannons all appeared, these people were already wrists in the capital at that time, it was the turn of the No. 43 Baojia Street band to step down, the audience reacted enthusiastically, even those wrists were very surprised, because they had not heard similar style of music, The boss of Jingwen Records Xu Zhongmin also found them to talk about cooperation, and soon the two sides finalized the release of three albums, and the recording of small samples was also put on the agenda.
However, due to the irregularity of the record market, the band did not earn a living in music, and the album sales are still worried that they will not be able to pay rent this month. In the end, Wang Feng helplessly left his most beloved band. After joining Warner, Wang Feng has made a qualitative leap in his career, at least the music royalties he should get can make him not worry about not having money to pay rent. But as soon as he left, the band 43 Baojia Street immediately disbanded.
This domestic representative band, which was once considered to be the most artistic atmosphere, has since been Ning Weiyu and has never found a second lead singer - the top band of the same era, and then did not look for the lead singer, which is really a clear stream of music.
These all seem negative, so is there a more successful band after changing the lead singer?
Of course. But it's not what's happening here. Just say a few familiar to everyone.
No matter which sister, you have to listen to the brother.
Whether it is Sister T A or Sister F, this sentence is dedicated to the keyboard brother Toumas's personal band , Nightwish.
Formed in 1996 at Nightwish, the band's first lead singer was the legendary Tarja Turunen. Sister Tarja is Finland's most popular singer in the world, and one of the most prestigious classical singers in the world today, known as "The Voice of Finland", "Metal Sister", "Queen of Live", "Queen of Opera" and so on. At the Finnish National Day in 2007, the Finnish national anthem was sung by Tarja.
Sister T, who looks so fierce, was actually fired by the captain keyboard brother Toumas in 2005, in exchange for Anette Olzon as the second lead singer.
During the 2012 Imaginaerum tour, Sister A felt unwell and said that she could not complete the next performance, and the keyboard brother hired Floor Jansen to become the acting lead singer of Nightwish to complete the tour.
Speechless, Sister A never returned to the band, and Sister F became the band's third lead singer.
But no matter which sister, in the band Nightwish you have to listen to the keyboard brother Tuomas Holopainen, after all, the songs come out of him...
Fortunately, although fans also have a "lead singer" plot, most people first recognize the music work itself, not the lead singer.
Of course, there are also band members who collectively can't stand the lead singer and then fire the lead singer, such as Gun Flower.
The new lead singer defines the band style
Pantera, which was both heavy and compact and audible, opened the Groove Metal style era, as a pioneer band of the American New Wave heavy metal movement, Pantera influenced the later new metal, new metal, and metal core styles. Arguably, there are few modern metal bands that are not influenced by Pantera.
Pantera was formed in 1981 (Pantera means "leopard" in Spanish, not pandora transliterated). Before 1990, the band played in the style of the traditional riptide metal that was popular at that time, like Kiss and Van Helen. The lead singer of the lead band at the time was Terry Glaze, but the band was not well known and the band members were not satisfied with the lead singer's performance.
In 1986, the band's musicians found Phil Anselmo to take the place of Terry Glaze, and Phil, as the sixth lead singer, released his first album after joining the band, which coincided with a musical transition (from Thrash to Groove), so the market performance was not satisfactory. But it wasn't until 1990, when the band released the stunning Cowboys From Hell album, that Pantera became the Pantera it is today.
This is a typical case of the band's success after changing the lead singer. Phil's angry and provocative singing, and Dimebag Darrell's driven guitar Riffs performance, eventually established the band's universal image of the outside world, which was very new at the time, making the band famous around the world, from a mediocre and honest torrent metal band to today's well-known hell cowboy, and also made metal music from 1990 onwards, with the Pantera label.
Pantera was also one of the first metal music to flow into China, influencing the growth of a generation of Rock musicians in China. Unfortunately, due to the conflict between the lead singer and the Abbortt brothers, PANTERA was dissolved, and on December 8, 2004, guitarist Dimebag was killed on the spot by a 25-year-old veteran music fan who loved to hate the 25-year-old veteran music fan with 5 bullets.
Pantera thus dimmed and faded into the endless night of metal music's history.
According to incomplete statistics, well-known bands that have changed the lead singer can say with a casual finger: Twisted Machine, Mirror, Reincarnation, AK-47, Van Halen, AC/DC, Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Arch Enemy, Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath, Queen, The Cranberries...
In my opinion, the lead singer is not much different from the guitarist, bassist, and drummer, because they all perform their duties and then uniformly serve the expression of a complete music, but why is it that everyone can generally accept the change of musicians but not the change of lead singers?
In my opinion, there is probably only one reason. Because most people don't understand music, so the same music that someone sings, the orchestra and the person who sings the accompaniment, there is no difference in understanding, so everyone's focus on an orchestra group is more from emotion - this song that this person sings, let me xxxx.
For example, we recognize a complete band that is generally composed of the original members, not a single person, especially the lead singer who is universally considered to be the "soul" of the band (the soul of a band is not necessarily the lead singer, but the lead singer can give priority to shaping the image and concept of the band).
Compared with the musicians standing behind and on both sides, the appearance and voice of the lead singer are easier to distinguish and remember for everyone who only understands the connotation of music on the surface, so they listened well, chased well, and even had feelings for this band group, and as a result, you said that you suddenly replaced the lead singer, no matter how you pull your concert How different and improved, but for the other party who has placed feelings on themselves, they have changed their "face", this kind of thing is inevitable that everyone will accept incompetence for a while and a half.
But no matter what the reason for replacing the lead singer, as a listener, it is impossible to talk about acceptance and non-acceptance. I only believe that good works can retain people's reputation and support, after all, to make music, you must first look at your musical works, not look at people, strength is the last word, and it is also the secret of the band's longevity.