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When it comes to Jay Chou's music, the first thing that comes to mind is Fang Wenshan. Jay Chou and Fang Wenshan have created countless Chinese classics together and become one of the most prestigious gold medal partners in the Chinese music scene.
But fans familiar with Jaylen's music are not difficult to find that in addition to Fang Wenshan, there is another musician who is also an indispensable partner on Jaylen's music road, that is, Huang Junlang.
Huang Junlang can be said to be the homeless man picked up by Fang Wenshan, known as ghost talent, and has filled in words for many people, the most of which is Jay Chou.
Although most people know him because of the song "In the Name of the Father", in fact, his main identity is not a lyricist, but a painter and writer.
Saying that he is a ghost talent, in fact, he is very hardworking, saying that he likes nonsense, in fact, he is very emotional. He just wants to write books and books, and of course, he is happy to accept all kinds of unexpected surprises in life.
Huang Junlang's words are representative of the review
"In the Name of the Father", "General", "Trajectory", "Reverse Scale", "The Seventh Chapter of the Night", "Sailors Are Afraid of Water", "Cross-Era", "Cowboys Are Busy", "Uncle Jock", "Snake Dance", "Past Lover", "Stealing Love", "Heaven and Earth Fight", "Free Teaching Video" - Jay Chou
"Madrid is not incredible", "Peach Blossom Garden", "Greek Girl of The Trevi Fountain" - Jolin Tsai
Sharpshooter, Moonlight Codex – S.H.E
"Time Tunnel", "Later Us" - Xiao Yaxuan
"Love how much you like", "Bagpiper" - Liang Jingru
"Interlude", "Wild Things", "Mermaid Tears", "Return to Glory" - Nanquan Mother
"Hot" - Wen Lan
"The Silence of Too Dawn" – Liang Yongqi
"Double Yellow Line" - Chen Xiaochun
"Silence" - Pin Guan
The Rest of Summer – TFboys
"Tree Reading" - Wang Junkai
Homeless man who was picked up
Huang Junlang, everyone calls him Alang, born in 1973, graduated from the Department of Law, Commerce and Geopolitics of ZTE University, you can easily find his Weibo, and even his email address, even so, you still feel that you don't know much about him, I think, a person's charm, mostly because you want to know more. Alang can easily make you feel this way.
Ah Lang was born in a rural area in Kaohsiung, his parents were tailors, and he painstakingly cut cloth and sewed to bring up his children in a small workshop less than Liuping, which became the most vivid picture in Ah Lang's memory.
He was very well-behaved since he was a child, excellent in character and learning, never read comics before high school, and then after he was admitted to Xiong junior high school, he slowly got used to living in groups, and it was at that time that he was convinced that he must develop into the field of writing and graphic design, even if he majored in land politics in college.
After graduating from college, Ah Lang's family still has debts unpaid, and his family and friends hope that he can find a stable job, but Ah Lang feels that if he has a stable job, people will often become accustomed to ease, and he does not allow himself to have the idea of "even if you don't publish a book", and it is necessary to do something that is necessary to publish a book.
So he broke the mold: he wouldn't accept any job offers unless he waited until the book was published. He believes that his painting style has not been painted by others, and the creation of words is also his own strength, which is his way of making a living.
At that time, Ah Lang was a bit sloppy, he was chased by the landlord because he could not pay the rent, and his home was cut off from water and electricity, so he could only hide in his room and did not dare to go out.
At that time, he was writing and painting in the café he frequented, because the café owner noticed that his paintings were very appreciative, so he began to exchange the paintings for a cup of coffee, and the boss even helped him prepare a large file folder for storage.
At that time, Ah Lang looked no different from a tramp, he could sleep by spreading newspapers on the ground, and even walked around barefoot.
Alang said that even in the moments of the greatest blow, he learns to think calmly, because he knows that persistence and abandonment are often in an instant, and all he has to do is to persist.
Until he met Fang Wenshan and Jay Chou.
Mistakenly hit and started writing words
"I forget when I became more and more acquainted with Wen Shan, but I knew that when no one in the world wanted to publish my books that were called too underground, he was the only one who decided to come out immediately. At that time he did not have a publishing house. He said, let's get the publishing house, just in time to publish your book. ”
For Fang Wenshan's promotion, Ah Lang is always grateful, the two met because of the creation of graphic design, and they were introduced to Fang Wenshan and actually signed in the record company to create lyrics.
This experience is the same as Fang Wenshan, who originally wrote a script and made a movie, but unexpectedly began to create lyrics and became a famous lyricist.
At that time, although Fang Wenshan was in the entertainment industry, he had always been very persistent about cultural undertakings, hoping to open a publishing house, and after chatting with Ah Lang, he found that he had a ready-made book manuscript to publish books, plus Ah Lang himself would do art graphic design, and the two like-minded people jointly established the Chinese Territory Publishing House. The first wave of works of the publishing house on the day of its establishment was Alang's "This Book".
Ah Lang has always felt that he is perhaps the luckiest and most relaxed lyricist in the world, one is because of Wen Shan, and the other is because of Jay Chou.
The first time Ah Lang was noticed was Jay Chou's "In the Name of the Father" that Jay Chou asked him to fill in. One day, Jay Chou threw two DEMO songs to Ah Lang, one "In the Name of the Father" and one "Three Years and Two Classes" for him to choose. He thought Jaylen must have gone crazy, he never filled in the words, jaylen said it doesn't matter, even if you fill it badly, I can sing it well. At that time, Jay Chou was so confident.
"In the Name of the Father" Ah Lang filled it out very carefully, and of course it was also very successful.
"Merciful Father I have fallen into / The kingdom of invisible sin / Please forgive my conceit / No one can say that no one can say / It is unbearable / Behind the glory is carved a loneliness ..." This is a passage that can be sung at first glance.
"In the Name of the Father" made Ah Lang a hit, Jolin Tsai, S.H.E and so on more and more big-name singers have thrown olive branches to him, Ah Lang is moved at the same time, but also clearly knows that he is noticed, only because of Jaylen's music, so occasionally sigh, "In the Name of the Father" is actually Jaylen's creativity and ideas, Alang once thought that he would rely on his own books to play a piece of the sky, no matter how unappreciated or cold-eyed, but he wrote two books How no one said? Wrote a song but a lot of people talk about him?
At the same time as sighing, there was already an impatient voice around him: "Ah Lang, what are you thinking in pieces?" Is the book written? How? You think you don't have to write a book if you write a song! You think you're a Golden Melody Award finalist in a speech? Please, Mao hasn't grown up yet! "This is the number of Fang Wenshan.
Then a piece of clothing was thrown over, "Please, don't let me see you wearing that dress again, it's insulting to my music!" Give you a dick change and stop kidding about looks! Jaylen was helping.
Ah Lang described Fang Wenshan and Jay Chou as "partners who can do things with great insults", for Ah Lang has always had the dream of a poor artist's road, Fang Wenshan and Jay Chou will only whisper viciously: "MD, write him words to make money and still pretend to be high over there, what a thing!" ”
Jay Chou is so good to him that 90% of his clothes will be given to him to wear, he admires Ah Lang's attitude as an artist, but he is still not accustomed to his untrimmed homeless appearance.
However, Fang Wenshan and Jay Chou are such lovely people, Ah Lang has always felt that these two people are crazy, one inexplicably wants to fill in the words for him important songs, and even if he can write songs, he will not ask, only ask him whether he has difficulties in life, write well and make a profit.
The other never bothered to write his lyrics, but also tried to make it successful in the lyrics, even without even reading a book when he finished it.
What Ah Lang most touched and recognized about Jaylen and Wenshan was the temperament and madness of these two people.
Later, Jaylen took many of his songs to Ah Lang to fill in the lyrics, and he wrote them one by one very seriously, although there were not many works, but there was no shortage of classics.
Ah Lang is serious about doing things, and it can be said that he has reached the point of nitpicking. When he helped Jaylen write lyrics, he needed to refer to a lot of information related to the theme of the song for each capital. In order to write the seventh chapter of the night, Ah Lang went through the "Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes", and every sentence in the lyrics corresponded to the imagery in Sherlock Holmes, which was amazingly clever.
The circular plaza next to Baker Street is armored on the arm of a knight
The emblem of the iris is slightly bright
Unmanned carriages ring out Late night visits
Evil in Victoria's moonlight Bloody opening
Writing "The General", he decided to use chess as the theme of the entire lyrics, so he went to buy a thick copy of "Introduction to Chess", studied the chess score for half a month before starting to write words.
The head cannon was purely out of my polite opening
Screen Horse Shenhua introverted to soft Ke Gang
"Reverse Scales" also uses surrealism to write golden sentences such as "life screams in the dark alley".
The person with the Cover of the Post in his hand was smiling
Next intersection Life screams in the dark alley
In addition to these atmospheric works, Ah Lang also created a lot of delicate inner drama lyrics.
For example, "Uncle Jock" portrays the loneliness of a clown's heart almost perfectly.
I'm not a lonely clown, and you don't need to remember me after you laugh
When the lights go out, the starry sky is the brightest thing is loneliness
For example, "The Bagpiper" written to Liang Jingru and Xiao Yaxuan's "Later Us" can appreciate the profundity of love.
Ah Lang's style is changeable, not only the dark style of the work, but also the writing of playful and cute lyrics can also be easy. For example, "Cowboys are Busy", "Madrid is not thoughtful", "Love how much to like".
The recent collaboration with Jaylen on TFboys' "The Rest of Summer" is full of youthful campus atmosphere.
He said that he did not want to show an academic feeling, but while maintaining his own style, he also had to study the subject of creation in order to write in-depth works.
All-round genius
Huang Junlang, who has always come up with a book, has now published five books, and the name of the book is as strange as his people, "This Book", "The Second Book", "The Third Book", "Not the Fourth Book", and "Huang Junlang's Black".
People who are slightly familiar with Ah Lang may have also seen his paintings and are a school of their own. But in fact, he has never received formal drawing training, but is engaged in graphic design himself, for many design-related computer software, most of them are self-taught.
He says that when he wants to study something, he studies it thoroughly.
This is Alang's painting of himself
Ah Lang said that he began his graffiti painting in college, and once when he was bored during a test in the hospital, he took a piece of paper and began to graffiti four-panel comics. The consistent black and white style is because he does not want to paint things that cost money and are very tired, and finally he decided to draw anywhere with a simple pen and a piece of paper.
Ah Lang said that he will only show a delicate and sensitive side when creating, and his creative process is very diverse, always opening four or five windows at a time, writing several books at the same time, writing and drawing is always used to having music as a foil, and it must be pure music without lyrics.
He believes that the secret to writing a work that moves readers is to keep practicing and writing. These seemingly idle processes are actually carried out step by step and logically.
In addition to painting, he also acted in movies, and had cameos in Jaylen's "The Secret That Cannot Be Said" and "Rooftop Love".
"The Secret That Can't Be Said" also sang an interlude "Girl Don't Cry for Me" funny.
The first on the right is Huang Junlang
To say that he is a ghost is better to say that he is a child who uses the right way to create crooked works, hard work and mischievous.
In Ah Lang's imaginary world, there seems to be an endless stream of huge structures like story generators, and sufficient creative energy, trying to make an impact on the world at a slow but continuous pace.
Even if the prosperity of the Chinese music scene is difficult to continue, there are always some people who deserve our expectations.
About the author: Liu Nini, a contracted author of Taoji Music, is a secretarial dog living in Chengdu. In this laid-back city, occasionally serious, occasionally literary. Insist on buying CDs, love essential music, and are committed to being an audiophile who listens to music from a point of view.