If there are any awards in the Chinese music scene that Jay Chou wants to get but can never get, it must be the Best Combination Award of the Golden Melody Award.
There is another thing that even his fans rarely know, in fact, Jay Chou has long put this expectation in the name of another descendant.
His name is, Nanquan Mama.
This combination, from its debut to the present, whether it is a high or a low, has always been supported by Jay Chou.
Nanquan Mom and Jay Chou
Many people know that in Jay Chou's "Panda Man", there are two not-so-good-looking boys who become the male protagonists, but they don't know that in fact, these two boys are Zhan Yuhao and Slug, a member of the combination of Nanquan Mother.
In the era of talents, the Taiwanese music scene has produced many amazing combinations, but the brightest star must be the mother of Southern Fist.
The lineup of the original Nanquan mothers are all the incredibly close brothers around Jay Chou, the core members of the warhead are his best golfers who play basketball, the giant cannon is the music director of his THE ONE tour, Gary is the royal recording engineer of his album, and Yuhao is his apprentice in the music class of Tamkang Middle School.
These 4 big boys, who are neither handsome nor fashionable, but roam freely in music, form the original and purest background color of Nanquan Mother.
These partners who also love music often remind Jay Chou of his original film self.
The name "Nanquan Mother" can also be seen as an expectation and extension of Jay Chou's musical power.
Because Jay Chou's pen name in his student days was called "South Fist".
In 2004, under the strong recommendation and support of Jay Chou, the first generation of Nanquan mothers officially debuted with their debut album "Summer of Nanquan Mothers".
They also did not live up to Jay Chou's expectations, the original Nanquan mother became an insurmountable creative strength group, and the creative talents of the four people were vividly displayed in this album.
Listen to the song of NanQuan's mother, you will find that the world is always summer, popsicles, soda, hot and cool.
The world outside the window is not only the sparrow parked on the telephone pole, but also the vanilla bar and orange soda of childhood.
At the beginning, many people commented that listening to Nanquan's mother singing was like listening to a group of little Jay Chou singing.
For example, "Vanilla Bar Poof" and "Disintegration" are composed by Jay Chou, and Zhou's style is full.
But these four boys proved their unique characteristics with their original strength.
In addition to Jay Chou's two compositions, the rest of this album is all the original works of the group members themselves.
From HIP-HOP, slow rock, pop song to British rock, classical hip hop,
Showing the talent and vitality of this young team, it can be said that it was a warm and fresh stream in the Chinese record market at that time.
"When I was a child" is considered to be the divine comedy of that album, and although the second generation of Nanquan's mother also has a song "Goodbye to Childhood", it cannot surpass the previous work in terms of intention, arrangement or the concept of pursuing ideals and finding oneself.
As we all know, there are 4 people in Nanquan Mother, but which 4 people, except for die-hard fans, should not have many people who can answer.
To be precise, the combination of Nanquan mothers has had 10 people, a total of five generations.
From the debut of Nanquan Mom in 2004 to the most recent album released in 2017, Nanquan Mom has experienced a total of four generations.
The members include Warhead, Giant Cannon, Yang Ruidai, Yuhao, Zhang Jie, Lara, Cao Jinghao, Yan Zhenglan, Hong Yanxiang, Chen Yulin, and from 2004 to the end, only one warhead was standing.
Warhead ( Song Jianzhang)
Among these four generations of Nanquan mothers, the most impressive thing is the out-of-print summer created by the first generation, but the best generation is the second generation of Nanquan mothers.
In 2005, Ju Cannon and Yang Ruidai quit the Nanquan Mother Group and went behind the scenes, using the power of creation to continue to make nanquan mother shine behind the scenes.
The newcomers who joined later were Zhang Jie and Lara, who also had creative ability, and Lara was also the only girl in the Nanquan mother group, which really added a veritable female power to the Nanquan mother.
Probably in view of the metaphysical principle of working with men and women without tiredness, the second generation of Nanquan mother also smashed a very good splash.
The second album "No. 2 Meal" album is also very high, not only has the popular pop song "Orange Soda" with full scores in the youth campus, but also fang Wenshan personally fills in the Chinese style "Mudanjiang", "Mudanjiang" also won the top ten excellent singles of the Chinese Musicians Exchange Association that year.
Nan Quan Mom also won the Hong Kong New Town Chinese Group Award for this album.
Also from this year on, Nanquan Mother was nominated for the Golden Melody Award for Best Singing Group for three consecutive years, which did not live up to Jay Chou's initial support and expectations for them.
In August of the same year, he then took advantage of the situation to launch the "Palette" album, followed by "First Love Pink", which is fresh and not vulgar, sweet but not greasy, and especially suitable for summer, which laid the foundation for the status of Nanquan mother in the youth campus music industry.
A combination that feeds only on talent
Most people listen to Nanquan Mother, but it stems from the simple freshness and good sound, but ignores the most prominent feature of the combination of Nanquan Mother itself, that is, the creative ability.
Every member of the portfolio is based on strength and talent to attract the support of Jay Chou, an angel investor.
That year, just in time for the explosion of the Taiwanese drama "Mischievous Kiss", Nanquan Mother created two popular interludes for this drama, "Closer to a Little" and "Say u Love Me", of which "Closer to a Little" is the original version of "Orange Soda", which is brainwashed so that as long as the climactic melody sounds, it will make people think of Yuan Xiangqin and Jiang Naoki.
It is also insisted by many fans that this is a song written by Jiang Naoshu to Yuan Xiangqin.
As for "Mudanjiang", not to mention, it is a Chinese style song composed by Yang Ruidai, a member of the original Nanquan mother who has withdrawn, and written by Fang Wenshan, in which the drama and R&B elements have a lot of shadows of Jay Chou's Chinese style songs.
It is definitely a rare classic in the pop Chinese style repertoire, whether it is from the arrangement or lyrics, even if it is listened to now, there is no sense of obsolescence.
In this song, Fang Wenshan contributed two classic lyrics that are highly sought after by literary and artistic youth, "The place that cannot be reached is called far away, and the name that cannot be returned is called hometown."
In 2008, Nan Quan Mom released the last album in Alfa Records, "Youyou LiangQu Nan Engage Children", a selection of new songs, not only "You Are Not Like Her", composed by Jay Chou and lyrics, most of which are still supported by the originality of the members.
"Rainy Day", which perfectly describes the lonely crush of each girl, is composed by member Zhang Jie and lyrics by Lara.
And the contract youth memory killing of "Goodbye to Childhood" is also the work of Nanquan's mother in this period, from the composition and lyrics, arrangement, production are almost all by Zhang Yuhao, this song is not only an unforgettable youth memory of a generation, but also a tribute to the "Childhood" in the first album of the first generation of Nanquan mother.
From 2004 to 2008, under the strong aura of Jay Chou, Nanquan Mother successfully seized a seat in the youth campus market and created a campus music style era that belonged to Nanquan Mother.
The songs they create are often emotionally delicate and fresh, tasting all kinds of secret love, unrequited love, lost love, and first love in adolescence, and dominating the youthful memories of a generation.
The end of the Nanquan Mother era
After this album, the development of Nanquan's mother was somewhat out of control.
In 2010, Lara and Zhang Jie flew solo, and the three generations of the group's warhead and Yuhao continued to develop and launch an album, but the splash was not large.
Then in 2012, Yuhao also flew alone, until 2015, Cao Jinghao, Yan Zhenglan, Hong Yanxiang 3 people joined nanquan mother, but also launched a new album "fist new attack".
When the new Nanquan was established, the slug once said that he hoped that the group could be shortlisted for the Best Group of the Golden Melody Award again, and he had not won the award three times before, which became the biggest regret of the mother of Nanquan.
Therefore, this restart is not only a musical breakthrough for Nanquan Mother, who has not been in business for a long time, but also another inheritance with regret and hope.
In this album, what remains unchanged is that there is still the support of the first main song composed and composed by Jay Chou and Fang Wenshan, but what has changed is the core concept and creative ability of the Nanquan Mother Group.
The reason why Nanquan Mother is Nanquan Mother is not only because of Jay Chou's pen name when he was a student, but also as they expressed when they explained their combined names when the first generation was established, "Nanquan" represents the heavy blow and strength of creation, and "Mother" represents the warmth and inclusiveness of creation.
As claimed in the second album "Palette" released by the second generation of Nanquan Mother, this is an album full of the individual colors of the members and the colors of the Nanquan Mother's combination, just like the palette, each with its own characteristics but each integrated.
And when the four generations of Nanquan mothers lost the heavy blow and strength of this creation, the "Comeback" created by Zhou Fang and the two became the only highlight of this album, and there was no original work in the previous generations of albums that could be equal to Jay Chou's style.
And the beautiful expectations of the title song "Comeback" have not been realized.
They are no longer the Nanquan mothers who can have a beautiful connection with "campus", "summer" and "youth" when the prelude sounds.
The failure of this album completely declares that the era of Nanquan's mother has passed.
At the end of the story, Nanquan's mother still did not get the Golden Melody Award, which was shortlisted for three consecutive years than when it was first built, and the later development can be described as all the way to the west and the scenery is no longer beautiful.
The Nanquan mother in her heyday was like a shining shooting star, after writing a heavy stroke of everyone's youth, it disappeared into everyone's sight, leaving the sigh of the onlookers and a string of youth memories related to them.