Author: Cheng Peng
"The Ideal Thirty years old" is sung to thirty years. Inheriting the time of the past and the future, the ideal to meet in the near future will bring a little return. The first edition of the EP has three songs, listen to the songs first, listen to these three songs, and there are four more. Some feelings, full special release and then goodbye. --Chen Hongyu
On April 22, Chen Hongyu posted this pre-edition EP of "Thirty Years" on his Weibo and wrote the above text on Douban.
When I saw this album, I was first attracted by the blue cover of this album. The album cover was designed by Hou E and photographed in the zhongleji office. The pure blue hue seemed to symbolize the vast and boundless universe, and Chen Hongyu stood at a door of "ideals" that passed through the light, overwhelmed.
The second thing that attracted me was the stills tailored for him by cinematographer Tsering Deji and the "cold" story behind the album. He was still the same teenager as he had been years ago, like a troubadour.
Finally, there are the songs on this album: "This Era Of Conflicts with Intuition", "This Is Not the Ideal Song", "The Story of the Song".
A fan on NetEase Cloud Music wrote: "One decade lost to the ideal of youth and madness, twenty lost to the youthful and ignorant love, and thirty lost to the vicissitudes of lonely reality."
This is the reality that many people need to be real and cruel. But this teenager didn't seem to care about the changes in the world. "Three Decades" as a return album, Chen Hongyu will compose a song and sing the return of the original ideal.
Although "Thirty Years" has gone to the ideal word, it is still an ideal.
He was still chanting ideals in his own low voice, like a lonely star whistling through many stars that had annihilated the light, looking for the same kind, silently shouting in his heart: Go to the ideal!
When I first heard "Ideal Thirty", I didn't know that Chen Hongyu behind the song was a gentle person, a dancing teenager from the small county town of Erguna.
His voice was low, sad but full, like a piece of gold from the desert.
This guitar teenager who loves BEYOND, Iron Lady, and Nirvana (the American nirvana band), he never shares the heartache and ups and downs of the past. The original prototype of "Ideal Thirty" was born in the band of stray wounds he formed in high school.
It is only when he accumulates the thick story deeper and deeper that he naturally completes it, and can he sing "Ideal Thirty" into people's hearts, accumulate thick and thin, and make a splash.
His upbringing was an adventure, an adventure about musical ideals.
In 2010, he came to Beijing and worked as a delivery man, radio planner, music crowdfunding website employee, and partnered with people to open a restaurant. Before founding the Zhongleji Music Community, he was rejected by a music website during an interview.
In 2015, he founded the Music Club Mass Music Chronicle.
In 2015, the first compilation album "Zhongle Ji I • Lost City Song" was released.
On July 7, 2015, he officially began to plan and produce his first solo album "Poetry Radio Under the Smoke" on LeTong.com, and updated 41 "Album Creation Notes" with Shrimp Mi Music.
In 2016, together with his friend Ma Yuyang, he set off from Beijing to start the "adventure" of meeting friends with songs. It lasted 100 days, locked in 27 cities such as Wuhan, Changsha, Chengdu, Chongqing, Kunming, etc., slept in tents, hitchhikered, traveled all the way, and finally produced and completed the music collection and documentary "Folk Map • Picking Up the Crowd".
In "Folk Map • Collecting Crowds and Songs", it is possible to present the people who love music in three dimensions, and to enjoy the music of the crowd instead of solo music.
In this magnificent adventure of musical ideals, he interprets the world of music in his own way.
For example, "On the Way" sings about thinking on the ideal road, no matter what, to love the wind in the wilderness, rather than to love poverty and thinking.
Just like the appearance of youth, bitter travel or incense, joy or fall to the place you want to go, there are poems in the place of the will.
"Like a Young Man" sings about the loneliness and stubbornness of a teenager.
How much coolness can be turbulent, and loneliness to resist. How much regret and conceit, only time is irresistible.
To get to know a person, it is best to listen to his songs.
Some people say that January is divided into three decades: early, mid and late. Thirty represents the time when the ideal will not be fulfilled. It is also said that one decade is ten years, and thirty years is thirty years. "Thirty years" are the three stages of life. Innocence: The old tin is opened to the south, and the lover is no longer there. Twenty years of searching: youth and drunkenness, from the nameless arms. Thirty years of plainness is true: light and shadow beat like they are, sleepy to say love, and then senseless emotion, thinking that they understand that the place where the dream collapsed is now crawling with moss.
Chen Hongyu also explained the origin of the song "Ideal Thirty" in "Thirty Years Not Far Away".
At that time, he was in a shared house in an old residential area in Jianguomen, Beijing, and collected the "Nameless" song from the lyricist Tang Yingfeng to fill in the words. One of the passages reads: Short-term memories gush through, long-term memories flood, along the clues and back to the main song of this song written in the lower bunk of the university dormitory in 2008, and then in 2011 when I wanted to chase a girl, I made up the chorus, and now several friends in the college dormitory are separated, the girl is also married and has a groom, not me, I don't know how they are now. All the way to the thoughts, this meal to eat Lanzhou ramen or donkey meat fire can not remember, back to the north facing top lamp broken at night has been with the lamp has been made up of the dark cabin after dialing Tang Yingfeng's phone.
Tang Yingfeng once said: As soon as the singer opens his mouth, the lyrics are meaningless. I am protecting me very well. I'm not in a state where I'm completely dissected. Therefore, the opening of the old iron sheet to the south is part of the memory that Tang Yingfeng opened when he was wandering; the lover is no longer five words, but it is the story of Chen Hongyu's entire lost love, he regards "Ideal Thirty" as a dream-shattering memory, and the ideal of love is shattered.
I can feel it deeply, when he sings: The old iron sheet opens to the south, the lover is no longer there, and the heart must be the most painful!
Songs like "Ideal Thirty" are like Chen Hongyu's innate low voice, which is not suitable for performing on a noisy stage. Such a literary and artistic love song requires an affectionate poet to speak softly around the stove in a late night. So in the hard-ground fireplace night of NetEase Cloud Music, he told his story affectionately.
There is loneliness, regret, farewell, and love in the story.
Hearing the song "This Age of Conflict with Intuition" again today, I know very well that this is a multiple-choice question that everyone must do.
Are you choosing: silence? Or the choice: each with its own opinion?
Are you the choice: Sound Color Dog Horse? Or the choice: going to the ideal?
This song describes how you are different from others in a contrasting way. Those people have lost interest in this special solitary world, busy all day long, indulged in their own desires, entertainment, trapped in the established 'rules', they are lonely, decadent, numb, no longer have the enthusiasm and courage to ask the world, no longer look up and praise the passion and romance of the stars.
And he and them are "in conflict", with self-deprecation or he mocking, with that inquiry, without hesitation, like a sharp sword stabbing at the exit of this world, exploring the ideal of darkness and light extinction. The British female writer Virginia Woolf once wrote a long novel "To the Lighthouse" in a stream-of-consciousness approach. I think this is also Chen Hongyu's intuition to say his own thoughts: he said: How about humor? Can be sharp, go to the ideal!
"This is not the ideal song", the song set the tone is "change". In the turbulent years, Chen Hongyu was like a big goose flying from north to south, suddenly looking back and witnessing the change in the trajectory of his life, his friends and his parents.
"The Story of the Song", I guess, must have been done in KTV. Only in KTV can you unabashedly vent your emotions.
The story of the song is actually the story of people and the story of lovers.
The lyrics read: This is the song that touched me the most when I was difficult, it was it that supported me through those days, you just laughed and said it was not bad, I also laughed and forgot to be silent when I should be silent.
She may be the one who loves deeply and can't. Or is he the one who hides his love and does not say it.
Everyone needs such a song to remember, to miss, to support themselves to live with a smile.
I only have one cigarette, but I'll have to last a night. I only have a little love, but I have to live my life. I believe Chen Hongyu is such a person.
Thousands of people love the ideal thirty years, and love alone like a teenager. Teenagers, go to the ideal, faith does not die, ideals do not die.
May his songs make all hearts not gray, all lovers not scattered, and all ideals not dead!