On August 31, 2018, a young musician who was still in his second year of college released his first demo "Written to Huang Huai" at NetEase Cloud Music.
For more than a month, without any publicity, the sophomore at Huanghuai College was surprised to find that his name and song had reached the top spot.
Since Zhao Lei sang a song "Chengdu" on the stage of "Singer", the "niche music" of folk songs has once again appeared in the vision of music fans.
The rise of folk songs has also led to the rapid spread of urban music, such as "Anhe Bridge North", "Memories of Zhengzhou", "One Man's Beijing"...
This kind of expression of urban life and emotions is expressed by the original ecology of folk music.
There are also more and more folk musicians who have been excavated, they have been deeply cultivating folk music for many years, and there are also rising stars.
The creator of this song is Shao Shuai, a post-95 folk singer, who uses a guitar and a melody to sing the most sincere emotions of life.
On the short video platform, he became one of the most popular musicians after the old fan next door and the landlord's cat.
Who is Shao Shuai? Who is Huang Huai?
When "Written to Huang Huai" became popular at the university of Huanghuai College, Shao Shuai had already joined the Zhumadian Musicians Association Pop Music Society, as the star singer of the 2018 China New Song Zhumadian Finals, and was well-known in the school.
Speaking of the inspiration for the creation of "Written to Huang Huai", Shao Shuai said:
"The people and things in Huanghuai are vivid and vivid.
Huanghuai's people have helped me a lot, and this school has provided me with a good platform for me to grow, let me develop, and let me start a business.
The song "Written to Huang Huai" is a song that weighs heavily on me, and at the largest level is ideals and love, reality and life; personally, it is the product of my growth in the past year, condensing gratitude and nostalgia. ”
You are my dream of gain and loss
I am a dispensable person
After all, this arrow that crosses mountains and rivers
The stabbers are all people who are very emotional
What is "Huang Huai" in the lyrics?
Shao Shuai explained it this way:
It can be a dream of our gains and losses, the softest place in our hearts.
It can also be the wine that we care about, and it is the eternal sustenance in our hearts.
The beautiful melody, the lyrics of literature and art, and the post-90s independent musician who created this song are not from the class.
In his sophomore year of high school, he felt that the sound of the guitar was particularly good.
Just take out your own 200 yuan, find a classmate you 50 he 100 borrowed 350 yuan, ran to buy a guitar.
There was no money to learn the piano, and he borrowed more than 700 yuan.
At that time, the family gave more than 400 yuan a month for living expenses, and he spent 200 yuan to save more than 200 yuan.
"In order to learn guitar, I can't eat dinner and save money for one meal every day."
What impressed Shao Shuai the most was the first lesson given to him by the guitar teacher.
They talk about music, they talk about dreams, they talk about experiences.
Shao Shuai said:
"He played 'Old Boy,' and I sang.
At that moment, I felt that the music was too interesting, much better than playing games and bragging.
That kind of spiritual need and satisfaction, can't be said, but can be felt.
It was then that I realized that concerts make people shine, they can give people confidence and a kind of heating power. ”
This is his enlightened memory of music.
This song that has spread all over the Internet, "Written to Huang Huai", was originally composed with the help of his friends Zhang Dongsheng and Deng Qian.
"I'm not a music student, and after May Day I started writing the lyrics of the song, and I wrote more than a dozen versions that were torn up, using the last version. The song is my own melody, made with the help of a friend with professional knowledge. ”
Not being born in a class requires more effort than music majors.
Since high school, he has been constantly looking for teachers to learn guitar and other musical knowledge.
After college, he threw himself into music with all his heart, and set up a studio with several music students to start his music path.
Creative inspiration
With a guitar, the musician, whose voice and age did not match, sang the emotion of life in the song into the hearts of the fans.
It not only brought us emotional touches, but also sang the love for the city of Zhumadian from the song.
In 2017, Shao Shuai was admitted to Huanghuai University, majoring in economics and management.
In addition to the first month of living expenses, the other expenses are supported by selling and teaching guitars by yourself.
He named his guitar studio "Relief Instrument Studio", which not only earned his living expenses, but also provided a material basis for being able to make music with his heart later.
Send you to Zhumadian West
I haven't seen you since
I never touched your body again
Like a fish that is only afraid of water
Some people say that his songs are written about youth and about regret.
Like his idol Zhao Lei's "Chengdu", "Zhumadian West" also uses the city as the inspiration for his creation.
It is also jokingly called one of the three directions of folk songs by netizens.
Just like the excellent folk works such as "Anhe Bridge North", "Beijing Beijing" and "Chengdu", each city has its own story.
But young people in their 20s have limited stories and experiences.
From the beginning of his freshman year, in addition to classes, he basically stayed in the studio to study music, almost isolated from the world to immerse himself in his own music, and lost almost all of his youth campus life in addition to writing excellent works.
Luckily, he's a listener.
Shao Shuai is a "night owl" who likes to listen to other people's stories in the middle of the night and writes these into songs as creative inspiration.
In his other song, "The Listener's Story", he tells the story of an audience.
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This is a pair of lovers for many years, perhaps because of school, perhaps because of work, they are separated.
One person thinks of the other, and the other person creates an increasingly insurmountable distance between him and him.
We who leave messages under the music may not think that in the early morning, their stories will also be written into words and composed songs, and the lyricists are "listeners and friends who relieve worries and handsomeness".
He is one of the most active musicians in the comments section, and almost every song has his own comments, or impressions, or essays, or his own creative ideas.
The music review section and the stories of his own fans have become an inexhaustible source of creation.
In an interview about creative inspiration, he confessed that he would collect music from fans and then go to cafes to listen to other people's stories.
His music has your and my stories, and those beautiful emotions have been sung to this day because of his music.
How to relieve worries, only Shao Shuai
But not quite.
The wind blows north lane south street wound flowers fall south country north pavilion cool,
There are many stories, and how long the future can be.
The road does not exhaust the vicissitudes of the world, and cannot tell the sadness of life.
The story is still long, so don't be disappointed.
A song "South Wind North Lane" touched the audience and sang and cried.
"The story is still long, so don't be disappointed."
Shao Shuai's idol is Zhao Lei, and like his idol, he also sang in a bar before his debut.
As a bar singer, he wanted to prove himself with his songs.
But the guests were only interested in the recent "fire" songs, and his original songs that he had never heard seemed so inexplicable and out of place in the ears of these guests.
"I've sung a few of my own songs, and I've never sung them again, and I've never sung them again."
"South Wind north alley" is a kind of sustenance for his future, and a beautiful fantasy for his musical dreams.
May I accompany you to see the sunset when I am sixty years old, and may the corners of my mouth rise slightly when I think of you.
May I clothe you in the northern winter, and may I be by your side in poverty.
This song "You Are a April Day on Earth" is an original song composed by Shao Shuai.
The brisk melody, Lang Lang's lyrics, and even some people have changed this song to dance music, which can be described as a brain hole.
What a multi-faceted musical teenager.
Shao Shuai and his "anti-worry" medicine
What you tried so hard to forget, can you really forget?
Whether it is "Written to Huang Huai" or "Zhumadian West", every song can evoke your dusty memories.
Explaining why he was named "Shao Shuai", he said: "I hope that my songs can relieve your sorrows, but they will not hurt your body." ”
In another of his songs, "Expired Youth," he revealed his "secret recipe for relieving worries."
Who is used to coming to Japan for a long time
How many ideals have been suppressed by time
Who has not been injured on his body
How can we stop the hope for the future?
The climax sings, and ten years later, you seem to appear next to you with the melody, gently tapping your shoulder and whispering, "Whoever has no wounds on his body can stop the hope of the future." ”
Hope is the best antidote.
Shao Shuai's hope was to become a singer, and now he has achieved it.
He officially debuted into the music circle from an ordinary college student and became a professional singer.
He kept running, and music that poured out parting, praised sadness, described the future, and longed for the past was also heard by more and more people.
He used music to make more and more people say goodbye to sadness, and his heart rekindled the fantasy and hope for the future story.
In the same year, Forbes China released the 2019 Under 30 Elite List, and at the age of 21, he entered the list as a singer.
From the small HuangHuai to the bigger stage of life.
The once village guitar boy sang his own musical path with his simple singing voice, and also sang the voice of thousands of listeners.