Streets of Taiwan in 2002
In the autumn of 2002, Lin Junjie came to Taipei City, Taiwan Province, alone, because he lived in Singapore all year round and his Chinese was not fluent. This made the young introverted Lin Junjie not go well at the beginning of becoming a singer. At this time, the 21-year-old Lin Junjie had no friends in Taiwan, and he had agreed with his father that if he did not have any achievements in music in three years, he would go back to study well.
During the production of his first album, The Music Walker, Lin Junjie was under tremendous pressure, and he also fell into self-doubt for a while, thinking that he would not succeed. Lin Yifeng later said this in the program: At that time, he was more worried about how to choose songs on the work? What if I can't write well? Whether people will like him or not, he has been worrying about these things. Xu Huanliang also said that when Lin Junjie's first record was about to be released, he came to him and said: Teacher Xu Huanliang, I am very nervous. Then I asked him: What are you nervous about? At this time, Lin Junjie asked him again: Teacher Xu, do you think I can succeed? You see me singing, the voice is not very special, and then I am not very handsome, not as special as the voice of the master brother, are you sure I will succeed? Why are you signing me?. Fortunately, at this time, his mentor Xu Huanliang gave him great support, and he also met a new friend in life, the lyricist - Lin Yifeng.
Lin Yifeng
Lin Yifeng is a student of Lin Qiuli, chairman of Sea Butterfly Music, and Lin Jun's outstanding Dao before Lin Yifeng wrote the fire "Perseverance to the End" and "Fantasy" for Adu. As an already well-known lyricist, Lin Yifeng is very easy-going in personality. In life and work, he took good care of Lin Junjie, who had just arrived in Taiwan, and he also became Lin Junjie's first friend when he came to Taiwan. Two people also trust each other in the new person. Lin Yifeng said in his interview program, "I have been listening to JJ's demos, and I have heard a lot of demos from him before he released the film. I think what's amazing about him is that his music has a strong sense of picture. Every time I listened to his songs, I felt that a lot of pictures would come to mind, so I went to try to write the word distance, and then handed it to Lin Qiuli's teacher." The song was later included on JJ's second album, Second Heaven. From 2002 to Taiwan, from the beginning of the unfamiliar environment, Lin Yifeng can be said to be Lin Junjie's first friend in the true sense. The feeling of being close to a confidant, sharing my heart, sharing pain and difficulties, he made me adapt to this place in Taiwan, this city. This is also what Lin Junjie said later in the show
Lin Qiuli
Later, Lin Yifeng also became one of Lin Junjie's royal lyricists, they co-created distance, discovered love, expected love, did not spend money, back-to-back hugs, voices, palm roses, keywords, and other popular works, until now, they are still very good friends.
In April 2003, Lin Junjie's first album "Music Walker" was officially released, as a newcomer with no fame, Lin Junjie's publicity scene often needed to borrow Adu's traffic, and the career that seemed to be about to start came to an abrupt end at this time. This year, superstar Zhang Guorong committed suicide and caught up with the SARS pandemic, and all the outdoor publicity of Lin Junjie, a small singer who was ignored, was stopped. Lin Junjie recorded his mood at that time with lyrics that crossed the song in his 2017 album "Great Smallness".
SARS in 2003 became a lingering nightmare
The year 2003 was Lin Junjie's loneliest year at that time, during which time Lin Junjie felt that he might have to go back to Singapore to study, fortunately, Sea Butterfly Music at that time had a strong advantage in the promotion of the album, and with the strong support of the owner Lin Qiuli, the record team focused on the 2 and 3-tier cities in the mainland. During this year, the record team took Lin Junjie to run dozens of cities in the mainland. He ran the album out of popularity, and also ran red songs such as "It's Me" and "Frozen". In the end, "Happy Walker" won the first place in the newcomer sales list for four consecutive weeks in Taiwan, and nearly one million copies in the mainland.
Happy walkers
Mother's Day in 2004 was the 15th Taiwan Golden Melody Awards ceremony. On this day, Lin Junjie won the coveted Golden Melody Award for Best Newcomer. He can finally say goodbye to the nightmare of going back to Singapore to study. He stood on the podium at that time and made such a speech: "I really didn't expect it, thank you, thank you for awarding this award to me, I will continue to work hard to do music well." I haven't been so nervous in my life, and today I finally realized the feeling that every singer is nominated for this award for the first time, and then first of all, I want to thank my God for giving me the inspiration to make music, but also to thank my mom and dad, especially to tell my mom that I hope you will like it, and on Mother's Day this is a Mother's Day gift for you. People in the company say that I speak too fast, so now I have to try to slow down, and I also want to thank my company Sea Butterfly Music, every employee, every teacher, because I think the hardest thing is really you. Thank you Teacher Xu Huanliang, thank you Teacher Lin Qiuli, and then I want to thank all my media friends, thank you for your care, and thank all the friends who like my music, all the friends who support me Thank you" Lin Junjie is also a very polite and grateful big boy, how many people don't like such idols? It's just that Lin Junjie at that time may not have thought that the next time he stood on the stage to receive the award was ten years later.
Lin Junjie Best Newcomer Award
In the spring of 2004, Lin Junjie went to the United States. Began recording his second album, Second Heaven. He learned a lot here. A lot of things I didn't know before.
Second heaven
June 4, 2004. Lin Junjie's second album "Second Heaven" was officially released, in this album Lin Junjie not only arranged the entire album, but also participated in the arrangement and production. The album was produced by Xu Huanliang, and most of the song filling and concept parts were grasped by Lin Qiuli. However, "Second Heaven" has not been reviewed in the mainland because of the existence of the word "heaven", so the mainland version of the album not only lacks the song of the second heaven, but also faces a problem of re-selecting the first wave of the main song. Blessed by misfortune, "Gangnam" was finally selected. The song "Gangnam" is inspired by the Hong Kong comic "Wind and Clouds", and the original song title was called "Tianxia", which was really known by relying on the title song "Gangnam" Lin Junjie. Later, Lin Junjie had a demo that showed this song in the variety show "Dream Timeline". Interested can go to stop, very good to listen to.
Gangnam
It is said that Lin Junjie came to Xi'an in order to publicize the "Happy Walker" when he ran a notice in the interior, and after visiting the Terracotta Warriors in Xi'an, he wrote Jiangnan in the hotel against the ancient city wall of Xi'an, revising the world's demo. So much so that he later had feelings for the ancient city wall and thought that Xi'an was his blessed land. It is worth mentioning that the word Fengyun also appears in the lyrics of Jiangnan, and Lin Junjie also seems to spit out the plot by the way while singing.
When the album "Second Heaven" was selected for the song, the song "Jiangnan" was not optimistic, and there was no popular Chinese style at that time, and some people thought that the song was too experimental. As a result, Gangnam may not have been included in Lin Junjie's album for a while. However, at the insistence of Lin Junjie, Jiangnan eventually achieved success. Starting from "Second Heaven", Lin Junjie gradually tried different styles of works and singing skills, the game science fiction style of "Second Heaven", the American lyrical style of "Fear", the Chinese style R&B of "Jiangnan", the true and false tone conversion of "Distance" and "Mermaid", and each song can see Lin Junjie's efforts and growth
In the last golden period of Chinese pop, Lin Junjie's "Jiangnan" and Jay Chou's "Qilixiang" Fei'er Orchestra's "Our Love" Zhang Shaohan's "Fables" Jolin Tsai's "Love 36 Plans" Liang Jingru's "Ningxia" Mayday's "Stubborn" Sun Yanzi's "I Miss Him Too" she's "Persian Cat" was released in the same year, at this time Lin Junjie has already emerged in the Chinese music scene. But in Taiwan, it is still the world of Jay Chou, Wang Lihong, Tao Zhe and others.
What is the reason for Lin Junjie's legendary low tide period? Please see the next issue