↑ Chen Xuening
The "Green" and "Your Tavern Closed for Me" that were all over the Internet brought fire to the original singer Chen Xuening, and this 18-year-old northeast girl began to appear at the top of the major music charts.
"Green" has been played 1.02 billion times on Douyin, and the number of users is as high as 4.377 million;
On QQ music, the three songs of "Cinderella", "Your Tavern Closed for Me" and "Green" have reached the top three of the Q-tone peak hot song list at the same time;
On the NetEase Cloud Music Hot Song List, there have been scenes of "Green" and "Your Tavern Closed for Me" appearing in the TOP10 at the same time;
In the Billboard China release list, "Green" has been on the list for 8 consecutive weeks and ranked first in the streaming media index.
This 18-year-old northeastern girl has now become a "Rong Drift", and Chengdu has become her home. "A lot of people probably like Chengdu and want to write a song for it. I don't agree, I don't necessarily have to write about Chengdu, because Chengdu has made me, and I can write these works in this city. These songs that have exploded on the Internet are all created by Chen Xuening in Chengdu.
On December 8, at the 2019 TMEA Tencent Music Entertainment Festival held in Macau, China, Chen Xuening won two awards: "Best Newcomer Female Singer of the Year" and "TMEA Top Ten Golden Songs of the Year ("Green")". After winning the award, she gave an exclusive interview to Red Star News. Let's walk into this fairy girl and try to read her 18-year-old sky with music.
Most of the creations are based on chatting with friends, and "Green" is the inspiration for the hot pot
Chen Xuening was interviewed in the center of Chengdu in the Shaocheng Era Chengdu Center in Chengdu's Tianfu New District, and she was wearing a purple color that day: purple fisherman's hat, purple jeans, and purple sneakers.
"Snow condensation, do you particularly like purple?" Snow smiled and replied, "I love green!" It was her "Green" that had 1.02 billion plays on Douyin and was used by 4.377 million people.
↑Chen Xuening's songs appear at the top of major music charts.
"If you hadn't suddenly broken into my life, how could I have let go of the loneliness of stubbornness..." The lyrics are slightly childish and tacky, and the tune is also a "4536251" harmony that many musicians are not ashamed of. But to rank this year's "Divine Comedy", "Green" ranks in the top three.
"I remember that day I was eating hot pot with my friends, and she told me some stories about feelings, and then teased me to write a song called 'Green'. I thought it was funny, but when I went back to bed, I thought why can't I try it? At that time, Chen Xuening also predicted on Weibo that he would write this song. Soon, various comments poured in. "Maybe they feel that in some ways, 'green' is not a good sign. But I didn't think about it so much, I just liked the color green. ”
Everyone's understanding of "green" will be different, and in Chen Xuening's mind, like is like.
In fact, it also has a meaning of forgiveness color, in fact, at that time, I also talked to friends about the embarrassment that this color would cause, but from my starting point, I decided that it was a forgiveness point. They don't know me as a person, they don't know my experiences, they don't even know my age, and it's only through my songs that maybe they can get acquainted with me a little. At this time, she is almost a girl's stubbornness.
↑ Chen Xuening at the 2019 TMEA Tencent Music Entertainment Festival
After experiencing the peak of "Green", Chen Xuening found that she had encountered her own bottleneck period, and inspiration seemed to be running away from her. "I wrote a lot of songs some time ago, and the fastest thing was to write a song a day, like handing in homework, which consumed a lot of inspiration for me." So the most she's done lately is to listen to people tell stories, "most of the creative inspiration comes from chatting with friends, but also from their own past experiences, even watching a book, a movie, I will grasp the painful points from it to set the theme to create." 」 ”
"White Mountain Tea" is Chen Xuening's first work, in her early 16s, she found the arrangement on Taobao, the recording studio she found on the US group, and the album cover was her own selfie. But Chen Xuening did not expect that this song made her bear the reputation of "plagiarism" on the Internet. "At the time, I didn't know to rhyme when writing songs, or about copyright or infringement. Simply see a passage of words from the Internet and compose the music with a guitar. I just wanted to send it out to the fans, but I didn't expect that later this song went viral, and many people heard it, which caused this disaster. The little girl didn't have a splinter, she said she was still looking for the original author to buy the copyright.
After 00, the female singer "Rong Drift" Chengdu created her
"Xue Ning was born in Inner Mongolia, her parents are from Liaoning, and her father often works abroad because of his work. Because I am engaged in electricity work, many times I need to work at height, and my family conditions are very general. Chen Xuening's current boss, Feng Ke, CEO of Shaocheng Times, said something somewhat surprising.
In Chen Xuening's imprint, the connection with music comes from a chance encounter. "My first exposure to music actually started with a piano, and once I passed by a guitar shop after school in junior high school and found it particularly beautiful in the unassuming corner of the ukulele. The teacher at the guitar shop picked up the piano and gently plucked the strings, instantly attracting me. With the support of his parents, Chen Xue condensed more than 300 pieces to have his first piano.
From temptation to liking, holding this ukulele and gently singing classic songs in the live broadcast room has become chen Xuening's best relaxation after class.
↑ Chen Xuening at the Awards Ceremony of the Chinese Song Chart
After this, Chen Xuening made one of the most rebellious decisions in his life: to leave home and go for a walk alone with a guitar.
"If I really have this talent and ability, I wonder if I can change my destiny through my own later efforts." Since I was a child, I have felt that if I am not willing to work hard, I will make the result change. Chen Xuening replied seriously.
After a short stop in Hangzhou and Beijing, Chen Xuening, who was only 16 years away from turning 16, came to the strange City of Chengdu. "I haven't paid for money since junior high school, and I sell ukulele on Taobao and have some savings."
As for whether there was the idea of going to the bar to sing at that time, Chen Xuening confessed, "I don't want to go to the bar to sing from the bottom of my heart, I like the feeling at the music festival." Because singing in a bar, if the listener doesn't understand your own music, they won't get to know you, and that communication is not what I want. ”
↑ Chen Xue condensed at the music festival
In August this year, Chen Xuening signed a contract with Shaocheng Times. "I have always paid attention to her works, and she is known to everyone for her own works, but she has made several appointments because she wants to date her record company too much." Feng Ke recalled that the first time they met was in Chengdu, "That night Xue Ning did not show very positive, I think basically no drama." ”
"At that time, I was a little scared, because there were too many companies looking for me, and there were all kinds of things, so I didn't want to show my emotions on my face." After meeting Mike (Feng Ke's English name), the biggest impression I got was that he and his company were down-to-earth and really making music. Chen Xuening replied seriously.
Chen Xuening always wanted to know if he could change his fate through his own efforts. Today, fate is changing little by little.
Signed a new company, sent out new songs, lived in a three-bedroom apartment in Chengdu, and the living room was big enough for her to do a lot of things. Although she lives in a rented house, Chen Xuening feels particularly at ease, "Before "White Mountain Tea" was accused of plagiarism, I suffered huge online violence. I was in Beijing, crying and falling asleep in the hotel. When I woke up the next day with a high fever, I suddenly felt tired outside alone. After dialing her mother's phone, she said 'Mother come with you', and tears broke down in an instant. ”
Perhaps, Chen Xuening wanted to thank that rebellion, which made her understand the preciousness of the family. "If my family is around, it seems that there is an invisible force behind it, and they did not rush to urge me to go back in their hometown before." Before signing the contract with Shaocheng Times, they also respected my opinion, saying that I was happy, but they would definitely help me check it. In this regard, Feng Ke added that Chen Xuening's father did not know much about this aspect of the contract before, "Before signing the contract, he carefully read the books I gave him in this regard, and my parents put all their bodies and minds on Xue Ning's body. ”
Chengdu has become Chen Xuening's new home, a home full of dreams and hopes. "A lot of people probably like Chengdu and want to write a song for it. I don't agree, I don't necessarily have to write about Chengdu, because Chengdu has made me, and I can write these works in this city. If it is in other cities, whether it is the northeast or Hangzhou, the type of writing will be very different. Now whenever dan goes out on a tour, if the time is long, Chen Xuening will be spoiled, "Can you go home?" I'm going back to Chengdu. Indeed, for her, Chengdu is home.
A "music car accident" scene Countless times of online violence
In the backstage of the 2019 TMEA Tencent Music Entertainment Festival, Feng Ke, who has been in the battlefield for a long time, was actually a little nervous, stemming from the scene of the "car accident" before Chen Xuening.
"At the Huage Song Chart Ceremony in September this year, Xue Ning was on such a stage for the first time, and my colleagues and I were nervous. But she didn't care, and later after singing wrong on stage, she comforted us, saying that it didn't matter that I was still young, I would get better and better, which was a great feeling. ”
"I used to sing livehouse like this, the first time I participated in such a grand award ceremony, the stage was sitting Jay Chou, Zhang Jie and other level artists, you let me go up and sing to them, I must be nervous." 」 Chen Xuening admitted that he was very excited when he went up, "As soon as I sang, my voice trembled. Coupled with the fact that there were some problems with the sound and monitor ear at the beginning, my own singing skills were not very good, and I had not yet played to my normal level, so it was even worse. ”
However, on the Internet, there are a wave of bad reviews, and they have questioned Chen Xuening's ability to be a studio singer, and the original form is revealed as soon as he sings the scene. "For my age, I feel more resistant to pressure than the average person. Because when I first started making music, I would have all kinds of sounds, saying that the music style of the songs you wrote was too similar to that of a tune and so on. But then you find that you can't be yourself and you can't let them guide you, but you have to guide them. As for what they said, it was not uncomfortable to be false, fortunately, my memory is not very good, just pass. Chen Xue grinned.
In Chen Xuening's own judgment system, these violence from the Internet are good and bad. She hopes that more people will read her through her own songs. "My parents and I didn't have a deep inner communication before, but they actually knew me when they saw my lyrics. I hope that other people are the same, and my little growth will be conveyed through these simple sentences. ”
"I've been taking vocal music classes, hiring teachers from the Sichuan Conservatory of Music, and signing up for dance classes." Young age is Chen Xuening's shortcoming, but it is her advantage, she has more time to grow and experience. "Now that I'm also studying on a college campus, I know that I should still have school time at this age, and that happiness shouldn't be missing in my life."
"I sang very steadily today." Feng Ke under the stage of the Tencent Music Entertainment Festival told the Red Star News reporter with a smile that Chen Xuening was walking on the road of dreams. When releasing "Afterglow", Chen Xuening wrote such a paragraph, "The world does not care about your self-esteem, only the achievements you have made, and then emphasize your feelings." From now on, prove yourself with strength."
Red Star News reporter Ren Hongwei intern Yi Jingwen
Images courtesy of respondents
Edited by Yanni Chen