Some netizens said that the three people who should be most grateful for abandoning medical treatment should be Mao Buyi, Zhou Shen, and Yao Thirteen.
The first two singers are considered to be famous in the circle and widely recognized by the new generation, it seems that only Yao Thirteen has received a bunch of peer affirmations, but it is still in sight.
They are all good at impressing the audience with their voices and emotions, some of them are rewarded with food, and some of them are halfway out of the house, but they have a savage growth force.
For example, Yao Thirteen.
The outlier in the sesame oil leaf
Mao Buyi, Zhou Shen and Yao Thirteen all belong to the new vocal representative singers who abandoned medicine and music, both of them more or less carry the aura of heavenly appreciation and eating, one with a voice full of sorrow and full of stories, and one with a pure and beautiful voice of the human Kraken.
They all have one thing in common, which is that they have their own unique and unmistakable music field, as soon as you open your mouth, you know that this is his music world.
Many people know Yao Thirteen, not because of "Fuck" in "Tuina" and "The Blind Man" in "The Unknown Generation", but because of the recently popular brainwashing divine comedy "Second Concubine" in Douyin.
Yao Thirteen has a way to make you remember him once you have heard it.
Halfway out of the house seems to be more in line with the worldly imagination of the public, even the stage name "Yao Thirteen" is derived from the university roommate's ridicule of his personality is too "axis" and too "silly".
This "axis" is placed on making music, which has become another spiritual support for him to cultivate himself and form his own unique music field.
Yao Thirteen is a relatively peculiar person, born in the medical school of Wuhan University, halfway out of the family to make music, in 2011 signed one of the strongest labels in the folk music industry, MaYou Ye.
Until 2020, there was no wait for Yao Thirteen to really go out of the circle.
In 2006, Yao Xiii was admitted to Wuhan University majoring in clinical medicine.
The strong major of 985 University, in another secular sense, is a new starting point for many people to dream of.
But Yao Thirteen was not very satisfied with this situation, because studying medicine was not the self he wanted to seek.
Newcomer Yao Thirteen has an almost natural "axis" atmosphere for music.
In the years of groping in college, he didn't know what a recording studio was, didn't know what techniques and techniques were, and in the humble environment of the dormitory, many of the demos recorded were rough and simple.
In 2014, Yao Thirteen and Lou Ye collaborated on "Tuina", and the ending song "Fuck" is from the work of Yao Thirteen during the college period.
Yao Thirteen repeatedly recorded many versions, but director Lou Ye finally decided to use the original demo recorded in the dormitory during college.
Although it is simple and rough, it is inexplicably full of a wild force, and the emotions are real and full to the hearts of the people.
In line with the tone of the film, Yao Thirteen's musical style is integrated with the film, and you can easily feel the emotion and power.
Yao Thirteen was lucky and not very lucky.
Fortunately, after he made music, as soon as he graduated, he met some of the most talented confidants in the folk music industry, Song Dongye and Ma Wei, and together with them established the now widely known folk music label - Ma You Ye.
In those years when they were not very successful, the three of them lived in a small house of 60 square meters in Song Dongye, one by one, closed the door to make their own independent music, wept for each other's talents, opened the door and ate and drank with their confidants and friends, and continued to catch up with the distant musical ideals.
Not too fortunately, a song "Miss Dong" and a "Nanshan South" made Song Dongye and Ma Wei the most out-of-the-loop singers in the folk music industry, and successfully set off a wave of folk wind.
But as the year passed, Yao Thirteen, who sang Song Dongye and cried with just one demo, was still lonely and nameless.
After Yao Thirteen left Beijing, he returned to Guizhou and lived in a place called Yelang Valley.
This is a very peculiar place, a postmodern antique strange art garden, in Yao Thirteen's own words, ridiculed, "here live a bunch of failed musicians, there are failed recording studios, failed choirs", as if it is a collective exile wandering.
Returning to his hometown made him feel relaxed, free and primitive, and his music production seemed more skillful and natural.
Wild power in folk songs
Many people listen to Yao Thirteen for the first time and think that someone can sing the dialect so beautifully.
It turns out that singing folk songs in dialect would be so good.
Probably because of the relationship that first started from the erhu, Yao Thirteen has a unique traditional atmosphere.
His musical temperament is more local than other singers who grew up in bars.
The folk songs in the impression are always related to the city.
Talk about the unavoidable demand in the big city, and the parting and dispersion in the small city.
But Yao Thirteen was different.
In his songs, there is a wild power born in the wilderness countryside.
Whether it is the dialect version of "The Blind Man" or "Erjie", his local feelings and unique cultural field, through the export of dialects, have achieved a primitive and simple charm that Mandarin cannot express in language.
His folk songs, which sounded like Shen Congwen's prose, were fresh and simple when they first listened, and after halfway through, they felt a little sad, and only after the song was exhausted did they find that they were already in tears.
Just like the half-blind woman in the movie "Tuina" asks: Do you love me? How much do you love me? Blind man responds: Loving you is like braised pork.
Simple and full of simple desires in real life, naked and sincere but not mixed with game calculations.
This is yao thirteen's song.
Yao Thirteen subverted many people's views on folk songs.
Or rather, he broke through many people's definition of folk songs.
The 2015 album "Spaceship, Astronaut" hides a lot of his temptations about the boundaries of music.
"Confidence", "Raining Bells" and "Second Concubine" are all atypical folk songs.
Especially "The Second Concubine".
Many people returning from Douyin to find the original song will be amazed, it turns out that "Second Concubine" is actually a human tragedy trapped in love, and there is no half-word relationship with the brainwashing divine comedy.
"The Second Concubine" tells a story that takes place in the countryside of Guizhou, a foolish person falls in love with the beautiful widow in the village, is teased by the villagers, the widow commits suicide under unbearable rumors, and he buries the widow and takes the widow's child away from home.
The beginning and end of the film language seem absurd and almost crazy, but the words are bloody, sad and desolate, the rhythm is gentle, the layers are advanced, and it sounds like a prose poem full of jokes and satire.
If Yao Thirteen's music lacks that unique and precious local feeling, his status will not appear so special in the folk world, and the collision with the language of the film will not burst out of surprises beyond ordinary folk songs.
Although Yao Thirteen's songs are folk songs, they always give people the feeling of listening to thunder in a silent place.
Whether it's the thunder in "Queen of the North" or "Fuck", listening to the harmonica tone of your mother's story of the past, in your unconscious, pulls the meaning of this song to infinity.
Singing folk songs in dialects is not the first creation of Yao Thirteen, but he uses dialects as the most primitive and simple form, which perfectly fits the cultural soil of his growth and forms the most unique music and cultural field.
Folk poet with a cinematic temperament
Yao Thirteen is a singer with a poetic temperament.
He doesn't have the same song path as most folk singers.
His songs are like movies, with a strong sense of depth, the story is shot to the end, but the emotions are twisted and bizarre.
For example, "The Blind Man", such as "Dragon Harbor Secret".
There are many versions of his songs, and a song called "Queen of the North" can make more than a dozen versions repeatedly.
This is not only due to the repeated run-in, denial and formation of an independent musician who is halfway out of the family on the road of exploring music, but also from the sensitivity of an independent musician to changes in the surrounding environment.
For fans, everyone has the best in mind, but for Yao Thirteen, each version is a new growth after re-experiencing the current experience.
Many people like "Dragon Harbor Secret" also has many versions, the original version of the prologue has a woman's cry, a train in the rain.
The current 15-minute version combines the sad tone of the cello, the sound of the train pressing over the tracks, the increasingly urgent change of tone, the sound of the wind and waves at sea and the sound of the rain gradually falling, a thunderclap, whimpering, the sound of seagulls climbing up the hill with the waves little by little... At this time, Yao Thirteen's voice slowly came up, "Where are the monsters going to find", mysterious and romantic.
It's easy for a first-time listener to have a shaking sensation of a soul trembling.
Yao Thirteen once mentioned that one of his favorite fan evaluations was about "Dragon Harbor Secret", "This song is simply a sound movie.".
Indeed, only the superposition of sound levels and the recursion of artistic conception have created a beautiful dream of sound and color and fireworks, which has not been attempted by folk musicians in the past.
Working with movies is the path that Yao Thirteen has taken that is most in line with his musical temperament.
Whether it is "Fuck" in "Tuina" or "The Blind Man" in "The Unknown Generation", under the multiple construction of film language, the sense of depth in the song is pushed away little by little, without the slightest sense of thinness, which is incomparable to other folk songs.
The director of "The Unknown Generation" listened to "The Blind Man" on the plane, and immediately after getting off the plane, he conceived the story synopsis of "The Unknown Generation".
It is enough to prove that Yao Thirteen's music is, to some extent, another kind of musical representation of the film language.
Yao Thirteen is a bit like Bi Gan in the film industry and jiulian zhenren in the band industry, he has his own unique cultural field.
This unique field comes from the soil where they grow and the environment in which they grow, and they have established their own unique local feelings in their bones, just like Kaili under Bi Gan's lens, the trembling in Jiulian Zhenren's "Zhao Di", which is a kind of emotion that can bring great spiritual shock through sound and vision.
As the saying goes, go barefoot, and you are the closest to the gods.
Yao Thirteen is exactly that.