"Honey, you fly slowly, watch out for the thorny roses in front of you, my dear, you open your mouth, the fragrance of flowers in the wind will make you intoxicated."
Pure and straightforward lyrics, slowly flowing melody, active and natural sense of picture, coupled with affectionate chanting, people can't help but indulge in it, sigh and sigh.
Seventeen years ago, a song "Two Butterflies" was amazing in the music world, and then the fire flew into the streets and alleys of the country with a pair of wings, becoming a popular divine comedy sung by everyone.
"Two Butterflies" swept up the Network, bringing 240 million market profits, Pang Long got 20 million, harvested a large wave of popularity, and became a popular singer.
While enjoying the splendor of flowers and applause, controversy and criticism followed.
"The emergence of Pang Long has set back Chinese pop music by 20 years", "saliva songs, no ideological connotations"... All kinds of criticisms have emerged in an endless stream, with a great tendency to go from tens of thousands of people to tens of thousands of people.
Pang Long, who bore the infamy, gradually lowered his profile, and the former king of the song world left the scene in disgrace, leaving a sigh and a period of memories.
One day in May 1971, in the operating room of a hospital in Fuxin, Liaoning Province, there was a cry of a child, and the father outside the door immediately stood up, and when he learned that it was a boy, he immediately raised his eyebrows, gave birth to three girls, and finally had a boy.
This boy is Pang Long.
The father is a miner, the mother has no job because she has to take care of several children, the family of six relies on the father to work hard, life is naturally very difficult, in the words of Pang Long, at most, can only eat enough.
But he is the oldest and youngest in the family, loved by all parties, the family's livelihood problems do not need to be considered by him, and the childhood is also carefree.
In the 1980s, Hong Kong and Taiwan music swept the country, Pang Long was influenced by it, but also crazy in love with music, all day is not listening to songs or singing, so that academic performance declined, did not enter high school, had to go to a vocational high school.
The father had always hoped that his son would be admitted to college and find a good job, but when he saw that he was addicted to singing all day, he couldn't bear it, so he took the guitar in his hand and threw it from the sixth floor.
This guitar was bought by his father.
Looking at the broken guitar, Pang Long had a momentary feeling that his musical dream was shattered.
After finishing vocational high school, Pang Long did not enter the university, entered the society and began a part-time career, worked as a skilled worker, worked as an electrician, and braved the wind and the sun all day, which was very hard.
Life is hard enough and sad enough to make it worse. In 1989, the father left his wife and children and was killed by cancer, and the family life became more and more impoverished.
The departure of his father prompted Pang Long to mature a lot overnight, and he began to work hard, go to the song hall to sell singing stickers to supplement the family, and he could have an income of 100 yuan per month, which was not bad.
But the hardships of life did not stop, and my mother went with her father due to years of hard work and aggravation of her illness.
A good home is really fragmented, and the future road will require brothers and sisters to rely on each other for their lives.
Pang Long sang in the song hall, and after six or seven years, his life improved a lot.
In 1996, at the age of 25, Pang Long was admitted to the Shenyang Conservatory of Music, after all, he could only live for a while by selling songs, and he wanted to really embark on the road of music.
After graduation, Pang Long, anxious to prove himself, sold his family's house despite the opposition of several sisters, raised half a million yuan everywhere, and came to Beijing alone, with full of enthusiasm, he released his debut album - "Life Trilogy".
He still underestimated the reality, and the album was silent and lost.
After suffering a heavy blow, Pang Long once wanted to commit suicide, and when he saw several young people curled up under the bridge and singing, he suddenly felt as if it was not so miserable.
With the help of friends, Pang Long went south to Xi'an to work as a manager in a bar. Because he signed the company to know the well-known director Niu Chaoyang, he was very optimistic about Pang Long and once brought a song for him to sing.
But Pang Long felt that this song was too earthy and vulgar, so he politely refused.
Four years later, Niu Chaoyang issued another invitation, and Pang Long was afraid that refusing to affect the friendship again had to agree.
At that time, no one expected that such a song of "soil slag" would successfully become popular.
There are heart flower arrangement flowers do not bloom, no heart to insert willows, the song was used as the theme song of the TV series "281 Letters", the result of the TV series did not fire, the theme song fell overnight to the internet.
This song is exactly the familiar "Two Butterflies".
With the help of the record company, Pang Long launched his second album with "Two Butterflies" as the main song, which sold more than 300,000 without any mixing.
At that time, Internet songs were like a bamboo, "Mice Love Rice", "Lilacs", "Autumn Does Not Come Back"... One after another, its popularity is not lost in the works of Jay Chou, Andy Lau and others, it can be said that Pang Long caught up with a good time.
With the hot trend, he continued to exert his strength, launching popular songs such as "You Are My Rose", "Home in the Northeast", "Brother Cheers", singing on the same stage with Jackie Chan, appearing on CCTV Spring Festival Gala four times, and participating in the singing of "Welcome to Beijing" with a number of star singers.
Those years were the peak of Pang Long's career, and the scenery of popularity was unlimited.
The public's aesthetics and taste are limited in the end, it is easy to like the new and dislike the old, and it is difficult to be often affectionate about one thing.
When the streets and alleys are always "honey, you fly slowly" and "you are my rose and my flower", more and more people can't stand it, feel bored and tired, and even disgusted.
In particular, "Two Butterflies" won the Golden Disc Best Golden Melody Award, which was ushered in by ridicule and doubts, why did an unpopular singer win the award? Such saliva songs should be listed as "Top Ten Disgusting Songs in China".
Music critics who love tit-for-tat are also ruthless, bluntly saying that "the emergence of Pang Long has set the music scene back twenty years", which should be a big denial and blow.
On April 23, 2011, Pang Long held a solo concert in Beijing, and coincidentally, Andy Lau also held a concert in Beijing on this day.
One is a hot popular singer, the other is the king of the song world, there is bound to be a fierce collision, media reporters naturally will not miss such news.
In the interview, Pang Long said that after the date was set, he knew that on the same day as Andy Lau, he did not want to collide, but there was no way.
Asked if he would worry about tickets, Pang Long was very confident, saying that the group of our fans is different, don't worry about attendance, and the difference is that I have studied in music college, I sing more professionally than Andy Lau, but on the synthesis or Andy Lau strong, he is a senior.
Although Pang Long expressed his affirmation and respect for Andy Lau, it still attracted a lot of controversy, especially "I studied at the Conservatory of Music" and "I sang professionally", which caused The dissatisfaction of Andy Lau fans, who felt that he was arrogant and arrogant, and even quoted Zhou Libo's remarks to mock him: one is eating garlic, the other is drinking coffee, completely incomparable.
The result is not unexpected, Andy Lau concert site is full, tens of thousands of people, and Panglong District is only two thousand people, who is high and who is low, at a glance.
Imagine that even if Pang Long did not meet Andy Lau, the attendance rate of the concert may not be very high, after all, the concert wants to reach the level of full seats, which needs to be accumulated for a long time.
After experiencing a storm, Pang Long was deeply shocked, and he began to hesitate about whether to continue to stay in the music world and sing, and another storm accelerated the speed of his decision.
At that time, he was invited to participate in a university performance, habitually sang famous songs, and did not know whether the students did not like to listen, the scene was chaotic, and even some students tossed coins on the stage, which is something that any singer is afraid of encountering.
Coins smashed on Pang Long's body, and what hurt more than physically was psychological injury, and at that moment he felt that his self-esteem was insulted.
Relying on his love for music, Pang Long has always been in pain and forbearance, between commercial interests and personal, he chose the latter, consulted with the company, except for concerts, on other occasions will not sing the famous song.
Cheng also network, defeat also network, do not want to rely on a song to eat a lifetime, Pang Long has been living very sober, he is not a singer who loves to compete for fame and profit, he wants to become a musician, wants to bring really valuable works to the audience.
But the market rules remain unchanged, the circle is still that circle, and it is really difficult to clean yourself. When the contract expired, Pang Long did not renew his contract, took his team, with the musical dream in his heart, and gradually retired in the music world.
The collision period between the concert and Andy Lau, the coin tossed by the students, and the termination of the contract with the company, this pile of turmoil, are all diluting Pang Long's belief in the music world.
If you consider external factors, you can also find some reasons.
At the beginning of the 21st century, the Chinese music scene was surging, Jay Chou, Jolin Tsai, Zhang Huimei, Li Wei, a popular singer led the music scene to develop in a higher direction, and the recording industry is still thriving. The Network Divine Comedy occupies the market with its simple and straightforward, distinctive melody and dominates for a while.
However, with the advancement of time, physical records have transformed into streaming music, and selling records has not made money, and capitalists have begun to explore in the direction of idols.
Since then, the rise of the idol industry, occupying the top of the song charts are almost all traffic artists, and those predecessors are like a big wave of sand, some rely on the early accumulation, still in the limelight, and some are gradually no longer beautiful, and even disappeared, like Pang Long, Yang Chengang and other singers who rely on the Divine Comedy to suddenly become popular, once the work can not withstand the test of time, it is easy to face the fate of elimination.
After the peaks and troughs, the fifty-year-old Pang Long has already seen through a lot, he returned to the quiet campus, became a teacher, and took on the heavy responsibility of preaching and teaching to solve puzzles, and continued to explore music in a new way.
As for writing song albums, he did not give up, and in recent years he has created several albums with the team, and the content of the songs is no longer a sad and sad love chant, but mainly folk songs, nostalgic for the past and nostalgia for youth, calm and warm.
Decades of long song road, wind and dust servants, flowers applause and doubts and ridicule accompanied by companionship, Pang Long was not bound to be left and right, the ideal is still in the heart.
Pang Long once said: "I want to be an ordinary music walker, express myself authentically and naturally, and play music according to my own intentions."
Now that he has done it, the greatest blessing in life is to be able to live according to his own wishes, stick to the heart of a child, and continue to shine in the industry he loves.
The taunts of the past have long since vanished, and no matter the ups and downs, just remember that he came.