With the end of music variety shows such as "Children of Tomorrow 2", the contestants who have just been remembered by the public on the stage will have to deal with the rise and fall of popularity after the end of the show. In the time that confronts the audience's memory dimension, it is not known how many people will not be forgotten next year.
This is the common problem faced by all talent singers, short-lived, debut is the peak is the fate that most people can't avoid. As we all know, the output of high-quality works is the most reliable way for singers to become evergreen, but few people insist on doing it.
However, looking back at last year's "Children of Tomorrow", the singers who are still active in front of the stage, in addition to the champion Mao Buyi, there are also new singer-songwriters who have a good relationship with him, Liao Juntao. At that time, the "no label" boy conquered the hearts of the majority of netizens with an affectionate original work "Who", and conquered the mentor and the audience with a number of original works in the next competition.
A year after his debut, Liao Juntao not only released a live album with extraordinary musical talent, but also held a national live tour. In his diverse musical works and solid live performances, the outside world has also seen the transformation of Liao Juntao's exclamation point.
From his growth this year, perhaps we can draw some industry inspiration about the development of talent singers.
On October 11, Liao Juntao celebrated his twenty-fourth birthday. 2018, for him, is destined to be a year of too much meaning.
A year after graduating from "Children of Tomorrow", he released his own "This Man Creation Live Series" in May, followed by the first performance of the "This Man" national tour covering 7 cities in Shanghai on September 14. Each show was sold out and repeatedly achieved high box office results.
The final tour of Beijing also ended successfully yesterday (October 28). As the last stop of the tour, Beijing also has more symbols of meaning. Not only did Cai Weize, Zhong Yixuan and many other friends come to the scene to call, Liao Juntao also sang a birthday song for his mother on the spot, and drew fan interaction to fulfill his promises to fans.
For the singer who has just debuted, there are not many people who dare to try live touring, and the field is full, and the reason why Liao Juntao dares to do this is not unrelated to his all-round musical strength and professionalism.
As early as the stage of "Children of Tomorrow", we witnessed Liao Juntao's strength in creation, singing and on-site. Music critic Leung Siu-fai commented that its vocal conditions themselves are the kind that are more attractive in live, and will be the real "children of tomorrow" and the next "live king" in the music world. On the aforementioned debut album, all the songs were recorded on the spot in the form of live recording, and each song could be used for live performance, which once again demonstrated its ability to control "live music".
From this point of view, Liao Juntao is enough to support the live tour. In addition, another difficulty of touring is that new debut singers are often unable to achieve due to insufficient musical composition. For Liao Juntao, on the one hand, with the blessing of the new album, not only did he interpret the songs on the album during the tour, on the other hand, he also brought a different presentation to the new arrangement of the previous works.
During the tour, the audience saw Liao Juntao, whose musical style was changeable and constantly creating a sense of freshness and surprise, not just "Liao's Love Song". In every different song on the scene, it is actually all kinds of possibilities he brings to the outside world. Liang Xiaohui said that on the basis of his voice, the bass is thick, the midrange is soft, the treble is tough, and many melodies are added with a little nasal treatment on the tail note, in the performance, Liao Juntao let the outside world feel his super high live strength closer.
Back to the scene of yesterday's Beijing tour, as Liao Juntao said on Weibo, many fans were waiting in line in the early morning, just for this performance. When Liao Juntao, wearing a long black trench coat with a white shirt, embraces the guitar, walks to the center of the stage, like a retro prince who came out of the Japanese manga, after changing makeup, combing up the pigtails, with a warm yellow shirt, and like a first love teenager. A magnetic muffled sound sounded, stirring the soul.
Probably as the fans described, "Xiao Liao, surrounded by fairy qi, the hand that crossed the strings, no longer plucked my heartstrings all the time." When he sang the sentence "Will this girl fall in love with me" in "Her", the fans in the audience answered in unison every time: Yes. "The brother is so aroused that he can't sing anymore, or the big boy who sings shyly."
Liao Juntao, who is a guitar professional, can be said to use the guitar to the extreme in his musical works. On the tour, both electric guitar and muji are all-powerful, and the vocal loop is also the climax of the tour that can always create screams.
It is worth mentioning that in every performance, he has a guitar solo, and the scene can always trigger a large number of surprise cheers. With such all-round power, it is no wonder that Liang Xiaohui calls it a type of "Heavenly Reward".
Of course, in addition to musical expertise, interaction is also an essential skill for touring. Liao Juntao is also quite skilled in this regard, humorous and funny words, always able to touch the audience's high point, which can be seen on his Weibo, there is no idol baggage, very grounded. During the performance, he told the fans offstage, "It seems to be back in the first season of "Children of Tomorrow", where the dream began", which is sincere enough to be moving. And every performance of Liao Juntao can bring people the impact and shock of music, triggering the empathy of the whole audience.
After watching the Beijing performance, a fan wrote on Weibo, "Listening to him sing the song "Who" on stage, I really cried out directly... I don't know what's going on, maybe it's the original heart, it's the first song I know About Liao Juntao, and when I hear this song, I can't help but think of a lot of things..."
"I've heard of your live versions in different venues, this time I'm the closest to you, you on stage are always so moving, and the rest of your life will be long, I want to walk slowly with you," another fan wrote.
The whole tour came down and you can't believe it was a scene brought by a singer who had only been debuting for a year.
The talent and musical talent of "God Appreciates Eating" laid the foundation for the live tour. Looking at the music circle, almost every debut singer has some talent advantages, but a new force like Liao Juntao, who is a good singer, is very scarce. In terms of singing, his strength is beyond description, and has been verified in the "Children of Tomorrow" stage and live tour.
In terms of music creation, its professionalism is also obvious to all. For example, in the writing of songs, he will invest in his own unique thinking and ideas, a piece of music down, his creativity will probably account for 70% or 80% or more. I know there is a question that asks," What is the process of writing songs?" Lyrics or composition first? Liao Juntao made a long reply below, he said that the essence of music creation does not need to be learned, it is related to the subjective aesthetics, creativity and imagination of the creators themselves, and the words reveal a good professional quality of music.
He also said that the work of art represents the comprehensive aesthetic of the creator, but the work itself does not have a high or low level, but a degree of care. In order to bring more surprises to live fans and leave exclusive memories, Liao Juntao never slackened in rehearsals, constantly polishing the live performance of new songs, and repeatedly speculating on new adaptations of songs, which led to the stable and unimaginable performance we finally saw.
In fact, this has been the norm for Liao Juntao over the past year. Liao Juntao's Weibo name is "Liao Juntao is an iron head", "iron head" means that he has something he wants to insist on, but also implies his attachment to music.
Liao Juntao has always given people the feeling of being very low-key, and his links with the outside world are also around music, such as his Weibo content is almost all related to music. Liao Juntao prefers to spend time on music, such as honing his live performance ability with the help of music festivals, and insisting on creating to continuously produce high-quality new works.
Therefore, there is the current Liao Juntao. Released a new album, won the "New Force in the Music Industry" award in the Chinese Song Chart, and started a tour, you can't see his boundaries in music. In addition to the popularity of "Children of Tomorrow", in the eyes of the music pioneer, more importantly, in this year, Liao Juntao always maintained a link with the public in music, and gathered more supporters through a series of works.
In the treatment of music, he is like a craftsman, stitching his own works one stitch at a time, finely polishing minute by minute. On his solo album, he was not only involved in the songwriting, but also in the arrangement and singing, and boldly tried to fully broadcast live. The latest work, which is also a film and television drama theme song "Rest", is also responsible for his own songwriting and singing, and he joked on Weibo that "it took me a year of positive energy to write this song.". Original talent, all-round strength coupled with new and wholehearted investment make each work full of high quality, and naturally precipitate more loyal fans.
In contrast, in the current music industry, it is difficult to find new people who are dedicated to creating, and when everyone wastes their energy elsewhere and lacks high-quality music works, "debut is the peak" has become an unbreakable curse.
Liao Juntao's growth and transformation provide a reference for cracking the spell. In the ever-changing music scene, good works will always be the passport of the industry. As a new original force in the Chinese music scene and a singer-songwriter with excellent singing and creativity, Liao Juntao is a "treasure singer" to be discovered in the Chinese music scene. His appearance has also brought fresh blood to the music market, as well as unimaginable creativity.
Today, although the tour has come to an end for the time being, Liao Juntao's music creation continues, on the original road he has always insisted on. In the future, we can expect more amazing musical works brought by him.
Author | weekend
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