At 3 p.m. today, Xu Binglong, who has been on the cusp of "plagiarism" for the past few days, issued an apology statement on Weibo.
Screenshot from Xu Binglong Weibo
In this statement, Xu Binglong admitted to unauthorized use of other people's works as an accompaniment to his own songs and apologized to the original author. But the editor carefully read these two paragraphs, and couldn't help but ask, wait, why didn't you talk about the guitar arrangement of "Aries"?
So the editor interviewed Xiao Wu, the original author of the guitar arrangement of "Aries Sheep", trying to sort out the process of this matter.
In september 2017, Xiao Wu met Xu Binglong, who was also a new student in the singing and composing department of the Beijing Contemporary Conservatory of Music. Xu Binglong once saw Xiao Wu playing guitar and added a friend.
At that time, Xu Binglong was already famous, but Xiao Wu did not have a good impression of him. Once Xu Binglong did not say a word, he went directly to Xiao Wu's dormitory to get Xiao Wu's sound card, which was seen by Xiao Wu's roommate. Later, Xiao Wu found that the sound card was broken, and went to ask Xu Binglong, he said at first that he did not take it, and later admitted it, but the sound card was also repaired by Xiao Wu himself.
In October 2017, Xu Binglong took a few chords and asked Xiao Wu to help arrange an accompaniment. After Xiao Wu improvised it, Xu Binglong listened to it and felt that it was not bad, so he found a dormitory, and he and another classmate held up a quilt and recorded this version of Xiao Wu's accompaniment. In "Aries", which was officially launched on major music platforms later, you can still hear the sound of closing doors and the whistle of cars recorded in the accompaniment.
In March, Xu Binglong quietly dropped out of the Beijing Contemporary Conservatory of Music. At the beginning of March, Xiao Wu heard a classmate singing "Aries Sheep" in the dormitory, and only heard this song for the first time. Xu Binglong only gave Xiao Wu a few chords at that time, and did not even sing the melody of this song in front of him.
Finding that the accompaniment he had arranged and played was signed with Xu Binglong's name, Xiao Wu tried to find Xu Binglong's theory, but Xu Binglong blocked it without a word.
On March 11, Xu Binglong posted a video of himself playing "Aries" on Weibo.
In Xiao Wu's impression, Xu Binglong's guitar playing has always stayed at the level of only playing C-key chords. Xu Binglong also played it clearly in the video that he intended to clarify that he had not plagiarized, and netizens commented: "Where did you get a crash course?" ”
Xiao Wu demonstrated the original guitar accompaniment of "Aries"
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On March 13, Xu Binglong's agent took the initiative to find Xiao Wu and said that he could add Xiao Wu's name to the guitar writing list.
After the two sides collapsed, the agent refused to admit that the guitar writing and recording of "Aries" was done by Xiao Wu, and informed Xiao Wu that he was ready to submit a lawyer's letter.
Xiao Wu and Xu Binglong are in the Singing and Composing Department of the Beijing Modern Music Academy, there are more than 100 people in the department, and the surrounding students have strong singing skills and some who can write songs. Xiao Wu said that usually everyone goes to grab the piano room, and if they can't grab it, they will directly howl in the dormitory, and all kinds of high notes will be made at night.
And Xiao Wu is best at guitar. He learned piano from an early age, and after being exposed to jazz, he began to learn jazz guitar. Four or five years ago, he saw a video of Kotaro Oshio, and the way he played the guitar was gradually influenced by Oshio-san, and his current major at school is "finger play + singing". He has been studying guitar for 8 years and has spent a long time practicing the basics in order to figure out the scales, chords, and harmonic functions of each key.
Now I still practice every day, and the daily practice plan is like this:
Spend an hour playing all the music or phrase material. "Each style of phrase material will be practiced, usually listen to more songs, like accumulating vocabulary, so that when creating, there will be no word exhaustion."
The second hour, take the time to learn something new and listen to new songs on foreign music charts.
In the third hour, I began to practice improvisation and creation, smashing and integrating all the things I learned into my own brain, and then combining it with my own playing style, "so as to cultivate a strong personal style."
This young teenager in the first year of college, when he talked to the editor about learning music, was serious and humble. He said that other students are also studying very hard, "practicing every day, there is no kung fu to play." ”
In February this year, Xiao Wu released his own EP, an album in which he composed the lyrics, arranged, mixed, sang, guitar and piano recordings, all of which were completed by himself.
In Xu Binglong, known as the "miracle boy", his former classmates stayed in the piano room in the dark to practice, practice, and write songs.
When Xu Binglong was praised as "justifying the name of the post-00s", countless post-00s were quietly immersed in the study of scales, modes, and acoustics...
When Xu Binglong was sitting on hundreds of thousands of fans, the original author and insiders issued a denunciation and were attacked by Xu fans: "You are just jealous of his talent." ”
No plagiarists deserve to be forgiven, because the person you plagiarized obviously put in tens of thousands of times more effort than you, and you just signed yourself.
*This article is based on the editor's interview with Xiao Wu, and the chat screenshot is provided by Xiao Wu. This public account is not responsible for the views and authenticity of the text, and the content is for the reader's reference only.