In the blink of an eye, the band has been disbanded for 10 years!
On July 25, 2008, Luo Dayou, Li Zongsheng, Zhou Huajian and Zhang Zhenyue from the Rolling Stones established the Longitudinal Line, and on January 30, 2010, the Longitudinal Line was officially dissolved at the Taipei Arena. Combined survival time is 18 months. At the beginning of their establishment, they agreed to survive only one year, because it was so popular, so it was delayed for a year and a half.
Isn't there a word in idol circles called "limited combination"? In this way, the vertical line is the earliest and largest limited combination of China's cards. The sensational effect they caused in a year and a half can be described as "unprecedented", without relying on commercial cooperation, only two albums were released, nearly 60 tours were launched, the scene was hot, plus single income, and each person earned more than NT$100 million. These four old men became the biggest dark horses of 2009.
Many people do not know that after the great success of the vertical line, there have been many similar "old men's combinations" on the market, and they have also attracted some attention in different ways. Let's review:
Big Four was founded at the end of 2009 and consisted of four Hong Kong singers, Hui Chi-an, Su Yongkang, Cheung Wai-wai and Leung Hon Man.
In February 2010, they won the 2009 "Sprite" China Original Music Pop Chart National Best Group Award. On February 7, he participated in the Spring Festival Gala of Hunan Satellite TV Small Chinese New Year's Eve. From 11-15 March, five concerts were held at the Hung Hom Sports Centre in Hong Kong.
Xu Zhi'an, Su Yongkang, Zhang Weijian and Liang Hanwen, the four singers who represent the backbone of Hong Kong music, are undoubtedly strong, but in terms of popularity and influence, they were all succumbed to the shadow of the four heavenly kings at that time, and then formed a group to make a comeback after 20 years, is it to imitate the vertical line and become red again?
Xu Zhian revealed that their idea is not to copy others, as early as ten years ago he already had such an idea, hoping that the four brothers who have known each other for 20 years can have a good memory of witnessing friendship, and also want to repay the support of fans with a wonderful concert. Talking about the division of labor among the four people in the group, he said that the musical problems were handed over to Liang Hanwen and Su Yongkang, the text creation was handled by Zhang Weijian, and he himself was responsible for public relations and information transmission.
Big4 released an album in 2010 that included 2 new songs and several old songs by each of the four of them, and embarked on a tour. In 2013, they returned, posted an EP, and continued their tour. In addition, they also published a book "Different Big Four", hosted a show "Big 4 Big Four Joys"...
Also known as the "Three Little Men Group". In 2009, three male singers from Taiwan, including Zhang Yu and Huang Pinyuan, made a comeback in the name of "3 good man".
These three are all well-known singer-songwriters, with many popular classic masterpieces such as "The Curse of the Moon" and "Xiao Wei", and this time they formed a group to sing, admitting that they were inspired by the vertical line. They even made a big joke in the show of the little S, saying that others are the longitudinal line, we are the prostate, the transmutation line is the old man who may have a problem with the prostate, and we are the old man who is about to have a problem with the prostate.
These three "good men" held the "Three Good Men SingIng Good Love Songs encore Concert" at the Red Pavilion in Hong Kong, and later performed in Malaysia and other places. In addition, there was no major action, and the attention at that time was still relatively limited.
The influence of the vertical line is too great, not only singers have followed suit, but even middle-aged and elderly male artists who are not singers can't help but cross the border to share a piece of the pie.
Three well-known male hosts in Taiwan, Kang Kang, Wu Zongxian and Gao Lingfeng, also made their debut in 2009 in a group called "Three Difficult High Notes". The three of them boasted that they knew more humor than the longitudinal line, could sing more than the "Kangxi Festival", and were more popular than Zhou Libo and Guo Degang, and the only fly in the ointment was that "they could not sing on the high note", so they took such a name.
After the debut of the three difficult high notes, they did not publish works and directly opened the world tour. He held a concert on the Shanghai Grand Stage on April 3, 2010. On November 26, 2011, the "Three Difficult High Pitches Hilarious Singing Show" was held in Beijing for the first time...
However, this look is the funny nature of the karaoke scene, for the future development of the group, Kang Kang and Gao Lingfeng said bluntly "no plan, no hope", but it can not be denied that the popularity at that time was still good.
In 2015, after the boom of the longitudinal line for the past few years, a new old men's group appeared on the jianghu, called "Men's Gang", composed of four people, namely Su Yongkang and Leung Hon Man in the previous big4, plus wong Ka-keung, former bassist of Hong Kong hall-of-fame band Beyond, and Ren Xianqi, a Taiwanese king-level singer.
In September of that year, the group released the self-titled album "Man Gang", which included two new songs and multiple old songs by four members. With this album, the group was shortlisted for the "Best Group Award" at the 16th Chinese Music Media Awards, and won the "Best Group Award in Asia" at the 11th King of Songs Global Chinese Music Festival.
The division of labor in the men's gang is as follows: Huang Jiaqiang is the main songwriter, Ren Xianqi is responsible for music production and public relations coordination, Su Yongkang is responsible for visual modeling, liang Hanwen is a fitness coach and dance teacher, and the four people cooperate tacitly. They are also slightly different from the longitudinal line and big 4 in positioning, they mainly play tough guys, mature men, taste routes, open-minded and sophisticated, but also full of masculinity.
The Men's Gang is also popular, holding five concerts in Taiwan and Hong Kong in 2015, and has since performed in Macau and the United States.
These old men's groups that emerged after the vertical line, although each of them was a well-known singer, the comeback of the combination also attracted the attention of many people. But without exception, it is impossible to reach the level of sensationality of the shoulder-to-shoulder longitudinal line. It is not that it is not advisable to follow the trend, but the status of the vertical line is indeed unattainable.
After all, Luo Dayou and Li Zongsheng are all presidential mountain-level figures in the Chinese music scene, Zhou Huajian is also a first-class singer superstar, and the members of other groups can basically only reach the height of Zhang Zhenyue, and compared with Luo, Li and Zhou, they can only look up. How can that kind of feeling be compared? And the vertical line is indeed practical to make music, each song of the two albums is an original work from four people, and the song "Departure" is a classic.
Therefore, the vertical line is easy to debut, it is difficult to disband (fans do not give up), and other combinations may be difficult to debut, and it is easy to disband. You have never heard of which group other than the vertical line announced its dissolution, because there is no need to announce it.
Although the comeback of old men is mostly based on playing tickets, and even saying "circle money" is not excessive, but if you want to achieve great success in the market, not everyone can do it. Just like Li Zongsheng and Zhou Huajian sang in "True Heart Hero" before: without experiencing wind and rain, how to see the rainbow, no one can succeed casually...