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Most people think of folk songs and classify it as a porridge and plum wine.
Plain and warm, quiet and full of power.
But Zhao Zhao is not. The folk songs he sings, without him, are powerful.
If there is such a classification in the music industry, Zhao Zhao's songs belong to that kind. It's initially unconscious, but when it comes back to it at some point, it's full of staying power and pestering you until every late night morning.
He can sing a song full of emotions, "When You're Old", full of friendship, and he can also sing a "Sound Rhythm Enlightenment" that leaks emotions without a word, and sing every word full of love for the lover.
This is Zhao Zhao, Zhao Lei's master.
When Zhao Lei became popular on the Internet one step ahead of his master Zhao Zhao with "Chengdu" (2016), Zhao Zhao was still stuck in the embarrassing stage of not being popular.
Although Zhao Zhao's "When You're Old" has already exploded at all ages in 2015.
But the follow-up of Ge Hong only brought more music orders to Zhao Zhao, and he did not worry about eating and drinking since then.
He was still serving the doctrine of others, and more than three hundred songs lay quietly on the computer, still with nowhere to put them.
"The backlog of works is at least twenty or thirty albums, and if there are no records, I am afraid that I will not be able to finish it in my lifetime."
This is the hesitation that Zhao Zhao shows between the status quo and the ideal.
In 2012, Zhao Zhao released his new album "Rough", and only one person rushed to the scene to listen to him sing. However, in 2019, Zhao Zhao released his new single "Half Summer", but more than a thousand people have rushed to the NetEase Cloud Music Review Area to support him.
In the music app industry, there has always been an unwritten definition of the singer's "big red or not", and the new song published can break through 999+ in one day, at least it will not be an eighteen-line small transparent.
And Zhao Zhao, who happens to have such a group of fans.
What's even more amazing is that although this is a promotional song of cooperation, the quality is beyond imagination.
There are too many songs related to summer, and there are too many summers that can make people move. But Zhao Zhao used his usual sincerity to perfectly interpret another summer.
This song does not make people deliberately miss summer, but it can easily remind people of all the days related to summer.
"The tone is summery, but it's not the kind of summer of youth that people miss." ——@Feitian Daisuke "Your song is so good. And Thunder. Listening, listening, everything is very peaceful, time is gone, there is no need to distinguish between high and low. "-@You are my imaginative career
Zhao Zhao, this person, is not so much a Buddhist as a pure one.
In 2015, zhao Zhao, in an interview with Southern Weekend, mentioned his "North Drift" situation in his twenties:
Wrote countless songs to the celebrities, but there was no signature; living in the rental house with a big hole in Beixinqiao in the winter, there was no time to put a quilt, and he could only freeze out of the pneumonia cough for several months; finally waited until 2012, he released a new album "Rough", ran to Nanjing to sing a special session, and finally came to an audience... But he felt that singing to a person would avoid his "embarrassment of singing to a chair", and who hadn't encountered this kind of thing, it was also very good..." That person bought me two albums, and we are now good friends." ”
If someone now says that buying two albums can become good friends with Zhao Zhao, there will be countless people who will say loudly for him from the North Second Ring Road to the Xiong'an New Area: "I can."
"The streets are full of beautiful girls, but I don't have love, the whole world is an opportunity but I can't survive and stand", this is the north drift in Zhao Zhao's eyes.
Since the beginning of his career as a "North Drift" folk musician in 1998, Zhao Zhao's music has not received much attention.
In order to break out of the world, Zhao Zhao also participated in the draft of "China's Good Songs" and even played on the same stage with his apprentice Zhao Lei.
But in the semifinals, he was still abandoned by Cai Jianya.
The quietness of the folk song doomed this kind of music to not be able to bloom on the stage of the competition. Even if it is affirmed in the program, Zhao Zhao's appearance still looks far away.
Zhao Zhao said to Zhao Lei more than once:
"Folk songs should be sung like words, so that they can be sincere enough. Singing is not a sports game, it can be higher, faster and stronger, it can also be lower, slower and weaker, this is the charm of art. The most important thing is not the method, but the tone. ”
This pure sincerity, perhaps this is the most authentic charm that comes from his voice.
Until 2015, Karen Mok and Li Jian successively took his "When You Are Old" to the Spring Festival Gala stage and "Singer", and sang it overnight.
But until now, few people still know that the original creator of this song is Zhao Zhao. "Most people don't pay attention to the original song at all", but he was not upset about it, and even relieved that his identity was not limited to a composer and lyricist.
"Good thing I can still sing."
Most folk singers have stories, but no one can bring their own subjective experience so naturally and deeply into the life of the song. In every listener, awaken the same footprints.
Behind his folk story, there are traces of childhood in his hometown.
Most of the inspiration in "The Great Scripture Factory" almost comes from Zhao Zhao's vague memories of his childhood.
For example, "On the Mountain" (about a mountain that Zhao Zhao did not see with his parents in zhejiang's birthplace when he was three or four years old), a very beautiful mountain;
"Flying Around" is a teenager (three or four years old to return to Shandong) when he returned to Shandong, the impression of factories, trees, crops, fence walls, small yards, have been written into the song;
Also from this idyllic memory is "Basking in the Sun with Grandma in Winter".
He wrote "Sound Rhythm Enlightenment", the whole text did not write a single emotion, but the whole song listened to it, but every sentence was a sincere confession.
Innocence and purity, just show people your heart.
Once upon a time, listening to folk songs, every time I listened to a song, every time I listened to a musician, I almost had to sigh a sentence, but unfortunately it was not hot.
But now those folk musicians who have been regretted are all on fire, only Zhao Zhao, it seems that he is still left in that music world.
All along, Zhao Zhao has tried his best to avoid the outside world from labeling himself. It is because, under the noise of the outside world, he is still willing to stubbornly adhere to a kind of self-ism.
The hustle and bustle is theirs, but in Zhao Zhao's world, there is also music and himself.