Wen | Ling Fox Bo Guang
On July 1, the 100th anniversary of the Party, all television stations broadcast an evening party to celebrate the centenary of the Party, of which red songs are naturally indispensable.
In addition to those fixed classic red songs, a red song of Henan Satellite TV is on fire again.
On the evening of June 29, Henan Province celebrated the 100th anniversary of the founding of the party, the literary and artistic performance "Just a Hundred Years of Style" was officially broadcast, there was no host series, no chronicle narrative was used, and the performance glowed with a "sense of youth" from the century-old party history, of which the songs "People's Jiangshan", "A Thousand Miles of Good", "Clear Faith" and many other original songs successfully "out of the circle".
Among them, Yu Yi and Yu Yue's song "People's Jiangshan" sung by Yu Yue is really on fire, and everyone looks at this lyric.
"A hundred years of pursuit has opened a new curtain for the world; the heroic sky, remembering the earth turned upside down; the country is the people, the people are the country, the country of struggle, we are all unimpeded."
This "People's Jiangshan" not only has the lyrics from inspiring to youthful excitement, but the most important thing is to ensure the impression of "red song", and the song also has a more youthful sense that young people accept, breaking people's previous impression of the main melody song.
Henan Satellite TV is good at audiovisual effects will not be discussed, it can be said that it is as good as ever.
In fact, the Chinese audience has listened to and sung red songs for so many years, and I believe that in addition to a few of the most classic red songs, such as the early birth of "My Motherland" and other more classics, there are also many red songs written in recent years, but there are many fewer with a high degree of singing, why can this "People's Jiangshan" impress young audiences?
The peak period of the birth of red songs was still around 49 years ago, the first thirty years was the establishment of the party in 1921, cover singing and composing a lot of red songs, the last thirty years is the peak of red song creation.
There are too many classic red songs in this period, and many songs can be sung by the people of the whole country today.
For example, "Singing the Motherland", "My Motherland and Me", "Defending the Yellow River", "Singing Mountain Songs to the Party", "Beijing's Golden Mountain", "Beijing Has a Golden Sun", "The Man Who Became a Soldier", "Dongfang Hong" and so on.
After 1978, because the whole country began to change direction, the creation of red songs in this period also began to be less. The classic works have also decreased compared to before, but there are still many good works left.
For example, "The Story of Spring", "Love China", "Five-Star Red Flag", "For Whom", "Chinese", "My Chinese Heart", "My Motherland and Me", "Little Poplar", "One Two Three Four Songs", "We Are Soldiers" and so on.
After this time, after 2000, this red song has shown a downward trend in both classic works and the number of creations, especially in social circulation, and we can't seem to say a few well-known works.
Tan Jing, the people's representative of the music industry, has a great view and deep understanding of all kinds of "divine comedies" and red songs in society, and once made the above statement in an interview.
Tan Jing said that the statistical results of the song chart with the highest attention in the music industry show that among the top ten songs and a total of 200 songs in the 20th issue in 2011, love songs accounted for 93%, public welfare songs and inspirational songs accounted for 7%, and there was no song that carried forward the spirit of patriotism.
Among the love songs on the list, less than 20% reflect the positive and healthy concept of love, most of them are disease-free moaning, pale and empty things, and some even advocate fast-food love and trading love.
The negative impact of these songs with vague and even distorted values on teenagers is worrying .
Tan Jing's suggestion will not be discussed, because it still seems to be more official.
Why in the past few years, the ears of Chinese listeners have been filled with some rotten "love trading" type of disease-free moaning songs, in the final analysis, it is still the people who have just become rich after the market economy, but Chinese pop culture has not produced supporting cultural products, on the contrary, it also caters to the audience to produce a large number of "three customs" products.
This time, why Henan Satellite TV's "People's Jiangshan" is on fire, in the final analysis, the environment and the audience have changed.
The first is that in recent years, China's development and the oppression of external forces have become more and more accepted by Chinese audiences for songs about cultural self-confidence, traditional cultural programs, and red songs.
Here we take the increasing acceptance of ancient Chinese songs, traditional cultural programs and red songs as an example.
We often see all kinds of controversies on the Internet, such as ancient Chinese songs, Chinese style songs always have Chinese instruments in form, or there are Chinese instruments in the form, but the content of the expression has nothing to do with China.
What is the purpose of our listening to music?
1. Listen well and enjoy.
2. For the rise of Chinese music, for independent Chinese style music.
What is the purpose of the company's music and songs?
1. Make money.
Only good music and songs will be loved, so only good music and songs will make money.
It is impossible for the songs created by people who grew up in China to be unaffected by Chinese culture, and it is not a Song of Chinese style under the influence of Western culture? Who stipulates that Chinese culture cannot be influenced by Western culture?
Who stipulates that Chinese culture can only remain unchanged? Doesn't Chinese music differ from era to era? It's just that the exchange and mutual influence of cultures is less affected by geographical distance, and it is easier to have mutual influence.
When the economic development is backward, the entertainment industry is backward, and it is understandable that the Western influence of the developed culture and entertainment has been deep, and in recent years, the country has become strong and the economy has developed, and a large number of songs with national style, or songs containing national style elements, and even red songs have also appeared.
It's just that it is no longer the traditional ancient style we imagined, not like the type of red song we imagined before, but this can negate that it is a red song? Can't we see it as the result of the development of Chinese culture? As long as the excellent culture of the West is integrated into Chinese culture, why not make Chinese culture continue to develop?
One of the most important reasons why Chinese culture can be broad and profound is that it can be inclusive, absorb the excellent culture of foreign countries for its own use, and move forward with it.
In China, which has a vast territory and a huge population, as long as China is still Chinese China, the local Chinese music and songs created by the influence of Western culture will inevitably be unable to avoid the influence of Chinese culture, and with the development of the country's comprehensive strength, the influence of Chinese culture will become deeper and deeper.
Traditional is Chinese, modern is also Chinese, hundreds of years later to see the present has become traditional, so culture is developing, there is no need to stick to whether it is their own independent style, there is no need to stick to tradition and modernity, the key is whether it is excellent, whether it is conducive to development.
I believe that my country's culture is very good, and I do not reject the fear of the influence of foreign excellent culture, and I am willing to absorb foreign excellent culture, which is the embodiment of cultural self-confidence.
A piece of music is made up of three elements: melody, tone and rhythm,
The use of these three elements determines the style of the music. Most of the Chinese-style songs and red songs are recognized and appreciated from the melody, and it is far-fetched to blindly emphasize that the source of the instrument determines the style. Chen Mei played "Casablanca" and "Liang Zhu" with the same violin, is it Western style, Arabic mood or Chinese style?
Similarly, can it be said that the "Sabre Dance" played by Gao Hu is a Western style?
Chinese style songs and red songs, why do we have to pursue the classic form? When a group with a specific culture pursues or makes a breakthrough in the field of music, there will be symbols of its own ethnic group integrated into the music, and the more symbolic elements of these ethnic groups form a style.
We should not ask musicians for anything in order to pursue our existing musical style (the so-called Chinese style), but hope that our own musicians will break through and make achievements.
Russia belongs to the "other achievements" in the field of music, painting and other arts, and they deliberately pursue the Russian style? There is no need to pursue specifically, when there are more musicians in a specific cultural background and the collective level rises to that level, there will naturally be excellent things with this national characteristic.
The problem we face is not to pursue Chinese style and red songs to become popular in the new era, but to improve and make breakthroughs in creation.
If the future of Chinese style and red songs to be how to create, then it should be more complex music forms and more advanced. Complexity is made up of a lot of simplicity. The so-called style is to go one of the branches further and more luxuriantly, but the style itself is also a shackle.
I personally feel that red songs, Chinese style songs and the prosperity of Chinese literature and art will soon come, which is determined by the population base of a group with money to learn art.
The new generation of Chinese teenagers is receiving more and more systematic training in a certain art field, and he does not even need to take this as a profession just a hobby and interest, and more and more people will play art.
If there are five million people who play music, 100,000 people who have made Chinese style and red songs, 1,000 people who are geniuses, and 100 people who persist, these can form a breakthrough in a certain field.
Although the general public cannot play music, in addition to labor, they also have other artistic appreciation pursuits, which will definitely cause the prosperity of the music field of this ethnic group.
In addition to this time Henan Satellite TV's "People's Jiangshan" among young netizens, I personally remember the last time the red songs that were fired out of the circle by young audiences were "Steel Torrent March" and "East Wind Mighty March" in the 70th anniversary of New China military parade in 2019.
These songs can become a model, that is, while paying tribute to the classics, they are young, innovative, and in line with the spirit of this era, and they are invariably popular among young people, which is a good phenomenon.
Bo Guangjun never believed that our nation did not have musical cells, nor did he believe that our nation did not have the ability to create.
When we enter the next generation after the economic boom, or the next generation will enter the artistic boom. At that time, no matter what kind of Chinese style or red song it is, it will only be called Chinese music by the world.