fine? Most people will be a little confused when they hear this name, but their songs such as "Breath Decision" and "No One is Happy Than Me" are almost unknown on the short video platform. Not long ago, they challenged Sun Nan in the unveiling competition of "Singer 2024", which made many viewers get to know this group of low-key independent musicians. Recently, fine band's latest album "Ruins Recreation" has been released on music platforms. Lead singer Qiao Xi and songwriter Liu Guannan accepted an exclusive interview with our reporter to talk about their journey from medical students to musicians.
challenges Sun Nan to make his TV variety show debut
"Singer 2024" is the first variety show that the fine band has participated in and broadcast. This starting point can be said to be quite high. Qiao Xi, the lead singer of
fine, recalled that they only received the invitation from the program team on the Friday before participating in the unveiling competition, which was exactly one week before the live broadcast. Although the fine band has many highly circulated songs, works such as "Breath Decision", "No One Is Not Happier Than Me", "Don't Leave If You Want to Get Caught in the Rain" have been sung countless times on tours and music festivals, and are also popular on short video platforms. There are a few "second creations" and covers of material, but they have never appeared on TV variety shows. And that period was also the time when "Singer 2024" attracted the most attention from the audience due to competition topics such as "real live broadcast and full open mic".
At the live broadcast of the "Singer 2024" unveiling competition, the fine band learned that in the limited-time voting launched on Weibo, netizens voted for them to play against Sun Nan. "When we learned the news, we were relatively calm. We felt that we were successful if we could complete our songs." Unexpectedly, when he stood on the stage, Josie suddenly became nervous. "I wasn't nervous because I had to sing with full open mic. We Every performance of "Singer" is completed in this way, but the stage of "Singer" is really magical, and you can't help but feel nervous when you stand there. "
In the end, the fine band sang the masterpiece "Breathing Decision" brilliantly, but in the scene. In the voting of 500 public hearings and 500 international public hearings in the cloud, he was defeated by Sun Nan. "Our opponent, Mr. Sun Nan, is really amazing. His emotions and his skills shocked us." Liu Guannan, the songwriter of fine band, said that it is impossible to say that he has no regrets after being in the first round of "Singer 2024". "It's a pity." It’s not that we lost, the more regretful thing is that we can’t continue to sing our own songs to everyone.”
resolutely transitioned from medical students to music
fine Band is an independent band founded on campus, but Qiao Xi and Liu Guannan are not musicians. He is a medical student.
In 2012, Qiao Xi and Liu Guannan were still studying at Southwest Medical University. At the campus singer competition that year, Liu Guannan heard Qiao Xi’s bright and fresh voice and invited her to try singing a song he composed. "We had not graduated at the time, so we formed a band with the mentality of playing music and tried to sing the songs written by Guannan." Qiao Xi said that in 2015, they formed the "fine band" and synthesized the written and recorded songs into the first album "i'm sorry". The recording of this album was relatively simple. Like all independent musicians and independent bands, they released the album on NetEase Cloud Music.
In 2017, Qiao Xi was studying for graduate school and Liu Guannan had graduated. Seeing that the song posted online attracted many listeners, the two decided to hold a show. The two booked a venue in Chengdu and contacted the ticket sales department without making too many complicated preparations. More than a thousand tickets were sold out smoothly. During the performance, the warm atmosphere infected Qiao Xi and Liu Guannan on the stage, and they decided to make music full-time!
Although Qiao Xi and Liu Guannan love music, they have never received professional music training. Liu Guannan only learned guitar in college. Josie loved singing since she was a child and was born with a good voice. When she was in junior high school, she wanted to be an art student and study music, but her family did not agree. Until 2017, when they decided to pursue music full-time, her parents still had reservations about her choice. "After all, I can find a very good job in my major. My parents think singing is too unstable a job." Although both or Despite encountering more or less resistance from their families, Qiao Xi and Liu Guannan still insisted on their choice.
Their low-key songwriting is loved by the whole Internet
Since the band formed, their life has been quietly writing and singing songs. But even they themselves did not expect that the songs of fine band would become so popular in the short video era. .
's most popular "Breathe Decision" is included in the fine band's first album in 2015. Around 2017, when the first-generation live broadcast platforms such as Douyu and Huya first became popular, this song became a hot song in the live broadcast room. Later, it swept all major live broadcast platforms. Talent shows such as "Produce Camp" and idol variety shows also began to select the fine band Song covers and performances. In an era that focuses on traffic, Fine Band's "statistics" have already been considerable, but the two of them have remained low-key, and it was not until this year that they began to participate in some variety shows with strong musical attributes. "Maybe our music is more suitable for dissemination on these platforms." Liu Guannan said that as an independent band, they did not even have an agent or a team for a long time, let alone promote their songs. Creation and performance are their responsibility. The only focus of life.
"Amusement in Ruins" poster
Over the years, Liu Guannan has always insisted: "If one day, what I write cannot move me, I will definitely not touch music again." The same is true for their latest album "Amusement in Ruins", "Amusement in Ruins" Referring to playgrounds, ruins and amusement are a tangled and contradictory state, but I think everyone will be in this contradictory state. "Liu Guannan said that everyone has his own "ruins" in his heart. Different states of your own "play" are reflected in different songs.
"In my opinion, music is the expression of emotion. Other techniques and theories are just means and carriers. How to use them varies from person to person, but art must ultimately return to emotion." This is Liu Guannan's creative philosophy, and I believe it is also The main reason why the fine band impresses the audience.
