Since the launch of the Lingnan New Folk Cantonese Season, Southern Metropolis Daily, N Video and Kugou Music have jointly launched a social solicitation and received more than 1,300 original song submissions. The event has received widespread attention from musicians and academi

2024-11-12 15:22:06 entertainment 6837℃

Since the launch of the Lingnan New Folk Cantonese Season, Southern Metropolis Daily, n Video and Kugou Music have jointly launched a social solicitation and received more than 1,300 original song submissions. The event has received widespread attention from musicians and academic experts from all walks of life. After selection from different dimensions by professional judges, 10 original Cantonese songs stood out. They will be promoted online together with the works of 10 well-known artists specially invited, included in the same collection, and will be invited to participate in the offline annual closing performance.

The fourth top ten winning song released from the social collection is "The Monologue of a Old Barbecued Pork" written and sung by Ha Ji.

Watching TVB, listening to Twins, and discovering treasures of good Cantonese songs through award ceremonies every year are probably the epitome of the growth of many post-90s Cantonese people, and Haji is one of them. Her ancestral home is Shanwei and she was born in Shenzhen. When she was a child, a relative at home was in the cassette and CD business, and she would bring some for her every time she came home. Gradually, she developed a keen interest in Cantonese songs.

After growing up, Ha Ji became an independent musician. He "likes to drink tea, eat bags and play guitar" on weekdays. He loves creation and can do all kinds of music, lyrics, arrangement and singing. She regards music as a way for her to talk to the world. She turns those "truths that would seem verbose if told directly" into songs, "and everyone will be more patient to listen."

Ha Ji especially likes to write Cantonese songs. In her opinion, the nine tones and six tones of Cantonese have their own rhythms. “Just reading the words makes me feel good.” The uniqueness of Cantonese’s melodies helps her to remain catchy while not being clichéd. .

Unique expressions in Cantonese are often cleverly incorporated into lyrics by Haji. For example, "Each country has a brother from each country" comes from a Cantonese tongue twister, and the title of the song "A Monologue of a Old Barbecued Pork" comes from a Cantonese proverb that is familiar to Cantonese people.

In Guangdong, a common mantra that mothers often say when blaming their disobedient children is "It's better to have old barbecued pork than to have you" (it's better to have a piece of barbecued pork than to have you). The implication is that having a piece of barbecued pork can still give you a full meal, but having a child can only make you angry. This analogy is vivid and interesting, and the Cantonese people’s love for food is also evident from it. "The Monologue of a Piece of Barbecued Pork" takes the tone of a "piece of barbecued pork" - a child who doesn't listen to his mother. He playfully imitates his mother's nagging to him, and also sings his own responses and thoughts.

Over the years, with a guitar and "a little courage", Ha Ji walked through the streets and alleys, appeared on various stages, and sang his own original Cantonese songs. "It's too niche! How many people are writing original Cantonese songs in Shenzhen? No more than 3, right? Can the money earned every month be enough to support oneself?" My mother always worries like this.

In August this year, Haji traveled across the city to participate in an original Cantonese singing event in Guangzhou, where he met many "common people" from different cities in Guangdong such as Guangzhou, Foshan, Dongguan, Zhaoqing, Zhanjiang, and even from Guangxi. , Hunan, Sichuan and other places further away. Only then did Haji realize that there were original Cantonese musicians like her in many cities. What they lacked was just a chance to be discovered.

Returning to Shenzhen, Ha Ji wrote his feelings over the years into "The Monologue of a Old Barbecued Pork". He wrote and sang the loneliness and "self-pleasure", struggle and persistence of a Cantonese musician in Cantonese, regardless of whether he has it or not. People hear.

"There are 17.56 million people in Shenzhen, but only 3 people can read and write Cantonese songs." This lyrics comes from my mother's words. Although Haji really only knows three people who write Cantonese songs in Shenzhen, she knows that in this city full of talents, there must be more people who can write high-quality Cantonese songs.

"One is born with two, two begets three, and three begets all things. People in Shenzhen who can write Cantonese songs, please come forward! Let's write and sing together, and go and eat barbecued pork rice together!" Ha Ji called out with this song.

"Write together, sing together, and eat barbecued pork rice together!"

Nandu Entertainment: Why participate in the Lingnan New Folk Cantonese Season?

Hagui: saw someone in the circle of friends sharing the launch conference of the Lingnan New Folk Cantonese Season. It was the first time I saw a Cantonese folk song competition, so I was interested and wanted to try it.

Nandu Entertainment: What was your idea for this song?

Hagui: "The Monologue of a Old Barbeque Pork" originated from August this year. I went to Guangzhou to participate in the "30 People and 30 Songs" original Cantonese song event organized by the "Moon and Song" label. I remember that the organizer at the time, Teacher Qinglang, asked me why I came specially to participate in the event. I said that I found that there were too few people composing Cantonese songs in Shenzhen and wanted to get to know more Cantonese songwriters. Teacher Qinglang encouraged me to send me to various cities. Looking for a creator to write this story into a song.

"There are 17.56 million people in Shenzhen, but only three people can write Cantonese songs." This lyrics comes from my mother's words, but of course it is an exaggeration. After all, Shenzhen, with its abundant talents, cannot have so few people who can write qualified Cantonese songs. But it is no exaggeration to say that there are really only three people I know in Shenzhen who write Cantonese songs. Two, two, three, three are all things. Shenzhen people who can write Cantonese songs, please come forward! Write together, sing together, and eat barbecued pork rice together!

Nandu Entertainment: How did you embark on the road of music creation?

Ha Guitar: I remember when I was studying, I saw the Korean drama "Dream High" on TV. In it, there was a girl holding a guitar and playing and singing a song she wrote. At that time, a new world opened up and I discovered that music is not enough to express Just singing, playing the piano, and writing songs. So I started to take the initiative to record some of my own melodies and words, and gradually turned them into songs. At the same time, he also registered musician accounts on some music platforms and started his career as an independent musician.

Nandu Entertainment: What influence do Cantonese songs and Cantonese culture have on you?

Haji: ’s exposure to Cantonese songs was mainly due to a relative who was in the cassette and CD business when she was a child. Every time she came to our house, she would bring some for us. At that time, I liked listening to twins, discovering good songs by watching award ceremonies, and also liked the soundtracks of TVB dramas. After growing up and making music on my own, I wanted to write my favorite Cantonese songs.

The melodies created in Mandarin are easy to catch, but in many cases they are not so easy to shine. The nine tones and six tones of Cantonese have their own rhythm. Just reading the words will make you feel good, and there is more room for melody creation. Therefore, the uniqueness of Cantonese melodies helped me achieve the balance I wanted, keeping it catchy but not clichéd.

Not many people have a special in-depth understanding of Cantonese culture. Many of them have impressions of Cantonese-specific expressions left by watching TVB dramas or Hong Kong movies, such as "It is better to have old barbecued pork than to have you", "A piece of cloth is so long", "A bowl of noodles is reversed". "Bottom of the bowl" and so on, including this time the new song also uses a Cantonese tongue twister "Every country has brothers from different countries."

Nandu Entertainment: What are your feelings or suggestions on the current development of Cantonese songs?

Haji: I don’t know much about the current development of Cantonese songs, but no matter how Cantonese songs develop, it does not affect the creators’ continued creation of works to express themselves.

The fourth top ten winning song released from the social collection is "The Monologue of a Old Barbecued Pork" written and sung by Ha Ji.