"Tomorrow" has been on the air since the first season of 2017, and in its fifth year this year, the entertainment generation in "City Head Change King Banner" is already regarded as "old IP". In recent years, Chinese pop music has undergone rapid iteration: Hip-Hop has achieved the rise on the street and has become the most popular music among young people; after the "urban folk renaissance", the orchestra half a century ago (Chinese is Dating back to the 1990s) The traditional expressions of rebellious spirit have re-entered the public's vision; there are electronic music and rave culture, national style, ACG music, and even virtual idols...Almost every year, We can all feel the new changes. I won’t say anything, just the Hip-Hop layout, from the initial Trap to the later Dirll, melody rap, and now everyone’s joking "handsome guy rap", it changes every year and never stops.
But, there is always something that is eternal. No matter how popular styles and trends change, it is all production; and aside these bright coats, what are we comparing to? Still writing. I think the popular music is "use the freshest production, do the most classic writing" .
Okay, let's change another word: creation.
In this way, you can understand why the IP of the "Tomorrow Series", in the four years of 2017-2020, no matter what new gadgets are popular in the outside world, there is no single strongest label in each session. Exceptionally all fell into the arms of original singers. Mao Buyi , Cai Weize (fools and idiots), Zhang Yuqi , Qiyun League-they are all original musicians who are good at creating. There are other "Mingzi", like Ma Boqian , Zhou Zhennan , Liao Juntao , Zhong Yixuan , Xu Hanguang , Veegee, Li Zelong , Zhang Yang ( fruit planet ), Li Runqi Alliance)... also have good original music works. As an old audience who has been chasing after the first season, when I recall the wonderful past, the first time it was all these children who sang their own songs. Like the appearance of Yuzi (Zhang Yang) holding a electric guitar , crooked but affectionate, the appearance of the first appearance, like Mao's first appearance on the stage and drinking a sip of wine, and my first time Seeing Liao Juntao's wonderful fingerstyle guitar look, it is all vividly visible. The so-called creation of
means that I sing my heart. Every word and every sentence reveals the "capital me". The singing, playing and listening of each song are in-depth exchanges. These personal expressions make "creation" "The actor" is easier to harvest the audience than a mere "performer". This is why the strongest labels in the first four seasons of the "Tomorrow Series" were all songwriters. If
is the case, then with the DNA of originality, in the name of "Tomorrow's Creation Project", let's be original!
[Understanding young people in creation]
Before the show officially starts this season, facing the camera, the convener of tomorrow Wang Yuan said, eh, I heard that you are doing an original show. It’s also original, so I just came to learn, "I want to know the young people around 2000, and listen to what they are writing and singing." .
Wang Yuan's seemingly unremarkable sentence also illustrates the core value of "Tomorrow's Creation Project". Every generation of
has their own voice. The active period of the Beatles coincides with the love and peace movement on a global scale. Their songs show the beautiful vision of utopia ; Bob Dylan is in the storm of the world, and countless people are listening to his songs, Go all the way towards the watchtower; in the 1980s, MJ led all mankind to sway and sing Beat It; at the same time in the Chinese music scene, Luo Dayou sang the pain and sorrow of the urbanization process, Taipei is not my home, mine There are no neon lights in my hometown; , Cui Jian, , thousands of miles away, is also suffering from tremendous social changes. This sense of tearing has continued to the Three Masters of Magic Rock in the 1990s; and later, I sang "Good Night" on Baojia Street. "Beijing" Wang Feng lives in a home with hot water for 24 hours, and his way of thinking has also changed. The thinking and thinking of each generation is such a change, as hackberry sang 20 years ago, "I want to clean myself and sell all the old ones", young people should singThings that happen around you, not the sounds in textbooks or CDs that we have heard in the past. No one is a copy of who, which is why Pak Shu, who keeps saying "I won't come to record variety shows again", came to the recording site of "Tomorrow's Creation Project" again, and couldn't escape the law of true fragrance.
In addition to Master Park who is always a new boy, Deng Ziqi and also stand firmly on the side of young people. "I don't want to hear what I heard on the CD in the past. The essence of originality is to let others hear sounds they have never heard before." Teacher Deng's punchline can also be listed as the slogan for this season's purpose.
has said so much, or let's take a look at what new voices are in the first issue of "Tomorrow's Creation Project".
Hu Qihao, a student from the east, brought a song "Blve". While beating the chords with a acoustic guitar , he sang gently through the chords and damper. The first time you might think of Tao Zhe's "Quick Sand", or Fang Datong singing "The Spring Wind".
But, without a few more sentences, you will find that Hu Qihao is completely different from his predecessors. In the past, whether it was Tao Zhe or Fang Datong, they were both traditional and classic R&B approaches. They were inspired by Motown Records in the 1970s. They paid more attention to the melody line and the processing of various transpositions; but Hu Qihao’s music not only contained beautiful melody, but also Paying attention to the flow of the rhythm, you listen to his whole flow is changing, not only the remake is moving, but also suddenly it will give you the common triplet in rap, or the continuous 16th note; it is reflected in the melody The change of rhythm, this should have been the high-end gameplay of a mature R&B writer, but for Hu Qihao, this seems to be a skill pack that he has mastered since he started learning to create. In addition to the way of expression, music text is of course also an important part of creation. The most impressive student in the first episode-I voted for Jiang Xiangui.
is wearing an "out-of-time" suit, a pair of Bob Dylan/Luo Dayou-style sunglasses, and an acoustic guitar. It seems to be too old-fashioned. This one is from Liupanshui, Guizhou, with a strong accent. "Flying to the Moon" by Jiang Xiangui's "Small Town Youth", became the best tonight in my heart.
His songs are absolutely poetic, and the romantic imagination of the 90s reminds me of Pu Shu’s early Soviet-Russian folk songs " birch forest ", a sentimental color similar to "educated youth folk songs"; and vice The sentence in the song, "You go to the spaceship, I will turn away the security guards", this fantasy style is similar to the five unconstrained people, PeopleSoft blurted out: "Science fiction in the county", which is a very good description. Jiang Xiangui said that he couldn't describe the style of his music. He just wanted to touch the soul of the audience through music. This sounded pretty pretentious, but he did it. Listening to this song "Flying to the Moon", I really remembered that we were in the village of Guangzhou University Town more than ten years ago, at the home of Wutiaoren. At that time, there was no big band, it was just a handful of wood. The guitar is passed from this person's hand to the next person's hands. In this way, Amao and Nishina use the simplest and roughest way to show the vitality of their works at the beginning. I saw in Jiang Xiangui the appearance of PeopleSoft at the age of 20. At that time, PeopleSoft was still a serious literary and artistic youth, but now Jiang Xiangui can face the camera and the media freely; A Mao, including Pu Shu, think more about the difficulties in local life, while Jiang Xiangui is now Look up at the spaceship and look down at the security guard. It's nice to be young.
also impressed me with Jigme.
originally thought he was going to sing a folk song full of local minorities in that dialect. Unexpectedly, it was a standard folk rock . I'm not sure if he is a fan of Neil Young. However, if you copy it, can anyone in the world play folk rock better than Lao Yang? Therefore, he forced him to be strong. I call him Neil Yang. My name is Jigme. Jigme means fearless. It comes from Lhasa. His "Life" is to sing the kindness and sunshine that he understands in his heart.
Jigme is such a combination. He absorbs the nutrients of European and American rock music , but still maintains his own national locality; what he plays is considered to be a big category of folk songs, his traditions, his burdens, and his The wildness is outstanding.
also has a name that I remember, Melissa. I describe her as "pop music without borders". becauseFor the sake of isolation, she did not catch up with the live recording, Melissa completed her performance by video linking wheat. I am very happy to see her successfully "admitted". What we compare to is creation. Her creative freedom has no boundaries. She does not adhere to the mainstream and independence. It is also unclear whether it is POP, R&B, New Age, what ever, creation is nothing. Restricted music.
is only the first episode of the show. Next, what new things will be heard in "Tomorrow's Creation Project", whether it is performance techniques, music texts, stage presentation... I hope to see the future here.
[The future is beautiful, but the experience is cruel]
By the way, after all, this is a creative program, so there will be some small science popularization in the program, including special settings in the competition system. For example, in the first phase of "Admission Assessment", the first 30-second highlight display was used as the first level. The
format is very interesting. In chess, there is a saying that "three moves can't make a move or die." In the production of popular music, there is also a saying that "must get the chorus of the song within 45 seconds." In the era of short video, this situation has become worse. I often hear many friends around me complain about the "golden 9-second rule" on short video platforms today, that is, "the stuck point from the first to this sentence is exactly 9 seconds." People hate it.
Please, can 30 seconds really determine the quality of a song?
But the fact is that this is indeed a fact faced by all musicians. Many of the works of
carved into our DNA, he must have a highlight for us to remember. Like the example cited by Deng Ziqi, the Queen’s "We will rock you", "Bang Bang Da", when the drum beats, everyone will subconsciously think of the next song development, its highlight does not even need to be singing; including ours There are many wonderful preludes, or wonderful solos that can be remembered... No matter how you use it, trying to make you remember me, this is a nirvana that every creator must temper.
You see, although the Wutiao people are engaged in indie music , their songs are definitely not played according to the rules, but Nishina Amao, as the first-generation audio-visual owner of Guangzhou Book Center , has also practiced from the warehouse. The ability to find treasures in the "foreign trash" of "Foreign Trash", "The ability to judge the quality of a song or even a record in 30 seconds is Amao's unique weapon", Wujoo himself believes in this. Suspect, when I think of five people, I will immediately think of the melody of "I am riding a bicycle and holding a pig", or the roar at the very beginning of the "Some Landscapes" record, which is also their highlight.
Faced with such a test, the strong are always strong, like Jiang Xiangui. His highlight trick is his lyrics and music. His phrase "Spaceship and Security", has conquered everyone at once. We do admit that novels, symphonies, and a complete record have their own charms. Many stories can only be explained clearly only when a record is 4 or 5 minutes long; but we also know that when others are willing to give these 4, Five minutes ago, I would definitely hit it because of a certain melody, just like we knew "Don't swear to the moon" and started to read Shakespeare, and listen to hackberry from "Born as a summer flower"-oh no-start to read Tagore From the simplest ode to joy, Beethoven was known about Beethoven. This is the law of the market, and the "Creative Plan of Tomorrow" faithfully restores all of this.
[Young people take your time]
I said this last year: the definition of indie musicians (original musicians) has changed.
In the past, as an independent musician as we understand it, he must have released an album independently, be able to hold a solo performance (that is, have 15 songs of his own), and have a complete and systematic writing language. Known as a qualified singer. Standards like
are obviously out of date.
Like those who have just learned to use GarageBand and publish one or two of their own works on streaming music platforms, can such young people be called independent musicians? The old evaluation standards are no longer valid, young people are playing, new original music works are constantly emerging, styles and types are blooming, even the masters like Pu Shu keep an open mind, why are there people who want to criticize and think who is too young? What about astringency? To give these young people an unlimited stage, this is "The meaning of Tomorrow’s Creation Project.
In the next few months, I will stay open with everyone to listen to the music made by young people and understand their world. We never know whether the current era is the best or the worst, but I believe what Tagore said: "Don't worry, the best will always appear when you least expect it."
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