文|Linghu Boguang
Recently, the domestic program " The Voice of Godsend 3" has been released, but it's not that the variety show songs have been released. It was the comments in the second letter of the show that went out of the circle, probably because the letter said why there are so many cover songs in variety shows. The guests and musicians of the show expressed their opinions, but none of them could convince the audience.
finally quit this variety show, so this incident made this variety show popular.
Xin's comments in "The Voice of God 3" and his withdrawal from the show made me personally think of two questions. One is that the development of domestic music variety shows has obviously reached the ceiling, and a breakthrough is urgently needed. I believe that it is a problem that the cover of classic songs in variety shows does not pay attention to originality.
The other is Su Jianxin ’s previous xin band also came from cover singing, so he understands the benefits of cover singing and the realization that the original is not good, so he is not too supportive of cover singing.
This matter is also like Su Jianxin and Xin Orchestra in the Chinese music scene , to be precise, the status of the Taiwanese music scene.
believed that the most famous pop bands in that era included Mayday , Xin Orchestra, Sodagreen and Feier Orchestra. Of course, there are also indie bands like Wangfu, , Lin Shengxiang, etc. at the same time. But the historical status of Xin Orchestra is not to mention Mayday and Soda Green, obviously Feier Band is not as good.
The reason is that Su Jianxin went solo, and the Chinese band is similar to Wang Feng , but Su Jianxin is obviously not as good as Wang Feng in the Chinese music scene after solo, why?
is also a rock band. Why didn’t Xin Band become the second Mayday?
Why didn’t Xin Band become the next Mayday or Sodagreen? In fact, I said it at the beginning, probably two questions!
One is that there are too many cover songs, too many covers of popular songs as a band. Even Mayday and early Sodagreen were criticized for their early songs being pop rock , but the songs were written by themselves, and the lyrics, music, arrangement and singing were all done by themselves, and Xin Orchestra sang too many covers.
Xin Orchestra's " Leaving Song " cover Kim Modeling 's "Love Song", Xin Orchestra's " Broad Sea and Sky " cover "The Reason to Leave Me", " Die will love " cover Park Wankui "Love of a Thousand Years", "If" cover of Lee Seung-cheol 's "God's Jealousy" and so on.
If the Hong Kong and Taiwan music scene at that time was dominated by cover songs in the Japanese music scene, this Xin band opened a precedent for cover songs in the Korean music scene. Because of the niceness of this cover classic, of course it will not affect the spread in the market, but it will naturally affect the status of the music scene. How high is your status as a cover band? What
still said is that they debuted early, when there was no Internet and the requirements for copyright and original discussions were not too strict. Can you imagine that the most famous songs of a Chinese band are all covers?
The second is that Xin Orchestra and Su Jianxin’s original ability is relatively weak. If the famous songs are all covers, then there must be songs that are not covers, right? In fact, Xin Orchestra and Xin also have original songs besides covers, but the problem is that there are many original songs. None of them.
In fact, Su Jianxin has only released two albums in the Xin Orchestra, which is the same as Wang Feng's at No. 43 Baojia Street. But the songs of No. 43 Baojia Street are basically written by Wang Feng, and the two albums of Xin Orchestra are basically covers. If you look at the composer column, it is either a foreign song or a cover of a Korean song.
Later, Xin went solo like Wang Feng, but Wang Feng’s next ten albums were all written, composed and arranged by himself, and Xin’s solo albums are like "I Am Me", "Ji Le Planet", "While I am" and so on. He is not There are no original songs. The problem is that the hit songs are written and composed by others.
is like many hit songs "Soul" and "" in the solo periodCold Fire, Burning Loneliness, I Hate You, etc.
These songs are composed by Li Ronghao , yes it is Li Ronghao, which is a bit embarrassing. Because this is equivalent to "Beijing Beijing", "Flying Higher", "Blooming Life", " Existence of ", etc. after Wang Feng's solo flight, etc. were all written by others.
In general, Su Jianxin is a singer in the Hong Kong and Taiwan music scene for 30 years. He has a recognizable voice and good singing skills. This hit classic song. Either it was a cover, or the song was written by someone else.
Combined with the communication power and status evaluation of rock in the three places across the strait, this market communication is due to the advantages of popularity in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Xinhe's Xin band has indeed gained a certain status because of its recognizable voice and various hit songs (also his current status).
But too many cover songs and lack of original ability make him compare with the contemporary Taiwanese music scene. Compared to the music world, it can't compare to Wang Feng, who has only had two albums to fly solo.
Why are there so many cover songs in the Hong Kong and Taiwan music scene? This answer is simpler than imagined
Now when it comes to the Chinese music scene, I miss how the Hong Kong and Taiwan music scene is, but at the same time, I can’t stop everyone complaining about the flood of cover songs in Hong Kong and Taiwan. When it comes to why the Hong Kong and Taiwan music scene is covered, the answer is very simple.
is probably the same as the mainland music scene in the past few years. The audience’s appreciation level has not improved, and they only like to listen to good songs; capital will promote good songs for profit (a few years ago, singing and dancing idols, and later singing and dancing idols hung up and pushed short video songs), but the original is already difficult, and this nice original will be even more difficult. is the fastest and easiest at this time. There are two options.
One is to cover excellent foreign songs. These songs are popular abroad, which proves that they have been tested by the market. The tastes of listeners all over the world are very popular, especially those songs with simple melody, bright rhythm and easy to dance , your Chinese lyrics are good, coupled with your recognizable voice and singing skills, it is easy to become a hit.
The second is to copy foreign songs like this, and the operation is the same. The difference is that the cover song has the copyright, but this plagiarism has no copyright. As for getting on the bus first and then buying the ticket, there are two versions of the song.
Hong Kong and Taiwan music circles have always been full of cover songs, the reason is that their economy developed early. In the 1970s, civic culture developed to a certain extent, and the people had a lot of demand. At that time, Hong Kong and Taiwan capital were not much different from the current mainland capital. It was very difficult to fully support original singers, so buying foreign songs, especially Japanese song copyright covers became the mainstream. If
is a cover song, the Hong Kong music scene is more serious, because Hong Kong is smaller, with a smaller population, a more developed economy, and a relatively mature record industry and packaging model. Hong Kong people are very pragmatic, so good works filled with Cantonese lyrics can quickly become hits and local stars.
The Hong Kong music scene not only covers Japanese songs, even our mainland songs such as "Nanniwan" and "Nothing" were translated into Cantonese works in the early years. It can only be said that Hong Kong people are too commercialized. That was indeed the case, and many singers at that time did not have much knowledge of music theory, just to find a job, maybe singing was too much for them, let alone composing.
Those who can compose have cultivated musical literacy since childhood, or like Alan Tam, Lin Zixiang, Huang Jiaju those who joined the band in the early days, naturally the creation will be relatively simple. But they also slowly changed from their debut singing English songs to originals, and this change is slower than that of mainland rock.
On the one hand, Cantonese song culture developed relatively late, and its cultural background is not as deep as that of Mandarin, so it needs to absorb a lot of foreign culture to provide creative soil; on the other handIt is because cover songs make money very fast for record companies, so they are flooded.
Contemporary Taiwanese music scene is larger because of its larger population, and more profound historical background. Everyone has to remember one thing, if the Chinese music scene develops, there was a rock movement in the mainland in the 1980s, and there was a "folk song movement" in the Taiwan music scene in the 1960s and 1970s.
On the Hong Kong music scene, only the first-generation godfather Hui Guanjie brought Cantonese songs into the Hong Kong music scene. The four kings behind him Jacky Cheung are all products of the commercial industry chain . The Hong Kong music scene has never defined cultural movements (movies There is a new wave).
After the Taiwanese folk song movement, Luo Dayou, Li Zongsheng, etc. started to create a living soil. At the end of the 1980s, the Taiwanese music scene also commented on the four kings, namely Qi Qin , Zhou Huajian , Wang Jie , Tong Ange are basically singer-songwriters who can write their own lyrics and music (occasionally cover songs) .
In this era, Taiwan’s original singer-songwriters include Zhang Yusheng, Jiang Yuheng, Wu Bai, Zheng Zhihua and so on. Strictly speaking, everyone's level is not inferior to Hong Kong's Chen Baiqiang, , Huang Jiaju, etc., but there are only a few singer-songwriters in the Hong Kong music scene. deluge of songs and covers).
This is a powerful aspect of Taiwan’s music scene. The original creator’s environment is better, and he has accumulated some experience in the industry. That’s why around 2000 ushered in the era of creators such as Zhou Wang Taolin; another good aspect is that apart from singing and composing There are more people, and the number of creators who support the singers is also more, and the level is also higher.
Around 2000, they supported Ren Xianqi ( Xiao Chong ), Stefanie Sun (Li Brothers), SHE (Yuan Weiren, Shi Rencheng , etc.), Xiao Yaxuan , Jolin Tsai and other singers.
Although Taiwan’s music scene is much better, it still can’t get rid of the problem of covering Japanese and foreign songs in its peak era. This reflects that apart from the Xin Orchestra mentioned this time, other musicians who became famous by covering songs will not be mentioned.
Because of this lack of support for the original system, the Hong Kong music scene failed after 2000, and the Taiwan music scene did not support it after 2010. Although there were backstage bands such as New Romance in 2015, the economic development was weak. Although there were excellent works, But it is also difficult to reproduce the glory.
Hong Kong and Taiwan cover songs are flooding, and the mainland's short video Divine Comedy dominates? Can the Chinese music scene still be saved?
Finally, let’s talk about the current Chinese music scene. Why are Hong Kong and Taiwan cover songs flooding but they can hold up? The current Chinese music scene can’t do cover songs. There are several reasons for this.
One is that the music industry around the world is going downhill. In the past, the cover singers in Hong Kong and Taiwan, although the Japanese music scene is still solid, have indeed declined. The mainstream of the Korean music scene is now directly singing and dancing. A few years ago, the Chinese idol talent show It's not that I didn't cover Korean songs when I was at my peak.
In the end, you will find that the cover of Korean songs is naturally unacceptable in China, and there are very few hit songs (only a divine song "Calories").
The second is that the current cost of cover songs is relatively high, and the public opinion environment is already different. In the Internet age, young listeners pay more and more attention to copyright and originality. This popular musician who relies on cover songs is not highly rated, unless you are just a cover singer.
In fact, there are also some popular musicians in the Mainland, such as the chopstick brother of " Old Boy ", and the " Rises of the Wind " who also use coupons to buy peppers, etc. In the end, you will find that the more you get There are fewer and fewer musicians who rely on cover songs. In the past, cover songs were singers and even became musicians. Now you are just an Internet celebrity if you just cover songs.
Finally, it’s just a cover songThe ability and level of plagiarized Internet celebrities is really not good. After all, the Internet era is disappearing faster. Sound cards, singing and selling meat and personal settings have become the biggest attractions. Voice recognition and singing skills have become the late , even the top few like ’s old fan next door, , Liu Yuning, , etc. are hardly among the mainstream musicians, let alone a bunch of other cover singers.
These covers and plagiarized Internet celebrity musicians, plus singing and dancing idols whose songs are selling well but not out of the circle, have mastered the entire Chinese music scene, so it seems that the Chinese music scene is not good now. As for musicians who really understand originality, I've written about it many times.
Now there are a lot of independent music scenes in the Mainland, if the capital doesn't push the audience, it's just that the audience doesn't take the initiative to hear it.
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-