In recent years, the Chinese music scene is generally recognized as not good. In the eyes of many netizens, it may not even be as good as the Korean music scene, let alone the Japanese music scene, and European and American music with modern and modern music origins. Then the que

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Chinese music scene is recognized as not good in recent years. In the eyes of many netizens, it may not even be as good as the Korean music scene, let alone the Japanese music scene, and the European and American music , which has the origin of modern and modern music. Then the question will arise at this time. If the Chinese music scene is to be far behind the Japanese music scene and the European and American music scenes.

This depends on comparing the music of the entire country or the so-called pop music.

If it is just pop music, then the Chinese music scene cannot be said to be the last in the world (after all, because of technology and short videos, the Chinese-speaking regions and Southeast Asia are still OK), but in terms of world influence, let alone Europe, the United States, Japan, India, and even the hot Korean kpop.

If you compare the entire country's music, the answer may be a bit surprising. Thanks to the large population of Chinese civilization, complex ethnic groups, vast territory, and development in different regions between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait and the three regions. Chinese music will definitely lose to the West and Japan, which has a developed music industry, but in fact, like India, the unique civilizations of the East are complementing each other.

Of course, this pop music is not as popular as the current Korean music . In this regard, the current Japanese music are somewhat inferior to the current Japanese music . Of course, the overall level of Chinese music in cannot be compared with Japanese music, let alone European and American music. The simplest truth is just talking about pop music.

0 The Hong Kong and Taiwan music scenes that Chinese audiences miss are so missed by Chinese music scenes. They talk about the breakthrough of music styles, namely Luo Dayou folk songs, folk songs (also influenced by Japan), and then to the Chinese style that extends martial arts, as well as the RB of King Taolin of Zhou, rap , and several factions of the new Chinese style are considered to be the pioneer. More than half of the popular pops in Hong Kong and Taiwan are learned from Japanese music scenes, we will know by watching covers.

The Japanese music scene is still learning European and American music scenes, so I know how big the gap in the Chinese music scene is.

Isn’t it because of Jay Chou ? Compared with the Japanese music scene, Jay Chou is nothing at all

This issue is closely related to the state of social development. The cultural industry in this country and region is closely related. After people are satisfied with their material life, they will naturally pursue spiritual life. Our country has been bullied in modern times. The long-term goal of both the country and the people is to have a stable life with food and clothing.

In the past century, most people have no idea about the pursuit of spiritual aspects. Music, art, philosophy, etc. are things that people can only settle down in a stable life for a long time. If the prosperity of the country takes this step, it will be truly powerful. At the level of material pursuit, people's judgment of matter is unified, that is, the more the better.

But at the spiritual level, it will not be unified. Thoughts tend to diversify. But it will be quite difficult for society to undergo such a change. Under the collision of new and old ideas, the society's tolerance is very testable.

History our culture and art have reached a very high level. In terms of music, the musical literacy reflected in certain classic singing segments of Peking Opera , Henan Opera , Qin Opera is no worse than that of Westerners. Therefore, the per capita music quality of foreigners is higher than that of domestic people. It depends on the stage at which time. At this stage, I agree with this statement.

But it may not be certain in history. You might as well compare the Peking Opera "The Empty City Scheme. Chasing Han Xin" and then compare it with Western opera. It is hard to say that there is a difference between high and low level in terms of realm, but the expression ability and infectiousness of music are absolutely no different. Those are the division methods of black music, American country music, blues , jazz , blues , etc.

In fact, we can also have this school that school that is differentiated from our opera sects.

The problem with our modern music is that we are backward in modern times, beaten, and almost die. The entire country's civilization is saving the nation, so there is no need to care about music and art. The industrialization in the West has been successful, and the industrialization in culture and art has also been successful, even created by them.

Then there is Japan, the old industrial country, and then the Soviet Union, the second-level world-class Soviet Union.

This has weak influence after the collapse of the Soviet Union, but before the disintegration. You can see how many Chinese and countries with the same system learn how many Russian music, literature, film and television dramas and other creation methods are learned. Even the popular "Mohe Dance Hall" in 2022 can be said to be Russian pop songs.

How big is the gap between the Chinese music scene and the European and American music scene? The Japanese music scene secretly laughed

Modern and modern Chinese music cannot be said to have not been inherited, but it was broken and interrupted, it cannot be done. In fact, modern and modern culture and art are indeed laid by the West, and you need to learn in all aspects. Chinese music is separated from the essence of music, and music comes from the culture and life of each nation.

Our Modern music creation uses the expression of Western music , trying to express our lives in their way, and eat Chinese food with knife and fork. Therefore, the pursuit of form is not enough. In fact, foreigners are just as natural as us, so how can we sing?

" California Hotel " is a simple countryside. The reason why the classic song is nice and sings naturally. You can express it as you want. Why didn't you consider using a paragraph of erhu to accompaniment? The same goes for . Let’s talk about it, this is where the music is truly charming.

It is difficult to use words and language to metaphor and describe these higher-level things. If you can understand them, you will naturally understand them. If you don’t understand them, it is useless to say them. I have always believed that words are the roughest things in the way people have expressed. But expressing love and emotions is very difficult. You can express it accurately only in other more sophisticated ways, such as music.

This ends with the gap between the Chinese music scene and the Western music scene, there is really no way to give the answer with data quantification. Examples that

are more suitable can be found in the Japanese music scene, Chinese music scene and Korean music scene. It is certain that the Japanese music scene is much more powerful than the Chinese and Korean music scene, but now the Korean music scene is gradually becoming more popular than the Japanese music scene at the pop level alone, which involves one thing.

That means modern times is an industrialized society, and a mature cultural industry chain is very important.

The strength of the Japanese music scene lies in the fact that it is from top to bottom, from inside to outside. After learning the localization of the West, the music style has reached the world level as in all fields, such as game soundtrack masters, film composers, animation composers, and then independent musicians and pop musicians.

China is due to its population, multi-ethnicity, and the literary and artistic construction from top to bottom in the mainland, but it is not possible because of industrialization. Although the construction of this music culture is not as good as that of Japan, it is actually much stronger than Korean music, but this thing may not be good. "good" and "ear-catching" are mostly what the public thinks, and it is the most unreasonable to judge music by the public.

Classics, jazz, opera, ethnicity, opera and folk songs are all places where you compete in technology, ideas and culture accumulation.

For example, if you compare it with Chinese and Korean movies, the result can be said to be more intuitive. Now Chinese audiences are disliked when talking about Chinese movies, but are extremely envious of Korean movies. But when it comes to the construction of film culture, art and genre, China is actually better than South Korea.

Korean directors for the construction of film art are Kim Ki-deok , Bong Joon-ho , Park Chan-woo , Lee Cang-dong , Hong Sang-soo and other directors.

They also have a certain status in the world, but they are far behind Wong Kar-wai , Hu Jinquan , Taiwan Hou Hsiao-hsien , Yang Dechang, Ang Lee , mainland Zhang Yimou , Jia Zhangke , etc. They are all very high in the world movies, and even the same is true in the history of Asian movies.

The only one with the highest Asian movie history than China is Japan, and India is not good either.

But why do Chinese audiences crazily praise Korean movies? In fact, it is like pop music. The cultural and entertainment industry has reached its peak and can meet the audience's entertainment and consumption needs. Moreover, culture and art have never made money, and the real money is always pop culture.

and even in the gaming field, everyone can agree that "Zelda" is much more artistic than "Pokemon". The pop music industry is the least concerned about art in almost all entertainment fields. Now even Grammy , all-US, UK, BBMA and other awards are winning traffic. The Rolling Stone Top 500 and even many new century female singers can actually rank with kate bush and bjork. The ecological environment of

has led to the level of popular singers becoming worse and worse, and fans becoming more and more confident.

I have many idol awards, high achievements, and strong artistic sense. Why? Ask a question, because of music reviews, awards, and the Rolling Stones Top 500? Let me put it this way, if you do well in the field of pop music, it will not be much worse than serious music , especially the above mentioned serious music. Compared with those of the mainstream singers with high popularity on the market, the gap between those real artists may be a hundred times larger than you imagined.

So much means that Korean pop music is indeed quite popular, and even more popular than Japanese music, let alone Chinese music. But Korean pop music is a parasite that depends on American music. Except for young men and women, their bodies and skin are almost useless, and their language does not have much effect.

Learn from the Korean music scene, Japanese music scene or European and American music scene? Where is the Chinese music scene in the future?

I have listened to many Chinese and foreign music lovers. My own feeling is that Chinese music is indeed not as good as some countries at a certain cultural level. The "some countries" I am talking about here actually have many different styles of music that do not belong to the country. In addition to the country, there are ethnic groups, and some are even non-exclusive. Let's talk about it this way. There are gaps in China in this regard, and there are many reasons.

First, the history of industrial society is not long enough, and we have not even got rid of the hat of "development", which is incomparable to some Western countries that have developed very early. It will take a certain amount of time for us to comprehensively improve the cultural and artistic standards of the whole people.

. The second is that truly beautiful music often comes from small groups with many disasters, such as Celtic, Andes, Jewish, Greek, etc. It is actually very difficult to see folk music exclusive to Anglo-Saxon . For example, British folk songs are very distinctive except England, while American folk songs are only in English and have no unique Anglo-Saxon characteristics.

Similarly, Chinese folk songs also have regional and ethnic minority characteristics, but there is no such type as "Han folk song". If we insist on it, we think we call it folk songs and ethnic groups.

The best music is actually to be blunt, often stimulated by long-term disasters and failures. I want to expect our own music to be comparable to those foreign countries, or to catch up quickly, this comparison mentality does not consider this realistic factor - music is not economic.

We do not attach enough importance to education such as music and art, which is not practical enough, which is also one of the reasons.

Finally, if the Chinese music scene really needs to be learned in the future, from the perspective of cultural geography to the real development, what we should learn should still be the Japanese music scene, that is, to learn the Western music system, but we must build our own cultural theoretical system from top to bottom, from inside to outside, and finally form a new era of industrialized Chinese modern music.

With China's multi-population, multi-ethnicity, and multi-cultural, this can be done completely, otherwise what would Japan do?

In fact, we can see from the cultural transformation of the "Three Reforms of Literature and Art" period in New China. At that time, a large number of local music, opera, Peking Opera and other traditional music that were born in rural ethnic groups and folk songs. There were only a few music styles that were transformed after urbanization in Hong Kong and Taiwan, and half of the pop was popular still rely on Japan.

But the prosperity was more prosperous than that of South Korea at the beginning, and the music style was much more distinct. What else does Korean music have besides the body?

In the future, when Chinese society is urbanized, industrialized, and commercialized, it will definitely not be weak if it can be achieved in music. cannot regard cultural levels as thresholds. This is correct, but they were exactly what was related to cultural levels at that time.

We cannot learn from the Korean music industry, nor can we learn from the Hong Kong and Taiwan music industry in the past.

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