Why Jolin Tsai has become the most successful music queen at the moment

(article/蘼迷猫) In the Chinese music scene where the public prefers lyrical songs, the music path of sing-and-jump female artists is not easy to follow. The aesthetics of dance music only stays at the brainwashing rhythm of moving and playing, and the focus of antiphonal dancers is often focused on the lace news and the appearance of people outside the music. Counting down the Chinese pop music circles in the past two decades, there are only a handful of female singers who have become famous by singing and dancing. The only ones who have a place in the music circle are the in the middle and late 1990s. Coco Lee and half of Zheng Xiuwen , Hsiao Yaxuan, Jolin Tsai, Wang Xinling from the four majors and three small schools in Taiwan, Lan Wen during the same period, and Li Yuchun, a single seedling from the mainland.

Among these female singers, Coco Lee and Sammi Cheng are in the most glorious period of the Chinese music recording era. Elva Hsiao and Jolin Tsai became popular in the new era of physical records and digital music in the early 21st century, Li Yuchun It is the darling of the age of talent show entertainment and digital music. And Li Yuchun debuted in 2005. After her, the self-produced singer-song singers in the Chinese-speaking world were in a serious state of disconnection, even if there were also from the talent show, Jiang Yingrong, Effie, as well as Song Qian, a Korean trainee who made her debut curve to save the country (the f(x) combination period is not counted), unfortunately failed to come up with a representative record or song. Starting from the year when Li Yuchun debuted, the Chinese female singer's vacuum period is 13 years. Among the singing and dancing female singers mentioned above, only , Jolin Tsai, and Li Yuchun are still in the front line in popularity and status.

As the master just said,The audience's aesthetic updates of female singers in antiphonal dances overlap rapidly, not to mention that Coco Lee and Elva Hsiao, once at the peak of Chinese music, even if you look at the Asian music scene and the world music scene, Britney, Janet Jackson, Jennifer Lopez, Namie Amuro, etc., who have been in the limelight for a while, have to face the embarrassing situation of the aesthetic update of the music world after their golden age. The new batch of pop music listeners will always prefer the youth and invincibility. Young florets, even if Madonna has not fallen from the golden gun for more than 30 years, they still have to be called "grandma" by the younger generations half jokingly. Looking back at the Chinese music scene, , a female singer like Jolin Tsai, who was not very qualified when she debuted, has been able to continue to advance in the stormy waves of the Chinese music scene for 20 years, and has been firmly in the front line of popularity in the continuous upgrading of skills. Now I look back. It must be said to be a miracle.

A few days ago, I happened to watch Jolin Tsai’s two recent concerts "PLAY Tour" and "Myself World Tour" on Tencent Video. I was deeply impressed by the arrangement of the concert. The beauty of the stage, the concept and the design are all top levels of the Chinese music scene. Obviously, Jolin Tsai of today is no different from the little queen who wore a blue sling and danced on the stage ten years ago.

The main habit is to divide Jolin Tsai’s career into three stages. When he debuted, he was packaged by the record company as a sweet and greasy boy killer; under the image of Jay Chou A pop dancer who entered the room with the "seventy-two changes" of the genre; opened up the second line of the governor, and returned to "Myself", a pioneer in the music industry who has the courage to break through and lead the trend.

first stage,Jolin Tsai can be said to be a Barbie doll collected by a record company. It is pure, cute and pollution-free. It is Linlin’s "most beautiful look". It has successfully attracted a large number of young fans and otaku masses (such as the hero’s steel straight man) Leadership), after her, Wang Xinling and Guo Shuyao, etc. are all made according to this routine.

The second stage from "Look at Me's Seventy-two Changes" is the key period for Jolin Tsai to establish her singing career. The Asian music scene absorbed the most popular genres at the time, the most popular elements, and the most fashionable dresses, coupled with performances and packaging gimmicks outside of music, successfully pushing itself into the position of the fashion queen. Lin Lin at this stage is in a period of constant exploration and experimentation. With the creation and encouragement of record companies, Lin Lin has collected all types of resources. Although he has cooperated with a large number of popular domestic creators, The works that come out are often mixed, and gimmicks outside of music are often overwhelming. With the endless lace news, she has become a controversial figure on the cusp.

Fortunately, Lin Lin has produced a high-quality "Dance Girl" album, which has pushed her reputation in the professional field to a higher level; and has maintained at least 1 every year The excellent record of the hit single has stabilized the national mass foundation of his singing career. After "The Dancer", Jolin Tsai is actually facing another bottleneck period in his personal career after the first stage of transformation. The " agent J " that follows is fancy, but it is obviously tired in music. At this stage, the last album " Flower Butterfly" is almost lackluster, and the music level and image positioning are almost at the bottom of this stage.It can be said that the next album after "Butterfly" is very important. At this time, Lin Lin is obviously not lacking in popularity. How does get rid of the lack of high-end music grades from passers-by, entertainment gimmicks greater than the essence of singing, and the younger audience of fans? The inherent impression is that she urgently needs to solve the problem. Lin Lin’s second stage is undoubtedly the stage where she has the most popular, hottest topics, and the most hits. There are a lot of content worthy of digging deep, and space is limited, so I will have the opportunity to talk about it later.

Compared to the second stage of the popular debate, Jolin Tsai’s music from "Myself" has truly reached a higher level. Just like someone said, Lin Lin’s last song The national song still stays in " the sun never sets" N years ago, In the third stage, Jolin Tsai’s music is sifted through fans. She is no longer satisfied with simply making a popular hit, but Try my best to build myself from music to image in a more international direction.

The first obvious change is the upgrade of song taste and production level. Although Jolin Tsai had already started to sing foreign songs in the second stage, "Flower Butterfly" even paid a lot of money to buy songs from abroad, but compared to the suliao sister Miss Xiao Yaxuan, Lin Lin’s music style is basically the same as that of Chinese pop music at the time. Synchronous. In 2010, when "Myself" was born, the world pop music scene is experiencing the electronic music trend set off by Lady Gaga, Britney Spears and The Black Eyes Peas. The result of later development is to promote the EDM form of music from the European dance floor to In a global perspective.

As the singer with the sharpest sense of smell in the dance trend of the Chinese music scene,As early as the "1087" period, Elva Hsiao gradually shifted the style of music to the electronic dance music . However, starting from "Three Faces of Eve", Elva's taste in collecting songs was like a roller coaster, even if it was eaten earlier. The one from Crab, but the final product was also lost in the audience's complaints about the fillers in the album and the gossip about her new boyfriend. Of course, maybe Elva at this time has already focused on dating with the little fresh meats, and publishing records is just a sideline for the daily shouting of wheat.

Faced with the absent-mindedness of competitors, after the expiration of the contract with the old record company, Lin Lin, who has a strong need for transformation, obviously realizes that electronic dance music is a great opportunity for him. After the immature test of "Flower Butterfly", the two albums "Myself" and "Muse" carefully integrated the resources and tracks. The two albums contain a large number of stylish and sophisticated, well-made European electronic dance music, Nu-disco, The internationally popular electronic music styles such as Trance, Techno, Progressive House, etc. have all been collected by Lin Lin as a package; and the introduction of EDM Trap in "Bah" shows her fashion forward-looking. Obviously, At this time, Jolin Tsai has transformed from the "female version of Jay Chou" in the period of "Look at Me's Seventy-two Changes", and has become the leading female protagonist who has taken the vanguard of the Chinese music scene.

And In the choice of lyric songs, Jolin Tsai also broke through the second stage of Xiaoqing Xiaoai and Taiwan Guava girls pattern , she was looking for cooperation with Chen Qizhen , Chen Huiting, Wu Qingfeng, Xu Zhepei, Cai Jianya, Wei Li'an are highly compelling singers and composers who are widely respected by young artists.The fact is that since "Muse", Jolin Tsai did not have a lyrical song with a simple and easy melody like the previous "Sky" and " rewind". Lin Lin gradually shifted his focus to atmosphere creation in the production of slow songs. The most typical ones are " the third person " and "Linyu", ah no, "Lip Language". uses electronic dance music to ride the international trend and lyrically captures the public's reputation with literary lyricism. Lin Lin's combination of Wang Zhan directly makes her the music leader of Taiwan's "Four Big and Three Little".

In addition, I would like to mention here a few of Lin Lin’s title songs at this stage separately. I don’t know if my friends have noticed it, except for the electronic music mentioned at the beginning. Elements, Jolin Tsai’s debut singles of the four recent albums " beauty ", "big artist", "Play My Pooh" and "Weird Beauty" all adopt the Rap & Sung model. If the protagonist says that Jolin Tsai is the most successful female rapper in the Chinese music world, many people will definitely sneer (Of course, this identity is just a supporting role in Linlin’s artistic personality, and her own business ability is not an essential part. rapper). But you have to admit that Jolin Tsai is the one with the most popular songs and the widest audience among all Chinese female singers with rap elements.

Now let’s listen to her magical "On the Street" when she debuted. The rough, casual and fierce Cardi B is simply the flow of the millennium. What is more interesting is that the genre of this song is the New Jack Swing in the early 1990s in Europe and America. If Lin Lin made his debut as a rapper and entered SHE at that time,Maybe it will be Left Eye in the Chinese-speaking area. And in the second stage of Lin Lin, the first "Look at My Seventy-two Changes" contributed to two very important Rap & Sung songs " Prague Square" and "Chivalry" . These two works of high artistic level and the two songs' producer Jay Chou's "Nunchakus", " in the name of my father" and "Dad and I'm Back" and have greatly affected the post-85s and post-90s generations at the same time. The aesthetic orientation of popular music has laid a solid foundation for the popularity of hip hop music in the Chinese music scene in the future. It is precisely with the above-mentioned foreshadowing that Lin Lin, who has the third stage, can integrate the rap elements into her own songs, and become her unique music signature.

The second significant change is Lin Lin’s ingenuity of the album concept . Different from the second stage, which often uses the main character set as the album title and selling point (agent J, dancer, butterfly), the three albums starting from "Myself" all have a very clear music concept or content concept as support ; The order of songs is no longer as disorderly as most popular albums on the market, but more and more attention is paid to the overall and logical design of the album.

Take "Myself" as an example, which has been seriously underestimated. The album uses five intros (interlude) to connect the upper and lower tracks. The transition between songs is natural, and the first half is almost unstop dance. Sorting, in the process of listening, it seems to follow Lin Lin to tour the European dance floor at night. "Myself" was one of the few dance music concept albums that could barely be called a complete dance music in the mainstream Chinese music scene at the time, although the insertion of several lyrical songs in the second half of the album made the album structure a little loose.It is not easy. When it came to "MUSE", Lin Lin was even more straightforward, and simply divided the album into two. The first half is a European-style electronic dance music, and the second half is a lyrical sketch of literary and artistic temperament, using two completely separated styles. To define the MUSE aesthetics in her mind.

"Bah" and "Ugly Beauty" did not continue the rigorous ordering of the first two, but this album that Lin Lin relies on has upgraded the album's theme concept to a higher level. At a high level, the laughter and scolding of current social phenomena in the song is comprehensively summarized by a capitalized "Bah" in the title, If Lin Lin in the second stage is selling people; "Myself" and "MUSE" are selling concepts; So "Bah" and "Ugly Beauty" are all selling three views. Compared with most Chinese dance music, the strength of "Bah" and "Ugly Beauty" is that it breaks through the limitations of the same type of songs in the subject matter , which is why these two albums are subject to professional fields The wide affirmation of "Best Album of the Year" was an important determinant of winning the Golden Melody Award that year.

The third change is Lin Lin's all-round reinvention of audiovisual works and artistic images. Compared with the shampoo girl look who "street on the street" in the first stage; and the ever-changing and unruly role-playing in the second stage; the in the third stage Lin Lin's taste in style selection is gradually on the right track , this The European court style of the Renaissance style in the "MUSE" period is the peak, and it is also fully reflected in her MV and concert styles during that period: for example, the cat-eared elves in candy-colored clothes in "Dr. Jolin", "Psychedelic "" in "Myself World Tour", a girl with pink hair and a sexy blonde bra, a red-robed pole dancer with a sense of technology and a sense of ghost in the opening of "Myself World Tour",And the noble and elegant European princess look in the "PLAY Tour". Strong8strong Jolin’s taste upgrade is not only on the music alone, but the accompanying artistic image transformation also allows her to completely get rid of the situation of being ridiculed by fashion bloggers in the early days. It can be said that Linlin’s appearance in the album after 2010 has almost become A benchmark for female singers in the Chinese music scene.

and the two tours she held at this stage "Myself World Tour" and "PLAY" in each chapter of the tour are more selected The concept setting is ingenious. For example, the former focuses on electronic dance music, lyrical songs and girlish fast-paced songs in different chapters; the latter’s performance themes range from the queen of fashion, exoticism to aristocratic singers, retro toy towns, etc. There are constant highlights, and almost every song has different performance gimmicks that make people eye-catching. Regardless of the stage layout, the choreography, the costume modeling, and the theme concept, it is basically comparable to many international concerts.

The last thing I want to talk about is Lin Lin’s entertaining spirit to embrace the black powder culture. Many knights are actually unwilling to accept that their idols are ridiculed by various blacks on the Internet, but you have to admit that many passers-by only pay attention to Jolin Tsai’s music and performances from the beginning of "Lin Culture." The spirit of entertaining to death in the Internet age has caused Lin Lin’s exaggerated leaping waves and funny leaning quotations to spread virally in various emoticons and Internet language. The "leaching culture" is the most typical of deconstructionism in the Internet age. ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? One of the subculture communication cases in China. Later, various celebrities’ spoof love packages,As well as the widely spread famous celebrities such as Marger and Fitzgerald, they can be said to be a derivation of "Lin culture" to some extent. The sunspots may not have dreamed that their discrediting of Lin Lin at the beginning had advertised her for free, which became Lin Lin's most widely spread propaganda, which instead contributed to her popularity among the passers-by.

More importantly, as as the party concerned, Lin Lin himself also turned a blind eye to this kind of personally aggressive cyber culture, only revealed in the interview. Little clues "please be enough but thick". herself often posts some self-defeating beautiful pictures on Weibo and Instagram, providing black fans with fresh materials from various sources, and also trying to provoke cry.

Through the changes mentioned above, Jolin Tsai’s fan audience is also gradually changing. She is no longer the boy killer who attracted student groups during her debut, but has gradually become The queen of trends surrounded by comrades. It is well known that gay groups are the most steadfast fans of dance music and diva all over the world, but it is also their sensitivity to popular touch and criticalness to music quality that also reflects the level of singers that can be supported by this group. Just like Lin Lin said at the concert, "It's quite difficult to please those sisters."

Obviously, Jolin Tsai before "The Dancer" is not in this ranks. At the same time, the most fashionable and fashionable female singer in Chinese music and costume style is Xiao Yaxuan; even through unremitting efforts, During the period between "Dance Girl" and "Myself", Lin Lin's dance style and lyrics are often used as post-dinner jokes by comrades, such as the most classic "Di Cai Lan Sling" stem, at this time Although Elva Hsiao is already absent-minded about the music career,But still relying on his substantial capital accumulation and instinctive fashion sense to rank first among the comrades’ favorite diva among the “four big and three small”; unexpectedly, “everyone is 13 years old in front of love”, Xiao Yaxuan, who was trapped by love in the later period It can be said that it has left the country behind and never returned to the direction of the evolution of Sister Ya. However, Lin Lin has gradually overcome the barriers of the gay community through more and more essential music works and fashion styles, so that the sisters With a blingbling "dance girl" heart, people have finally successfully won the throne of a new generation of gay queens.

Of course, our Lin Lin has always expressed her support for 9LGBT in public, except for her support for 9LGstrong. In her songs, she called on all walks of life to look at homosexuality with ordinary eyes; and the views she often expressed in her songs of not fearing the outside world and being brave to be yourself encouraged the gay community to walk along the way. Who is gay? Will hum the two sentences "Love is love, wrong is wrong, facing the true self", "Why should passers-by speak annoying", "Go Go Lover, Go Go Sister, love is the same, the world is the attack"?

It’s really hard to be a dancing singer. The three words Jolin Tsai have a lot of controversy. Since my debut, different titles have been given to me. There are as many people who like me as people who hate me. This point, I It’s very clear. Therefore, I trained myself to shut down all bad sounds. What I am proud of is that my own willpower is very strong, and I am also very happy. Through the performance, I let My body knows how to express on the stage. But there are still people who think that the gymnast won the award when I won the Golden Melody Award... At that moment, I really had no self-confidence in myself..."

"I never take me too negative things, because I think my responsibility is to bring joy to everyone. But I am proud to share, I have Leave that unconfident self behind. No matter what the outside world thinks of me, I still have to sing my songs and dance my dance. Every time I see the lyrics of "I", I will warn myself, Don't get lost on the stage, because the feeling like anesthetics is that when you are very hard working on the stage, others will wake you up. When I care too much about those sounds, I will not I know what happiness is, I forgot to share it, what I want, and what I am. But when I cross this level, I am willing to put myself on the stage to share with everyone."

Looking at Jolin Tsai’s entire career,It can definitely be made into an inspirational movie. Just like the title of her concert "Myself", Jolin Tsai has been struggling in the Chinese music scene for the past two decades . She is not like the talented singers of the same generation as Stefanie Sun and Xiao Yaxuan who debuted at the same time, she enjoys the praise of fans and music critics as soon as she debuts. Strong8strong has a long period of time. The name Jolin Tsai is almost the same as " Controversy. She has been lost, has had troughs, has experienced the ridicule and disdain of black fans, has experienced the criticism and suspicion of the critics, , but in the end she chose to obey her inner self, falling and climbing in the constant struggle Get up, with his amazing perseverance and strong psychological endurance, through repeated attempts and breakthroughs, he constantly upgrades his buff, and finally completes the evolution from bronze to king. Compared with the harem dramas that are intriguing with the sisters on the screen, this is the real history of the heroine's struggle and counterattack. What can be more real and inspirational than this?

In the process of watching these two concerts, the lord always involuntarily thinks of Jolin Tsai’s idol Madonna, and the lord can clearly see the detailed settings and arrangement of the concert. In the above, Lin Lin has learned from the previous successful experience of idols; but more importantly, has completely surpassed the strong, confident, sexy and beautiful contemporary female image she displayed on the stage, as well as the spirit of the times to constantly challenge herself and move forward. Pure singer status, is undoubtedly in the same line as Madonna. With the gradual fullness of her artistic personality over the years, What we see in Jolin Tsai is more of a symbol with a clear intention. She represents the bravery of not fearing the eyes of others, and the hard work of continuous hard work and progress. The perseverance that crosses one's own limits represents the courage to break through one's self, and it also represents the innocent heart that is loyal to Myself.

Finally, I wish Lin Lin make the most beautiful cake in the world, and have his own whole universe cake chain as soon as possible.

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