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We often instinctively refuse to participate in some group activities. For example, eating with someone you are very unfamiliar with. In those moments, we often feel that we are just a dispensable shadow, pretending to laugh in other people's laughter, pretending to be carnival in other people's carnival. We are a song on the B side of the cassette for this party. It will never be a main hit, nor will it be on the poster. It will be forgotten after the party. Such songs are not often mentioned, so they have nothing to do with most people's youth, memories, or even the pain of most people. They exist only because they stubbornly record a mood or situation of the creator at that time, from the beginning. , it is destined not to become a classic or representative work. While we are talking today, we listen to these voices to pass the boring time and think about things that are more boring than time. Perhaps, we can think of some people and things that are dusty in the corner, and then we wipe the dust off them. , continue to put those people and things back to their original positions, pretending that they have not touched anything.
In 1991, Youke Li Lin 's "Admit Your Wrong" album sold more than 1 million copies. A sultry man and an artistic man actually combined a fresh campus temperament and a rational urban wandering style. They are better than Xiaohu The team was more artistic, more mature than Red Boy, had better luck than the mortal duet, and was more in line with the taste of the audience at the time than the three Los Angeles brothers. There is a song in this album "Who Can Understand Someone's Loneliness", the lyrics are from Yao Qian, and the music is from Tong Ange.
Youke Li Lin's "Who Can Understand Whose Loneliness"
Good literary and artistic works are niche, or in other words, they are niche in the order of first understanding and last retention. In terms of content, the humanistic sentiments of literary and artistic works are more likely to be captured first by people with keen minds, and keen people are always in the minority. Formally speaking, literary and artistic temperament must always present a pretentious attitude in front of the public, otherwise there will be no such literary and artistic style. It is not difficult to be pretentious, but there are not many who can do it well.
However, it is difficult for us to accept a work that is too literary and artistic, because it is difficult for most people to maintain pretentiousness about themselves. Only they know the embarrassment of being pointed at their pain points, but they must not be easily discovered by others. Therefore, pop music retains popular expressions and is neither obscure nor concealed. More often than not, we are willing to accept this kind of thing because it is safe and will not make people sit on pins and needles or walk on thin ice. If you want to enjoy it, you can enjoy it, if you want to be romantic, you can give it as a gift, and of course if you want to awaken yourself, you can. In short, popularization will not make you uncomfortable, at least, it will not make your discomfort so obvious.
Wu Sikai The song "Don't Mention My Name Again" appeared in the 1990 album " Special Love for Special You ". It was written by Gao Ailun and composed by Wu Sikai. The title of this song is a very spineless and extremely useless word, but isn’t that what many emotions are like – full of power but extremely powerless.
Wu Sikai's "Don't Mention My Name Again"
In those days when you could buy physical records and singer albums, when record stores were all over the streets and you could make money, everyone had more or less something in their drawer. A few cassettes or CDs, it brings us the earliest direct sensory experience of pop music. It is a very mysterious thing to experience this thing. Some people say that when they listen to "Dream Back to the Tang Dynasty", they want to find someone to drink with. Some people say that they will cry when they turn off the lights at night and listen to Meng Tingwei . When they were young, these seemed to be reliable things. When you get older, if you continue to question the frivolous loyalty and frivolous gossip of your youth, even time will laugh at you. This is an era where winners take all and winners take all. Everyone is an opportunist. In many cases, one cannot succeed at all without success.However, experiencing this thing has nothing to do with success or failure. It has no right or wrong, success or failure. It is completely subjective and private. It is easy to realize and closer to the spiritual level. I feel that the success of a society and era is precisely about focusing on personal life experience, rather than pathologically encouraging so-called successful learning. Therefore, in such an era and society, literary young people and literary and art workers have a freer space for expression, and all kinds of Literary and artistic works can let a hundred flowers bloom and be rich and colorful. Sorry, was that the era and society I just talked about? Well, don’t worry about it, we can’t go back anyway, and even the end of the world is not reliable, so what else can we believe?
It is true that I believe in a little bit of luck. There is never any success without luck. Moreover, luck is everywhere, it can appear at any time, and everyone has equal opportunities, just like disease and death, they do not choose their targets. We have seen many people who work very hard, use a lot of effort, and do a lot of things, but they just lack that fatal blow, that crucial breath, and finally come back without success. However, who can say that a boxer doesn't know how to deliver a fatal punch to his opponent? Maybe, when he raised his arm, he was blinded by the flash of the camera. There is no such thing as an absolute fool, it's just bad luck.
Yuan Weiren is a very good music creator and producer. I don’t know if he is lucky or not, but most of the songs he writes for others are extremely popular. This mortal duet "500 Miles from Home" is included in the 1991 album "Dusk of the Cuckoo Bird", written by Feng Ziying and composed by Han Zhenghao.
Mortal Duo "500 Miles from Home"
If life was a tape, would you rather live on side A or side B? Actually, I don't know exactly what the difference is between the two sides. This metaphor is made because the tape is more like or closer to linear real life than mp3. It is difficult to choose before and after, and the cost of advance and retreat is high. It is more suitable for listening from beginning to end. Most people are usually in such a state. We can neither change the flow of time, nor make timely adjustments to the physical space calmly. We are dominated by material existences such as family, money, status, etc., as well as desires, vanity, luck, etc. Carrying the spiritual burden, we move forward slowly. We think that the future must be bright, and we deceive ourselves and others, working hard and wandering gracefully in one canyon after another. In fact, this is a cassette player without a rewind function. Whichever song you choose from side A or side B, you just have to wait for life to slowly play it out for you. At least that way, even the blank space before and after will be complete.
This is a rather pessimistic idea in my opinion, because such rhetoric denies the unpredictability of life and the subjective initiative of human beings. Therefore, the cassette-style life has been eliminated, and electronic technology has changed the life process. We do not have to follow the value cycle standard of reward for what we pay. On a piece of computer memory or a network page, the position and order of a song no longer matter. , being selected is more important. However, this change is not fundamental, but technical. It can always only stay at the operational level. The difference is that optimistic people regard technology-led life as their motto in life. They believe that man can conquer nature. The goal is to achieve the goal only if it cannot be achieved. , nothing unexpected.
At this point, I feel that I need to explain the problem more clearly, because the issue of lifestyle and principles of doing things is not something I can solve. To put it simply, putting aside the technical issues of "using skill", first of all, I appreciate a calm, comfortable, plain, peaceful attitude towards life. This attitude has nothing to do with a person's effort, because a person must first Only with attitude can you know how to work hard; secondly, I will not give up the practice of applying hard work to solve problems, but hard work is an act that should be respected. If a person's effort is not an act of recognition but an act of appreciation Art, that is the most pessimistic world.
Wu Bai is one of the least pessimistic rock singers in my opinion. There are many elements of romanticism in his creations. This song "Wings" was included in the 2001 "River of Dreams" album.
Wu Bai "Wings"
In 1993, Zhang Yusheng was at ease in creation. This song "Two Eternities" was included in the album " Fish Swimming All Day ". It was a duet between him and Tong Kong . The lyrics came from Qiong Yao and the composer Chen Fu Ming and Zheng Zhiming.
Zhang Yusheng and Tong Kong "Two Eternities"
In fact, this world is far more than just two lifestyles, A and B. We should not imagine our dreams too great, nor should we treat them too negatively, in so-called success. and failure, optimism and pessimism, reality and ideals, brilliance and mediocrity, there is still a long transition. Most people live in such a world that is neither black nor white, neither thick nor light, neither urgent nor slow, neither salty nor light. level, and this may just be the best position, it is more eternal than either extreme.
