Some people say that compared to the "King of Music" we have not seen the word "Queen of Music" for a long time.
There was even a question on a certain question: "Have there been Diva-level female singers in China so far?"
This makes people want to ask questions: Are female singers in the Chinese music scene really silent?
The answer is of course no.
According to the fourth quarter financial report of 2020 released by Tencent Music Entertainment Group (TME) on March 23, as of the end of 2020, through the continuous promotion of content diversity and equal opportunities, nearly 40% of female original musicians who have settled in the platform have accounted for. The data of
certainly does not indicate that the next queen-level singer will be born, but it is enough to prove that female musicians are occupying a new explosion point.
This also reminds us not to forget that since the birth of Chinese pop music, female singers have always been very cool.
1. In every era, there are female singers who have amazed a generation of people
. In the history of Chinese pop music, the most special female singer is undoubtedly Teresa Teng .
She is one of the top ten most popular female singers in the world selected by Time magazine. It can be said that wherever there are Chinese people in the world, there are her songs.
In 1953, Teresa Teng was born in Dapi Township, Yunlin County, Taiwan Province. She has four brothers and sisters. Her father is a retired officer who makes a living by riding a bicycle to sell big cakes. The family lives in poverty. She debuted at the age of 15 and took on the responsibility of supporting her family. Who would have thought that after taking this step, it became a century-old legend in the music industry.
In the thirty years of the music industry, she has created a graceful and beautiful, faint and emotional singing aesthetic, interpreting countless classics. For example, "Sweet Honey", "Story of Small Town", "Going to the West Tower alone", "Hidden smoke from again ", etc.
html In the late 370s, her songs became quietly popular in coastal areas by ripping tapes, and then expanded to the entire continent. Jia Zhangke's "Stand Up", Wang Xiaoshuai's "Qinghong" and Feng Xiaogang's "Youth" all restore the scenes of young people listening to Teresa Teng at that time.
Before the reform spring breeze is coming, it happened that the tender singing of this female singer has awakened the hearts of a generation of young people who have been frozen for a long time and become the most special symbol of the times.
The " Listen to Lao Deng during the day and secretly listen to Xiao Deng at night" after the era of "hundred and Deng at night", the unprecedented open cultural environment in the mid-to-late 1980s gave the Chinese people more choices.
The first group of Hong Kong and Taiwan female singers who became popular in the mainland impacted the stereotype of "women should be beautiful and sweet" and presented a diverse style and a powerful personality.
For example, the songs are beautiful and avant-garde, the stage is gorgeous and bold, and the style is ever-changing, and the "changing queen" Anita Mui .
Culture research scholar Li Zhanpeng once commented on the look of this "big sister in the music industry": "In the past, most of the actresses who appeared in the media were gentle, pleasing to the eye, and not aggressive, but Anita Mui's image is different from them. She doesn't want to be just a pleasing woman, but turns around and resists the male staring at women, which makes many people feel very uneasy."
Another example is that once refused to sing "smelling in a coquettish" work, and has become popular on both sides of the Taiwan Strait and the three places with free and elegant works such as " Walking back to ", and has challenged the traditional Lin Yilian with a short hair image; Chen Shuhua , which set the first album record in Taiwan's music history, sales volume exceeding one million; Zhen Ni, who is called "the giant lung of the music scene" by Huang Zheng ; Su Rui , which is known as the "milestone" in the Chinese music scene; Cai Qin, known as the "Velvet Queen"; Chen Huixian, who became famous in the entire Chinese-speaking world with "Thousands of Songs"; Sammi Cheng, the "Most Successful Model for Singing" and so on.
Their voices also record the era of people pursuing self-liberation, daring to love and hate.
At the same time, mainland pop music also began in the mid-to-late 1980s Starting. The mainstream stage has emerged from the new era singers represented by Mao Amin . Female singers are also leading the two most important trends among them.
At the end of 1984, the 17-year-old Beijing girl Zhang Qiang released her first cover album "Tokyo Night", which opened her journey to "Queen of Disco". From 1985 to 1987, she released more than 20 albums , every album can sell millions of copies.
In that era of national disco dancing where "there are people dancing as long as there is an empty space", from cities to towns, Zhang Qiang's "electronic music" flows in every recorder, stinging and releasing the uninhibited energy of youth. According to her senior and old fans, "When I heard Zhang Qiang sing, it was like an electric shock, from the back of my head to the heels, it was so fucking satisfying. "
987, " Xintianyou " sung by Cheng Lin started the popularity of "northwest wind". Since then, Fan Linlin, Hang Tianqi , and Li Na have all sung "Loess High Slope", Na Ying "Mountain Gully", Wei Wei "Wishes", and Tian Zhen "My Hometown of Love" have swept across the country.
In the early 2000s, women also appeared in the rock craze in the mainland.
In January 1990, China's first rock band "Cobra", with its first all-women lineup, performed in Chengdu, becoming the representative of Chinese women's pursuit of avant-garde culture. Luo Qi in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, became the lead singer of the Compass Band, and won the title of "China's No. 1 Rock Female Voice" with works such as "Back" and "Will You Want".
Cobra Band
Compass Band
In the field of pop music, Tian Zhen and Na Ying, who had previously become famous in the "Northwest Wind" craze, became popular with "Peace" by Sun Yue, also continued to break through themselves in the 1990s and formed their own unique styles.
Sun Yue completed a strong transformation in the 1990s
, and their musical history is also women with distinct personalities, from following the trend to finding themselves.
, who just debuted, imitated Teresa Teng and Su Rui to sing lyrical love songs. Until the late 1980s, " In the Last Moment, she made the hoarse and steady voice for the first time, knowing what only Tian Zhen can sing, and setting off a path of her own and distinctive style. After falling into silence in the early 1990s, she set the highest sales of domestic genuine records in 1996 with the album "Tian Zhen", among which Xu Wei's "Persistence" and "Wild Flowers" written by herself were very popular.
in youth
music, Tian Zhen is also a person who is clearly in black and white, dares to love and hate. In 2001, at the "China Popular Songs List" award ceremony, she threw her microphone and left angrily, protesting against the shady scenes. In 2003, when the Football Association selected " Storm Rainbow Rose " as the theme song of the World Cup, she said, "What money do we want? Brother. It's a matter of hello."
When Na Ying was not famous in the 1980s, she had no choice, and even had a pseudonym Su Bing and Su Ran to cover Su Rui's songs. After finally making her debut with "The Mountain Valley", she refused to become a mainstream "game singer", but instead chose to enter the fiercely competitive Hong Kong and Taiwan market.
The road is full of ups and downs. In 1993, Na Ying signed a contract with Taiwan Fumao Records in China and released her first Mandarin album "Thinking for You Day and Day" the next year, but this gentle and gentle record received mediocre response. Until 1995, In her second album "Day and Don't Understand the Darkness of the Night", she changed her tender song style and swept the radio rankings of various places with her full emotional catharsis, thus laying the foundation for the "Love Song Queen".
Although time has passed for more than 20 years, there are some things left to those who have been baptized by the great times. Na Ying, who was alone in the two sides of the Taiwan Strait and three places, is still generous and righteous, and has not changed her true nature.
Just ask the domestic entertainment industry today, when it is full of hypocritical characters, who dares to "roar" like Na Sister:
5When it comes to evergreen trees in the music industry that grew up in the 1990s, how can we not mention Fai Wong .
1998 Spring Festival Gala, Na Ying and Faye Wong sang "Meeting 1998"
The people who were "war of the gods" in the Chinese music industry with Faye Wong, now most of them are either lonely or have already fallen. Few people are like her, who have not updated their Weibo for six years and can still occupy the center of the public's topic.
Fai Wong is very lucky. At the age of 15, she encountered a god-given opportunity- —A record company in Beijing wants to release a cover record of Teresa Teng and fell in love with her. After repeated struggles, Faye Wong agreed with her father's support, which gave her the first album in her life: "Handle Where does the wind come from ". No one expected that this introverted but extremely personalized Beijing Dami would become a queen-level star in the music scenes of the Taiwan Strait and the three places and even in Asia in many years.
Girls' Generation Faye Wong and "Handle 's Wind Come from
In 1987, Faye Wong gave up the admission qualification of the Department of Biology at Xiamen University and moved to Hong Kong with her father, and made his official debut two years later. Since her debut, her personal style has been extremely strong. "Fantasy", "Fantasy Thoughts", "Sky", " Singing and Traveling ", "eyes on me", "Love"... Over the past thirty years, there have been continuous works, and various awards and reputations have also been continuous.
In other Asian countries, Faye Wong has also left behind a story that has been talked about.
In March 1999, the two consecutive "FayeWong Japan-Tokyo" concert kicked off at the Tokyo Budokan, Japan. The venue that can accommodate 10,000 fans was full. The guest seats below were also star-studded. The first game came Kimura Takuya and Sakai Dako, and the second game came Takeno Uchi Toshi and Leslie Cheung . During this period, Kashiwahara Tsuka was like a fanatical request for autograph from Faye Wong.
Faye Wong is the most shining star in the "millennial music phenomenon", but in the starry sky where she is, she is definitely not shining alone.
From the late 1990s to the beginning of this century, it was the last golden years of the record industry. Many Chinese female singers and groups, such as A-mei Zhang , Stefanie Sun , Joey Yung , Xu Meijing , Karen Mok , Chen Lin , Elva Hsiao , Kelly Chen , Jolin Tsai, Coco Lee , Angela Chang , Tanya, Fan Weiqi , Jingru Liang , Zhou Hui , Ye Bei, Wang Xinling , S·H·E, Twins, etc., have left common memories for more than one generation.
The musical path of these female singers presents a more diverse posture.
For example, S.H.E, who debuted in 2001, is an irreplaceable "first girl group" in the minds of post-80s and 90s.The three people have different personalities and appearances. They tell each girl as an idol that there is more than one standard for beauty.
They hit the hearts of boys and girls with a song "Lovers Not Full". Every summer after 2004 belongs to S·H·E. "Super Star" could be heard everywhere in the streets and alleys at that time. When I was squatting the road with my peers, I hummed a melody from "Persian Cat" and "Semi-Sugarism" casually, and someone could follow it.
In 2018, the three of them wore the singing uniforms when they debuted and sang "Seventeen" - it was seventeen years since they debuted.
Nowadays, Hebe is still active in the music scene, but she only uses her real name Tian Fuzhen. She sang many songs, but she still can't overshadow the halo of the team era; Ella is still lively and cheerful, she takes on variety shows and hosts, keeps losing, and keeps standing up, and finally achieves the right result; Selina has experienced the phoenix nirvana, and a fire restarts her life. After a few years, she is still the proud and strong girl.
is also like Jolin Tsai. Some people think that she became popular for "perfectly executing the character set by the record company for her." But since her debut, she has been surrounded by controversy. From the earliest "36 Schemes of Love", to the later "Spy J", which was called "the end of the trick", and the later "Pah" of "let yourself go"... some people love her, some people dislike her. These people who like her and don’t like her “union” and even gave birth to a new language - lyrics.
But in the mixed reputation, despite the ups and downs of Jolin Tsai over the years, she still adheres to a state of balance between "cameracy" and "self", just like her self-management for ten years. There is a lyrics in her 2018 " Strange Beauty ", "What standard is rushing to determine the survival of the fittest ". This is a mockery of aesthetic stereotypes, and undoubtedly a Jolin Tsai-like soberness-no matter what you say about me, I am me.
What we cannot forget is " Super Girl ", which has dominated the TV since the summer of 2004. It started a carnival of "national talent show" and distributed the power of "debut" to every ordinary girl for the first time.
And the super girl in 2005 was even more a fight between gods. In addition to the Li Yuchun , which became famous in Time magazine, there are also Bichang , Zhang Liangying , He Jie , Huang Yali and others, who are still active in the music scene today.
Gao Xiaosong said: That year, all record companies in Beijing were holding banners to welcome Li Yuchun
Among them, Li Yuchun's debut from Super Girl to the present, every step has caused phenomenal heated discussion. Before Li Yuchun, there was no idol in the Chinese music scene who had a "neutral style". Her appearance subverted the traditional concept of the public. After her, it is difficult for artists of the same type to be better.
"It turns out that a female singer can still do this." This is what most people knew about Li Yuchun at that time.
has been in the industry for 16 years, and Li Yuchun has maintained his own pace every step. Li Yuchun is Li Yuchun, just like she said: "The most beautiful moment for women is an undefined moment."
2. Looking forward to the next era of blooming flowers
There are talented people in the country, and they all lead the way for hundreds of years. The female singers in the Chinese music scene in the past lived up to their times. And now, the times are calling for the emergence of a new generation of female singers.
In recent years, female singers who are active in the Chinese music scene, such as Deng Ziqi , Chen Li , Yuan Yawei , Dou Jingtong , Jike Junyi , Wu Mochou , Zhang Bichen , Xu Jiaying, etc., have brought more personalized music styles and more gorgeous colors to the music scene.In the rap field, which has been dominated by men for a long time, female rappers such as Wannida , VAVA, Yang Laosan, Naiwan, Chen Zitong , Lows0n, etc. have emerged in recent years. In the field of rock, there are also female musicians such as Hedgehog's Shi Lu, Liu Min who reshapes the statue's power, Chen Sijiang of Haipengsen, Mercadel's Gate Chess and other female musicians.
Chen Sijiang
Mercadel Band
No matter which field of female singers, the most important change in their expression is to begin to express their attention and thinking about themselves and reality from a female perspective.
At the end of 2020, Tan Weiwei released the new album "3811". Eleven songs with different styles were named after eleven women, paying tribute to eleven different women. Among them are "Wu Chunfang" who drives a taxi alone to support his family, "Yu Xuanji" who is crazy about love, and the elderly illiterate who belongs to a vulnerable group in society, "Zhao Guiling" who is left behind by the mobile Internet era, and victims of domestic violence with the pseudonym "Xiaojuan".
Tan Weiwei sang "Xiaojuan" at TME live "3811 Online Concert"
. The most popular among them, "Xiaojuan", is not only Tan Weiwei's singing skills, but also countless women hidden behind the singing and are destroyed in social news.
is also like on the stage of " Rap New Generation " in 2020, Yu Zhen , who was still working in Beijing at the time, sang a song "She and Her and Her".
Appearance anxiety, marriage and love pressure, workplace discrimination... Yu Zhen used the perspective of three girls to express the real troubles of being a woman, and also expressed their demands - a world without gaze, and air that can be breathed freely.
various sound and true expressions, as well as the awakening of female consciousness behind it, are still proof that female musicians are working hard to lead the times.
The classics left by female singers in the record era are certainly worthy of our relive and nostalgia. But the expressions of female singers in this era are also wonderful. But now the Cyber Ocean is really surging, and often makes those voices that we would have fallen in love with us missed.
You can hear Zhang Qianqian, who has returned again after twenty years, singing with a still angular singing style, "I want to be a rose against the wind, life is constantly flying upwards."
You can see Song Daiting, who has started writing songs since he was 12 years old and is still pursuing his dreams, wrote "Dangerous Forest Survival Method", we will never surrender, Gang Gang You have to be head-on! "
Folk singer Lin Bang received the recommendation of "Le Ren Zhi"
You can hear Lin Bang, a folk singer born in the 1990s, sings the firewood, rice, oil and salt in her life in the album "Xiao Ma", and also asks the commotion in her heart: "Xiao Ma writes other people's stories, and Xiao Ma is diligent and down-to-earth. Xiao Ma also has his own days, but who will write Xiao Ma's stories? "
Instead of indulging in the glory of the past, asking "When will there be another queen?", we might as well listen to the sincere singing of women in this era with our hearts. A broader music world will definitely meet you in these sounds.
Don't easily say that the music is dead because they have been singing with their hearts.
