Author \ Mu Mengjia
"When you are old, looking back on your life, you will find that when you go abroad to study, when you decide to do your first career, when you choose a partner to fall in love, and when you get married are actually huge changes in your destiny. But when you stand at the intersection of the three roads, you see the wind and clouds. The day you made your choice was quite dull and ordinary in your diary. At that time, I thought it was an ordinary day in my life."
Recently, I saw this passage in "The Girl Who Killed Quails" online, which made me feel a lot and a little sudden.
Just like the story of lyricist Xu Changde I read recently, maybe on the day when he resolutely quit his stable job and decided to find another way out, he also felt that it was a very ordinary day, but when he became famous now, when he recalled it, he realized that fate had undergone a drastic change at that time.
In "Music Legend" in 2012, there is a video of him interviewing him. I wanted to know him, because he was a poet at first. As the video progresses little by little, I realized that he is very well-known in the Chinese music scene and is a senior music producer.
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His name is Xu Changde, The lyricist behind those familiar songs
Speaking of Xu Changde, you may not have heard of it, but the lyrics he wrote hand-written is enough to stir our era.
Regarding Xu Changde, I want to borrow the passage from "Music Legend" to introduce him:
He can write popular love songs like " Who Loves Me and Who I Love " and young works like "Health Song"; he can write the bitterness of a girl in "Sea of Tears" and the helplessness of a man in " Past with the Wind "; he can not only write the best-selling golden songs in the face of the market, but also penetrate his insights into life in songs such as "I am an Autumn Tree" and "Back View".
It turns out that the lyrics in these songs that we are familiar with all come from this lyricist called Xu Changde.
When he was on Baidu, you will definitely be shocked. His lyrics have more than 1,200 songs, and almost all of the singers we collaborate with are the first-line singers we are familiar with, Harlem Yu , Qi Qin , Faye Wong , Nicholas Tse ...numbers.
Facing his current achievements, he smiled like a person who has experienced it, saying, "Actually, the process of opening up the territory is the same, and there is no building that suddenly rises up. This process, brewing, failing, starting over, success, success again, and success again, and then you will find that success is not the meaning you think. This process is very interesting."
And he also has his own unique insights into the entertainment industry, the fame and fortune world.
He can say without any evasion: "In fact, it is impossible to be good friends with artists." So Xu Changde rarely goes out alone with them.
will also occasionally discuss life. He said he likes the song "I am an autumn tree" he wrote.
"I am an autumn tree, guarding the small territory quietly. I never envy the prosperity in front of me, because the most beautiful thing is in my heart not far away."
He also generously shares the story behind the scenes with the artists with the audience, and said, "Most artists hate him very much."
Hearing this, people can't help but wonder, why is this? What did Xu Changde do?
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A life that is not following the rules has created a legendary
Xu Changde's life, which in my opinion is a very legendary life.
He has been fond of literature since he was a child and has a beautiful writing style. In order to enhance his writing ability, he also specially participated in prose classes, novel classes, etc. As for why he embarked on the road of writing lyrics, I thought he must say boldly, "Of course it's for dreams." But he smiled and said, "It's entirely for making money."
Xu Changde said that when he was a child, he had to ask his mother for breakfast money from his two younger brothers the next day every night. His mother loved to play mahjong. Whenever this happened, his mother would ask him to help him draw a card. It was this card that determines whether he and his two younger brothers would have the fate of having breakfast tomorrow.
The biggest impression the family gave him was financial pressure.
Originally, he was born in Taiwan and had a poor family. He worked part-time and studied half-time in high school. He was self-reliant. He graduated from the university editorial and editing department. He worked as an editor in a publishing house. After work, he had to help his family pay off their debts and his salary was not enough.
This kind of life sounds really miserable and is considered a standard grassroots configuration.
Considering the future development, he thought of many ways to make money by writing.
1. Write poetry.
2. Write prose.
3. Write a novel.
But after thinking about it, I felt that writing poetry can’t make much money. Many people are writing prose, and as for novels, he thought what if he wrote a lot of words but couldn’t make money if he didn’t write well? The
method was rejected one by one. Later, I felt that writing lyrics was relatively easy to make, so I decided to start writing lyrics.
At this time, Xu Changde had never written lyrics. If he wanted to write lyrics, he had to have a work. So he forced himself to write one song a day. Unexpectedly, as he wrote it, he became more and more skillful, and gradually he could write two songs a day. After two months, he actually wrote more than 70 songs.
is like this and constantly training, laying a good foundation for his path to writing lyrics.
But the road in the entertainment industry is not something that can be successful by hard work alone. Of course, it also requires a little luck.
Xu Changde is a very good marketing person, and naturally he is also good at marketing himself. After writing the lyrics of
, he had no way to publish them, so he went to the bar to recommend his lyrics to the singer. In this way, he met some friends in this industry. Later, with the help of a friend, he met Qi Qin and signed a record company, thus officially embarking on the road of writing lyrics.
The song "Mosquito" that was sung by singer Billie and was popular for a while is the first song he created after signing the contract, and it won a great victory.
Xu Changde has his own opinions on writing lyrics.
He thinks creativity is very important, just like the song "Mosquito". Before him, have you seen anyone use mosquitoes to describe love?
For this, I can only say that this person’s idea is too amazing.
Tomorrow's Tomorrow-Power Train (MV version)
In Faye Wong's "Reserved", he wrote: I have never resisted your charm. Although you have never been fascinated by me, I always look at you with a smile, and my affection is always easy to fill my eyes.
In "Tomorrow's Tomorrow", he wrote: If you don't have the courage to accompany me, tomorrow's Tomorrow's Tomorrow, it's better to forget and break it, the lonely yesterday's yesterday.
And in "The One Who Loves Me and The One Who I Love", he also wrote: Those who love me give everything for me, but I cry and get crazy and heartbroken for the One I love, and love suffers the same as being loved.
So, maybe someone is curious.
Xu Changde seems to have a lot of understanding of love. Have you had a lot of love?
In fact, this is not the case. He said that writing songs does not require love experience. If so, Playboys can write lyrics. Love is not an experience either. Many people’s love is a fantasy, falling in love with their own fantasy. If you really fall in love with the other person, you won’t have so many resentments.
In our opinion, writing songs is very difficult, but Xu Changde seems to be very relaxed. Every time someone invites him to sing, he seems to be in the process of planning.
Some people say that each of us is an ambitious person. Xu Changde has had many tricks since he was a child and can think of things that others could not think of. The biggest influence on him is the artist Liu Jiachang . He is not only a pop music composer and singer, but also a film director and actor, and holds multiple positions.
Xu Changde has since opened up a new world. It turns out that there are so many things a person can do.
After he achieved outstanding achievements in lyrics, he gradually expanded his career. At that time, the famous Rolling Stone Records Company was going to hold a record exhibition. Xu Changde seized the opportunity and wrote a plan for them. He was attracted by the boss at a glance and was invited to join Rolling Stone.
began to take on song production and other work. Gradually, he became a music producer, company executive, book author, and also devoted himself to stage play creation, entertainment planning and other fields, producing popular songs for more and more well-known singers.
For example, the song "Health Song" he made for singer Fan Xiaoxuan is the song "Three circles on the left and Three circles on the right. The neck twists, the butt twists, go to bed early and get up early, let's do exercise. Shake your hands, shake your feet, take deep breaths. I will never grow old even if I learn from my grandfather's singing and dancing!" When you read the lyrics of
, did you sing it unconsciously?
The song was popular all over the country at that time and was also featured on the CCTV Spring Festival Gala that year. Logically speaking, the artist should be very grateful for his efforts, right? But why did he say that many artists he worked with hate him?
It turned out that Fan Xiaoxuan felt that this song made her unable to transform, restricted her singing path, and it was different from the music she wanted to make.
But Xu Changde's idea is completely different from her. He believes that as an artist, he should play a role in a set well, not how close his image is, because being an artist is not doing a biography, but doing a performance.
Let me say that the song "Lemon Tree" he created
I am alone in the afternoon
When the wind blows every tree wants to dance
Remember yesterday you wore blue clothes
You said you were too focused on love and easily lonely
What does this sentence mean? I don’t know what
I fell in love with clouds and fell in love with you
How I hope to be like you freely
It turns out that Sunday is easy to miss
Watch movies repeatedly
...
was once said by Li Zongsheng : "What lyrics are you writing? The first sentence and the next sentence have nothing to do with it! What is it writing?"
This sentence was remembered by Xu Changde. One day, he passed by Li Zongsheng's office and joked to the staff: "You go and tell Li Zongsheng that this song has become so popular?"
Xu Changde at that time did not think that the lyrics must follow the rules. No one stipulates what kind of grammar is reasonable. Why the song is so popular, maybe it is because of its unreasonableness.
Lemon Tree-Su Huilun (live version)
Xu Changde himself, in fact, like this lyrics, does not like to follow the rules. He has devoted himself to music for many years. What is rare is that he did not please artists because of fame and fortune, or change himself for the sake of other people's ideas. It is his code of conduct.
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The meaning of life after the prosperity may be to find a different approach
. The most interesting thing is that he is not as good as a teacher as many successful people. He is open-minded and has interesting angles for many issues.
A reporter once asked him: "If your daughter suddenly came to tell you that she had sex with someone for the first time yesterday, what would you react as a father?"
His answer was really shocking, because he actually asked humorously: "Are you happy?"
But if the question was his son, he responded: "I'm very panicked!"
Why is Xu Changde's answer so different to his son and daughter?
Xu Changde explained that because of this society, boys are under great pressure and they have to be very strong, so boys are afraid of performing poorly, especially for the first time, they will be particularly sensitive. But girls cannot think about it in the direction of losing. Because sex is not a transaction, young people should be simple and gentle about it. The answer
is perfect and novel, but someone came out to question it.
"If your daughter is in the middle school, would you still ask her if she is happy?"
What a sharp question!
But this is not a problem for Xu Changde, and he also has different opinions from other parents about this.
He said that since things have happened, you can’t just get angry when encountering problems, which makes your daughter frightened by the parents’ out of control. Using the first reaction on worry will only put more pressure on the child and dare not communicate with the parents.
To be honest, I also want to have such a reasonable and very good father who can put himself in his shoes and solve his problems for his children!
But in fact, such an enlightened "Dad" also has a very literary side. The lyrics he created are not all popular, but also songs that are both literary and popular.
The song "Wait and Wait" sung by Huang Lei (interlude of the TV series "April Day on Earth") is his favorite song.
This is a story that has no time flowed
In that isolated village
Cuicui and her grandfather spend their days on ferry
77 years have always been like this
One day this girl met a man in the city
Two exchanged a vow of life
When the man left, he stared reluctantly at
Cuicui said that he would wait for him for the rest of his life
Wait for the first autumn
Wait for the second autumn
Wait until the yellow leaves slipped down
Wait until the crying
Wait for the yellow leaves slid down
Wait for the crying
Wait for the first autumn
Wait for the second autumn
Wait for the yellow leaves slid down
Wait for the crying
Wait for the yellow leaves slid down
Wait for the crying
Wait for the yellow leaves slid down
Wait for the crying
Wait for the yellow leaves slid down
Wait for the crying
Wait for the yellow leaves slid down
Wait for the crying
Why is love still
She waited for his promise
Waited for his return
Waited for the Yan'er passed
Waited until the end
actually forgot about having a promise
Day after day Cui Cui looked up to
See it in my grandfather's heart was heartbroken
That year, the absurd thought of being a household in front of the door
Let this girl wait until the end
Now, Xu Changde, who has become a leader in the Chinese music scene, owns his own company and has published many books, but more about his experience of life and his understanding of emotions.
On Weibo, you can see that people often ask him about emotional problems. All the troubles that all living beings feel are troubled can be answered from him. is another meaning of life after prosperity.
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The biggest impression the family gave him was financial pressure.
Originally, he was born in Taiwan and had a poor family. He worked part-time and studied half-time in high school. He was self-reliant. He graduated from the university editorial and editing department. He worked as an editor in a publishing house. After work, he had to help his family pay off their debts and his salary was not enough.
This kind of life sounds really miserable and is considered a standard grassroots configuration.
Considering the future development, he thought of many ways to make money by writing.
1. Write poetry.
2. Write prose.
3. Write a novel.
But after thinking about it, I felt that writing poetry can’t make much money. Many people are writing prose, and as for novels, he thought what if he wrote a lot of words but couldn’t make money if he didn’t write well? The
method was rejected one by one. Later, I felt that writing lyrics was relatively easy to make, so I decided to start writing lyrics.
At this time, Xu Changde had never written lyrics. If he wanted to write lyrics, he had to have a work. So he forced himself to write one song a day. Unexpectedly, as he wrote it, he became more and more skillful, and gradually he could write two songs a day. After two months, he actually wrote more than 70 songs.
is like this and constantly training, laying a good foundation for his path to writing lyrics.
But the road in the entertainment industry is not something that can be successful by hard work alone. Of course, it also requires a little luck.
Xu Changde is a very good marketing person, and naturally he is also good at marketing himself. After writing the lyrics of
, he had no way to publish them, so he went to the bar to recommend his lyrics to the singer. In this way, he met some friends in this industry. Later, with the help of a friend, he met Qi Qin and signed a record company, thus officially embarking on the road of writing lyrics.
The song "Mosquito" that was sung by singer Billie and was popular for a while is the first song he created after signing the contract, and it won a great victory.
Xu Changde has his own opinions on writing lyrics.
He thinks creativity is very important, just like the song "Mosquito". Before him, have you seen anyone use mosquitoes to describe love?
For this, I can only say that this person’s idea is too amazing.
Tomorrow's Tomorrow-Power Train (MV version)
In Faye Wong's "Reserved", he wrote: I have never resisted your charm. Although you have never been fascinated by me, I always look at you with a smile, and my affection is always easy to fill my eyes.
In "Tomorrow's Tomorrow", he wrote: If you don't have the courage to accompany me, tomorrow's Tomorrow's Tomorrow, it's better to forget and break it, the lonely yesterday's yesterday.
And in "The One Who Loves Me and The One Who I Love", he also wrote: Those who love me give everything for me, but I cry and get crazy and heartbroken for the One I love, and love suffers the same as being loved.
So, maybe someone is curious.
Xu Changde seems to have a lot of understanding of love. Have you had a lot of love?
In fact, this is not the case. He said that writing songs does not require love experience. If so, Playboys can write lyrics. Love is not an experience either. Many people’s love is a fantasy, falling in love with their own fantasy. If you really fall in love with the other person, you won’t have so many resentments.
In our opinion, writing songs is very difficult, but Xu Changde seems to be very relaxed. Every time someone invites him to sing, he seems to be in the process of planning.
Some people say that each of us is an ambitious person. Xu Changde has had many tricks since he was a child and can think of things that others could not think of. The biggest influence on him is the artist Liu Jiachang . He is not only a pop music composer and singer, but also a film director and actor, and holds multiple positions.
Xu Changde has since opened up a new world. It turns out that there are so many things a person can do.
After he achieved outstanding achievements in lyrics, he gradually expanded his career. At that time, the famous Rolling Stone Records Company was going to hold a record exhibition. Xu Changde seized the opportunity and wrote a plan for them. He was attracted by the boss at a glance and was invited to join Rolling Stone.
began to take on song production and other work. Gradually, he became a music producer, company executive, book author, and also devoted himself to stage play creation, entertainment planning and other fields, producing popular songs for more and more well-known singers.
For example, the song "Health Song" he made for singer Fan Xiaoxuan is the song "Three circles on the left and Three circles on the right. The neck twists, the butt twists, go to bed early and get up early, let's do exercise. Shake your hands, shake your feet, take deep breaths. I will never grow old even if I learn from my grandfather's singing and dancing!" When you read the lyrics of
, did you sing it unconsciously?
The song was popular all over the country at that time and was also featured on the CCTV Spring Festival Gala that year. Logically speaking, the artist should be very grateful for his efforts, right? But why did he say that many artists he worked with hate him?
It turned out that Fan Xiaoxuan felt that this song made her unable to transform, restricted her singing path, and it was different from the music she wanted to make.
But Xu Changde's idea is completely different from her. He believes that as an artist, he should play a role in a set well, not how close his image is, because being an artist is not doing a biography, but doing a performance.
Let me say that the song "Lemon Tree" he created
I am alone in the afternoon
When the wind blows every tree wants to dance
Remember yesterday you wore blue clothes
You said you were too focused on love and easily lonely
What does this sentence mean? I don’t know what
I fell in love with clouds and fell in love with you
How I hope to be like you freely
It turns out that Sunday is easy to miss
Watch movies repeatedly
...
was once said by Li Zongsheng : "What lyrics are you writing? The first sentence and the next sentence have nothing to do with it! What is it writing?"
This sentence was remembered by Xu Changde. One day, he passed by Li Zongsheng's office and joked to the staff: "You go and tell Li Zongsheng that this song has become so popular?"
Xu Changde at that time did not think that the lyrics must follow the rules. No one stipulates what kind of grammar is reasonable. Why the song is so popular, maybe it is because of its unreasonableness.
Lemon Tree-Su Huilun (live version)
Xu Changde himself, in fact, like this lyrics, does not like to follow the rules. He has devoted himself to music for many years. What is rare is that he did not please artists because of fame and fortune, or change himself for the sake of other people's ideas. It is his code of conduct.
3
The meaning of life after the prosperity may be to find a different approach
. The most interesting thing is that he is not as good as a teacher as many successful people. He is open-minded and has interesting angles for many issues.
A reporter once asked him: "If your daughter suddenly came to tell you that she had sex with someone for the first time yesterday, what would you react as a father?"
His answer was really shocking, because he actually asked humorously: "Are you happy?"
But if the question was his son, he responded: "I'm very panicked!"
Why is Xu Changde's answer so different to his son and daughter?
Xu Changde explained that because of this society, boys are under great pressure and they have to be very strong, so boys are afraid of performing poorly, especially for the first time, they will be particularly sensitive. But girls cannot think about it in the direction of losing. Because sex is not a transaction, young people should be simple and gentle about it. The answer
is perfect and novel, but someone came out to question it.
"If your daughter is in the middle school, would you still ask her if she is happy?"
What a sharp question!
But this is not a problem for Xu Changde, and he also has different opinions from other parents about this.
He said that since things have happened, you can’t just get angry when encountering problems, which makes your daughter frightened by the parents’ out of control. Using the first reaction on worry will only put more pressure on the child and dare not communicate with the parents.
To be honest, I also want to have such a reasonable and very good father who can put himself in his shoes and solve his problems for his children!
But in fact, such an enlightened "Dad" also has a very literary side. The lyrics he created are not all popular, but also songs that are both literary and popular.
The song "Wait and Wait" sung by Huang Lei (interlude of the TV series "April Day on Earth") is his favorite song.
This is a story that has no time flowed
In that isolated village
Cuicui and her grandfather spend their days on ferry
77 years have always been like this
One day this girl met a man in the city
Two exchanged a vow of life
When the man left, he stared reluctantly at
Cuicui said that he would wait for him for the rest of his life
Wait for the first autumn
Wait for the second autumn
Wait until the yellow leaves slipped down
Wait until the crying
Wait for the yellow leaves slid down
Wait for the crying
Wait for the first autumn
Wait for the second autumn
Wait for the yellow leaves slid down
Wait for the crying
Wait for the yellow leaves slid down
Wait for the crying
Wait for the yellow leaves slid down
Wait for the crying
Wait for the yellow leaves slid down
Wait for the crying
Wait for the yellow leaves slid down
Wait for the crying
Why is love still
She waited for his promise
Waited for his return
Waited for the Yan'er passed
Waited until the end
actually forgot about having a promise
Day after day Cui Cui looked up to
See it in my grandfather's heart was heartbroken
That year, the absurd thought of being a household in front of the door
Let this girl wait until the end
Now, Xu Changde, who has become a leader in the Chinese music scene, owns his own company and has published many books, but more about his experience of life and his understanding of emotions.
On Weibo, you can see that people often ask him about emotional problems. All the troubles that all living beings feel are troubled can be answered from him. is another meaning of life after prosperity.
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