Everyone has a song Zheng Zhihua in their hearts

Thirty

years ago, a singer named Zheng Zhihua made his debut

. Twenty years have passed since his last official album; eleven years have passed since his last EP album; and thirty years have passed since his debut album.

His music has been popular all over the country, north and south of the Yangtze River, and its spread has even reached the point of "outrageous". It is no exaggeration to describe it as being present all the time.

More

importantly, his music has also had an extremely important cultural influence on the post-70s and post-80s generation in mainland China. Compared with Li Zongsheng's exquisiteness and Luo Dayou's wisdom, this singer's more street, more grass and grassroots creative style not only affects those former teenagers and young people in big cities, but also affects many young people from the third line to the 18th line. His music opens up not only a window for music, but also a window for many people to recognize, understand, and feel the world.

To a certain extent, this singer's influence is somewhat similar to that of Beyond. His music is more universal than other musicians with prominent humanistic labels. Because everyone from literary youth to small town youth was influenced by his music.

This singer is Zheng Zhihua. A name that once resounded like thunder, but is somewhat unfamiliar to young people today.

However, Zheng Zhihua's status at that time was by no means inferior to that of any contemporary musician.

Many people often understand Zheng Zhihua because of the song "Sailor".

Even to today, this song can be said to be a model for inspirational music, and this song "Sailor" has made Zheng Zhihua famous for it. He has jumped from a previously well-known music creator to an A-list star status.

Just like everything has both advantages and disadvantages,"Sailor" not only brought Zheng Zhihua unprecedented reputation, but also left behind the sequelae of his reputation. When a singer or musician becomes wildly popular because of a work, people will often use the song as the artist's impression label, and this will obviously lead to distortion or even distortion of the artist's understanding.

In the thirty years since Zheng Zhihua's debut, it's time to tell some of the most authentic past events of Zheng Zhihua... Of

course, Zheng Zhihua's story should not start from "The Sailor". The decent practices of a famous family must start from "The Story of the Old Man".

"The Story of the Younger" is both the name of the album and a song.

To this day, I still think that "Lao Yao's Story" is a work that is far underestimated in the history of Chinese music. At least from its current influence, the value of this song is not fully reflected.

It can be said that "Lao Yao's Story" is a work comparable to "Lugang Town". The work tells a sad story from the perspective of the youngest of the miners 'families. The mine disaster drowned Abba's figure, but the greater tragedy of the work lies in the ending of "On the modern battlefield of material civilization, I got everything but lost myself." Especially the contrast between "people in their hometown were submerged by mines and lost their lives" and "people in the city were submerged by desires, but lost their souls" gives people a thrilling sense of conicity. Tradition and modernity, material and spirit, such questions and such comparisons still sound soul-stirring to this day.

Indeed, while we were singing "Sailor", we actually gradually forgot the sharp edge of Zheng Zhihua's lyrics in criticizing the ills of the times. In many works, Zheng Zhihua's works are even more critical than some so-called spiritual rock works. In particular, Zheng Zhihua's criticism is not only down-to-earth in its theme and perspective, but also has the natural vividness of a limerick, but also the depth and wisdom unique to literary works.

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addition to "The Story of the Younger", maintaining vigilant attention to the world, dissecting and criticizing it in a timely manner has always been throughout Zheng Zhihua's creation. For example, the depiction of single mothers with dual identities in "The Fallen Angel" not only has a strong storytelling and a sense of contribution, but also the answer "Where will the heavy makeup go" leaves endless unknowns, giving the work a more open form.

The grasp of the details of growth in "Young Times" is simply like a collective endorsement by people born in the 1970s. Colloquial but aesthetic words such as "If you like someone, just stick to it" and "deliberately loosen a few buttons on your shirt" are simply vivid and profound.

In the 1992 "Private Songs" album that included "Sailor", what is worth remembering is actually far from the song "Sailor". This can be said to be the best album in Zheng Zhihua's music career that balances business and quality. It is also a masterpiece of his creative style. "Middle Class" written for the middle class,"Unmarried Dad" written for unmarried fathers, and "Datong World" written for Datong World. Those words are both vivid and sharp. Whether it is details or opinions, they are all penetrating and make people feel thorn in their backs.

As for "The National" with a more macro perspective, it is even a condensed novel and a long volume of music. The people and events in it, even if they have become history, can still warn future generations. In the early "Snail's Home" written for Suri, the sentence "I carry a heavy shell on my body and work hard to climb up, but I can never keep up with the soaring housing prices" actually made hundreds of millions of people in China shed tears after thirty years. This is precisely the proof of Zheng Zhihua's balance of refined and popular culture and touching people's hearts.

In fact, I have always believed that the criterion for judging whether a musician is excellent or even great must first have a talent, that is, he can be both bloody and tender.

Whether it is the critical "Big Citizen", the inspirational "Sailor" The Stars Light ", Zheng Zhihua is worthy of the word" passionate. Of course, he is equally tender.

Zheng Zhihua's love songs are not only true but pure. Even if they are not a creator of the Taiwanese folk song system, works such as "Don't Cry, My Favorite Person","Don't Say Dawn","Use my Life to Forget", and "Let Me Embrace You into Your Dream" have the simplicity and beauty of folk songs. The use of words is not deliberate, the metaphors are not exaggerated, and there is no literary tendency of over-embellishment. However, Zheng Zhihua's love songs are unique in the entire history of the Chinese music industry. Small and beautiful, pure and true.

From the perspective of creation, Zheng Zhihua, who "mistakenly entered" the music scene from advertising copy, did inject the concise and vivid way of advertising copy into the creation of lyrics, which also made his works unique in the entire history of the Chinese music scene.

In addition, Zheng Zhihua did not come from a folk song restaurant or a band player. To Taiwan's pop music industry, he is like an "alien". In this regard, he can only fight alone and has no deep connections. He can use his background, which also makes him often in a marginal position within the circle.

But on the other hand, it is also Zheng Zhihua's "wild path" in creation that makes his works the most grassroots and down-to-earth in the entire Taiwanese music scene. Many of his works are even more trivial than Li Zongsheng's small character works, because the latter is fundamentally close to elitism, while Zheng Zhihua's creative perspective is always truly grassroots and bottom-level.

Speaking of Zheng Zhihua, many people may think that his creation, lyrics are far greater than music. In this thirty years of Zheng Zhihua's debut, in fact, looking back on Zheng Zhihua's nine studio albums, you will find that even in terms of musical richness, he is not too much compared to other musicians of his generation.

For example,"The Story of the Elderly" has an epic musical structure, using the cyclic sound of piling as the atmosphere. It not only highlights the background of the Kuangqu industry, but also sets a desolate and solemn tone for the work. Coupled with the Gothic organ tone, it highlights a gloomy feeling. Since then, the transition from folk songs to rock and roll, coupled with the vocal chorus as a backdrop, naturally gave the work a thickness that can only be found in epic works.

"Station" on the same debut album is more like world music incorporating South Asian music elements;"Secret Box" plays New Wave; and "A Letter" is a typical encore style.

There are also many new musical attempts in "The Fallen Angel", and the musicality of these new attempts has been underestimated to a certain extent because of Zheng Zhihua's lyrics. The title song is based on the ethnic music of the southwest region. The experimental nature of Solo is unique in the history of Chinese music and rarely appears in the future. The Riff and rhythm in "Your Soul" and the integration of Indian musical elements in "The Altar of Youth" were also very groundbreaking at the time.

Although "The Sailor" brought Zheng Zhihua a peak of fame and fortune, in fact, his creation did not stop because of this. It was just that in the public's impression that Zheng Zhihua's music career ended in "The Sailor" because he did not write a work with higher singing popularity.

In fact, just after the album "Private Song", in addition to the equally influential album "The Stars Lights on the Lights", Zheng Zhihua's later albums "The Actor Who Crying","Playing in the World" and "Sleepless at Night" are of equal quality. In addition to the improvement of musical details and texture in "Sleepless at Night","Big Citizen" in "The Actor Who Tears" can be said to be Zheng Zhihua's most critical masterpiece.

The song "Actor Who Tears" has a strong sense of substitution. The death of his father and his boredom with the entertainment industry have also allowed Zheng Zhihua, who has reached the peak of his life, to still stand from the perspective of a humble person and write everything. The truth of this flashy world.

Zheng Zhihua said that he was "an unknown person playing a small role." This kind of humility created Zheng Zhihua's sensitivity and his creative talent. It also allowed countless people born in the 1970s and 1980s to grow up in their own years. In the initial stage, he found an enlightenment teacher in life through music.

Some people say that everyone has a song Li Zongsheng in their hearts. In fact, everyone who has experienced that era also has a song Zheng Zhihua in their hearts. Moreover, unlike appreciating Luo Dayou and singing Li Zongsheng, we often appear in Zheng Zhihua's works and become part of the songs. Zheng Zhihua helps us write what we think and love, imitating our aspirations and endorsing you.

Although some songs are classic, they are ultimately other people's stories. It is really a happy thing to think that in your life, there is a singer who can often be around you, writing about your big era and singing about your small era.

This is precisely what makes Zheng Zhihua most different.

Wen/Love the Land

16/05/18