It’s not funny that Eason Chan has become what he is today – yqqlm [ChinaCSR.com]

go? war?

If you can’t sing the second half of these two lines with the correct melody, you’re definitely not a 21st century surfer.

In the words of Sir backstage fans, “The Lonely Brave” is the god of 2022.

If it’s just a popular song, Sir, of course, has no interest in discussing it, but the next development gradually becomes weird.

When you open the short video platform, you can always see similar pictures: in the classroom, elementary school students burst into tears; on the street, adults sang the first half of the sentence in a low voice, and the children next to them turned back sharply, and finally staged a street chorus.

Video screenshot

The Internet seems to present a three-legged situation: Liu Genghong girl, Wang Xinling boy, and lonely child.

Even the original singer Eason Chan was wondering online.

Of course, what arouses Sir’s curiosity is not the large-scale hunting scene in the cyber world, but a series of questions derived from this phenomenon-why is “The Lonely Brave”? Why does it become a “children’s song”? And, when we frantically call for the “lonely brave” in this era, what are we calling for?

“Lonely brave” not understood

The first thing you need to know is where the song comes from.

“The Lonely Brave” is the Chinese theme song of “League of Legends: Battle of the Two Cities”, a derivative animation of the game “League of Legends”. It is composed by Tang Tian, ​​composed by Qian Lei and sung by Eason Chan.

There is a story behind this song. Like its motives—

The game “League of Legends” has been heard more or less. Hero vs. MOBA competitive online game, one of the most popular online games at the moment, but few people know that the player audience of “League of Legends” is gradually “adulting”.

According to the latest statistics, the average age of League of Legends players is now 23 years old. Coupled with the launch of the anti-addiction system, there are fewer and fewer “primary school students” players.

In this context, games began to generate income from cross-border film and television.

“League of Legends: The Battle of the Two Cities” is a spin-off of the game, which tells the tragedy of a classically-styled family and sisters. It has a dark tone, dirty words, bloody scenes, disturbing scenes…

Obviously not for elementary school students.

Game screenshot

The theme song “The Lonely Brave” was created under such a tone. To put it simply, this is a story about marginalized people struggling to survive. This kind of pop songs that imply subculture “orphan” and “reverse” are also very different from the “positive, lively and optimistic” children’s songs in our understanding. .

There is also the lyricist Tang Tian, ​​who is a sad and inspiring adult past. The lyricist who wrote Cen Ninger’s “Light Chaser” and Faye Wong’s “Wish” was diagnosed with nasopharyngeal cancer at the age of 29.

Her idol is Eason Chan. On the hospital bed, she made a wish to write a song for Eason Chan – the inspiration for “The Lonely Brave” came from this.

The lyrics are also a self-portrait of Tang Tian: an ordinary person who is not good at words and walks alone at night, a brave and strong cancer-fighting person.

To sum up.

Songs are not customized for children in terms of lyrics, melody, or their background stories and original intentions.

This makes people even more curious: humble dreams, the struggles of people at the bottom, struggle for life, desperate for life… Do these seemingly heavy and dark things resonate with children?

Maybe we can see some clues from those widely circulated videos.

△Tencent Video “Beauty Inventory Officer”

It can be seen from the video – not to mention understanding the complex meaning behind the lyrics, many children who sing along, can’t even remember the complete lyrics, but simply repeat the words of the climax.

The predicament of the current Chinese pop music can be seen one or two. Under the catalysis of short videos, as long as a song has a few popular lyrics and a more brainwashing melody, it can be made into a short video and spread virally, and the climax of “The Lonely Brave” happens to have elements that elementary school students like.

Fighting, blood, unyielding, tragic feeling. With a word of “war”, the prehistoric power in their bodies was awakened and ignited.

Yes, this scene seems familiar to us. “Reverse War”, almost the same mode, the theme song of the game, the spirit of fighting in the face of adversity…

Now the post-90s generation who ridiculed primary school students for singing “The Lonely Brave” may be the primary and secondary school students who sang “Reverse War” selflessly back then.

It’s just that when “Reverse War” came out, the whirlwind of short videos had not been blown up. “The Lonely Brave” can be said to be on the express train of the short video era, but it was carried to an unexpected blue ocean of music——

no longer trendy nursery rhymes

What is a nursery rhyme?

Chinese nursery rhymes have a history of more than 3,000 years. In the process of development, they have inherited three characteristics: interest, popularity and rhyme.

During the period of the Republic of China, a musician who made outstanding contributions to the development of children’s songs appeared – Li Jinhui. He is the father of Chinese pop music, and has become popular with singers such as Wang Renmei and Zhou Xuan.

He believes that the best way for children to learn Mandarin is to learn to sing, so he created a series of children’s songs that are still sung to this day.

Little rabbit be good, open the door.

Hurry up, I want to come in.

If I don’t drive, I won’t drive, my mother won’t come back, and no one will drive…

Later, those famous musicians have participated in the creation of children’s songs. Nie Er’s “Song of Selling Newspapers”, Song Yang’s adaptation of Anshun’s native children’s song “Reading Boy”… In the new China of the 1950s, the creation of children’s songs reached a peak: “Let’s Swing the Sculls”, “Little Swallow”, ” Losing the Handkerchief, Pulling the Radish, Where is Spring, and Penny… Seeing the title of the song, those familiar melodies already echoed in my mind.

But the real peak of children’s song creation appeared in the 1980s and 1990s. At this time, special musicians created children’s songs, such as “The Girl Who Picks Mushrooms”, “Growing the Sun” and “Counting Ducks”, which are all classics of this period. In the context of reform and opening up, the children’s songs of this period still have The characteristics of the times influenced by cross-strait exchanges. “Grandma’s Penghu Bay” was introduced to the mainland in the 1980s, and “Only Mother Is Good in the World” was introduced to the mainland through the Taiwanese film “The Wandering Story of a Bitter Child” and is well known.

“Xiaoluohao” is an original children’s song created under the inspiration of the first batch of Taiwanese pop music that entered the mainland. In 2008, this song also won the Medal of Popular Golden Melody for the 30th Anniversary of Reform and Opening Up.

At the same time, the development of cartoons has also brought a huge impetus to children’s songs. Different from now, for the children at that time – the pursuit of this matter, regardless of national borders, a hundred flowers bloom.

Because everyone’s level is not much different, if you like domestic animations, watch “Animation City” and “Big Windmill”, if you want to watch Japanese animations, there are Jade Terrace and Star TV, and if you like watching European and American animations, there is also “Little Dragon Club”. Welcome you.

On June 19, Qiao Yu, who wrote “Let’s Swing the Sculls” and “Big Windmill”, left us, but these childhood songs will always remain in our hearts.

The windmill spins

The scenery here is so beautiful

the sky is beautiful

And happy friends

These channels carry countless childhood and youth memories of the post-80s and post-90s.

In 1983, Guangdong TV station introduced a very good cartoon – the American animation “The Smurfs”, but its theme song seems to attract children’s attention more than the plot:

Beyond the mountains and beyond the sea

There’s a bunch of Smurfs

They are lively and smart

They are naughty and sensitive

They live freely in the big green forest

They are kind, brave and caring for each other

With the picturesque lyrics and catchy tunes, “Song of the Smurfs” quickly became a classic sung by everyone at that time.

△The Smurfs were broadcast on CCTV Children’s Channel

This is the first completely original Chinese theme song for an imported cartoon, and it won the silver prize in the first National Children’s Song Composition Competition.

After the successful attempt of “The Smurfs”, “Flower Fairy”, “Smart Yixiu” and “Astro Boy’s Song” have been created one after another, all of which have become classic original and imported cartoon supporting theme songs.

By 1984, along with the exciting prelude, a handsome black cat sheriff appeared.

ah ah ah black cat sheriff

ah ah ah black cat sheriff

Forest Citizen salute you salute you salute you salute

Wisdom fights one ear and defeats cat-eating mice. The heroism of the black cat sheriff infects every child in front of the TV.

We didn’t know until many years later that “The Black Cat Sheriff” was a popular science animation, and the bloody wedding night of the Mantis couple left a lot of psychological shadows on that generation.

Forgive Sir for not being able to finish all these memories.

The enduring “Hulu Baby”, the fantasy adventure “Sloppy King”, the rigorous popular science “Haier Brothers”, the “Blue Cat’s Naughty Three Thousand Questions” that let children know “the sky is high and the earth is thick”, and a series of classics by Mr. Zheng Yuanjie, “Shu Shu”. “K and Beta” “Pipiru Story”…

However, after entering the millennium, the creation of children’s songs gradually fell into a bottleneck period, but before the complete silence, there was another “return to the light”.

In 2003, two important animation works brought two children’s songs that have been sung to this day, one of which is “The Legend of Nezha”. Released in 2019, “The Devil Child of Nezha Comes into the World” set a box-office record for domestic animations, but the one who really left a mark in the minds of children has always been the young hero Xiao Nezha who dared to fight against the destiny and father’s destiny. Children have shed tears of growth for the story of Nezha, and the little hero in our hearts has always been him:

it’s him it’s him it’s him

Our friend Xiao Nezha

it’s him, it’s him, it’s him, it’s him

Young hero Xiao Nezha

God is taller than the sky

In the sea he is bigger than the sea

In the same year, another classic came from the other side of the ocean.

“Animation City” also introduced an American cartoon series called “Powerpuff Girls”. Three little policewomen with magical powers become evil nemesis, fight against major villains and save the world, and this Chinese theme song “Flying Superpower” also lets us know for the first time what the hot “girl power” is:

Hua Hua shows us the way

Bubble she is like a light

Mao Mao she is smart and very cool

Sweet and hot they are the best

against evil forces

shine your light

full energy

who has super power

we have super powers

Unfortunately, this is also the last boom in the field of nursery rhymes.

Before “The Lonely Brave”, what did the post-00s sing? Except for the theme song “Don’t Look at Me as a Sheep” of “Pleasant Goat Big Big Wolf”, and the theme song of the same name of “Big Head Son Small Head Dad”, almost no cartoons also use children’s song theme songs, and they all start to trend towards popular music.

The theme song of “Little Soldier” is the popular song “Spot of Dreams” sung by singer Wang Xinling, and the theme song of “Baolian Lantern” is “365 Days of Missing You” by Li Wei, “The Legend of the Rainbow Cat, Blue Rabbit and Seven Heroes” “The theme song is also a pop music with martial arts temperament, and even the title of the song reminds the children of the short life-“Life is only a hundred years”.

boy is brave

Walking the world with swords

Daughter has Kenshin

tenderness fills the hills

Seven swords come together, we know each other and meet

For a beautiful home, we look forward to each other…

In Sir’s view, the “disappearance” of nursery rhymes is precisely because we have long underestimated the difficulty of composing nursery rhymes.

Take “Let’s Swing the Sculls” as an example. For the lyricist Qiao Yu, this was a watershed in his creation. From this song, he was no longer willing to inject sadness into his works.

He grew up in the war years, “I probably experienced too much pain to be unwilling to express pain, expressing pain is more painful than experiencing pain.” Mozart is also quoted: The hardships of life do not overwhelm me, and I pour joy into music in order to make the whole world happy.

He hoped that the children of New China would feel pure joy, and determined the principle of his own children’s song creation: in art, tragedy is not suitable for children, and cultivating children’s happy nature is the writer’s primary task.

Therefore, after finishing a day’s homework, the children are rafting in the North Sea, the waves are shining, and the red scarves on their chests are lifted up by the breeze, which is their longing for the future; therefore, the sky is beautiful, the earth is beautiful, and there are a group of happy little friends. Beauty is connected with beauty. It is a lyrical scroll with beautiful scenery, which allows children to wander.

This example is of course a bit absolute, and Sir does not want to use this to explain that children’s songs should be separated from sorrow and tears, but it does require the creator to grasp a dividing line in his heart: we hope that children are the masters of children’s songs, and every feeling is age-appropriate, also nourish the future. Or do we just use nursery rhymes to load up adult emotions and comfort ourselves?

The current “Lone Brave”, and the way it is popular, obviously favors the latter.

Who is being naive?

Corresponding to the disappearance of nursery rhymes is the disappearance of childhood.

It can be seen from the cartoons that the cartoons of the post-80s and post-90s are complex, diverse, and full of imagination, and when they grow up, they often have greater impact and gain more.

The ambiguity between black and white in “Black Cat Sheriff”, the ordinary wisdom of life under the magical props of “Doraemon”, the secular prison behind the courage of the teenagers in “The Legend of Nezha”… Those cartoon theme songs are more like engravings The background music in the childhood of the post-80s and post-90s accompanies them and nourishes them.

Nowadays, cartoons are almost clean, sterile, and flat. Because mice are “pests” and tigers are protected animals, they cannot all appear on TV, and we are left with bears, sheep, and pigs.

The red wolf will no longer use the pan to beat the gray wolf, the wolf and the sheep live in peace; the bald strong will no longer chop down trees, and protect the forest with Xiong Da Xiong Er; the little pig Peppa will no longer step on the puddle, everyone has become an honest and honest good boy…

What is more worrying than the passing of childhood is the blankness of looking back at the past when I grow up.

Some people say that the reason why Chinese nursery rhymes “lost their voices” is the difficulty in realizing them. Of course, unprofitable nursery rhymes are neglected to the point of silence, but in fact, what we are facing now is a more paradoxical phenomenon: the entertainment of adults is constantly being “naive”; the music world of children is suffering from adults invasion.

The popular “Divine Comedy” quickly “invaded” the children’s world. Those colloquial lyrics and brainwashing melodies impacted children’s eardrums over and over again, such as “Little Apple”, “Youth Cultivation Manual”, “Seaweed Dance”, “Learn to Meow”… Such saliva songs and hot songs on the Internet have become popular benchmarks in the children’s world, replacing the orthodox status of children’s songs.

Later, new era nursery songs such as “You Look So Beautiful” and “Listen to Me Saying Thank You” also became phenomenal nursery songs with the blessing of the second creation, losing the meaning of nursery songs, but instead forced them to become popular.

This is the roughness of the adult world, but in the name of “safety” and “protection”. But what should the relationship between adults and children be like?

Sir thinks of a big friend who used to be a guest in “Poison Tongue”, Peng Lei.

Peng Lei, the lead singer of the New Pants Band, posted two Weibo posts at the end of May in response to the tumultuous incident of a primary school student’s textbook illustration.

One, introducing his father Peng Guoliang, a very powerful children’s cartoonist in the 1980s, who published many serials and influenced a generation. My son said that when I look at my dad’s works, he is still very energetic and creative, and he can never catch up.

The other one said that the old man was interested and transformed the comic IP “Mimi and Kargar” created by his son, so the two cute things were invited into Chinese ink painting, just like Jay Chou entered the sky blue misty rain.

“New Pants” sighed: Unlike the chicken feathers and the empty loneliness in my life, only when I have rich experience in my life will I look down on reality and ignore the long and turbid river.

Sir seems to have found the answer – to prolong life, the elderly and children should be the people who understand each other best.

The former is not a thousand sails, and understands the value and fragility of childlike innocence more and more; while the latter is a little lotus that shows sharp horns, and may the wind and rain hit the flower’s heart to be crystal clear.

Children’s songs are no exception.

When “purification” and “pollution” are combined, childhood comes to an end, and a strange dislocation occurs in the world: children are forced to mature prematurely, and adults continue to decline in intelligence. And this dislocation is now infinitely magnified by “Children’s Song” and “The Lonely Brave”.

There is a catchphrase that makes fun of this dislocation: too naive for elementary school students, just right for a mature adult like me.

Now that I think about it, maybe it wasn’t a joke.

Neil Postman once said in “The Passing of Childhood”:

It’s harrowing and embarrassing, and especially sad, to have to watch a child’s innocence, plasticity, and curiosity gradually degenerate and then twist into the inferiority of a pseudo-adult.

The status quo is certainly not so pessimistic.

Sir feels that behind the hoarse singing of “children’s songs” is more a kind of aphasia in his chest. When those flowers of the motherland full of hope, longing for a fairy tale that overcomes thorns and thorns, are moved by the touching emotions in the lyrics and melody, shouting Go – go, fight.

However, for those who come here—the youths and even the middle-aged who have been there long ago, look at the rusted swords on their hands, the tattered armor on their bodies, and watch the dreams that they have longed for have been deleted beyond recognition.

No one is qualified to educate anyone, then, it is better to shrink together in a safe zone with vague meanings and agree with each other. No matter what is in front of it, go ahead and fight first.

After all, in the end, in the light and in the dark, regardless of life or death, they are all “heroes”.

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