Zhou Zezhong
As the new year is approaching, major media and music apps have begun a “customized” year-end inventory. Among them, a certain music’s top ten songs of the year have once again brought up the saying “The Chinese music scene is over”.
Looking at the ID cards of those who “sing badly” in the Chinese music scene, those born in the 80s and 90s must be the main force. It is precisely because they have experienced the “golden age” of the Chinese music scene on the eve of the rise of short videos, they are even more disgusted with the “slobber songs” piled up at random, and miss the “innocent” era when no one buys a record if they sing badly. From fighting between gods to “surname shaking” in the Chinese music world, when short videos become a solace after a meal, people will inevitably be brainwashed by traffic music and shocked by the ruthless iteration of the Internet.
Come to think of it, the popular hot words ten years ago were “HOLD”, “Can’t afford to hurt”, “There is no way”. If these words are blurted out of the mouths of young people today, they will undoubtedly make the companions around them embarrassed.” Use your toes to cut out three rooms and one hall.” Similarly, Jay Chou was once said to be an unnutritious “trash singer”. The powerful singer Xu Song is also the “Big Three of QQ Music” and is famous for his abundance of online songs… Ten years later, the popular language is still young people. The new trend of expression, the annual hot song is the waves surging in the huge blue ocean of short videos.
The Chinese music world will not “end”, only “endless”. It is a free market, constantly introducing new ones. Television, albums, digital music, streaming songs, and its carriers are constantly changing, adapting to whatever is popular. In fact, this year also appeared “Wanjiang”, “Heguang Tongchen”, “If the Voice Doesn’t Remember”, and “Dislocation of Time and Space” and other classic songs, which stood out from the Internet songs of “dregs rising”. Such a story fully shows that the public’s aesthetics has not degraded. The reason why a classic is classic is that it can withstand the test of time, and someone will always treat it like a treasure. Most of the so-called “Hot Song Charts” customized by major media and music apps are just “a burst of embarrassing wind” or “a frivolous rain”.
Of course, the popularity of streaming music and the prevalence of rice business are also becoming a hidden worry. In this climate, catchy traffic songs invade people’s “brains” in short videos in the form of choruses, creating a false and popular scene. For those fans who have huge resources, singles and dramas are just derived “peripheral products.” Fortunately, the repeated “clear” actions have significantly improved the Internet environment. We are not “fighting alone.”
Whether it’s a hot song of the year or a popular word of the year, it’s just a short emotional expression this year. When is the Chinese music scene going to the summit again? People in the wind will never be able to answer. Maybe it is coming, maybe it will be hidden in the earphones of young people a few years later.
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