It seems that he has become a legend of an era, and it seems that he suddenly fell from the sky. Time magazine commented on him, saying: As a singer, he doesn't take drugs, make trouble or rebel, but he can be so popular, which makes the westerners who have always indulged feel very strange. If you really approach him, you will feel that it is not surprising at all. The appearance of Jay Chou, especially his subversion of Chinese singing style, is an inevitable result.
In this era, such people are needed, and a pioneer of the times is needed. And he is the immortal pioneer of this e era.
Jay Chou, born in 1979, who likes playing basketball and taking diao as his mantra, conquered the audience with his weird music. His unique music style changed the solidified trend of music creation at that time and injected a clean stream into the boring music world.
His music not only pursues stories and social background outward, but also excavates the soul inward. Therefore, in his songs, we can hear the strangeness and humor of "pig who can speak French and behave gracefully", and at the same time, we can hear the sadness and dignity of "ancient civilization turned into incomprehensible words".
You can not only hear the little pranks of new and new people, but also see the romance of "a rose petal is hidden in an iron box full of postcards".
When many musicians evaluate Jay Chou's breakthrough in singing, they will say: He simply turned singing into a musical instrument!
It is this subversive attempt that made him break the old deductive method of Chinese songs, regardless of the level tone. The ending treatment and singing method are more like the singing method of black singers in Europe and America, with vague articulation and short pronunciation. He is more concerned about the release of music, which combines the singing skills of RAP and HIP-HOP to please young people who are eating McDonald's, drinking Coca-Cola and watching foreign cartoons grow up. They don't want clear pronunciation, as long as they can release their own music at this moment.
Tayu Lo once commented on Jay Chou: He is a man who can bravely throw many things into music.
Indeed, Jay Chou threw all his thoughts about youth into music, breaking through the inherent singing style and establishing his own unique singing style. It is precisely because of this that he won the reputation of "pioneer of the times".
The immortal pioneer of the E era gives people the first impression of "cap, jeans and basketball shoes". His silent expression, his strange anime-like stage costume and modeling all make people feel his "coolness". And this kind of coolness is the most fashionable life mark of young people nowadays.
Jay Chou's "coolness" is not deliberately dressed up, but naturally revealed. This is related to his lonely life since childhood. Until now, he is still trying to adapt to strange people and environment. It seems that many of his thoughts and experiences can only be expressed in music. His demand for music quality is pure and clean, and he likes R&; B style music, his own music is unique and durable.
Can we put the names of Teresa Teng, Steven Liu, Tayu Lo and Jay Chou together and tell you that they are all iconic figures of the times?
We all like to cherish the past and cherish the present. What if ten years later? When Tayu Lo's fame spread far and wide, he was not regarded as a pioneer of an era.
It's because Teresa Teng and Steven Liu established the most basic mode of Chinese pop songs. No matter who sang, they never surpassed them. Tayu Lo endowed pop music with soul, and expanded the connotation of pop music deeper and broader.
so, what about Jay Chou? What did he create?
we don't know what will happen in two years, and we don't know what will happen in 1 years. But what we can all see is that the younger generation is becoming more and more westernized in their consumption concept, and foreign culture is unimpeded in them. As long as this market needs it, Jay Chou can make more foreign and fashionable music. As a singer, Jay Chou's music is a little frivolous compared with the spokesmen of the past. It may not be able to restore the characteristics of that era from his music in the future, but at least for now, he can become a symbol of an era-let future people know the fashionable culture that young people once pursued in this era.
Maybe five or ten years later, people will say, "Jay Chou has created a new way of singing Chinese pop songs since Steven Liu, but at that time we simply couldn't hear what he was singing."
It's true that many people say that they can't hear clearly what the pioneer of the E era is singing, but this doesn't prevent his records from selling well in Taiwan Province, Hongkong, the Mainland and other Asian Chinese regions.
Being is reasonable. You can't understand what he is singing, but after all, there are so many people listening. You can ignore him, but you can never ignore his existence. Because in the E era, he was an immortal pioneer.
folkways 25-1-25 18:4
Successful flowers
People are only amazed at her current brilliance
However, at the beginning, her buds were
soaked with tears of struggle
scattered with blood and rain of sacrifice
-Bing Xin
is behind every shining star. Even in less than three years, Jay Chou is no exception. This taciturn, shy and sensitive child lives alone with his mother and grandmother. Music is his world, and all his worries and dreams can only be told through notes. No one expected that this child, who can't speak ten sentences a day, would grow up to be a well-known superstar.
Jay, as an only child, naturally becomes the elder in the family-the baby of grandparents. The old man loves his grandson, and he will take Jay with him wherever he goes. Even when the lawyer's grandfather wants to go to restaurants and restaurants to discuss cases with clients, he will see Jay following like a small shadow.
When Jay was a child, all three of us often went to the beach to surf and play together. He was so clever that he took a lot of pictures. When other children were standing and squatting to take pictures, he would definitely run to the front of the camera, or twist his waist or make faces to grab the camera. Besides playing the piano and recording, he likes to buy some playing cards for magic when he is only five or six years old. After learning step by step, he even found out the tricks of magic. The performances at family gatherings often amuse us in surprise gift.
this is what Jay Chou's father said in the preface to Gorgeous in D .. From Zhou's description, we can see that Jay Chou had a happy childhood. Family harmony and elders' love may be the factors of happiness brewing into a lively, naughty and funny side of his character.
When I was a child, Jay Chou was very naughty and loved to laugh. After he became famous, this was also revealed in him from time to time. For example, disturbed by the anecdote reports of entertainment reporters, Xiao Tianwang ingeniously pulled a tall dog to take pictures beside him, and then accompanied it with the words: "A word to the paparazzi: enough is enough, be smart, pay attention to safety and be a good person." He also made a big joke about his grandmother, "Although she is so old, she actually likes being photographed very much ..."
However, even such a short happy time is not all sunny, but always shrouded in clouds that are hard to shake away. Jay Chou in "Dad, I'm back "recalls this song:
I heard that peace usually comes after the war.
Why do you see my father beating my mother all the time?
He can take it out on my mother just because I'm drunk.
I really can't stand it and think that I'm a weakling.
Since I was a child, I only had the warmth of my mother. Why is my father so fierce?
If I really have a pair of wings, I can leave at any time
. Education
Other people's families, other people's fathers, all kinds of violent factors must have a reason
But mom and I are not at fault. I'll call you dad, I'm back
Don't hit my mother like this. How can you listen to what I said
Don't hit my mother like this, won't your hand hurt?
In fact, I just want to stop everything when I get home, so that my family can return to the past. Sweet, sweet, joyful and fragrant
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Although Jay Chou stated in his lyrics that this is a "fabricated fact", judging from the final divorce of his parents, it is hard to say that this is not the brand of his childhood family life in his heart.
When his parents divorced, Jay Chou was 14 years old and was in the second grade of junior high school. Before the divorce, his parents were in the cold war, so he was arranged to live at his grandmother's house first. Perhaps because he saw his parents' unhappiness together, Jay Chou was very open-minded about their parents' divorce. He said: "My parents' divorce will not have a negative impact on me. They can do what they like, and the pressure on them will become smaller. Whether they are fathers or mothers, they will become more free, so sometimes divorce is not necessarily a bad thing." However, as Jay Chou himself said, did his parents' divorce not have a negative impact on him?
The emotional disharmony between parents and even the haze of domestic violence made this lively and naughty little boy become introverted and timid. "Mom and Dad don't love each other. Is this the truth of life?" Young as he is, he can't figure out such a profound problem. His parents' divorce made him more withdrawn, less talkative and unwilling to associate with others. When he recalled the most memorable thing when he was a child, he actually said that it was a big dog raised by his grandmother's family, because little Jay had no other playmates and often played with this big dog. Sometimes he even imagined that he was a general and treated the dog as a horse!
Jay Chou said in his book Gorgeous in D: "Actually, I'm a little afraid of marriage. It's not the other person but myself. I don't think my heart can be settled yet." He once said frankly: "I am not a good husband." This fear of marriage, as well as his denial and distrust of himself, cannot be said to be the negative impact of his parents' unfortunate marriage. Jay Chou insists that his home is a happy place, but if he has a contented childhood, where does the blues singer's sadness, sadness and escape come from?
However, everything has two sides. Children from single-parent families suffer more growing pains and confusion than children from normal families, but they are also more sensitive, rebellious, stronger and harder. In today's entertainment circle, more and more stars come from single-parent families. In the last two years, new celebrities such as F4 and Elva Hsiao almost all come from single-parent families. It is also these obvious characteristics that make them famous and brilliant in the entertainment industry.
Jay Chou, the only child who grew up in a single-parent family, is best at talking to himself, but worst at communicating with outsiders. Perhaps he was a neighbor of loneliness since childhood. His music is mature, heavy and resistant to listening, and has a vitality beyond his age. For the criticism and reaction from the outside world, he has only one expression, and he can only use music to explain his emotions in one piece of work. When the star companies racked their brains to analyze the market preference orientation, Jay Chou was born with the coolness of talking to himself completely. I don't think about what you like at all, but just show what he likes.
After the parents divorced, the family environment in Jay Chou was not very good. Before he became famous, he couldn't afford satin sheets and high-end motorcycles, and his most frequent entertainment was just playing basketball with friends on the street. Single-parent children are destined to work harder than ordinary people. Jay Chou, who graduated from high school, worked as a waiter in a restaurant and experienced many troubles. Because of my love for music, I ran to the music supermarket every time I got paid, and spent almost all my money on buying tapes. Once in a bad mood, he held food in his hands and listened to music while walking. I didn't want to. I accidentally bumped into a waitress, and all the dishes were spilled on the waitress. The waitress's hand was blistered and she burst into tears. The manager rushed over and unceremoniously fined Jay Chou for half a month's salary. He didn't say a word, and his tears went straight to his stomach.
However, this grievance is nothing compared with the innate illness. At the age of 18, he was accidentally injured while playing basketball, so he went to the doctor for massage. As a result, the disease was not cured, but it was more painful. After further blood tests, the doctor told him that it was ankylosing spondylitis. At that time, he was so painful that he could only sleep on his side and couldn't lift his hands. The doctor told him that the disease was hereditary and could not be cured only by physics and medicine. Later, he learned that his medical history came from family inheritance, and besides him, his uncle was in the same boat with him, and the general onset period was between the ages of 2 and 4. At that time, he was ready to serve in the navy. Later, the military detected his illness and directly declared that he did not need to be a soldier. Honest Jay Chou admits that he was really happy for a few minutes when he knew that he didn't have to be a soldier, because he could finally concentrate on his creation.
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It is understood that this is a genetic disease with autoimmune problems, "in the late stage, the whole body will even be as stiff as a zombie", Jay Chou exaggeratedly described. After learning of his illness, Jay Chou couldn't stand the blow, and he hid in the recording studio on the seventh floor of Alfa Records every day, because only in music could he forget all this. However, the illness that plagued him always reminded him that he was a patient. When the illness is the worst, you can't even go to the toilet. It is well known that Jay Chou likes to wear a cap. He says it is because its brim is very long, which can help him hide everything he doesn't want to face, including illness and external inquiries.
Because of illness, Jay Chou went through a long period of depression. It was not until one day, when he came to the stage and saw the shock brought by his music with his own eyes, that he gradually accepted the fact of illness and began to really face it from his heart. But the impact of illness on him is enormous after all. For example, sometimes when he wants to perform, he has to pray in his heart one day in advance: I hope I will have better luck tomorrow and my illness will not break out. Because his illness is unpredictable, he may be alive and kicking at ordinary times, but it is unbearable when there is a performance. In order to treat ankylosing spondylitis, the doctor advised him to swim often to reduce pain and adjust his spine. However, he was afraid of water because of his two drowning experiences as a child, and he could not learn to swim at all. On the other hand, Jay Chou's favorite basketball sport has a bad influence on spondylitis, but it is his favorite and best sport, and whenever he can't write a song, as long as he plays basketball, he will have an endless stream of inspiration, so for the sake of interest and face, even if he is not very active, he will hold on. Now he relies on a small yellow pill to relieve the pain every day.
Jay Chou, who is popular all over Asia, sells a lot of records as soon as he releases them. He is not bad at sports such as gentle appearance, basketball and badminton, but he often suffers from pain when he suffers from illness. The more popular the records are, the greater the pressure and the more painful his back will be! As long as one day is too busy to rest, the old disease will recur! Even his birthday wish in front of fans is "I wish my spine would stop hurting!"
I was brought up by my grandmother and mother.