Chapter 2 six dreams

My body is extremely excited by the music, and every cell is dividing, growing, aging, and dying at a thousand times faster than normal. —— Wei Hui The music carried me away, in its bright torrents. ——Shu Ting The world becomes flat in the music, and I feel gorgeous colors. ——Mian Mian The crackling guitar made me feel like I was lost in the forest. —— Haruki Murakami A friend asked me what would you do without music.I said that without music, I would lose 50% of my happiness. If music is not the favorite of my life, it is at least the second favorite.This summer vacation, I helped the radio station to write articles, writing things of the nature of music reviews.I write 1,000 words a day in a steady and steady manner. After writing, I feel that I am a very professional music critic.But an "illusion" is an illusion, even if the illusion is so clear that it is believed to be true.Just like a "true lie", no matter how true it is, the word "的" can only be an attributive, and the main part is still "lie".

So what I write is likely to be applauded only by myself, and it is just bullshit in the eyes of others. The Catcher in the Rye The Wizard of Oz I loved the book The Catcher in the Rye, so when I saw the band Catcher in the Rye on the video shelf, I started to sneer, and I thought: A crappy band.In recent years, incidents of "borrowing fame" have intensified.When Mianmian's set off a storm, Ben Mianmian's "Sweet" came immediately.After Wei Hui's became popular, Wei Ji's "Guangzhou Baby" came out immediately.But this "baby" is a man - it's really hard to imagine a man calling himself a baby, and it gives goosebumps just thinking about it.

With the rebellious mentality of a bad boy, I bought the album called "The Catcher in the Rye" and brought it home.After listening to it, I knew I was wrong, very wrong. I've been thinking about how to define them and their music.If you want to say that they are punk, they should also belong to post-punk, because they deviate from the rules of punk a lot, and the kind of music that my mother called "howling when killing pigs" is very rare in their music, so in the end I They can only be called "only species". Their style can be summed up in four words: low-key and dark.How dark is it?If you look like Maitreya Buddha all day long, if you think this world is as beautiful as a crystal garden in a fairy tale world, then you should listen to them and see how their tragedies rise and fall.

Compared with them such as "OK! ", "You" and other songs that are very catchy when they come up, I prefer music with slow psychedelic colors such as "Time Submarine".The river of time in the innocent age, the sad person in the blurred fantasy, the summer rain in the Trojan horse of childhood, the sleeping hero who made the wrong move.Lead singer Xiao Wei used his indifferent voice to show the sad shadow of this industrial age over and over again.Be it the guitar or the drums, everything flows without a trace, and I surrender to the god of inspiration. Some paranoid punks disdain or even despise "The Catcher in the Rye" because they think that the music of "The Catcher in the Rye" is no longer "authentic" and "punk".The catcher in the rye said: "There is only punk spirit, no punk frame." Quite right, I agree with both hands and feet.

Zhu Zheqin Seven Drums Many people know Zhu Zheqin, but not many like her.Because the personality in her music is too strong.Someone will like something with personality, but not too many people will like it.This is the great tragedy that human society has inherited from ancient times.As a result, "personality" has been used to become a subtle word in the mouth of hypocrites who seem to praise you but actually demean you.So when you hear someone say that you have "personality", you should examine yourself: Is it too sharp? I use "Tibetan woman" to define Zhu Zheqin.Originally, I wanted to use "Yangjinma (Goddess of Tibetan music, poetry and art)", but she is a human being after all, not a god.I am very fascinated by the Tibetan complex in Zhu Zheqin's music.Some people say that the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is the cradle of human childhood. Because of the advent of the Ice Age, human beings migrated to low places, and Tibetans refused to leave the plateau. They are the last steadfastness of human beings.I adore this persistence.

That year/ Kowtowed long head and crawled on the mountain road/ Not for the audience/ Just to be close to your warmth/ That life/ Turning mountains and rivers to Buddhist pagodas/ Not for cultivating the next life/ Just to meet you on the way. I am often moved by the naked sincerity of this declaration, and at the same time feel sad for the young people of today.They exchanged names on the Internet and fell in love, and sincerity was nowhere to be found.The writer said: Love without sincerity is just pornography. When I met Zhu Zheqin, I was in the second year of junior high school. The people around me were led by the nose by the commercial trend, and I was left alone in the Tibetan atmosphere.I sneer at everyone who doesn't like Zhu Zheqin just as they sneer at me.They told me that Zhu Zheqin is not beautiful, not famous, and doesn't know how to match clothes.I think they are too shallow.I said, I just like it.They were out of words, and those subtle glances told me they thought I was an unreasonable monster.Monsters are monsters, and beauties fall in love with beasts too.I comfort myself: In fact, you are a prince who has been enchanted.

During the summer vacation of the second year of junior high school, I went around lobbying people to go to Tibet. Of course, the result ended in failure, and it also convinced others that my nerves were wrong. During that summer vacation, I was bored at home thinking about Tibet over and over again.Intoxicating highland barley wine, warm pulu, shining butter lamps and smooth prayer wheels, holy Bodhisattvas, devout Buddhas, blooming Gesang flowers and flying hada, can our ending be nothing but Once in my life I asked you the way/Have you waved to me once in your life? At the end of the summer vacation, I went to sign up with an empty schoolbag on my back.I walked on the steaming concrete road as I wished, listening to "Lhasa Ballad".The forty-eight-story Radio and Television Building has just been completed, and the bus fare has risen to three yuan. The girl walking across the road is growing well, and the flies flying around the watermelon are very shallow.The whole society is constantly changing like quicksand, but I still love Tibet and that Tibetan woman obstinately and almost morbidly.

Dou Wei Auditory Hallucinations When I asked people if they knew Dou Wei, they would always say, "Yes, Faye Wong's husband!" This kind of answer really made me dumbfounded.This is a worldly tragedy.There are many more similar things, such as "the son of a famous artist ×××", "the daughter of a famous martyr ×××" and so on.Those with noble personalities are ashamed of it, and those with low personalities are proud of it.Bei Dao said: "Despicableness is the passport of the humble, and nobility is the epitaph of the noble." I believe that people with discerning eyes have already read the helplessness and sorrow in it.Leaving aside whether Dou Wei's personality is noble or not, in short Dou Wei is dissatisfied with this phenomenon, which is probably one of the reasons for his final break with Faye Wong.Well, let's stop here, it's too gossip to talk about it any more, no different from those lace journalists.In fact, I am ashamed to call them reporters. Whether they have a girlfriend, divorce or not, what brand of clothes they buy, and what kind of toilet they use are none of their business.In terms of the existence value of the written words, maybe I am more like a reporter than they are.

The cover and song title of Dou Wei's album are very attractive.Most of the covers are misty ink paintings, the colors must be dark, and the feeling must be illusory.In many cases, the connotation of the picture is determined by the buyer's subjective wishes.The title of the song once made me obsessed almost poisonously. After some very simple and ethnic things were brought up alone, the inner tension was overwhelming.Such as: "Dangkong Mountain", "Mountains and Rivers", "March Spring", "Outing", "Auditory Hallucinations", "Bamboo Leaf Green", "Preface·Yulouchun·Linjiangxian"...

Dou Wei's music should belong to the night.I like to turn off all the lights, close the curtains, and listen quietly with my legs crossed, and then I will think of the phrase "the sound of nature is low back".Dou Wei's music gives people a taste of late spring and early summer, wet, smooth and delicate, spring grass sprouts in the light, and flowers are in full bloom. Dou Wei is very persistent and even stubborn about music.He thinks the lyrics are insignificant, so he changed little by little from "Mountains, Rivers and Waters". By the time of "Aural Hallucinations", the lyrics have degenerated into a part of the music, just like the sound of drums, pianos, and guitars.He even uses his own words to create more imagery.This is exactly what Cui Jian said: "Language is an obstacle in the end." I am impressed by this courage.

My classmates have a strange theory: People who like Faye Wong will not like Dou Wei, and vice versa.What kind of theory is this?Maybe you're ashamed of calling it a theory. I like Dou Wei, and I also like Faye Wong.Where is the contradiction?I can't see it. Faye Wong·the moon at that time I don't like things that are too commercialized, whether it's people or songs or movies, because if there are many people who like it, the value will drop when there are more people. "Things are rare and expensive".Orchids bloom in the empty valley, snow lotus is proud on the mountain top; dogtail grass is everywhere, but no one puts it in a vase. But Faye Wong is an exception.Exception usually means unique.Faye Wong's singing skills are unquestionable, and an ordinary song can also be sung as a classic.Her timbre is originally very clear and beautiful, but she often sings with a lazy feeling, dragging you through the world in a daze.It doesn't matter whether she is a little girl or a new human being, since she can suddenly emerge in commercial music and become my "exception", then she naturally has the conditions to become an exception. As for what the conditions are, I can't explain clearly. The Buddha said: Do not speak, do not speak. Hackberry·Those Flowers A poor child, I can only define Hackberry in this way.Saying this makes people feel as if I am an accomplished monk who has weathered the storms of the world.God knows how much younger I am than Pu Shu. Pu Shu doesn't know much about human relationships, he's a bit like a person in Peach Blossom Spring.They don't know how to pose for the camera, they sing without moving, and they don't know how to thank the company when they receive awards on stage, so they just say "Thank you everyone" and go down.Children, children! Pu Shu's songs are very introverted, but at the same time they have a tendency to break out.His voice is purely that of a big boy without any professional training, and I can even hear that some of his breaths are wrong.But this original and simple voice often moves me plainly and profoundly. Pu Shu said that he is a bit autistic, he prefers to sing rather than talk.He finds the music intimate and the crowd indifferent, the animals kind and the humans dangerous.He covered his eyes with long hair to "not see the world too clearly".He lives for some people and things instead of for himself, "difficult but touched, happy and painful". When I listen to Pu Shu, I think of Haruki Murakami.Maybe it's because they have been talking about "sad and beautiful youth, passionate and lonely years", but one uses music as the carrier and the other uses words as the path. Pu Shu's musical background is loneliness, complete loneliness.This kind of loneliness is not the loneliness of standing alone on the desolate land looking up at the frighteningly large moon after the end of the world, but the loneliness of standing in the middle of the crowd like fish and looking around blankly.The former is despair, the latter is brutal despair. I am reminded of an ultra-short story: The only person who survived the end of the world is sitting alone in the room, when suddenly there is a knock on the door.I often think, what kind of mood should that person feel when the knock on the door rings?Is it fear?Confused?Is it joy?Maybe both, maybe neither.I think that person is Pu Shu, guarding the earth alone, that's why he has such a strong resistance to the outside world. The inherent helplessness in Pu Shu's singing cannot be learned. The most typical example is Aaron Kwok's cover of his "Journey".Although Aaron Kwok may sing more proficiently than Pu Shu, MTV's filming is more delicate, but it still does not have the heavy impact of Pu Shu.In addition to those business operations that I don't like, in a word: if you don't feel it, you don't feel it. Among Pu Shu's songs, "Those Flowers" is my favorite.One of my pen pals said that the bright laughter and the sound of running water in the song made him feel old. It was an irresistible nostalgic feeling, and it was a look back at the era of innocence. Some stories haven’t been told yet, let’s forget it / Those feelings have been difficult to distinguish between true and false in the years / Now the grass is overgrown here and there are no flowers / Fortunately, I used to have your spring, autumn, winter and summer / That laughter reminds me of mine Flowers / bloom quietly for me in every corner of my life / I thought I would always be by her side / Now we have left in the vast sea of ​​people... Next to Flower·Happiness The rise of Huaer cannot but be said to be a miracle, because they are the first minor band in China. What does "underage" mean?It means: they are as old as us, and they also have to face the pressure of their parents nagging their homework and the threat of the college entrance examination. They are the "typical teenagers (typical teenagers)" that Lester said in "American Beauty" : "angry insecure confused (angry, insecure, confused)" There is no shortage of rock music in China, no matter what the "quality" is, anyway, the "quantity" has been achieved.Especially in recent years, bands and musicians have emerged in endlessly like youthful beans on the faces of girls.Old and young, hopeful, hopeless, hopeless, sad, excited, low-key and angry, such as: new pants, Chen Dili, jokes, flies, dark rooms, etc.So much so that Chinese commercial pop singers will proudly say after the success of the album: "I let people in Hong Kong and Taiwan know that there is not only rock music in the mainland." Generally speaking, after reaching the peak, it is difficult to make any breakthroughs. No matter which direction you go, you will be "downhill", and you will go to death without exception. The wise move is to retreat bravely, but the result is the same. One point of death.For example, the Tang Dynasty. Six years ago, "Dream Back to the Tang Dynasty" pushed Chinese rock music to the extreme. The extreme means that it cannot be surpassed, and the inability to surpass means death.Six years later, the launch of "Romance" officially announced their deaths. People's expectations for six years are actually just a "death reprieve". After a lot of nonsense above, maybe you will ask: "Why are the flowers so red?" The answer is because they are young.The youthful impulsiveness who is not afraid of anything, the youthful passion with high spirits. Da Zhangwei is a great genius and a big piece of gold.Most of the time, it was my inner feelings that could only be written on a piece of manuscript paper, and he sang it in a few lines. The "opening speech" in Hua'er's album is well written, allow me to "borrow" it: They are "flowers", so they are eager to grow up and bloom. What they care about is how to spend time happily after "school", singing together or going around the street, or saving their pocket money for ice cream to buy mouth tapes.They also occasionally feel sad, because the puberty syndrome is running rampant in school; they also occasionally fantasize, because the book says tomorrow will be beautiful; and occasionally they ask some stupid questions, because life is not what the teacher taught .They don't know how to thank the company during interviews, don't know that they can't criticize music they don't like casually during live broadcasts, and don't even know that they have to pretend to be respectful in front of big stars.They carefreely watch cartoons and eat snacks on the cusp of the times, and are always ready to play the masters of the new era. The magazine said that those long-established music critics had difficulty organizing the vocabulary they had been comfortable with after hearing this album, and said "that's great" out of words.My evaluation of Hua'er is also "too good". (There is a kind of Ah Q spirit of "I am also a long-established music critic" hidden here. I found that I am not only good at self-criticism but also good at self-promotion.) end After the six dreams are over, I am still an ordinary high school student after Huang Liang and the six dreams, and my scalp is numb with my life and exams.I applaud myself because I am young and because I am happy (although many times I complain about the helplessness and boredom of life). I like "By the Side of Happiness" very much: There is room for reality in reality/Dreams are not easy to come true/When I wake up, I suddenly find/I have always been beside happiness. Be ideal but not fantasy, be passionate but not hypocritical.Be content with everything.