1993 My China Entertainment Age

Chapter 28 The End of the Era of Poetry, Communication with Taohong

On March 1989, 3, the poet Haizi committed suicide by lying on the railway tracks in Shanhaiguan, burning his young life.

Like all poets who "take dreams as horses", Haizi personally experienced the social transformation process from stifling material desires and only talking about spirit in the 70s and 80s, to abandoning spirits and spreading material desires in the late [-]s.

Faced with the conflict between reality and ideals, Haizi was confused, his hope was shattered, and he felt that he could no longer "live poetically in the world", so he chose to end his life.

Two months before Haizi passed away, he had just written the classic lyric poem - "Facing the Sea, Spring Blossoms".

Some people say that the 80s was the era of poetry, and the departure of Haizi announced the passing of an era.

On October 1993, 10, the poet Gu Cheng chopped his wife Xie Ye to death with an ax due to a marriage change in his apartment in New Zealand. After killing his wife, he hanged himself under a big tree.

After this bad news was sent back to China, it caused a great sensation in the poetry and literary circles.

You must know that Gu Cheng, like Haizi, has high attainments in new poems, old style poems and fable poems. In his "One Generation", a line "The night gave me black eyes/I use them to find light" It has become a classic line of Huaguo's new poetry.

Ten days later, Bei Dao wrote an epilogue in the winter issue of "Today": "The departure of Gu Cheng and Xie Ye is shocking, and the world seems emptier. The past is like a big ship sailing away. Owner."

That was the last year of Bei Dao's "self-exile". Five years later, he lived in seven countries and published a collection of essays "The Blue House".

In one of the essays entitled "A Guest from Poland", Bei Dao wrote sadly: "At that time we had dreams, about literature, about love, about traveling across the world. Now we drink late at night, the cup touches Together, it is the sound of broken dreams."

Literature has had an easier time than tragic poetry.

One day in 1993, Wang Shuo went to Feng Xiaogang's home and threw him a novel called "Wen Gu 1942".

After Feng Xiaogang read it, he thought that "the understanding of his own nation had taken a leap forward", so he asked Liu Zhenyun for the copyright and wanted to make a movie.

Liu Zhenyun said unhurriedly: "Wait a minute, we are still young, and we haven't seen the problem comprehensively yet."

Wang Shuo and Feng Xiaogang were about to start a film company together, but they failed to come up with a script for a long time, so they went to Liu Zhenyun and asked for the film and television copyright of the novel "Chicken Feathers in All Places".

After selling this work, Liu Zhenyun got 8 yuan, and hurriedly took his family to Wangfujing to eat KFC.

This is the literature in 1993. Excluding Jia Pingwa Shehuang's "Abandoned Capital" and Chen Zhongshi's "White Deer Plain" easily sold more than [-] copies, pure literature is becoming less and less sellable.

Su Tong, Wang Anyi, Ge Fei, Yu Hua and other writers all followed in Wang Shuo's footsteps and began to get involved in film and television as screenwriters and planners.

Before going down the mountain, Jiang Xiaofeng also thought about writing (copying) the script by himself, becoming a screenwriter like Wang Shuo, becoming a great writer or something, but he also has self-knowledge and knows that his writing skills are limited. (Copy) Songs are much easier.

Jiang Xiaofeng is quite a twisted person. He actually knows very well which songs will definitely become popular, and which songs may have a mediocre response.

But Jiang Xiaofeng didn't want to force himself, he would rather write some songs that he likes and has a chance to be loved.

Although Jiang Xiaofeng has written the two folk songs "Drum Tower" and "Those Flowers" so far, Jiang Xiaofeng also understands in his heart that after the release of these two songs, he will not be able to make him popular, but will only make him popular in the world. The mainland music scene has emerged, that's all.

Moreover, in terms of folk songs, Jiang Xiaofeng felt that it was difficult for him to write a phenomenal folk song like "Childhood" or "Your Deskmate", so after writing two ballads, he began to try to write rock songs .

In addition, the work efficiency of Dadi Records is really too low, which makes Jiang Xiaofeng feel very disappointed, because the two songs "Drum Tower" and "Those Flowers" have been recorded for several months, but Dadi Records has not released them for a long time.

Jiang Xiaofeng didn't intend to hang himself from a tree either. He decided to find another record company to cooperate with after he finished writing a new song.

The Moyan culture founded by Zhang Peiren has become Jiang Xiaofeng's first choice for cooperation.

The famous musician Li Zongsheng has such a sentence in his song "The Man Who Races Himself", "Dear landy, my brother, you rarely beat others, but this time you surpass yourself", this is called the younger brother by Li Zongsheng Landy is Zhang Peiren, the founder of Magic Rock Culture.

In fact, Moyan Culture, the record company, was recommended to Jiang Xiaofeng by He Yong.

He Yong is a signed singer of Dadi Records. He signed a contract with Dadi Records as early as 1991. However, he joined Dadi Records for nearly three years and did not get a chance to release a film. He wanted to leave Dadi Records and switch to Moyan Culture.

And Jiang Xiaofeng and He Yong also got in touch and communicated with each other when they were recording songs at Dadi Records, and became good friends.

As a native of Yanjing, He Yong overheard the song "Drum Tower" sung by Jiang Xiaofeng when he was in the company, which gave him a steady stream of inspiration, and immediately began to compose the song "Bell and Drum Tower".

night.

The moon and stars are rare.

The crew of "Sunny Day" stayed at the hotel.

in the room.

Holding the guitar, Jiang Xiaofeng played and sang Taohong's new rock song - "The Brightest Star in the Night Sky".

"the brightest star in the night sky

Can you hear
the one who looks up

Loneliness and sigh
oh, the brightest star in the night sky

can you remember
traveled with me

figure lost in the wind
......"

Although Taohong heard this song for the first time, she felt that the song "The Brightest Star in the Night Sky" sung by Jiang Xiaofeng gave her a refreshing feeling, which was better than many rock songs she had heard before. , should be trendier, more fashionable, and easier to accept.

Especially listening to Jiang Xiaofeng's playing and singing in person is completely different from listening to tapes at home.

To put it more simply, for example, the difference between watching live and listening to CDs is like the difference between watching an island blockbuster and fighting with real knives and guns. The feeling is definitely different.

"I pray to have a transparent heart

and tearful eyes

give me the courage to believe again

oh, hug you over lies
Whenever I can't find the meaning of existence

whenever i get lost in the dark

oh~ the brightest star in the night sky

please guide me close to you

......"

In the process of listening to Jiang Xiaofeng's singing, Tao Hong was once again impressed by Jiang Xiaofeng's singing and talent.

For most men, as long as their appearance is not ugly, they will look the same after a long time, but talent can make a mediocre, even a little ugly man shine.

For example, Jiang Wen, who looks like Yuanmou people, is just because of his talent, which makes him attractive.

As for Jiang Xiaofeng himself, he looks bad, but he is not bad, and he has the talent of writing and singing. After such packaging, he feels very literary.

After singing the song, Jiang Xiaofeng put down the guitar and asked confidently, "How do you feel? Is this song okay?"

Tao Hong smiled and nodded: "Well, the writing is pretty good, and the singing is also nice."

Before Jiang Xiaofeng could answer, Taohong asked again: "By the way, have the two songs you wrote before been published? When will you be able to buy the tapes?"

Jiang Xiaofeng asked uncertainly: "I don't know either. They said it's coming soon, shouldn't it be soon? I'll ask another day."

Tao Hong smiled and comforted: "It's okay, don't worry, what should come will always come."

After chatting for a while, Jiang Xiaofeng threw away the guitar, pulled Taohong again, and made out in the room.

After a long period of ideological education, Taohong no longer resists Jiang Xiaofeng's "rogue" behavior.

Although Taohong is still a little embarrassed and not very let go, but now every time she makes out, Jiang Xiaofeng's hands can walk freely on her buttocks.

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