The music scene in 1997 was gray, and Beijing rock music was in its darkest period. Rock PARTY was once an ideal cultural home for young people with vigor and vitality. In 1997, it was more or less a shelter for family survivors, young and old. The old and new bands tried to move the last group of adherents on this occasion, and the adherents also wanted to be moved, but the ending was very embarrassing; no one was moved, and everyone was disappointed with the other.
When rock music begins to have difficulty communicating with its last holdouts, there is certainly something wrong with the music and its creators. A kind of morbid fragility, empty sadness, cheap self-coldness, and helpless depression are all present in it. To some extent, they have lost their early avant-garde and progressive nature, and have lost their role as a leadership class for young music lovers.
Beijing rock music has become a kind of problem music. They are in an unprecedented musical dilemma, and this dilemma must be the same problem faced by the entire young cultural group to some extent. When a dilemma troubles us, then how to get out of it, such as expressing a new state with a new concept, becomes the most challenging problem.
At this time, the sober band "Great!" ? " appeared. Compared with most rock albums, this album presents many contrasting colors. They pay more attention to a new state of the city. Their role positions them as a group of the happiest hedonists and vested interests in urban life. They sing happily about this life, which is filled with happy consumption mood and simple sense of satisfaction.
They are more fashionable and familiar with city life. They have good jobs and seem content with everything. "Great! ? "shows their comfortable laziness; "Memories Are Scattered" shows a kind of autumnal kindness full of fashion and aesthetic colors; Lucia's beauty in "Forever Day" is depicted so simply and without personality. We are very happy, we have nothing to be dissatisfied with, we are the most dazzling and colorful new humanity, this is the impression given to people by the Lucid Band.
This album by the Lucid Band is a fashionable breakthrough to the old rock music state. The reason why music can continue to develop is largely because it can show new life states and learn from them. Create new cultural trends. The Lucid Band's album triggered a new appreciation change among urban youth, and this change is exactly what the music industry and many music fans looking for new cultural trends are eagerly waiting for.
The new works of Lucid Band and the recent works of other sixth-generation directors and avant-garde theater directors all present a new change, which leads to a compromise between the original avant-garde personality and the real life situation. Fusion and connection are gradually reaching a reasonable state. The maturity of the new generation of artists has enabled them to finally break through the boundary between the fringe and the mainstream and become the main elaborators of the new cultural state. In a way, Lucid's "Great!" ? "The most vivid and complete expression of this transformation, therefore, it is the most important music album in 1997, and it is also the most iconic cultural work.