Liu Li, Shi Xuan, Zhu Zhu, Fan Fan and Wu Du
In this Golden Melody Award, they won the Best Newcomer Award, the Best Orchestra Award and the Song of the Year Award, which made them the biggest winners of this Golden Melody Award, and at the same time, they also attracted many discussions and doubts. This is not only because they beat Mayday, Jay Chou, Yoga Lin and many other pop musicians, but also because people rarely hear such songs, which are decadent and noisy, which are not the style of pop music at all. On the contrary, they perfectly fit the public's impression of rock music-noisy.
In fact, their songs are not complicated, and they are usually based on a melody motive. Their guitars are rough and powerful, a little dance rock and a little post-punk. In fact, their Bass style is inherited from the Northern Ireland band Two Door Cinema Club, and the drums are as heavy as Guns N' Roses. In a word, their style is characteristic enough and powerful enough.
Of course, Caodong has no party, and their charm goes far beyond that.
Cao Dong can reach such a high level, not only because he is very pleasant to listen to, but also because there are many pleasant songs. In fact, when we listen to music, we listen more to the thoughts hidden behind it. Jonathan Lee once said: Pop music reflects a mirror of our times, while Caodong reflects "the shadow of the Lu snake generation".
When we talk about Caodong, we have to talk about Taiwan Province in the 21st century. After the failure of industrial transformation in the first decade, Taiwan Province's economy still depends on the technology-based industries of the last century. When young people from mainland China have devoted themselves to the Internet, e-commerce and online celebrity's economy, most young people in Taiwan Province still want to open a flower shop and coffee shop in Taipei. Facing the mainland with rapid economic and technological development, young people in Taiwan Province really look like islanders. I'm afraid to go out, and I'm afraid of others coming in, and I don't know where to go. This inner anxiety is also directly reflected in the creation of Taiwan Province Band. Including Mayday, their 213 "Ensemble" also directly alluded to the social issues in Taiwan Province Island, such as the Belle Bay incident, the Tai Po incident and the Hong Zhongqiu incident.
The official MV
After omnipotent youth society became popular in Taiwan Province. I often discuss with my friends, will young people in Taiwan Province like this band from North China Plain? Can they really understand the meaning behind those pharmaceutical companies and table tennis teenagers? In fact, young people in Taiwan Province have a strong * * sound about the situation of the useless generation described in Wan Qing's songs, that is, the so-called diaosi (called Fei Qing in Hong Kong and Lu Snake in Taiwan Province). The useless diaosi image in Wan Qing's songs directly hit the hearts of young people in Taiwan Province. In this rapidly developing industrialized society, it seems that all young people have the same confusion.
Before Caodong, another band "Then I See What You Mean" album "Nobody cares about what you care about" had already created that kind of diaosi image, and Caodong's appearance condemned all the "Xiao Zhenxing" to death. Before Caodong, Taiwanese troupes such as Sodagreen and Wangfu always carried a little fortunate belonging to Taiwan Province Island, and then became popular, such as Sunset Ride, Deca Joins, Sweet John, etc., which also inherited this tradition. The label of romantic rock and roll is actually a long-standing illusion of Taiwan Province Island, which has been deeply affecting these bands. The biggest difference between Caodong and these Taiwan Province bands is that they no longer indulge in the "little fortunate" of the past, but shout at the top of their lungs.
backstage reply: girls' group, save the whole series of "Then I see what you mean"
Taiwan Province youth represented by Cao Dong, they really want to fight for something, such as medical insurance system, rapid transit system, M-government legal system, etc., but they find that these things seem to have been fought for by their predecessors, but their lives have not changed for the better. So they sang: "What I want to say, people have said before, and what I want to do, people have done before."
There is no party in Mud Grass East? -? Ugly slave
For another example, we always feel that students in Taiwan Province are always engaged in student luck, but every time they become pawns of great people, and this society has not changed at all. Then we should simply stop doing so much and just stay put, so they sang, "Don't raise your pistols, there are no people who resist here."
brave people don't have a party? -? Ugly slave
and the song "The Wind Blows" that won the Golden Melody Award. This song is just a roar from the heart of the young people in Taiwan Province, crying and shouting, but no one cares. While the mainland has become a super-strong economy, Taiwan Province is becoming more and more insignificant. On the island, the imperfect M-master system, which was concealed by the rapid economic development in the past, is now in danger. Therefore, they had to put away their former romance under the night sky in Taipei, and instead shouted at the top of their lungs.
there's no party when the wind blows? -? Ugly slaves, in fact, the problems faced by young people in Taiwan Province, represented by Cao Dong, are not the problems faced by us "mainland youths"? With the infinite prosperity in the north and the extreme poverty in the vast rural areas, the huge gap between the rich and the poor and the insurmountable class barriers, we are faced with no less problems than them. Therefore, Caodong is also popular among mainland fans. Of course, these issues are not the focus of this article, so I will stop here for the time being.
I saw Cao Dong's live scene in Hefei once before, and their solid playing skills and strong stage style also ensured their popularity in the independent music circle. Therefore, I specially arranged the lossless version of Cao Dong's Ugly Slave and many scattered Live golden songs outside the album. In the public number: the rose will not come again, and the backstage reply "Caodong" can be saved.
I have to mention the universality of Caodong as a rock band. Some people were hit by the humble feelings of "He understands, he understands, I can't afford it" in Shanhai (this is still thanks to Tik Tok's "blessing"), some people admired the frustration and fear in the love torn apart in Love Song, and others thought that Cao Dong was the mirror and the horn of the snake generation in Lu, but who can really say it clearly? After all, Cao Dong is still a relatively young band. Recently, they released the studio version of "As usual", and I think the new album that fans are looking forward to is coming soon. Ah, just thinking about it like this is very exciting.
thank you for reading.