There is a chain of contempt in every social circle. The characteristics of culture have a chain of contempt for cultural characteristics, and the film and television industry has a chain of contempt for the film and television industry, and the music industry is naturally no exception. In "Tucao Conference", Zang Hongfei brought the contempt chain of the music industry to the stage. "Those who play classical style look down on those who play jazz dance, those who play jazz dance look down on those who play rock music, and those who play rock music look down on those who play fashion. These people all look down on those who play rap."
Zang Hongfei because This matter is on the hot search list and has become an obvious hot spot among many friends in the music industry. Afterwards, Zang Hongfei said again, "That's what I heard. I don't think so at all! But you can't think about this matter. Just think about it, it's nothing like that." If you think about it carefully, this is indeed a common potential situation. Existence, as shown in the Internet drama "Flash Girl" with very high ratings, the professional contempt chain of music school students is roughly divided into: Arranger GT; Guidance GT; Orchestra GT; National Instrumental Music GT; Instrumental Music GT; Music Culture Education>Musicology.
A group of children who studied Western music were beaten up several times in film and television works because they did not like those who studied folk instrumental music. As melon-eating people, we don’t have to be horrified to think that musicians are so arrogant, shouting the slogan that music transcends borders and music has no height. As far as our general audience is concerned, there is more or less contempt for it. Most people are immersed in the following levels: European and American music gt; Japanese music gt; Korean music gt; Hong Kong and Taiwan music gt; domestic music gt; other regions.
Everyone can always hear voices like this, "It's 2020 and you're still chasing Korean stars", "The songs you sing are inevitably too low, I only listen to XXX". So the question is, does the existence of the contempt chain have too strong a sense of pride, or a weak sense of pride?
After all, fans are often so obsessed and stubborn about certain types of music, which is essentially a sense of identity and a humanized mentality. The development environment of most people is filled with excessive depression, lack of self-confidence, and denial. It causes a group of people to find differences in themselves from certain obsessions to enhance their self-confidence.
On the other hand, it may be a "rebellious mentality". People follow the trend too much and engage in cathartic consumption in pursuit of so-called innovation. I don’t know since when, many people no longer care about whether they like it or not, but only care about whether this thing is fashionable. I like it when it is fashionable, and I care about it when everyone admires it, and I am proud of it. Even the music APP is submissive and goes along with the flow.
Is there any difference in musical taste? Maybe, but not necessary. Music is about aesthetics, and aesthetics itself cannot be defined. Just like the flowery pants and shirts that people despised in the past, they can now be seen in top fashion shows, and then injected into our market, they are favored and eventually sold out.
Everything in Feng Shui rotates, it’s just thirty years in Hedong and thirty years in Hedong District. There is nothing to compete with, to despise what should be despised, and to love what should be loved. But if you put it on a music platform or Zhihu Q&A, you will see some people arguing over boring questions like "Is it safe for Hua Chenyu to criticize folk songs on "Tomorrow's Son"?"
There are also some people who are likely to quickly take a position and start online trolling. Isn’t it tiring to be so “contemptuous”? In fact they are essentially the same as each other. Some people don't like the music you like, just like some people hate champagne, I don't believe in love. Contempt can exist, but it does not mean that I despise because others despise it.
There are some things that everyone has their own opinions on, despise and pay attention to, and just like it but don’t criticize what others like. Just like the 2017 variety show "Hip-Hop in China", the incomparable GAI was dragged into the show, and he turned to the camera and said with disdain that these so-called IDOLs and popular celebrities must "die" , just don’t brush aside.
He has been slapped in the face more than once.
Now in the second season of "I Am a Singer-Songwriter", he said: "Respect, Zhang Yixing." He was slapped in the face again and again, and netizens even made a slap-in-the-face compilation for our GAI. Therefore, it is not false at all to say that contemporary people are forgetful. On the one hand, I despise the poor singing skills of this one, the ugly appearance of that one, and the rap of this one is not as good as that DJ’s electronic music. In the blink of an eye, the person becomes a fan and follows everyone to brag and dominate the screen: "He/she is indeed very diligent."
The generation of the contempt chain is ultimately due to everyone's enigmatic pursuit of perfection in "taste". The scary thing is that people with no taste force themselves to do things that are inappropriate and annoying. Cultural derivatives such as music, paintings, and videos that can express people's aesthetics and tastes seem to indirectly reflect the status of the viewer. Therefore, what kind of music to listen to and what kind of exhibitions to see can also be changed. It has become part of the logo and an asset to show off in WeChat Moments, highlighting the sense of unwarranted pride. Therefore, the further you go, the less it is meant to be.
For those who really like and have a disdain for some post-modern products with little cultural connotation, of course they will not use contempt as an excuse to launch unprovoked attacks on others or works. and bashing. So what is wrong with effective contempt? It's enough if you don't listen.
Singer Yang Kun bluntly criticized "Thunder" in the live broadcast room, calling it trash and not being counted as a song, and released hurtful words: "Those who listen to Thunder don't need to come to me. Live broadcast room!" As soon as this statement came out, a large number of Internet trolls appeared, and their comments ranged from praising Yang Kun's straightforward temperament to ridiculing Yang Kun for not knowing him.
MC Liudao, the original singer of "Thunder", has also agreed to high-profile pronunciation. He said in the video: "Existence means reality. "Thunder" is more popular than any other song by Yang Kun." Most of them. People are actually just sitting back and watching, but whether this is a good piece of music and whether it has a negative impact on the current music sales market, too few people really care and care.
First of all, MC Liudao’s understanding of good works is wrong. Fire does not mean good music. In today's impetuous era, the standard and greatest achievement for everyone can be summed up in one word: fire. But they don’t know that attention is just attention, and such a view is the biggest stain on good musicians.
Nowadays, various brainwashing songs and saliva songs far exceed these serious and time-consuming works. The rapid spread of the Internet has made this kind of instant noodle music quickly become popular. That doesn't necessarily mean whether music is good or not. As MC Liu Dao often says, there is no distinction between high and low in music. But what he failed to understand is that there are good and bad music!
Not to mention that the lyrics of the song "Thunder" lack any connotation and logic, and the theme is also elusive. Even part of the rhythm cannot be called arrangement and production. At most, it is within the scope of alternative shouting. How can it be called music? As the incident progressed, more careful netizens revealed that the accompaniment music of "Thunder" was plagiarized from "Girl Let Me DJ". This shows that people and songs are both shocking and shocking at the same time.
You can’t be contemptuous, just like you can’t be proud, it destroys what we already have. There will always be a group of people who mistakenly believe that being unpopular means being superior, and that people who are unpopular are superior to others. But it just exposed his foolish nature. High-end and unpopular are definitely not synonyms. To put it bluntly, high-end is based on good works and has our pragmatism and truth-seeking things. It is not only expressed in music, but also in a category that everyone can understand.
In this way, it is not impossible for high-end to be successfully balanced with commercial services. Since it is linked to commercial services, of course it has nothing to do with popularity. There are very few musicians who can achieve a certain balance between the two, but there must be such people. What do you think?