Fang Wenshan File

36 years old, he has delivered newspapers, worked as a foreign labor agency, and installed pipelines. There are many masterpieces in the lyrics written by Fang Wenshan for Jay Chou: "Dragon Fist", "Nunchaku", "Double Knife", "Love in B.C.", "Shanghai 1943", "William's Castle", "East Wind Breaks", "Qili Xiang"... ...Other works include Wen Lan's "The Cat in the Alley", Coco Lee's "Dao Ma Dan", Jiang Hui's "The Sound of Falling Rain", Jolin Tsai's "Prague Square", Tony Leung Chiu-wai's "Wind Sand", etc. He used to be the director of the copyright department of Alpha Records and is currently the editor-in-chief of Chinese Territory Publishing House.

Coincidentally, Fang Wenshan, who is ten years older than Jay Chou, was also discovered by Wu Zongxian. After graduating from a vocational college, Fang Wenshan worked as a newspaper deliverer, a factory contractor, a foreign labor agency, and a worker installing security system pipelines. Out of his love for words and movies, Fang Wenshan applied for two courses. Systematically learned "jobs" related to writing such as film screenwriting and script creation, and also obtained an "employment certificate" issued by an industry association. He then sent more than a hundred lyrics bound into volumes to major record companies until he received a call from Wu Zongxian in July 1997, signing a seven-year songwriting contract, and signed with Jay Chou to Alpha Records. . In this way, Fang Wenshan became Jay Chou's "Queen Lyricist".

In the album "Qili Xiang", Fang Wenshan wrote the lyrics for four of the lyrics: "My Land", "Qili Xiang", "Dancing in Spring and Autumn", and "Garden Party". Similarly, Fang Wenshan Jay Chou's lyrics have basically nothing to do with Jay Chou's music. Their lyrics and music can be two different things. The lyrics and the style of the music may even run counter to each other. However, this phenomenon is very adaptable to the unconstrained demands of modern people. This has also become their music. One of the reasons why it is so popular across the country. Fang Wenshan is using Jay Chou's music as a platform to publish his personal works, such as his "William's Castle". Without listening to the melody of the song, the lyrics are written as if he is running away from a vampire, but the melody is very brisk, and it is two Different directions are also reflected in "My Place" and "Garden Party".

Some commentators believe that the surface of Fang Wenshan's lyrics is far greater than the content. He cannot do what Lin Xi did in "Ten Years", where there is not a single unfamiliar and fresh vocabulary, not a single name of a person or place. You can describe an emotion vividly. In fact, from "East Wind Breaks" to the current "Qili Xiang", Fang Wenshan has tried to break away from weird scenes such as castles, cats, and entrance halls, write poems and lyrics, and seek artistic conception. Regarding the fact that the title song "Qili Xiang" was criticized for being "a vernacular and gross", it is not surprising that Fang Wenshan was scolded. The most important thing for Fang Wenshan right now is to stick to the end.

Taiwanese musician Huang Shujun said in an interview with the Chinese Music Media Awards, "In this era, without Jay Chou, he would be lonelier." And without Fang Wenshan, Jay Chou will definitely be lonelier.