China News Service, Beijing, November 19th (Liu Yue) The Chinese music scene tonight is very lively.
Jay Chou, the king of Asia, opened the online "Brothers Club", and sang five hit songs "Still Wandering", "Peninsula Iron Box", "Sunny Sky", "Scent of Rice", and "Missed Fireworks". The number of likes in the live broadcast exceeded 1 billion. Watch The number of people exceeded tens of millions.
And next door, the unplugged concert brought by the first-generation "returning top streamer" Luhan was launched simultaneously, and the data is also impressive.
What's interesting is that when the two scenes were "brother games", Jay Chou connected with Fang Wenshan to review the years of friendship together, while Lu Han joined Mao Buyi, Wang Mian and others to meet friends and share interesting life stories.
However, compared to the harmonious atmosphere of Lu Han, Jay Chou and Fang Wenshan's "business" scenes are very strange.
Jay Chou Fang Wenshan is connected.
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As soon as the "Friends Club" was launched, Jay Chou complained about Fang Wenshan: "I didn't have a good impression of him at first, but I thought this person was very rude." "Fang Wenshan's lyrics are really hard to memorize." "It's rare to hear him. praise".
And Fang Wenshan was not to be outdone, "Jay asked his friends to perform in the MV, and it usually didn't end well." "Jay didn't wear underwear for a while." "Jay slept in the company at the time, taking advantage of the company"...
Look, you make fun of me, I make fun of you, it really fits the name of Eason Chan's song - "Best Bad Friend".
Comments from netizens: Laughing to death, is this the social difference between young people and middle-aged people?
In fact, the word "harmful friend" is not enough to define the relationship between Jay Chou and Fang Wenshan.
Having known each other for many years, they are close friends, confidants, and each other's "best partners" on the road of acting.
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Accompanying each other through the journey without a name
"At that time, we were all newcomers. He had no money to rent a house, so he lived in Wu Zongxian's office, slept on the floor with a sleeping bag, (like) a homeless man." Fang Wenshan recalled the two at the "Friends Club". In the hard days back then, "I went from Taoyuan to Taipei, and I rode a motorcycle home every day, and it took two hours to ride a motorcycle back the next day. When he arrived at the company, Jay was still sleepy, and sometimes he still didn't get up."
Perhaps genius and genius always go hand in hand.
The life trajectories of this pair of golden partners have some indescribable overlaps.
Both Jay Chou and Vincent Fang have mediocre backgrounds: Jay Chou's parents are divorced, and his mother Ye Huimei is a middle school art teacher; Vincent Fang, who has a strong background in Chinese culture, is not from a scholarly family, but grew up in an ordinary blue-collar family.
The stardom of the two was also bumpy: after graduating from high school, Jay Chou failed to apply for the Music Department of Taipei University twice, so he could only work in restaurants while preparing for his music dream; Fang Wenshan worked in an anti-theft system in a town on the outskirts of Taipei before entering the industry. For maintenance work, he laughed at himself as "a plumber".
The two were discovered by Wu Zongxian successively, and entered Alpha Music Company, which opened their first experience in the entertainment industry where talents were underappreciated.
Screenshot of Jay Chou's first album "Jay" QQ Music
Initially, Jay Chou was the only composer in the company, but because his personal style was too avant-garde, he was often "returned". In the future, the popular "Nunchuck" and "Ninja" were actually useless songs that others didn't want.
At that time, the future music king felt that "I didn't sing very well", and was troubled by the inability to sell songs, and never embraced the so-called star dream.
Fang Wenshan is also facing the darkest moment of his life.
In the first year of joining the company, he did not publish any works, which caused Fang Wenshan a huge psychological gap.
He took the initiative to make a request to Wu Zongxian-I will automatically cut my salary and write songs at home.
Later, the two became partners, and they accidentally sparked when they were co-creating "The Sound of Rain" by Jiang Hui, a Hokkien queen.
At that time, the record company called Fang Wenshan and said that the song "The Sound of Rain" was very good, but could they just buy the song and not the lyrics?
"The song was written by Jay Chou, and the lyrics were written by me. He submitted more than 100 copies, and the first sold song, he actually called and said, can we just buy the song and not the lyrics." Fang Wenshan was hit hard, Fortunately, after one and a half months, the record company decided to buy the lyrics and music together, because they compared them and felt that the lyrics written by others were not as good as the original version.
Regarding this unknown period, Fang Wenshan said, "Life is interesting because you can't do what you want. Frustrations become landscapes, and the landscapes in the memory of life are piece by piece."
The gears of fate turn from this moment.
The tsunami that will sweep the Chinese music scene in the future is ready to go.
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The golden partner of seeking bosom friends in the mountains and flowing waters is now in its infancy
Perhaps no one expected that two underappreciated people would come together and become a pair of golden partners who would rise to fame in the Chinese music scene in the future.
Jay Chou is talented, has a unique singing style, and is imaginative in his creations. What is amazing is that Fang Wenshan, who loves Chinese studies and has a literary face, can actually keep up with Jay Chou's ever-changing style of music.
Jay Chou wanted to express his youthful love, Fang Wenshan gave him the love words "You suddenly said to me that Qi Lixiang's name is very beautiful"; Jay Chou loved classical beauty, Fang Wenshan wrote "The blue sky is waiting for misty rain, and I am waiting for you "; Jay Chou created an avant-garde song with the theme of "vampire", and Fang Wenshan wrote the eccentric "William Castle" based on this.
Screenshot of Jay Chou's "Qilixiang" MV
What's more interesting is that Jay Chou, who was quite rebellious when he was young, once publicly said, "Don't let the Korean wave become more and more arrogant, the Hualiu is the best."
And in "Compendium of Materia Medica", the shy Fang Wenshan wrote the lyrics: "Let me adjust a folk prescription to treat your internal injuries from being charming to the outside world"... It can only be said that intellectuals scold people, it is really not good Bring a dirty word.
As the pioneer of modern pop music "Chinese style", Jay Chou's first album has already included a Chinese style song "Lady".
"I didn't write it because I wanted to be popular, but I just felt that the Chinese style is very special." Jay Chou's initial attempt was just a whim, "Foreigners will feel very special when they hear it. Together."
Screenshot of "Lady" MV
On this point, Fang Wenshan showed a tacit understanding with Jay Chou, "The melody of that song is not a traditional Chinese ditty. To be on the safe side, I wrote several versions of the lyrics for him to choose. It was surprising that he would choose "The Lady" "." Fang Wenshan was pleasantly surprised, "The hero sees the same thing, so he can accept what I imagined."
Looking for bosom friends in high mountains and flowing waters, that should be the case.
From "Chrysanthemum Terrace", "Blue and White Porcelain", "Hair as Snow" to "Nocturne", "Rosemary" and "Shanghai 1943", the cooperation between the two can often achieve the effect of 1+1>2.
Fangci and Zhouqu are perfectly matched, so you don't have to worry about the melody becoming the foil of the words, and you don't have to worry about the words not expressing the meaning.
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When we met for the first time, you were actually not pleasing to the eye.
At the "Friends Club", Jay Chou and Fang Wenshan talked about their first impressions of each other, and the answers were very consistent - "I don't have a good impression of him." "To be honest, I don't have a good impression either."
At the beginning, Fang Wenshan thought that Jay Chou could not sing, and Jay Chou thought Fang Wenshan could not write lyrics.
Wu Zongxian gave Fang Wenshan two songs to listen to. Fang Wenshan said that the other song was better - he didn't know that Jay Chou was behind the door at that time.
Jay Chou once joked about this incident: "I just heard it outside and wanted to say that this person is finished."
Jay Chou and Fang Wenshan teased each other.
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Later, Wu Zongxian showed Jay Chou a thick notebook containing hundreds of lyrics.
Wu Zongxian said that this person is Fang Wenshan, and he found many record companies to contribute, but no one paid any attention to him.
At that time, Jay Chou complained secretly, "When I heard this, I felt that Wu Zongxian is really very kind, because I read a few lyrics, but to be honest, the writing is not very good."
However, after a period of running-in, the two gradually discovered the bright spots in each other. Jay Chou felt that he was in harmony with Fang Wenshan, "He has improved very fast and jumped out of the entire market. There are no such lyrics in the entire market. You can tell it was written by Fang Wenshan at a glance." Fang Wenshan was impressed by Jay Chou's talent, "In the field he is good at, he is a genius."
After getting acquainted with each other, the two quickly became bad friends who could tease each other. The "loss" lasted for more than 20 years, and they felt like an "old couple".
No, at the "Brothers Club" that night, the two had a great time dismantling each other.
Jay Chou revealed that in order to spoof Fang Wenshan, he once arranged for his friends to pretend to be gangsters to frighten him.
Fang Wenshan broke the news that when Jay Chou slept in the company, he didn't wear underwear for a while, and complained that he took advantage of the company, "Use the company's water, use the company's electricity, use the company's resources, sleep in the company."
Over the years, Jay Chou and Fang Wenshan's "mutual damage" is inseparable from the "lyric dispute".
Jay Chou often said that Fang Wenshan's lyrics were too profound and he couldn't understand them, while Fang Wenshan was very upset about Jay Chou's unauthorized modification of the lyrics of "The Wife", and once asked Jay Chou to sing again, "I told him, this song I don’t want to take money, please re-sing, he said, then I don’t need to take money, I just don’t want to re-sing.”
Jay Chou played the piano.
Photo by Xu Peijun
At the "Brothers Club" that night, Jay Chou once again complained to the host, "Fang Wenshan's lyrics are really hard to memorize." Jay Chou has the most right to say how difficult Fang Wenshan's lyrics are.
The incoherent concert in 2004 gave birth to a famous scene. Jay Chou brought the classic song "Forgetting Words Site" (formerly known as "My Site"). From the beginning to the end of the whole song, he only sang one line, "In my site You just have to listen to me, harvest the music and find happiness with your sense of hearing", and edited the rest directly on the spot.
Forget about Freestyle, he even made up lyrics on the spot to complain about Fang Wenshan: "Fang Wenshan, you wrote this lyrics too hard to memorize. I memorized it for a week and couldn't memorize it. What should I do? I can sing whatever I want. From the perspective of people, will I feel guilty, a little bit, it’s okay, I’ll ask the bullet to come out and recite it, okay?”
"Bullet" is the god who later wrote "If you don't love me, pull me down, the pectoral muscles I practiced, if you still want to rely on".
Among Jay Chou's works, in terms of down-to-earth, only the lyrics of "What Kind of Man" can compete with "If You Don't Love Me", and the lyrics of "What Kind of Man" are written by Jay Chou himself, just because Fang Wenshan is The drag king.
Fang Wenshan's large-scale art exhibition "Fang Dao Wen Shanliu" opened in Shanghai.
Photo by Kang Yuzhan
""What Kind of Man" was originally intended for Fang Wenshan, really, but he didn't hand it in to me after a few months, I said forget it, it's too late, I will write it myself."
Jay Chou also specially released a song to tease Fang Wenshan for his slow writing of lyrics, the opening lyrics are: "Wenshan, I will release the next album when you finish writing the lyrics, it's okay to take your time, I will do this song myself. "This song is called "Terraces". In 2004, Jay Chou was shortlisted for the 15th Taiwan Golden Melody Awards for the best lyricist in the pop music category with this song. It was a surprise.
"Terraces" MV Screenshot
For Jay Chou, how many Vincent Fangs can there be in his life?
The same is true for Fang Wenshan.
They are close friends, because they have gone through the darkest moments together; they are confidants, because they appreciate each other and share a common music dream; The childish appearance of fortification.
At the "Brothers Club" that night, Jay Chou sang "Sunny Day", "Peninsula Tin Box" and "Rice Fragrance" were songs voted by netizens.
These three songs are written by Jay Chou himself, and Fang Wenshan's favorite "Chrysanthemum Terrace", "Dongfeng Po" and "Beautiful Face Like Frost" did not make it to the playlist, but he is also in a good mood.
Screenshot of "Sunny Day" MV
Fang Wenshan said: "Because music is the catalyst of emotions, the votes are very high, because these songs contain their youth, their stories, and their past."
These youth, stories and past are not "theirs", but "you" and "us".
Tonight, thank you for your perfect combination, bringing us such a beautiful youth, and at the same time, I also respect your own unique and bright years.
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