To [1995]
...
...
In the mainland in 1995, after Jin Yong's "Jin Ye" and Wang Shuo's "June", Chinese young people had another "Star Master". What made such a respectful title popular was "A Chinese Odyssey" that was popular in mainland China this year.
On the TV screen, the TV series "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" occupied the prime time for most families. In this year, many old singers returned one after another, and Tian Zhen reappeared in the music industry with a song "Persistence". Rock veteran Zang Tianshuo also spent 10 years to release the album "My Ten Years", which included the well-known songs such as "Prayer of the Heart" and "Friends", and quickly sold more than 200,000 copies. Zhu Zheqin, who once won the National Singer Grand Prix Award, released the record "Ajie Drum", which attracted the attention and praise of the international recording industry.
Although classics are rare, many musical elements with national music have become popular: "Chinese Folk Ballad", "Wine on September 9", "Great China", and "Flowers and Full Moon" are all obvious examples. Li Chunbo, who sang "Xiaofang", sang another song "A Letter to Home", and Sun Yue added another song "A Good Mood" after "Wishing You Peace".
Again (reincarnation) band released their first album "Creation". Dou Wei released their second album "Sunny Sky". Wei Hua released their CD album "Modernization". The Swedish Loxeter band came to Beijing to perform. Zhang Ju, a bassist of the Tang Dynasty band, died in a car accident this year.
At the end of this year, a bar street in Sanlitun, Beijing began to appear.
In Hong Kong, Leslie Cheung announced his comeback and released the record "Pampering" after joining the Rolling Stone. Chen Huixian also officially returned to the world. Kelly Chen's rapid popularity was a miracle this year.
Huang Yaoming sang "Spring Light" and Guan Shuyi, Faye Wong and Andy Lau respectively released their cover albums "shirley-kan-all-time-favou", "Fei Mi Yi" and "me Touching Rhythm".
Faye Wong returned to her old career in "The Voice of Fei Mi" and practiced Deng's love songs in Fei's singing style. Li Ming's "Love You the Most in Life" was criticized by some music critics, and Li Ming and the record company fought back hard.
Changes in senior management of some Hong Kong record companies have led to major changes in the singer's contracting company. Lam Zixiang returned from Warner to Evergrande, Andy Lau switched from Warner to Artistic Dynamics, and Sammi Cheng switched from Huaxing to Warner.
On March 26 of the year, Anita Mui sang the banned song "Bad Girl" in the last concert in her Guangzhou, causing the official to shelve her application for singing in other parts of Guangdong.
In Taiwan, a song "Enlightenment" tailored for Xin Xiaoqi is based on the story of Xin Xiaoqi's love breakup as a blueprint. It makes Xin Xiaoqi cry and her eyes are filled with tears, which also makes her have the title of "The Queen of Healing Songs" from then on.
Faye Wong released the album "Sky", in which she adopted the singing style of the German band "Cranberry", and the popularity continued to rise with the release of "Chongqing Forest" starring her.
Huang Yingying's first album "Spring Light" released by E-Fan International Records is based on Zhang Yu's song "Returning the Heart" as its first feature, and the mtv of "Spring Light" has a very sensational and hinted that it is said to be deeply loved by lesbians.
Also in that year, one night, a man parked a car near his home and was hit by a motorcycle that was driving towards him and died. The person driving the motorcycle was a drunk student, and the person who was hit and killed was music producer Yang Minghuang. The student who was drunk and caused the accident was likely to have heard the music made by Yang Minghuang.
Also in 1995, singer Teresa Teng also died of asthma in Chiang Mai, Thailand. This is undoubtedly the biggest news event in the Chinese music scene this year. Teresa Teng left, leaving only her singing to accompany us, singing in the song
good-bye,mylove,
Goodbye, my lover.
good-bye,mylove,
From now on, separate from you.
I will love you forever and forever in my heart.
I hope you don't forget me...
`
To [1996]
...
...
In 1996, the four kings of the world still stood firm, but music fans were already tired of it, but they could not see other male singers breaking out. Jacky Cheung married Luo Meiwei this year. Faye Wong released works with a slightly alternative style such as "di-dar" and "Imperial" while pregnant with Dou Wei's child, which were very popular. Luo Wen withdrew from the stage this year and held his farewell performance from September 19 to 24. The Taming School temporarily held a 10th anniversary concert.
In Taiwan, Fan Xiaoxuan, who originally sang a love song for pure love, released an album "The Magic Book of Little Witches" that aims completely at the audience. The "Three Circles on the Left and Three Circles on the Right" in "Health Song" instantly sang throughout Taiwan, and also sang it throughout the towns and villages in the mainland.
Another big-hit singer is Su Huilun of the Rolling Stone. He broke through his previous sweet image. The formal singing adaptation "Lemon Tree" regained the market recognition and opened another singing path.
Shanghua Records is a local record company that has gradually grown after Dianjiang. In this year, they released the second album "Sea of ​​Tears" by newcomer Xu Ruyun. Xu Ruyun was powerless and her bel canto singing style has taken over some of Faye Wong's market and became the new favorite in the music industry.
In the mainland, 1996 is regarded as an important year in the ten years of the birth of Chinese pop music. Beijing grandly held a review event for Chinese pop music 1986-1996. Many people won their own awards and titles, but the mainland pop music industry is still wandering and waiting.
The old singer continued to make a comeback, Tu Honggang launched "Farewell My Concubine", Xie Xiaodong launched "Cherishing", and Guo Feng launched "Falling in Love".
The gathering of music and media depicts Beijing as a pilgrimage place for music youths. The wandering singers came to Beijing with their luggage on their backs with the bumpy train.
Overload Band, Face Band, Paradise Band, and Cobra all released their first albums this year. Zero Point Band also sang a popular song "Don't Misunderstand" that I don't know if it should be considered rock or pop.
In 1996, Cui Jian publicly apologized to Zhang Chu in the "Music Life" newspaper on September 13 for "inadvertent words and causing trouble."
On February 13, Icelandic female singer Bjock came to Beijing to perform.
In South Korea, the h.o.t group debuted, and they later became the first Korean band to be officially introduced to records by China.
`
To [1997]
...
...
In the early morning of October 20, 1997, singer Zhang Yusheng drove from Taipei to Tamsui and suffered a car accident and suffered a serious head injury. After being admitted to the hospital, he suffered from inhalation pneumonia and has been using drug instruments to maintain his life. On November 12, in the coma queen, Zhang Yusheng died of respiratory failure at the age of 31.
Not long ago, he just made new singer A-mei Zhang famous with good songs and superb production skills. "Sisters", "So you don't want anything" and so on almost sweeping the music industry.
Fan Xiaoxuan returned to the pure little girl style and sang "Snowman", Su Huilun continued her foolish route and sang "Duck", Zhang Zhenyue's masterpiece "What to do" was born this year, and Qi Yu released a new album "Camel? Bird? Fish", which went further and further on the ethereal and difficult road.
Following the success of "Sea of ​​Tears", Xu Ruyun won the market with "If Clouds Know" and "Sunshine Airport", and her unique "Yun-style singing style" became a new popular favorite.
In Hong Kong this year, Yang Caini and Zhou Huimin, the musical Jade Girl singers, announced their withdrawal from the entertainment industry. Jacky Cheung starred in the musical "Snow Wave Lake". Huang Yaoming's "Concert in the Sea of ​​People" was very popular. Faye Wong gave birth to a daughter for Dou Wei, while Nicholas Tse has been shouting and cheering like a shadow for a long time.
Some record companies have released collections of singer-songwriters, such as Rolling Stone’s “She’s Life” (Guo Jing) and Polykin’s “Bamboo Worker Fan” (Li Junzhu), but their reactions are all cold. The Hong Kong music scene is calling for newcomers while rejecting newcomers.
At the same time, the focus of Hong Kong media's reports on entertainment is often just that Peng Ling almost exposed her when she bows on her singing, Sammi Cheng's two feathers bra, etc. Some music critics can only continue to lament that there is entertainment but no music in the Hong Kong music scene.
The survey results of "Twenty Years of Golden Songs and Hong Kong Pop Culture" published at the end of the year show that people's overall impression of the Hong Kong music scene has declined, mainly because the songs are not good at melodies and poor lyrics. Most people in the music scene deny this. However, some record industry tycoon Zheng Donghan publicly admitted that Hong Kong's record market is the worst in 25 years.
This year, mainland pop music seemed to be booming. The number of interviews with Hong Kong and Taiwan celebrities in newspapers increased, and languages ​​such as "commercial operations" and "all-round publicity" appeared in various media. The opportunities for Hong Kong and Taiwan celebrities to hold concerts in the mainland have gradually increased, giving the mainland performance market a lot of experience and lessons. Therefore, the year and season of performances have come.
"Waiting" is a somewhat touching song, with Li Huizhen's voice so vividly. "Love or not" is very popular all over the country.
"Happy Hometown" launched by Zhongsing Guangzhou Company continues Chen Ming's peace and sensitivity and delicate grasp of music. Tian Zhen's "Cheers to Friends" is very beautiful and touching, and the folk-like song gives Tian Zhen a more powerful style interpretation.
Record companies began to use the concept of planning in large quantities, and gradually some individual planning series appeared in various singer albums. At the same time, behind-the-scenes people such as producers, arrangements, planning, and publicity have gradually gained people's attention. The emergence of these situations is inseparable from the culturally verbal propaganda language of DJs. 1997, in this year when it seemed plain but actually brewed, singers began to pay attention to publicity and "packaging".
Wang Lei's "Everything Starts with Love", Fly's "Thefly", Ziyue's "The First Volume", and Zhang Chu's "The Factory Building an Airplane" became the most important classic works of Chinese rock in 1997.
After two years of pain, the Beijing rock circle released the commemorative album "Goodbye Zhang Ju". The demo album "What to Do" of Nanchang Underground Orchestra "Pangu" began to be circulated in limited quantities in China at an extremely fast speed.
Xu Wei also released his first personal album "As Elsewhere". According to statistics from a music critic, the word "fantasy" appeared in this album 14 times.`
`
To [1998]
...
...
In 1998, Jingting, Wu Yingyin, Liu Yun and Beilei, the seniors in the 1950s and 1960s, held a concert in the name of the four great queens. However, the popular music kings and queens all linked them to advertising songs.
Luo Jialiang's "The Legend of Heaven and Earth" has won the sales chart for three consecutive weeks. During the same period, Ku Juji and Lai Ming's new discs were all pressed at a low level. Zheng Yijian's record sales also once overwhelmed Aaron Kwok, but it attracted doubts about the record sales chart with Warner.
Polykin Records, which rose in the 1970s, changed its name from the same year. Eason Chan performed the "My Happy Era Concert" at the Hong Kong Arts Festival.
Andy Hui, Jacky Cheung, and Zheng Zhongqi collaborated on a song "A, B, C, and D". In addition to this kind of cooperation, cross-border cooperation suddenly became popular: Kennyg played the erotic style in Andy Lau's "You Are My Woman", and all4one sang "i-cross-my-heart" with Sammi Cheng.
According to reports at the end of 1998, Hong Kong's record market shrank by 40%.
In mainland China, in 1998, overseas companies entered China one after another. Sony signed veterans in the music industry such as Liu Huan, Han Lei, Li Chunbo in one fell swoop; Baidai signed Na Ying in Shanghai; Warner Company merged with the new mainland production company Mai Tian Records; BMG Company also came with Sun Nan, Xin Xin and Qu Ying. Domestic companies were not willing to fall behind, and Xiyangyang Records, which has abundant financial resources behind it, was also established; all kinds of large and large records and cultural companies were registered, waiting quietly, waiting to be divided into a piece of cake.
In 1998, Man Wenjun's "Make Your Sky the Most Beautiful" and Sun Nan's "Nan Aurora" achieved excellent results in sales. Both of them had excellent voices and a friendly face that was accepted by the general public. Li Chunbo released the album "Poverty and Rich" in the expectation of many people, which can detect his intentions and intent to explore more in-depth content. Han Hong, a female singer launched by Kirin Tong Company, won a lot of applause for her song "Hometown" with her "Tibetan emotions".
In 1998, mainland music works paid more attention to later work such as assembly and downmix, which shows that the production power in the mainland is gradually increasing, and singers' self-quality awareness is also taking shape.
Also in this year, Cui Jian released his sixth album "The Power of Incompetence" and held a large-scale performance in Shijiazhuang. The Beijing Punk Holy Land "Howl" opened, and the door couplet in the bar reads 10 words: Metal and old men are not allowed to enter.
"The Age of Punk" was founded in Guangzhou. In addition to introducing excellent foreign rock information, it also explores and promotes little-known underground music in China.
Baoluo's "Flowers of Heaven", Chenhui's "Liberation", "China Fire 3", Dou Wei's "Mountains and Rivers", "New Pants", "Modern Sky i", and Chen Dili's "I'm Euii", are released this year.
Other important rock albums are "No"'s "Lost Master", "Pangu"'s "**** Middle Burning", Wang Lei's "Spring Dream in Guangzhou", and Feng Jiangzhou's "Fly in Love".
In Taiwan, Malaysian singer A Niu's "The Girl on the Opposite Sees Over" has brought Richie Richie's popularity to a higher level. Zhou Huajian, Lee Zongsheng and Huang Pinguan sang a song "Recently Annoying" in Zhou Huajian's new album "People with Stories". Not only them, the Taiwan Rolling Stone where they are also a little annoyed. The rise of other record companies has begun to shake the dominance of Taiwan Rolling Stone for many years.
During this year, Tai Zhengxiao was singing "Loves like Mahjong", Qi Qin was singing "What do I love you with", Wu Sikai was singing "Dance Moonlight", and Zheng Zhihua turned from the mall to the music industry and released his new album.
Chen Sheng also published his new album "Opium Rose" this year, but when it was published in mainland China, the album was renamed "The Taste of Life".
`
To [1999]
...
...
The mainland entertainment industry in 1999 was very lively: the dispute between Jin Yong and Wang Shuo, Jiang Wen's filming of "The Devils Are Coming", etc., all attracted a lot of attention.
There are also many things that people cannot predict in the music industry, such as the appearance of Pu Shu. Folk, electronic, and rock are appearing in the album "I Go 2000". The arrangement of producer Zhang Yadong has given Pu Shu's music more room for development, making campus folk music such as music since 1994 begin to expand.
The old singer Chen Lin also made great efforts to change her personal style. The fashionable electronic music style in "Go Away" changed Chen Lin's previous appearance. Na Ying's tone conversion was also very good, and she also began to try to write lyrics. Tian Zhen, who had been brewing for a long time, also released the song "Get Close to Me".
Also in this year, a group of "Yuquan" that had visited many record companies but was not accepted, finally signed a contract with Rolling Stone China, and the song "The Most Beautiful" was popular all over the country.
In January, "Flower" published its first album "Next to Happiness", and the lead singer Da Zhangwei was only 15 years old, which marked the arrival of the "child labor era" of Chinese rock.
Hu's "Everyone has a small stool, mine won't bring it into the 21st Century" received 30,000 yuan in sales tax. This is the singer who obtained the highest royalties in the history of Chinese rock and roll with a newcomer.
In the same year, the audio magazine "Modern Sky" was founded, I Love Rock Music" was founded, and "Free Music" was founded. The advertising slogan of "Free Music" was like this, "The most stern words, the most real emotions, and the most cutting-edge rock. Music is just a means, and freedom is the goal."
In Hong Kong, the music scene lacked some excitement as in previous years, and Faye Wong's marriage became a major event in entertainment news.
Deanie Ip and Andy Andy Lau has launched a new song. When they were interviewed on the radio, Deanie Ip bluntly stated that most of the singers nowadays have incomplete tone, and believe that they attach too much importance to packaging, and their quality is getting worse and worse.
"Midsummer Night Rhapsody", known as the "Creative Musical of Xu Guanjie", was performed in the Hong Kong Stadium from mid-February to early March. The starring actors are Ekin Cheng, Chen Xiaochun, Miriam Yeung, and Gigi Leung. In the last show on March 6, Xu Guanjie personally went on stage to finish his curtain call and sang.
The current situation of lack of outstanding original talents and works led to a resing of 1970s. In the 1980s, famous local music songs became a small trend, such as Karen Mok sang "Cold Rain", Cecilia Cheung sang "Leave the Speak to the Favorites", Lu Qiaoyin sang "Long Night My-love-good-night", Liang Hanwen sang "June Sky", and Zhao Xueer and Liang Hanwen sang "Flowing Water" at the same time.
Chen Baozhu returned to perform in the stage play "Sword and Snow Floating Life", and record companies also launched CD versions of the old songs they recorded in their hands. Guan Shuyi, who had been dormant for about three years, appeared at the Laqu concert at the show office in late July of 2009.
In November, beyond said that after the concert in December, the event of the three people will be "suspended", which means that they will be a breakup for a period of time.
In December, during the return session of his last event, Liming publicly announced that he would no longer participate in the Hong Kong music ceremony and would no longer receive local music awards.
At the end of the thousand years, Lin Yilian sang "Sonk Rose", Zhou Huajian released the English album "my-oh-my", and Qi Yu also released the English album "c'est-la-vie". Everything seemed to be step by step, but it also vaguely made people feel extremely boring.
Zhang Xinzhe's "Back" sang softly this year: We can never go back, right?
The same emotion also appears in Qi Qin's song. In his old song cover album called Love Song of the Century, he covered the famous Shanghai song "The Soul of the Old Dream" in the 1930s and 1940s. The lyrics say
Flowers fall into the water
Spring is gone without a trace
Only the intoxicating east wind is left everywhere...
...
...
...
...
The melody of "The Old Dream" echoed in my mind, and Lin Zaishan stopped typing on the keyboard of the notebook.
After writing about the history of the music industry for 20 years in one go, he was already a little dizzy, especially the alcoholism surged, which made many of his thoughts difficult to figure out.
The 20 years he wrote should be regarded as the most golden and prosperous 20 years in the Chinese music scene.
After entering the 21st century, the Chinese music scene has gradually declined.
Although Jay Chou appeared, he still failed to hold back the big ship of Chinese music.
It was not until Lin Zaishan came over that the Chinese music scene improved slightly due to the tightening and protection of copyright policies.
"I don't know what it's like now."
Pinching his nose, Lin Zaishan imagined whether the music world in another world had regained the glory of the golden age?
No matter what, he can't go back.
However, the Chinese music scene in this plane is still trapped in an endless dark night and is moving forward.
And he will also write his legend in this dark musical plane.
He will not write about the music chronicle of another world now. He has experienced it. He stays deep in his heart and cannot forget it easily. Wait until he has time to write it carefully.
That night, Lin Zaishan fell asleep with mixed feelings with nostalgia and fatigue.
Chapter completed!