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Zheng Zhihua's story - Everyone has a Zheng Zhihua in his heart

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Thirty years ago, a singer named Zheng Zhihua made his debut.

It has been two decades since the last official album. It's been eleven years before the last EP album. It's been thirty years since his debut album.

His music has been popular across the rivers, north and south, and across the Taiwan Straits. The degree of his spread has even reached the point where he is "heavy," and there is nothing wrong with it.

More importantly, his music has also had a very important human influence on the post-70s and 80s in mainland China. Compared to the exquisiteness of Jonathan Lee (musician) and the astuteness of Lo Ta-yu , the singer's more creative approach to the streets, grass, and grass roots not only affects those former teenagers and young people in big cities, but even affects them. Many young people from the third line to the eighteenth line. His music, for many people, is not only a window for music, but also a window for understanding the world, understanding the world, and understanding the world.

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To a certain extent, the singer’s influence is similar to that of the Beyond band. His music is more universal than other musicians who have significant cultural labels. Because young people from literature to youth in the town have all been influenced by the enlightenment of his music.

The singer is Zheng Zhihua. A once-in-a-lifetime, but somewhat unfamiliar name for young people today.

However, Zheng Zhihua’s status in the past was no less than that of any contemporary musician.

Many people's understanding of Zheng Zhihua is often due to the song "Matroos."

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Even today, this song can be said to be a model of an inspirational musical work, and the first “Matroos” made Zhen Zhihua even more famous. From then on, the famous music creator jumped to the front line. status.

Just like the two-sidedness in which everything has advantages and disadvantages, "Matroos" has given Zheng Zhihua an unprecedented reputation while leaving behind a reputation for its aftereffects. When a singer or musician has become popular because of a piece of work, people often use this song as the singer's impression tag, and this obviously leads to distortion and even distortion of the singer’s perception.

In Zheng Zhihua’s 30 years of debut, it’s time to say something about Zheng Zhihua’s past...

The story of Zheng Zhihua, of course, should not be said from "Matroos," and the decent and straightforward approach must begin with "The Story of Daddy."

The Story of Daddy is both the name of the album and a song.

Today, I think that "The Story of Daddy" is a far-understood work in the history of Chinese music. At least from its influence today, the value of this song is not fully reflected.

It can be said that "The Story of Daddy" is a work comparable to the "Lugang Town" and comparable to it. The works, from the perspective of the veteran of the miners’ family, tell a sad story. The mining disaster submerged the figure of Abba, but the greater tragicness of his work still lies in the end of "in the modern battlefield of material civilization, I got everything but lost myself". In particular, the contrast between “the people in their hometowns are flooded by mines and lost their lives” and “the people in the city are overwhelmed by desire but lost their souls” give people a sense of consternation. Traditional and modern, material and spiritual, this kind of questioning and such comparison has so far been still annoying.

Indeed, while we were singing "Matroos," we gradually forgot the cutting edge of Zheng Zhihua's lyrics. In many works, Zheng Zhihua’s works are even more critical than some so-called spiritual rock works. In particular, Zheng Zhihua’s criticism not only has a theme and perspective, but it also has the lyrical, natural and vivid use of words and the depth and wisdom of literary works.

In addition to “The Story of the Daddy,” he kept a vigilant attention to the world, and dissected and criticized it in a timely manner. For example, in " FallenAngels ", the description of a single mother with dual status not only has a strong sense of storylines and contributing, but also "what is the place where heavy makeup is going". It is also the answer that is left to the endless unknown, so that the work has a more Open form.

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The grasp of the details of growth in Young Age is almost like a collective endorsement of the post-70s. "Like someone else, they hang around," and "the shirt's button, we must deliberately loosen a few." This colloquial, but full of beautiful words, simply expressive and kidney.

By 1992, the “Song Song” album with “Matroos” was worth remembering, but it was far from the song “Matroos”. This can be said to be the best album of Zheng Zhihua’s career in music and balance of business and quality, and also a masterpiece of his creation style. The "middle class" written for the middle class is written for "unmarried Dad" of an unmarried father, and is written for the world of "Datong World" in the world of Datong. These words are both vivid and edgy. .

As for the "major citizen" with a more macro perspective, it is even a condensed novel, a long scroll of music. Even if people and affairs have become history, they can still wake up to the future generations. In the early days of Su Shi’s “The House of Snails,” the phrase “I carry heavy shells and try to climb upwards, but never can keep up with it, soaring house prices” could even make it after thirty years. Several hundred million people in Shenzhou are in tears. This is precisely the evidence that Zheng Zhihua’s culture is balanced and moving.

In fact, I have always believed that for a judgement on whether a musician is excellent or even great, he must first have a talent that he can both be bloody and tender.

Whether it is the critical "Great People" or the inspirational "Matroos" or "Star lighting," Zheng Zhihua is no exception to the word "hot blood." Of course, he is equally tender.

Zheng Zhihua’s love songs, in addition to being pure, are not even the creators of Taiwan’s folk song system, but they are like “Don’t cry, my favorite people”, “Don’t say Dawn”, “I use my life to forget” and “Let me "Hold you into dreams" works like this, but it has a simple beauty that folks have. The word is not deliberate, the metaphor is not exaggerated, there is no over-modifying literary tendency, but Zheng Zhihua's love song, in the history of the entire Chinese music scene, are unique. Small and beautiful, pure and true.

From the point of view of the creation, Zheng Zhihua, who “wrongly entered” the music from the advertising copy, did inject the concise and vivid way of advertising copy into the creation of the lyrics, which also made his works in the history of the entire Chinese music scene. Are unique.

In addition, Zheng Zhihua is neither a folk song restaurant person nor a band player. For Taiwan’s pop music industry, he is like an “alien”. On the one hand, he is allowed to fight alone, without deep emotions. The context can be used, and it often makes him often at the edge of a circle.

But on the other hand, it is also Zheng Zhihua’s “wild way” in his creation. His works are the most grassroots and the most groundless in the entire Taiwan music scene. Many of his works are better than those of Jonathan Lee (musician). Little people's works are also small figures, because the latter speaks from the roots, or close to elitism, and Zheng Zhihua's creative perspective, but from the beginning to the end is the real grassroots and the bottom.

Speaking of Zheng Zhihua, many people may think that his lyrics are much larger than music. In the 30 years since his debut, Zheng Zhihua actually reviewed nine studio albums by Zheng Zhihua and you will find that even in the music richness At the same time, he was also more than a contemporary musician.

For example, “The Story of Daddy” has an epic music structure. Using circular sounds as an atmosphere not only highlights the background of the industrial area in the mining area, but also sets a desolation and solemn tone for the work. The tone of the organ, but also highlights a dark feeling. After that, the transition from ballads to rock and roll, and the combination of vocal chorus and vocal chorus, naturally let the works have a kind of thickness that epics have.

The first album is also the "Site Station", more like the world music into South Asia music elements; "Secret Box" even played New Wave; and "a letter" is a typical song style.

There are also many new musical attempts in FallenAngels, and the musicality of these new attempts is also due to Zheng Zhihua's lyrics being somewhat underestimated. The main song is based on the national music of the southwestern region, and Solo's extended experimentation is unique in the history of the Chinese-language music scene and has rarely appeared in the later. The Riff and rhythm in "Your Soul" and the Indian musical elements in "The Altarpiece of Youth" were also very groundbreaking at the time.

Although "Matroos" brought Zheng Zhihua the peak of fame and fortune, but in fact his creation did not stop because of this, it was only in the public's impression because he did not write more highly vocal works. I think Zheng Zhihua’s music career ended in Matroos.

In fact, after the album “Song Song”, in addition to the equally influential “Star lighting” album, Zheng Zhihua’s later albums “Cry Tears”, “Games People Play: Hollywood” and “ Sleepless at night, is equally good quality. In addition to the improvement of the details and texture of music in "Never Sleep at Night", "Great People" in "The Tears" is even more the most critical representative of Zheng Zhihua.

The song “The Tears of Tears” has a strong sense of substitution. His father’s death, his boredom with the entertainment industry, and his ability to reach the peak of life, Zheng Zhihua can still stand in the humbler’s perspective. The glorious reality.

Zheng Zhihua said that he was “an obscure person who plays a small role”. This humbleness created Zheng Zhihua’s sensitivity and also contributed to his creative talents. He also let countless 70’s and 80’s grow in their own years. In the initial stage, a teacher of enlightenment in life was found by way of music.

Some people say that everyone has a Jonathan Lee (musician) in their hearts. In fact, people who have experienced that era have a Zheng Zhihua in their hearts. And unlike listening to Lo Ta-yu and singing Jonathan Lee (musician), we often appear in Zheng Zhihua's works and become part of the song. What we think, love, and Zheng Zhihua have helped us write it out, similar to the heart Speak for you.

Although some songs are classic, it is the story of others. Thinking about a singer in your own life, you can often write about your great times and sing your little time around you, which is really a happy thing.

This is exactly where Zheng Zhihua is most unusual.

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