Someone took out a video of Jacky Cheung and Yu Chengqing singing on the same stage in a certain year, which showed that he was not even inferior to Jacky Cheung in some aspects. I watched that video. To be honest, Jacky Cheung did not perform as well as Yu Chengqing when she sang Miss You. Of course, we can't say that Jacky Cheung is not as good as Yu Chengqing, but that Yu Chengqing is underestimated in many aspects. Even compared with a singer with almost perfect skills like Jacky Cheung, Yu Chengqing is not much worse.
Yu Chengqing's early songs are not only highly sung, but also of high standard. For example, let me love enough at once, miss you, change all the mistakes (episode of curry chili), the distance of a heartbeat, being close to you and so on, and so on, are quite basic. When Yu Chengqing interprets these difficult songs, he seems to be able to do it with ease and perform well.
One of the more important reasons why Yu Chengqing is underestimated is that his songs are not easy to sing. Although they sound good, they are difficult to sing with ease. It is estimated that this is the reason why Yu Chengqing's music became more and more popular later, such as the interlude he sang for Meteor Garden and the songs "Spring Mud", which were much less difficult than the previous songs. It's unfair to Yu Chengqing. When he sings well, others don't pay attention to him. When he appeals to the public's liking and takes the lower-middle approach, everyone thinks that his singing is nothing special.
Explosive songs such as "Let me love enough at once" and "Miss you" are less and less common now. Now the songs are too tactful, not only in words (vincent fang is the representative), but also in melody, which goes round and round and misses the theme for half a day. It sounds like the singer has lost his voice and is stuffed with cotton.
I have a view that not everyone in the East is suitable for Western-style singing. Nowadays, Western-style singing is very popular, and all of them hold their voices and speak hesitatingly, trying to be similar to the pronunciation of black and white people, but the result is just a waste of time.
Yu Chengqing's underestimation may have something to do with the prevalence of this kind of western-style singing. Yu Chengqing's voice is explosive and bright, and it is not suitable for playing that kind of western-style singing around his tongue. Having said that, some people may think that Yu Chengqing is behind the times. In fact, Yu Chengqing was the first singer in Hong Kong and Taiwan to cooperate with foreign singers. The song "Change All Mistakes" was a combination of Chinese and Western music. Some people praised this song in those days, saying that although it was a cooperation between China and the West, Yu Chengqing did not sing with foreign flavor, and did not make it neither Chinese nor Western nor foreign.
At that time, the standard may now become the object of ridicule. There is nothing wrong with this. There is no constant thing, and the sky changes and the road changes. The popularity of this thing, naturally, is to keep pace with the times, and there is no market for painting the land as a stubborn fashion. But then again, a change without criteria and a change in form may not bring new colors to pop music.
I admire Yu Chengqing because he is able to prepare himself in form and spirit, and his writing and quality are in harmony. In an era when singers are like crucian carp crossing the river, and fancy is more important than substance, Yu Chengqing's being buried is also the meaning of the title. If you think about it carefully, this is not Yu Chengqing's sorrow, but the music world's obsession.