Remember the song "Nanshannan"? When did you first hear the song, which was written and sung by Ma Di, the founder of the folk music group Ma Ye, and was his first official single, released on September 26, 2014, and won Folk Single of the Year on February 2, 2015, at the fourth Abbey Deer Music Awards?
The first time I listened to this song was in 2016, one way to listen to the habit of pop songs habit of their own, as if to open up a new world, the song gives the reaction is too good to listen to, the first feeling is more like a poem, the tune using a combination of guitar and piano, fiddle, plus Zhou Xuan, "Songs of the Four Seasons" in the samples and end of the song of the children's voices, to the song creation into a flashback to memories and framing of the old photographs.
Even for a period of time repeated the cycle, at that time did not know what a ballad, until I knew the story behind the song, I know what is called a ballad, and then I know Zhao Lei, Chen Rui, Ma Di, Yao XIII, Song Dong Ye, these independent musicians, including the hemp oil leaves of this independent folk folk ballad organization, the ballad is different from the other pop music, it can be sung to love and ideal The song "Miss Dong" and "Zebra, Zebra, Zebra" are just a few examples of the kind of music that can be sung in a very meaningful way.
These niche music ballads, the singers may come from various places and have different occupations, perhaps you will run into strangers on your way to work every day, and in their free time, they will hold a guitar and sing their own ballads. The more you listen to ballads, the more voices you see, the different you feel when you listen to those ballads again.
There are also voices from people who listened to folk music before it became popular, like me, who say that they "don't like listening to Nanshannan any more" and that the lyrics are pretentious, and that they are unhappy that Madi is becoming more and more popular. How come all of a sudden they didn't like the song anymore?
The answer was found in the fact that folk music is an independent and niche music, and most people who like this kind of music have their own ideas and unique views on the world, including life, and they use it as a symbol to differentiate themselves from the masses, but when the song caught fire, there were a lot of people who didn't know what a folk song was, and they started to say that their favorite music style was "folk music". The song was also a symbol of their differentiation from the general public.
Of course, there is still a part of me that feels that a ballad is a story of one's own experience, that one has found a ****ing voice in the song, and that one's own story is something that should be treasured, not sung by so many people, and that there have been times when someone has asked Madi, "What's the story behind this song? The answer from Madi was that "when you hear this song, it has nothing to do with you anymore, and the tears you shed are the story that only you know".
If this song is your story, and if it made you cry late at night, then why do you hate it all of a sudden after it has been popularized, have you forgotten that this song is also your story? What kind of perspective do you stand on your feelings for this song? Your own story hasn't changed, and the song itself hasn't changed, so what has changed?
It doesn't matter how hot the ballad is now, or whether it will continue to be hot, maybe there is a lyric or a melody that touches you y and reminds you of your own story, but I would like to say, "Don't forget your original purpose of listening to music", you haven't changed, and your story hasn't changed. The time is different, the state of mind is certainly different, and now listen again will not have the initial feeling, and some impulse like, certainly will not last long.