The more vulgar and popular online songs are, the more obscene and pornographic they are.
"There is a song called" Fart ",which makes eight times of" Because he is farting "when singing, which is really vulgar!" Xu Peidong, a famous musician and vice chairman of China Musicians Association, has a serious look.
In view of the spreading trend of the vulgar trend of online songs, the China Music Association and China Art Newspaper jointly held a symposium on "Resisting the vulgar trend of online songs" in Beijing a few days ago. Xu Peidong, Fu Gengchen, Yan Su, Gu Jianfen, Li Haiying, fu lin, Yin Qing, Jin Zhaojun and other famous people in the domestic music industry got together to "consult" online music. At the same time, 40 famous songwriters and singers in Beijing, represented by Yan Su, jointly launched the proposal of "Resisting the vulgar trend of online songs and advocating the healthy development of online music".
Six characteristics of vulgar online songs
As a helpless move that the traditional way can’t enter the record industry and join the network, online songs have pointed out the way for a large number of authors and singers who have no conditions and platforms to show their works. In 2004, with the popularity of a number of songs such as "Mice Love Rice" on the Internet, online songs became a remarkable phenomenon, but the problem of bad customs also followed.
"Obscene language, pornographic propaganda, abusive attacks, parody, affectation, moaning without illness, writhing, incoherent speech, patchwork, nonsense, grandstanding, vulgarity and boredom" are summarized as six characteristics of vulgar online songs.
In "Swearing in Wuhan", a man and a woman sing at the same time, and it is very obscene to give full play to swearing words with "Wuhan flavor". It is also very popular to tamper with classic songs to spoof and sing. For example, "The Moon Represents My Heart" was changed to "You asked me how much money I have, and my background is good? My heart will not change, my love will not change, and the passbook represents my heart … "There are more than 20 crooked versions such as" Thief Edition "in" Auspicious Three Treasures ".
For another example, online songs such as "Your mother is my mother-in-law" and "I am your husband" are full of nonsense, but they have actually been voted as "Top Ten Internet Popular Terms" by netizens. However, the lyrics of "Not afraid" and "Northeasters are not underworld" are confused and rambling, and the lyrics of "Happy Shuashua" are even more confusing: "Uh-huh, cold, painful, uh-huh, my heart, oh, well, wait and wait, well, dream and dream, well, crazy and crazy".
"There are also some online songs in the name of’ originality’ that write all the daily life of ordinary people into lyrics, such as" Smoking and Drinking Tea in the Toilet ",and some lyrics incite naked desire for money and instill hedonism, such as" I love RMB "and" When I get rich ". Xu Peidong said, "Bad online songs will mislead the development direction of online music and even lower the quality of pop music."
Yan Su, a 77-year-old famous ci writers, is particularly worried about the current vulgarity of online songs. "A vulgar and uneducated online song like" That Night "is rare even in the West. These vulgar songs are simply a blasphemy and ruin to music and people’s hearts. " Singer Yang Kun once said angrily that online singers are "ghostly" and that online songs "set back mainland pop music for fifteen years" and "harmed the next generation".
Why do online songs go to bad customs?
In the opinion of many experts, the threshold of pop music is gradually lowered in the Internet age, which opens the door for creators and singers with low quality and quick success. Through blogs, online music and wireless music, they try their best to take the road of vulgarity, boredom and self-hype. "As long as they can attract people, even pornographic and explicit lyrics dare to write and sing." At the same time, some music websites are mercenary, distorting the measurement standard of songs.
What helps these online songs to become popular quickly is the rise of mobile phone color ring back tone download service, which relies on color ring back tone and spreads rapidly. "It doesn’t matter who the singer is in the online songs. As long as one or two melodies can be played repeatedly on the Internet or on CRBT, the spread effect of the songs will be rapidly improved". Zeng Suijin, director of the Music Department of the School of Film and Television Arts, Communication University of China, said that online music dissemination prides itself on its high click-through rate or download rate, which can be directly converted into wealth, which is the biggest source of online songs becoming vulgar.
Some experts believe that the popularity of vulgar online songs is mainly because "young people find it fun and can vent their emotions". Yin Qing, a famous military composer, said that his daughter, who studies music, thinks that vulgar online songs are "entertaining and fun, and can vent their feelings". "Under the influence of impetuous mentality, young people have the psychology of comparing with each other. You are vulgar, I am more vulgar, you are funny, and I am more funny than you".
Jin Zhaojun, secretary-general of China Pop Music Association and music critic, believes that there is a social basis for the generation of the vulgar trend of online songs. "In the past 30 years, the vulgarity of songs has been clearly defined for two or three times, often in a period of intense social and ideological changes, which is easy to happen when young people’s values are impacted."
At the same time, the spread of vulgar online songs also involves the education of young people. Jin Zhaojun believes that today’s children are precocious, they are active buyers and consumers of online music, and the music industry can’t stop them by "blocking". Therefore, the spread of the vulgarity of online songs is not only a problem for musicians, but also has some social reasons, including the creative mentality of song creators and the acceptance mentality of teenagers.
Online song contest can stimulate creation.
At this symposium, 40 famous songwriters and singers in Beijing, represented by Yan Su, jointly launched the proposal of "Resisting the vulgar trend of online songs and advocating the healthy development of online music".
According to the proposal, musicians should further enhance their sense of social responsibility, consciously resist the intrusion of bad content, abandon the vulgar customs, promote the healthy development of online music, strive to create more excellent songs suitable for online communication, occupy cyberspace with healthy and progressive songs, and use various forms to improve teenagers’ musical taste and appreciation ability.
People in the music industry have made suggestions to promote the healthy development of online songs.
Fu lin, a famous musician and songwriter, believes that online songs belong to popular music, and their lyrics are characterized by networking and entertainment. For the creation of online songs, it is impossible to rely only on the past music writing methods. Composers should put down their airs, get close to popular music, compose tunes, and the lyrics can attract young people to write.
Yin Qing said that the key to resisting vulgar online songs is that songwriters should produce good works. At the same time, it is suggested to set up an online music review column on the website to strengthen comments on online songs and let the public participate together.
Jin Zhaojun suggested that the music industry can engage in activities to encourage creation through the Internet platform, such as organizing an online song creation contest, which can mobilize the creative interest of the younger generation, judge their creations, and then spread them through the media, which will definitely effectively resist those unhealthy songs.
It is reported that in order to guide the healthy development of online songs, the China Musicians Association will hold an online song contest next year, with the aim of occupying online positions with high-quality works, so that vulgar and vulgar online songs have no living space. (Wen Jing)
Editor: Tian Shijia