Liu Qingshan’s debut coincided with this era, especially in the European and American markets. Based on the Hip Hop situation, the trend of mixing other music forms has just begun to take shape. Since the 2000s, almost everything that has been popular has included HIP. HOP elements.
Rock music, which was once very popular in the past, is generally a process of continuous death, the main force moving towards independence, and the labels supporting commercial puppets.
Therefore, rap with various extensions, and because it has always grasped the core of HIP HOP, those who hold such a musical concept are much better off than those who stick to pop rock albums and are left in the cold.
So Liu Qingshan appeared. At his first appearance at the Coachella Music Festival, he immediately visualized the new music form that was already a popular trend.
Of course, there are a lot of accidental elements in this. One is the terrifying residual power of killing a mixed martial arts master with one punch, and the other is his male-female song "I Want My Tears." "back" is really too sensational.
Especially the latter, his creepy operatic singing with a pure female voice, and his solemn singing like poetry almost killed all the singers on the beach as soon as he uttered it.
Especially those who were at the scene, they had never seen a man perform a female voice so well.
Liu Qingshan, who was clearly dressed as a man, opened his mouth to speak a perfect bel canto female voice. At first glance, it gave people a strange sense of classical melancholy, as if he had entered an old and gloomy castle, with the sounds floating around him. A ghostly and cold atmosphere.
The unique solemn religious atmosphere of the bel canto female voice performed by him became more and more intense, and the abruptness of the male voice changing into female voice was gradually weakened, and the beauty in it was also instantaneous. manifest.
The subsequent singing also suddenly evolved into a heavy metal-like wild female voice, with shocking sound effects, sudden changes in timbre and volume, but the weirdness was no longer felt, but was replaced by a rich and artistic operatic atmosphere.
The scene at that time shocked the entire international music scene, and the two new-type HIP HOP songs he sang with Avril Lavigne and Jin Xishan respectively became widely known from then on.
Therefore, we cannot say that he is the pioneer of this style, but no one can question his role in promoting it.
The current song "I Gotta Feeling" has a similar rap style extension, which made him become a pioneer of ALT HIP-HOP fusion electronic pop after the arrival of the electronic age.
You can question the quality of this song, but you can't destroy the new type of music he promoted, because "Yeah!", which followed closely on the Billboard music chart, is the continuation of this type of style.
The market speaks for itself, which suppresses all the skeptical musicians into losing their temper.
Going against the market is equivalent to being eliminated by capital. No record company will use such dissidents again, because the company can no longer make money from them.
This is also the reason why almost all American rappers would jump out to get closer to Liu Qingshan without him expressing his attitude.
Because almost single-handedly, he not only made the direction of future music trends clear at once, but also made the withered black rap music style once again become the mainstream of the industry.
So because of his song "Uptown Funk", various factions in the entire black rap circle came together. The previous phenomena of being enemies and fighting each other became temporarily like-minded because of him.
It is conceivable that no matter what attitude you have towards Liu Qingshan's music style, his contribution to it is still far greater than the discomfort of competing with an outsider for the market.
Moreover, Liu Qingshan has always expressed his customary modesty and easy-going attitude as an Oriental, and does not hide that many of his works are imitations of a certain representative singer.
For example, "Rap God" is an imitation of Eminem, "I Gotta Feeling" is a tribute to Nightwish, "Uptown Funk" is out of worship of Elvis Presley, etc., and so on.
It is precisely because of his unpretentiousness and lack of pretense that he quickly gained a good reputation in the European and American music circles.
Furthermore, he did not hold his influence in the music market hostage and immediately entered the English-context music circle, delaying the release of his first album for nearly two years.
You must know that in the rapidly changing Internet era, leaving nearly two years of market blank period for overseas colleagues is such a great, selfless and noble act.
In the past two years, other singers have taken advantage of this trend to launch their own music follow-up works.
When there is a work, there is a market, and when there is a market, there is revenue. In today's era where one or two popular works can make a living for half a lifetime, how much of the market blank period has he left for his peers? Important, obvious.
Of course you can say that he returned to the Chinese market because of the lack of new works, but this kind of self-deceiving excuse is just a casual excuse, but if it is used as a theoretical basis, it will only lead to endless capital suppression and Internet violence. force.
Internet violence. It’s understandable that Liu Qingshan’s fans are so powerful after all, but what does this have to do with the capital in the music market?
In fact, this is very involved, because Liu Qingshan's personal ability is not only music "composition", but he also has the ability to write scripts.
Regardless of TV series or movie projects, the boss behind their production is one of the eight major entertainment companies. Just a few scripts Liu Qingshan brought to the Hollywood market, there has never been a mistake, which is a major problem.
Especially for those film companies, making money while making movies has always been a very real problem. Screenwriters who can provide high-quality scripts will become their money-making tools.
Just imagine, once Liu Qingshan suffered unfair treatment in music in Lao America, how interested he would be in coming here to develop in the future.
It cannot be said that without his scripts, Hollywood would not be able to move forward, but the extra scripts are like money. As a capital side, no one would be conflicted with making money.
More importantly, Liu Qingshan is not an ordinary person. He also has the ability to disrupt the entire market. For example, in the previous Kiel incident, one of his press conferences completely destroyed this man who will definitely become a godfather-level king in the future. Into the dust.
In addition, he also has some unique features that ordinary people are unlikely to understand, such as the mysterious ancient Chinese medicine skills, which are praised by the outside world as Zhang Yu Shaojiu that can turn decay into magic.
Therefore, this person is destined not to be treated lightly like ordinary people. Will those capital bosses allow negative judgments about him to prevail?
To put it bluntly, these factors are the cornerstone for Liu Qingshan's overseas development. It is not surprising that his first album was a global hit.
Today's performance of "I Gotta Feeling" was the first time it was performed live. Regardless of its quality, this aspect alone was enough for the audience to express that they were lucky.
Then again, the fact that a work created by a foreigner can occupy the top spot on the Billboard music chart as soon as it is released has proven the high quality of the work itself.
Therefore, its magical melody almost instantly caused the fans at the scene to enter a state that was almost crazy.
The fanatical sense of power gave people the sensory stimulation to vent the inner pressure that could not be vented. Everyone's scalp was numb and the blood in their bodies was surging.
After singing the song, everyone was drunk. The moving voice and simple lyrics hit almost everyone's heart unexpectedly and they were immersed in it for a long time.
When the music stopped, Jin Xishan had already walked over to Liu Qingshan and gave him a big warm hug. There was a vague warmth that was both sentimental and exciting.
Then she waved to the audience and walked away, and Liu Qingshan made his first speech today.
"Thank you Ms. Jin for your passionate singing! To be honest, her interpretation of music is more distinctive and has a unique style. However, I am too ambitious and want to cover too many types of music. On the contrary, I cannot form my own unique style. style of!"
However, his pretentiously humble speech did not receive a response from people. Instead, a wave of strong "appeals" filled the audience.
People's attitude towards him is not that of booing, but another way of catering to him.
Chinese people who are familiar with him all know that he has performed cross talk several times, and this heckle-like sound originated from that time.
I don’t know who started this interesting way of making noise. The closer we get to the Chinese environment, the more frequent this situation becomes.
At this time, Liu Qingshan on the stage was laughing loudly: "If you don't learn from me, if this scene is spread overseas, I will be embarrassed!"
The whole world burst into laughter.
"There are so many fans and friends here today. This situation scared me a lot. I originally planned to use a few songs to explain it, but when I saw this situation, I didn't dare to be presumptuous! So, before I came here, I talked to Xi Jin The lady has discussed it, and the number of performances today will remain the same, but the specific songs must be sung that have not been performed before, otherwise we will let down the support of you loyal fans!"
This time there was a wave of cheers and applause, and almost everyone's face was filled with indescribable happiness.
"The next song has a very long name. Can you guess which one it is?"
"I wish I could embrace you in my ordinary life!"
The people below the stage responded one after another. From the chaos at the beginning, they became uniform in the blink of an eye.
