Folk songs have always been a minority music genre in China (I think it is also worldwide) (even though more and more people claim to like folk songs now), because most folk singers can't hear any melody and can't sing any skills, and playing the guitar is a song. This kind of music is neither suitable for commercial broadcast nor concert atmosphere, so few record companies are willing to invest in this kind of music without market. Therefore, most folk singers in China use "independent musicians" or create so-called "independent labels". However, at the moment when their personalities are flamboyant, such a sad statement has turned into an identity. Ben Miao thinks it's probably because of the word "independence". I think the folk music that the subject wants to ask should be this kind of music classified as "new folk music" in China, represented by singers or groups such as Yo Yo Ma (including Ma Di and Dong Ye). General Lin, Yao, Chen Li, etc. ), A Si, Zhong Lifeng, Li Zhi, Wan Xiaoli, Mr. Tortoise, and a good sister of an atypical folk group. After reading these names, it is not difficult to find that these people are almost equal to the most popular top musicians of Douban Music. So the question is, what pushed these very "bleak" independent singers into the spotlight? I think the Internet has entered the Web2.0 era. Come on, let's take watercress as an example. In fact, the increase of Douban users, its special "Douban Musician" app, and the copyright protection behavior that does not provide download services are all driving factors for the development of new folk songs. Let's take a look at the audience of Douban (simply considered as the audience of new folk music here). In the introduction of my own propaganda copy, I simply and rudely replaced it as a "youth group with higher education", that is, "2 1 century intellectuals with idealism and humanism". In this way, the problem is much simpler. The label of intellectuals is incompatible with the secular world, not seeking fame and fortune, and more inclined to pursue spiritual aspects than material aspects. Faced with such a group, the new folk songs are simple, fresh and slightly sad, always yearning for freedom and constantly creating a utopian world. Even if they are frustrated, they are sorry for me all over the world. The lyrics of "fuck u" seem to be hesitant about the actual singer in "man show", which all meets the music needs of a large number of attributive intellectuals mentioned above. From this dimension, it should be regarded as one of the realms of new folk song creation. But to answer this question from another angle, there is no realm for new folk songs. I think China's old folk songs have a realm. Since 1980s, Taiwan Province area is represented by Henan, and Chinese mainland is represented by Gao, Pu Shu and Nianhuahe, and campus folk songs have sprung up everywhere. For example, you at the same table, those flowers, in a foreign land, grandma's Penghu Bay and so on. I believe that after listening to these songs, everyone who has lived on campus will still feel excited and have tears in his eyes. In these works, there is a feeling and real humanism. Youth, homesickness, affection, love and other feelings are all written in songs. Although the tune is simple and catchy, the combination of lyrics and songs is extremely high in rhythm and emotion. Because of the spiritual needs of the audience, this kind of folk songs is close to the most authentic mission of music, so it has a realm.
There are new folk songs, and I am also one of the listeners of new folk songs. However, I didn't hear the feelings from any song, let alone the realm. Take me personally for example. I listen to folk songs, which is more of a feeling. At least in the agenda set by folk singers, I was guided to a calm and quiet world. They played guitars and hummed casually. You hear "Nan Nan Nan, Bei Hai Sorrow" and see "The sting of life in an ordinary day". Then, pretend to escape from real life and temporarily escape in a song of three or four minutes. So listening to folk songs, everyone is a hermit. The new folk singer has no singing skills at all, and his creative skills are really inferior to Mozart's. But they captured the audience's psychology that "the society is complex, the people's hearts are sinister and the pressure is heavy, and the freedom and abuse in your songs are just what I need". If they are not hypocritical, then they must be staunch followers of Laozi's Taoism. So this kind of music has no boundary. Its role as a singer is to bring a group of people together to scold the society and take the initiative to avoid the world. Its function is similar to marijuana, which makes every folk lover unable to extricate himself from nothingness, and finally forms the ultimate effect of "taking you to force you to fly".