He is a cool moon in the vast sea of stars, and he is a clear spring in the vast world.Regarding Xu Song, I want to start with the word company. Regarding this period of company, I would like to first thank the music teacher in the fourth grade of primary school. Without him, I might have missed this gentle and graceful young master.I still remember that summer afternoon, when the sun was just right and the breeze was not dry. What is still fresh in my memory is that that class did not appear the gloomy and complex classical music or the boring and simple children’s songs from the previous classes – it was a completely new world. The teacher turned and painted on the blackboard, writing down one after another handsome regular script, covering it with a blackboard.
That was the longest wait in music class, until the sound of music sounded – the broken bridge and the wrecked snow, painted at the beginning of the title; The willow curtain on the white embankment has a steady rhythm like Zen. Little heads in the classroom have never known these novel images before.
What is a folded wing withered leaf butterfly? What is the scene of night in Jiangnan? Who is lonely when plum blossoms bloom? Why is there only one person left when fireworks are everywhere?
At that time, the only thing that could attract us was melody. The dreamy single tone at the beginning and the whimpering background sound are so strange and mournful that we immersed in the straightforward online love songs are refreshing. Can songs be written like this?
“Broken Bridge and Remaining Snow” carved a deep stroke in my memory. As if the words on the blackboard had their own legs and ran into my mind. Silently sneaking in, but enough to set off countless waves in my mind.
To this day, I can’t remember clearly the classmates in that classroom, and the music teacher’s face is gradually blurring. I only remember the calm sunshine and the neat sentences on the blackboard.
There is a saying that all encounters in the world are reunion after a long separation. The first time I listened to that song, I felt vaguely – as if at some moment in the distant past or future – I was standing in the south of the Yangtze River during the falling flowers season, pointing my fingers alone at the cold moon in the water, watching the fireworks disappear in a flash. Thoughts follow the melody, and we freely shuttle through time and space. A vast world, free and easy to travel.
Since then, there has appeared in my life a name that runs through my entire youth – Xu Song.
Any music that can evoke a certain emotion must be full of a pictorial sense.
“Dead leaf butterflies, Jiangnan, moonlight, small bridges, eaves, northern plains, wilderness, broken bridges, residual snow, lake surface… There are landscapes hidden between the lines, and his careful rhymes hidden in forged words and sentences.”.
How can ignorant children understand the melancholy and literary atmosphere behind these words? They simply feel their rhythmic beauty with their mouths. Just like the enlightened young children in a private school, the wisdom of our ancestors condensed from thousands of years of rain and wind begins with this simple recitation, with words flowing into our hearts and context connecting.
“I don’t think this is a song, it’s completely a beautiful painting of the misty rain in ink and water in the south of the Yangtze River.”.
After returning home from school that day, I couldn’t wait to sit in front of my computer searching for everything about him and listening to all the songs he had published at that time. The afterglow of the sunset sprinkled on the table, but it was no better than the joy of entering the Garden of Eden at that moment.
“Hello everyone, I’m Vae, and this is my first solo album to be released soon…” Starting with “Why Not”, I played the album “Custom” in a loop, along with all the early singles I could find, all of them.
“Either the ancient style and rhyme that a fish can hear, or the witty sigh of the difficulty of love, or the casual anecdotes that a skillful hand comes across, or the use of rap to express the depression and struggle in my heart, every single of Vae touches my thoughts.”. Flying into the music world he created, here is my tenderest dream, the ocean and sky that I can hold but cannot hold.
Young I also believe that all love and joy will last forever. However, the song ended and the night was not over, and people walked away with tea to cool the song and become sad. Everyone’s enthusiasm comes and goes quickly, but in short, it is so easy to fade.
After a period of time, everyone has found new idols, and various male and female troupes have begun to enter people’s vision strongly. Vae, it seems to people, is just a fake Wen Qing who can moan without illness, quickly giving way to the new blood.
It seems that studying in distant and unfamiliar cities has become the norm of this era, and the arrival of such events is only a matter of time. “What I can take away seems to be just my lonely self and the songs of Xu Song in my earphones.”.
I began to try to fit into new circles and adapt to the new pace of life. But I found that Xu Song’s songs are no longer a hot topic during recess. Unexpected, imagined.
However, no matter how others think and change, what remains unchanged is that Xu Song is still the only one who accompanies me every day.
“In That Not Far Away Place” gave me the courage to move forward firmly, and “Only Love You” gave me the strength to stand up in setbacks… His songs originate from life, rising from trivial things to the subject of thought.
No matter what moment, no matter what kind of environment, no matter what mood, he can always find a suitable song from his song list to enhance the situation at that time.
Everyone can’t get rid of life, and his song is life.
This is probably the reason why the Koalas are so affectionate towards him. Once you truly like his songs from within, you don’t want to leave the kind of music life he has brought us to appreciate.
Someone asked, why did Xu Song not become popular in previous years? Some even believe that he has passed out.
I would like to say that he is not a traffic star, does not participate in variety shows, and has almost no exposure. He is a life artist, a musician who adheres to his own path. Data ranking has never been his primary consideration. As for music, it is the joy he enjoys doing that is the most important thing.
In fact, the more popular things tend to spread more widely. Turn around and think about those songs that are hot and popular on the streets, most of them are saliva love songs. However, it is not enough to just have some elegant and popular love song tunes in life, and it is also necessary to explore deeper things in the mind.
You talk about your feelings, I appreciate my scenery. Appreciate both refined and popular tastes, and the sages appear.
So, it’s not that Xu Song is out of fashion, it’s that he’s moving forward, and his music is screening audiences who know how to appreciate it. Those who understand will naturally understand, while those who do not understand need not say so.
As young people, we can easily talk about words like fate and countless rivers and mountains, but we don’t understand the true meaning of them at all. However, Xu Song easily fused the profound issues with the fireworks of life, and finally presented us with a song that was either jumping off or quiet. Only the author knew the meaning of the song.
He is a beacon on the sea, guiding me to sail towards the clear; He walked at the forefront of thought, taking me through the myriad of floating worlds. He is not only a musician, but also an artist of the times.
