Nicknames: Sister Bean Mouse, Mickey Mouse.
Education: Seoul North Industrial High School (self-retirement)
Current club: seotaiji company birthday:1970 65438+February 2.
Nickname: Liang Jun, Teminart's specialty: dance.
Education: Guangyang Industrial High School
Current Club: YG Entertainment Representative Director's real name: Sang-woo Lee.
Birthday: 1967 February 10
Nickname: Black Joe
Specialty: break dancing
Education: Lai Su Comprehensive High School1972 February 2 1 day, Xu Taizhi was born in Seoul. After graduating from junior high school, he entered Beijing University of Technology to study architecture and civil engineering.
1986, 14-year-old Xu Taizhi became the bass player of the school's "Wall of the Sky" band, which was the first time he stepped into the door of music. 1987, he quit Sky Wall and joined another band called Active Volcano. As a young independent band, his talent not only made him very popular at school, but also attracted the attention of musician Li Zhongshan. 1989, under the introduction of Li Zhongshan, Xu Taizhi, then a senior student, joined ——SINAWE, the best rock band, and started his bass player activities.
Xu Zhitai, a sophomore, dropped out of school automatically for a simple reason: to be more immersed in music! At that time, he wanted to have long hair to be a rocker, but if he continued to go to school, he would definitely not be able to have long hair ... Even if he was asked about the university in an interview later, he insisted on his position: "I am not' unable to enter the university', but' unable to enter the university'! At that time, the university didn't teach me the music I wanted, so there was no need to go to college. " His honest remarks first broke the fixed concept of degree and brought great impact to Korean society at that time.
1990, SINAWE was formally dissolved due to different opinions of members on music. After the dissolution of Sinaway, lonely Xu Taizhi made many musical attempts. In order to get rid of loneliness, he began to learn flute music by himself, and a series of major songs "I Know" were completed at this time. Li Junnuo and Yang Xianshuo are the first generation of Korean break dancing, and dancing is as natural as eating for them. Taizhi, who wanted to open the door to domestic music with his own music, met two of the strongest dancers at that time, and the three of them hit it off and formed Xu Taizhi and Children at 199 1. The youngest Xu Taizhi (then 20 years old, Korean Arithmetic) was appointed as the group leader and became the general manager of "Xu Taizhi and Children" in music.
1In March, 992, Xu Taizhi and Children officially released a series, and participated in the MBC special variety show with the title song "I Know". This is a program that allows unknown newcomers to show their music on the stage and receive expert evaluation. Although the judges didn't give "I Know" a high evaluation at that time, this song and this group called "Xu Taizhi and Children" became the most sensational legend in Korean music history because of this program!
Xu Taizhi is a real singer, writer and musician. All his albums are written, composed, arranged and produced by himself.
Seoul Taiji; The circulation of "Boy" exceeded 6.5438+0.7 million copies, setting a record for the largest sales of the first album in the history of Korean music. All the tracks of a series have entered the radio station Top 10. The title song "I Know" has been ranked first in all radio stations for five weeks in a row. The storytelling awards of that year were all embraced by Qiu. The public also has a lot of comments on a series: rap music can also be sung in Korean, an album that changes the history of pop music, and an album that promotes the emergence of real dance music in Korea. ...
10 generation, 20 young people are full of enthusiasm and eager to explode. The right way is the right way, so their demands and enthusiasm can't be released at all ... "Xu Taizhi and the Children" was born under such circumstances. Music that is almost unheard of in Korea and the fashion and freedom associated with it ... are enough to make the repressed 10 generation and the 20th generation crazy! Their gestures have become popular. Young people dressed as "Xu Taizhi fashion" can be seen everywhere, and the melody of "I know" is everywhere on the road. The saying of "Xu Taizhi syndrome" has officially appeared. "Xu Taizhi and Children" has enabled 10 generation to complete the cognitive transformation from "outbreak is extinction" to "outbreak is survival". They are no longer ignored by society, but become the protagonists of the times, and the term "new generation" came into being at this time. Everything about "idols" also began at that time: the appearance of fan clubs and brother armies ... "Xu Taizhi and the Children" 180 degrees changed Korean ballad culture.
However, there are many reasons why Xu Taizhi "exists like a legend"! Activation of MV
At that time, the MV had no special effects and no plot, but recorded the singer singing in costume. The MV of Xu Taizhi and Children is a more vivid and popular form of expression by adding emotions, thoughts and props.
Singers' struggle to defend their rights
At that time, the singer seemed to be the puppet of the company, and the company and the agent could decide everything at will without the singer's consent. The same is true of Xu Taizhi and the Children. Brokers and companies once took the edited MV to the market without their consent. At that time, it was an unwritten rule of the recording industry. But Xu Taizhi sued the company and its agent for "copyright infringement", which was unimaginable at that time. "Singers are music producers, not company puppets", and Xu Taizhi's belief has continued ever since.
Plan the re-establishment of the relationship between the company and the singer.
But Xu Taizhi doesn't agree with this view. He introduced the viewpoint system that "singers are not employed by companies and brokers, but by companies and brokers to manage their own affairs".
All this makes Xu Taizhi more famous and legendary, which is closely related to "You can make idols like Xu Taizhi and children, but you can't make musicians like him". Less than eight months after his debut, "Xu Taizhi and the children" suddenly cut off all contact and disappeared from the media and the public. At that time, their popularity climbed all the way, but in order to bury their heads in making the next album and present more perfect music for fans, they decisively interrupted all activities. "Finish the activities of one album and then have a rest time to prepare the next album" seems to be a matter of course now, but it was simply unimaginable at that time. No matter you have been out for 5 years or 10 years, no matter how much you want to rest, you have to run as long as the TV station calls. For fear of being branded as "uncooperative" by TV stations, no one questioned "missing" before Xu Taizhi. In June, 1993, "Xu Taizhi and the Children" brought their two-part return. The news of the return of "Xu Taizhi and the children" has become the focus of society, and all the media, even the 9 o'clock news, broadcast their CB news.
The public put down what they were doing and sat in front of the TV, expecting him to appear as 1 series RapDance. However, Xu Taizhi, who locked the MBCCCB stage, abruptly ruined people's expectations and turned the folk songs upside down! Fat pants, dark clothes, hats with trademarks, reggae perms ... "Xu Taizhi and the Children" showed HipHop to the domestic public for the first time (at that time, there was also HipHop in Korea, but it was generally only for individuals). If "I know" makes RapDance known to people, then "He Ru" a year later is another impact on the public.
At this time, the war between the media and Xu Taizhi officially began: the singer who should immediately stop the media "dared" to ignore public opinion and suddenly disappeared? ! Well, you should suffer!
Now, it seems perfectly normal for HipHop fashion to be banned by KBS, on the grounds that it will fascinate teenagers and have a bad influence. The National Daily criticized them with the preface of Witch Hunting in the Middle Ages, the Chosun Ilbo used Xu Taizhi to stop performing, well done, the Chosun Ilbo used the artist's bad shape and the dangerous water level ... All the media except them should put Xu. However, contrary to the public's desire to "kill" them, the public gave them a ratio/kl. HipHop fashion in Xu Taizhi has once again become a popular weather vane. Xu Taizhi also ignored media innuendo on the grounds that "our music is HipHop and free expression".
Seoul Taiji; Only two weeks after the release of Boy II II, 6.5438+0 million copies were bought. Critics began to evaluate their albums positively and objectively, and the media began to bow their heads. Seoul Taiji; The total sales volume of boys 2 exceeded 265,438+million, making it the first record in Korea to exceed 2 million. Xu Taizhi and Children won the Korean Record Award, Composition Award, Planning Award, Most Popular Singer Award, MBC Top Ten Singers Folk Festival Award, KBS Folk Award and other music awards. Not only that, they also represented South Korea in the Asian Music Festival.
Like 1 series, Xu Taizhi continues to look for the rights that singers deserve. He was the first singer to express a clear attitude towards portrait rights and copyright. In order to stop the circulation of illegal photo albums and the theft of photos, he proposed that "the circulation and commercial use of photos taken without the consent of singers are prohibited, and photos used in various media and businesses are directly provided by singers". Xu Taizhi created the correct era of "video production" with his own ideas.
Destroy your own music and make new music popular. Completely different music, completely different shapes ... Xu Taizhi successfully changed from an "idol singer" to a "musician". The equation of "Xu Taizhi = Challenge" is also established at this time. "Xu Taizhi represents a new generation. He likes novelty and challenge, so the new generation represented by Xu Taizhi should be more willing to challenge and pursue innovation! " This concept has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
Then, just like in the 1 series, "Xu Taizhi and the children" disappeared again. In the two years after the appearance of Xu Taizhi and the Children, great changes have taken place in pop music, and it entered a period of comprehensive revival in the middle and late 1990s. Hip-Hop, Rap-dance, high-completion love songs, k-Pop and other types of music began to prevail. Such as Shen Shengxun, Jin Jianmo and other truly powerful singers appeared, cheering for the public with their strength. At this point, Xu Taizhi ended his break and released three series.
Seoul Taiji; Boy ⅲ ⅲ was rated as a "cursed masterpiece", and the album Xu Taizhi and the children sold the least. Since the third season, Xu Taizhi is no longer as simple as a singer and musician, but has become the most surprising and controversial "social Xu Man Tai Zhi" in the history of Korean characters.
The third album is Xu Taizhi's album Rock, which broke away from the idea of "dancing musician" and returned to the root of his own music.
Determined to return to China with rock, he began to make fresh rock with high completion, instead of dance music that people expected. People who are full of dance music think that "Xu Taizhi's music is not the kind of dance music that has already expired!" "Dancing is no longer new, but Xu Taizhi, who is back to rock, is no longer new." "Other people's dance music is better" ... The idol singer created by the planning society by imitating "Xu Taizhi and the Children" fills the gap of too much knowledge, and the paranoid understanding of the public provides an attack point for the growing "anti-Xu Taizhi". Critics have also made an unprecedented thorough analysis of Series 3 (in the history of pop music, there probably won't be a second singer who took out his songs and analyzed and criticized them in newspapers and magazines like Xu Taizhi! Xu Taizhi's music is no longer a simple "listening" angle, but an "object of analysis and criticism".
At this time, "Satan said" officially appeared, and the strange rumor that "Xu Taizhi's music was listened backwards to convey Satan's message" spread all over the country (there are rumors that after the cassette of the album "Xu Taizhi and Children" was decomposed, the scroll was inserted in the opposite direction, and then the sound of "lack of blood" was heard by listening to "Classroom Ideas" with a cassette recorder). South Korea's three major TV stations reported this content in the 9: 00 news, and SBS made a special edition for it. The situation further expanded to the extent that "the head of MBC news personally listened to the" Classroom Concept ",indicating that the rumor is nonsense". Although Xu Taizhi himself strongly denied it, some religious musicians decided that this song was a song praising Satan, and even launched an argument about "Xu Taizhi is the devil among demons".
Fortunately, the misunderstanding was quickly solved. Of course, it's all thanks to Xu Taizhi fans. Xu Taizhi's fans have always been known for their "extreme prevention", and their greatest advantage is that there are quite a few people, with very diverse classes and strong logic. The fans made a detailed analysis of the concept of classroom, which proved that this song has nothing to do with the word "blood deficiency". In addition, psychologists come forward to say "this is the result of psychological suggestion" to end this absurd argument.
This three-part series has aroused widespread discussion in the society, but this is exactly the message that Xu Taizhi wants to convey. In this period, love stories are almost all popular songs. However, if we look at Xu Taizhi's three series: Dream in the Bohai Sea (Unity), Classroom Idea (Dull Educational Reality) and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Abuse of Narcotic Drugs), they are all social-oriented information. 10 generation began to discuss "unification", and the "classroom view" was supported by all students, and the society began to discuss the current situation of education ... The statement of "Xu Taizhi talks" came into being.
1994, Xu Taizhi was selected as "100 person who changed South Korea in the 50 years after the recovery" by academic circles and public opinion circles. This is the first time that she has been chosen as a singer for this kind of activity. But at this time, the music topic of Xu Taizhi and the Children has been far away from the public's attention, and things other than music have become the focus of social debate, so this year is their most unfavorable year. However, it has to be mentioned that although the simple evaluation of "being happy to listen" has been far away from Xu Taizhi, the three series of Xu Taizhi and the Children, which are based on alternative rock, hard-core scrap metal and even music-style love songs, are all masterpieces! In the third album, you can still feel Xu Taizhi's album Wandering and Distress. The reason why he didn't get good reviews is that his dream of "turning from a dancer to a rock musician" can't meet the requirements of the public.
In this way, Xu Taizhi, who ended three series of activities in many stories, is no longer a simple musician! Every time he comes out, it will become a social issue. Any small gesture will cause cross-cultural disputes ... Although he doesn't want to, his great influence on society makes him a "cultural president".
Then, it was the "diving time" that interrupted the activity ... 1995 10. In October, Xu Taizhi and the Children took their four CB series.
Before coming back, the public was disappointed with the fierce comments of public opinion. At that time, many things happened ... The public who thought that "Xu Taizhi was out of date" became a lot. Numerous misunderstandings and prejudices have hurt their body and mind to some extent, so unlike before, CB is very low-key this time. While others were dancing in neat and shiny clothes, Xu Taizhi performed RapDance in vivid and personalized clothes; When others are wearing RapDance, Xu Taizhi shows people with hip-hop Look and sings hip-hop; When everyone else was singing Hip-Hop, Xu Taizhi wore fashionable clothes and returned to non-mainstream rock. ...
1995, folk songs have reached the age of dance: similar music, similar shapes, you also dance, I also dance ... Everyone else is repeating Xu Taizhi's music, but he appeared at the return scene in ski suit and brand-new GangstaRap.
This four-episode series broke the expectations of experts, who will never see their previous popularity again. On the first day, 300,000 copies were sold, with a total circulation of more than 2 million copies, making it the third record in Korean history to break through 2 million copies (the first one, Seo Tai Ji & Boys Ⅱ, the second gold model of "Encounter by mistake"). The title song "Go Home" ranks first in the radio charts, and the street has become the world of snowboarding Look. The sales rate of "Xu Taizhi and Children" clothing sponsors has increased by more than 200%. Li Junnuo's "mask" shape has also become a fashion vane. It is no exaggeration to say that at least half of the teenagers in 10 are "masks" when taking public transport.
At that time, the radio station also reported the news that teenagers who ran away from home came home after listening to Home. Different from the negative social problems in the third series, this is a correct understanding of "Xu Taizhi can do what he can" and the true meaning of "cultural president".
In addition, for Xu Taizhi, who was in the activity period at that time, there were two major events: one was the plagiarism of the title song "Go Home", and the other was the struggle with the "Ethics Committee for Public Performance".
Debate on "Plagiarism Doubt Cloud"
The title song "Go Home" is the West Coast rap in the American orthodox Hip-Hop theme. It is the characteristic of this type to say that rap is like chewing something. Mount Cypress in America is the representative of this theme. Some people suggest that the melody of Return is very similar to the music of this group, which is called "plagiarism suspicion".
The debate about "GangstaRap is just a kind of music, not plagiarism" has been going on between "public opinion, media" and "Xu Taizhi and his fans" who are troubled by plagiarism. Finally, out-of-control fans took action and sent Xu Taizhi's album directly to Mount Cypress in the United States. Soon after, they officially received the answer from the original composer Cypress Hill, "It's not plagiarism, it's Gangsta Rapguyou's style". Xu Taizhi's fans crush all rumors and doubts with actual evidence.
War with "Public Performance Ethics Committee"
This is another achievement and contribution of Xu Taizhi to Korean folk songs.
There used to be a place in Korea called "Public Performance Ethics Committee". All albums must be sent to this place first, and then they will be reviewed to see if there are any inappropriate words or lyrics that need to be deleted before they can be released. "Xu Taizhi and the children" are not immune. In the process of examination, the Committee thinks that there are some problems in the lyrics of Time Regret, Return and Victory: Time Regret criticizes the corruption in the "strange times" at that time and is dissatisfied with this phenomenon; ComeBackHome tells the story of a teenager running away from home. Although "Winning" is about the pain of lovelorn love, it needs to be revised or deleted because of improper lyrics.
Xu Taizhi thought it was a suppression of "freedom of expression", so he simply removed all the lyrics of "Regret of the Times" and kept the performance version directly, while "Win" and "ComeBackHome" were released directly without any changes ... In this way, the Performance Ethics Committee took their four series to court.
Knowing that the lyrics of Regret of the Times were deleted because of the "Performance Ethics Committee", Xu Taizhi fans stood up again: they submitted a petition to Congress and launched a large-scale signature campaign. To this end, the National Assembly set up a "Truth Correction Committee" to deal with this matter, which is unprecedented in South Korea because of "a singer's lyrics problem". Although "Xu Taizhi and the Children" retired in the second year, their fans persisted patiently until the end, and finally ended the debate with "the public performance ethics Committee abolished the' pre-trial system'".
At that time, for singers, the media and the performance ethics committee were "two dragons" that could never be taunted, but Xu Taizhi and his fans won in the struggle. Thanks to them, singers are no longer restricted by deliberation and express their ideas with more diverse and richer lyrics.
Every album will introduce a genre that was rare at that time, and then show it to the public through his own re-creation ... Xu Taizhi, he is always pursuing new things. Let the public have a paranoid and strange idea that "Xu Taizhi should be fresh". But for Xu Taizhi, who has dabbled in more than 20 types of works through previous works awards, the demand of the masses that "Xu Taizhi is new, so it must be fresh" has turned into silent oppression, and even creation is accompanied by pain. "Creation turned into pain, and then I made up my mind to leave. This four-part series is the determination to leave, the arrangement of Xu Taizhi's self-pursuit during this period, and the album is the same as a rest ... "When he finally left, Xu Taizhi said. 199665438+1October 3 1 am 10: 45, without warning, "Xu Taizhi and the children" held a press conference at Sungkyunkwan University to announce their retirement. "In order to get rid of the pain of creation and stay in the hearts of fans with the most beautiful image, I decided to retire. From now on, I will return to be an ordinary Korean youth ... "Three members boarded the platform and read a nine-page" retirement declaration ". On that day, 150 reporters rushed to the scene. In order to ensure the smooth convening of the press conference, the police department dispatched five squadrons (600 people) to surround the venue. In order to prevent "unexpected events", more than 50 plainclothes were even arranged in the infield of the press conference.
Although the press conference was held privately for fans, more than 100 fans showed up and surrounded the venue: "I searched for a week or so" and "I contacted the members of the fan club immediately with BB" ... When "Xu Taizhi and the children" left, these fans broke through the layers of guards, surrounded the nanny car in Xu Taizhi and knocked on the window with tears. Finally, Xu Taizhi and them had to leave through the back door of Sungkyunkwan University. The reporter's memories of the day are: 10 generation sitting on the ground crying with schoolbags and school uniforms; A tearful fan ran along the place where the car disappeared; More than 500 fans also felt the news, wandering outside the venue all day, shouting their names ... and even causing some fans to commit suicide. "The sudden retirement of Xu Taizhi and the children became the biggest impact of Korean society at that time. The key news and newspaper headlines of the 9: 00 news of each TV station are all their news without exception.
Those three young people who simply like music don't even have a planning agency under their unbearable popularity and expectation. They have struggled with the media and society alone for four years ... it is too difficult for young people of the 20 th generation to bear such national care! Therefore, in the most gorgeous time, they left everything behind, without any memory, and retired first: Xu Taizhi went to the United States; Yang Xianshuo and Li Junnuo started their own businesses.
1In July, 996, after the war with the Performance Ethics Committee, Xu Taizhi and his fans wrote lyrics for Regret of the Times and re-released it as a single with the theme of "Fish Cut into Small Pieces Will Dream and Fly". Xu Taizhi compared himself to a "fish" and used songs to express the message of "jumping out in search of hope/being cut into small pieces by people who were late/the fish being thrown into the trash can/still not forgetting the dream of flying ...".