The highest recognized award in the Chinese music scene is the Taiwan Golden Melody Awards. The grand finale of the Taiwan Golden Melody Awards is called the "Best Vocal Album of the Year Award" (later renamed as the Best Mandarin Album in the Vocal Category).
The award that many singers and musicians want to win most is this grand finale.
So do you know at what age the winners of this grand finale award were awarded?
I spent some time doing statistics:
The youngest recipient of this award in history is Jay Chou, who won the award just 6 months after his debut. In addition, the third youngest winner is also Jay Chou, and the fourth youngest winner is also Jay Chou.
In addition, Jay Chou is the only one in the history of the Golden Melody Awards who has won the Grand Finale Award consecutively, and the only one who has won the Grand Finale Award 4 times.
More importantly, he is the independent producer and composer of all Jay Chou's albums.
There is no one in the Chinese music world who is more worthy of the saying "debut is the peak." It is not an exaggeration to say that he is a genius.
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This is a question.
Let me tell you a story.
When I was a freshman in high school, a classmate asked me a physics question. I looked at it twice. At the first glance, I thought, yes, I had done the regular questions. At the second glance, I thought, oh, it’s a boy, so I excused myself because I didn’t know it. Then this classmate really thought that even I couldn't do it, so he thought about another class and told me that this question was too difficult, and maybe even the teacher might not know it...
I think that was the worst time a physics teacher was hacked.
Of course, there is also my fault.
I was just too lazy to answer the boys’ questions, so the teacher got hacked once.
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In the same way, this logic can also be applied to your problem.
It is no exaggeration to say that Jay Chou is the enlightenment teacher for most of the musicians born in the 80s and 90s, that is, the current mainstream musicians.
Among the young musicians you think are great now, Deng Ziqi is Jay Chou’s number one fan. Xu Song, Wang Sulong, and Xu Liang are all greatly influenced by Jay Chou’s music. Hua Chenyu also said that Jay Chou is his idol, and Li Ronghao I am even more obsessed with the old hero.
If you look at EXO’s four returning members, three of them are big fans of Jay Chou, and the other one has also been greatly influenced.
If you look at the various rappers in China, eight out of ten are fans of Jay Chou.
There are also various film and television stars. The last incident of Jay Chou's "Sunset Red" on the charts has highlighted Jay Chou's influence.
Looking again, big names in the music industry such as Stephen Chow and Li Zongsheng have made no secret of their love for Jay Chou. Jacky Cheung also said that Jay Chou is one of the musicians he admires most.
Look again, how many musicians of the same period, like Jay Chou, are evergreen in the music industry, and are known to everyone when they release a new song?
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Me I am born after 1995. I often tell my friends that we have not actually experienced Jay Chou's most glorious era. He is more like a god in the 85s and 90s, and we are just living in the era when he has become a god.
This is a pity.
It will also cause many people who have not understood Jay Chou's music to think that he has been exaggerated.
Is this really the case?
I would rather say that the musicians you listen to may be more like the top students in the class, while Jay Chou is more like a teacher.
Jay Chou has influenced too many musicians, and more importantly, he has made the Chinese music scene truly a Chinese music scene, instead of the previous cover that only relied on Japanese songs.
His rap does not copy European and American styles. He removes the four tones of Chinese to make the rhymes smoother and writes positive energy into the lyrics. This is unprecedented.
His Chinese style. Before him, there were only a handful of Chinese style songs, but after him, there were four more songs a year.
His Zhou love songs have accompanied the youth of generations.
We used to call him Little King, then Jay Chou, King of Heaven. Now, Jay Chou can be called:
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Ma Di said: Who in that era has never heard of Jay Chou? If you don’t believe it, ask Song Dongye or anyone else. Everyone is like this. Anyone who says they haven’t heard is just pretending.
There is a chain of contempt in the music circle, but the only musician who can make so many circles unify the music aesthetic and be praised by everyone is Jay Chou.
It is no exaggeration to say that Jay Chou is a touchstone of music aesthetics.
You will feel that everyone listens to Jay Chou, but people with different music perceptions hear Jay Chou differently.
At this point, I feel that Jay Chou is underestimated.
In the past few years, in the eyes of the public, Jay Chou is known for his "chest muscles" and "promise not to cry."
I often see people dropping confession balloons into pits and promising not to cry into pits. I believe so much in this saying that Mojito is falling into pits. In these comments, There is no shortage of spoofs and fun ones, but to be honest, these songs are indeed Jay Chou’s business card to those born in 2005 and 10.
Too many people born after 2000 (especially those born in 2005) have never listened to Jay Chou’s previous albums. They don’t know songs like “In the Name of the Father” and “The Last Battle”. They may even think that “Tornado” " was made popular by Deng Ziqi, "Nunchuck" was made popular by Hua Chenyu, "Orc" was made popular by idol trainees, and "Listen to Mom" ??was made popular by Little Question Mark
Alas, the ignorant are not guilty.
From this perspective, Jay Chou is precisely a musician who is underestimated by the public.
Because Jay Chou is so popular and so many people like him, many people know that Jay Chou is the King and a very powerful senior, but not many people know what is so great about Jay Chou?
Regarding this point, Baidu Encyclopedia explains everything, and Zhihu’s various analyzes also explain everything, so I won’t say more.
If you really like Jay Chou's music, you should listen to more different types of music, music from different countries. Once you improve your music aesthetics, you will know why Jay Chou is so great.
Instead of seeing "Summer Wind" become popular, I said wow, it turned out to be Jay Chou's composition.
It turns out he is really that powerful.
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In summary, never underestimate a teacher.
In other words, the influence of the godfather of music.
Really powerful things are restrained, and can only float with half a bucket of water.
A lot of the music you listen to now has not experienced historical precipitation.
Many musicians may also be short-lived.
However, after reading this answer, first listen to Jay Chou's first ten albums.
You will know why people are spreading rumors about their awesomeness.
Because it’s really awesome.
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Let me explain. Some friends born in the 2000s always express their grievances in the comments, saying that I am dissing those born in the 2000s. This is not the case at all. I am the same. How come you are half a generation after 2000 and you are hacking yourself? Haha. But the fact is that when Jay Chou released "Fantasy", many people born in the 2000s were not yet born, or how old they were. Indeed, they had never experienced the peak of Jay Chou's fame.
Some people say that they listened to Elvis Presley in their childhood, hahaha. I want to say that this is not inconsistent with what I said.
Because Jay’s classic works have always been circulated, even the music from twenty years ago is still out of date.
Just like the analogy I made in the comment area, this is the same as watching "Harry Potter" in one go and catching up from the first "Harry Potter" to the last one. Both have finished watching Harry Potter, but their experiences are completely different.
But this kind of experience and feeling is sometimes not something we can choose.
It is possible that "Harry Potter" has been finished for as long as you can remember, so if you think it is good, you can only watch it in one go.
No one will laugh at you for watching "Harry Potter" in one sitting. Likewise, no one will laugh at you for listening to "Jay" in less than a month. .
You are already much better than other friends. There are many people who have missed the classics because of the passage of time.
So this is not a question of whether he is black or not, I am just objectively expressing the difference in Jaylen’s influence on different age groups.
You can read the comments from some brothers and sisters in the comment area. They are all very warm. At that time, every summer, they were waiting for Jay’s new album.
Now, for them, Jay’s new song carries his and their youth.
This feeling is different.
Some children can enjoy old albums and listen to old songs, but not everyone can do this. It's because not everyone is like this, that's why there are people like the questioner who don't understand and why Jay Chou is so confused.
And what I want to say is, fans born in the 2000s, 2005s and even the 10s, you are the best. It is precisely because of the existence of you Jay fans that the vitality of Jay's music and art continues.
Come on.
Listen to the music and move forward hard.
Finally, thank you all for your likes. Because of you, my answers can be seen by more people.
In the beginning, there were only a few likes a day, and I even thought about deleting this answer, hahaha.
So, you guys make my answer more meaningful haha.
Oops, not bad.