This horse-roping man from Ergun, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, just walked into my heart.
My major in college was news broadcasting. I wandered around for six years, delivering food, working at a music radio station, and doing various jobs. In the end, he chose to do what he liked, make some music, and become an independent musician.
In the year after he graduated, he, like everyone else, stumbled forward in ignorance and came to Beijing. Like all the people who drifted to the north, they cherished the good things while doing the boring work at hand. And he successfully became popular in 2015. It attracted everyone's attention and surprised everyone that such a thin boy with a boyish appearance could become famous all of a sudden through a niche ballad. But he said he didn’t know whether everyone liked me or Chen Hongyu. He clearly understands that in this circle, the speed of fame and the speed of disappearance can be equal to reality. Chen Hongyu knows how to make himself go further.
He knew his strengths and weaknesses, so he founded Zhongleji. Through crowdfunding of lyrics, arrangements, and illustrations, a group of people who love music work together to make music. He founded a band in his early years and did publicity work while drifting to Beijing, which provided him with a solid foundation for managing and managing music publicity. I have read many articles about him, most of which analyze why he is popular and why I like him. But it is rare to see anyone write about his hard work in the past six years of Beidiao. Maybe such a hard experience is too ordinary, or maybe everyone only pays attention to him after his success. Some people say that he is different from traditional folk singers because he is obviously good at using online media to package and promote his songs, and he is a typical businessman. However, as he said himself: Is the purpose to make money or to make money by the way? It's obvious that he just likes music and makes money on the side. A sentimental feeling that cannot be put into practice is just a daydream. And he realized it bit by bit.
Some people say that his songs are just sad for the taste of young literary and artistic people. There is no denying that his lyrics are a bit poetic and a bit obscure, seeming to be showing off a pretentious moan in rhyme. When listening to music, sometimes it is not just the tune that moves people, but also the story. He said that after the ideal thirty-year period is sung, it becomes everyone's ideal thirty-year period. For those young people in their early twenties and approaching thirties, they work hard every day to determine whether they are on the path they originally wanted and whether they are living the life they long for. When the song started, everyone fell into deep thought. As a result, this song became popular because it sang about the pretentiousness in so many people’s hearts that was difficult to tell others, and it sang about so many people’s stories. Everyone is listening to their own stories, and Chen Hongyu is also singing his story.
He likes to think. When performing, I always think about philosophical questions such as who am I, where am I, and what am I doing? You will find it interesting that if it was because of his singing voice and his appearance at first, then it should be his personality now. Maybe it just so happens that he belongs to the type that I admire! A person who loves to think about problems and often reads books on psychology, a person who doesn't talk much and laughs like a child, a person who looks calm but actually looks like a young man on the inside. This is probably what I yearn for. No matter how many storms he has been through, he is still the same person who smiles when he sees a cloud.
Chen Hongyu, this is why I like him.