Thinker in the entertainment industry

When Zheng Zhiyong first appeared on the underground stage, everyone's reaction was:

This is rapper?Not someone who wants to become an idol will use this as a springboard.

At that time, "showmethemoney" hadn't been done yet, very few hip-hop players could make a name for themselves in the mainstream, and idols were not interested in going underground. Otherwise, some people would regard Zheng Zhiyong as an [-]th-line idol who wanted to find a new way.

In any case, his clean and handsome appearance and gentle style are of course not very popular in the underground. Even though his rap has been recognized early, people are not creatures who can talk about things at all times, let alone a hip-hop The important part is still diss.

Later, Zheng Zhiyong sang "Six relatives are discordant and there is filial kindness", which made many people shut up in surprise.

Don’t you think I dare not do this or that?I dare to talk about the most conventional parent-child relationship in the world, but you can only mention a few words about sex|desire.

Zheng Zhiyong's style will still be dissed, but after that, no one will say that Zheng Zhiyong's purpose as a rapper is not pure or his attitude is wrong, and he has no opinion on him using "thinker" as his stage name, Zheng Zhiyong After getting so close to idol, Yong made no secret of his closeness to idol, and the hip-hop circle still recognized him as a rapper, no one said that he used hip-hop as a springboard, and this song contributed a lot.

As a song that left a deep impression on people in the underground, "Six relatives are not compatible with filial piety" is not necessarily harsh in terms of language, but what really makes people's scalp tingle is the content, not the bad words-that's just A stimulating medium that arouses aversion or special excitement.

Now ordinary listeners from all walks of life have understood the feelings of the rappers back then.

"The law does not stipulate responsibilities, and moral requirements have no bottom line. Vague concepts, absurd practices, and the definition of 'filial piety' is becoming stricter and stricter. What good changes will it bring?"

"Love, hate, the entanglement of love and hate, is there any exceptional emotion between human beings. The greatness of love has been preached countless times, why do you start to be obsessed with dogma again?"

"When you raise a dog, you don't worry about biting back. People are such evil creatures. Ten years is still not enough."

"Cultivation does not apply to truly cold-blooded animals, and those who have a heart are subject to useless restraint."

The most quintessential part is the rap that acts as the chorus in "Six Relatives Discord and You Xiaoci":

"The world has lost morality, and began to think of benevolence and righteousness. To bear the pain of betrayal, loyalty is a precious thing. I don't believe that there is friendship between blood relatives, and I turn to rules. The intimacy between parents and children is the most essential relationship that has been forgotten. "

This theme is too exciting. Even as a die-hard fan, Li Yuanzhu has heard of this song, but when he actually heard it, he broke out in a cold sweat. After studying it several times, he finally let go of his heart.

The objection to "filial piety" as a theme is certainly terrifying, but if you look carefully at the content of the lyrics, it is not that exaggerated.Zheng Zhiyong's point of view can be summed up as follows: If there is a responsibility for support, please ask the law to stipulate it. From a moral point of view, it is very boring to make a lot of requirements.The bond between parent and child should be one of love.You can raise a dog after a few years, but what's wrong with raising a person from childhood to adulthood and worrying that he doesn't have feelings for you?It's useless to ask for those cold-blooded animals that you don't know well, and imposing a bunch of restraints on people with feelings is nothing to do...

Anyway, my feelings for my parents are the love that arises after I feel their teaching, care, trust, tolerance and perseverance. What I do is also motivated by love. What is filial piety?

However, she was only "slightly" relieved, and Li Yuanzhu had to consider a situation:

How many people will read the lyrics seriously?

In fact, the comment section of Zheng Zhiyong's ins was swiped that afternoon. The comments were mainly divided into two types. Ordinary people said: "Does your family know this song you wrote?"

The other is people who have heard "Six Relatives and You Xiaoci" before: "That's not right, thinker, why did you change the lyrics?"

In the evening, Zheng Zhiyong's response to the former can explain all the problems at once:

"I know, my mother also said that the lyrics should not be too exciting to avoid blurring the point."

"The evaluation I got after the modification. I said that my attitude is too arrogant. I just think that a relationship based entirely on love is nobler than one that contains other things. I personally think that I just have a hard time understanding the constraints other than responsibility in a relationship... …I’ll write what’s on my mind at the moment.”

Then there was a strange calm in the comment area of ​​his ins.

No. [-] on the eight charts, breaking the table. With Zheng Zhiyong's popularity and popularity, if his solo album is not shoddy, it is no surprise that he has achieved such a result.

"London Coachman" has become the main hit not only because its theme is not so sharp and exciting, Zheng Zhiyong's talent in creation is also quite amazing, "very sad and very burning" is the unanimous evaluation of the audience, even if they are younger , If you can’t understand what the lyrics say, listening to the music alone will also be captured by the sadness and majesty of it. Those who can understand will be shocked even more. The elimination brought about by progress, this theme can touch a lot of people— —According to the age statistics of the people who bought audio sources and comments, the number of forties and fifties added up to 20.00%.

In terms of music source performance, "London Coachman" is also obviously the best. What is shown on the bright side is the ranking of music sources and the curve that has reached the ceiling of the music source table. What is not disclosed is the number of music source downloads counted by each platform.On the day the sound source was released on March 3, the downloads of "London Coachman" reached an astonishing 24 times.

What is this concept? "Callmebaby" released by exo in 2015 has about 70 music downloads and ranks around [-] on the annual list. "London Coachman" can achieve such a result on the day of its release on Thursday, even considering that many people are watching Zheng Zhiyong's album this time due to various reasons, it is very horrifying.

As for non-star performers such as "apologize" and "Brave New World", they also ranked very high on the list that day.There aren’t many strong competitors on the music charts these days. In addition to the songs born in the talent show “produce101” which brings together female trainees from major companies, the new album released by Zhang Fanjun, who wrote the divine comedy “Sakura Ending”, is still a bit splashy. Looking at the list, the OST of "Descendants of the Sun" is everywhere.This pre-produced TV series broadcast simultaneously in China and South Korea is indeed unbelievably popular, but not everyone is following the TV series.So Zheng Zhiyong took advantage of it and got pretty good data.

But it's hard to say how long such data can last. They are too "deep" in content.

"London Coachman" is enough." On the third day on Saturday, Fang Kihyuk is still paying close attention to the trend of music downloads, but Zheng Zhiyong has already unloaded most of the burden, "the theme of this album It’s hip-hop, so it’s unlikely that all the songs will have a good sound source.”

Although hip-hop is becoming more and more popular in South Korea, most of the songs that have achieved good results on the charts are the combination of hip-hop and mainstream topics. There are exceptions, but few. "London Coachman" will be one, and the other songs don't give much hope.

The biggest purpose of Zheng Zhiyong's "ithink" is to tell people how far his brain can be opened, and to further test the bottom line of the public's acceptance of him. From the cj's point of view, what they want most is not to rely on the whole album The sound source of the album earns a lot of money, the title song has a good result, further packaging Zheng Zhiyong in a "thoughtful" direction, and building a larger and more stable fan base, that's about it.It's just an album, or Zheng Zhiyong's first solo album, how many goals can it be expected to achieve?

"The biggest problem now is public relations," Zheng Zhiyong said again. To be honest, it is also quite difficult for him to divert his attention from the pile of data that represents his achievements. "The past two days have been very good, but There may be problems later—the matter of "Zeze" did not come out immediately."

This hip-hop album that says "I have a lot of ideas" everywhere, the content is shocking at first glance, but with the permission of CJ, the content of "ithink" is not as much as it seems.Most of the songs represented by "London Coachman" talk about the understanding of "big issues" such as society and history. Ji Yong does not say that Hitler is inevitable. "Apologize" opposes frivolous tolerance. This kind of view is not as widespread as "to be lenient to others", but it is also a kind of political correctness-people subconsciously always hope that others will be tolerant, but it is not so easy to laugh it off .If Zheng Zhiyong is attacked because of this, he will not be alone.

The most exciting song is still the song "Six Relatives Discord".If it hadn't been sung before Zheng Zhiyong became famous, and there are quite a few people who know it, cj would never allow Zheng Zhiyong to include it in the album, but the song has been sung long ago, then Sooner or later, it must be resolved, otherwise you will always worry that someone with a heart will use it as an argument.

In order to hold the initiative in his own hands, cj carefully handled this song that Zheng Zhiyong became famous when he was active in the underground, revised the lyrics, and pulled Zheng Zhiyong's parents to stand when necessary. Tian worked out the news related to this song and truthfully recounted the content of Zheng Zhiyong's conversation with people on ins.

Instead of waiting for others to exaggerate and distort and then laboriously explain and clarify, it is better to clarify the matter first: Zheng Zhiyong wrote "Six Relatives Disharmony" with the belief that "our family members love each other, what kind of filial piety and compassion do you use to restrain each other is really weak Exploded" arrogance.

To make the news look fair and objective instead of whitewashing, a few "bad words" are still necessary.

If you want to be unique, and at the same time not have a bad reputation, the requirements are not low, and it is only natural that you are troublesome.Zheng Zhiyong thought this way, and felt that the pressure in his heart was lighter: "Jihe, I heard that a Chinese website called tencent is going to cooperate with sbs in an online variety show, can you help me find out?"

It was rare that Zheng Zhiyong took the initiative to bring up the job, and Fang Jihe cheered up: "What kind of variety show?"

"Chinese and Korean singers cooperated", Zheng Zhiyong said, "They found Jay Bum, so I think the company should know."Jay Park's overseas foundation is almost the same. In the past, he relied on the brokerage company sidushq for his overseas activities, but now he relies on his partner cj for foreign affairs.

"You're not interested in that show because Jay Park is going?" Fang Kihyuk looked speechless.

"There is also Zico, who is also someone I know," Zheng Zhiyong said, "I don't want to cooperate as a singer."

Jay Park told him that he felt that Zheng Zhiyong would have an advantage in participating as a singer, but Zheng Zhiyong didn't think so. His language advantage is too obvious, which would make the show appear unbalanced.

Zheng Zhiyong has his own ideas.

"Then you want to..."

"Host", Zheng Zhiyong spat out a word that Fang Jihe had never thought of, "If you need it, you can try 'Firefighters'. This program has just started planning, and it is estimated that it will be finalized in May, and the recording will be later. , don't rush."

"What about you now?"

"Continue to go to jellyfish to grab representative Huang's coffee." Zheng Zhiyong said.

"ithink" is a not-so-mainstream hip-hop album, and cj didn't arrange song making activities for him. We have to wait for the "Infinite Challenge" thing. Zheng Zhiyong has no work these days, and he doesn't plan to be idle. It is easy to bring tension, so it is better to find something for yourself to do.

It's a good choice to change your mind.