Chapter Ninety-Seven: Is It Really You?
In January, GD province is in the midst of winter, the coldest period of the year, but the temperature is also above 15 degrees.
The people on the streets of Guangzhou are dressed coolly, and there is no minimum respect for winter.
Cao Wu and the others flew directly from Xiangcheng to Guangzhou, preparing to participate in tomorrow's music festival.
A music festival is a celebration of one or several arts that lasts for several days and weeks, usually in a specific place with a uniform content, with a continuous performance.
For example, ethnic music festivals, modern music festivals, rock music festivals, and many more.
At present, the most popular is still rock music festivals, and Guangzhou Music Festival is one of the domestic rock music festivals.
The history of domestic music festivals has been more than 30 years, and almost every province has its own unique music festivals.
Don't underestimate the power of music festivals, there are many music lovers in China, and the annual consumer users of Kucat alone are close to 100 million, these are potential consumer groups, even if they can attract 100,000 people, they can also generate hundreds of millions of consumption.
You know, usually the festival will be held for more than three days, and visitors to the festival can't just buy tickets, even the most basic accommodation and food can already recover the cost and make a lot of money, and local governments naturally like this deal.
However, a good deal that everyone knows is not a good deal.
More than a decade ago, local governments rushed to support music festivals in their own regions, pushing the number of music festivals to more than 500, and there are music festivals every day of the year.
But music fans also have to go to work, and the time to go to the festival is basically during those holidays.
In order to attract more music fans, the dates of various music festivals are also set during large and small holidays, which leads to a series of problems, such as schedule crashes.
What attracts music fans to music festivals? Musicians, of course.
And the time of the two music festivals is together, how do music fans choose? Naturally, which music festival has more big names.
In those years, it was the most glorious days of underground music in China, but all underground musicians who have released albums and even singles can eat at music festivals, and many famous underground musicians have even approached mainstream musicians, and even some mainstream musicians are ready to move and start to run music festivals to make money.
But when any industry enters a period of rapid development, it will fall into chaos and mix in some guys who fish in troubled waters.
In many areas, music festivals are held just to make money, and the management system is chaotic, and problems arise.
This phenomenon has also aroused the disgust of many music fans and underground musicians, because the music festival is essentially an event organized by a group of underground musicians who are not accepted by the mainstream culture, giving themselves a stage to show and a place to get close to the fans, but the current development has deviated from everyone's original intention.
Many underground musicians began to refuse to participate in music festivals, and many festival organizers had to turn to mainstream musicians, which led to a worse and worse cycle.
Some local music festivals have begun to think of crooked ideas in order to solicit customers and grab people.
Some music festival organizers began to invite some beautiful girls and handsome guys to lure people to the festival through various social software on the Internet, which worked wonders and even formed an industrial chain.
However, this method is too easy to imitate, and many organizers have followed suit after finding that this method has worked, and some guys who are eager for quick success and quick profit even directly blatantly let sex workers pull people, which will make the circle into a miasma.
During that time, the Internet was full of news that young men and women were cheated of money and sex at music festivals around the world, and the music festivals suddenly became stinky pools, and everyone avoided them.
Later, in order to prevent the cultural brand of the music festival from being trampled, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the People's Republic of China took action to manage and rectify the cleanup, stopped hundreds of non-compliant music festivals, and established a music festival organization and management committee, led by the Beijing Cultural Bureau, and jointly with the five major music festival organizers such as the Beijing Midi Music Festival, to manage the national music festival, and the trend was quickly reversed.
Moreover, under the efforts of the organizers of the five major music festivals such as the Midi, the management committee has also given the greatest freedom to the organizers of music festivals around the country, and will not interfere too much in the organization and management of music festivals on weekdays, but will conduct random inspections from time to time, and the review of new music festivals is very strict, and gradually bring domestic music festivals on the right track.
At present, the total number of music festivals in China is about 150, and there are more than 60 rock-themed music festivals.
And in these music festivals, they are also divided into three, six, nine and so on according to their scale and reputation.
The five major music festivals, as "permanent directors", are not in the ranking, and the Guangzhou Music Festival is barely ranked at the bottom of the second tier by virtue of its geographical advantages.
Because of its proximity to the coast, it is more convenient to contact foreign music, and there are many jazz, blues, and rural bulls in Guangdong, and there are many good rock players, which are also well-known in China.
However, it is not only GD Province that is close to the coast, but there is also a Taiwan Province in front, but it has not let it be in the forefront.
It is also strange to say that although rock and roll was transmitted from the coast to the mainland, it seems that the domestic rock singing is mainly in Mandarin, and they all have to have a bit of Beijing flavor.
If it's other provinces, it's okay, but the same is true for GD provinces, which makes Cao Wu a little puzzled.
Before he came, he searched and found that someone had also asked this question.
Moreover, there is actually a language lover who has a careful analysis, saying that from a linguistic point of view, since ancient times, there have been many generous and tragic people in the land of Yan and Zhao, and the traditional drama in Northwest Hebei is also relatively hard.
The Wu Nong soft language in the southern region is more suitable for the lyrical and tactful genre, and the same is true for drama.
The first reply to that analysis helped Cao Wu reply to the opinion: Let go of your mother's fart!
That guy obviously didn't know much about rock music, and thought that all rock music was as fast as torrent rock!
As everyone knows, rock and roll is an unyielding spirit, a rebellious attitude, and has a hairy relationship with language!
But the language lover retorted below: Then you find someone who sings rock in dialects, and I listen to it?
One sentence blocked all the rebuttals.
Indeed, in today's music scene, those who sing popular songs in dialects and folk songs in dialects are not rock and roll in dialects.
Listening to the lyrics of those Cantonese singers in the headphones singing with difficulty, Cao Wu was so entangled that he was struggling.
Taking off the headphones, Cao Wu looked out the window, but his mind flew to the Tianhe Sports Center, where tomorrow's music festival will be held.
Beyond, is it really you?