"Why are you disappointed in that kid? It's still very good. Huang Zhan was very puzzled after listening to his old friend's words.

"Is it because this kid sang "Can't Stop Loving You" today is a cover and not an original?" Lu Guozhan on the side guessed after thinking for a while.

"Yes, I originally thought that Lang Lang would be able to bring a completely original song, but I didn't expect it to be a cover song." Gu Jiahui said with some loss.

"Even if it's a cover, it's been carefully recreated, and Lang Lang is still so young, we can't be too him." Li Xiaotian on the side was also a little surprised by Gu Jiahui's thoughts.

"That's right, Lang Lang is still so young, it's really too harsh for me to ask him like this, but I think he is not an ordinary genius, but a person who can change the pattern of the Hong Kong music scene, I am not talking about him as a singer, but as a music creator, his "Childhood" and other songs prove that he has this ability, but this ability has not fully exploded."

I'm afraid Chen Lang never thought that a few songs such as "Childhood" created by himself would make Gu Jiahui think so highly of him.

"Old Gu, since you think Lang Lang will have such a great influence in the future, and you appreciate him so much, then you should be happy, how can you be so disappointed, you won't want to pull out the seedlings to help grow, right?" Huang Zhan, with his old friends for many years, felt that there was something wrong with Gu Jiahui tonight.

Huang Zhan did not guess wrong, the reason why Gu Jiahui was so depressed was because he was worried about the future of the Hong Kong music scene, which has been worried for a long time, and Chen Lang's singing tonight was just an introduction. So what is Gu Jiahui worried about?

Koo's concern is a problem that was common to the entire Hong Kong music scene in the 80s, and it may not be a problem, but a common phenomenon, that is, there were very few original songs in the Hong Kong music scene in the booming 80s.

Although it is not yet the golden heyday of Leslie Cheung, Alan Tam, Anita Mui and others vying to dominate the Hong Kong music scene in the mid-to-late 80s, the current 1981 has opened the prelude to the heyday of the Hong Kong music scene, and is rapidly accumulating strength and flourishing.

However, in the heyday of the Hong Kong music scene, it is difficult to hide the fact that there are very few original songs in Hong Kong, although it may be more obvious to look back after the end of the eighties, for example, in a competition for the top ten Chinese Golden Melody Awards, the candidates are Chen Huixian's "Song of a Thousand Thousand Que" and Anita Mui's "Song of the Sunset", and both songs are covers of "Song of the Sunset" by Japanese singer Masahiko Kondo.

Now 1981 has been able to highlight this problem, and because he is a music creator, Gu Jiahui knows a lot of inside stories and roots, which also makes Gu Jiahui's worries even heavier.

After seeing Chen Lang's first performance and the original music composed by Chen Lang that is completely different from the current music scene, Gu Jiahui seems to see a little hope, and at the same time, Chen Lang's superstar potential makes Gu Jiahui feel that if Chen Lang's original music develops smoothly, he will be a figure who can influence an era, and his influence may break his worries.

But tonight, Chen Lang also embarked on the road of covering, which made Gu Jiahui, who was full of hope, feel like he was poured a basin of cold water all of a sudden, and he came directly to his heart, so he was depressed.

"Although it is not obvious, I believe you can also feel that with the development of Hong Kong's economy, the entertainment industry is also making great strides, including the record industry, and now more and more people want to enter the music market, not only foreign giant record companies, but also Hong Kong's local powerful companies.

However, in order to pursue profits, these companies only want to package their singers through covers, which makes the Hong Kong music scene lose the original soil, so what will the Hong Kong music scene develop into, it is shocking to think about it. Gu Jiahui still had a sad face and drank a lot of wine.

The other three are music creators, and they have adapted a lot of European, American and Japanese songs for the record company, and it is really difficult to be original, and the reasons why the Hong Kong music scene is like this now and throughout the 80s in the future are due to many reasons.

First of all, Hong Kong itself is just a city, where all kinds of trends converge, itself is a colony, there is not such a strong sense of locality, English is the strong language of the local area, and it is normal to sing Western songs directly at the earliest.

At the same time, in the 80s, Japanese film and television music idols swept across Asia, and became popular all over Taiwan, Hong Kong and Southeast Asia. Even the mainland is popular in Japanese TV dramas and idols, the tough guy Ken Takakura with a cold temperament is the dream lover of many mainland girls, and "Blood Suspicion" Yamaguchi Momoe killed any Korean star in his previous life in seconds to the extent of Asian popularity, so it is not surprising that in this environment, Hong Kong pop Japanese idols are adapted into Japanese songs.

At the same time, the Hong Kong pop music scene only took shape in the late 60s and early 70s, and only a short dozen years passed in the 80s, and the development was still very immature and immature, while Japan has always been the leader of the Asian pop music scene, and it is normal for Hong Kong to introduce their songs to change.

Commercial interests are also very important reasons, in the previous life of Hong Kong musicians in many interviews with why Hong Kong 80s adaptation of songs is often mentioned, according to these musicians said that many companies buy adapted songs because it is more convenient and profitable, because some companies have just been established, the economic strength is still very limited, if you use local creation, the song is not good, you can't not give money, and the adapted song can be picked and listened to directly buy the copyright if you listen to it.

In addition, at several major awards ceremonies in Hong Kong, the changed songs are more popular. There are only a few places for the awards ceremony, and there are so many good songs, of course, you have to choose the best of the best. The adapted songs have been proven to be successful, so they are naturally more mature, not to mention that they are good tunes selected by relevant people from abroad. In other words, these songs are all the best in foreign countries, and Hong Kong, which has only been formed in the pop music scene for more than ten years, is naturally more favored.

Nowadays, the choice of the general public is also a big inducement, and the average listener will care about whether your song is original or not? Naturally impossible, their requirements are very simple, as long as you listen to it, it doesn't matter what else matters, and these carefully selected songs can naturally easily capture the hearts of listeners, and the sales are huge, and the company sees that fans are buying it, and naturally they are adapting the songs, so that a cycle is formed.

Another reason is that in 1984, Alan Tam was elected "Most Popular Male Singer", opening a chapter in the urbanization of Cantonese pop songs, he and Leslie Cheung, Anita Mui and other superstars adapted a large number of Japanese pop songs, so that urban love songs with Oriental flavor swept Hong Kong, and this trend will naturally affect other singers, and then everyone runs to change the song and make covers, and it is naturally more difficult for Hong Kong's original music to raise its head.

From the perspective of later generations, Gu Jiahui's worries are undoubtedly very predictable, but it is only 1981, not yet the period when Tan Zhang competes for hegemony, and the adaptation of Japanese Ouxi's songs is not so crazy, and the performance is not very obvious.

Except for these music creators who know the inside story, few others know it. And even if it's clear, what can you do, be as worried as Gu Jiahui? Naturally not, I'm afraid everyone will continue to adapt and cover Western and Japanese songs, as long as the record can be sold, the singer and the company can profit, who can manage so much if they can gain fame and fortune?

"There is indeed a trend in the Hong Kong music scene to adapt Western and Japanese songs, but the Hong Kong music scene is still too young, and it is not impossible to learn from the mature songs of other countries, and it can also make the Hong Kong music scene mature as soon as possible and produce its own music.

And now there is no Xu Guanjie who created and sang by himself, coupled with this Lang Lang with great potential, the development of Hong Kong's local music still has great potential. Huang Zhan looked at Gu Jiahui and was still at a loss, and said comfortingly.

"I can only hope for that, hey......"