How to evaluate five people

Wearing a black leather coat and having the same hairstyle as during the performance. He asked for a cup of coffee and we waited for Mao together.

Mao comes from university town. He wears glasses and looks more gentle and handsome. "I must drink some whisky when I come here." When the whisky was served, PeopleSoft said it was delicious to add some to his coffee.

A five-member band from Shanwei City, Guangdong Province, composed of Amao, PeopleSoft and drummer Deng, released its fourth album "Menglisha Hair Salon" in February 20 16, and toured Shenzhen, Xiamen, Quanzhou and Guangzhou. On March 24th, 20 17, starting from Zhongshan, Guangdong, five people will take this new album to the city of 14 to hold a bathing ceremony of "Menglisha Hair Salon" for fans.

Many years ago, a friend of Mao and a vendor in PeopleSoft commented on five people. "Originally, five people were going to rock and roll, but they were forced to become folk songs alive." Five people themselves think so, "not just folk songs" is also the unanimous evaluation of them by the outside world. The production of the new album "Dream Lisa Salon" is more mature, and the theme has begun to expand. Five people are trying more "not so five people" things.

Creation is adventure: creating music like making a movie.

PeopleSoft said, "Creation is adventure." Mao jokingly asked, "What risk are you taking?"

"Creation is an adventure. I don't know where I'm going, so it's not fun. It is best to make things that you have never thought of. " PeopleSoft said seriously.

People's Band is well known to fans for singing local folk customs in Haifeng dialect. Accompanied by the strong Jianghu spirit, the band sang "Magic Reality" on earth, and the five became the "great gods" in the hearts of fans.

Speaking of the original intention of the new album "Dream Lisa Hair Salon", it turns out that the five originally wanted to make an exhibition in the art space. Imitate the decoration of the hair salon, let people sit in front of the dressing table and listen to music with headphones. The mirror on the dressing table will have lyrics or images. The craziest idea, five people even want to exhibit directly in the hair salon. However, due to various reasons, this album was not produced. The cover of the physical CD is a model of a hair salon.

(Photo of Menglisha Hair Salon | Photographer Chen Haishuang)

From "Guangdong Girl" to "Menglisha Hair Salon", the theme of the five-person music is no longer limited to the old news in the countryside, and Guangzhou events, spoony love and news stories can all be used for creation and singing.

When it comes to "first love" and "tropical", PeopleSoft thinks it is not special. "We often see such news stories on the Internet." PeopleSoft said that he especially remembered the picture in The News of First Love, "A truck hit a viaduct/got stuck in a pier". At that time, he remembered a scene in wim Wenders's "King of Roads", "A car drove forward at high speed from the highway and rushed into the river, while another person was brushing his teeth." This is a road news, and the whole song is like a road movie.

Compared with the news documentary of First Love, Tropical is more fictional. In the news story, the protagonist is a debt collector, but the protagonist in the song is a debt dodger. The story of staying in a hotel, checking welfare lottery tickets, strangling prostitutes and robbing banks is very dramatic. Why check the welfare lottery? PeopleSoft said that he had hoped to create a miracle for "Liu Delong", but he thought of his father who had bought the Mark Six lottery for several years and felt that Liu Delong could not be so lucky. "Stabbed another person who went to the bank to withdraw money/robbed the money to buy a motorcycle", which is the plot in Jia's Destiny, but five people are more realistic. "Liu Delong couldn't afford a gun at all, so I gave him a knife."

After coming to Guangzhou from Haifeng, Amao felt free. "When you arrive in Guangzhou, you will find that big cities and county towns are completely different." Amao talked about the fun of coming to Guangzhou from the beginning. "My brother and I made an appointment to meet at the book center to buy tapes." I took the bus for the first time (in Guangzhou), took the next stop, and then walked back. "PeopleSoft came to Guangzhou for the first time to find Amao and called a motorcycle at Tianhe Bus Terminal." The motorcycle passed Tianhe North Road, and I saw many tall buildings. The whole city is three-dimensional, which is different from TV. It feels like coming to the future. "This feeling makes PeopleSoft very excited, and this movie-like scene has also been written into the new song" Shipai Bridge ".

The new song "Yangko" is different. It is not music full of pictures, but more realistic poetry. "Even when we are delirious, we should keep a clear head." Speaking of this last sentence, PeopleSoft remembered aki kaurismaki's film A Man with No Past. In this movie, the hero was beaten up and lost his memory. Another man took him to a bar, pointed to the seagulls in the sky and the ashtray at hand to help him remember, and told him, "Never give up, even if you are out of your mind." This sentence sounds like chicken soup, but it is the belief that homeless heroes will survive. This scene, this sentence is impressive, and five people wrote it into music.