Evaluation of Eagle City Style by Relevant Media

1. The MV "Eagle City Style" was freshly released and received rave reviews.

On the afternoon of June 365438+1October 3 1, the reporter saw this video after inputting "Eagle City style" on Baidu and Youku websites respectively. In the MV, two big boys, one fat and one thin, wear baseball caps and dance the popular horse-riding dance. Yizhuang also sang Henan dialect rap harmoniously. In addition to drawing lessons from South Korea's "Gangnam style", the lyrics and plot are original and refreshing.

In the MV, "I am afraid of Eagle City style!" After the opening remarks, the two big boys began to rap in authentic Henan dialect: "The clothes in Dennis Department Store are too expensive/the price is too high/so are ten thousand households/you have to cross the street to buy affordable clothes and shoes in Caesar/don't listen to the quotation/learn to bargain ..." Between singing and dancing, the pedestrian street, Caesar, Eagle City Night, Xincheng and Lushan Hot Spring Hotel flashed by in front of reporters. Netizen "123" commented at the bottom of the video: I am familiar with the scene shot in the MV, even the sanitation worker grandfather who is an extra actor and the aunt who sells meat buns are so familiar-there is a flash behind, just like me!

The reporter found that there are dozens of extras in this MV with a duration of 4 minutes and 2 seconds. The scenes are all landmarks of Pingdingshan, with the most prosperous pedestrian street in Pingdingshan as the main scene, involving Caesar Square, Xincheng, Lushan Hot Spring, Shenma Avenue and many other landmarks.

As of press time, Eagle City style has received nearly 20,000 requests and 600 comments on Youku. The reporter captured the comments of some netizens:

Netizen "sunshine king": familiar melody, more familiar place, Eagle City passion! Ho ho!

Sina Blog Friend @ Economic Viewpoint Tang: I have to say that the master is in the folk! In your Pingdingshan!

Sina Boyou @ Nanyang North Shore Lanting Hotel: When will Nanyang style come out? Luoyang Pingdingshan has come out.

It is understood that Eagle Wen Ming, the main combination of Eagle City style, is a young local music group in our city. The lyricist and lead singer Wang and another lead singer belong to the grassroots. One is post-80s, and the other is post-90s. This MV was filmed for one month.

On the afternoon of June 365438+1October 3 1, with the popularity of Eagle City style, the reporter interviewed the "Eagle Wen Ming" group on the football field of Pingdingshan Institute of Education. Through the interview, the reporter got a better understanding of Pingdingshan local rap music, and also felt a youthful rhythm and a persistent dream.

2. Two young people who are obsessed with the dream of rap music

The two people in the Eagle group are both Pingdingshan natives, and the lyricist Wang Laocheng is cautious. At present, I work in an advertising company in our city, and I am born after 80; Li Yun, a beautiful dancer, has a lively life, especially after 90.

Wang speaks slowly and thinks he is an introverted and serious person. His parents are also very traditional people. He laughs at himself and always "can't let go" himself. Growing up in the western market, he was deeply influenced by the civic culture and had a tough personality, which became the musical tone of his early creation.

Although Wang has only been composing independently for four years, he has been in contact with music for more than ten years. When he was in high school, Wang was addicted to rock music. In order to dispel his idea of "doing nothing", his parents found a music teacher to audition for him. The teacher said that he was not suitable for music at all. After graduation, Wang Gaozhong joined the army and began to get in touch with B-Box (a new element of hip-hop music originated in the United States, which can be understood as ventriloquism). I went to Guangzhou to work in 2005 and began to study B-Box systematically. Two years later, he returned to Pingdingshan and began to make rap music with a few like-minded friends. Wang said that rap music is a very grassroots culture, which can arouse people's voices.

In 2008, Wang began to compose independently, write independently and arrange independently. The songs expressed his work and life around him. Needless to say, at that time, he only focused on his creative work and had little communication with the industry, only staying at the level of expressing his feelings.

Li Yunsheng is currently a sophomore in the Music Department of Pingdingshan Institute of Education, majoring in Bel Canto. In 2006, when he was playing basketball in junior high school, he met Gray. He wore NBA clothes and played hip-hop music. Gray introduced him to hip-hop, a kind of rap music that originated in the African-American community. Li Yunsheng thinks this is his own musical enlightenment, and this guide is Gray.

After getting in touch with hip-hop, Li Yunsheng fell in love with rap music. At that time, MP3 was very popular. He told his parents that he wanted to learn English, so he bought an MP3 player, but he used it to listen to music. At first, I downloaded music like Medicine, Medicine and Chuck. At that time, I also tried to create music, but I didn't feel good about myself and never implemented it.

Li Yunsheng said that his parents strongly opposed him playing music at first. For them, it is the best way for Li Yunsheng to graduate from university and find a formal job. "My family still wants me to take the entrance examination after graduation and become a music teacher." Li Yunsheng shrugged his shoulders with a helpless expression.

"But I think I can convince them." Li Yunsheng, as a "ghost horse", confided to reporters confidently that there is a principle for parents to discipline them, that is, they should first ensure the right to know, and then decide whether to support them. He is communicating with his parents now, hoping that they can give him guidance, but only if he does well in music.

3. Music brought the distance closer, and the group "Eagle Wen Ming" was born.

Wang He met two years ago. At that time, two people who were both "fans" of Pingdingshan rap music met online. I have been paying attention to Wang's works, but he has never met. Coincidentally, two people took part in a singing contest in our city last year. From then on, the two met and both had the intention of cooperation.

How did the combination name "Eagle Wen Ming" come from? Wang's first name was Truth, but it was rejected because it was too flat. Li Yunsheng, who has been exposed to many foreign languages, wants to name him with an "English name". Wang thought the name was too straightforward, so he simply called it "Eagle" with the help of homonym, which means "rap for Pingdingshan's fame". After they formed a group, they successively released MV with rap styles such as To Be Determined, Eagle City and Relaxation, which combined Henan dialect with country music.

Eagle City was written by Eagle Wen Ming in September this year. The lyrics cover the history and culture of Pingdingshan. At that time, I asked someone to record a simple MV. I didn't expect it to be popular for a while, which attracted netizens to reprint it crazily. Within a few days, it got tens of thousands of hits on Tudou.

4. Henan dialect+Eagle City landmark+rap music = "Eagle City style"

Talking about the creative process of "Eagle City Customs", Wen Ming said that the MV of "Eagle City" contains too rich Pingdingshan's long history and cultural resources. At that time, I was eager to launch it, and I felt a little "cursory" and wanted to make up for it in another work. However, I can't find the starting point of creation. It wasn't until a while ago that the Korean Divine Comedy and Jiangnan style were on fire, and Eagle Wen Ming felt that he was "over-electrified" and his mind was suddenly enlightened. With the long-awaited joy of sudden arrival, the inspiration of Eagle City style gushed out.

On June 8th, 10, Eagle Wen Ming launched the audio version of Eagle City style in Weibo, but the reprint rate was very high, occupying the front rank of Baidu, with the number of hits exceeding140,000. "Eagle Wen Ming" said that at first it just wanted to promote the following contents in Weibo, but it was reprinted by websites such as Renren.com and Kaixin.com, which was unexpected.

"At that time, many people asked when to launch the MV on Weibo." Wang said that from before the National Day to 10, it was the most intense period for filming.

During the filming of the MV version, "Eagle Wen Ming" insisted on taking ordinary people as the main characters. "We just want to present the living conditions and indomitable spirit of the grassroots in Eagle City. Because we love Pingdingshan, we will make real music. " "The eagle heard voices" said. The reporter noticed that this kind of respect for originality and grassroots spirit has been running through the MV of Eagle City Style, especially at the end of the film, "Special thanks" lists many personal Weibo names. "Eagle Wen Ming" said that this MV is the result of the joint efforts of everyone and Qi Xin, and everyone's labor should be fully respected.

When it comes to shooting the MV of Eagle City, there is one person who can't help but mention it. This is the director and photographer-the director himself doesn't want to disclose personal information about the director, and interested people can search.

Just as the three people were worried about the shooting location of the MV "Eagle City Style", the opportunity came! During the National Day, "Eagle Wen Ming" was lucky enough to win a chance to travel in a lottery in Weibo, and visited the Emei Valley of Lushan Mountain, Huangguyu Hot Spring Hotel and other places, so there were scenes such as the Eagle City style soaking in hot springs.

After intense start-up, scene selection and shooting, the audio version of Eagle City style came out on June 8th 10, and the MV of Eagle City Style was successfully shot on the morning of June 24th 10, and then it became more and more perfect. On the morning of June 3 10, the Eagle City was full of customs.

Talking about the future of music, Eagle Wen Ming seems to be full of ambition and very pragmatic, that is, insisting on originality and localization.