The Golden Melody Awards have been in an uproar recently, with the cancellation of programs that care about Coco Li, and the comments on the Internet have been polarized.
This is not the first time that the Golden Melody Awards have been controversial.
In recent years, the Golden Melody Awards have always been difficult to convince the public, whether it is the winning song or the awards awarded.
But as the most professional music award in China, it still found a lot of excellent musicians and mined a lot of good works.
This year's shortlist includes old acquaintances Yang Naiwen and Lin Junjie, as well as some newcomers such as mainland musician Xu Jun.
This boy who walked out of the town once used a song to make Zhou Huajian so excited that he stood up, and Tanya Cai had tears in his eyes.
You may not know him, but you must have been touched by his songs.
In 2015, Xu Jun signed up for the creative program "Good Songs of China", which focuses more on originality.
Singing skills and external image are not Xu Jun's strengths, and the setting of this show is more suitable for him than other drafts on the market.
Zhao Lei, Su Yunying, Dai Quan and other singer-songwriters all came out of this stage.
That day, he wore a T-shirt with a cartoon villain, black-rimmed glasses, and sang the song "Himself" that he wrote to himself.
He sings: Remember not to be the enemy of your ordinariness, and there is no need to make yourself less like yourself.
Haiquan, who was sitting in the judges' seat, pressed the turn button, Zhou Huajian followed with a thumbs up, and Tanya Cai hugged him with tears in her eyes.
After singing, Xu Jun cried.
This year, Xu Jun was 27 years old.
This "Myself" is a song he wrote to himself, and he once thought that he would not have a "day of emergence".
Xu Jun did not go to high school.
When he was 9 years old, his parents' relationship broke down, and he never saw his mother, and his father raised him alone, so he had no time to take care of his studies.
During the rebellious period of junior high school, he had the idea of not wanting to study anymore, he was really not interested in science, and his grades were not good.
After graduating from junior high school, he was not admitted to a satisfactory high school, and he took the exam for another year under the "coercion" of his father and failed again.
Xu Jun thought that he was definitely not learning that material.
At the age of 17, his life ushered in a big blank, and his father saw that he had nothing to do, so he let him go out to break through.
Xu Jun is like a bird released from a cage, not to mention how urgent.
That night he had a dream in which he dreamed of West Lake, and he felt that he had a direction.
His father brought him 400 yuan, and he went to Hangzhou.
Soon the money in his pocket slipped away, and it was difficult to find a suitable job without experience or education, so he would play the drums and go to a bar to try his luck.
Finally, a bar was willing to charge him for singing there for 30 yuan a day.
Xu Jun is very happy, every day after work, he follows the brothers and sisters in the bar to eat, the brothers and sisters are full of pity for him, the children have little experience, they are all old fritters.
Many years later, Xu Jun recalled his premature youth, which was his happiest and most unforgettable time.
Life in Hangzhou ignited his passion for music and inspired him to create.
He lives in a small house of 6 square meters, lives and creates.
Later, he wrote a song called "Hangzhou, Liqun, You", which contains the whole life of a teenager, from strange to familiar cities, inexpensive cigarettes, and you who are lost in time.
There is a line in the lyrics that says: Time treats me well, and he rarely changes me.
Eighteen-year-old Xu Jun and a group of friends formed a band called Brahma Band, which also won the "Pepsi Heroes" Zhejiang Division championship in their short career.
Disbanded for some reason.
Two years later, he came to several bands to split and merge, and finally chose to start his own band, called "Tree Band", and went around for a few years, and the draft rose.
Xu Jun wanted to participate in it himself, on the one hand, to prove his strength, and on the other hand, he had to raise his own band.
In his words: I need more bread.
From 2005 to 2015, it took Xu Jun ten years to get to the big stage.
With songs such as "Myself" and "Warm Light", he was shortlisted for the top eight, and signed a contract with Sony Music in the same year, truly becoming a professional singer and embarking on a professional path.
With a broader future, too much freedom is also restricted.
The company arranged for him to release an album that included the songs he wrote on the show, and gave the album a meaningful name "Wan Songling".
"Wansongling" is a road in Hangzhou, which is the place where Xu Jun's music dream started.
But in this album, in fact, Xu Jun does not have much right to speak, this is the first time that he can't call the shots for his works, and it's quite depressing.
Xu Jun did not know much about business, and the album later sold well in the market, and was also shortlisted for the Golden Melody Award for Best Chinese Album and Album of the Year.
In 2017, Xu Jun was shortlisted for the Golden Melody Award for the first time, which was quite dreamy.
This year, Xu Jun became a little popular again, in addition to being shortlisted for the Golden Melody Award, he was also favored by Zhang Jie, who participated in the "Singer" competition, and chose his "Himself" to participate.
The touching lyrics and the extreme treble, Zhang Jie, who has been at the midstream level, won the first place, which also made him questioned, and that night, Xiao Jingteng and Di Mahi, who participated in the competition together, proposed that Zhang Jie fake sing.
The director team asked Zhang Jie to ask, and Zhang Jie said, the music director is yours, you can check the audio track to know.
The farce lasted until four o'clock in the morning, when the truth was revealed.
The injustice of the entertainment industry, Xu Jun also experienced one or two.
At the age of 29, he was faced with the arrival of "thirty and standing", and suddenly hesitated, he wrote a song "29", he sang: There is no answer, there is no gunsmoke.
After the fire, many interviews with him, where did he get the courage to come out and engage in rock 'n' roll, he said: It's not courage, it's just that I don't like to learn.
Then he gave up the so-called popularity, retreated into the background, and concentrated on his favorite music.
In 2018, Xu Jun made an album called "In Fact I Have No Name".
This is an album that is completely part of his will.
He included "29", "To Myself", and "I Can't Write Love Songs", all about himself.
In "I Can't Write Love Songs", he sang: You want to hear me write love songs, knowing that I am so stiff, it really kills me.
But when he was performing, he needed his girlfriend who was a musician to go on stage with him to feel at ease.
After making this album, he disappeared for a few more years.
During this period, he made albums for Mao Buyi, Tan Weiwei, Ren Xianqi and others, which gave him a sense of security, at least he didn't have to make albums for money in the future.
Three years later, he made a "Sweet Dreams", his favorite album to date.
Old Wolf, Zhang Chu, Li Zongsheng and other veterans are full of praise for this album, as if there is a successor to the ballad.
During the promotion of the album, he didn't go to variety shows, but in 2022, he got an unprecedented folk variety show.
He said: I want my dad to know what I'm doing, saying that he can't understand the music, and when he sees me on TV, he is relieved.
When he appeared, everyone was stunned.
He quietly lost 30 pounds, and the whole person looked much more handsome.
During the retreat, he recorded another album, which was shortlisted for the seven awards of the Golden Melody Awards, and he also took this album to compete for the Best Male Singer Award with Lin Junjie.
17 years old, a young man from a small town who came out of Bengbu didn't expect that one day he would be so close to the "King of Singers", the last time he saw Bengbu at the Golden Melody Awards, he was still a popular male singer named Li Ronghao, this time it was himself.
Xu Jun's Jun character was dismantled and called him an iron spoon, "spoon" is the meaning of a fool in the mouth of the Northwest people, when Xu Jun first knew this meaning, he was not angry, but quite happy.
He said that he wished he was a fool, persistent and persistent.
When he received the news of the nomination for the Golden Melody Awards, he posted a Weibo, saying: I'm glad I'm still me.
As sung in "Myself": remember not to be the enemy of your ordinariness, and there is no need to make yourself less like yourself.
Xu Jun once said that there is no answer and no end to creation.
A small-town boy realizes his dream, and his father, who can't understand music, applauds him.