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Before entering the camp ("Creation Camp 2021"), Jiang Dunhao once said a joke: if he made his debut in this show, he would shave his hair and become a monk. "Because if I make my debut again this time, then in this world, I have no desires and no needs, and I can get results in anything I participate in."
Before "Creation Camp 2021", Jiang Dunhao had participated in two talent shows, one was "China's New Song" in 2016 and the other was "Let's Band Together" in 2019, both of which won the championship.
Compared with the vegetarians and the players who have repeatedly "returned to the pot" in the creation camp, Jiang Dunhao also has an aura of "double material champion", although this aura has not played a big role in his past career, and even he himself has quipped that he is "confused".
As a veteran music champion and lead singer of the band, according to common logic, the "stereotype" belonging to Jiang Dunhao should be a musician who holds a guitar and sings quietly, or a "rolling man" in the fan circle language, that is, a rock musician. Most of the "rolling people" are composed of countless bones that yearn for freedom, standing on the opposite side of all the so-called idol standards, but Jiang Dunhao's choice is to participate in "Creation Camp 2021" and become an idol reserve in the eyes of the public - "Xiu ren".
He can only sing, can't dance, and his recognition of idols is almost stuck in 2016, when he debuted, which was the worst time for the word "idol". As a 95-year-older "older" player among the 90 students, Jiang Dunhao learned dance from scratch and practiced his "old arms and legs" to clatter. And the act of practicing dance seems to open up a difficult mode for his journey to create a camp: the debut gave up solo and chose to sing and dance in a group, obviously a big vocal that won the championship by vocal music, from entering the camp to elimination, he did not even quietly sing a song, but kept singing and dancing.
"Being a monk" was indeed just a joke, and Jiang Dunhao knew before entering the camp that he would most likely not go to the group, although he did not expect that the journey would end so quickly.
He had regrets in the camp, such as not being able to sing a song well, such as the erchuang song, his piano did not make a sound because the connection line was loose, and even the erchuang stage, which was full of the hearts of many students, was only retained for about ten seconds in the main film. For example, he obviously participated in the composition and arrangement of "Fix Me", and spent 11 days to create this song, but because of the low ranking, he could not choose the first choice of original singer-songwriting, and was forced to go to the "Love Bird" dance group, and finally lost his hand with "Fix Me".
But with regret comes the harvest, "Creation Camp 2021" let more people know about Jiang Dunhao, as well as his band travel new bee, which is reflected in the band's tour of the remaining tickets sold out. This program also let him understand that for artists, in addition to artistic ability, the output of personality and the expression of values cannot be ignored. He even found friendship on the show, "Before I went, I actually thought I might not make friends in the creation camp." At the same time, his state has also changed, and he has become more able to open himself from the original "weak language".
Five years ago, he stepped out of "China's New Song" and immediately threw himself into one self-consuming commercial performance after another: going deep into third- and fourth-tier cities and singing songs for real estate openings. Two years ago, a champion band was formed through "Let's Band Together", but because of the sluggish voice of the show itself, the band could not operate effectively, and was finally terminated by the former company. The 25-year-old Jiang Dunhao is still young, but he has also experienced a sufficient number of beatings from reality.
"Creation Camp 2021" ended his "undefeated myth", and the influence of the 47th place is naturally no better than the "top stream" in the show, but it still gives him a certain amount of room for rise and the "material" for review and combing. Jiang Dunhao does not exclude participating in the draft again, as long as it is not a "101 series" draft, he looks forward to every opportunity to be seen by more people.
"I hope I can go out of the circle, I hope to go to more different types of variety shows, and even go to acting in the future." Jiang Dunhao, the "limited idol" of Haihua Island, currently positions himself as a "small artist" - a "small artist" who is slowly climbing upwards and hopes to become a top-notch one day.
The following is Jiang Dunhao's self-description:
decision
I participated in the "Creation Camp 2021" (hereinafter referred to as "Chuang 4") was not convinced of the process, the company said that there is "Chuang 4", do you want to go, I said it seems to be a way to let everyone know Jiang Dunhao, because the "101 Series" talent show will definitely have more young people to watch, I think I may lack fans in this circle, so I decided to try. At that time, I didn't particularly want to form a group, but I wanted to try it and let more people know about Jiang Dunhao.
I don't reject the draft, after I came out of "China New Song", I wanted to make textured but niche music, but doing such a concert bound me, many people who paid attention to me before slowly left me because of this sense of constraint, so I have suffered a loss. Now whenever there is an opportunity, such as what music style, what TV show, and the draft, I am willing to try. I am also not afraid of "sinking", because the paste is so thick that many choices are in front of you, and you can grasp them.
When I first participated in the draft in 2016, the unified name for idols was "small fresh meat", which was my understanding of idols before entering the camp. I actually rarely have any contact with boy bands or boy band music, and I have been singing and playing bands. When I first started watching the students' debuts, I reacted the whole time to the audience, and I wondered why I was on this show. Why did I come?
Including before the debut began to collect the phone, I will have that kind of withdrawal reaction, is to suddenly put away your phone, you will feel that you have lost the whole world, you record there just want to take out the ass pocket, want to take the phone out to look at it, only to find that there is no mobile phone. Then there are people around who are particularly unfamiliar with them, and there is no way to talk to them. So I was particularly uncomfortable during the debut period, and many people found that without my reaction, there may be some shots that cut me to either dozing, or yawning, or in a daze, and I was in a particularly bad state, and I knew what I was in at that time.
As for why the debut show gave up solo and chose the group, it is because when it was about a week before the recording, the director team came to me and said that we had a suggestion: "You can continue solo on the debut stage, and we also have a good team waiting for you to go, but we are not responsible for your results, you choose it yourself." If you make your debut solo, you will most likely be cut, because many people's solo stage will be cut off, although going to the group may also be cut. But the group we're going to let you fight is a vocal group, and you can be with them to better show your vocal skills, and you can also adapt to the boy band boys playing on the stage together in advance. ”
One of the reasons I chose to join the group at that time was to be able to play with them. I was on the island on December 3rd, the recording was January 15th, I had a month to live alone in the hotel, a person to work, a person in the practice room to practice, in fact, it was quite lonely, so I chose to join the group.
I actually had two additional attempts, the first was dancing and the second was singing, but in the end all that came out was dancing. Now that I think about it, I don't regret the group, anyway, I danced and sang.
Enter the camp
When did I start to really integrate into the show? Maybe after getting a gong. When I was a husband, I was still adapting to dancing, it was too difficult, the dance I danced at that time was actually not a dance for those dancers, it was a walking position, but our dance teacher was particularly fierce, for example, our practice time was four hours, the first hour was doing physical training, after doing physical fitness, I immediately began to dance, to kneel, to roll on the ground, to go in place, I couldn't accept it at the time, the first few days had been cramping, it was really painful.
I also forced myself to learn, I made some dance friends in the camp, but they are all friends of the "lower circle", they actually dance very well, and they are willing to help me cut the movements, when I don't want to practice, they will also grab me to practice. I also take medicine every day in it, protect joints, vitamin C, vitamin B, and occasionally eat melatonin. I often have migraines and I take migraine medication.
In addition to adapting to the rhythm of the exercise, you must also adapt to the recording atmosphere. You go to the cafeteria and there are cameras, you go back to sleep there are cameras, twenty-four hours almost all the time recording, before I participated in the show is that you can sing a good song on the stage, even in the background no one filmed you. However, the time before the theme song began to slowly adapt, and I slowly understood what the show was shooting and what I wanted to express.
When I first went, I thought that "Tron 4" was a music variety show, you can sing well, you can arrange music, write songs well, so I have a skill, may be able to reach the finals. But after going there, I found that it pays more attention to the human aspect, and you have to show your personality to the audience more. I have expressed very little in the show before, and I am generally the kind of person who hides behind the camera, so this time it is also more rewarding.
The first show, the theme song, the second creation, the first gong, the second gong, the most emotional thing for me is the second creation of "The Song of the Goose". The second creation is my own embarrassment, especially when I came out and found that it was not cut in the positive film, which made me even more uncomfortable. You listen carefully, "Song of the Goose" actually has a lot of voice parts, we recorded demo at that time, only the vocal part was recorded for two days, and the arrangement was arranged for three days. Before we started arranging the music, PengPeng and I changed the singing for a day, and I really spent a lot of effort on it.
And I didn't bring a mouse with me, the MacBook only had one trackpad, and the music I used the whole time made from that trackpad, do you know how hard it is? It is not to sell miserably to say that I am very hard, but it is not easy, and it turns out that the piano is silent in the end, and I have such a big regret, which is really a place that I will feel sad when I think about it for the rest of my life. But fortunately, it didn't stop, and it was good to continue acting. I don't know if it was because of this accident, so "Song of the Goose" was not put in the main film.
I know that in this kind of variety show, maybe everyone will prefer the kind of point that looks happy and smiles, or will feel good to blow up after watching, and the program group also has their considerations, I can understand. But I'll keep that part of myself that I'm upset about.
I'm sorry I didn't get to sing on the show, but maybe I'll sing in the next talent show. I don't reject the draft, and I can continue to participate, but I will never go to the "101 series" again, I don't want to dance in the show, and I can let me dance and play privately.
idol
I think the students in the camp are too desperate, 90% of them are very desperate, crazy to stay up late, dance, practice sound, practice basic skills, in the place where there is no camera is also seriously learning the repertoire they want to perform, more hard work than I imagined the children of the boy band, more diligent.
Later, I also slowly realized how difficult they are in this industry, many companies will update trainees every year, and many trainees will change new companies after participating in this talent show, if it is a round of tours, a second round of tours. So they have to force themselves to be better and let more people know about themselves.
There was a student who had a particularly good relationship with me, I won't say his name anymore, he's now eliminated. He has also participated in the same type of program, and the company will also pay him living expenses, but in Beijing, his living expenses are only two thousand yuan a month, so he has insisted on it for several years. His practice room was in the basement, and he practiced in the basement for more than ten hours a day, just waiting for the opportunity for this kind of program to be revealed. I asked him at the time, how did you survive in Beijing for two thousand yuan? He said he ordered that kind of rice bowl and Shaxian snack every day.
I talk to them more and more respectfully, including one of my one-time travel friends in it, who is already looking for a new home, and his previous company will talk to him about some things that are not, such as liquidated damages. I actually feel sorry for them, they will be more and more overwhelmed, this industry is really not easy.
For most of the contestants, this kind of show is already the best stage they can reach, so I can understand it. When I recorded it in it, I was more Buddhist, not to scramble, and then chatted with the players, slowly understood their life, work, environment, and could understand, everyone must fight, have to grab. I also learned about the "harshness" of the industry: you have to do everything you can to make others see you.
Although my performance in "Genesis 4" is not very good, it may not be known to so many people like those "top streams", but there may be a small number of people who slowly begin to know Jiang Dunhao and know my band, which is a huge gain I have gained. But apart from these things that can be seen, what can't be seen has a greater impact on me, for example, I am in a much better state now than before I went in. I've been through interviews before, but I often talk to death about the person who interviewed me, and you ask me a question, and I'm sure I'll only answer one sentence, not as it is now.
I can also talk a lot to my friends in private. In the past, I would put up a cover for myself and protect myself, but now I will slowly open that umbrella so that more people can touch me, and I will slowly express my sentiments as a musician. I used to take that sentimentality to heart, but now I can express it in words and words, and I think it's all a gain.
Although I didn't sing any songs that could be heard in the creation camp, I felt that I would have a bigger stage and a better place to show my vocal and show my works in the future, so I didn't feel sorry. I even gained friendship in it, I didn't expect that there really was a kind of friend who wanted to continue to contact after coming out, and there were also friends in the group who wanted to take the initiative to add. So I think it's worth it to go to the creation camp, and every link sublimates itself.
For example, Ren Yinpeng, I met him when I was recording his debut, when we were in a lounge, and later we were in a dormitory with him, he slept next to me, and we would talk about some of us every day. Probably because his personality is particularly similar to mine, when the two of us are together, we really don't have to talk if we don't want to talk, and we don't feel embarrassed about each other. I'm happy to have a more sincere friendship on the show, not because the camera is there, so we have to do something, or do something deliberately.
champion
Although I laughed at myself when I was creating two, I did not contradict the title of "double champion", and I was quite proud. I think it's a good thing for a person to have a label and a title, even a more self-deprecating title, because it makes people remember you. This is also one of the ultimate goals of my creation camp: in any way, let people remember me, as long as they can remember my name. Because I still want to make music in the future, when I don't want to sing songs, everyone doesn't know who Jiang Dunhao is.
The aura of the champion of "China's New Song" seems to only stay at the moment when the bird's nest won the trophy, and there is no aura when I leave the bird's nest, because within a few days of leaving, I went to the commercial performance, and then I began to be beaten by reality, going deep into the third- and fourth-tier cities and singing for the opening of the real estate. I don't think the people who win the championship will have any aura, they may just be able to support themselves with music, and the people who don't win the championship, or who don't get to the end, have even a better life than me, they will be more free.
Later, the reason why I went to participate in "Let's Band Together" was also to change the status quo, and I didn't want to go to commercial performances. In fact, I participated in this show at that time, that is, I did not want to go to the commercial performance, I hope that after the performance, some people can stand next to it, even if it is to go to the live house performance that does not make money, it is more comfortable than the commercial performance that I went to make money, because there will be an audience standing under the stage with you. Unlike when I went to commercial performances before, I also said in the show that some uncles and aunts or some audiences who have not heard your music are looking at you with their eyes, it is very uncomfortable, and I want to get a little feedback when I sing.
But I didn't expect to leave that show and my band was unemployed. The company came to us and said, we can't seem to give you anything, we terminate the contract, we don't delay you, you are willing to do what you want to do. In this way, my dream of performing with the band was temporarily shattered. We can't go to live house, because we can't do a special session, we will definitely lose money, and you don't have the money to rent the venue.
Now everyone is making money and raising dreams, for example, I can go to some small business performances to make money, the band leader will make songs for others, and other musicians can write songs, accompaniment, or teach students for others, all of which have some sources of income. The usual state of our band is that they live separately, but every year we will have a period of time to put aside our lives for music and gather in Beijing to write songs, and I think it is quite happy.
I wasn't actually that able to talk before, and I was with the band and they were always cue rhythms, but I would be influenced by them. For example, if I come to an unfamiliar environment and have a strange friend sitting opposite, I may learn their way to try to socialize, and I like that state. I actually want to be the kind of person who is more social, and I'm looking for a way to express myself.
sortie
After I left the camp, I also read everyone's comments, and everyone said that I was in a special state of social animals in the first few days of the camp, and I think that I was a social animal, that is, I was beaten up in those years. How to say it, life teaches you to be human.
You said I said at the media conference that I hadn't experienced failure, I hadn't experienced setbacks. I don't think commercial performances are a setback, because it makes money, and I can't get cheap and sell well, so I can't feel that it's a setback. Although it was not the stage I imagined, but I had more bank card numbers, I couldn't take someone else's money and say it was a setback for me, and I didn't want that.
When I was in "China's New Song", I was known in the direction of folk songs and popular folk songs, but as soon as I came out, I was anxious to make some songs that I felt were textured but niche, but I didn't have such a thick audience and not such a wide circle. Having made this decision, I don't regret it now, but I feel a little sorry that I missed a better time when my work was heard by more people.
Before, my style would be more mixed, rock and roll, electronic, folk music, and folk songs, so my audience would become more and more narrow, because I didn't think about it, and I did what I thought. Now to make an album, I will think a lot, after all, it is a person who has suffered losses, and I have also indulged, so I don't need to experience that indulgent feeling anymore, I want to make myself and the music that everyone wants to listen to.
For example, when I was Jiang Dunhao myself, I would do the music that everyone wanted Jiang Dunhao to make, folk songs, pop songs or songs that could reflect singing ability and timbre, but when I was in the band, I could do what we wanted to do. Because now with the traveling new bee, I feel like I'm going to live a little more freely musically, I can try my best to play myself, and I can put all my thoughts into the music we want to make.
Doing Jiang Dunhao outside is Jiang Dunhao who is in quotation marks, but when he is in the band, that Jiang Dunhao does not have to play quotation marks. So the band is a better starting point for me, and I have more possibilities.
Debut to now, I don't have any industry rules that I can't adapt to, I can, including when working, the brokerage team will ask if this is OK, I will say I can. You can dance like I went to creation camp, what else can I not adapt to?
But I didn't know how to take the initiative, I didn't know what to do that would be liked by everyone, and no one had told me which way would be easier before, so I tried it step by step, including participating in the creation camp. So I'm still passive. But I don't feel passive as a derogatory term, I feel survival of the fittest. The industry is becoming more and more demanding of musicians or artists, so we are all trying.
Who doesn't want to be out of the loop? I also hope to go out of the circle, but I still have to explore step by step, through what way, what kind of musical style, what kind of way to let more people know about you, I am still trying to find.
At present, my own idea is that if I can have a show, I will try to participate in the show, because this is indeed a way to quickly let more people know about you, and I will also calm down and write music seriously. But the two will go against each other, because once you go to the show, you have to prepare the show, and you can't calm down and prepare the song.
So when there is no program planning yet, I will write songs well, and I will also write songs with the band, and all the ways will blossom. I hope the band can be out of the circle, I also hope that I can be out of the circle, and even I may go to act in the future. Because I've made movies before and have some acting experience, I think I can.
My positioning for myself is a "small artist", a "small artist" who slowly climbs upwards, and I hope that one day I can become a "top stream". Now our work group is called the "top artist group", which is my dream, but I have to find a suitable method.