"Huai Tu used to be intoxicated, half joyful, half tearful." The lyricist Mr. Lu Guozhan wrote the song "Whenever Changes" in 1977. The theme is that life is fickle, but in the face of impermanence, we should be more optimistic and adapt to it.
But when you grow up, you realize that life is not half happy, but more tearful.
Every Cantonese song has its own life and emotion, affecting every generation of Hong Kong people.
I still remember that a few years ago, people were still saying that "the music world is dead" in Hong Kong, and many people threw themselves into the embrace of K-pop.
However, the situation has reversed in recent years. Especially in the past two or three years, there have been hundreds of new talents in the music scene. With the addition of different types of music, Hong Kong people have refocused their attention on the local music scene and tried to find resonance in "Cantonese songs".
Text: MWYO Youth Office Communications Manager Huang Qinger
The old song traveled through time and space and entered the post-00s middle school student music fan group
For Hong Kong people, we have a love affair with Cantonese songs.
The commercial TV program "903 Cantonese Song Concern Group" also appeared because "the music world is dead." Ah Suan, a new DJ of 903, brings a recording artifact to the street every week to "Pumi" to record the voices of middle school students.
"My role is to interview different middle school students, ask them to come out with a mobile phone, and scare them about Cantonese songs on their Playlist! I walked down the street and asked them to catch some of my classmates. It turns out that they all listen to Cantonese music. Songs, they all know Lin Jiaqian, MC (Zhang Tiantian), and Mirror. In fact, they are more convincing than what I can say. The music industry is dead, and they will Prove (Prove) to help you ( audience) know!”
What surprised Ah Suan was that this group of men and women born after the millennium not only fell in love with the new songs of the local music scene, but on the contrary, they each had their own love. .
They were born in a different time and space than these superstars, but their songs seem to have a magic power that brings two generations together today.
At the same time, the Hong Kong film also made this group of students re-acquaint themselves with Cantonese songs, "A lot of students are talking, after watching "Anita Mui", they knew about "Song of the Sunset" and "Bad Girl", and they were the same. There are also many topics for housing and enterprise people, because of Anita Mui and because of Cantonese songs.”
"903 Cantonese Songs Concern Group" has been broadcast since September 2021. Whenever he mentions the programs he has produced with his own hands, Ah Suan is always chattering: "It turns out that there is a group of middle school students who really like to listen to Cantonese songs and bury them together. They are so sharp, they all have their own way to promote Cantonese songs, they have calligraphy, painting, and even some middle school students, after watching the MV by themselves, they feel so good, and then they continue to write the story!"
The main interviewees of the program were middle school students, but due to the impact of the fifth wave of the epidemic earlier, many middle schools were closed, so Ah Sang walked into the university campus to listen to the voices of college students and amateurs, Ah Sang recalled: "I was very impressed. , there is a person who does embroidery. He points out how to use embroidery to promote Cantonese songs. After listening to the song, he has a good picture, and he really does a lot of embroidery. I have seen so many people of all kinds, so I want to introduce them to everyone.”
Since childhood, I have been attached to the radio station: the radio station can't be replaced by other media
The little girl in front of her has a bright and straightforward personality. She is confident in front of the camera, and modest and polite behind her. Ah Suan believes that this is also an important condition for becoming a DJ. Somebody really likes you? Hello handsome, does someone really like you? No, in fact, they love you because of your character!”
Ah Suan grew up listening to commercial TV programs, and developed a strong affection for the radio station. His favorite is to listen to Sammy Xiaoyi's "Stance Hall". How about listening? If I can't hear their voice, I will feel uncomfortable all day, so I do something like this. In the past, girls in middle school wore long-sleeved cold shirts all day. Pass the tube thread through the sleeve, put on the earphones, lie down on the stage, listen to Sammy Xiaoyi in one ear and the book in the other, hahaha!”
I never imagined that my childhood dream would come true when I grow up.
At present, Ah Suan is mainly in charge of three programs, all of which are closely linked with Cantonese songs.
Looking back on the ups and downs of the music scene in recent years, Ah Suan admitted that the talent show of the TV station and the appearance of the group MIRROR have indeed led the public to pay more attention to the music scene.
And the social atmosphere also makes many people hope to find resonance in Cantonese songs, "As a society, when there are many things that may not be spoken by us, maybe music is a way to express a lot of things. When I was listening to a Hit song, in a certain corner of Hong Kong, there was another person who was listening closely, and was also touched by this song, which proved that we did not have a connection with the other person (even Department) degree."
Ah Suan hopes to accompany the audience through the joys and sorrows through the lyrics and melody, and "accompanying" is a major feature of the radio station, so that it will not be drowned in the torrent of time, "I understand the saying that people live together as a family, so what? In the world, there are many ways for you to speak up, to speak out, and to speak for people to hear, especially the rise of the internet (network), but it is the same as the radio, which cannot be replaced by other media, which is 24 hours. Accompanying, so in fact, it will not decline!"
Ah Suan: "If you look up and look at the sky, you will realize that the people around you are going through the same thing as you, so we are not alone." (Picture provided by the interviewee)
Click on a song under the epidemic
Unprecedented social movements and the COVID-19 outbreak in Hong Kong over the past few years, coupled with other factors such as life and academic pressures, have brought serious challenges to the physical and mental development of young people.
When everyone is trapped in this city, Cantonese songs seem to play a role of relief and encouragement, especially in the past two or three years, Hong Kong people are particularly easy to feel lost under the haze of the epidemic.
If you want to use a song to summarize Hong Kong under the epidemic, Ah Suan thinks of Luna Is A Bep's "Whenever Changes", the lyrics are written like this: "There are changes, there are changes, many things can't be analyzed... to the sea Not afraid of the horns, not afraid of the sky, under the same sky, you will be concerned and can withstand changes.”
Ah Suan nodded and hummed a song: "Faced with all kinds of changes, what makes us feel that the courage I have to continue to live and die is under the same sky. You look up to you If you look at the sky, you will realize that the people around you have experienced the same thing as you, so we are not alone. The song buried together is actually a tribute to the song "Whenever Changes" , let's say "Whenever Changes" is already a work from 1977. People at that time had this idea. They had to go through a lot of different changes. In fact, they had to face the changes. You must experience it, no matter what era it is!"
In the 1970s, there were many Cantonese songs depicting the lives of ordinary citizens; until 2021, many songs recorded the sadness of Hong Kong people leaving home. Cantonese songs have actually been recording the changes of the times and have a healing effect.
The story in the lyrics is like the daily portrayal of you and me, moving together and hugging together, going through trials and tribulations along the way.
If the world turns out not as you expected, those who stay will have a good time.
May the music world not die, we will continue to embrace new voices, preserve Cantonese song culture, and tell stories that belong to Hong Kong.
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