But with my limited choices, I take the time to collect and organize:
First, what songs the kids have listened to during school, and organize them into a list.
Second, the better cartoon theme songs I collect.
Third, I post on the Internet to ask what are the best children's songs.
Fourth, children's variety shows will also have some songs to collect.
If anyone has a good idea, I'd like to learn about it :)
I'm glad to see that there are still people who are concerned about this, and I've been thinking about this for a long time. Overall, I think it's an improvement. But I think it's also a regrettable development in the music industry, and the status quo is hard to change for a few reasons:
First reason: the music industry is improving, and careers are becoming more diverse
Maybe you're wondering what the two have to do with each other. In fact, it is very obvious that today's society is very tolerant of music, breaking many of the previous rules and regulations, so the development of music is becoming more and more diversified. There are now so many more routes to choose from that the proportion of children's songwriters in the overall music scene has become negligible.
(Image selected from Music Finance - 2016 China Music Industry Development Report)
The second reason: the children's song dissemination group has changed
In the past, music genres were very sparse, and there weren't many to choose from in the first place. And children's songs were often very beautiful and easy to learn, and many adults would also sing them, like the song list superstar Liu Wenzheng at the time sang a lot of children's songs, so the dissemination group of children's songs at that time in accounted for a very large proportion of the overall. But now there are more and more music genres, obviously, children's songs are not as competitive as other music genres in the market.
The third reason: the improvement of education, compression of children's songs living space
Nowadays, many children from childhood learning task is very heavy, and cultural courses will learn a lot of art specialties, like musical instruments, singing, dancing, elocution, etc., which in the past is the luxury of things have become a reality, in fact, can be said that this is a kind of progress.
The fourth reason: Early music was created for a purer purpose, but now it is more focused on profit
Many children's songs were popular in the past, such as "Orchid Grass", "Let's Swing Our Paddles", and "The Little Screwtape", all of which are excellent works. Not only are they easy to learn, but they are also very popular with students and have beautiful melodies. One of the reasons for this is that many creators in the music industry used to write children's songs, and at that time there was very little interest in works of art, so many authors were just purely trying to create something that would be recognized by the masses and spread concern for children.
Nowadays, with the development of the music industry, the art industry has become more and more rewarding for creators, and many people make a living out of it, and the original intention for the creation of children's songs is no longer as pure as it was in the past, which leads to a comparative lack of works that are realistic and that can trigger children's ****songs.
The fifth reason: animation did not take up the heavy responsibility
★ now animated film and a lot, and created a lot of songs. But did not change the status quo:
① songs of varying quality, often crude, good for dissemination, but not conducive to the "circulation";
② animated films in the song is not enough to pay attention to, pay more attention to the content of the animated film part;
③ the students' learning task is heavy, the after-school hours are often cramming homework and practicing piano;
④ excellent cartoons are also few, and naturally fewer classic children's songs have been circulated.
In fact, children's songs are also of great significance to children's education, and our generation had special feelings for many of them when they were young. But the current development of the relevant areas leading to the emergence of the current situation is inevitable, after all, we have been in the development, progress, a variety of arts are flourishing, children's songs will certainly not reproduce the glory of the year. Because we currently have access to more diverse, so although the communication technology is more and more advanced, but only on the children's song is naturally less and less.