For countless people born after 2000,
When it comes to online singers,
the first things that come to mind are the names of Xu Liang and Wang Sulong,
As everyone knows There was another big boss before them.
Many people may be unfamiliar with the name of this "big brother",
but they are familiar with his famous songs.
"I love you as much as a mouse loves rice. No matter how many winds and rains there are, I will still be with you..."
That's right, it means contracting countless people. The youthful "Mouse Loves Rice".
At the beginning of the 21st century, domestic music flourished.
Although Daolang sang "The First Snow in 2002",
Jay Chou and JJ Lin gained popularity with "Qili Xiang" and "Jiangnan" respectively.
However, the popularity is still not as popular as Yang Chengang's "Mouse Loves Rice".
Yang Chengang once said bluntly:
The song "Rat Loves Rice" made him 170 million in cash, not including those pirated copies and covers.
What is the concept of 170 million?
You must know that at that time, you could buy a house in the suburbs of Beijing with more than 400,000 yuan.
Ordinary people had more than 100,000 or 200,000 yuan.
It's something worth showing off.
So in the 21st century with the rapid development of science and technology,
In the new era of entertainment circles,
Yang Chengang, who can be called the "originator of Internet singers", is now living How's it going?
How did he "disappear"?
01
In 1979, Yang Chengang was born in Wuhan, Hubei Province.
He has been thoughtful and fond of music since he was young.
Since he watched Beyond After the live video,
Yang Chengang would often fantasize about standing on the stage and singing like Huang Jiaju.
When he was 15 years old, he could no longer hold back his restless heart and started studying the guitar.
After that, Yang Chenggang formed a rock band.
He often carried his guitar and clubs to perform in major universities in Wuhan.
But at that time, playing rock music was basically The above is a self-pleasure,
There are very few people who listen to him singing rock music attentively,
No one wants the songs he wrote so hard.
In desperation, Yang Chengang had to change his mind and write pop songs following public preferences.
Before 2004, Yang Chengang,
wrote hundreds of original songs,
traveled to thousands of venues,
daily life In addition to seeking advice from my friend's teacher,
I also worked as a pianist and guitarist on a cruise ship of a travel company.
At that time, Yang Chengang would never have thought that,
With the advent of the Internet era,
He was an unknown singer-songwriter,
< p> I will be lucky enough to be at the forefront of the Internet,and become famous instantly.
In 2000, Yang Chengang was a music teacher during the day, and worked as a band singer in a bar in Wuhan at night.
In order to mobilize the anger on the scene, he also had to conform to the public Taste,
He often sings pop songs with rock music,
The atmosphere at the scene is particularly exciting.
One time while singing,
an audience member shouted passionately: "I love you, I love you, just like a mouse loves rice!" < /p>
In fact, this sentence is just a common saying in the south,
But Yang Chengang thought this word was very good and very interesting,
After the performance,
When I got home, I started creating with this sentence as the center.
The first draft of "Mouse Loves Rice" was created in one night, "Love You Like This".
The next day, the excited Yang Chen just showed the score to his cousin.
Unexpectedly, his cousin couldn’t help but cast a strange look after reading it.
"I have never seen an animal name put in a song. What is this?"
Seeing his cousin's reaction,
Yang Chengang's heart instantly dropped. ,
In this way, "Mouse Loves Rice" was temporarily shelved,
among Yang Chengang's hundreds of handwritten manuscripts, waiting for the day it will be rediscovered.
02
At the end of 2001, Yang Chengang took the initiative to visit music producer Wang Hu after being introduced by a friend.
This time "asking to meet" Yang Chengang had only one goal: to sell songs. .
Wang Hu will naturally not refuse the business that comes to his door.
What surprised him was that
when he asked to listen to the song demo,
Yang Chengang actually took out the lyrics and music and sang it live.
Yes, at that time Yang Chengang was reluctant to record demos because he was short of money.
After much thought, Wang Hu picked out five or six songs,
Among them was "Love You Like This", the first draft of "Mouse Loves Rice".
To ensure nothing goes wrong,
Wang Hu took the recordings of these songs and ran to Beijing to meet with the famous song arranger Wang Qiwen.
Wang Qiwen was born in a musical family and is extremely talented in this area.
He concluded at a glance that "Love You Like This" has great potential in the future.
This request came in March 2003.
At that time, Wang Hu proposed to permanently buy out the copyright of this song.
Yang Chengang refused. Tell him: I gave you this song for free, all I need is the signature and performance rights.
Although the copyright fee at that time was less than 1,000 yuan,
Wang Hu still formally signed the transfer agreement with the mentality of taking advantage.
From this, Yang Chengang officially became a "worker".
After "selling" the song for free,
Yang Chengang continued to be his bar singer,
Wang Hu and Wang Qiwen worked non-stop to produce "Love You Like This",
Finally, with the efforts of a team,
the official demo of "Love You Like This" was born.
A few days later, the original author Yang Chengang came to visit.
Perhaps for the sake of being the "biological father of the song",
He effortlessly I'm leaving the demo CD.
Listening to "Love You Like This" carefully packaged by a team,
Yang Chengang was very pleased,
After all, a "child" born into a poor family, < /p>
Get a successful counterattack from the rich and "get ahead".
Suddenly, Yang Chengang rolled his eyes, and a bold idea popped into his mind.
He attributed the lyrics and music to his own name and deliberately did not write the original song.
He posted "Love You Like This" online.
At the same time,
he post-processed the voice of the original singer Wang Qiwen,
the tempo of the song was accelerated,
he randomly changed the song title Changed to "Mouse Loves Rice",
pushed "Mouse Loves Rice" to its main battlefield: the disco.
In fact, Yang Chengang didn’t have too many bad intentions at the time.
He just wanted to show off his strength.
Unexpectedly, because of his coquettish operation, "Mouse Loves Rice" first became popular in Nanjing!
After coming to his senses, Yang Chengang quickly offered to buy back the copyright,
but Wang Hu was rejected because the copyright fee was not enough.
As a result, the young and energetic Yang Chengang started a copyright "wholesale" business out of anger.
03
In 2004, "Mouse Loves Rice" began to spread.
In October, the singer vowed to release a DJ music single "Mouse Loves Rice", and later released the song "Seeking Buddha".
In November, singer Xiangxiang made her debut with the EP "Mouse Loves Rice", and "Song of Pigs" was also written by her;
Even the most popular music ring-tone business at that time also had The business of "Mouse Loves Rice".
When Wang Hu suppressed his anger and pursued the responsibility,
he was told that they had bought the copyright with Yang Chengang for 8,000 and 2,000 yuan.
What shocked Wang Hu the most was that he realized at this moment that he was not the legal copyright holder.
Because as early as November 6, 2002,
Yang Chengang had already sold the copyright to "Love You Like This" for 2,000 yuan. He met a musician named Tian Chuanjun.
There are ongoing copyright disputes over there,
Yang Chengang is not idle here either,
In the same year, Yang Chengang’s version of "Mouse Loves Rice" was released,
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It swept the rankings of major music websites,
surpassed Daolang's "Lover" and Jay Chou's "Qili Xiang",
set a record of 6 million downloads in a single month. Guinness World Records.
After "Rat Loves Rice" became popular, Yang Chengang's net worth skyrocketed.
At that time, there was news that many record companies were competing to sign Yang Chengang at a high price of 2 million.
Although he received a lot of notices,
everywhere he went, the performance repertoire was "Mouse Loves Rice".
Using Yang Chengang's own In other words: I almost vomited.
But if people don’t work hard, they will eventually be abandoned by the times.
In 2011, inspired by "Mouse Loves Rice",
Yang Chengang launched his first song for the Year of the Rabbit, releasing "Rabbit Loves Carrots" to a mediocre response.
In 2012, Yang Chengang wrote a new song "Dragon" for the Year of the Dragon Spring Festival Gala.
It was replaced by Leehom Wang's "Descendants of the Dragon".
His era It was also officially declared over.
The once famous man suddenly became a lost dog.
No one would be willing to put it on him.
Yang Chengang was the same.
In 2013, Yang Chen just met a Shanghai girl.
The other party claimed to have been involved in the entertainment industry for many years.
Since getting to know this Shanghai girl,
Yang Chengang, who was dazzled by his popularity, wanted to find an opportunity to promote a relationship with him.
Soon, this opportunity came in 2014.
At that time, the Shanghai eldest sister claimed that she wanted to sign contracts with Zhang Huimei and Alan Tam, and needed a lot of money urgently.
In order to help, Yang Chengang mortgaged his property.
He scraped together 10 million in one day.
However, he transferred the 10 million into After checking the other party's account,
there was no news from the Shanghai eldest sister.
After many inquiries, it was found that this person was arrested and sent to jail. She wanted money but not her life.
After being deceived, Yang Chengang could only make money to fill the hole.
He only slept three or four hours a day.
In 2015, traffic became an important indicator to measure the value of stars.
Perhaps in order to show his own strength,
Yang Chengang covered his ears and stole the bell,
Add 10,000 words to the Weibo background picture,
82,376 fans, instantly increased to 823.76 million,
At this time, he was like a clown, after making a joke.
In 2016, he went to Wong Ka Kui’s grave.
Originally he only went to pay homage because he liked
and worshiped him.
He didn’t Think about it, the various behaviors of taking photos, singing, and making videos in front of the tomb have aroused the disgust of countless netizens.
At this time, Yang Chengang looked like a lunatic who wanted to become famous in everyone's eyes.
Unfortunately,
As time goes by, there is a constant stream of new people in the entertainment industry,
Everyone has long forgotten who Yang Chengang is,
And The playlist "Mouse Loves Rice" has already fallen into dust in my heart.
Even if he regards the 6.6 million Rolls-Royce as his taxi,
it still cannot hide his current desolation.
I saw Yang Chengang again after many years.
Maybe it was when I was shopping in the mall.
I heard the melody of "Mouse Loves Rice" which was very familiar.
< p> When I got closer and took a look, I suddenly realized that the person singing was actually Yang Chengang?Or when you are staying at a chain hotel,
you see a very rock-y but strange person checking in,
He looks familiar at first glance. At first glance, he discovered that this person was actually Yang Chengang?
Or in a live broadcast room with only a few people,
There is a person who looks exactly like Wang Dazhi, but does not sound like Sun Nan, chatting,
I feel When I was bored and ready to quit, I suddenly heard a familiar BGM.
I sighed: "Mouse Loves Rice", I haven't heard it for a long time.
I am actually very lucky to have a song that lasts my whole life, but sometimes it is also very sad.
However, God will not let down every effort.
If Yang Chengang continues to study seriously in creation,
I believe that one day he can still break the status quo and become popular again.
I just don’t know if I can wait until this day?