The popularity of Hong Kong opera began in the1970s, which injected a strong impetus into Cantonese pop music. Many TV theme songs can become popular classics. Among them, Gu Jiahui, music director of TVB, is the most familiar composer. From the end of1970s to the end of1980s, the theme songs of TV dramas written by Gu Jiahui and James J.S.Wong are still regarded as classic works of Cantonese pop music.
Samuel Hui's lead singer Ling Yun Lou can be said to be the origin of modern Cantonese pop music. 1In the early 1970s, the Hong Kong radio and television program "Double Star News" received rave reviews, and the two brothers who hosted the program gained fame and fortune (their brother later set foot in the entertainment circle, and people called them Xu Shi brothers). Later, they traveled all over the world, which aroused the homesickness of the Xu brothers who were born and raised in Hong Kong. After returning to Hong Kong, Xu Guanwen wrote the lyrics of "Ling Yun Lou", which was sung by Samuel Hui.
After the great popularity of "The Iron Tower Lingyun", other singers also changed the route of singing Chinese songs and foreign songs, among which Wen, Tan, Zhou, Guan and Guan are the most famous. The social atmosphere has gradually changed, and people no longer think that singing English songs and Chinese songs is a manifestation of high style.
During this period, the English proper name "Cantopop" appeared in Billboard, an authoritative magazine of American pop music, to address Cantonese pop music.
Changes in the style of lyrics
The lyrics of early Cantonese contemporary songs are polarized: some of them, like Cantonese songs, write lyrics in more rigorous written or even classical Chinese. This kind of elegant songs are still familiar to people today, including Lonely Stranger at the End of the World, Laughing Marriage and The End of the World Separated by Water. The other is what people call "Ghost Horse Song", which is written in authentic Cantonese in Hong Kong, and the content of singing is just like ordinary dialogue. Because its content is often humorous and gray, describing the experiences and feelings of the general public, it has been praised by the grassroots, so it is named. For example, "Half a catty" and "The Legend of Shooting Birds Heroes".
"Afraid of your change of heart, your lover was in tears. Love and hate the sea because it was buried early, and it has a fate to leave everything. " The marriage of crying and laughing, "Six aunts and three great grandfathers opened the stage like lotus seeds, and then went to work to eat and buried a few laps to talk about heroes"-The Legend of Daqu Heroes With the gradual departure of Cantonese pop music from the framework of "contemporary music", a new generation of lyricists (such as David Henry Hwang, Zheng Guojiang, Lu Guozhan, etc.) carried out unprecedented reforms on the lyrics of pop music with their literary literacy. At the same time, open up new themes and write non-love songs, which will push the craze of "Cantonese pop music" to a peak and raise "pop lyrics" to an artistic level. For example, Rain in My Hometown written by Zheng Guojiang and sung by Xunni of 1979 show a little artistic level.
Conclusion The lyrics written in Cantonese songs are closer to modern life. At the same time, open up new themes and write non-love songs, which will push the craze of "Cantonese pop music" to a peak and raise "pop lyrics" to an artistic level. For example, Rain in My Hometown written by Zheng Guojiang and sung by Xunni of 1979 show a little artistic level.