In the program, their songs were rated the lowest by 100 network celebrities, but under the program, their adaptation of Underwater became an explosion on the music platform, exceeding 300 million in one day.
Since Phoenix Legend's debut, the fire of songs and the audience's dislike have become a harmonious but contradictory existence around them.
I don't know when it started. Obviously, everyone can open their mouths to listen to Phoenix Legend's songs, but it rarely appears on the list of people's favorite singers.
"Earth" became the reason for their refusal, but they smiled and labeled themselves as "agricultural heavy metal". From then on, Ceng Yi and Ling Hua, a pair of "Phoenix and Phoenix", are destined to become legends.
In Ode, Chen Ming talked about Phoenix Legend's music. He said that Phoenix Legend's songs neither describe agriculture nor talk about farming, but people will subconsciously label them as "agricultural heavy metal" just because they hear the original, simple, straightforward and heroic voice from their songs.
Undeniably, this is Phoenix Legend's unique singing style, so that after their cover of Underwater, many people think this song is too un-Phoenix Legend.
What caused this situation in Phoenix Legend today can only be said that everything was the best arrangement.
Back in 1997, 17-year-old Ling Hua was still selling household appliances in his hometown of Erdos, while Ceng Yi, a 18-year-old boy who was far away in Yiyang, Hunan, had quit his job and went to Shenzhen alone to go to a place that carried many people's musical dreams.
The purpose of Ceng Yi's visit to Shenzhen is clear. As soon as he got off the bus, he came to his friend's golden age dance hall, where his dream began.
Before becoming the idol of the square dance aunt, Ceng Yi was once a disco boy nicknamed "Yiyang Leslie Cheung".
For him, the ballroom is not a hard work place, but a dream stage for him to dance freely. He sang and danced on the stage by virtue of his advanced experience in holding evening performances at school, and he can be a host for himself after the performance.
Decathlon, he soon became a pillar, 1 year later, he became the music director of the ballroom.
This year, he also met Ling Hua, an Inner Mongolia girl with a loud voice, at the job fair in the ballroom.
Like Ceng Yi, Ling Hua came to Shenzhen to pursue her musical dream.
She has participated in the examinations of literary and art groups such as Window of the World and Folk Village, and failed again and again, which made her want to try the ballroom. I didn't expect that this time she was really admitted and became a colleague of Ceng Yi. Their meeting also indicates that the establishment of Phoenix Legend is just around the corner.
Phoenix in Ceng Yi met Phoenix in Ling Hua, but they were in no hurry to write their own legends.
Before Phoenix Legend, the combination of Ceng Yi and Ling Hua was called "Cool Fire" because they both liked the Korean cool dragon combination very much.
In addition to the name, the three-piece suit of Lianku Long's bald head, sunglasses and gloves is also a model of their early modeling.
Besides "Cool Fire", Ling Hua and Ceng Yi also formed a trio, which they named "Crazy" to attract people.
But just like the name, the third person in the group had a nervous breakdown because he couldn't bear the pressure of work and left the group soon.
There are many people coming and going in Ceng Yi and Ling Hua. They witnessed each other's tacit understanding in the passage of time Ling Hua is good at showing the grandeur of grassland with high notes, and Ceng Yi uses fast-paced rap beside her to make the songs more rhythmic.
How tacit they are at work and how much they understand each other in life.
As a Bole and leader in Ling Hua, Ceng Yi knows that Ling Hua is only careless on the surface, but at heart she is a little girl who needs to be taken care of.
Apart from singing, Ceng Yi hardly has to worry about Ling Hua. He finished it silently, and these Ling Hua flowers were in his eyes.
In 2003, SARS raged in China, making people all over the country panic. Composer He Muyang wrote a public service song for the epidemic. He hopes that a singer with a loud voice can sing this song.
When he was wondering who was singing this song, he heard Ling Hua's loud voice on TV. At that moment, he decided that the song belonged to Ling Hua.
When he came to the golden age to look for Ling Hua, he saw Ceng Yi standing beside Ling Hua singing and rapping.
Looking at the two people who cooperated tacitly on the stage, he came up with the idea of adding a rap to the song, and "Above the Moon" was born.
With the wide spread of Above the Moon in Guangdong and Shenzhen, the "cool fire" really caught fire, and they also successfully attracted the attention of Chen Rentai, the owner of Guangdong Peacock Record Company.
This person is the Bole of Jacky, the leader of Guangdong record industry who helped him create the explosive song "Ten Thousand Reasons".
Chen Rentai decided to sign the Cool Fire Group and invest millions to make them the hottest group in the mainland.
I don't know if happiness came too suddenly or if they stayed in the ballroom for a long time, which made them feel hopeless about their debut.
Until before signing the contract, Ceng Yi still thought that they signed the contract because the owner of Peacock Records took a fancy to Ling Huacai, and Ling Hua also repeatedly told Ceng Yi to save her if anything happened to her.
In 2004, Cool Fire signed Peacock Records, and then they changed their name to Phoenix Legend. The representative group of Phoenix is composed of a man and a woman, and legend is the favorite game of Ceng Yi and Ling Hua at that time.
At that time, no one dared to think that such a group, whose names were all jokes, would leave their legendary stories in the future Chinese music scene, and the beginning of this story must have been in 2005.
That year, Phoenix Legend followed the wave of talent show explosion. When girls all over the country are eager to become super girls, Ling Hua took Ceng Yi straight to the "Avenue of Stars" stage at the grassroots level.
After nearly 1 year's competition, they passed five levels and chopped six generals, but in the end they failed to beat Po, who was more ecological than them, and only won the runner-up that year.
Looking at Po who immediately stepped onto the stage of CCTV Spring Festival Evening, Phoenix Legend could only accept his fate. Who told people to remember only the champion, and the runner-up didn't even deserve his last name?
What embarrassed Phoenix Legend even more was their famous song Above the Moon. Obviously, they are original singers, and Ji Minjia's reinterpretation on the super girl stage made this song an instant hit.
Although the streets are filled with the song "I am looking at the moon", no one knows Phoenix Legend.
In the first two years after her debut, Phoenix Legend, who was not a popular singer, didn't make any money at all. Their daily expenses were all borrowed by Ceng Yi, with 100 at 50 each and 1000 at 500 each.
Although it is not easy to borrow money every time, Ceng Yi never thought about dissolving the group, because he knew that Phoenix Legend could go today because Ling Hua didn't abandon him.
Peacock Records initially only wanted to sign Ling Hua, but Ling Hua insisted on being tied up with Ceng Yi before signing. Finally, Ceng Yi became a free gift.
Without Ling Hua's persistence in those years, there would be no Phoenix Legend today. Without Phoenix Legend's gritting his teeth and continuing to pursue his musical dreams, they would not meet their own times.
In 2006, when cell phone ringtones became popular, the moon turned into an explosion of colored ringtones. By 2007, the ringtone had been downloaded more than 79 million times.
With the popularity of ringtones, people finally remembered Phoenix Legend's name, and finally received an invitation from CCTV's Spring Festival Gala program group two years after winning the runner-up on the Avenue of Stars.
But how did the legendary story go so smoothly? Just a few days before the official broadcast of CCTV Spring Festival Evening, their song "Above the Moon" was suddenly dragged into plagiarism by a report.
Although there is no substantial evidence to prove that Above the Moon is plagiarized, the convention of the Spring Festival Gala is never to use controversial songs, so Phoenix Legend's failure to fly freely on the stage they yearn for in the Spring Festival Gala became their most painful memory in 2007.
Life is like this. When all hardships break out, there will be a bottoming out sooner or later, so will Phoenix Legend.
Dry your tears and live on. Phoenix Legend still sang the best, and a song "Fly Free" replaced "Above the Moon" as the latest bell explosion.
"Above the Moon" has also been confirmed by experts that there is no plagiarism. They finally straightened up and brought this famous song to the stage of CCTV Spring Festival Evening.
From then on, Phoenix Legend's story was only legendary, and they became frequent visitors to CCTV and David. From "The Most Dazzling National Style" to "Moonlight on the Lotus Pond", a divine comedy is sung by the whole people every year, making Phoenix Legend the most popular group.
When their music resounded through every corner of the square and became the favorite rhythm of aunts and grandfathers, their songs truly became the existence across the times and urban and rural areas, and "the earth" became their synonym.
But Phoenix Legend, who has experienced the ups and downs of life, has already lived a sober life. They never resist being said to be local.
One of them grew up in the countryside of Hunan, and the other ran in the grassland of Inner Mongolia. Their rural grassland breath is their root and will accompany them all their lives.
Juck Zhang, the producer of songs tailored for them, has an idea that everyone can understand them.
But people have to understand universal coverage as "soil". Although this is not the original intention of Phoenix Legend and Juck Zhang, their purpose has been achieved, because their songs won the hearts of the people and have been sung in people's hearts.
However, there are times when we face each other. When Phoenix Legend embraced the Tik Tok era on the stage of Ode, and when they sang the lonely and depressed version of Underwater Fishing as a printed version, should we tear off their label of "rural heavy metals"?
It turns out that "Earth" has always been their own choice. They just want to sing songs that inspire the people of China. However, while their songs traveled all over the motherland, they also infected the fireworks in the market.
Vulgarity is just the coat of their songs, vulgarity is elegance, and elegance is the connotation of their songs. Because of this "soil", their legendary story finally stayed in the chapter called People's Artists.