Life | Why I no longer pay attention to the Golden Melody Awards

On the evening of Saturday, July 2, close to 12:00 am, when I was about to sleep well, my former colleague A She sent me whatsApp.

Opening it, Ah She wrote, "I'm so happy, my beloved rock godfather Cui Jian won the Golden Melody Award!"

I was a little confused for a while, and in response he wrote: "Congratulations, when is the Golden Melody Award, this year? Held?"

"Tonight, didn't you read it?!" Ah She wrote in a somewhat uncomfortable tone.

To be honest, I really didn't watch or pay attention to the holding of the Golden Melody Awards. It can even be said that I haven't paid attention to it for a long time. I checked the news online, and on the list of winners of the 33rd Golden Melody Awards this year, there are several singers that I am familiar with and admire.

For example, Tanya Tsai, who won the Best Female Singer for the fourth time, liked her early works such as "The Bottomless Pit", "Night Blindness", "Amphibians" and "Parabola". But since she released the album "Conversations between Angels and Demons" in 2013, I felt that I couldn't find the emotion when I listened to her songs, so I stopped going to her songs to listen to them.

This year, I have never heard of the album "DEPART" that won Cai Tanya's Album of the Year Award, Best Chinese Album, Best Vocal Recording Album, and Best Chinese Female Singer. If you have the opportunity to go and listen to her, you can find out if you can get back the emotion when you listened to her songs.

Looking at the list of winners, I actually don't know much, except Cui Jian, Cai Jianya, Xinbaodao Kang Band who won the Best Singing Group, Xu Jiaying who won the Best Single Producer Award, and HUSH who won the Best Composer Award. From the name I mentioned, you can tell that it is a singer who has become famous in the previous generation.

To be honest, I don't know the other winners, and I don't know the song or the person. First of all, it is not that they are not popular or have no strength. If they have no strength, they will not win the award. The Golden Melody Award still has credibility. The real reason is that I'm getting old. Now many popular genres, internet celebrities or Douyin Divine Comedies and their singing styles are not suitable for my taste, so gradually I listened to certain singers' songs and less radio stations, which led to the recent popularity or young people listening songs, I don't know.

When most of the singers and songs I don't know or hear, I understand why I don't pay attention to the Golden Melody Awards anymore. When you look at the shortlisted singers and songs, or when you watch the awards ceremony, you don’t know the names reported by the host and the presenters, and there is no singer you hope to win, so there is no sense of participation and expectation. Naturally I wouldn't want to pay attention.

I used to love to watch awards ceremonies. Whether it was the Golden Melody Awards, the Golden Horse Awards, the Academy Awards, or the Oscars, I would pay special attention to when they were held. On the day of the awards ceremony, I would reject all parties and buy snacks. When the time comes to sit in front of the TV or computer and wait for the start of the awards ceremony, when the awards are presented, if there are singers, actors or movies that I like, I will also be nervous, hoping that they will win the award.

Now I don’t pay much attention to it, and suddenly I’m not interested in these things. I feel that winning or not winning is none of my business. For example, winning movies are often movies that I don’t understand. They are all profound and suffering. , Big Times, and realistic movies. I'm a superficial person, I like movies that bring me joy and happiness, so I'll leave these to those with depth to watch.

Songs are also, except that I am outdated and can't accept some good pop music now, there are too many Internet celebrities or Douyin songs, which are easy to catch and brainwash and make people easy to remember, but the lyrics have no content, Anything can be written for rhyme. It is difficult to have good songs and good lyrics, and it is difficult to become a classic.

Maybe one day, not only do not watch the awards ceremony, but also do not listen to the songs, just listen to the music.