I'm not a rock fan. One of the neighbors in Sansheng Township was the lead singer of a psychedelic rock band (who also taught English and American literature at the university), and like the lead singer of the band in the movie "Almost Famous", he dressed like Jesus, and led the audience into the audience with notes, drums, sweat and shouts. A fantasy world. Although I am sometimes moved by his enthusiasm for music, I have never been moved by his music. I attribute the reason to cultural barriers.
I didn't have rock and roll growing up. Many people in high school listened to Cui Jian, and I was orthodox educated since I was a child, and I instinctively rejected such restless music. It was about ten years later that I began to understand the pride and self-hesitation of young people expressed in "Nothing", and youth has gradually drifted away from me.
The boy William in the movie, whose mother is a college teacher, equates rock and roll with marijuana and promiscuity, but when William puts the rock record left by his sister on the turntable, lights the candle, and hears the drums of the band and the sound of the guitar hitting his heart, The youth of the good boy begins to ignite.
A famous music critic said to William: You are at the end of the rock era. , because the boom brought about by the combination of rock and industry destroyed rock itself. Children seem to understand.
The United States in the 1960s was an era from conservative to open. The widespread use of machines and economic development have created lonely souls, and individuality needs a spokesperson. Rock and roll came into being to fill this need, thus ushering in the era of rock and roll.
Stillwater frontman Jeff said: Rock and roll is the confrontation of the rational world with intuition. Rock is telling the world: I'm there. Maybe naive, but a necessary stage in life.
Music fan Penny said: When I'm lonely, I go to the record store, where I can find friends (from the music).
If rock is given a social meaning, it represents the declaration of the little man to the big man, which is not unique to young people, but also the cry of all unsuccessful/unsuccessful people.
Perhaps it is such endorsements that rock music has a large number of fans. When the world is not beautiful, rock music has become a kind of medicine to save the soul, help them to vent, let them find companions, and find that they are not alone.
At the same time, big capital saw the business opportunities, and rock completed its initial germination and formation, making its debut as an industrial rock.
Music critics say: If rock wasn't vulgar, it wouldn't be rock, but an industry that only sold cool.
Professionalization is a weapon to create stars, and professionalization is also a good medicine to destroy personality. William began to understand the teacher's teaching.
Rock as a spirit is immortal, but rock as a commodity is like a Che Guevara T-shirt.
Music fans:
Stillwater people say: Our music is not for critics, but only for fans, fans who simply love music and love the band.
If the rock band is the sun shining brightly, then the fans are the moon, always taking care of every rock singer with tender motherhood. The flesh and blood Penny in the movie is called God's gift to rock and roll, inspiring the singer's best musical state, remembering every song of the band (including bad songs) with unconditional love, and composing a paragraph or true together. Or fake feelings, creating a famous song that makes you cry. Music fans provide inspiration for rock music creation, become the embodiment of a certain musical ideal, or a prop, and become a real lover.
The purpose of music fans is not pure. Penny confesses the pleasure of being with a celebrity. Fans and bands use each other, and this relationship is mentally beneficial to both parties, but it is dangerous to go into reality. In the end, Penny was betrayed by her soon-to-be-famous band to other bands for $50 without even a goodbye.
The band is unreliable.
Fans are an integral part of making a band legend, and giving up fans is also part of the price of a band's fame.
The Price of Fame:
When Stillwater leaves the bus Doris that has been with them to get on the plane, the film is shot from the perspective of the solitary Doris, symbolizing the left behind.
The price of success is saying goodbye to who you were yesterday.
When the band was nearly successful, they began to run counter to their original ideals. The new manager said well, what fans want is not authenticity, but a sense of sanctity and mystery.
Russell said: (When he first made music) he used to hear all kinds of voices in the world, but when the band gradually became famous, music became a way of making a living, and the initial tacit understanding and simple way gradually disappeared. Responsibility and pressure were added, and (voice of the world) he could no longer hear.
After an electrocution accident at a concert, breaking through an iron gate with DORRIS was probably the last crazy thing they did, and after that they were called pros.
From the T-shirt incident, the contradictions among the members broke out. Russell realized that the crisis of the band was coming, and even wanted to end it all by suicide.
New agents appear, and with five-minute rational speeches telling them to seize the fleeting chance of fame, the little boy begins to understand why music critics tell him that the music industry has triumphed over rock and roll.
They rationally chose to become famous and gave up DORIS, which is called the soul of the band.
Their most fun days are over, and the future will be work and life, hiding their disgust with each other, keeping secrets, moving towards success together, and selling cool.
William's mother was right: marijuana plus promiscuity made rock. Rock and roll is the youth party that I attended. Cannabis makes people reach a state that they can't usually achieve, and indiscriminately gives them the illusion of love. Combined with the dream of fame, this is what this era needs to sell.
Jeff before fame said: Rock saves the world, and fame is the transformation of a band into what rock mocks. Rock, except being a flashback to restless youth, has changed nothing.
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