Music Review of Lugang Town

Compared with this era of "No.1" everywhere, the first song of Tayu Lo's first album is also the first successful work widely sung in his music career, and I'm afraid the popularity is pitiful. Not to mention the public, I'm afraid that even people who preach that they are "you" rarely can accurately associate the above number one with this song. In addition, due to business reasons, even Tayu Lo himself rarely sings this song in other performances besides his personal concert.

Well, let the philosopher consider this embarrassing question. We only talk about music. Just now, I forgot a very important "first", that is, "Lugang Town" is not only Tayu Lo's "first song" (of course, if you count the works before Tayu Lo's album, then Tayu Lo's first song should be written for the movie "days of our lives", which was translated by Xu Zhimo from the poem of the same name by the British poetess C.G. Luo Saidi. I don't know whether this naming is scientific or not. In short, it is a coincidence and fate to walk on the stage of music art with such a face.

Indeed, compared with other artists, "politics" really occupies too much space in Tayu Lo. Take "Lugang Town" for example, its pungent and critical lyrics and strong shouting tunes are a shock to both the audience who heard it for the first time and the old friends who have heard it many times. In particular, the phrase "Taipei is not my home, and there are no neon lights in my hometown" refers to the urban erosion and rural destruction caused by the policies of Taiwan Province authorities to encourage immigrants and develop mountainous areas. It is probably unprecedented for an artist to criticize the government so bluntly. Of course, what is more profound is the collision and reflection between traditional culture and modern culture. The rapid development of science and technology has had a great impact on traditional towns. At the same time of material modernization, thoughts remain in traditional thinking. At the end of the song, the sentence "I heard that they dug up the red brick in their hometown and put a mottled board on the cement wall door with these words engraved on it" is the best portrayal of this.

Similarly, as the "first song", while looking at the fate of the country and society at a higher level, it also contains another important aspect of Tayu Lo's songs, that is, looking at this society and this life from the perspective of ordinary people, which leads to confusion and thinking about life. "Taipei is not the golden paradise I imagined, and there are no dreams in the city." I'm afraid that most "country boys" at that time and even today felt bad when they bumped their heads in a bustling city that didn't belong to them. Broken dreams and lovers' pain are still hard to let go.

"There are a thousand Hamlets for a thousand readers", which is true for literature, especially for music. Every song has its own audience, and every audience has a song in their heart. I'm just talking about the skin of an unsightly hall. If you really want to enjoy "Lugang Town", you still need to understand and feel it yourself. Perhaps it is in this "incomprehensible" that you can.