Luo Dayou named Ma Shifang "too green"! He once wrote "Lend me your ears" to analyze the small town of Lukang

[Reporter Dong Baiting/Taipei Report] 72-year-old singer Luo Dayou went on a radio program today (10th). When talking about Taiwan's politics and the development of pop music, he publicly named music critic Ma Shifang, questioning "How did you become so green? Just to have a bite to eat?" and lamented that contemporary Taiwanese pop music lacks works that can be circulated for 20 years. This comment attracted attention, and also led music fans and book fans to share on the community that Ma Shifang had carefully appreciated Luo Dayou's works in the book "Lend Me Your Ears", and reorganized the relationship between Taiwanese pop music and social changes through songs.

Ma Shifang, who introduced rock music through radio programs when she was in college, has long been concerned about the connection between Chinese pop music and Taiwanese society. "Lend Me Your Ears" continues the writing route of its predecessor "The Book of Yesterday", using music as a clue and starting from songs, characters and historical events to trace the cultural memories of different eras.

The book talks about the film "Girlfriend" directed by Yang Yazhe. "Boyfriend", Ma Shifang believes that the director's choice of Luo Dayou's "Home" is an excellent and accurate song selection. The movie is based on the social atmosphere of different eras in Taiwan. The song comes to the end, allowing the audience to hear the emotions of the times carried by "Home" again from the life experiences of the characters.

In addition to film scores, Ma Shifang also examines Luo Dayou's "Lukang Town" in the book. Combining songs and related historical materials, he takes readers back to the era of the development of Taiwan's popular rock music, and understands why the songs resonated at that time from the perspectives of urbanization, hometown memory and social changes. These words also make Luo Dayou's works a clue to understanding the history of Taiwan's pop music.

"Lend Me Your Ears" also talks about music from the historical and social context of the Formosa Incident, the Wild Lily student movement, and nuclear power issues, and records creators such as Li Taixiang, Li Zongsheng, and Zhang Xuan, as well as issues such as campus folk songs and song censorship, showing how pop songs intersect with the life experiences of different generations.

Ma Shifang provides another entrance through "Lend Me Your Ears", so that the memories of the times left by musical works are still worthy of repeated reading, leading readers to return to the songs themselves and re-understand how those melodies accompanied Taiwan through different eras.

Writer and music critic Ma Shifang. (File photo, taken by reporter Hu Shunxiang)