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Xu Song (Chinese: 许嵩),Vae, is a well-known lyricist, composer, singer as well as an independent record producer in the mainland of China. In 2009, he released his first album named “Personalize”, which has rapidly raised a upsurge in China. At the same time, as a new original musician, he has attracted the most public as well as media's attention. He released his second album called “Sought and Got” in the following year and joined the music company named Ocean Butterflies. After that he consciously released two albums named “Socra Without 'tes” and “Travelling in the dream” in 2011 and 2012 respectively. In particular, the album “socra without ‘tes” was the champion of the top-selling album list in the mainland of China, caused a sensation throughout the country and the media hot spots. Contents [show]

Developments[edit]

Internet experiences (2006--2008)[edit] Early experience Vae was born in Hefei, Anhui Province, in 1986. He attended the Anhui Medical University in 2005. When he was in the second year of university studying, he began to show his talent in music. At that time, he began to cover and adapt songs of other singers and also wrote songs by himself. He recorded these songs with very simple music appliances and shared them with other people on the internet using the pseudonym of Vae. The unique musical style of his work attracted many people’s attention, which has exceeded his exception. From 2007 to 2008, he kept writing songs and releasing one per month. Therefore growing number of people began to know his as an independent young musician. Though Vae was really popular on the Internet, no one could really tell where this fame would take him in 2008. Along with the increasing number of fans, he began to receive more and more invitations for performances. However, he refused all of them in order not to affect his concentration on his academic studies. His songs and life choices engendered a lot of praise and attracted more of an audience. In 2005, Vae got the award as Chinese Entertainment NET best male singer. In May, 2007, Vae got the chance to be the member of the Anhui Musician's Association. In summary, from 2006 to 2008, Vae has completed the transformation from an amateur to a professional singer. And also, during these three years, as a new singer who just stepped into the music circle, he has accumulated an extensive popularity among Chinese audience.

Independent success (2009--2010)[edit]

After graduating from college, starting from the summer of 2008, Vae spent about half a year preparing his first personal album. At the beginning of 2009, Vae released his first album named “Personalize” officially. Vae did all of the work all by himself, including composing, writing, recording and so on. The CD has nine songs, including "Why Not" (有何不可), "Bad Kid" (坏孩子), "Shrewdness" (城府), "Excessive Explanations" (多余的解释)etc. the overall mood of this album is blue.The album is extremely popular among the country and the number of sales broke 10,000 in just ten days.This attracted many musical companies, however, no company was willing to let him take total control over his subsequent album like the first one.Therefore, he refused all the companies and began to prepare his second CD. In 2010,the album named "Sought and Got" (寻雾启示), came out and became another big success. There are ten songs in this CD, including "Luzhou Moon" (庐州月), "The White Horse Is Not A Horse" (白马非马),"I Don't Care" (我无所谓), "Single Journey" (单人旅途).One day after the CD being released on the Internet, it became the most popular one in QQ music taking the place of Jay Chow, who had been on top for more than seven years.By then, Vae had become a musical legend all on his own. 2011-present[edit] In March 2011,Vae joined an international music company, Ocean Butterflies, which allowed him to independently complete his third CD in the way he did before.The album "Socotra Has No Bottom" (苏格拉没有底) was published on 1 Apr 2011.[5] Ten songs are contained in this album including "Imagination" (想象之中) and "Doctors" (医生)ect.After the publication of his third album, Vae started his traveling around the country and had more face to face interaction with his fans.He went to Beijing, Shanghai, Hefei, Nanjing another big cities in China. Besides, Vae began to get involved in some commercial activities. In July 2012, Xu Song published his 4th album “Travelling in the dream” which enhances his position as one of the most popular and legendary singer-songwriter in China.

Main works:

Music productions:

1. The first album: “Personalize” Date released: 2009,01,10 Vae’s first independent creative album was released in 2009. He did all of the work by himself including writing songs and lyrics, playing the piano for accompanying, recording the music and remixing sounds. As a young adult at the age of 22, his dream of dominating his won music world was achieved in this album. He played these fashion stylish music that he loved so that the songs in this album are full of his personal style. That is the reason why the name of the album is “Personalize”.

2. The second album: “Sought and Got” Date released: 2010,01,06 Like Vae's first album, his second one was produced independently as well. Vae acted as composer, lyricist, music player and audio mixer in preparing the album. Every detail about this album was under his control. Personalized elements were added into his work. This album was a brilliant achievement that had attracted not only millions of Chinese audience but also media and music companies.

3. he third album: “Socra Without 'tes” Date released: 2011.04.01 The third of Vae, named “Socra without ‘tes”, was released in 2011. It continues with Vae’s inimitable musical style. However, there is a shift in the overall theme of his songs. Before this album was published, his songs are generally about love which involved his personal memories and experience. Nevertheless, most of the songs in “Socra without ‘tes” have deeper social meaning. He used massive metaphors and similes to attack the ugliness and inequalities in society. The lyrics of his songs were getting maturer by shifting away from only focusing on small personal love and instead, concentrating on social issues. 4. The fourth album: “Travelling In the Dream” Date released: 2012.07.11 Vali says: “The inspiration of this new album’s creation was stemming from a dream.”. Has forgotten all the reality, he was travelling in that dream, however he felt like that he had never gotten so close to the truth. What he meant to say is that forgetting all the pressure and worries and living in the moment could help us to discover a ture self. As the name suggested, surrealism elements were blended into the songs of this album. Lyrics of those songs often contained deep meaning other than the literal meaning.

Literature production:

1. The first literature work called “inspiration on the sea” was published in 2013. This is a collection of Vae's journals and photographs.

Albums[edit]

Personalize[edit] Publisher: Anhui Audio and Video Publishing House Music Copyright: Vae (Xu Song) Producer: Vae (Xu Song) Taping/Sound Mixing/Mastering: Vae (Xu Song) @Vae Studio Photograph/Graphic Design: Peng Huan (Milk Photograph) /Shen Yicheng (22° Vision) Songs： If at that Time" "Excessive Explanations" "Why Not" "Bad Kid" "Rain in Ching Ming Day" "Shrewdness" "Confessing" "Spy" "On the Constellation Book" Sought and Got[edit] Publisher: Anhui Electronic Audio and Video Publishing House Music Copyrightist: Vae (Xu Song) Composing/Writing: Vae (Xu Song) Photograph/Graphic Design: Peng Huan (Milk Photograph) Songs： Admiration" "Grey Head Portrait" "I Don't Care" "Luzhou Moon" "Not Sensational" "Love Is A Terrible Waste of Lives" "The White Horse Is Not A Horse" "Single Journey" "A Far Away Place" Socra Without 'tes[edit] Publisher: Jiuzhou Audio and Video Publishing House Producer: Du Daning/Lu Jian/Bi Xiaoshi Exclusive Distribution: Ocean Butterflies International Pte Ltd. Songs: Imagination"[7] "Wonderful Place" "Rob Peter To Pay Paul" "Doctors" "Complex About Micro Blog" "Harm" "Beside You" "Rain" "No Drinking" "How Many Times" Travelling in the dream[edit] Publisher: Jiuzhou Audio and Video Publishing House Producer: Du Daning/Lu Jian/Bi Xiaoshi Exclusive Distribution: Ocean Butterflies International Pte Ltd. Songs: A Miserable Boy" "A Wrong Hearing" "Talk With Teacher" "Living With A Tiger" "Best Friend" "Pretend Not To Know" "Play With Style" "Worry About Your Past Story" "Glob Chilling" "Love Look Like Family"