Hieuthuhai revives a name

After more than 2 weeks, MV Crocodile tears Hieuthuhai's MV still leads the list of trending music on YouTube. Since its first days of release, Hieuthuhai's MV has received mixed opinions because of its old-fashioned music. But from the old-fashioned concept of Crocodile Tears , a series of former Vpop singers mentioned by the audience, were compared with Hieuthuhai.

Luong Bang Quang, Pham Truong, Ly Hai are the names that the audience remembers when they hear the end. Crocodile tears Waiting for the past by Luong Bang Quang is considered an old Vpop song with many similarities. Crocodile tears From here, audiences flocked to find and listen to Luong Bang Quang's old songs, bringing the famous singer/musician back in an unexpected way.

A memorable time of Vpop

Crocodile tears by Hieuthuhai is a song of average quality, when the male rapper and the production team intentionally recreated the music that was once the peak of Vpop and further, the global fever of the US-UK in the 1990s. Hieuthuhai put aside the element of making "trending" music, in exchange for success from making many colleagues and audiences remember the glorious time of Vpop.

More than 20 years ago, the Vietnamese youth music market was in the development stage. The fundamental factor of Vpop at that time was the introduction of music trends in the world . Two of the colors that were warmly welcomed by the audience at that time were Chinese music with Vietnamese lyrics and Pop music inspired by famous Boybands.

Luong Bang Quang became widely known when he released his debut album, Return , in 2025, with a way of doing things that goes against the Vpop trend at that time. The male singer brought new trends of US-UK music to the Vietnamese market, such as using dense auto-tune to blend into electronic music.

Songs in the album Return , embedded in segments of the film Kungfu Peak helped Luong Bang Quang win big in 2004 and 2005. However, because of his modern music and market separation, Luong Bang Quang's success was still limited to a certain range.

20 years later, when Hieuthuhai created the song Crocodile tears , many audiences were surprised when listening again Waiting for the past , Me by Luong Bang Quang. Things that seemed trendy and were used by "gen Z" Vpop artists at that time, such as auto-tune and synth bass, turned out to have been made by Luong Bang Quang a long time ago.

The past two weeks, the song Waiting for the past increased hundreds of thousands of views on YouTube. Old images of Luong Bang Quang appeared everywhere on TikTok. The male singer quickly took advantage of the opportunity, releasing a modern version of Waiting for the past and continues to be well received by audiences.

Most of Vpop's hits from 20 years ago, when put on the current market scale, are outdated in terms of lyrics, melody and music production. But with most of Luong Bang Quang's songs, just need to reprocess the sound post-production according to current standard parameters, can be released and compete with the younger generation of artists.

Where is Luong Bang Quang?

Before being "revived" by Hieuthuhai, Luong Bang Quang had long disappeared from the market. The MV "Ngot Ngot", released in 2011, was Luong Bang Quang's most recent product to attract attention on the music charts.

Over the past 10 years, Luong Bang Quang has been mentioned for stories outside of music. That is the male singer's controversial love story with Ngan 98, plastic surgery and a series of other online scandals. Recently, Luong Bang Quang has reappeared as a singer.

Appearance and musical personality of Luong Bang Quang during album time Return has completely disappeared. The male singer changed his direction to DJ, performing with remixes for bars, clubs, and venues like House. Because of this, Luong Bang Quang's return as a singer only works on specialized stages, separate from the rotation of the Vpop market.

Luong Bang Quang introduced a new music project, a Ballad composed by Dong Thien Duc, but it was not well received.

The male singer has been struggling to find an opportunity to return to the stage, collaborating with a hit maker like Dong Thien Duc to release a song with a strong market flavor. However, Luong Bang Quang's efforts in the past few years have not been effective, until his name was suddenly mentioned again because of his past glory.

What brought success to Luong Bang Quang were the familiar things that the male singer pushed aside. Why doesn't Luong Bang Quang continue to compose songs like Still believe we have each other , Waiting for the past , You ..., are the questions the audience asked when witnessing the male singer step onto the stage, cover other singers' hits with remixes and try to become a Hype MC and a dancer on stage.

Looking back 20 years later, not only Luong Bang Quang, but most of the famous names of the previous generation of Vpop have fallen behind. Most of the previous generation of singers did not have the ability to compose and master the music production process, so when the market changed, they could not keep up.

Luong Bang Quang used to be different because he was a composer, performer and producer. With a music producer like Luong Bang Quang, his musical personality is still there and is still able to keep up with the modern flow of Vietnamese music. If he just shapes the right path, Luong Bang Quang can become famous again as a singer, musician, producer or all three combined.

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