Chapter 209 “The big boy who lacks love”——Wei Yang
"I Remember", the masterpiece of folk singer Zhao Lei, was released in 2022. It is also a rare masterpiece that still maintains a high reputation after the short video became popular. There are many explanations for this song.
There are many analyzes of this song, some simple and some profound, covering many aspects, such as soul, reincarnation, amnesia, togetherness...each has its own feelings.
But it is undeniable that family love is always the core element of this song, especially mother and son.
Wei Yang liked this song very much before. The theme is positive and it is in line with the Spring Festival Gala. More importantly, the singing skills of this song are not that difficult.
Some people say that folk singers do not need singing skills. This is absolutely a fallacy. Any song requires certain singing skills and skills.
But having said that, most folk songs are indeed easy to sing.
Compared with other genres, many well-known folk singers give people the impression that they are good at creation, and their singing is more emotional than technical and more life-like.
This perfectly meets Wei Yang's conditions, he is good at "creation", his singing skills are acceptable, and he is full of emotion.
If he hadn't already started out as an actor and screenwriter, he might as well have become a ballad king...
Although the song "I Remember" is a bit more difficult than most ballads and requires more emotion, Wei Yang can slowly get through it as long as he doesn't hit the high notes or perform any difficult techniques.
Wei Yang has no shortage of songs, but there are some songs that he can copy but can't sing, or he can't sing them well, so there's no need for them.
For example, the famous main melody song "Wanjiang", this drama is relatively difficult for him.
Songs suitable for the Spring Festival Gala, such as "Young China", "Heaven and Earth Dragon Scales", "Mountains and Rivers" and even "Stars and Seas", all require high notes and have certain requirements for the singing range.
It might be possible to train for a long time, but Wei Yang felt there was no need to make things difficult for himself.
He is not a professional singer, nor does he intend to change his career to join the music industry. The Spring Festival Gala is just a show, there is no need to stay in the recording studio for a long time for a show, and he doesn't know how far he can practice.
It’s not that Wei Yang doesn’t have songs that require lower singing skills. Sometimes, when you take a step back, the sky is brighter, and people have to be more tolerant to themselves...
Xiao Zhao has actually heard Wei Yang practice the song "I Remember" more than once, but when I watched the program at the Spring Festival Gala today, I was still shocked.
This song is really beautiful!
The melody is soothing, the lyrics are full of pictures and artistic conception, and combined with Wei Yang's soft singing full of emotion, once the emotions are absorbed, it will be full of emotion.
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"
Come and give me a hug. Come and give me a hug.
Woo woo woo
Come and give me a hug. Come and give me a hug.
Woo woo woo
Come and give me a hug. Come and give me a hug.
…”
Although the voice is melodious and soothing, there is a faint feeling of fatigue and longing in it, which makes people feel sad.
Zhao's mother is not highly educated, but she can roughly understand part of the meaning based on the animation on the stage. As a mother, she expressed her own opinions.
"This kid looks awesome, but actually he feels miserable inside. He just misses his mother."
This sentence directly brought Xiao Zhao to tears. She was the one who met Wei Yang earlier and saw with her own eyes Wei Yang's struggle and the difficulties in the early stages of starting a business.
What others see is a rising business star and entertainment talent.
Only she knew that behind the success of Blue Whale, Wei Yang had worked overtime countless times until late at night, and had no time to eat; he accompanied Smiley everywhere to raise money and socialize, and he was responsible for the livelihood of dozens of people; he had always been a heavy drinker and would drink too much just for money.
I was forced to go to the hospital; during the post-production and publicity stage, I was so stressed that I had insomnia and couldn't sleep...
Even Wei Yang himself may not remember these, nor would he care. Which entrepreneur has not suffered these hardships.
He is already very good. At least he has a clear goal and a high probability of success. This makes him countless times luckier than many people. Some hardships are just twists and turns on the road to success.
But Xiao Zhao didn't know this.
From her perspective, she is an aspiring young man in his early 20s who made a desperate move, endured heavy pressure, and overcame obstacles all the way to successfully start his own business.
So what Xiao Zhao hates the most is that others always talk about Wei Yang's luck and talent/good looks, but ignore his own difficult and difficult "struggle journey".
She thinks this is a "derogation" to Wei Yang!
Even because he was familiar with Wang Yunping, Xiao Zhao recalled that Wei Yang often talked to her about his parents and entrusted her to help visit and prepare gifts.
Maybe Wei Yang just cares about his parents, but now Xiao Zhao understands him as "lack of love".
When a person works alone in a foreign country and supports such a large company, it is inevitable that he will be vulnerable at times, which is why he misses his parents.
Xiao Zhao couldn't help but start to reflect. Sometimes he really didn't care enough about Wei Yang. He always felt that he was strong and mature, and he was used to relying on him, but he ignored that Wei Yang was just a "big boy" who had just graduated, and sometimes he also needed the care of others.
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Staring at Wei Yang singing on TV, Xiao Zhao burst into tears. He wished he could be in front of Wei Yang right now and give him a warm hug in response to his various comments.
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Coincidentally, she was not the only one who had similar thoughts to Xiao Zhao. Liu Shishi, who was filming in Hengdian, also cried while watching TV.
Perhaps she didn't feel the difficulties of Wei Yang's entrepreneurship as deeply as Xiao Zhao from the same company, but she had experienced a lot and knew that Wei Yang was under a lot of pressure at the time.
So Liu Shishi felt very guilty. At that moment, he went out to film instead of staying with Wei Yang.
Today's song "I Remember" also gave her a deeper understanding of Wei Yang.
Underneath Wei Yang's mature and steady appearance, there is a gentle, delicate and sentimental heart.
It seems that I can't be so willful in the future. I always let Wei Yang coax me more and care more about Wei Yang to relieve his pressure and make up for some of his emotional deficiencies...
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In a villa in the capital, Fan Xiaopang also wiped away her tears gently with a tissue. Next to her, a fat man in his early ten years looked at her inexplicably.
"Sister, what's wrong with you?"
"nothing."
Fan Xiaopang shook his head: "I just suddenly feel that sometimes I see people too one-sided."
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In a certain apartment in Shanghai, Nazar and Rouba, who had not been home for the New Year, watched the Spring Festival Gala together and then wiped away tears together.
"Boss, this song is so well written."
"Ooooooo, I miss my mom."
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In a certain community in Shanghai, Tang's mother looked at her daughter with red eyes and couldn't help but test her.
"After the New Year, see if you can invite Xiao Wei to come to our house."
"What are you doing? I'm very busy."
"No matter how busy you are, there's always time for a meal. We haven't seen him for a long time. Your dad and I both miss him."
Tang Yan hesitated for a moment: "I'll try to ask."
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In Sanya, Damimi, who was traveling with her parents to celebrate the New Year, handed a tissue to her mother and looked at Wei Yang on the TV with some hesitation.
Is this still the dog man in her impression!?
Damn it, she was so attracted to him just now...
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"The gathering of people who have lost their memory
Oh, come on, give me a hug, come on, give me a hug
…
I finally found you
…”
At the end of the song, Wei Yang bowed and came off the stage, and the Spring Festival Gala gave him warm applause.
Without disturbing other actors who were preparing for the scene, Wei Yang went directly back to the dressing room. Wei Fei hugged him excitedly. He also held the camera for recording the Vlog in his hand.
"Brother, your performance just now was so good. It was better than all the previous rehearsals. I saw many people at the scene cried."
Wei Yang also felt that he performed well this time.
What was broadcast on TV was that the audio was lip-syncing, but he himself actually sang on stage. Perhaps it was the live broadcast of the New Year's Eve, which gave him some stimulation. He performed at a super level, and the emotional rendering was very well coordinated with the typhoon and animation.
"Okay, it's none of our business anymore. Let's go home and celebrate the New Year."
At the end of the Spring Festival Gala performance, a stone fell to the ground for Wei Yang. If he didn't go to the Spring Festival Gala, he wouldn't know that the pressure of the Spring Festival Gala live broadcast is really not something that ordinary people can bear.
Wei Yang was a man of two generations, and he had seen a lot of things in the world, big and small. This time, he couldn't help but feel guilty several times, for fear that the performance would be ruined and he would be embarrassed in front of the national audience.
Therefore, he now particularly admires those artists who attend the Spring Festival Gala all year round. Their psychological quality is not generally strong.
Anyway, after such an experience, Wei Yang had a bit of a psychological shadow on the Spring Festival Gala.
In addition, his resume and wishes have been fulfilled. I don’t know if he will come again in the future, but in a short period of time, Wei Yang said that he didn’t want to suffer this sin again.
On the way back, Wei Yang was very busy.
Maybe I knew he had just finished his performance and I didn’t know what was going on, so I basically didn’t call him, but my text messages never stopped.
Except for one reply to Li Jiahang, the men ignored it for the time being. Wei Yang concentrated on reading the text messages sent by the women, and then became more and more confused as he read them.
"These people took the wrong medicine. How did they end up as if they were terminally ill?"
Probably knowing that he was watching the Spring Festival Gala now, Wei Yang replied a few text messages and then called his mother.
The many text messages just now were the most terrifying ones sent by his mother. They were not Ms. Wang Yunping’s usual style at all. Boss Wei had to make sure that his mother had not been taken away from her.
"Yangyang, that song you wrote was so good... Mom was so touched... Your aunt couldn't stop crying... Thinking about it now, Mom didn't care much about you in the past... Oops, woo woo woo
, Mom misses you..."
Listening to Wang Yunping crying and laughing and talking incoherently, Wei Yang felt a little sour in his heart as he cried. He didn't expect that this song would shock his mother so much.
This also made him feel a little guilty, which was rare. After all, he did not write this song, and it also made his mother feel a little inconsistent at this time.
However, Wei Yang was shameless enough, and he quickly ignored these discomforts, persuaded his mother for a while, and agreed to go home for the New Year tomorrow, and finally coaxed his mother and aunt.
The tickets are for tomorrow, and Wei Yang, Wei Fei, and Huo Jun have to stay in the capital overnight.
After hesitating for a while, whether to go to Liu Shishi's house for dinner, Wei Yang finally chose to go back to the hotel with Wei and Huo.
The hotel provided dumplings to the guests, and Wei Yang and the others ordered one, along with the cooked snacks they bought at a store that was not closed on the way back. The three of them took a photo together eating the dumplings and posted it on Weibo.
[New Year’s Eve dinner after the Spring Festival Gala, I wish you all a happy New Year and a happy family!!!]
