"I Remember", the masterpiece of folk singer Zhao Lei, was released in 2022. It is also a rare masterpiece that still maintains a very high reputation after the short video became popular. There are many interpretations of this song.
There are many analyses of this song, some superficial and some in-depth, covering many aspects, such as soul, reincarnation, amnesia, reunion... Everyone has their own feelings.
But what is undeniable is that family love is always the core element of this song, especially between mother and child.
Wei Yang had liked this song very much before. It has a positive theme and is suitable for the Spring Festival Gala. More importantly, the singing technique of this song is not that difficult.
Some people say that folk singers don’t need singing skills, which is absolutely a fallacy. Any song requires certain singing skills and techniques.
But then again, 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 about emotion than technique and is more lifelike.
This perfectly meets Wei Yang's requirements: he is good at "creation", has decent singing skills and is full of emotions.
If he hadn't already made a name for himself as an actor and screenwriter, he might have tried to become a folk music king...
Although the song "I Remember" is a little more difficult than most folk songs and requires more emotion, Wei Yang can slowly master it as long as he doesn't sing high notes or use any difficult techniques.
Wei Yang has no shortage of songs, but there are some songs that he can copy but cannot sing, or he cannot sing them well, so there is no need to do so.
For example, the famous main melody song "Wanjiang", the opera style is quite difficult for him to sing.
Songs suitable for the Spring Festival Gala, such as "Youthful China", "Dragon Scales of Heaven and Earth", "Map of Mountains and Rivers" and even "Sea of Stars", all require high notes and have certain requirements on singing skills and vocal range.
Perhaps long-term training would be enough, but Wei Yang felt that there was no need to make things difficult for himself.
He is not a professional singer, nor does he plan to switch to a music career. He will just show his face on the Spring Festival Gala. There is no need for him to stay in the recording studio for a long time just for a show, and he doesn't even know to what extent he can practice.
Wei Yang does have songs that require less singing skills. Sometimes, taking a step back can open up a new world. People should be more tolerant of themselves.
In fact, Xiao Zhao had heard Wei Yang practice the song "I Remember" more than once, but he was still shocked when he watched it on the Spring Festival Gala today.
This song is really beautiful! The melody is soothing, the lyrics are full of images and artistic conception, and coupled with Wei Yang's emotional singing, once you get into the mood, you will be full of emotion.
“Woo woo woo
Come and hug me Come and hug me
Woohoo, woohoo Come and hug me, come and hug me
Woohoo, woohoo Come and hug me, come and hug me
..."
Although the voice was melodious and soothing, it carried a hint of fatigue and longing, which made people feel sad.
Zhao's mother is not well educated, but she can roughly understand some of the meaning by combining it with the animation on stage. As a mother, she expressed her own opinion.
"This child looks powerful, but he is actually suffering because he misses his mother."
These words immediately brought tears to Xiao Zhao's eyes. She was one of the first people to meet Wei Yang, and she had witnessed Wei Yang's struggles and the difficulties he encountered in the early stages of his entrepreneurship.
Others see him as a rising business star and entertainment talent.
Only she knew that behind the success of Blue Whale, Wei Yang had worked overtime until late at night countless times, without even having time to eat; he went around raising money and attending social events with a smiling face, supporting dozens of people by himself; he had always been a great drinker, and was forced to go to the hospital for money; during the post-production and promotion stage, the pressure was so great that he suffered from insomnia...
Even Wei Yang himself may not remember these, nor would he care. Every entrepreneur has experienced these hardships.
He is already doing very well. At least he has a clear goal and the probability of success is very high. 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, it was an ambitious young man in his early 20s who risked everything on his life, overcame numerous obstacles and succeeded in starting a business with great difficulty, despite heavy pressure.
So what Xiao Zhao hates the most is that others always talk about Wei Yang’s luck and talent/appearance, but ignore his own difficult and arduous “struggle journey”.
She thought this was a kind of "debasement" of Wei Yang! Xiao Zhao even recalled that Wei Yang often talked to her about his parents because she was familiar with Wang Yunping, and also asked her to help visit and prepare gifts.
Maybe Wei Yang just cares about his parents, but now Xiao Zhao understands it as "lack of love".
When a person struggles alone in a foreign land and supports such a large company by himself, it is inevitable that he will have moments of weakness, which is why he misses his parents.
Xiao Zhao couldn't help but start reflecting, thinking that sometimes he did not care enough about Wei Yang. He always felt that Wei Yang was strong and mature, and was used to relying on him, but he ignored the fact that Wei Yang was just a "big boy" who had just graduated and sometimes he also needed care and love from others.
Staring at Wei Yang singing on TV, Xiao Zhao's eyes were filled with tears. She wished she could be in front of Wei Yang right now and give him a warm hug regardless of what he said.
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Coincidentally, Xiao Zhao was not the only one who had similar ideas. Liu Shishi, who was filming in Hengdian, also cried while watching and listening to the show on TV.
Perhaps she did not feel as deeply about the difficulties of Wei Yang's entrepreneurship as Xiao Zhao, who was in the same company, but she had also experienced a lot and knew that Wei Yang was under a lot of pressure at that time.
So Liu Shishi felt very guilty. At that moment, she actually went out to film instead of staying with Wei Yang.
Today's song "I Remember" also gave her a deeper understanding of Wei Yang.
Beneath Wei Yang's mature and steady appearance, he has a gentle, delicate, and sentimental heart.
It seems that I can't be so willful in the future. I have to let Wei Yang coax me more and pay more attention to Wei Yang to relieve his pressure and make up for some of his emotional deficiencies...
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"Sister, what's wrong with you?"
"nothing."
Fatty Fan shook his head: "I just suddenly felt that I sometimes look at people too one-sidedly."
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In an apartment in Shanghai, Nazha and Rouba, who did not go home for the Chinese New Year, watched the Spring Festival Gala together and wiped their tears together.
"Boss, this song is so well written."
"Wow, I miss my mom."
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In a neighborhood in Shanghai, Tang's mother looked at her daughter with red eyes and couldn't help but test her.
"After the New Year, can you invite Xiao Wei to come to our house?"
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"Why? I'm busy."
"No matter how busy you are, you can always find time for a meal. We haven't seen each other for a long time. Your dad and I miss him so much."
Tang Yan hesitated for a moment: "Let me try to ask."
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In Sanya, Da Mimi, who was traveling with her parents for the New Year, handed a tissue to her mother and looked at Wei Yang on TV with some hesitation.
Is this still the same bad man she remembered!? Damn, she was actually a little attracted to him just now...
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"People's gathering of amnesia Oh, come and hug me, come and hug me ...
I finally found you ..."
At the end of the song, Wei Yang bowed and left the stage, receiving warm applause from the Spring Festival Gala audience.
Without disturbing the other actors preparing for the performance, Wei Yang went straight back to the dressing room. Wei Fei hugged him excitedly, holding the camera for recording the Vlog.
"Brother, your performance just now was so good, better than all the previous rehearsals. I saw many people crying when they heard it."
Wei Yang also felt that he performed well this time.
The audio broadcast on TV was lip-synced, but he himself sang live on the stage. Perhaps it was the live broadcast on New Year's Eve that gave him some stimulation, and he performed beyond his level, with his emotional rendering, stage presence, and coordination with animation all very well.
"Okay, there's nothing for us to do now, let's go home and celebrate the New Year."
After the Spring Festival Gala performance, Wei Yang felt relieved. If you hadn’t watched the Spring Festival Gala, you wouldn’t have known that the pressure of the live broadcast of the Spring Festival Gala was really not something that ordinary people could bear.
Wei Yang has lived two lives and has seen a lot of things in the world. This time, he couldn't help but feel nervous several times, fearing that he would mess up the performance and embarrass himself in front of the national audience.
Therefore, he now particularly admires those artists who appear on the Spring Festival Gala all year round. Their psychological qualities are extremely strong.
Anyway, after that incident, Wei Yang has some psychological trauma about the Spring Festival Gala.
In addition, his resume and wishes have been fulfilled. He doesn't know whether he will come again in the future, but in the short term, Wei Yang is unwilling to suffer this pain again.
On the way back, Wei Yang was very busy.
Maybe they knew he had just finished a performance and didn’t know what was going on, so they basically didn’t call him, but they kept sending him text messages.
Except for replying to Li Jiahang, Wei Yang ignored all the messages from men for the time being. He concentrated on reading the text messages sent by women, and became more and more confused.
"These people took the wrong medicine. How come they are like they have a terminal illness?"
Probably knowing that everyone was watching the Spring Festival Gala, Wei Yang replied to a few text messages and then called his mother.
Among so many text messages just now, the one sent by his mother was the most frightening. It was totally not Ms. Wang Yunping's usual style. Boss Wei had to confirm that his mother had not been possessed by another spirit.
“Yangyang, that song you wrote was so good… Mom was so moved… Your aunt couldn’t stop crying… Now that I think about it, I didn’t care enough about you in the past… Oh, woo woo woo, Mom misses you…”
Listening to Wang Yunping crying and laughing incoherently, Wei Yang felt a little sad. He didn't expect that this song would have such a big impact on his mother.
This also made him feel a little guilty, which was rare. After all, this song was not written by him, and it also made his mother's emotion at this moment a little bit awkward.
However, Wei Yang was shameless enough and quickly ignored these discomforts. He persuaded his mother for a while and agreed to go home for the New Year tomorrow. He finally coaxed his mother and aunt.
The flight tickets are for tomorrow, so Wei Yang, Wei Fei and Huo Jun have to stay in Beijing for one night.
After hesitating for a while about 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 provides dumplings to its guests. Wei Yang and his friends ordered one portion, and paired it with some cooked snacks they bought from a store that was still open on their way back. The three of them took a photo together with the dumplings and food 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!!!]
(End of this chapter)