For a long time, rising sun masculinity was synonymous with migrant worker singers. They became popular on the Internet because of a song "In the Spring", and it took only four months to appear on the Stage of the Spring Festival Gala.
"In the Spring" is "both honey and arsenic.". Soon, Wang Feng, the original singer of "In Spring", told the rising sun masculinity in a long text of 5,000 words: You can no longer sing this song.
In 2012, Liu Gang, a member of the Rising Sun Masculine Gang, was rumored to have clashed with the elderly on the road and even had to pick up an iron rod and beat people. As soon as the news came out, everyone was shocked. The rising sun has just become "brutal masculine", and everyone is wondering, why is this happening?
The entertainment industry is full of talents, and the rising sun has soon become a grain of sand in the entertainment industry, some people say that they have long been dissolved, and some people say that they have returned to the underground passage of Beijing again. After so many years, where has the sun-set masculinity gone?
Wang Xu and Liu Gang are authentic peasant singers. Before becoming popular, Wang Xu moved bricks and also poured fruits, and Wang Xu, who loved music, also formed a band with several like-minded friends. The band is not famous, so Wang Xu can only look for job opportunities everywhere on his own.
After his son was born, Wang Xu felt that he could no longer be so mixed. So Wang Xu packed up his things and went back to his hometown to grow fruit. Growing fruit is a lot of work in the early stage, and Wang Xu did not finish it. In 2000, Wang Xu came to Beijing to work as a boilermaker.
In the next ten years, Wang Xu did many kinds of work. The only constant is the musical dream that he has never forgotten. Every weekend, he would run to the underground passage in Beijing, pick up the guitar and sing, and at the end of the day, when he was lucky, he could make a lot of money.
In the underground passage in Beijing, he and Liu Gang, a singer from the North Drift, met. Liu Gang was much younger than Wang Xu. When he was in the army, Liu Gang often performed guitar playing and singing to his comrades-in-arms, which was very popular with his comrades-in-arms. After being demobilized and returning home, Liu Gang was unwilling to farm, so he simply came to the city to work, walked around for a long time, and could not find the job he wanted. He became a wandering singer in the underground passage.
Liu Gang sang in the underground passage, which made him ridiculed by many people for not doing his job. Relatives and friends also said that singing is not a serious thing, is it not good to honestly find a job? But Liu Gang insisted on going his own way, carrying his guitar and shuttling through the underground passages in Beijing.
Both are farmers, Wang Xu came out to work for so many years, did a lot of dirty work, but finally did not make much money, the income of wandering singers is very unstable, Wang Xu and Liu Gang, there are too many similarities. Two frustrated people walked together, and the more they talked, the more speculative they became.
In the underground passage, the two often sang together, occasionally partyed in the rental house, and sang a paragraph from time to time. At some point in 2010, they loved to sing Wang Feng's "In The Spring". Wang Feng's "In the Spring" actually sings about his own past experiences and perceptions of life, the unique "hoarse singing method" makes this song more singing, and Wang Xu's voice has also experienced vicissitudes.
In the cluttered and cramped rental house, the bare-chested man sang of his past years of numbness and uneasiness. As soon as the video was transmitted to the Internet, it received a high number of hits in a short period of time. Netizens all said that from Wang Xu's singing, they seemed to see themselves.
In this way, Wang Xu and Liu began to become popular. In October 2010, "I Love to Remember the Lyrics" invited Wang Xu and Liu Gang to participate in the show, on the stage, Wang Xu and Liu Gang sang "In the Spring" again, after listening to the singing of the two, some people stood up and applauded, and some people once shed tears. This is the first time that rising sun masculinity has officially appeared in the public eye. In the next two months, Rising Sun just participated in the recording of "Walk of Fame", and finally won the second place in the annual finals.
In this way, the rising sun had just spent four months, and the red was all over the country. He also won the Spring Festival Gala of that year, and as a "migrant worker group", he sang the famous work "In The Spring" on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala.
By singing "In the Spring", he became popular, and the rising sun masculine seemed to have mastered the wealth code, and sang this song in different fields many times. And the audience also ate this set, if the rising sun does not sing one day, the audience is not used to it. The masculine sun also attracted Wang Feng's attention. At the beginning, Wang Feng admired the masculinity of the rising sun, so at the end of 2010, Wang Feng invited the rising sun to come to his concert and sing "In the Spring" with himself.
During that time, rising sun masculinity was very sought after by netizens, plus once went to the Spring Festival Gala, for a time, the commercial value of rising sun masculinity also rose with the water, and the business performance was soft. It is rumored on the Internet that Rising Sun just sang on stage for five minutes and was able to take 200,000.
At this time, the original song of "In the Spring", Wang Feng was not happy: "In the Spring" is my original song, and the rising sun just makes money by singing my songs, have you asked my opinion?
Therefore, not long after the Spring Festival Gala, Wang Feng gave an "ultimatum" to the rising sun: you are not allowed to sing "In Spring" again!
Isn't it just a song, Wang Feng? Many people said that Wang Feng's behavior was deliberately suppressing migrant worker singers and killing the dreams of migrant worker singers, and Wang Feng was too cruel to do so. Most of them carried out a one-sided attack on Wang Feng. Wang Feng felt very wronged, and soon, Wang Feng wrote a 5,000-word long article to respond to everyone's views on the "ban on singing" incident.
Wang Feng told everyone that the masculine sun is popular, he was very happy at the beginning, in order to support the rising sun masculinity, Wang Feng specially invited the rising sun masculinity and himself to sing "In the Spring" together at the concert. However, at that time, he told the rising sun that "always singing other people's things will not last long."
However, Rising Sun Yanggang ignored his advice and continued to rely on the cover of "In Spring" to earn gold. Nowadays, rising sun masculine behavior of making money by singing "In the Spring" has hurt the interests of itself and the company, the company and investors will not ignore it, and its copyright should also be respected.
Afterwards, Xu Ri Yanggang deliberately released a video to apologize to Wang Feng, saying that Wang Feng was a benefactor in his career and would not sing "In Spring" in the future.
If you don't sing "In the Spring", what should the rising sun do? During that time in 2011, Wang Xu and Liu Gang contacted lyricists they knew in the circle to write songs for themselves, and on the other hand, they also began to try to create their own original songs.
Originality is a difficult road, Wang Xu's education is not high, usually reading books and newspapers is OK, but in terms of creation, his culture is a bit "stretched". However, with the help of the big guy, Wang Xu finally made up a few songs. However, these songs are not as good as "In the Spring" in terms of playback, and after being put on the market, the splash is not large.
There are many grassroots stars in the entertainment industry, such as the actor we are all familiar with, Wang Baoqiang. Wang Baoqiang has always been very low-key in the entertainment industry, rarely appearing, most of the time is also for the promotion of works. But the rising sun masculinity is different, after the popularity of the rising sun masculinity many times because of a variety of negative news appeared on the Internet, many people who once supported the sun masculinity said: the rising sun masculinity Is forgotten.
After being banned from singing by Wang Feng, Rising Sun Masculine gained the sympathy of many people. There is a lot of attention, and there are many people who want to interview the masculine sun. At the beginning of 2011, some netizens broke the news that Rising Sun Masculinity is really unscrupulous in order to make money, others are commercial performances to ask for money, only Rising Sun Masculinity, to accept interviews but also to collect money.
But Rising Sun Masculine said that this was nonsense and did not care. At that time, there were also many voices questioning the identity of the Masculine Migrant Workers in the Rising Sun. Along with the super popularity, there are also many troubles in the masculine sun.
In order to better carry out various performance work, Rising Sun Mason signed a contract with a brokerage company. Unlike other combinations, Xu Ri Yanggang signed different brokerage companies, for convenience, Wang Xu invited his sister to be the agent, and Liu Gang also hired professionals to take charge of his own performance career.
Seeing the masculine work arrangement of the rising sun, netizens were shocked, obviously it is a combination, why sign two companies? This adds a lot of credibility to the "dissolution of the rising sun masculinity", and many people have begun to sing about the decline of the rising sun masculinity.
In February of the same year, Liu Gang drove an Audi car home from work, and someone found that Liu Gang not only blocked the car's number plate, but also drove all the way and constantly grabbed the red light. After the matter was exposed, Liu Gang apologized to the public in time, but everyone's perception of Liu Gang was still a lot worse.
As a result, half a year later, Liu Gang and his Audi car had another accident. When Liu Gang was driving out of the community, he was dissatisfied with the old people on the road who walked too slowly and honked their horns wildly. After coming and going, he quarreled with the old people, and finally Liu Gang opened the trunk and took the steel pipe, intending to beat people.
Soon, Liu Gang said that this was a slander against himself, because he did not beat people with steel pipes at all, and if he really hit people, the community monitoring should have a record.
Wang Xu's side was not peaceful either. After the rising sun just became red, many crews also found them. At that time, Wang Xu had verbally agreed with the producer Wang Tong to participate in the movie "Just Playing", in order to show his sincerity, Wang Tong deliberately left the theme song of the movie to Xu Ri Yang gang to sing.
Who knew that when the shooting was approaching, Wang Xu said that the rising sun had just not come, and no matter how Wang Tong invited it, it was useless. Wang Tong said that wang xu was mainly blamed for this matter, because Wang Xu was old and Liu Gang listened to Wang Xu.
It is buying a luxury car again, violating traffic rules, not keeping good faith, and being publicly criticized by the other party. The reputation of rising sun masculinity began to decline because of these events. They seem to have no grassroots singer's simplicity and kindness, so many people say that the rising sun just has money and then floats.
Rising Sun Yang just started, separately signed different agents, many people said, it is over, Rising Sun Yang just about to disband. But later, the two said many times that they would not disband, and as long as the audience needed it, the two people would stand together and continue to bring the performance of the "Rising Sun Masculine" group to the audience.
That being said, Wang Xu and Liu Gang, the brothers who formed temporarily, most of the time, still do their own work. Liu Gang hitched a ride with music producer Gao Jin, and in 2018, he launched his own musical work "Missing Youth", which caused quite a stir at the time, but because there was no follow-up marketing, Liu Gang fell silent again.
Wang Xu is more business-minded, on the one hand, he opened his own short video platform account, often interacting with fans, on the other hand, he occasionally receives some commercial performances, according to his own words, a performance is about a "double digit" start.
The gathering is a fire, and the scattering is full of stars. Unlike other singing groups, even if they fly alone, the two can rely on guitar and singing voice to have their own world. To put it bluntly, the age gap between the two is too large, each has its own family, the birth of "Rising Sun Masculinity" itself is the product of accidents, and the relationship between Wang Xu and Liu Gang is not as strong as we think.
In March 2021, the "Walk of Fame" launched a nostalgic special, and as the former runner-up, Rising Sun Masculin was also invited. But offstage, when everyone got together to drink, Wang Xu and Liu Gang did not choose to sit together. After so many years, Wang Xu has become a vicissitudes man with two sideburns and some white spots, while Liu Gang is no longer young.
In the future, can we still see the masculine combination of the rising sun? Will the two men who once became popular on the Internet bring us more works?