The entertainment industry in 2021 seems to be too "exciting". Netizens who have watched a variety of strange "collapsed houses" have ushered in a new "bomb" in the last month of this year.
Wang Lihong, a well-known singer, announced his divorce on Weibo on December 15, saying that he and his wife "have different ideas about their future lifestyle" and decided to live separately, saying that "an application has been filed" has been made.
Two days later, her ex-wife Li Lianglei sent a long complaint against Wang Lihong, pointing out that Wang Lihong was cold and violent, his private life was chaotic, and there were acts of cheating and prostitution. As soon as the long article was issued, it caused a shock in public opinion,
In just a few days, the two sides have "fought" twice on the social platform, and in the end, Wang Lihong finally lowered his noble head under the heavy blow of public opinion and the hammer of the "Lei" god, and apologized to his parents, children and Li Lianglei, but the aftershocks caused by this will probably continue for some time.
The mask of "quality idol"
A brief review of the incident.
On December 15, Taiwan media broke the news of Wang Lihong's divorce, and Wang Lihong's agent responded that according to his understanding, there was no divorce at all. On the afternoon of the same day, Wang Lihong posted a blog admitting that he had applied for divorce with Li Lianglei. However, this news did not spark much online discussion at first. Over the years, the public has witnessed too many celebrity divorce news, and it has long been strange.
On December 17, a long complaint by "ex-wife" Li Lianglei directly plunged Wang Lihong's long-standing perfect image into the abyss. In Li Lianglei's mouth, Wang Lihong's private life is chaotic, compared with the "high-quality idol" in the past, the ex-wife can be described as a "scum".
Subsequently, public opinion shook.
First of all, a description of the heterosexual intervention in her and Wang Lihong's marital relationship in the long text was compared with the details of the netizens who ate melons, and was considered to be yumi, a member of the twin idol group By2. But soon, By2 Studio directly denied the rumor on the official Weibo, saying that "language will kill people" and posted an alarm receipt.
But Li Lianglei showed her tough attitude at the first time, she directly forwarded a reply to By2 on Weibo, saying that she would let her inform the police of the contact information, and she would provide evidence. Literally, this is undoubtedly a personal confirmation that the parties to this episode described in their long article are indeed members of By2.
Just when netizens have opened the "Sherlock Holmes mode" and li Lianglei's long text has deeply pickpocketed Wang Lihong's past behavior, Wang Lihong's father can't sit still.
On December 19, Father Wang issued a handwritten letter, hoping that netizens would evaluate objectively. Li Lianglei was accused of relying on pregnancy to "ascend to the throne" and said that Wang Lihong "absolutely did not cheat during this period." On the same day, Li Lianglei issued a long text in response to Wang's father's handwritten letter, and called on Wang Lihong to publicly apologize to her before three o'clock in the afternoon of the same day.
During the fermentation period of the incident, Infiniti Automobile, which had just been officially announced by Wang Lihong for less than 36 hours, announced the termination of its contract with it. Shu Shulang and Zhou Dashengye successively published blogs to terminate their cooperative relationship with Wang Lihong.
Wang Lihong, who was at the center of the storm, appeared at the Beijing airport early on the 18th, and did not respond on Weibo until 11:00 p.m. on December 19, saying that "for 5 years and 8 months, I lived under fear, blackmail and threats." But judging from the comments under Weibo, netizens don't seem to buy it.
Li Lianglei posted a long post at 1:00 a.m. on December 20, and said at the end that her reply was "unfinished to be continued."
Later, at noon on December 20, Wang Lihong finally apologized on Weibo. After Wang Lihong's official apology, Li Lianglei also said that she would not sue Wang Lihong and his father again.
A smooth star path
In the 26 years since his debut, Wang Lihong has a handsome appearance, graduated from a famous foreign school, and his musical works are popular among the population, and he has always been a "musical talent" and "perfect idol" in the hearts of the public.
After the incident, Zhuo Wei recalled in the circle of friends that in 2016, Zhuo Wei had exposed the video of Wang Lihong's night meeting and suspected of summoning prostitutes, but due to the lack of key evidence, coupled with the consistent impression of "perfect idol", the public always had a high level of trust in him, and Wang Lihong "easily passed with a fake news".
Only this time, from the current public feedback, the so-called "perfect idol" has finally appeared in its original form in the face of the naked truth.
Wang Lihong has a prominent family lineage: his great-grandfather Xu Fengzao was a well-known Admiral in China, who contributed to the Wuchang Uprising, and his grandmother Xu Liufen graduated from the Department of Economics of Tsinghua University and served as the director of the General Department of the Taipei Chamber of Commerce. Wang Lihong's "peer pressure" is not small - his brother was admitted to Harvard University but did not want to go, and finally chose Yale University, his brother SAT full score, the family every day to paste the full score of the file on the wall, remind Wang Lihong. Many fans have also joked: "Wang Lihong is the person who has not shown up in the family." ”
In such a family background, "making music" is not the right way, but Wang Lihong still embarked on this road. In 1995, Wang Lihong signed a contract with Fumao Records and officially debuted with "Love Enemy Beethoven" produced by Li Shouquan. In the following albums, his singing voice is very obviously imitating Jacky Cheung.
In 1998, he signed a contract with Global Sony Music and launched the album "Rotation", from song selection, lyrics and composition, arrangement and singing, to envelope photography and music video shooting, Wang Lihong personally participated in the production.
Album cover of "Rotational Rotation"
"Rotation" allowed Wang Lihong to gain a firm foothold in the music world. With the popularity of this album, Wang Lihong stepped out of Taiwan and began to become popular in Hong Kong, mainland China, Singapore, Malaysia and other places, and won many awards in Various Places in Asia, the most important of which was that he won the "Best Male Singer" and "Best Album Producer Award" at the 10th Golden Melody Awards with this album.
Subsequently, Wang Lihong successively launched "It is Impossible to Miss You" (including a cover of his uncle's "Descendants of the Dragon"), as well as "The Only" ("The Only" later became a golden song), and participated in the 2002 CCTV Spring Festival Gala, joining the 2000-2005 "Immortal Fight" in the Chinese music scene.
During the period from 2001 to 2005, Wang Lihong almost always released records and almost always sat in the championship position in the quarter. In addition to sales, he is also well recognized in authoritative awards, from 2001 to 2009, he was nominated for the Golden Melody Award every year, and won the "Best Album Producer Award" in 2004 and the "Best Chinese Male Singer" in 2006. Become a well-deserved brother of Taiwan's Sony Records.
In addition to music, Wang Lihong's good appearance also adds a lot of points to him. Noble people help each other, born at the right time, talent and appearance, fame and fortune This is a perfect idol, all the way to the first ten years of his debut.
Idol collapses
By the end of 2021, if you want to say that Wang Lihong caught up with anything, it may be the last train of the "first year of the collapse".
The label of "high-quality idol" has been solidified on Wang Lihong for a long time. Although Wang Lihong once confessed in an interview that he did not want to be a perfect idol, under the ups and downs of the entertainment industry for so many years, he himself seemed to have long understood that the "perfect" presented to the outside world was an absolute safety card. As a result, in the eyes of the outside world, such a "perfect" Wang Lihong, when exposed to a series of scandals such as "summoning prostitutes", "cheating" and "cold violence", the reputation caused by the collapse was even more violent. In the face of the biggest image crisis since his debut (perhaps until now in his life), Wang Lihong, who is the popular king, finally suffered a huge public opinion reaction.
As a public figure, while gaining great fame and wealth, he is already doomed to bear this kind of blow that he will suffer if he violates the mainstream values of society, and from this point of view, Wang Lihong is not wronged at all. Moreover, almost all of his ex-wife's accusations against him can be found by netizens to corroborate.
Behind the netizens who have attacked Wang Lihong's behavior and the brand's first choice to leave the relationship with Wang Lihong, it is actually the influence of mainstream values on everyone. What is certain is that a celebrity with such an influence as Wang Lihong suffered a "collapse", and he will certainly not soon get out of this whirlpool.
In this incident, the only easy one is probably the old meme of Wahaha. Previously, because Zong Fuli "did not like", Wahaha chose to replace Wang Lihong, who had endorsed Wahaha for twenty years, which affected Zong Fuli to become an unqualified successor in many people. But this kind of discussion also magically ushered in a reversal through Wang Lihong's collapse, and some netizens have said that Zong Fuli, who has succeeded Wahaha's new vice chairman and general manager, is quite discerning, "the whole network owes her an apology."
In addition to ridicule, we should also have more rational discussion and thinking in this matter.
Looking back on the whole incident, we have to admire Li Lianglei's wisdom and courage, she was calm and calm, rational and restrained, thoughtful, accurate to attack, did not exhaust the bottom, did not make unreasonable trouble, just listed evidence, restored the events, directly hit the key, smashed lies, so that Wang Lihong was simply powerless.
But if she did not make up her mind to stand up and tear it all up, the target of today's Internet violence is likely to be herself.
Thinking about it this way, the battle of public opinion is also a high risk for even the ex-wife of a star. And the divorce public opinion war, after all, it is difficult to have a winner.
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