Source: A woman with a scented soul
The pictures in this article are selected from Liu Meihan's relevant pictures, all from the Network.
GQ has a column dedicated to interviewing frustrated people in the entertainment industry.
It is said that the invitation to guests was particularly unsuccessful, because few stars were willing to admit that they were "frustrated". Liu Meihan is the only artist who took the initiative to sign up for the whole season of the show.
Whether the name feels strange or not, she is indeed an "old" entertainer.
The peers of the post-90s, the parents and friends of the post-00s, she is the black magic fairy Yan Lili in "Balala Little Magic Fairy".
She also participated in 2009's Happy Girls, which ended up in 15th place.
But he soon became the C of the girl idol group I Me, and had a hit single "Oops".
▲ Looking at it now, the whole makeup is a bit hot-eyed
Can't remember? I don't believe (Lu Yu face), you must have seen this familiar face in some popular dramas -
The representative of the Japanese study group who visited Zhenhua Middle School in "The Best of Us" can speak fluent Japanese;
"No Tears in the North" pesters Zhu Yawen's little third, flirtatious and innocent white-collar beauty Liang Yi;
There is also the yunni county lord in the "Great Song Youth Chronicle".
Compared with the really depressed stars, she is the denominator who accounts for a larger proportion in this circle, with works, business capabilities, and some work, but she has not waited to break out.
Liu Meihan is 30 years old this year, if you include her in the group of child stars, Yang Zi, who once cooperated in "Girl's Diary", has become the leader of the new generation of small flowers, and Liu Meihan's current coffee position is different from yun mud.
Taking out her idol and girl group identity to talk about things, "Creation 101" and "Youth with You" and other rising stars almost monopolized the major variety shows and reality shows, and the resources she got that year were not at the same level at all.
From the perspective of an actor, she does not seem to have any popular luck. Before the start of "Fifteen Years of Waiting for Migratory Birds", the five main actors were still small and transparent, and when it came to airing, "except for me, the other four have all soared."
▲Zhang Ruoyun, Sun Yi, Zhang Xueying, Deng Lun
The real frustration is not that there is no big hit, but that Liu Meihan blurted out the sentence "born at the wrong time" when talking about these experiences, which is the unwillingness of "I could have been".
At that time, Tianyu Company made a singing and dancing girl group in the environment without idol soil, and sent several girls to South Korea for training for three months, training for 16 hours a day.
After returning to China, I did briefly become popular and appeared in major evenings and award ceremonies, but it was short-lived, and it was short-lived and went to dissolution in just two years.
That was when the Hallyu wave was booming in China, and I Me was considered by many viewers to be copying Girls' Generation, f(x), and constantly swearing. Who can think that ten years later, the women's group ushered in a big outbreak in China, and Yu Shuxin's resources soared precisely because of their participation in the women's group draft.
And I Me Even at its peak, all the song royalties are added together and then divided into individuals, but more than 2300 yuan. The title song "Oops" Even if the number of CRBT downloads is amazing, Liu Meihan only got 72 pieces of share.
It can be said that this fantasy idol experience did not bring her any material wealth accumulation.
Liu Meihan also mentioned a detail that the agency company issued a policy around 2013: if the artist's income standard for that year did not reach 120,000 yuan, it was allowed to automatically terminate the contract, "I don't know if it is fortunate or unfortunate, it has reached this standard."
This number, I am afraid, will refresh many people's income filter for idols.
If frustration has an indicator to calculate, then income must be the first measure.
Another guest of the "League of The Frustrated", Duan Linxi, the national champion of "Happy Girl" in 2011, introduced his current income status:
"Some months I may not have a penny, better months, such as last month, I made 80,000 yuan, removed the various costs of the maintenance team, paid the rent, and now my disposable income is about 10,000 yuan." I, an ordinary 30-year-old north drift worker, rented a 42-square-bay room near Shuangqiao for a month to rent 3300 yuan, went out to the subway, taxi only checked the special express and carpool, fortunately, it was really mushy enough, no one recognized me. ”
"My dad recently especially wanted to change the mobile phone, just in the family group knocked on the side and said, Oh, this mobile phone is too stuck, if you change to Apple, how good it would be." I originally gritted my teeth and wanted to buy it for him, but my sister-in-law beat me, you can count you, just these tens of thousands of dollars of savings, there will be a time when there will be urgent matters in the future! I think it is also, I will not install a large amount of money, and give my father a change of three or four thousand. ”
——Excerpt from GQ Labs "Fast Female Champion, Monthly Salary of 8,000"
And her good friend, the same fast girl Li Sidani, because of participating in "Sister Lang" to achieve a flip, variety shows, evening parties, advertising shooting, the itinerary rushed to busy.
In March alone, her Weibo has successively updated the cooperation with the big brands LANVIN and SK-II, and has officially announced that she has become a close friend of YSL beauty brands.
As Duan Linxi said, "We have witnessed each other's most depressed appearance, but after she is now popular again, I watch her make a lot of money and move to a bigger house." ”
The physiological jealousy generated by this contrast cannot be avoided by anyone.
▲ There are not many fan jobs, which means that the artists are not red, and Li Sidani's fans have begun to sort out the itinerary and business resources of the main owner on a monthly basis
However, such a resource pie as "Sister Lang" is definitely not something that can be obtained if you want to fight for it. Liu Meihan interviewed "Sister Lang 3", which was being recorded in full swing, but was brushed off during the interview session.
▲ She also @ the official blog on Weibo, saying that she wanted to fight for herself again
Some people say that she openly shouted at the program group, which seemed very ambitious. But the competition among artists is so fierce, we interviewed a well-known producer in the circle, she said that fighting for opportunities is a routine operation of artists and actors, and she has seen all kinds of ways to sell herself.
Once casting, an actor was in the play from the moment he entered the door, from eating to communicating, using the tone and state of the people in the play throughout the whole process, and after a meal was eaten, the producer decided on the spot. That's her.
There are not so many opportunities that can be won on their own. "Southern Weekend" has sorted out the way of the first sisters in 2020, of which 23 have deep or shallow friendships with Hunan Satellite TV, and the interests of major brokerage companies and the program itself are also complicated.
But taking ten thousand steps back, not all the sisters participating in the show can turn red, and "fast girl" Jiang Yingrong was interviewed by the "Frustrated Alliance" after participating in "Sister Lang".
▲ Her strength in the show is obvious to all, but she was eliminated after the fourth gong because of her low popularity
In fact, in the line of artists, changes always occur overnight.
When Ni Hongjie was interviewed by the "League of the Frustrated", "Love Myth" had not yet been released, and the reporter asked her, the impressive role was still stuck in "Wishing Peerless", what was the feeling?
However, "Love Myth" has a very good reputation, Ni Hongjie played Gloria's enthusiasm and boldness into three points, and she has one more role to remember.
Wu Moxuan has disappeared from the entertainment industry for 3 years when she was interviewed, and the outside world is speculating that she was eliminated by capital and banned by the market. However, this year, she appeared in the variety show "The Band of Flashes", and there have been several songs on the stage of a certain sound brush screen.
People come and go, the tide rises and falls, and many times the test is the mentality.
It is quite absurd to say that the name #Liu Meihan has recently been on the hot search, or because of her "frustration".
First, some netizens went to peking university graduate student interviews, met Liu Meihan by chance, and then shared it with the Douban group. Then some enthusiastic netizens shared her Peking University interview results, and directly rushed to the first place in the Weibo entertainment hot search list.
Liu Meihan is indeed a bully, in 2009, she got a guaranteed place in two colleges and universities in Beiwai and Wuhan University, and finally graduated from Beiwai Japanese major.
She said that acting is a very passive profession, mastering a new skill, learning some new knowledge, and maybe fighting for more possibilities for her future, so she chose to go to graduate school.
Peking University's directing major is to interview first and then take the written test, she interviewed with a high score of 92.4, got the fourth place score, but folded in the written test (in fact, the score of 348 points is not bad).
Liu Meihan, who fell off the list, this time is a fierce empathy with the 4.57 million candidates who suffered the most difficult year of examination and research.
In the spring of 2022, the number of fresh graduates from mainland universities exceeded 10 million for the first time, and they also faced a particularly difficult year, and the major Internet factories shrank their recruitment, so the number of graduate students and public examinations increased sharply.
According to the Ministry of Education, the number of graduate students applying for this year is 4.57 million, and the total enrollment of major colleges and universities is about 1.1 million, that is to say, there will be more than 3 million people who will fail to apply for the examination.
Liu Meihan is one of them.
I remembered that in the comments section of her program, many hot comments said that seeing the efforts of an "ordinary girl" in the entertainment industry showed the struggle and confusion of ordinary people in life.
Liu Meihan does have a lot of ordinary people's looks.
For example, in order to force herself to write exam papers, she formulated the rule of studying for two hours and playing half an hour to eliminate entertainment - the results are still remarkable, "In the end, my entertainment has passed 1243 levels", like you who work hard while touching the fish.
For example, on April Fool's Day, she tweeted "I! finally! Yes! boyfriend! finish!!! The theme of the match is "one person, one sentence back talk contest", like you who are eager to fall in love and enjoy being single.
Very real, very healing.
For another example, the worse the external environment, the more eager to grasp something stable, choose to go to graduate school, and update themselves from the cognitive level. She said:
But what I can be sure of is that learning is at least a life jacket. Before the tide recedes, although I don't know where I will eventually go, and I don't know how much what I am doing in the moment can help my life, it can ensure that I have the ability to water, drift, and even fight against the waves.
One day, the tide will take me in the direction I should.
Such a mentality has allowed her to bear the frustration and unwillingness of these years. I believe that I can also take her to a farther and better place.
After all, some seeds planted more than a decade ago will not germinate until more than a decade later.
Under the epidemic situation, surrounded by anxiety and powerlessness, we should plant some seeds with our hearts and wait for them to sprout and blossom together.