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Now that we're in that state, any nostalgia resonates. As long as you can integrate into the collective and slide into the past, you must rush.
In the Wang Xinling boom in the past few days, the most intimate is a "chorus" related to nucleic acid. Wang Xinling on the right side of the screen is sweet and crisp, and the vest man on the left is like a middle-aged male star who has been blessed. The male vocal part sings today's world, and the female voice stays in 2004. The picture is like a metaphor: "The Sweetheart Master" is not old, not worn down by time, not defeated by strife. She refused to change. After all kinds of transformations failed, Wang Xinling was relieved to stay in the shell that suited her best, crystal clear, snow white and pink, bright eyes, and curved eyelashes.
Wang Xinling on the first stage of "Riding the Wind and Waves"
The otaku danced Wang Xinling's song against the screen. Eighteen years later, otaku are generally fat, and sweethearts are still eternally young. A hint of bitterness overflowing from the video, a distant greeting to Wang Xinling's positioning when he debuted: bitter, stubborn, and introverted. When the record company first planned, she probably thought that this girl must look good in tears on the screen.
Not every celebrity is suitable for revealing the inner color of the personality. If Wang Xinling had to be positioned in this way, she would have a difficult foothold in the Chinese music scene at that time. Stubborn and introverted, Xu Ruyun is better than her, because Xu's heart is stable and can be fully expressed through singing. In terms of stubbornness and strength, Sun Yanzi has achieved the ultimate, and her freedom and self will not be bent by any external force. Introverted and bitter, there is Xu Meijing, and her singing voice does not need to be added by her own sad story, it is already a cup of mellow coffee.
Ai Hui Records quickly turned the gun head to find the best angle for Wang Xinling to compete in the difference - high school uniform and cute dance. The aesthetic of white, thin girls has long prevailed in East Asia. Wang Xinling, who sang and danced "Love You", was like an anime girl, jumping and jumping beyond reality. She was as thin as a paper man, her milky halo enveloping her, and her hands and feet seemed to break when they touched. She actually danced very well, but deliberately added jerkiness. The uniformed girl played by Wang Xinling is far from reality, full of spring love but not vulgar. The clear voice is her big advantage, the crisp wind chimes and the sweetness of the high sugar song.
Album cover of Love You (2004).
In terms of East Asia's preference for white skinny children, the star-making movement in Taiwan is the most prominent and single. Japan and South Korea also have spicy or sexy, Hong Kong has cool and ghost horses, Yang Yuying from the mainland has a natural warmth, and the sweetness of treasure island is sweet. In addition to Wang Xinling, Taiwanese actresses known for their mixed young girls include Xu Huaiyu and Fan Xiaoxuan. The latter two sang children's songs to sweep through the Chinese-speaking area, and the rebellion of various careers and lives after the fame period conformed to the law of growth. Only ten years later than ordinary people, the retaliation is more violent and persistent.
In the era when they became popular, few people questioned the sense of national support for girls. The public has a kind of innocence, fully accepting the good songs sung by cute little girls, and broadcasting them on the radio, shopping malls and streets. The cruel side, such as the impact of a single aesthetic on non-white skinny girls (making them feel unbeautiful in adolescence), is basically not thought of.
"Sweetheart" is an eternal need for emotion. Every country has its own national sweetheart, and every mentally healthy person is happy to see a real sweetheart. But because we don't want to help it become the main benchmark for women, although we still love and need the comfort of sweetness in our hearts, this category is gradually selling as a recreational product.
Album cover of Cyndi with U (2005).
To discuss the two labels of "sweetheart" and "big heroine", it will involve the social model that human society has continued for thousands of years, and the topic is too big. Just to say that from the new millennium to the present more than two decades, the global discussion of women's issues has squeezed the living space of sweethearts, and also labeled it as flattering, utilitarian, brainless, weak, childish and other negative labels. There are truths and falsehoods and exaggerations, so that the sweetheart is hurt, and it is no longer as carefree and rational as before. Simple sweet can not be sold, processing into "sweet cool" "salt can be sweet" a little better, just like sea salt flavored ice cream can not be tired of eating, sweet is easy to be suspected.
Wang Xinling has not completely retired in the past twenty years, nor has he been able to continue the glory of his career. After the era of sweethearts passed, she was in a good state, cherished herself, had setbacks (and there were stories), and returning to the eye in "Riding the Wind and Waves" was the result of precision marketing. It is also the result of the times passing through a round, changing a perspective, and making the bitterness sweet again.
Shi Feng had helped Wang Xinling and hurt her again, and now he was turning to her again. The bad love affairs that Wang Xinling repeatedly exposed when she became popular pushed her career off a cliff. The revelations of a certain boyfriend after many years of breakup are selfish, violent, obscene, and cold, which is disgusting. Unfortunately, the public opinion environment at that time did not give her room to fight back. If the same thing were happening today, actresses/sexes wouldn't have hit the streets so thoroughly.
Wang Xinling did not get any right to speak at that time, and the company could not tell her story in a way because of the general environment. And the crowd is always falling behind, accustomed to staying away from those who have been insulted and betrayed. It seems that misfortune is also an infectious disease, and a little closer will lead to bad luck.
If it happens today, Wang Xinling can choose to publicly condemn her predecessor's incorruptibility and shame, and there will be indignant people to support her. It doesn't matter if you keep falling in love, it's the glory of the new era for love obsession, and the applause won by Big S in two marriages is proof. Cold people can't be sweethearts, because they can't exude love across the screen and bring happiness to lonely people.
The "sweetheart" of the entertainment industry is difficult to do, requiring that person to have more awareness of "dreams" than other peers. The slightest mistake will make a particularly miserable fall. Sweetheart is an abstract concept, a fierce and despotic God. It requires that the human entity that realizes it is immaculate, unworldly, and flawless. Love can be talked about, but sex can't be, and hints can't be.
In a slightly more relaxed culture, sweethearts can be affectionate, but they also come at a cost, like Britney Spears. The amorous big sweetheart Taylor Swift is safe in the Dark Arrow Because she can create and tell her own story. So of all the versions of gossip, it's always her authoritative version that's the strongest. The sweetheart who can tell her own story has the opportunity to get rid of the god who controls her and realize her own dream while becoming the dream of others.
The return is still sweetheart
In the days of staying at home, Wang Xinling was needed again. Because after her, the sweetheart is no longer there, but the sweetheart is always needed. Yang Chaoyue counts as one, but the work is not. Unlike Wang Xinlingsheng, when the creativity of the Chinese music scene is strong, the red songs one after another can last for a concert for twenty years.
Writing this, I suddenly remembered Hamasaki Step. Toei Sect Leader Ayumi Hamasaki, popular, changeable, trendy, evergreen Kahime. She is the dream of thousands of people. Like those sweethearts, she couldn't realize her truest dreams.
What happened to the later Ayumi Hamasaki? It turned out that the Japanese media was also ruthless, writing that she was fat, deaf, deaf, and had children out of wedlock, and wrote about a person's illness and state as shame. Ayumi Hamasaki, unlike other Singers, chose to retire at an opportune time. She defies the Japanese desire of the waterfall girl to end her youth at its most brilliant. She was also singing on tour and writing memoirs. She should also believe that as long as she sings endlessly, she can "carry the dream of her lover and move forward together" in this way.
As long as you are strong enough, the wind of the times can only blow your hair and blow your feet. Hopefully, the Sweetheart Sect Master can too.
Senior Editor of this issue Zhou Yuhua