"Participating Role" is a song whose core is not in my favorite category, but the whole song is within my aesthetic category. The best thing is that Wang Yuan, with his advanced artistic expression ability, described the reason why I didn't like it more clearly than myself.
It's a crush song that's so hilarious that I didn't realize there were only 8 sentences until I read the lyrics specifically. 8 sentences illustrate 2 perspectives and depict 4 emotional highlights. The expression is ridiculously effective.
The song is said to be hilarious because there is an audience in the song who "doesn't know if it is real, but it seems to be real".
Before the MV came out, when I listened to the song, I remembered a Korean group that had chased me, a group with life and death. Why did you think of Han Entertainment? Because the beginning of "Participating Roles" can correspond to a famous saying in the Korean circle - "The story starts with the blue sky and white clouds, you know I'm not talking about weather 1", and my group really has no beginning and end at the end of the story.
Ah, it's been more than ten years.
In some difficult moments, as a fan, I really need to piece together clues, I really need to hide in the corner of the Internet, I will indeed have emotions in some nights, and I will indeed see the same nostalgic eyes of members many years later, in some moments involving the past, in the sea of people, only we are far away, and the heart is indeed separated by the camera, and the next second is indeed nothing, who knows what is true.
The core of "Participating Characters" is not in my favorite category, because the song is well written and there are only a few strokes that depict regrets. And these regrets, when I listened to the song when I switched to the perspective of the party, stabbed me hard.
As an audience, I was so hateful and so necessary.
In my parting group, the presence of the audience made young people shine on the stage, and now I know that for some of them, stepping on the stage is not their choice, or rather, not their choice when they mature. The price of wrong choices is great, and every word in this noisy world is pressed with the loudest horn, and who in TM would have thought that the loudest thing in the world is a fly, not a lover? Young people persist because of the love of others, but they are drowned in the roar of insects.
At that time, I was too young. I didn't know at the time that if love wasn't expressed loudly enough, it would be drowned.
I didn't expect "Participating Characters" to have a MV. I didn't expect Xiaoyuan to point the audience's perspective.
The protagonist in the MV took off the coat that blocked Xiaoyuan's figure, hahahahaha, at that moment, I was crazy. How much I like to watch Xiaoyuan's broad shoulders and narrow waist after taking off his coat, how I understand that the protagonist is not easy. Even if I take care of myself, I will take care of the onlookers, as a melon-eating mass, how can I? I can't see weak people coming forward, they don't have to.
The protagonist takes off the audience's coat, allowing the audience to discover his broad-shouldered and narrow-waist; The protagonist used his own life experience to let me find myself among the onlookers.
Watch someone else's crush and understand your own heartbeat.
No matter how the people in the story end, I who have watched them, the probability of the end of the comedy is always greater than theirs, because I have the experience of watching and I am unlikely to repeat their mistakes. The protagonist is not necessarily lucky, but the audience always has something to gain, fun, knowledge or moving.
And Wang Yuan's gentleness and interestingness do not stop there.
In the MV of "Participating Characters", he gave an almost explicit happy ending to his crush, which is interesting, deep and real because it is detailed enough.
Detail 1: The protagonist does a lot of stupid things for the encounter, such as climbing up to the third floor and piling plastic stools in the corner of the first floor.
Detail 2: The protagonists behave normally in front of the audience, but judging from Yuan'er's body, they wear summer clothes in late autumn and early winter. Outsiders look normal and beautiful, only they themselves know, cold to death.
The most poking part for me is the part where the protagonist stands behind the audience Wang Yuan.
Wang Yuan, an enthusiastic audience, couldn't see the protagonists working hard, went into the pool to help, but didn't help, and the whole person was wet and miserable in the big autumn. And the protagonist, seeing the eagerness and loss of the audience, no longer pulls each other, leaving the venue for the audience, relieved behind the crowd, looking at each other, and then dancing harmoniously.
You are watching the view from the bridge
People watching the view are watching you upstairs
The bright moon decorates your windows
You decorate other people's dreams
——Bian Zhilin, "Out of Context"
This is a very ironed paragraph. Watching from the sidelines is not indifference, it may also be helpless, meddling, and may not necessarily change anything. Through the protagonist, the audience understands the hard work of the heartbeat; Through the audience, the protagonist understands that there is no need to work hard to get along. It is difficult to say clearly, the audience and the protagonist, who actually redeemed whom. I like Wang Yuan, because I also like HE, I can't afford the bitterness of BE, he will always pick up the sinking me in his works and send me a good ending.
"Participating Role", as the second main hit, caused far more controversy than "The Flowing Firefly to the End of Time", and I got some fun in the gossip post - "Who does Wang Yuan love?" "Who is this song for?" ——I didn't think that Wang Yuan could break the version trap - the orphan top stream this year.
The discussion atmosphere of this song brought me back to my adolescence. My adolescence happened to be the peak of the Chinese music scene, when gossip was flying, and musicians at that time had to cooperate even if the scandal exploded, or in other words, because of cooperation, there would be scandals. Now, the fan group most similar to the mentality of that era should be Xu Song's fans, they say, fall in love, write a few songs, break up and write a few songs, and write a few more songs when they get back together. New songs keep coming.
At this moment, I remember the erratic liveliness when I listened to the song, is there an audience in "Participating Roles"? In the crush, is there an audience? Crushes are obviously something that is carefully hidden. A crush, in most cases, is a secret that only one person in the world knows. Why does a crush have an audience?
If there is an audience, that audience, most likely the crush himself.
Watching your heart move, watching your emotions churn, watching yourself perform masterfully in every encounter, unfamiliar and unmoved. The eyes of the crush are the camera, capturing that person's every move, and if there is a close-up of the ta, that is why we are called a crush.
Only you will go through
The crowd looked at me
From this point of view, "Participating Role" is about a secret that only I know, because it is too grand, so I thought that the whole world was staring at me and had the audience. That secret is that I love you, and that secret is grand because I love you with my whole world.
Ah, what a crazy romance.
I like Wang Yuan, it's so good.
Author: Trish
Image: MV screenshot
Edit: Nuan Nuan