The second season of the conscience variety show "Time Concert" is back.
After many years, Adu reappeared in front of everyone.
In this situation, the whole network inner OS:
"Brother, you finally climbed out from under the car!"
As soon as he spoke, Fang Wenshan cried.
Netizens also burst into tears:
"As soon as he opened his mouth, there were memories."
Now Adu, fatter, hair shorter.
But as soon as his song sounds, it can still instantly pull people back in time.
How popular were his songs back then?
When the bell was on fire, people burst the hotline in order to set up his song.
Walking into a 2 yuan store, a black Internet café, a hair salon, you only need to stay for ten minutes, and when you come out, you hum his melody like a demon.
"When I close my eyes, it's dark, a tearing feeling"
Adu's first album, "Dark", in 2002, when he was unknown, set an astonishing record of 1.5 million sales in Asia.
Debut is the pinnacle.
Dark Music: Adu - Mellow Love Song
The title song of the same name made him an overnight hit.
This one has smooth ion hot hair and a real body. The ordinary man is like the purple microstar landing of the year.
"Just break these shoes, I will walk with you all night until your heart no longer drips blood, and you shed tears"
The bloody lyrics of these words made countless young and middle-aged people painful.
"I should be under the car, not in the car, see how sweet you guys are."
Another divine comedy from the same album, "He Must Love You Very Much", has now become a terrier and has been played badly by various games.
But this song was looped in a single on many people's tape recorders and walkmen.
For example, my cousin who played invincible (self-proclaimed) in all billiard halls in the county.
In fact, he is just like all the small-town youths in the billiard hall.
They smoked cheap cigarettes, hummed Adu's songs, and thought about girls they couldn't get.
At that time, there was no word "licking dogs", and emotional hurt was emotional hurt, and it was not a shame.
And I, at that time, understood what the song was singing.
I just like to lie in front of the TV series and wait to watch "Male Talent and Female Appearance".
The episode plays, the theme song sounds, and Lu Yi is waiting in the subway for a romantic encounter with Lin Xinru.
Back then, even children knew that this person named Adu was very hot.
In addition to Andy Lau, there is also Andy Do.
Lin Junjie is still the younger brother who runs behind Adu.
I still remember that year, traveling with the family of the dead party.
In the car I had to listen to SHE, and he insisted on listening to Adu.
In this way, the songs of SHE and Adu are played in turn throughout the trip.
Comparable to a pirate disc mix.
At that time, I felt ashamed to sing Adu's song.
In an age when everyone else sang "super star," it would be too corny to hum "I should be under the car."
He is not handsome and looks starless.
Known as low-end Zheng Yijian, it is probably his peak.
His throat of tobacco and alcohol was still full of crying, and he was suffocating.
For elementary school children, this is too mature; For the old man, it was just right.
And some Broken Mouths will joke that Adu's music is a "construction site love song".
In a word: too earthy.
That's right.
After all, he is from the mixed construction site.
There are traces of everything.
In Singapore in 1973, a child named Du Chengyi was born into a poor family.
To add insult to injury, he was young and fatherless, and all five children were raised by their mother alone.
His mother had to send him to his uncle's house.
Who would have thought that his uncle was an alcoholic and often abused Adu after drinking.
In this way, sensitivity and introversion accompanied him for almost a lifetime.
At the age of 15, Adu dropped out of school to work to support his family.
He entered the construction site and endured for 7 years to become a contract foreman.
At that time, Adu thought in his heart: God really treats me kindly.
He was grateful for the help of his friends and never complained about his situation.
Once he accompanied a friend to participate in the audition competition of Sea Butterfly, but he was unexpectedly appreciated by the judges and immediately signed with him.
What happened later, everyone knows -
The first album was a phenomenal hit.
At the age of 29, Adu completed his transformation from a contract foreman to a music superstar.
Everyone in the circle praised him as a late bloomer.
The success of the first album allowed Adu to sit firmly in the position of the first brother of the sea butterfly.
In the same year, the company non-stop prepared for his second album "Stay the Course".
"You let me see through this thing of life, four words: stick to the end"
The title song of the same name was written by the producer especially for Adu.
It is used to encourage him who is not confident, and also thanks to him for not being knocked down by the difficulties of life, and has been gritting his teeth and persevering.
The album exploded again, and everyone said:
Adu's next stop is the king of songs.
However, when the times discard a person, they will not even say hello.
Just two years later, with the start of the third album, Adu quickly fell into a slump.
After the end of SARS, Adu seemed to disappear with it.
That year, the immortals in the Chinese music scene fought, and there was no shortage of newcomers.
Soon, the public seemed to have forgotten about Adu.
Over the years, "I should be under the car, not in the car" has become a meme that is often new;
Someone on a certain cloud will ask "where did Adu go", and if you look closely, it is already 6 or 7 years ago.
Of course, more people don't care who the original singer is, they only know one Adu who plays basketball.
Adu seems to have turned the page.
In 2013, he posted on his Weibo:
"Actually, I never left."
From 2004 to the present, he has released albums every few years, full of sincerity.
Over the years, he has released a total of 7 albums and sang 51 songs.
But no one listened anymore.
Over the years, he has also been on some small shows that he can't do, and he has run commercial performances everywhere in the mainland.
In those rare Reuters photos, Adu gives people the illusion that he cut the ribbon in a certain eighth-tier township KTV.
Why did it get so mixed?
Later, Adu explained the reason in Weibo and interviews-
During his career upswing, he developed depression.
The trauma of his native family, the unstable experience in his early years, and various factors caused him to be extremely uncomfortable after becoming popular.
Slowly, discomfort evolves into fear.
He began to hate people and fear the media.
Ordinary people can live without seeing people, but he is a singer who makes money by singing
When asked questions in the media, his brain goes blank.
When singing, he feels fear.
Later, he was afraid of flying, and he didn't even want to go out.
At first, he wanted to control it by taking medicine.
But drugs containing hormones made him gain weight quickly in a short period of time, and his weight skyrocketed to more than 80 kilograms.
The image of the thin and fragile man went away, and some people began to say that he was greasy.
What's more, it is the media that "Adu is crazy".
Faced with the darkest moments of life, Adu also thought about a hundred.
But in the darkness, there was a light that gave him salvation -
The ex-girlfriend who broke up because Adu was too busy with work.
After learning about Adu's recent situation, even though they have been separated for 7 years, she still chooses to return to Adu.
Because she wants to be his strongest support.
With a lover, Adu began to actively fight depression, and his life slowly got on track.
In 2016, they got married.
Adu posted emotionally:
"I am very grateful to her for being with her for all the time, giving and tolerating all the way."
He is still the man who had a kind heart and knew how to be grateful.
At the age of 43, Adu became a father and finally had a complete and warm home.
The happiness and satisfaction of protecting your family is 100 times that of winning the Golden Melody Award that year.
He came back from depression and never gave up his efforts to write songs and sing seriously.
It's just that the glory of the past has become the past after all.
Forgotten by the times, he can never go back.
Nowadays, the world likes small fresh meat, handsome uncle.
Who has the patience to listen to a rough-haired middle-aged man sing bitter love songs?
Brainwashing electric sounds, saliva songs have swept the whole Internet.
After 19 years, Adu has returned to the public eye.
Maybe it won't be the second spring of our career, but at least it will remind us of those years again.
So all his efforts and persistence over the years were finally not in vain.
Now, I seem to understand the weight of that lyric better:
"You made me see through this thing of life, four words: stay the course."
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