Just entered the beginning of 2023, but did not expect to enter the wave of departures. Not long ago, Disney's earnings conference announced that the company will restructure and cut 7,000 jobs in the process, similar companies such as Dell, Yahoo and so on...
In such a situation, people are affected by anxiety and their emotions are constantly tense.
Anxiety is everywhere, but there is one song that is often mentioned by people, that is, Mika Nakajima's "Once I Thought About a Hundred".
It is gentle, intense, and has a firm and powerful melody, and people listen to this song, deeply empathizing, comforting and encouraging in Meijia's infectious voice.
It was this song that miraculously reduced the suicide rate in Japan in the year it was released.
And behind this song, every note is embedded in the singer's grief experience. It just so happens that today is her 40th birthday.
In 1983, Mika Nakajima was born in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan, to a modest family, her father was a truck driver and her mother had to take care of her children while working part-time.
Mika Nakajima became interested in makeup early on and learned to dress herself.
When she was in junior high school, she was ostracized by her classmates because of this. Love beauty, how natural it is for all girls, but she suffers from this scourge.
Because Meijia's personality is more introverted, it makes school bullying worse.
She described it this way: "I am still not very good at integrating into the collective, taking off my uniform and running away non-stop, and finally reached today." ”
So in the second year of junior high school, she could no longer bear the school bullying, and finally chose to transfer schools.
The campus life, which should have enjoyed the friendship time, turned into torture, leaving Mika Nakajima's memories of her student days in a cloud that has accumulated for a long time.
In her later works, it is not difficult to see that the gloomy student days left indelible scars on her heart.
As she wrote in the lyrics of "16": "I never want to go back to those days." ”
After Kankan finished junior high school, Mika Nakajima chose to work at a fast food restaurant to make ends meet.
Later, he switched careers and became a graphic model, which did not seem to be so smooth sailing.
At that time, the image of sweetness and cute was popular in Japan, and this thin and cool girl who was one meter six meters tall and weighed only forty kilograms repeatedly hit a wall in interviews.
However, her part-time job was not without gains, and during her work, she fell in love with music.
Because she was born with a good voice, with the encouragement of her friends, she sent dozens of recorded demos to the record company.
In the end, Mika Nakajima reaped the favor of fate, got the opportunity to participate in the draft, and stood out among 3,000 people.
From this moment on, she finally walked into the door that God had already opened for her, swayed up, and soared into the sky.
In 2001, Mika Nakajima debuted on the Japanese public trust chart with her debut single "STARS" and squeezed into the top three, selling 600,000 copies.
THE LIMITED SINGLE "CRESCENT MOON" WAS RELEASED THE FOLLOWING YEAR, AND THE LIMITED EDITION OF 100,000 COPIES WAS ALSO SOLD OUT ON THE SAME DAY, SETTING A RECORD AT THE TIME.
The first album "TRUE" won the first place in the first week of release, and the second album "LOVE" topped the public trust chart for two weeks and won 1.5 million sales.
"Snow の華" has become a generation of classics, synonymous with winter love songs, and has been interpreted and covered by many languages.
In the fourth year of her debut, the movie "NANA" starring her became the annual box office champion in Japan that year with its in-depth discussion of the plot portrayal and social situation, and its popularity swept across Asia.
Mika Nakajima also won the Japan Academy Award for Outstanding Actress and Best Newcomer Award, known as the "Japanese Oscar", with her highly restored and vivid interpretation of Nana.
The two-pronged performance and singing careers soared rapidly like taking a cool script, making Mika Nakajima a legend in the Japanese entertainment industry at that time.
From being unknown to becoming a superstar, Mika Nakajima's career has opened all the way, and this former Cinderella has stood at the peak of its glory in only four years.
But at that time, no one might have thought that she, who was like being dotted with gold fingers by God, was made a huge joke by fate in the tenth year of her debut.
In 2010, Mika Nakajima was diagnosed with open ear tubes.
This is a condition that has a great impact on hearing, and Mika Nakajima described it as follows: "I don't know how loud the sound is and what the sound is coming out. ”
Nearly deaf and unable to control her vocalization, she was sentenced to death for her career as a singer.
Mika Nakajima, who was overwhelmed by fear, began to use her voice unrestrainedly, desperately hoping to hear a little of her own voice, but in the end even her precious voice was lost.
In October of the same year, she suspended all singer activities and left the music scene. In the form of "indefinite rest", he traveled to New York for treatment.
But what was even more desperate was that the doctors gave her the result that her condition was basically incurable, extinguishing her last hope.
In the documentary "ANOTHER SKY", she recalls the bleak treatment life abroad: "After coming to New York, the scenery around me was completely uninteresting. Although I say it with a smile now, every day at that time was spent crying in torment. ”
At the same time, some people sneered, "Mika Nakajima is really finished this time", and determined that the first generation of Heisei Kahime fell silently.
However, perhaps the difficult life since childhood gave her grass-like tenacity, and she did not slump from the difficult life to the top.
Because she still loves singing, she learned gravity yoga, changed her singing method, spent a lot of time, and made great efforts to adapt to her current state and reconcile with the disease.
So in 2011, Mika Nakajima made a comeback with the single "DEAR", but when the superstar plucked up the courage to return to people's attention again, ear disease became her inseparable label, and the "tolerance" feigned by the media and the public also made her feel hurt.
She didn't want that, she wanted to be loved again as a singer, not to be "strong" to reap people's sympathy.
LATER, MIKA NAKAJIMA MADE AN INVITATION TO THE JAPANESE ROCK BAND AMAZARASHI TO CREATE A SONG WITH A BRIGHT RHYTHM.
However, at that time, the band's lead singer Hiroshi Akita first sent her a demo and thought it was very suitable for her.
He described the song this way: "In order to describe strong hope, you must first describe the deep darkness. ”
Such a description is just like Mika Nakajima's degeneration into endless despair in the past two years.
"I feel my hard heart, and it softens at once, this is a song that represents my heart", she burst into tears when she heard the song, and immediately asked to produce and sing this song.
This song is exactly the "Once I Thought About a Hundred" that we hear now.
In 2015, before singing this song, Mika Nakajima said to the fans in the audience: "Everyone here must have had a time when they were depressed and depressed, and they also thought about 'why the world is not going well' and 'why no one came to help me'. Rest assured, I will sing your heart. ”
She turns her grief into strength and sings songs to awaken those who are wrapped up in pain just like her.
At that concert, she determined the rhythm by stepping on the beat and the vibration of the sound, performing this song of life in a way that belonged entirely to her.
From this song, let people see Mika Nakajima, who was reborn in Nirvana, showing everything she regained from fate with a vigor born to death.
As for the painful years of the past, she said: "In the darkest days, it was I who pulled myself back, and if there was no that person, I myself would be that person." ”
She saved herself and pulled up those who had heard it.
If Mika Nakajima used to be a legend in the Japanese entertainment industry, now she has truly become a belief in people's hearts.
Mika Nakajima returned to the spotlight in her own way, and finally waited for the light of day in the following years: with active cooperation with treatment, her hearing recovered little by little.
Mika Nakajima, who celebrated the 20th anniversary of her debut, officially announced good news to the outside world: after ten years of illness, she finally fully recovered.
She shared her feelings when interviewed: "The staff asked me why I was so happy, and I said that I could hear myself out of voice. ”
In the following years, continuing her beloved career and enjoying the happiness of being lost and regained, Mika Nakajima once again shined on the stage.
At the same time, she also continued to explore and successfully unlocked many new identities.
Recently, together with the domestic cutting-edge designer brand lost in echo and the Japanese designer brand VIVIANO, the "M major" joint series.
The design incorporates Mika Nakajima's strong personal characteristics, mysterious and rebellious smoky makeup, gorgeous and uninhibited matching, presenting a feminine style that is both powerful and avant-garde.
Mika Nakajima is a very cool girl, but she also loves bling bling things and pearl jewelry. Her serpentine treble clef tattoo inspired her to create the serpentine accessory in the "M major" series.
So, when we are invisibly bound by anxious emotions, when we are deeply trapped in the quagmire of ourselves and cannot move, we may wish to think about the original introduction of this song:
There is a sadness and sorrow lurking in a seemingly indifferent life, but even so, the world is still worth looking forward to, and that is because you want to walk with your loved ones.
Let her song become the light on the way forward.
"Because there are people like you living in this world, I have a little expectation of the world."
Edited by Tristan
Design: Xiaoni