Previously, the video of Wang Ruolin singing "Descendants of the Dragon" at the Kaohsiung Beer and Music Festival in Taiwan was on the hot search.
Wang Ruolin in the video, from hairstyle to clothing to overall styling, is not "Wang Ruolin" at all. In particular, the opening and bouncing of the voice into the state completely subverted the image of the previous "jazz celebrity".
And the netizens who watched the video were mostly "frightened" look.
Among the top five popular reviews, four of them are ridiculing her self-indulgent performance. And the remaining comment should also be the first reaction of the vast majority of people after watching the video,
"The impression she had in my mind was not like this."
<h1>From "Jazz Goddess" to "Punk Girl"</h1>
Most people's impression of Wang Ruolin should still stay in the "literary and artistic freshness" when she first debuted.
In 2008, Ruolin Wang released her debut album "Start From Here". Just a few months after the album was released, sales exceeded 200,000 copies. More than one of the album's titles like "Let's Start From Here", "Lost in Paradise", "l love You" and other works became hits. Wang Ruolin was also a variety of newcomer female singer awards to get soft, the media at the time called her "the first open air after the sharp edge".
Her voice is lazy and charming, with a phonograph-like singing voice and a vinyl record effect, giving it a clean, casual feel. She has amazed the entire Chinese music scene and is known as the "Chinese version of Ono Lisa".
This kind of voice that god appreciates food and eats, it seems that "one hit and red" is a natural thing. After the launch of "Joanna & Wang Ruolin" and "The Adult Storybook", sales and word of mouth are also good. During that period, Wang Ruolin, who talked about the guitar and sang in a shallow voice, once became synonymous with literary and artistic small freshness.
Under the escort of Wang Zhiping, the father of the "gold medal producer", Wang Ruolin's starting point is very high. I thought she would have a smooth ride, but she didn't expect to "go high and go low", and since 2011, she has stopped playing mainstream music, and began to tinker with more "non-mainstream" styles such as electronics, punk, and dance music. The loss of fans is very large, and the human settings are also played by her.
A very intuitive change is that Wang Ruolin's shape changes again and again.
From the beginning,
To this point,
And then so on.
Although these attempts are not accepted by most people, outside public opinion only refers to Wang Ruolin as a "geek.".
And then she became like this again.
And so it is,
Even so, outside public opinion began to say that she was "crazy".
From a jazz goddess to a punk girl, the style of painting has changed so much, is Wang Ruolin really crazy?
No.
As early as 2013, Wang Ruolin was explaining to people that the real her was not "Wang Ruolin" at all.
She said, The most painful thing about playing a female jade is that people have always asked me to make a very deep appearance, but the depths of my soul are just a cat, and the world is really too compelling.
The performance at the beer music festival a few days ago was her real and free appearance after taking off the "package". For most people, their concern is faulty, so they will feel that Wang Ruolin is "crazy".
Wang Ruolin is not "crazy", but free.
<h1>Finally crazy behind</h1>
It is the withdrawal of the Father's love
Wang Ruolin's father, Wang Zhiping, is a well-known music producer in Taiwan, who has worked as an album producer for many artists such as Sun Yanzi, S.H.E, Tao Zhe, Lin Youjia, etc., and also formed a band with "Haring" Yu Chengqing when he was young.
Wang Zhiping is a very traditional father and has a strict tutor for Wang Ruolin. Wang Ruolin grew up and her mother lived in the United States, and her education was more Westernized. In addition, when Wang Ruolin was 12 years old, her father Wang Zhiping and her mother divorced, and her relationship with her father has always been very delicate.
Wang Ruolin, because she was dating her senior at the age of 14, slipped out of the window in the middle of the night and was then discovered by her mother. Mom felt that this rebellious adolescent girl could not be controlled, so she sent her back to Taiwan to be disciplined by her father.
As a father, Wang Zhiping, like all parents under the heavens, hopes to make his daughter's path easier, so he will always unconsciously lead her with the experience of people who have come over.
Knowing that my daughter loves to play music, I signed her a company. He became a producer himself and helped her out of an album. He also taught her how to get along with people in this circle and told her how to do it more smoothly.
But he also knew that his daughter had his own musical attitude, and he began to back down from the second album. More than half of the songs in "Joanna & Wang Ruolin" were created by Wang Ruolin. Later, Wang Ruolin became a producer herself, making albums completely according to her own ideas and preferences, and was shortlisted for the Golden Melody Award for Best Album Producer.
Seeing the recognition and affirmation of her daughter by the outside world, she understands that she has the ability to break out of the world by herself, and then he let go and no longer interferes with her daughter's choice and freedom in her career.
But sometimes when he sees things that will cause "trouble" to his daughter, he still can't help but take care of it. Before Wang Ruolin exposed herself to homosexuality, and her mother's attitude of asking Wang Ruolin to "bravely love" is not the same, and her father Wang Zhiping will tell her daughter that she is a public figure, which is not good.
As a traditional Chinese father, Wang Zhiping struggled to quit his daughter's life. On the side of her daughter Wang Ruolin, she gradually reached a reconciliation with her father.
Just returned to Taiwan, Wang Ruolin, who was in adolescence at the time, was more rebellious, often using her father as a pump, and her father was often "stuffy to the point of explosion", so the relationship between father and daughter was somewhat estranged.
Later, when she made an album, Wang Ruolin and her father had an extra layer of work relationship.
There was a disagreement with her dad on making music, and dad would often criticize her. When she was fighting the company, her father would not help her speak. Looking at the photos of the father and daughter doing interviews in the same frame, we know the relationship between the father and daughter at that time: not very harmonious.
Obviously, she is a punk girl in her bones, but she is asked to perform a deep and very literary young woman. She hated being packaged, hated being defined, and even hated the first album that made her popular.
At one point, she even admitted that "a lot of what my father brought me was painful experience." It's my life, and there's no way I can do the music he wants me to make and live a life for him. ”
Wang Ruolin could have terminated her contract with the company, but she did not. And a big part of the reason she didn't leave was because of her father, who she didn't want to embarrass.
She was willing to stay, waiting for the opportunity to become an independent musician, to prove to her father that she would not disappoint him or embarrass him. She secretly competed with her father.
Being nominated for the Golden Melody Award for Best Producer was a turning point in the father-daughter relationship. It was not until the later earnest talk that the knot of 6 years was completely untied. Although Wang Ruolin said "it didn't make me very relieved", she had obviously let go of her emotions towards her father.
Before her father Wang Zhiping sang, she also went to be a guest to support her father. When Wang Zhiping introduced his daughter Wang Ruolin to the stage, he said that her daughter was "my pride." And Wang Ruolin also said, "It's rare to perform with dad and such a great orchestra."
Wang Ruolin's current state is very relaxed and free, playing her favorite music. In the eyes of the outside world, Wang Ruolin "finally went crazy", it is the withdrawal of father's love, and the typical father-daughter relationship has finally become "benign".
Mother and daughter,
The best thing is to give her respect
Speaking of Wang Ruolin, it is easy to think of Dou Jingtong, who is also the second generation of stars and also plays music. But her experience was obviously much luckier than Wang Ruolin's. The most critical point is that because her mother, Faye Wong, has a strong sense of boundaries, "does not intervene" in her life, and gives her sufficient freedom and respect.
Dou Jingtong formed his own band at the age of 14 and served as the lead singer. Later, I didn't want to go to school, and I wanted to make my debut and play music. Mother Faye Wong's attitude is supportive, "Sing when you want to sing."
Although Dou Jingtong signed the same agent Chen Jiaying with her mother, Faye Wong, when she debuted, her mother never interfered in her work. Dou Jingtong said in the interview that unlike her father Dou Wei's guidance to her, her mother, Faye Wong, only sent her a few expressions of praise on WeChat after listening to her new song.
Later, Dou Jingtong was exposed to "coming out", although Faye Wong did not respond to this rumor, but from Faye Wong's friend Liu Jialing said that "Faye Wong will accept", it can be seen that Faye Wong's attitude.
As for the outside public opinion, because Dou Jingtong dropped out of school, dyed her hair, and got tattoos, she was labeled a "rebellious girl", and even said that Faye Wong was not well educated. But the truth is that Dou Jingtong has no need to rebel at all, and there is equality and respect between her and her mother, Faye Wong.
Mother Faye Wong's expectations of Dou Jingtong are as simple as in the song written to her: You can't learn badly, you can not be very obedient. And it is precisely because of parents like Faye Wong that Dou Jingtong can be confident and free, living a life without restraint and what he wants.
The English poet Gibran's "On Children" said: Your children are not your children, but children whom life desires for itself. They have come through you, but they have not come from you. They are with you, but they do not belong to you. You can give them love, but you can't give them thoughts, because they have their own thoughts.
Perhaps, for all parents, the best love for their children is restraint and withdrawal.
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