Hello everyone, I am expired. Today I want to introduce the singer Cai Minyou.
This childish face, this boy with a crooked eyebrow when he smiled, do you remember him?
Time back to 2006, that year's Chinese music scene was full of excitement. From vinyl records to CDs, from MP3s to online music, the internet has fostered new developments in the music scene. This year, there were countless classic songs in the Chinese music scene, each of which was popular, and many of them are still widely sung today, even far more than the works of the decades after 10 years.
Among them, there is a Song of Cai Minyou's "I Can".
I can
It doesn't matter if Cai Minyou is your youth or not, and it doesn't matter if you've heard his other songs. When the familiar prelude sounded, the sentence "I can accompany you to see the stars, without further explanation, I will be with you" set off waves of memories in our hearts, and our thoughts were brought back to the most sincere era by this song.
This song is no longer a simple ballet, it can be a kind of thought, a kind of sustenance, a yearning for the innocent era that we can't go back to. Almost in QQ Music or NetEase Cloud, every time there is an editing playlist similar to "post-90s and post-00s youth memories songs", "I Can" will almost always appear in it. In the hearts of many people, this song, like "Sunny Day", "Stubborn", "Just Love You", "The Sun Never Sets", etc., has become the youth memory of a generation.
But whose songs are these mentioned? It's Jay Chou, it's Mayday, it's Tao Zhe, Jolin Tsai. These people have achieved fame and are well known to people, leaving their own strong mark in the heyday of the Chinese music scene.
And Cai Minyou? People who know can still remember the song "I Can", and in most people's memories, there is no such person.
Should Cai Minyou be forgotten? Does he just have one song called "I Can"?
Cai Minyou is 33 years old this year. As a singer, he is no longer young and in a less advanced state than before. But as a singer-songwriter, time is the best catalyst. Over the years he has released 6 original albums.
Almost all of it is his own composition. Obviously, each album has songs that are worth listening to and listening to, obviously each album can give the listener a refreshing feeling, and obviously innovate in the original style every time without making people feel abrupt. But why is he still known as the song "I Can"? He is even forgotten by most people.
Once, he was like the sun in the sky. When his first album, 19, came out, he was nineteen years old. Imagine what we're doing at 19? And he already knows his goals and pays for it. The first album made its own name, a song "I can" was popular on both sides of the mainland, everyone knew that the one who could play the piano and play the violin, sing "accompany you to see the stars", the boy who smiled and frowned, his name was Cai Minyou.
At that time, he was also a college student Cai Minyou. With the first place, he was admitted to the Music Department of Normal University to study piano and violin.
When his first album was released and nominated for the Best Newcomer Award at the 18th Taiwan Golden Melody Awards, Wu Zongxian supported him, threatening that he would surpass Jay Chou within five years. However, after he experienced the explosion of popularity, he did not do as Wu Zongxian expected. Jay Chou is still Zhou Dong, but he is slowly disappearing. Of course, it is only in the entertainment industry, in the era of huge and noisy traffic.
I am back
Cai Minyou is "angry" for what reason, I don't know. But he did not give up his creation because of the word "past". At the age of 19, he released his first original album, then he went to serve, and two years later he took his second album "Search for Cai Minyou", just like the first song of his album, "I'm Back".
After such a long time, when I searched for Cai Minyou on Weibo, his Weibo followers were only more than 600,000, which was not as good as a beauty blogger who sold Taobao coupons. Browsing about his daily life, he sometimes held singers' clubs in concert halls and performed in malls.
The most I heard him sing was "I Can". He would introduce himself and say, "Hello everyone, I am Cai Minyou who sang "I Can", do you remember me? ”。 But he has more than just one song called "I Can."" Although the second album did not leave the amazing impact of the first album, it did leave some good songs. "I'm Back", "Stay with Me", "Hitchcock Opus 152" are all my favorites.
Me and my Brahms
Cai Minyou is really not highly productive. He released four albums over the next 10 years. From 2006 to 2019, he released 6 albums in 13 years. He used to give the impression of being a teenager.
Teenagers will also grow, in 12 years, his fourth album "Super Right Brain" changed the style of the past, and the dark Cai Minyou made some fans shout that they were uncomfortable. Because this is the least spare tire love song in all his albums, the breakthrough is very large. The market and fans at the time did not accept it, but time will give it the best proof. Now there are fans who have commented on this one after another, saying how good it is...
Cai Minyou is still that Cai Minyou. What old man would sing "I'm already over twenty-eight, how come I'm still secretly having a crush on her like this?" This song , "Me and My Brahms" is from his self-titled album and his fifth album. This album was released in 15 years, and at the beginning many people also knew very little about it. The same goes for me. But after 4 years, the comments of this song on NetEase Cloud have exceeded a thousand. It can be seen that good songs will not be buried, everything is just time.
In September 2015, he released the single "I Think I Can". It's like echoing his fame song. "I Think I Can" is a standard spare tire love song.
In 2019, I happened to see him sing this song with Xu Guanghan of the same company at the concert. Soon after, Xu Guanghan became popular because of the idol drama, but Cai Minyou was still "the same old look".
"I Think I Can" is like Cai Minyou's own voice. Once, young and crazy and talented, he preached to the world that "I can". Now that the lead is gone, it is no longer what it used to be, but he only says "I think I can"...
Who doesn't want too much
In 19 years, Cai Minyou released his sixth original album, "Change of Heart". It seems that compared with the previous album, it is a big change in style. However, it is true that a lot has changed. There are not many love songs on the whole album, but there are more reflective songs like "Change of Heart", "Innocent Scorpion", "Tricks", "Who Doesn't Want Too Much".
This album is too little "Cai Minyou", but it is also my favorite album in my heart, and it is also the beginning of my re-acquaintance with Cai Minyou.
Now the album has been released for almost a year. NetEase Cloud's comments are not much, or even pitifully small. Who makes him Cai Minyou, he is not a traffic star, there is no team and big fans doing data for him, and his works cannot fill our traffic for a while. But who let him be Cai Minyou, good songs always have a day for people to discover and love.
I think I can
Perhaps Cai Minyou himself did not care whether he could become popular again. As a singer-songwriter, he's good enough.
From "I Can" to "I Think I Can", maybe it is his change of mentality that can bring good songs to his fans, and is it so important to be red or not?
Good singers deserve to be cherished and supported, and it is difficult to explain the expiration of only a few words. All of Cai Minyou's songs can be listened to for free on NetEase Cloud.
I'm expired, see you next time.