"Cai Weize, do you want to be a star?"
This is a sentence that Wen Zhaojie asked Cai Weize when "Children of Tomorrow 2" was writing songs across the track. After that, they hesitated for a long time and decided to put this sentence at the end of the original song "Give Some Applause" of the collaboration.
"Give a Little Applause"
What is popularity and what is traffic? Probably in recent years, whether it is a talent show or an idol cultivation program, those dream contestants, even the behind-the-scenes packaging of these contestants, have never been able to give standard answers to the essay questions.
Is it the number of fans on social networks, the ranking of super topics, the speed of moving on the rising star list, how fast can a music platform throw money to the first place, or a stunning out-of-the-loop song?
The Band of Fools and Idiots
If you look at the fan economy in the data age, Cai Weize and his band of fools and idiots may not be out of the circle.
He has a world-weary face, and he draws his own crayon-like eyebrows during the audition. In the show, the process that was not cue was resolutely beaten back, and a sentence was already the limit of what he could hold out. In an era when data is king and ghostwriting is flying all over the world, he likes handwritten letters and microblog essays. The idols next to him are all exquisite selfies, but he prefers to send small videos of clapping with his feet, or large close-ups of acne on his forehead. A player and b player were eliminated at the same time, need to be revived by fans, he helped a player canvass votes on Weibo, and carefully explained the reasons for not choosing b player.
Straightforward, neat, and with a hint of stupidity and stubbornness, like his label name, fool and idiot.
Such a contestant is probably not easy than Mao in the previous session, and he is even less like the champion of a talent show. Secondary two, sullen, black, is the label he gave himself. Even within the "nephew circle", Cai Weize is not the person with the most fans. But he did it again, and went to the final of "Children of Tomorrow 2" and got the strongest label this year.
Just when the audience discussed whether his singing skills were the best, whether he signed a contract or not, whether he was a goose selection, he gave this answer -
"I think the format is winning, but the music is not."
No nonsense, but loud and loud.
What can be covered is the tattoo, and what cannot be covered is the soul
Most people's first impression of Cai Weize is that of a cool boy.
Although I know that in the race, the fledgling little transparent, but very locomotive requirements to adjust the reverberation; do not smile, get the unique track star push officer Qingfeng in the hand of the clearance ball, did not say a word, did not even change the expression, just silently moved the wheat rack to the side, quietly sat down. Only when He Jiong asked him if he had made friends in a lively atmosphere did he point to Xu Hanguang, who smiled at a flower, and the child who was busy raising his hand opposite.
Novice combat tuning reverb
Rescued by Yang Mi, he was not willing to sensationalize the vote, and only liked it.
Whether it's the characters and the plot, or personality, if the music is good enough, the audience won't care how difficult you are, or even the cooler the better.
Novice Warfare's "5:10 a.m." is a catchy work: "Not very urgent sorrow / Unchanging days and expectations / How many dreams are firmly hidden." The title is about the bitterness of insomnia, the world built in the ears of the listener, but the confusion of the road ahead.
《5:10 a.m.》MV
At the beginning, the feelings for Cai Weize were only secondary two and sullen, and after about three or four periods, I gradually learned that under the scarf and gloves that did not match the season, it was the tattoo that had to be covered by the last program; or sad or happy, under the lyrics that needed to be carefully played, it was the literary skills of the high-caliber students of Taiwan University.
On the N ways to mask tattoos
Variety show Oh, these tags that could have given him extra points, he did not throw it on the stage for the first time, only coldly threw away the sentence "I sing it first.". Very good, speak with works.
Donuts and small essays for everyday
Before the director team of Children of Tomorrow 2 found the band drummer Xu Weijun, Fools and Idiots were just one of many orchestras in Taiwan that played underground music.
For the 21-year-old Cai Weize, playing an orchestra is a matter of time, energy and even money. Some performances require band members to contact the venue, finalize the stage and practice room, and promote it on the IG, and the final official performance may face only a few dozen people.
Silly and idiot performance photos
Those carrying guitars, dragging drums, walking in Legacy, The Wall, Riverbank Messages or Witch Shops, sporadic, deep or shallow footprints, have another name, called Chu Xin. I am garbage and nostalgia do not meet, only a wall separated. Stubbornness and confession of fate are only missing an opportunity. If you don't become Mayday or Soda Green, gradually, graduating from college, going your own way, returning to reality, disbanding and leaving, is the only way for many student orchestras to face.
Cai Weize's wish is to be a Beatle.
Since you want to go out, you can't stay in place, and wasting time is equivalent to wasting your life. His goal is practical, to "live well on the show." The reason is very simple, his ranking in the show determines how far this group can fly.
The debut album of Fools and Idiots needs to raise funds to release. After Cai Weize participated, the amount of funds raised has doubled several times.
Insist on not being overthrown by the world
Nor was the race smooth sailing.
The departure of Xu Hanguang, Viito, and Wen Zhaojie in succession had a great impact on Cai Weize. The original players who are familiar with each other have bid farewell to the stage, making him the only one left on the solo show track even more lonely. Most of the songs performed by other contestants are familiar to the audience, and the audience naturally has a greater sense of empathy. The cover singing of the works of Faye Wong and Li Zongsheng also brought him unprecedented pressure and doubts. He always demanded that every game must be original, and those works that did not seem to be suitable for the arena became his last insistence.
With the advancement of the competition, the lead singer, who originally only had doughnuts every day, also began to learn to post small essays on Weibo, and considered and relived word by word. From a cool boy, he has become a child who can cry and laugh, and will also be pulled in a circle by Qingfeng with a confused face.
The biggest doubt comes from the cover of Faye Wong's "Flowing Year". The first to bear the brunt is Hua Chenyu's "not suitable". Secondly, the issue of "change and invariance", which the public has always cared about, also comes out of the mouth of Hua Hua. When Hua Chenyu questioned whether Cai Weize had changed, he asked rhetorically: Why change?
In fact, he has received a lot of praise for several collaboration stages in the early stage of "Children of Tomorrow 2". The two understated sentences in "Each Other", "You pick up a gun / Load yourself / The title is still a lie about inferiority / Swallow the needle as usual regardless of the injury", a phrase that xiao fengche once yuming's inner wandering. In "Give Some Applause", the chaos of the draft ecology is very bloody: "All kinds of cameras, all kinds of strange costumes/ decorate my façade... I used to/I longed for those/As if I couldn't reach the edge/Now I'm holding my face stiff with an aura/They want me to enjoy this. ”
Perhaps just like the song "Bird's Nest" that he sang with Qingfeng, since he chose this less mainstream road, he made it to the extreme, to achieve "perfect, word for word".
If you compare the two finals longitudinally, Mao's sentence "The train roars through/ drives through loneliness or prosperity" in "Midsummer" is like a windmill gently overlooking the distance after a summer evening labor. And Cai Weize's sentence in "A Better Future" that "the ideal is like a needle stuck into a sleepless night / Daily consumption of the sugar coating I made with ambition" is the bedside cigarette butt that sleeps in the middle of the night.
"You Don't Love the World After All"
Some people take the sweetness of bitterness as nourishment. Cai Weize's words, on the other hand, are like bitter wine. Some singers like to stuff the words full, but he prefers to leave blank. "You Don't Love the World After All" with the Children's Choir, "Until Life Kills Everything / You Don't Love It Anymore / You Don't Love the World After All / I Love the World After All". Behind depression is countless struggles and tears, and it is the original and purest love and examination of the world. In a different place, a simple "I can understand" is often more moving than "I hope you have a good life".
Write at the end
I remember the second issue, when Wu Qingfeng asked Cai Weize how to view independent vs mainstream music, his answer surprised many people -
Someone asked, after three months, did he find that balance?
The answer given by Cai Weize seems to be more gentle -
"I found a way not to sharpen the edges and corners, and how not to stab people; how to be inclusive of all things, but not to be open-minded."
It is not necessarily straight after being full of meandering, but in today's highly absorbent society, it is not a good thing to snake after a meandering. Fortunately, in the bodies of Wu Qingfeng, Xu Hanguang, and Wen Zhaojie, Cai Weize seemed to have found the law that did not need to pull off the thorns on his body, but could also be integrated into the mainstream.
It's good to think like this, without changing.