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On the stage of the latest Sister Lang performance, Gong Linna and Mei Yiliya sang "Sea of Flowers". The two wore pink dresses and sang in a sea of pink petals, drawing cheers from the scene.
Gong Linna Mei Yi Liya "Sea of Flowers" stage
The stage of "Sea of Flowers" was a great success, and netizens were amazed.
Even music critic Ding Taisheng, who has always been known for his "poisonous tongue", sincerely said that "Sea of Flowers" is really a masterpiece since Sister Lang was broadcast, and even his wife cried.
In fact, this is not the first time that Gong Linna has surprised everyone. As early as last year, she caused heated discussions because she posted a video of dancing in the dance studio.
In the video, Gong Linna is wearing a short red top, revealing her belly and dancing passionately, her movements are full of power, the details are in place, and the connection is very smooth. Although she is 47 years old, she is still full of energy and energy.
In fact, Gong Linna is not always so confident.
Just like the title of her song "Anxiety", Gong Linna herself has also stood on the stage nervously.
(1) Who is Gong Linna?
In 2010, "Anxiety" became popular overnight on the Internet. The song is known for its magical melody and immediately attracted the attention of the public. And its creator and original singer, Gong Linna, has also attracted the attention of national curiosity.
Who is this crazy woman with exaggerated makeup?
What mysterious powers does she have?
Gong Linna's "Anxiety" stage
Pops are always short-lived, but Gong Linna didn't stop there. Just two years later, she released two divine comedy songs "Fahai You Don't Know Love" and "Golden Hoop Stick", and in 2017, she composed "Rooster Song Oriental", which once again aroused heated discussions.
Media commentary
@成长:
"This thing is folk music, that's right. But this is not called re-creation, but an insidious exploit. Because of the familiarity with the genes, Chinese is the easiest to blurt out the melody of this rhythm. This so-called "new folk music speculation" has been raised. If that's all experimental music, experimentation is a little too good to do. ”
@莫离:
"It's nice, there's not a lot of nasty metallic. Cheerful and bright tunes, catchy, fresh and natural. ”
@一疼ETN:
"To say that they are divine comedy, or hype, or academic inferiority, I think is a sign of lack of tolerance or humor. I believe that they are open-minded and that the use of the media is just a pure means of behavior. ”
Netizens commented on Gong Linna's divine comedy "Chicken Song Oriental"
For a thousand readers, there are a thousand Hamlets. Reviews of the new album have had mixed reviews, which is also normal. Anyway, Gong Linna was really angry. For a time, advertising endorsements and variety show invitations continued.
However, perhaps still affected by the bad comments, for a long time, Gong Linna did not use such songs as a selling point.
What the world did not expect was that the seemingly successful Gong Linna had actually been troubled by an inferiority complex.
(ii) "I'm not pretty"
When she was a child, Gong Linna never got attention because of her appearance.
She began to learn music at the age of 3 and performed on stage at the age of 5, and she is so inconspicuous in the crowd with outstanding looks and exquisite makeup.
When she was 8 years old, Gong Linna performed in the Guiyang Miaomiao Art Troupe. Every time the group chooses a beautiful girl to lead the singer, she is always forgotten in the corner.
Gong Linna in childhood
For Gong Linna, appearance anxiety comes not only from the outside world, but also from family. The family has told her more than once that if only she and her brother's faces could be changed. Everyone thinks that her younger brother looks better than her and is more in line with mainstream aesthetics.
When this incident was mentioned on the show, Gong Linna choked up several times
The girl's heart is strong, and the adolescent Gong Linna is determined to leave Guiyang and leave this place that suppresses her and imprisons her. At the age of 17, she took the opportunity to perform in Beijing with the art troupe and got the opportunity to interview at the Affiliated High School of the China Conservatory of Music.
Gong Linna seized this opportunity and passed the interview with her wonderful performance. However, when she was full of excitement to tell her mother the admission result, she was poured cold water.
8-year-old Gong Linna at the scene of the game
It turned out that because Gong Linna was too late to attend the interview, the public funding indicators had been exhausted, and she could only go to school at her own expense, and the tuition fee was a huge amount of money in those days. Her mother was unwilling to give so much money and was adamantly opposed to sending her to school in Beijing.
Gong Linna had to make a military warrant to her mother, saying that she would definitely win the qualification for public funds. In the end, she successfully persuaded her mother to step into the school gate of the China Conservatory of Music Affiliated High School.
Although she entered her dream school, Gong Linna did not get rid of her inferiority. Coming from a small place, she looks so rustic and dazed in the prosperity of the metropolis. Every time she spoke, her accent drew laughter from her classmates.
The school teacher is guiding Gong Linna to sing
Gong Linna was not knocked down. She studied hard, got up before the sun rose, and was finally admitted to the Central Conservatory of Music with the first place.
However, her low self-esteem is still not over, but she has new troubles.
(iii) "Is my music really good?"
After graduation, Gong Linna won the silver medal in the Youth Song Competition and joined the Central Chinese Orchestra. After receiving the honor, invitations to the party poured in, and she began to participate in performances on various occasions.
However, Gong Linna, who was full of musical enthusiasm, was soon hit hard by reality.
Many parties invited her to participate, but she was not allowed to actually sing, just recorded the music in advance and lip-synced on stage.
She clearly has her own understanding of music, but she is required to perform in a stereotyped style.
In the early years, Gong Linna performed at the party
When she saw that she and thousands of female singers wore exactly the same makeup and clothing, and used the same vocal skills, Gong Linna felt that she was a dummy.
"I don't want to be like everyone else, and I don't know how to be different. Clothing, timbre, expressions, everyone is like that, and almost everyone thinks that it is right and beautiful. I have no background or backers, and my skills and looks are no better than anyone, just one of the many singers in the basket. ”
In the zero years, Gong Linna couldn't even find a performance venue. At that time, she and her husband Lao Luo had just started making Art Nouveau music, and finally a music festival invited her, but she was told that ethnic music did not sell tickets and could not be performed in formal concert halls.
Gong Linna felt disrespected. She felt inferior to herself for her status as a folk music player. Folk music is already niche in China, far less valued than Western musical instruments, and even tickets cannot be sold.
Gong Linna and German husband Lao Luo
In 2010, Gong Linna created "Anxiety", which became a hit on the Internet. She was surprised and delighted. "The internet really changed everything."
After becoming popular, Gong Linna burst into flames, and released two magic songs "Fahai You Don't Know Love" and "Golden Hoop Stick", which also caused a strong response and was even adapted into a movie.
The movie "Fahai You Don't Know Love" starts
It stands to reason that ordinary people should be satisfied at this time, forget the unpleasantness of the past, and confidently walk to the peak of life.
But Gong Linna is not like that. The media lashed out too fiercely, which had a certain impact on her mentality. After "Anxiety" became popular, she created two elegant albums, "String Song Clear Rhyme" and "Night Snow", but the response was far less enthusiastic than "Anxiety".
After that, Gong Linna did not appear in front of the public again for a long time.
04 I am a unique rose
This year, the program team of "Riding the Wind and Waves 2023" found Gong Linna, hoping that she could come to the show and compete on the same stage with her other sisters. After a fierce inner struggle, Gong Linna accepted the invitation.
For her, who was originally so inferior, how courageous and admirable it is to put herself and many shining players in the position of being selected!
Gong Linna sings "Sea of Flowers" in "Riding the Wind and Waves 2023"
Once, due to society's respect for soprano voices, Gong Linna, who did not have a wide enough vocal range, was very dissatisfied with her voice. She practiced desperately, just to develop a wide voice.
But she soon discovered that the generous voice has its own unique beauty, and blindly following the mainstream, not only can not reverse the innate characteristics, but even her original style advantages will be lost.
Jay Chou has been singing high notes with falsetto, and Wang Feng's voice is hoarse, does this prevent them from becoming top singers? Of course not!
Wang Feng is performing
It is absurd to judge the quality of a singer based on the timbre alone. For a song, the timbre is just a shell, and when we listen to music, we focus on the story, emotions, resonance, not cold shells.
That's why we say that some songs lack soul, many singers have beautiful voices but lack the ability to express emotions, their songs are gorgeous, but they lack the most crucial soul.
When Gong Linna let go of her obsession with mainstream voices, she finally found her true self and was welcomed more warmly by the public.
The audience watched Gong Linna's singing of "Anxiety" in fascination
After reconciling with the voice of inferiority, Gong Linna bravely stood on the stage of Sister Lang. She understands that facing her inferiority is the only way to overcome her inferiority.
Like the boggart in Harry Potter, hiding in the dark closet and appearing as what you fear most. But it's all an illusion, and if you want to break it, just raise your wand and shout "funny", and laugh at it, and it will disappear like a puff of smoke.
Harry Potter fighting Boggart
The same is true for low self-esteem. Many times, we are afraid to do something just because we are afraid of being ridiculed by others and that we are ugly in front of the public.
For example, what we call "social fear" is because there are some unreasonable beliefs, worried that their every move, word and deed will be watched and ridiculed, so they are afraid of communicating with others and afraid of being exposed to everyone.
The cure for social phobia is to push yourself to try to socialize with the help of others. With the gradual deepening of social interaction, the unreasonable beliefs of social phobic people will also change, and eventually overcome social anxiety.
Typical social terror speech
In the same way, when we summon up the courage to face our fears, we are pleasantly surprised to find that these are our imaginations, and the truth is not as scary as we think.
The voice is not good, the eyes are not big enough, the figure is not slim enough... These fears are the influence of social discipline, and breaking them will not only not cause us substantial harm, but also liberate our body and mind and find our own charm.
When Gong Linna bloomed her unique beauty on the stage of Sister Lang, I believe she already understood this.
Gong Linna performs on the Langjie stage
After Gong Linna became a hit in Sister Lang, not only did no one attack her appearance, but everyone also discovered more of her advantages.
For example, Gong Linna's English is very good and she can communicate fluently with foreign guests.
English is a thing, many people lose in the dare not speak. But Gong Linna is very daring to express it, which makes her stand out among a group of stars who do not speak English.
For example, Gong Linna's affinity is particularly strong, and the image of Zhifu's royal sister is like a child in front of her.
She is like the kind of aunt who accompanies you to the hospital, and when she sits in the waiting room, she asks about your life with concern and gives you small cookies to eat.
On stage, she asked her juniors to make red flowers and be green leaves herself.
Maybe it's because I've been in the rain that I want to hold an umbrella for others.
The appearance and singing style that she was worried about have also become the favorite points of the audience.
In the end, Gong Linna can show so many shining points on the stage because she has overcome her inner fears and achieved self-transcendence, so that she can have a relaxed attitude and be able to come to the show with the mood of "to play" rather than "to win".
That's why you can maintain a sense of relaxation.
That's why I can say the phrase "My beauty, I decide!" “
Gong Linna: Little Red Book
To overcome inferiority is to not only overcome the world, but also overcome oneself.
A person's success or failure does not depend on his origin or talent, but in the path and action he chooses.
Because the world is a grand garden, everyone is a unique rose in the garden.
END
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