On the first day of June, Mayday taught the entertainment industry a lesson

To say that the screen brushing the circle of friends and dominating the hot search in the past few days, it is also the Mayday concert.

And this is also the first opening of the Bird's Nest after the epidemic, and the summer night that has been suppressed for too long has finally returned to restlessness under the catalyst of music.

Six performances with two weeks and two themes, each gathering nearly 100,000 people.

Source: Lead singer Ashin Weibo

Despite such a large lineup, it is still difficult to find a ticket, and a large number of fans who did not grab tickets gathered outside the venue.

Thousands of people sang in the venue, and thousands of fans outside the venue roared with the sound of blurry music coming from the inner field.

It seems that everyone should brand this mark of youth more deeply.

So, another night was empty.

With such charisma, what is the magic of Mayday?

It's the most ordinary of us

It has been said that Mayday is like a group of well-behaved seniors, who will always stand quietly in the most dazzling place ahead and send us invitations to peers.

This is not accurate.

Mayday has a place in the youth of so many people because they are more like that ordinary and ordinary me than anyone else:

Modest aptitude and average grades.

Countless times it has not been favored, and it has also been questioned and suppressed countless times.

"There will be no future results" is the most important comment we have heard.

Before Ashin was born, the family's record store went bankrupt, leaving behind old records that accompanied him throughout his childhood.

Ashin thought that music was much more interesting than textbooks, so he signed up for the school choir.

But before singing two notes, he was stopped by the teacher and brushed off.

Since then, his mother has no longer let him play music, only letting him concentrate on his studies.

Ashin was depressed in his heart, feeling that reading books is a matter of life to pay off debts in the world.

Ashin, who did not have good grades, still relied on his years of painting skills to go to a good high school in Taiwan.

But Ashin, who went to high school, still had no interest in studying and mixed in the school's guitar club all day.

In his school bag, there are no books for many years, only binders - densely packed with musical scores, which is his biggest motivation for going to school.

At the guitar club, Ashin meets a monster.

The monster's father is a lawyer who wants his son to inherit the mantle.

Monsters also compete, and the results have always been very good.

Listening to the monster talk about joining the guitar club, the father is also very supportive, thinking that it is good that his son has a hobby.

But later, the monster insists on using the band as a job, and the monster's father is a little angry and warns the monster not to make friends with Ashin again.

The monster was silent for a short while, and replied to his father: "Ashin is very talented. ”

When I first joined the guitar club, Ashin and Monster clearly looked at each other unfavorably, and they would always compete with each other in secret.

Later, by chance, the two became acquainted with each other at an event, and talking about music became more and more speculative.

On the day of the end of the activity, I went directly to the monster's house and chatted all night.

In their sophomore year of high school, they were selected as the new heads of the guitar club by virtue of their dedication and talent to music.

The two people made the club hot, and even removed the desk legs directly in order to make room for rehearsals, causing the trainer to report criticism directly on the radio.

When the club recruits, they meet the stone who loves to fight and Martha, who messes around.

They have the same restlessness, the same unfavorability, and the same obsession with music.

Several people immediately felt that they hated each other late, and after forming a band, they agreed to go to the monster's house every night after school.

Close the simple soundproof door made of hollow bricks and sound-absorbing cotton, and find a few rag strips to plug the door seam, and this small bedroom of less than 7 square meters becomes their best stage.

It was practiced from midnight until dawn, until someone said, "No, if you don't go to school, you will be expelled from school."

Near the end of the semester, although the monster tried hard to help make up the class, Ashin only scored 5 points in mathematics, which also meant that Ashin had to repeat the second year of high school in Martha and Stone's grade.

He took the report card home, and his mother took one look at it and turned to the bathroom to wipe away her tears.

"You have to think about it, the road of forming an orchestra is like picking up garbage."

"If you continue to play in a band, you can only be a beggar."

"You won't be able to do it this way."

They are rebellious children who do not do their jobs in the eyes of their parents, and they are also typical of the loss of playthings in the mouth of teachers.

Under the painstaking or serious persuasion of parents and teachers, several teenagers were shrouded in confusion for the first time.

Later, Mayday wrote a memoir called "Humble People" for these frivolous and childish and youthful pride:

"I'm a kid who hasn't taken first place. There are 50 people in a class, but there is only one first place. For the remaining 49 people, and for himself, Mayday wrote this song.

They said that even if "the background is not strong enough, the genius is not enough, and every item is lost", they must "dare to face my dreams".

They all have those young hearts, so they know it very well.

It was precisely by relying on this "humble" energy that they withstood everyone's incomprehension and broke out.

Perhaps part of the intense love for Mayday comes from the young us we see from them.

It's just that at that time, they had more unattainable bravery than us.

It's us who are braver

When Ashin was a child, he loved to think about great questions, such as how to change the world.

Until Ashin went to college, he still didn't understand this, and he went to ask his mentor:

"Teacher, you are so good, why do you stay in such a poor school, and why do you spend your time on us, don't you want to do something greater?"

The teacher looked at Ashin and gave an answer that made him stunned in place for a long time:

"Ashin, aren't I doing it now?"

That day, as usual, Ashin rushed to the monster's house after school to practice, passing through the long tunnel of self-improvement, thinking about the teacher's words and feeling that he could no longer be confused.

The moment he rode out of the tunnel, the teenager made a decision.

"Why do you want so much? Aren't you doing great things right now? Even if you can't do it, at least if you try, there will be no regrets. ”

After a few people went to college, they got together again and started a band.

At that time, Mayday was just a student band with no fame, no stage, and no audience.

The best performance they could receive at that time was to do a warm-up show for a fried chicken restaurant.

There is no appearance fee, only fried chicken as payment, and they are also required to eat fried chicken while singing.

But they don't mind, as long as someone in the audience is willing to listen.

Sometimes when you go to a bar to sing in bad weather, and even a listener is gone, they will still sing the whole scene.

The young man's heart is like this, even if it is pouring heavy rain, it can't extinguish the fire in his heart.

What if there is no audience, for them, the roof after school is a square of 10,000 people, not to mention the square inch stage under this spotlight?

They are always like this, and in the face of the music they love, they will be more persistent -

"Luo Dayou released his first album "Zhihu Zhi Ye" when he was 24 years old, where is "Zhi Hu Zhi Ye" that belongs to us?"

Faced with Ashin's confusion, Martha shouted to reassure him, and the stone stood aside staring at the poster with glowing eyes.

Those sluggish bottoms, those countless retreats, fortunately they held each other tightly.

An ordinary dusk, Martha skipped class and rode his little sheep brand electric car from Fu Jen University to Shih Shien University, picked up Ashin who had just run out of the name, and went to a well-known record company on Guangfu South Road, where they wanted to cast a sample of the carefully prepared song.

But there are so many unknown bands that want to recommend themselves to the producers, where can they be completely sure?

They were afraid that the record would be thrown away, and deliberately wrote a line on the package: "Even if you want to throw it in the trash, please listen to it and throw it away."

Afraid of what will come, the record is really lost.

Source: "Fame in Sight" MV

It was also a mistake, when Li Zongsheng bent over to tie his shoelaces, he saw this package in the trash can and was attracted by that line of words.

Li Zongsheng picked out the record from the trash can, and after listening to the sample, he was shocked by the talent of the teenagers, so he immediately called according to the phone left behind.

"Hello, I'm Li Zongsheng", but the teenagers didn't believe it: "Li Zongsheng? I'm still Luo Dayou. ”

Fortunately, Li Zongsheng did not give up, and the phone was dialed again.

With the help of Bó Lè, the teenagers have since stepped into their own era.

The song was later included on Mayday's first album.

This year, Ashin was 24 years old, and this is their "Zhihu Ye".

In 1999, Mayday held its first 10,000-person concert in Taipei — Mayday's 168th concert, up from 167 before that adding up to 20,000 people.

Everyone was a little drumming in their hearts, afraid that no one would listen to it, and they were afraid that the first performance would end badly.

Parents are also anxious, Martha's mother, who sells marinated flavor at Tamkang University, helps them do publicity while working, the beast mother calls all the relatives and neighbors who can be called, and Ashin's mother directly calls hundreds of people to the stadium to "support the field" for the children.

Even the company was not sure, and even overprinted tens of thousands of tickets and distributed them for free.

What everyone didn't expect was that the people who came that day almost crowded the venue.

"We really did it together", the fans in the audience gave them the greatest confidence. Their performance made the parents, who were not optimistic about the band, change their attitude.

But the dryness of fame has also brought them a lot of fluctuations.

Maybe against the doubt, they have to come up with some more attitude -

At the beginning of the two thousand years, people's impression of rock and roll was still "niche" and "rebellious", and Mayday was too positive enough, and the thin vitality was completely contrary to the madness of rock.

Mayday's first show on the mainland was scheduled to be in Beijing's Sanlitun "Nameless Heights", where a group of rock veterans often gathered.

Mayday, positioned as a student band, was lined up and twisted in front of the rockers who smashed guitars on stage at every turn.

Before playing, Mayday also poured several bottles of beer for fear of being booed off the stage.

"You dare to call this rock? Do you have anything to do with rock and roll?"

Despite this, they were scolded, scolded for not being poor enough, miserable enough, and scolding them for not reaching the edge of rock at all.

Questioning and invective have since spread and bred with the footsteps of the teenagers.

Later, when Mayday beat Black Panther and Flowers to win the Best Rock Band Award on the Music Billboard, some music critics jumped out and said, "This is a shame day for Chinese rock."

This time, in the face of these "pseudo-rock" invectives, they are much more firm:

"The last era of rock was about confrontation, and this era we feel that we need to emphasize to change the world."

"After confrontation, we want to make the world a better place."

"If rock and roll before was a subversion of the world, then Mayday is a subversion of subversion."

Vigorous, but also arrogant.

Who can define "rock"?

The five men held up their arms, resisted the gossip, and tried to keep all the insincerity out of pure music.

When the teenagers look back, the style that has never changed is their declaration to the world.

Perhaps, what we love is this loneliness.

Post-adolescent poetry

In 2008, the album "Poems of Postadolescence" sold out as soon as it was released.

When the promotion was spoken, Mayday was asked in the program "Lu Yu Has an Appointment" where the next concert would be held, and the fans in the audience shouted "Bird's Nest".

Ashin's face was full of disbelief: "Can the bird's nest sing?" ”

At that time, they would never have imagined that 4 years later, they would step on the bird's nest and become the first Chinese orchestra to sing in the bird's nest.

It has been 7 years since I landed in the bird's nest on May Day this year.

Although some people have become a family and some people have been blessed, "youthful feeling" is still the word that appears most frequently in netizens' comments.

It's really hard to believe that this word is used to describe this team with an average age of five.

Now Guanyou's hands will no longer tremble like the first time, and Ashin will no longer choke in front of the 100,000-strong stage.

But they will still say thank you again and again sincerely, and they will return to the stage again and again in Encore.

It turns out that decades of time will not make teenagers grow old, but only make them grow up.

That year, Chen Xinhong, who was in his early tens, did not like school and was always late, but when the teacher assigned him the task of taking care of flowers and plants, he was never late again.

This year, Chen Xinhong, who is in his forties, promised that fans who did not grab tickets outside the venue and resolutely did not buy scalpers would sing loudly with all their strength, and he really interacted with the outside of the venue very hard.

Although the fans' spoiled title has changed from "brother" to "uncle", they still seem to be the teenagers of yesterday.

Ashin is the same as when he was a child, instant noodles and eggs can be satisfied.

Today's Martha is still the same big boy who even has to think about buying a Lego for a whole year.

They can be regarded as famous, they don't like to wear luxury accessories, and they don't pursue famous watches and cars.

Just like when they were teenagers, the big boys who just wanted to save money for musical instruments.

The world goes up and down, and in the big dye vat of Vanity Fair, Mayday is an eternally awake existence.

Liu Ruoying said: "What I admire most about Mayday is the ability to be an ordinary person. ”

Why don't we?

At that time, more and more people found their own Mayday in their youth.

Today, in the years of "seeing mountains or mountains", there is still a place in the heart that has not yet collapsed.

- I am not afraid of tens of millions of people blocking it, but I am afraid of surrendering myself.

Fortunately, none of us surrendered.

did not surrender to the sincere self of youth.