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I got up and saw that there were singers who didn't take the wheat at the concert.
Mr. Wu Bai, who is playing treasure at the concert, has brought some big rock shocks to the Internet.
The audience sang the whole chorus, and the beat was more accurate than the singer.
Wu Bai on the stage and the audience couldn't sing a few words, and at the same time, they strolled around the stage idly, and gestured twice happily.
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"Others are national tours, Wu Bai is national inspections."
How is this 55-year-old love song king with flowing hair and electric fans at concerts still so attractive?
Who is Wu Bai?
Singer, musician, actor, photographer, rock poet, king of the scene... There are already too many labels on him.
And the short video platform netizens of 2023 will tell you:
"Wu Bai, a famous contemporary conductor, once conducted a chorus of 50,000 people in a gymnasium for 3 hours."
Going to a Wu Bai concert and getting the cantata qualification is not easy.
First of all, practice the speed of the people, stand out among millions of people and get a concert ticket.
Wu Bai: The people sitting on the top of the concert mountain are the most powerful people, because the mountain top tickets are the fewest and the most difficult to grab
Secondly, he took out the determination of the college entrance examination to "preview" the lyrics and practiced repeatedly to successfully achieve the goal of grabbing the lyrics with Wu Bai.
"Spend five hundred to watch Wu Bai's concert and sing Wu Bai's song to Wu Bai."
And when the "national inspection" begins, the audience will receive a middle-aged superstar who changes all kinds of "really good" ugly clothes.
The fashion style is mainly loose, comfortable and ugly.
The fashion is probably inspired by mooncake boxes
"With such a big concert, the whole show is just one audience."
"It's okay to sing all night, my muscles are strained."
"The first person to create a domestic concert KTV!"
"After a concert, the audience was all evacuated by Wu Bai."
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In order to be able to speak at his own concert, he tried his best.
Say hello to the fans in advance: "You sing the main song, I sing the chorus, don't grab it!" ”
When encountering those who do not listen to the command, they have to rush to frantically hint that "it's my turn".
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: TikTok @ Three Inch Snow
Prevent the words from being robbed during the singing, or even add inflection on the spot, and drag the beat by the way.
The new album was released before the concert, and the comments were: "Obviously, the new album is for singing at the concert." ”
And the really sensible fans have secretly recited words under the covers in the middle of the night.
"For a few hundred dollars, a professional band will accompany you, Wu Bai will play the guitar for you, tens of thousands of people will sing with you, no one will dislike you for being out of tune, and no one will say that you are incomplete."
Think about it this way, no matter how you look at it, you have earned.
Wu Bai's fans have unknowingly spread all over all ages.
At the Shanghai concert, he asked people aged 50, 40 and under 30 to raise their hands, and when the voice rose from wave to wave, Wu Bai's face was full of disbelief.
Finally, he tentatively asked "raise hands under 25".
Unexpectedly, the audience screamed, so shocked that Wu Bai shouted that it was impossible.
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Source: Douyin @ Circle 0807
"It's the same as what you see on the Internet, just pat it, don't believe it."
It is such an "old and dirty" Wu Bai, why do so many people love?
Netizens replied: "He has an artist's temperament and a prodigal son's feelings. ”
It has been 30 years since his debut, and Wu Bai's frank romance, honesty and sincerity will never be outdated by time.
Many people know and are familiar with Wu Bai, probably starting with the popularity of "Want to See You" in 2020.
The episode "Last Dance" connects the key plots of the entire show, and it became popular again after more than 20 years.
Wu Bai's tape is an important prop for the protagonist to traverse in the play
This time out of the circle also made the name Wu Bai enter the vision of young people again.
Wu Bai's real name is Wu Junlin, born in a small village in Chiayi, Tainan.
Because of his good grades since he was a child, he scored 100 points in five subjects in the exam in elementary school, so he gave the stage name "Wu Bai".
However, only his agent said so, in the mouth of Wu Bai, because he had a large tonnage in high school and was nicknamed "five hundred catties".
Since his debut in 1992, Wu Bai has quickly become a leading figure in the Chinese music scene, known as the "godfather of rock", he has created too many classics and deeply influenced the younger generations in the music industry, but Wu Bai's music path is not so easy.
Wu Bai in middle school
Around the age of twenty, the young Wu Bai went north from his hometown in Tainan and came to Taipei to work hard.
He has successively worked as a dance hall boy, English textbook salesman, insurance clerk and other odd jobs, but each job is not too long and smooth, and the accent and background of a foreign land always make Wu Bai feel at a loss in the bustling city.
In the work of 7788, Wu Bai finally found that he was most interested in one place, that is, the musical instrument line.
Wu Bai in his youth | Source: "Variety Show Kaleidoscope"
In the musical instrument industry, everyone else was selling guitars, but Wu Bai kept playing guitars, and finally the boss couldn't stand it, so he had to fire him.
But Wu Bai was not depressed at all, and by then he had decided to "lean" on music. Since this musical instrument shop can't stay, let's replace the next one, before and after, a total of five.
At that time, Wu Bai, like most Wen Qing, had a sense of mission for music and his own principles: works must have artistic expression, and must not be saliva idol pop songs.
Every time he heard a pop song, he would scoff and say in a tone that he couldn't see: This kind of song sucks.
Source: Wu Nianzhen "These People and Those People"
In 1992, Wu Bai released his debut album "Falling in Love with Others is a Happy Thing" under his real name Wu Junlin.
The mood of the entire album is strong and powerful, indicting the hypocrisy and artificiality of the city.
However, contrary to expectations, the results of this all-rock album were so dismal that almost no one bought it, only seven or eight copies were sold.
At this time, Wu Bai also began to reflect on his views on pop music.
He realized that it was not easy for a song to be liked by so many people, and it was too one-sided to equate "pop" with "bad".
Moreover, pop and personality are not completely opposites, and you can integrate incompatible accents, backgrounds and attitudes into pop music and turn them into your own unique style. In Wu Bai's words, it is:
"I use their dance steps to dance my own soul".
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Wu Nianzhen "These People and Those People"
In this way, in the same year, Wu Bai formed the band China Blue, and released the album "Ronin Love Song" with the band in 1994.
There is a song on this album called "199 Roses", and one of the lyrics in it is "When I kiss your mouth". After hearing this, the boss of the company said to Wu Bai bluntly: "You look like this, but you write such lyrics, can you change it?" So angry that Wu Bai went crazy on the spot and snatched the door out.
Fortunately, the results of "Ronin Love Song" are not bad, the album sales have exceeded 500,000 copies, and the title song of the same name "Ronin Love Song" has become one of the most popular songs in Chinese.
With a rough appearance and a delicate heart, Wu Bai's iron-man tenderness spread throughout the country.
Wu Bai's early performance | Source: "Where the Sound Lies"
After that, "The End of Love" was released, including songs such as "Norwegian Forest", "Summer Night Wind", "Last Dance" and so on, which completely opened the market of "Wu Bai style love songs".
In 1998, Wu Bai &China Blue released the all-Hokkien album "Lonely Birds in Twigs", which perfectly blended rock and Hokkien.
The words in the album are exquisite, very literary and romantic, and Wu Bai won the title of "rock poet".
Wu Bai "Broken Intestine Poem" lyrics | NetEase Cloud Music
In addition to his own creation, many singers also came to Wu Bai to invite songs.
Jacky Cheung's "If It's Not Love", Faye Wong's "One Way Road", and Wang Xinling's "I'll Be Fine" were all composed by Wu Bai.
In 2001, Wu Bai created the album "A Golden Flower" for Karen Mok, which arranged the composition, arrangement and most of the instrumental performance of the entire album.
The album is extremely avant-garde, and all the songs have added a lot of electronic elements, interspersed with Cantonese opera singing, ancient poems and white poems, and Chinese and Western. "Hong Kong Music Review" even rated this album as the third Hong Kong pop female album.
Before the release of Wu Bai's new album in 2013, Karen Mok joked: "I really want to wish you a big record sale, but if you want to write a song for me, I'm still waiting." ”
Karen Mok interacted with Wu Bai Weibo
Popularity and strength, Wu Bai has it.
Even many well-known musicians now have traces of Wu Bai on the music road.
Mayday frontman Ashin once said that Wu Bai is one of his most admired people; Gojo Renke and Ah Mao, the first song to learn guitar is Wu Bai's "The Crying Man".
In January 2019, in the final stage of Mayday's "Life Unlimited Company" tour, Wu Bai came to the scene as a guest.
Ashin said excitedly: "We have invited Mr. Wu Bai as a concert guest ten years ago, and thank Mr. Wu Bai for coming to 'Life Unlimited Company'. ”
Then Ashin said: "Usually when the guests leave, you call the names of the guests, Mayday will be a little jealous, but you can today." ”
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Believe in music
Zhao Lei, who became popular in "Chengdu", "met" Wu Bai when he was 13 years old.
In 1999, Zhao Lei saw Wu Bai, who played the wandering "underground passage singer" in "Brave New World", and fantasized that he could sing so handsomely in the future.
Years later, the two met on the show, and Zhao Lei blushed and "confessed" to the idol, saying that Wu Bai's song was simple and good.
Simple, pure, Wu Bai really is.
"Then don't stay, time will pass again."
"Come on, come on, dry this cup, have another drink."
"The longer I love you, the more passive I become, because your love has no fixed place."
"I don't want to see your moist eyes, I'm afraid I can't help but hurt you and I'm afraid you're sad."
"Just the heart that loves you is beyond bounds, and I want to have everything you have."
In Wu Bai's song, half is pride, half is endless tenderness.
Wu Bai once said that rock made him Rocker, but love songs made him Rock Star.
Source: Wu Bai official website
And he not only sings about his personal feelings in his heart, but also sings about his thinking about society, showing sincerity and responsibility.
In 1996, Wu Bai gave fans a song "White Dove".
That year, there was a shooting at Taichung Guangsan SOGO Department Store, and Zhuang Jiahui, a 23-year-old pregnant woman, was hit by a stray bullet, innocently victimized, and became a vegetative person.
After hearing that Jiahui was a fan, Wu Bai gave her the song "White Dove".
The song writes about the difficulties faced by society, but "even with eternal wounds, at least I still have freedom", hoping to bring comfort and hope to people in difficulty.
In the hearts of fans, Wu Bai has long been a palace-level singer.
And he didn't like the title "palace level", Wu Bai felt that this was to frame him and hang him on the wall, and he wanted to use all means to prevent people from succeeding.
Wu Bai's life creed has always been practiced: unruly and unrestrained.
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"Entertainment 100%"
Just as Wu Bai idolized Japanese professional wrestler Keiji Muto, in him, Wu Bai saw gorgeous destruction.
This "sabotage" is very similar to Wu Bai.
He once said that whenever he went to a place where everyone respected him, he couldn't help but want to destroy.
Maybe tell some jokes, maybe do something else, in short, so that others can't praise it.
Source: Wu Nianzhen "These People and Those People"
The unruliness in his bones can also be glimpsed from Wu Bai's albums over the years.
More than 30 years after his debut, Wu Bai's albums rarely copy the successful experience of the past, but have a varied style and continuous breakthroughs.
Blues rock, electro, African music... In the "destruction" again and again, Wu Bai became Wu Bai.
In addition to creation, Wu Bai is also constantly trying new fields, writing poetry, painting, photography, he dabbles.
Wu Bai who plays photography | Source: Xinhuanet
Every time people want to define Wu Bai, he personally "breaks" himself:
"I don't want to be the person everyone expects, I want to be free."
Wu Bai Photography | Source: Wu Bai official website
Once, Wu Bai, Li Zongsheng and Luo Dayou were called the "Three Musketeers of Taipei Creation", and when they mentioned the other two predecessors, everyone usually admired and respected;
But here in Wu Bai, it is full of joy and release.
In the description of fans: "Teacher Wu Bai who stands on the stage and sings, his eyes are romantic, his posture is free, and his singing voice is the story." ”
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This romance and freedom are still clearly visible in Wu Bai's "backing singer" concert:
At the scene, Wu Bai said: "You are real, I am real, and now it is true." Tonight, we're all Wu Bai. ”
The people in the audience did not distinguish and sang in a chorus; The people on the stage have no baggage and are unbridled.
The 70s and 80s went to the youth date, and the 90s and 00s joined the team to release the sweat of youth.
And after the 3 hours of the concert, how many people hid in Wu Bai's songs in the corner of reality.
Have 3 minutes of romantic and enjoyable dreams.
Resources:
1, Street Voice.Wu Bai: People hang me high, I don't let them succeed.2020-08-13
2, KKBOX.Music is constant destruction and creation-Exclusive interview with Wu Bai.2009/12/21
3. Interview|Wu Bai: It is love songs that make me Rock Star.2019-04-03
4. Ni Chonghua. "Sonorous Mantra"
5, Wu Nianzhen. These people those people. Wu Bai & China Blue