Beijing, September 20 (Reporter Lang Lang) Wu Bai's Zhengzhou concert ended, the audience was reluctant to leave, and spontaneously sang "Norwegian Forest" in the process of leaving without accompaniment and Wu Bai.
The lights are neon, the singing throat hurts, the tears in the eyes and the astringency in the heart, this concert, like a passing summer wind, damps all moods.
At this moment, whether it is 25 or 52 years old, I see time and see my sudden self.
In September, autumn has arrived, but we are still nostalgic for that "summer night wind".
The picture shows the scene of Wu Bai's concert. Source: Wu Bai Weibo
How does Wu Bai understand me so well
"You're only 25 years old, why do you listen to my songs?"
"At 25, is there so much pain in your life?"
Wu Bai's words have been asked in many cities and many concerts, like a pair of calloused but thick hands, rough touching, gurgling warmth.
This 55-year-old man really understands young people. If Jay Chou and Mayday are the romantic and enthusiastic mentors of the youth campus, then Wu Bai is your old friend after entering the society.
Although everyone grows up in different time zones, the social clock puts forward quite consistent propositions and requirements for young people. There are too many decisions to make in your 20s: what to do, where to live, who to spend your life with... Everyone was young, confused, and hesitant.
Wu Bai has also been soaked and pickled by life in this way. More than 30 years ago, he was still an honor student who was obsessed with music and played bands, Wu Junlin, because of physical reasons that led to the failure of the college entrance examination, under the arrangement of his parents, he became a postman as a teenager, running between the delivery of packages. The news that the British band Deep Purple was going to hold a concert in Taipei, China, broke this routine, and Wu Junlin left Garlic Village and jumped on the train to Taipei.
Like all young people who go to big cities, Wu Bai has not had a good time when he first arrives in Taipei. Houses made of wooden planks cannot shelter from the wind and rain, and typhoons can sweep away the roof. He set up a street stall, sold insurance, rode his motorcycle to the train station to sell English textbooks, and in the bright city, he was the stranger.
Perhaps because he has really crawled and beaten, he can better understand the bitterness and emotional struggle in the life of the general public, and his songs are never high, high and low.
The indifference of "Ronin Love Song" has the hottest retention, and the end of his love is the freedom close to the skyline, and the song "Norwegian Forest", which he wrote at the age of 25, crosses time and space, singing about different generations of youth.
"I don't need inspiration to write songs, I rely on accumulation." Wu Bai has said more than once that his music comes from his own experience.
Writing about frustration and loneliness, writing about life and dreams, he ran and toiled in the city, telling you with poetry-like songs: "Brother, don't complain about the sky and the people, life is a lifetime." ”
He really understands.
The picture shows the scene of Wu Bai's concert. Source: Wu Bai Weibo
In different eras, repeatedly fell in love with Wu Bai
Wu Bai's songs have straightforward vernacular and poetic romantic imagination. In his music, you can feel his calmness in facing life squarely, and the strong impulse to find the primitive, universal emotions of human beings.
He values life the most: "Music is not the most important thing, life is." "Wrestling and photography are important roles in his life.
Wu Bai once said that all life problems encountered are solved by wrestling spirit, "When the other party makes a move, you must face him head-on, this thing will be beautiful, so I face many issues in life head-on." ”
And his photography, mostly rushed, but there is an imperfect truth - which is exactly what he is after. "True beauty is incomplete." He wants to express life with the romance he sees.
Some people ask, why do people of different generations fall in love with Wu Bai?
Maybe it's because he has experienced the life you're going through, helping you to shout out boldly and directly, he's like an old friend around you, when you fall into ashes, pat your shoulder and tell you that life is like this, that's how he came to life.
The city spirit in him is what makes him charming, free and straightforward, positive and affectionate.
The picture shows the scene of Wu Bai's concert. Source: Wu Bai Weibo
Wu Bai himself said: "The concert cannot be quiet", and in almost every performance, he brought everyone to clap and shout together. Although everyone now plays memes and says "someone else's concert fee microphone, his concert fee shoes", "Wu Bai, a famous concert conductor", but in fact, each of us enjoys it.
Young people find empathy and understanding, middle-aged people find the power of comfort, life should come when it should come, and there is nowhere to escape.
The song "Sudden Self", which many people love, sang and sang at the concert, and he would suddenly say: "Come and come, drink this cup and have one cup, and after drinking this cup, there are three glasses." ”
Some commentators say that this is because life is in the world, and there are nine out of ten unsatisfactory people, red dust, and three cups to relieve worries. One cup honors the present, one cup honors the past, and the rest of the cup only honors the rest of life.
Wu Bai once talked about the experience of writing lyrics in an interview, he said that writing lyrics is a bit difficult to say, because it is lyrics, it is not a story, so the lyrics do not need to have such a strong story, but the lyrics have a story when sung.
"So you can't speak too carefully, and let the person who listens fill in the blank space themselves."
So, in that void, each of us found our own home. (End)