The first time I heard the name "Three Little Birds" was more than ten years ago.
The three young children who were once not favored have now grown up, but unlike the fights and slapsticks between each other in the past, the three of them now meet again, always leaving a trace of alienation and strangeness.
Like old friends who haven't seen each other for many years, and like strangers from different paths, what many fans didn't expect was that this group actually disbanded much faster than they imagined.
The ten-year appointment has drawn a successful end to his youth, but the three people on the screen still need to move forward, different forks in the road, different choices, the three people who should have become important roles in each other's lives, but now they can only say hello and goodbye......
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into a group and the initial captain
In fact, if Li Fei, the founder of the TF family, goes back to the past and does it again, he may not necessarily choose to start the TF family planning again.
At that time, he had already experienced a failure and had been unable to find a direction in China's idol industry.
The choice of the TF family is actually more like a big gamble on his part, without market research, just a slight change to the popular model abroad, and very abruptly, the TF family plan was grandly launched by him.
At the beginning, Li Fei was disliked by almost everyone around him.
To take the idol route, you need to find a suitable idol first, and many people are persuading Li Fei to raise the age limit a little higher, and find the kind of junior high and high school students, who are much more reliable than elementary school students in many cases.
I'm sure you all know how mischievous and uncontrollable a 11- or 12-year-old boy was in his childhood, and more importantly, can they really withstand the tremendous pressure of the stage and the lights?
But Li Fei still decided to take a gamble.
"To this day, I can't figure out why I was so determined to create the TF family in the first place. ”
As it turned out, Li Fei was only half the battle.
He became popular with the first cultivated idol group in Chinese mainland, but after several years of operation, it directly led to the actual dissolution of the team.
In 2010, the TF family finally found their first little star, and in countless altitudes, Wang Junkai became the one who finally broke out of the encirclement.
In other words, when he was 11 years old, he experienced the most brutal competition in his life, dozens of little boys with their own characteristics, and in the end, it was this child who was not good-looking.
At the same time, Li Fei also brought in a singing child Wang Yuan, and the original TF family ran smoothly.
After two years of training, the TF family released their cover work online for the first time.
is a little immature but far ahead of their peers' singing skills, coupled with the lovely faces and youthful youth of the two, Wang Junkai and Wang Yuan successfully exploded.
In fact, the internal positioning of the TF family at the beginning was full of chaos, Wang Junkai as the captain was an important main promoter of the group, but Li Fei also wanted to make others popular.
Let others see the growth of the boys they support, this is the only standard of the TF family, but in how to implement, we can see the contradiction behind the manager Li Fei.
Wang Junkai is the main idol, and it is also the focus of the cultivation idol group, he must not have any talent, or he must not stand out at all, and he must show his most primitive state to everyone in front of the screen, so that supporters can develop it from scratch.
At the very beginning of this planning, Wang Junkai, as the captain, carried Li Fei's huge hopes, even if he paid a big price, he wanted the audience to like this simple little boy at a glance.
But what if such a plan fails? Li Fei also made follow-up preparations, and Wang Yuan and Yi Yang Qianxi were the other two big names in his hand.
In fact, according to Li Fei's original idea, the best three people in tfboys are equally popular, and Wang Junkai wants to be a little more popular than the two, but the audience's support is uncontrollable after all, and therefore, we can see that there is often an imbalance in the TF family in the past.
If one person suddenly explodes, he will be refrigerated for a period of time until the other two follow.
It's a pity that Li Fei, who was originally a real estate businessman, is not very familiar with his first artist group after all, and in 2017, the TFBOYS combination is almost unsustainable.
The frequent conflicts between fans made the three finally decide to fly solo with each other, at least to put an end to this possible fan war for the time being.
In September 2017, with the establishment of three solo studios, the combination of TFboys has effectively disbanded, and all that remains is the original 10-year contract.
It's just that after their respective solo flights, the situation of the three of them in the entertainment industry is already very different.
Wang Junkai originally wanted to rely on his high popularity to enter the showbiz, but popularity does not mean everything in many cases, in the final analysis, the TF family was just a male group that showed their faces on variety shows all the time at that time, and the age of the members in the group was too young, and there would be no roles suitable for them in film and television dramas.
What's more, variety shows are on it, and now as long as you are an Internet celebrity, you can be on variety shows, after all, this is a win-win choice for both parties, and film and television dramas are big investment projects, once they are messed up, countless companies will suffer losses.
Because of this, Wang Junkai was not completely accepted by the market at least at the beginning, and it was not until the outbreak of the epidemic in 2019 that his acting career gradually improved, and directors asked him to star one after another, and he began to slowly win some gold film awards.
It's just that until now, Wang Junkai still hasn't made any achievements enough to say on the road he chose as an actor, and this road full of thorns is still very long and far away for him.
As for the rest of the team, they also have their own circumstances after flying solo
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Wang Yuan, who loves to sing
Wang Yuan, after choosing to fly solo, was almost the worst of the three, after all, the resources poured into him have always been the least.
His original intention for joining the TF family was simple - he could practice singing every week here, and he also came to chase his musical dream after joining the entertainment industry.
It can be said that even in the TF family, Wang Yuan is the most tepid one, because he doesn't care.
He doesn't care about whether he can be popular, and how many shows and variety shows find him to record, many times, all he cares about is whether he can sing.
Naturally, his choice is different from Wang Junkai, after flying solo, Wang Yuan chose to develop his studies at this time, and then he was admitted to the world-famous Berklee College of Music by himself, but now that many years have passed, Wang Yuan has not released a song that is popular enough.
Take the popularity as an example, the vast majority of ordinary people have almost never heard of Wang Yuan's songs, and some people who don't know much about the news in the entertainment industry may not even know that Wang Yuan is a singer.
Thinking about the years when Jay Chou, Lin Junjie and others were hitting, a few years is enough time for one album after another to become popular all over the country.
Music requires talent, it is different from acting, acting skills can be improved slowly, but music is not good, if it is not good, it is not good, people will use their ears to make choices.
Up to now, except for the fans who have accumulated in the past who are still insisting on buying Wang Yuan's works, we hardly see any new fans.
We don't just want to ask, can this music-loving teenager really reap the success he dreamed of?
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The most successful Yi Yang Qianxi
Compared with the other two, today's Yi Yang Qianxi is almost the most successful one after flying solo, but he has a different capital - resources after all.
Before joining the team, Wang Junkai and Wang Yuan were just ordinary little boys everywhere, and they might be able to find more than a dozen different ones in any interest training class.
But what about Yi Yang Qianxi?
He appeared on the screen when he was 5 years old, and participated in CCTV's "Wisdom Tree" at the age of 7, and then he was out of control and participated in CCTV's related programs one after another.
On one side are the little stars who have shown their faces on the central stage many times, and on the other side are two amateurs, in fact, the starting line of the three is not the same.
Therefore, Yi Yang Qianxi has always been the one in the team who wants to fly solo the most, and joining the TF family may have wanted to change the way at the beginning, so as to join the showbiz earlier.
This is the road that his family helped him arrange when he was a child, for many artists, 11 or 12 years old is basically the most embarrassing age, child stars, no matter how few opportunities to appear, after all, people will not arrange a role for a 10-year-old child in the script.
Joining the TF family, you can continue to show your face in the entertainment industry, and you can take the opportunity to accumulate your popularity, so we can see Yi Yang Qianxi repeatedly harvesting a lot of film and television resources before the three of them flew solo in 2017.
Now, he is also the best one in the team, not only after flying solo, he often participates in big productions and big scenes, but he himself has become a member of the "11th Council of the Chinese Film Association" at the age of 23, the youngest record, no one.
Can we really say that he is excellent himself?
Association, for these seniors who are often forty or fifty years old, Yi Yang Qianxi's age is too young.
Li Xuejian, Andy Lau...... Which of these members is not a well-known figure in the past?
Even people who are not often familiar with the film and television industry can tell a lot of Andy Lau's works, songs, and even a lot of interesting stories, even from Chinese people of all ages.
But if you ask a middle-aged man to identify who Yi Yang Qianxi is, it will be too difficult for him.
The resources at home are the most different advantages of Yi Yang Qianxi from others.
In 2023, TFBOYS fans have finally waited for the ten-year appointment they have been thinking about, but not only are the lights of the three sold independently, even on the stage, we can't see that the three of them have too much communication.
The friendship of youth seems to have long been drifted in the wind, this concert may be a long-awaited concert for fans, but for these three people, it is more like an ordeal.
Epilogue:
Even the three people in the regiment have different purposes and roles to join.
Wang Yuan and Wang Junkai are just ordinary people, and Wang Yuan is a music that loves himself alone, and the existence of the team or not has little impact on him.
After all, fans can help his songs hit the charts, but after all, they can't help him for 10 or 20 years, and they can't change other people's inner thoughts.
Wang Junkai is the focus of Li Fei's money, but after the team was unable to continue, he had to seize the opportunity to study hard and practice hard, after all, his initial positioning was to cultivate an idol, if he came up as a genius prodigy, it would only make fans lose the pleasure of cultivation.
Not to mention Yi Yang Qianxi, maybe joining the TF family has always been just his transitional choice, and more importantly, it is to make use of these useless years.
Coupled with Li Fei's countless self-defeating operations, it was expected that the TF family would finally look good.
It's just that for these three people, their future road is bound to be not easy, idols are idols after all, and his positioning and ability requirements are different from those of stars, actors, singers, etc.
This is also a problem that Japan, the birthplace of idol culture, has been struggling with, and how to make idols become real stars is a big problem that has plagued countless seniors in the industry.
Stars are all popular by virtue of their strength and acting skills, and they have real skills, but idols often don't need any talent.
Of course, there is still a long time in the future, and we also hope that these three people can finally reap a happy ending, after all, they are also what we grew up watching.