Pang Mai Lang was ill.
On the evening of March 11, Bai Xiao, the agent of singer Pang Mailang, posted a video on social platforms, saying that Pang Mailang had been forcibly taken to a psychiatric hospital for treatment at the beginning of this year because he could not control his body.
In this video, Bai Xiao bluntly said: "He is a person who is particularly paranoid about music, even if he suffers from schizophrenia, he still creates and performs as always." ”
After the video was sent, it was immediately on the hot search, triggering heated discussion among netizens. Some netizens said that the first time they listened to "My Skate Shoes", they felt that Pang Mailang was not normal, and some netizens said that Pang Mailang was a victim of the star-making plan, and some netizens said that Pang Mailang was evil and had bad retribution.
In the eyes of people who like Pang Mai Lang, Pang Mai Lang is a singer with Van Gogh temperament.
In the eyes of people who do not like Pang Mai Lang, Pang Mai Lang is a "beam jumping clown".
So why has Pang Mai Lang been controversial since his debut? Was his illness a harbinger or the result of a beating of fate?
Perhaps we can get some clues from his past life experience.
Today we will talk about the story of Pang Mailang.
01
In 1984, Pang Mailang (real name Pang Mingtao) was born in Daijiaba Town, Ningqiang County, Hanzhong City, Shaanxi Province, his mother Zhang Qingmei was sick for many years and took medicine, and the family's expenses were all supported by his father Pang Dehuai selling vegetables and working in coal mines.
Growing up in such a family, Pang Mailang did not like to talk since he was a child, nor did he have good friends, and when he was bored, he watched his aunt's cows graze, and he could watch a day.
His academic performance was also not good, because of the difference of 5 points in the middle school examination, he rubbed shoulders with the high school, and could only enter the Ningqiang County Vocational and Technical Education Center.
The only thing that pleased him at the school was that his essays were approved by the teachers, and his articles were published in the school newspaper.
However, after staying in this office for half a year, Pang Mailang felt very bored. It happened that he saw an admissions advertisement for Xi'an Foreign Affairs College on TV.
He decided to go to Xi'an to see the world, he asked for money from his family, applied for the Xi'an Foreign Affairs College, and successfully entered the study of diplomacy.
In the first semester, he performed very well, and even scored 98 points in the essay.
However, after a long time, he still felt that it was not interesting, and before he graduated, he went to Shandong, Guangdong and other places with a few friends to work and earn money.
It's just that this part-time job is not smooth, after several years of hard work, Pang Mailang has not saved any money, and he has returned to his hometown in ashes.
After returning to his hometown, he often had headaches and could not do farm work because of his poor health, and his neighbors around him looked down on him.
But Pang Mailang did not lose his "fighting spirit" because of this, and after spending some time in his hometown, he decided to continue to go out and explore.
02
Pang Mailang went to the county seat of Ningqiang and worked as a worker at a construction site. However, he was too thin and weak, and he did not have enough physical strength to move bricks, and he could not do such technical work as an electrician and a floor tile.
After a few days of work, Pang Mailang couldn't hold on, he didn't even want a salary, and went straight away.
After several twists and turns, he came to a KTV in Hanzhong as a waiter, working from 4 p.m. to 4 a.m. every day, the work content is to cut fruit plates, help guests open microphones, and organize boxes.
When KTV business was not good, he secretly went to the private room to order songs and sing, very happy.
Once he stumbled upon Michael Jackson's Beat It, he was instantly drawn to the singing and strange dance steps.
When colleagues told him that Michael Jackson could sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars by singing a single song, he had a clear purpose in life.
He wants to sing, he wants to be "the most international singer in China".
Pang Mai Lang did not indulge in imagination, he did what he said, and every day after work he wrote songs in his dormitory. He often sat cross-legged facing the wall, writing songs in elementary school students' small characters, one after another, refusing to stop.
During that time, he wrote all his part-time work experience into songs and wrote a thick book.
After saving up more than a dozen songs that he recognized, Pang Mai Lang felt that he should go to a larger city to seek development.
I also heard that Beijing is the cradle of the singer's dream, and he boarded a train to Beijing in February 2013, bringing only a dirty sheet and a small print full of lyrics.
After arriving in Beijing, Pang Mailang went to the Internet café for the first time, he searched for the address of the recording company on the Internet, copied it one by one, and inspected it one by one.
In the end, Pang Mai Lang approached the musician Su Haoxian and asked him to help arrange his song "Hanging Needle" (later renamed "Mo Da Biao Ke").
Pang Mailang's requirements are very high, to soar high pitch but also atmospheric, Su Haoxian did not know how to edit, so he posted a post called "Help Teachers How to Arrange This Song" on a music forum, saying that he was going to make up the blues, but the customer asked for soaring high pitch, how can it be atmospheric?
What Su Haoxian did not expect was that netizens adapted the song into different versions of the "ghost animal video", among which there was a version designed by netizens named "Sonic Boom Cloud".
However, not many people know who the original singer of this song is, Pang Mailang's life has still not changed, and he also participated in many talent shows at that time, but all failed.
It was not until 2003 that Pang Mailang's music career ushered in a turnaround.
03
This year, Pang Mailang participated in the singer selection competition of Huashu Music. During the competition, he wore worn-out clothes and sang several original songs, including "The Big Rider of Mo", which was very popular on the music forum.
It just so happened that Jinhua, the music director of Huashu, who was sitting on the stage at the time, had heard "Mo Da Biao" before, and coupled with Pang Mailang's grassroots atmosphere, Jinhua decided to sign Pang Mailang.
After being signed by Huashu Music, Pang Mailang was very happy, and he felt that his own era was coming.
In order to make him popular, Wasu Music focused on packaging his original song "My Skate Shoes" and gave him a stage name of "Joseph Pang Mai Lang".
For "My Skate Shoes", Wasu Music spent a lot of money. The company also equipped Pang Mailang with 6 enterprise propaganda, bought "friction friction" and "fashion fashion is the most fashionable" hot search, and asked some big V to write paragraphs to create momentum.
It was only that Huashu Music had a headache that Pang Mailang did not understand music knowledge and his singing skills were also very poor, and his manager at the time, Li Xi, even said: "Every time he sings is different, the arranger has no choice but to learn it himself and then take him to record it." ”
Fortunately, these efforts were not in vain, and half a year later, "My Skate Shoes" was on fire.
After "My Skate Shoes" went viral, Pang Meilang came up with an album, but the company ignored his requests, and his conflicts with the company increased
By chance, Pang Mailang found out that Huashu was a cultural company rather than a record company, and in his understanding, since it was a cultural company, how could he give him an album? He felt that he had been deceived by Huashu, and he felt that Huashu was just treating himself as a piece of fat and constantly using him for gold.
So in July 2014, after filming the MV of "My Skate Shoes", Pang Mailang sent a text message to his assistant "I am gone" and disappeared.
This made Huashu angry, and at that time, Huashu had already helped Pang Mailang negotiate 200 performances with an appearance fee of 50,000 yuan.
It's just that Pang Mailang doesn't care about these things, and he even posted that the company illegally detained him and forced him to sign a two-to-eight overlord contract, and in the case of forced forced, he could only sign it at that time.
It was also from this time that Pang Meilang felt that everyone was a bad person and a liar.
For personal safety, he left Beijing and stayed in a small hotel.
04
In the days of staying in a small hotel, Pang Meilang was not idle. With the fame accumulated in "My Skate Shoes", he took the initiative to find performance opportunities, and sometimes he could earn 20,000 yuan in a performance, which made him believe that leaving Huashu was the right choice.
And in order to avoid high exposure affecting the image, he set himself the rule of "only accepting commercial performances, not on TELEVISION". He directly refused the invitation of Beijing Satellite TV and Oriental Satellite TV, and said to them: "I want to promote Chinese song culture internationally, and I can't go on local stages unless I have a separate concert." ”
It's just that Pang Mailang at that time would not have thought of him doing this, and inadvertently let his acting path become narrower and narrower.
Interestingly, in order to open up the road of "internationalization", Pang Mailang changed his age in an interview with the media, and said that he was Taiwanese, and he gave English names to each city and people he knew well. He referred to Shaanxi as the "State of Mengalas" and Hanzhong as the "Humidified Bik", and he did not even recognize his parents.
Pang Meilang's performance is becoming more and more "divided".
Even so, he is still determined to pursue his dreams on the road of music.
On the road to chasing his dreams, he met his current agent Bai Xiao in 2015.
05
Bai Xiao was once also a singer, just a down-and-out singer, but he could enter Pang Mailang's heart and not let Pang Mailang resist.
Under the operation of Bai Xiao, Pang Mailang began to perform at LIVE HOUSE and do a national tour. Their first performance was held at the Hangzhou Wine Ball Club, more than 200 people were present, the scene was very lively, the music sounded, the audience's voice was deafening, Pang Mailang was very happy, very enjoyed this feeling.
And in the first half of their tour, the income is very good, and they can earn more than 200,000 yuan a month.
However, as Pang Mailang's popularity slowly declined, fewer and fewer audiences bought tickets to watch the tour, and the performance began to be unsustainable.
At worst, they only had 7 audiences per performance, and Bai Xiao had to borrow money to maintain the cost of the performance. And because he had been demonized by the media, Pang Mailang refused to appear on TV programs and refused to enter the short video platform.
Pang Mai Lang stubbornly lived in their own world until they could no longer afford to tour.
In order to survive, in 2020, Pang Mailang began to try to live stream with goods, selling his own brand of skateboard shoes, but the sales were not much, and even some netizens advised him to find a job when he was live.
But Pang Mai Lang did not care, he said: "This is also a confession of 2020 and a kind of actual commemoration of the song "My Skate Shoes", and when I look back at these shoes a few years later, it will become my most worthy of my past, 'With skate shoes, I am not afraid of dark' This is not only a lyric, but also an affirmation of my dreams." ”
He has been desperately fighting for his dreams, but he has also been tormented by them.
What many people don't know is that since 2018, Pang Meilang's health is getting worse and worse. In 2020, he was admitted to a mental hospital and diagnosed with schizophrenia.
Perhaps he himself could not have imagined that when he returned to the public eye again, he was sent to a mental hospital for treatment again.
But we have to admit that even if we are "divided" and suffered from mental illness, Pang Mailang has not given up her dream of becoming an "international" singer.
It's just that from overnight fame to no one's interest, it's too easy to force a person into a desperate situation. Coupled with his stubborn personality, he has been immersed in his own world, and he is more likely to have problems.
If he could face everything calmly, perhaps the tragedy could be avoided.
But there is no assumption in life, time will not flow back, or hope that Pang Mailang can recover as soon as possible and live a good life.