At the beginning of the 20th century, it can be described as the peak of the Chinese music scene, which can be called the era of fairy fighting.
Now many songs that have been sung for many years, many talented singers, such as Jay Chou, Wang Lihong, Lin Junjie, have emerged in those years.
But in fact, in that year, there was also a male singer whose popularity was not inferior to the above.
However, the world is unpredictable, he has been extremely popular, and he is also the one who disappeared, the fastest one.
And he is the protagonist we are going to talk about today.
The love song prince who sang "Write Poetry for You" and overtook Jay Chou within five years, but eventually disappeared.
--Wu Kexian
01
Wu Kexian is a Taiwanese who was born in Kaohsiung in 1979.
Compared to most people, he had a not-so-ordinary childhood.
Because, he was an illegitimate child.
Because he was an illegitimate child, Wu Kexian's childhood was very tragic.
He often looked enviously at other children, with his parents picking him up and dropping off, and he had almost never seen his father.
At that time, he could not understand his mother's difficulties, and only knew that he was clamoring for his father.
Later, he quarreled, and in 1985, when Wu Was 6 years old, his mother took him to Argentina to reunite with his father.
Wu Kexian thought that he had finally got what he wanted, and the night before his departure was even happy all night.
But he didn't know that this was the beginning of his nightmare.
02
In Wu Kexian's fantasy, the life of a family of three is happy.
He had caught a glimpse of the scene from a distance on the side of the street.
The father let his son ride on his shoulder, and then held the mother in his right hand and the vegetables for dinner in his left hand.
But in his house, there was almost never such a warm moment.
His parents were always arguing, arguing whenever they met.
Why is that?
Little he was puzzled.
Before he could figure it out, in 1987, after an argument, his angry mother took him back to Taiwan.
Back to their family's 5 square meter house, back to his father's single parent life.
Since then, Wu Kexian's mentality has undergone subtle changes.
He began to become sensitive and strong, which also laid the groundwork for his future disappearance.
03
When Wu Kexian really knew his illegitimate child identity, it was in 1994.
At that time, Wu Kexian, who was in high school, began to gradually reveal his musical talent.
He began to become a campus idol, a target for some to imitate.
At the same time, it is inevitably exposed to the public eye.
In the face of those doubts and ridicule, Wu Kexian swore that he must make a look!
He wants to go to art school, and he wants to let those who once looked down on others, and he can only look up to him in the future!
At this time, what is Jay Chou, the "enemy" of his life, doing?
Jay Chou in 1994 was playing the piano and playing the cello.
When Wu Kexian's musical dream had just set sail.
Jay Chou is already on the road of pursuing music, and he is more and more courageous.
04
Fortunately, Wu Kexian really worked hard enough and was talented enough.
He was admitted to National Taiwan University of the Arts, where he excelled.
Even in 2000, shortly after graduating, he participated in a large-scale talent show for the first time, and was favored by Bole YaoQian, thus successfully signing a contract with Viking Music.
In the same year, he released his first solo album, "One Man's Tomorrow"
But Wu Kexian seemed to lack a little luck.
This record, which has been polished for a long time and is optimistic about by many parties, has not made a splash.
Wu Kexian's career, just started, fell to the bottom.
Because of the failure of the first record, the company wanted the handsome Wu Kexian to transform into an idol artist.
But singing is Wu Kexian's dream, how can he give up easily?
So in that dark day, Wu Kexian experienced the bitterness and bitterness of the human world.
He had no money to pay the rent and was in arrears with the landlord for sixteen months.
Already famous, he even had to play a doll to make ends meet.
Probably because of this, Wu Kexian is more eager to succeed than anyone.
He never stopped for a moment, and as soon as he had time, he would write songs.
Finally, in 2004, he released his second album Wu Kequn.
Although this album is not a big fire, it has also allowed some music producers to see his talent.
He even won the award of the most popular singer-songwriter of the year.
Wu Kexian's musical path has taken a turn for the better.
05
In 2005, Wu Kexian released a new album "The Big Stubborn Family", which became famous in one fell swoop.
How popular was this album back then? It can be said that the title song "Big Tongue" in it is a well-deserved phenomenon-level song of that year.
On the street, on campus, almost all this song is playing.
Not surprisingly, this song reached the top three of the major music charts, and Wu Kexian also became famous.
Then, in 2006, the Chinese music scene blossomed, and Wu Kexian also ushered in the peak of his career.
A song "General's Order" allowed him to break through in a number of excellent works, and even called himself the "Three Heavenly Kings of Mainland Pop Music" with Lin Junjie and Jay Chou.
This year is the most beautiful year in Wu Kexi's music career.
He went from a lonely and unknown singer who was not favored by the public to suddenly join the front line, standing in the spotlight, accepting flowers and applause, and accepting the fanatical shouts of fans.
The dream once seemed to be within reach, and it was in this year that Wu Kexian shouted out that sentence with great pride:
"I want to surpass Jay Chou within five years!"
Wu Kexian in that year really had that confidence and talent.
He always had a strong feeling in his heart, and he wanted to prove himself.
So in terms of writing songs, he is more attentive.
In 2008, Wu Released his fifth album "Writing Poems for You", which was a big success again.
In this year, Wu Kexian's album of the same name, "Write Poems for You", won the top 20 most popular gold songs on the Chinese Song Chart.
In this year, "Write a Poem for You" became a phenomenon song that was even more popular than "Big Tongue".
In this year, even He Chaolian, the daughter of the gambling king, became his loyal fan.
In this year, surpassing Jay Chou does not seem to be an unattainable dream.
But soon, unexpected bad news quietly came.
06
In 2010, Wu Kexian created The Tide Brand, which was officially renamed from Wu Kequn to Wu Kequn.
In 2011, Wu Kexian's career was in full swing, but at this time, his mother was found to have liver fibrosis!
This was nothing more than the bad news of a thunderbolt on a sunny day, which almost completely crushed Wu Kexian.
Wu Kexian has been dependent on his mother since he was a child and has deep feelings for his mother.
For the sake of his mother's illness, Wu Kexian's career was once stagnant, and he spent his heart and money to seek famous doctors.
It can be said that from this time on, he can no longer chase after Last Week's Jaylen.
Because unlike Jay Chou, who is bent on music, Wu Kexian has too many things to carry.
From 2011 to the death of his mother in 2018, for seven years, Wu Kexian hardly had a day to get real peace in his heart.
But what really made Wu Kexian "disappear" was not only this incident, Wu Kexian also suffered another major blow.
07
In 2013, Wu Began to prepare for the film.
He has never forgotten the phrase he once said, "Surpass Jay Chou within five years."
In 2007, Jay Chou made a musical IP movie "The Secret That Cannot Be Said".
Then he will make a "poem for you".
In those years, music IP movies were hot.
Movies such as "Gardenia Blossom", "Brother Who Slept on My Top Bunk Bed" and "Later Us" are not highly invested, but the rate of return is surprisingly good.
So Wu Kexian almost took out all his savings.
Unfortunately, this time fate did not favor the soul of the effort.
This film created by Wu Kexian became the last straw that crushed him.
"Write Poems for You" began to prepare in 2013, but when it was released, it was 2018, which took five years.
It is not easy for this film to meet the audience in the theater, all because of Wu Kexian's persistence in his dreams.
In 2014, due to disagreements with investors, shooting stagnated for a while.
In 2015, the investor completely withdrew his investment, and Wu Kexian could only pay for it himself, and when the funds were insufficient, he even had to piece together to make the shooting go on.
In 2016, due to excessive pressure and untimely treatment, Wu Kexian became permanently deaf in his left ear.
In 2017, Wu Kexian's mother's condition deteriorated, and he often had to accompany her mother, resulting in intermittent film shooting, and even wasting millions of dollars a day at most.
At the beginning of 2018, Wu Kexian's mother was critically ill from the next to death, only four days.
On the set, Wu Kexian choked up at one point.
This incident had a great impact on Wu Kexian, and even changed the entire script of "Writing Poems for You".
Because of the death of her mother, "Write a Poem for You" has changed from a normal story line to a story about crossing.
"If only I could go back in time."
At the premiere of the film, Wu Kexian placed flowers in the middle of the first row, and said so.
Maybe it's bad luck, or maybe it's much harder to be a director than to write a song.
This film, which carries Wu Kexian's five years of youth and consumes all his belongings, is a mess.
The investment is hundreds of millions, and the box office is only more than 10 million.
Wu Kexian's dream was disillusioned.
Mother died.
Wu Kexian had no relatives.
If you want to go back to making music, the music scene has long been in the past five years.
Wu Kexian, even his music, is gone.
This teenager who was once full of vigor and youthfulness, who wanted to surpass Jay Chou, the light in his eyes was extinguished.
08
In 2019, Wu Kexian, who had been completely silent for a year, made a comeback again and signed a contract with He Le Music.
The first thing he faced was the overwhelming ridicule of netizens.
"Didn't you say that you want to surpass Jay Chou in five years?"
In response, Wu Kexian's response was:
If I could go back in time, I would still say this, and I would still try to catch up with him. Having crazy dreams at that crazy age, I don't regret it.
In 2010, Wu Kexian settled in Station B, and in the same year, Jay Chou settled in Kuaishou.
On June 17, 2010, Wu Kexian uploaded 10 videos on station B, but the total number of views was less than 100W, and the fans were only a pitiful 3.8W.
In contrast, Jay Chou, on July 26, 2010, the premiere data refreshed the history of online live broadcasting, and the half-hour tip even exceeded 2400W.
This year is the twenty-first year of Wu Kexian's debut.
Looking back on the years of his debut, he and Jay Chou were once brilliant figures of the same era, but now, the situation is very different.
This can't help but make people feel the cruelty of reality.
Genius is 99% effort, plus 1% talent, but in addition, if you want to succeed, you probably need a little luck.
Behind the gods at the top of the mountain are countless people who go up the mountain.
And Wu Kexian is the true epitome of many people who have struggled for half a lifetime.
They have worked hard and been brilliant.
But in the end, they are annihilated in the long stream of history, like a star falling quietly.