After living for more than half a life, Wang Lihong was said by this young man that he was old and not handsome.
It is not a big deal that everyone will grow old, but Wang Lihong is different, for many years, he was the prince of the Chinese music scene.
But 45-year-old Wang Lihong recently experienced a series of face value collapse incidents.
First, in April, Wang Lihong updated a group of latest photos with Huo Jianhua and Fang Wenshan on the social platform, which shocked many netizens. In the photo, Wang Lihong wears a hat, glasses, and a thick beard, everyone says that this is still the handsome second brother of the wind god?
Then Wang Lihong and Jay Chou sang the song "The Only" at a friend's birthday party, allowing countless netizens to call "Ye Qinghui". But as soon as the photo was exposed, Zhou Dong was still such a youthful and energetic little public move, but Wang Lihong was wearing a crumpled plaid shirt, full of stubble, doubling the vicissitudes.
The climax is May 17, Wang Lihong's 45th birthday, happy to post a selfie, said that he did not expect his hair to grow long enough to tie braids, the photo of LiHong, chin and mouth around the thick, lush beard slag, netizens were shocked again: Is this still the male god of the year? I don't know.
But there are always people who still know Wang Lihong.
For example, Zhou Dong appeared in the comment area and wrote: "Happy birthday, handsome man!" ”
When interviewed, he said that he would go to see Wang Lihong's concert, and would go to Wang Lihong's Weibo to leave a message: "Second brother, you are so good!" When will the concert" Gong Jun also sent his wishes: "Second brother, happy birthday".
But to tell the truth, compared to Zhou Dong, over the years, Wang Lihong's male god radiance has indeed faded.
Not long ago, on the day of the 13th anniversary of the Wenchuan earthquake, the only entertainment to the hot search was "Daoxiang" written by Zhou Dong for the Wenchuan earthquake.
In contrast, Wang Lihong's hot search in recent years is not so good.
The last time wahaha, who had worked with him for many years, terminated his contract, and the four most eye-catching words in the reason were - "older". His last album "A.I. Love" sold poorly, Douban scored 2.9 points, and Chi Zi directly complained in the show, which was crazy.
The last time was in July 2019, when Contemporary Oriental, which represented Wang Lihong's concert, terminated its cooperation with Wang Lihong's music company a year and a half ahead of schedule. According to media reports, in 2017 and 2018, Contemporary Oriental Investment Wang Lihong concert lost nearly 50 million yuan.
In the eyes of some people, the male god seems to be unable to return to the peak era of contending with Jay Chou, he is not "male god" enough, and the light exclusive to the male god on his body has gradually disappeared.
But I actually feel that compared to myself more than a decade ago, Wang Lihong now prefers my current self.
Wang Lihong, who has been red for decades and handsome for decades, has finally grown into Keanu Levis + Yu Hewei, how can he not be called a male god?
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Back in 2000, the year Jay Chou debuted, Wang Lihong was already very popular.
At that time, the godfather of the Taiwanese music scene R&B was Tao Zhe, and in 1997 he introduced such a singing style to Taiwan to bring a new style to the music scene, but the godfather's position was not yet secure, and Wang Lihong killed it.
Sabine once ridiculed Wang Lihong on a show: "Since we were young, we hated a person called 'Renjia', and our parents would often tell us, you see 'Renjia'. He is this 'man'. ”
Last time Wang Lihong on "Every Day Upwards" a sentence on the hot search, "I am the weakest, in our family."
Wang Han couldn't help but spit out when he heard this: "This is good Versailles." ”
Wang Lihong hurriedly waved his hand to explain that he was sincere: "Really, I can't compare with them." ”
Wang Lihong's maternal great-grandfather, Xu Fengzao, was a well-known Chinese admiral who was received by Dr. Sun Yat-sen for his contribution to the Wuchang Uprising. Grandma Xu Liufen, graduated from the Department of Economics of Tsinghua University, authored works such as "Principles of Accounting". Grandma, a senior student in the History Department of Shenyang Normal University.
The older brother, Wang Lide, is a doctor of medicine from Yale University, and the younger brother, Wang Likai, is a master's degree from MIT.
Born in such a family, the second brother can play the violin at the age of six, play the piano when he is eight years old, and has never stopped practicing from childhood to adulthood.
Later, even if his parents objected, he still embarked on the road of music, otherwise the music variety show would have a lot less golden songs to sing, and Gong Jun's favorite idol in college was Jay Chou.
After graduating from high school, Wang Lihong turned down offers from Yale University and Princeton University and chose Williams College, which can major in music. Later, he only received double honorary doctoral degrees from Williams College and Berkeley College of Music.
But when I entered the music scene, I was still handsome.
At the age of 19, Wang Lihong, a freshman at Williams College, was discovered by scouts on the street for returning to Taiwan to visit relatives.
After returning to the United States, he sent a videotape of himself playing and singing to the famous music producer Li Shouquan, and officially started his singing career.
At first, he also sang bitter love songs in the ancient style, until he jumped from Fumao to Sony in 1998 and became a full-time singer-songwriter, a fusion of Western-style R&B style of "Rotation", making him the youngest double singer king of the Golden Melody Awards at the age of 23.
But I never expected that in 1999, the composer of a song on his "Can't Miss You" album would become his strongest rival in the song world in the future.
The song is called "Open Love" and the composer is Jay Chou.
At that time, Jay Chou was called the king of retired songs, wrote "Ninja" for Zhang Huimei and was retired, and wrote "Tears Know" for Andy Lau to be retired, only Li Hong was the best person, received the song, and the song was not red.
In those years, Wang Lihong's fame became more and more famous, and the idea of making Chinese style music in his heart became more and more intense.
Although they grew up overseas, many overseas Chinese traditional Chinese education is stronger, and even the reserved project of family gatherings when they were young is to sing the famous song "Descendants of the Dragon" by uncle Li Jianfu.
In 2000, Wang Lihong's first fully talented record was released - "Descendants of the Dragon", the album's title song, and also became a golden song that Lihong must sing for 20 years.
But the applause was quickly overshadowed by a newcomer's record, the album, called Jay.
The first time I heard "Niangzi" on the album was in KTV, and as a result, singing K became listening to songs, and after listening to it ten times in a row, she was completely crazy and said what this thing was.
Li Zongsheng and Luo Dayou directly exploded after listening.
The next story is too easy to guess, and the two creative kings have begun to enter the era of soaring songs - you come to a powerful song, I will make more powerful.
In September 2001, Wang Lihong's "The Only" was released, which is another album full of Wang Lihong's style, he arranged all the compositions, the album "The Only" and "Love is You", and became Wang Lihong's representative work.
But 14 days later, Jay Chou's "Fantasia" was released, which is recognized as the peak work of Zhou Dong, officially opening the era of Jay Chou's sweep.
What does sweep mean?
In the past, singers released albums that were audio tapes, divided into AB sides, the main song was placed on the A side, and some songs that were not so popular were put on the B side.
One record of 10 songs, it is good to be able to red three.
But Jay Chou's "Fantasia" is all red, and every song is red! You say it's not strong.
But in the third "Octave Space", it is relatively not so powerful.
In 2003, Jay Chou performed as a finalist at the 14th Golden Melody Awards.
In less than 6 minutes, he ran through the entire track with the piano part of the unpublished "In the Name of the Father", skewering 7 songs: "Daddy I'm Back", "Who Knows", "Ninja", "Alishan Girl", "Double Stick", "Prague Square", and "Grandpa's Tea".
The audience was dumbfounded after listening. And Jay Chou was dissatisfied that he had only been shortlisted for two awards, and directly sang his resentment on the stage: "Seeing that Jay Chou's three words were only shortlisted for two, I saw that I was very bitter and depressed..."
After singing, he left and went home to write "Grandma", a song that was included in Zhou Dong's other work of fengshen in 2003 - "Ye Huimei".
When Zhou Dong swept the Chinese music scene, Wang Lihong also ushered in his own explosive period.
In 2004, Wang Lihong went to Tibet, Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Yunnan and other places to collect styles, collect ethnic music elements, use traditional instruments such as flutes, Yangqin, and liuxianqin, and finally present an album that perfectly integrates gorgeous Chinese style and modern pop - "Sun and Moon in the Heart", the title song of the same name and "Deep in the Bamboo Forest", even if you listen to it now, it is still standing at the forefront of the trend.
The following year, "Heroes of the Gestapo" also integrates Chinese elements such as Peking Opera and Kunqu Opera, and the music has both the style of American music and the wind and bone of traditional music.
At the 2005 Golden Melody Awards, both men sat on the stage wearing a white suit, and Wang Lihong said, "Because Jaylen's standard of writing songs is very high, he will also let me go to push my progress." ”
At the 15th Golden Melody Awards, he won the Best Album Producer Award from Faye Wong, Zhang Yadong and Jay Chou with the album "Incredible", and the existence of Jay Chou did push him to progress.
But realistically speaking, at the peak of the two, Zhou Dong was still a little red, so there was a saying that Jay Lun was born, why not give birth to Wang Lihongzhi later.
Zhou Dong's style is relatively rich, there are love songs and there are many rap elements, there are Chinese styles and R&B styles, it is really all-you-can-eat, and Wang Lihong's bias towards rock and lyricism, the fan crowd is biased towards young men and women, just like Gong Jun said, the most listened to in college is Wang Lihong.
Unfortunately, the musical careers of the "King of Zhou" began at a similar time and ended at the same time.
Entering 2010, only Jay Chou's new songs, "Fireworks Easy to Cold" and "Confession Balloon", can reach his previous height in a few songs, and are no longer the first invincible state; and Wang Lihong's glory is like staying in the past after "Eighteen Martial Arts".
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In addition to the music scene, in fact, the battlefield of Zhou Dong and Wang Lihong also occurs in the film world.
Jay Chou's first contact with movies was in 2005, and as soon as he came up, he was found by Liu Weiqiang to play the male protagonist Fujiwara Takumi of "Head Text D". Teacher Chen, who recently selectively removed Nike, was put in male number two.
Liu Weiqiang really understands casting, fujiwara Takumi this role, Teacher Chen played, of course, also OK, but Jay Chou acted, do not do the second candidate, both are introverted, not good at expression, easy to shy.
In addition to Liu Weiqiang, Zhou Dong was also the male protagonist of Zhang Yimou's "Full of Golden Armor", the movie is good or not, the focus is that he wrote two songs to Zhang Yimou, one of which made the ending song - "Chrysanthemum Stage".
Wang Lihong also acted in Tang Jili's "Thunder X-Men" very early, and in 2010, he cooperated with Jackie Chan in "Big Soldiers and Young Generals".
The action scenes are personally fought, and the punches are punched to the flesh.
But the most famous thing about this movie is that Jackie Chan lived with Wang Lihong for three months, watching Wang Lihong open the computer to write music as long as he is empty, leaving a golden sentence -
"How nice it would be if Wang Lihong was his own son."
Another famous work of Wang Lihong is "No Questions Asked", and Shen Guangyao, played by him, contracted all the screams and admiration that could not be contained in the moment of appearance.
But in fact, director Li Fangfang has repeatedly mentioned how hard Wang Lihong has worked to shape the role: "There are 19 shots of a front-rolling shot, and the face, waist and arms are worn. ”
During filming, he once shut himself in the car and cried for an hour because he was too deep into the scene.
Although he was very devoted when filming, Zhou Wang's electrocution was always like playing with tickets, and after filming, he went back to music, and even the film debut of the two was still related to music.
Jay Chou's first play was "The Secret That Cannot Be Said", in which he served as the director, star and screenwriter.
The film score is 7.8, whether it is the main line through time and space, or the details of 108 steps from the piano room to the classroom, and then to Jay Chou's fighting piano clip, it is a classic, and even now there are Koreans who think that Zhou Dong is an actor, because the movie is too popular in South Korea.
But in 2013, Jay Chou became a director again, filming "Rooftop Love", there was no surprise of "The Secret That Cannot Be Said", and then filmed "Panda Man" and pounced, Zhou Dong gave up the road of directing and concentrated on going to Hollywood to shoot "Green Hornet".
Wang Lihong directed the film three years later than Jay Chou, and in 2010, he invited Liu Yifei and him to make "Love Announcement".
Compared with Zhou Dong, the second brother's directorial talent is obviously slightly inferior, this movie has too many bugs, the story of big stars pretending to be ethnic minorities to enroll in music colleges is a big problem, and the film rhythm is also very bad, full of a sense of patchwork.
But Wang Lihong and Liu Yifei's appearance is fantastic, the music in the movie is also great, and when Wang Lihong's "Things You Don't Know" sounded, the audience felt that everything was worth it.
But Wang Lihong is a very self-aware idol, and this play has not directed a film since then.
But the golden age of the second brother is also coming to an end, and no one can stand on the peak forever.
At his peak, Wang Lihong was a well-deserved power idol in the music industry, and was praised by Jacky Cheung as "one of the few artists in the circle who can be called beautiful and have musical talent".
However, Wang Lihong's peak works are almost all in Sony, and after bidding farewell to Sony's self-reliance portal, the biggest flaw in Wang Lihong's music has been exposed - relying too much on Wang Lihong himself.
As a creative talent, Wang Hong, like Tao Zhe, loves to do the writing of music and lyrics and arranging music by himself, and has talent, but there is also a fatal shortcoming, that is, it is easy to exhaust his talent.
There was no good song for a long time after Tao Zhe wrote "Su San Shuo", and there were no good songs for several years after Wang Lihong wrote "Eighteen Martial Arts".
In contrast, Jay Chou has Fang Wenshan in words, Zhong Xingmin and Hong Jingyao in the arrangement, and even if the decline period of talent comes, it can easily explode the entire Chinese music scene.
In addition to the musical bottleneck, the storm in 2012, Liu Qian's words, forced him and Li Yundi to be tied together, becoming people's talk after dinner.
Public opinion controversy and lack of follow-up works have become inevitable.
But another reason is that the Chinese music scene as a whole began to decline.
After 2010, the era of physical records withered, Internet celebrity songs rose, and the era of stars shining passed, and Jay Chou's albums became slower and slower.
In 17 years, Wang Lihong launched the album "AI Love", which was ridiculed by Li Tian, and there was no other problem except that it was ugly.
He terminated his contract with the performance agency and was terminated by Wahaha, who has not raised the endorsement fee for 20 years, and this era is young.
Jay Chou said, "If one day you are tired and feel warm when you hear simple love, then I have not passed through your youth in vain." In fact, I have already figured out my own way out, I am the owner of the record company, so I will sign your favorite children and let them sing the songs I wrote - Jay Chou's era will never pass. ”
Get it Zhou Dong, you don't even have time to write songs for yourself, where are any children, the music scene is still only Jay Chou.
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The peak has passed, but the golden song of king Zhou is still being sung.
Jay Chou during the "Magic Lord" period has been questioned Jiang Lang's talent, but a "Daoxiang" is still remembered and mentioned, and there is still a hot one.
In the 2021 New Year's Eve concert, Wang Lihong appeared on Hunan Satellite TV, and a song "Descendants of the Dragon" cooperated with Wang Yibo became the highest point of the night.
The old idol is still an idol.
Even after being endorsed for 20 years, Wahaha terminated the contract, and was also complained by the founder's daughter that he was old and had aesthetic fatigue, his gentle and elegant response still won the full house: "A piece of growing up, I want to be grateful for everyone who has supported me since childhood... I will definitely continue to support and keep drinking. ”
What he said about music was, "From the time of my first album, it's been over a quarter-century now, and all the way there has been learning, learning to sing."
Although not so red, more of his strengths are beginning to be seen. For example, in life, he is a very frugal person, who once posted his suitcase that he used for nearly a decade on social platforms, and decided to replace it with a new one until it was broken.
Chen Jianzhou has sunburned Wang Lihong's car, compared to other stars often millions of supercars, Wang Lihong's car is very economical, the body is full of scratches but does not repair the paint, but also responded that the paint is not to let others recognize their cars at a glance, saving a lot of precious time.
Even if people reach middle age, Wang Lihong will always carry a sense of purity and youthfulness.
In a recent photo, Wang Lihong, with a muscular figure, is naked with his upper body and his hands on the ground, and his body is completely empty except for the palm of his hand.
What has not changed in the years is his gentleness, he has been slandered by a female fan over the years, and the concert was thrown into the chest, but Wang Lihong told the fans that "she is just sick, don't hurt her, thank you."
The rumors of that year finally dissipated with the facts.
In November 2013, Wang Lihong officially announced the marriage of his wife Li Lianglei, and eight months later, the two children were born. Today, the two have been married for nearly a decade and have two daughters and a son. The marketing number can't help but ask: "Wang Lihong has three children, do you still not believe that he is a straight man?" 》。
In October 2016, after the birth of his youngest daughter, Wang Lihong personally composed lyrics and composed music for his daughter in order to express his love for his two daughters.
The filming of the song MV was also conceived by him personally, and in the MV, it also included Wang Lihong's handwritten letter to his daughter, and the picture of Wang Lihong and his wife Li Lianglei just giving birth to the baby in the delivery room.
The national idols of that year seemed to inevitably become daughter slaves.
Recently, Zhou Dong's wife Kunling posted a photo of the back of her daughter Xiao Zhou Zhou playing a violin on social platforms.
Xiao Zhouzhou's back photo is exactly the same as the scene in Jay Chou's "Past Life Lover" MV.
Zhou Dong and Kunling have two children, a daughter and a son, but in the daily photos and sharing, Zhou Dong always spoils his daughter and holds him, and his son is put aside.
When he took pictures of his daughter playing the piano, he also blew his daughter's rainbow fart: "The back of the piano is so beautiful, well, it is worthy of my past life lover."
Zhou Dong, who became a daughter slave, is still like a teenager of the year, playing in the human world.
And Wang Lihong's recent photo, growing a beard and wearing a suit, made netizens call out and bump their faces into Keanu Reeves. Some netizens ridiculed and commented that this is ""Rapid Pursuit 5: Descendants of the Dragon"" And some netizens feel that "it is obviously Yu Hewei".
In fact, Wang Lihong has never been impressed by his appearance: "I don't feel anything about my appearance, because I have seen my ugliest appearance, like when I sleep and take a shower." ”
In his mind there was only music, and now there were a few more people.
"No Questions Asked" says, "If you know in advance the life you will face, I don't know if you still have the courage to come?" ”
When Wang Lihong was a child abroad, he also had moments of being inexplicably bullied and confused and anxious.
In Rochester at that time, the Proportion of Chinese in the local population did not exceed 1%, he was the only Chinese in the school, another foreign classmate was Indian, and the rest were white Americans.
When he was young, he didn't understand things, and he would always make fun of his racial characteristics.
In the end, it was music that saved him.
From then on, this teenager, "Love what you love, do what you do." Listen to your heart and ask no questions. ”
Although he met Jay Chou in his heyday, it was not Jay Chou's fault, nor Wang Lihong's fault. It's just a coincidence of time.
When he met, it was not born at the right time, but it came just right, he and Jay Chou are classic gentleman's disputes, fighting is talent, not traffic, position, row of these things, the king does not see the king is not there, until now Jay Chou has not forgotten to send his birthday blessings.
Perhaps it was born in the era of the old land of fighting strength that there was the peak duel of the King of Zhou.
And Wang Lihong has the story of Wang Lihong, and Jay Chou also has the story of Jay Chou.
From the green onion years to the establishment of a family, from the young and green to the bearded uncle, the teenager of the year may not know that after many years, he will have an extra layer of gentleness into chai rice oil and salt.
After 20 years of the battle of the kings, they finally divided the victory and defeat, they did not lose to each other, but they all lost to this era of traffic.
The era that belongs to them has passed, the era of traffic has fully appeared, and it is better than any golden song, which is better than the lamp sign. The only pity is that the traffic hit songs of the top streams of new music are often not heard by ordinary people.
Well, the rivers and lakes are far away, go home to the milk baby.