I don't know when it began, "funeral culture" became popular on the Internet.
Everyone habitually expresses their inner collapse, vulnerability, and pain on social software, from work, family, and career to a little unhappiness and a sentence of blame that they do not understand.
Even celebrities can not escape the "net or cloud", late-night blog "life really has to work hard all the time?" ”
The adult world does not have the word easy, sometimes just a moment, it will be easily crushed.
A few days ago, Mao Buyi and Nakajima Mika's new song "You Another me living elsewhere" was launched, and it poked the hearts of many people.
190 million entries were read and 198,000 discussions were discussed.
In the comments, netizens have said "see crying" and "cured".
The two voices representing the oriental nature of healing for the first time broke the dimensional wall cooperation, warm healing voices, straight to the heart of the lyrics, telling the same persistence and hope of ordinary characters in different regions.
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With a soothing prelude, Mao does not easily sing softly "Like who kicks the flying can, you occasionally sigh like this, wrapped in reality and spinning around." ”
A simple two-sentence lyric allows the listener to see the self who is often mentally broken and crushed by various pressures because of trivialities.
Chinese and Japanese, due to language problems, will have a great sense of deviation when singing, but they are unexpectedly well connected.
In order to keep the whole song from being split, Mao did not change some biting words, and after he sang the main song to a high point in one breath, Mika Nakajima caught it with a weakening treatment, making the layering of the whole song more delicate.
In order to be more in line with the idea of the creation, the chorus part of the chorus uses English to express the differences and similarities of the two people.
The rhythm of the song is also grasped just right, and although the drum kit is only an entry-level slow drum beat, the overall effect can accelerate the emotional process.
In the second main song part, the background music is added to the flute, making the tone of the whole song brighter.
The whole song is interwoven in Chinese, Japanese and English, and Mika Nakajima's sense of lightness contrasts with Mao's difficult low voice, but it is balanced and harmonious, and every place is empathetic.
You who live elsewhere, you who experienced all this with me from afar; you who also refuse to give up are actually like another me.
This "you", who may be the future me, may still be struggling between dreams and reality, constantly fighting against loneliness, struggling to march to the other side of the goal;
This "you" may also be a companion on the road of life, because of the common ideals and topics, accompanied by the same way forward, perhaps this person lives elsewhere, there is still time to meet.
In the comments section of the song, I found many such "you".
"You swallow the embarrassment of fate, but you are brave enough."
Some people have disrupted the original rhythm of life because of the sudden epidemic, but they are still optimistic to face it, and more than three hundred "refueling" replies are the warmth from strangers.
"Hope is always like, a skipped answer, out of reach on the other side, teasing you to taste regrets before you arrive."
Each of us has an ideal college and a dream in our hearts, but many times we will miss our goals, and we will taste disappointment and taste all the pain.
But it is precisely because of these regrets that the final success can make us tear up.
"Through all the tears and hopes, through all the pain and love, your smile will be my only wish."
In ordinary life, who is not loaded with poetry and distant places in their hearts, and then plunged into the trivial life of chai rice oil and salt, but in our hearts, we always have love and expectations.
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If someone asks me whose song will make you cry as soon as you hear it, then I will definitely answer Mao Is not easy.
His official debut was the 2017 talent show "Children of Tomorrow", which won the championship of the national finals, but it was really understood and recognized, which was a song "Dispel Sorrows".
The number of plays exceeded 10 million in 24 hours, the first week exceeded 100 million, and the Kugou single best-seller chart won the number one for three consecutive months.
The lyrics of this song, without flowery words and without strong love, have written the life of ordinary people.
"A cup of respect for the morning sun, a cup of respect for the moonlight" is the fearlessness of youth; "a cup of respect for the hometown, a cup of respect for the distant place" is the confusion of youth; "a cup of respect for tomorrow, a cup of respect for the past" is middle-aged loneliness; "a cup of respect for freedom, a cup of respect for death" is the release of old age.
Most of the people who like Mao are not easy because they find their own shadow in his songs.
That ordinary and ordinary self, working hard in a big city far from home, pursuing his dreams, will sometimes be defeated by reality, but he is not willing to be so mediocre all his life.
As he sings in another song, "A Man Like Me": "A person as good as me, who should have lived a brilliant life, how come more than twenty years later, he is still floating in the sea of people." ”
I once saw a netizen share his story on Zhihu:
After graduating from university, I ran to Beijing alone for my dream and began a life of north drift.
After living in the basement, when it rains, the house is full of water, and for a while I was unemployed, with only four hundred yuan left on my body, and I even hesitated to buy a bag of instant noodles for a long time.
Later, I found a job, real estate sales, performance was not up to standard, I was reprimanded by the leader every day, and finally the salary was pitifully small, and I could barely maintain my daily expenses.
Farther and farther away from what he wanted to do, less and less hope, every day back to the rental house began to cry, once wanted to escape back to his hometown.
Later, I happened to see the video of Mao Buyi singing "Dispel Sorrows", and the tears suddenly did not stop and cried out, but after crying, I was relieved.
I'm still drifting north, not very good, but it's been getting better, sometimes I'm in a low mood to listen to Mao's songs, we are all ordinary people, but we can try to make our lives not ordinary.
In the comments of this story, there are many people who recount similar experiences, and most of the people who are wandering outside are similar.
There are too many songs, singing lingering love, singing vigorous life, but there are few singers singing about the lives of ordinary people.
Ordinary family, ordinary looks, professional adjustment and busy and boring work, but still carrying musical dreams, this is Mao Buyi before becoming famous, an ordinary person.
It is precisely because he has tasted the bitterness and bitterness that he can sing on the stage the hometown of extinction, the distant place of longing, the infinite confusion and the rush between the north and the south, and finally sing into everyone's heart.
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I believe that many people have seen the video of Mika Nakajima singing "Once I Thought of a Hundred", with 6.35 million views and 44,000 bullet screens on the B station.
Someone said: "When the prelude first started, I already got goosebumps and tears came out." ”
The first half of the song, like its name, makes people feel extreme pain and despair.
"I have thought about it for a hundred times, because my heart has long been hollowed out, and my heart cannot be filled with crying, because I still long for something; I have also thought about a hundred times because of the loose shoelaces, I can't tie it tightly, as if I don't know how to tie someone tightly." 」
A cry of "I once thought about it for a hundred years" seemed to pull the soul into the deep darkness, suppressed and breathless.
But as the song progressed to climax, a strong sense of hope slowly emerged.
"Because there are people like you, I like the world a little, because there are people like you, I began to look forward to the world a little." 」
On stage, Mika Nakajima threw herself into the song with an emotion that was beyond singing, so hysterically desperate and so full of hope, as if she were the person in the lyrics.
Mika Nakajima is indeed the person in the lyrics.
In 2010, Mika Nakajima suffered from "Eustachian tube openness", could not hear her voice, and went to the United States to seek medical treatment, but was told that there was "no cure".
During the restoration, Mika Nakajima was still trying to sing, but she received countless bad reviews, and was even evaluated by the media as "the ghost who sang crying wolf howl".
Just when everyone thought she would never be able to return to the music scene, Mika Nakajima returned with "Once I Thought About a Hundred Times".
At the concert, Mika Nakajima, dressed in a red dress, said, "This is a song that represents my heart. I think you have also had a depressed and depressed moment, and today I want to sing everyone's voice, please be sure to hear the end. ”
Unable to hear the sound, she could only rely on constantly stomping her feet to grasp the beat, and even needed to kneel on the ground and touch the sound to find the rhythm.
That year, Japan's suicide rate dropped to its lowest on record, and the song saved countless people with depression.
On the bullet screen of the B station video, it is also full of pouring out and confiding of the heart:
"I told my parents I was depressed, and they said I just thought too much."
"If I could, I don't want to be rejected anymore."
"I feel so tired in life that I can't hold on."
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But as the video goes by the end, it's more hope and encouragement from strangers that are re-evoked by the song:
"Thank you for this song, let me believe that there are still people in the world who love me."
"Please keep going."
"Thanks to myself for persevering, everything will be fine."
"Don't be afraid, we're still here."
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Music is powerful, regardless of borders, it is like a beam of light, although it cannot be seen, it can shine into everyone's heart.
One is a "weird coffee" in the music circle, using a unique songwriting style and soft voice to heal countless Chinese singer Mao Buyi;
One is Mika Nakajima, a Japanese singer who sings with her life, brings hope to depressed people and points the way for the lost.
Two companions on the musical journey shared the resonance and experience of the journey together, bringing 1+1>2 surprises and warmth.
Many times, we do not listen to the song, but the story inside the song, and in a certain moment, we suddenly touch the truth and pain in the depths of each adult's heart.
Collapse and vulnerability are the norm in life, but please don't give up on yourself, stick to it, and always find your own love.
The world is not very good, but it is not too bad, you have to believe that there is always someone willing to wait for you, willing to love you.