"I love you and love you, just like a mouse loves rice..."
This song "Mouse Loves Rice" has been popular all over the streets, and singer Yang Chengang has also become popular because of this.
However, after the explosion of popularity, Yang Chen just quickly passed away, and was even ridiculed for looking like Wang Dazhi and Sun Nan, and was made into an emoji.
After 17 years, the Hong Kong media exposed his recent photos, which look no different from when he was young.
In fact, he has been producing new songs and concerts over the years, but there is no longer a god like "Rats Love Rice".
But he was born in the grassroots, and he was not willing to return to ordinary life, believing that he was the real "rock musician".
01, grassroots singers became popular overnight
Yang Chengang came from an ordinary family, born and raised in Wuhan, the "punk capital", and has loved music since he was a child, especially rock music.
After graduating from Zhongnan University of Finance and Economics, he did not choose an ordinary job step by step, but insisted on entering the music circle despite his family's opposition.
He went to learn guitar for a few years and also studied professional composition with professors at the Wuhan Conservatory of Music.
After that, he also pulled a few good friends to form a band, from punk to heavy metal, and walked in various bars and performance venues in Wuhan.
However, they have not made a name for themselves, nor have they made any money, so they can only nibble on instant noodles and make music every day.
Life is very hard, but the dream is hot, Yang Chengang tirelessly insists on rehearsal, practices until late at night every day, and then walks for 3 hours on the back of the piano to return to the residence.
Later, in order to make a living, he also began to think about writing songs, Chinese songs, Cantonese songs and Japanese songs, but most of his works were not cared about.
However, the Internet age has given many ordinary people the opportunity to become famous overnight.
He casually wrote "Mouse Loves Rice", the melody is brainwashed, the lyrics are simple, but catchy, and it was accidentally popular after being posted on the Internet, and even beat Jay Chou's "Qilixiang", Lin Junjie's "Jiangnan" and Eason Chan's "Ten Years" in the same period.
The song also set a new Guinness book at the time, with 6 million monthly downloads of the single, 1.5 million genuine records sold, and was translated into 10 languages, including English, Japanese, and Korean, and sung around the world.
"Mouse Loves Rice" has also been adapted into a TV series, movie, game, and novel of the same name, with very good sales and continuous fermentation of popularity, creating nearly 200 million yuan for the company in total.
Yang Chengang, who has mediocre talent and appearance and no background, has become a superstar, and his personal value ranks in the top three of Europe's Forbes rankings.
In 2005 and 2006, Yang Chengang was invited to participate in the CCTV Spring Festival Gala twice in succession, singing his famous song in the eyes of everyone.
He received a lot of commercial performances and concerts, and when he was busiest, he opened 30 concerts a month and traveled to 60 cities.
He also became a music producer, producing the interlude "Painting the Heart" sung by Zhang Liangying in the movie "Painted Skin", and the soundtrack from Jia Zhangke's film "Three Gorges Good Man".
Fans called him a "musical talent" and even pushed him to the top of the Chinese music scene, along with Jay Chou and Eason Chan, called him the "Big Three of Pop Music".
Yang Chengang claims to be an avid fan of Huang Jiaju, and it is an idol who inspires him to pursue music, "I have a family colt behind me, and I have always given me spiritual perseverance, so that I can become a musician like him." ”
Fame brought him an aura, and it also made him close to the idol at once.
The drummer of beyond band, Ye Shirong, participated in the production of Yang Chengang's new song "Husband PK Wife" and personally served as the drummer.
From a lonely and nameless poor boy, mistakenly hit and bumped into a big star, which can be called a "magical" way of becoming popular, so that Yang Chengang was at a loss.
Over a hundred million yuan, so that he has the ability to satisfy material desires.
Millions of Rolls-Royce said to buy and buy, not only the appearance of the flamboyant, but also drove a luxury car to run the rental, afraid that others would not know that they had money.
The top popularity has given him an unscrupulous confidence.
In 2006, he performed with Cai Guoqing and Yan Weiwen platter, and after the end of the trip, they took the bus back together.
After the group got on the bus, the bus driver did not leave the bus for a long time and smoked in the closed compartment.
The singers were very dissatisfied, but only dared to whisper complaints, and the driver turned a deaf ear and continued to do his own thing.
Only Yang Chen just clenched his fists and angrily went to the driver to seek justice, almost physically clashing with the other party.
In the face of the sudden glory, Yang Chengang of course enjoyed it very much, and once thought that his talent could really compete with Jay Chou.
However, the complexity of Vanity Fair also made him suffer from loss and loss, fearing that he would lose attention and fall back to the bottom.
02, "do" the heat, lose all the family property
Sure enough, in just a few years, Yang Chengang's heat subsided.
Not to mention the real music talent Jay Chou and Eason Chan, even the Internet singers who sang "Love Deal" and "Can't Afford to Hurt", the popularity easily crushed him.
After 2006, he has not received so many performances, and he is tired of being asked to sing only "Mouse Loves Rice" every time he appears.
But after he refused, no one came to invite him to perform, and he could only attend some running parties.
Every time he attends a public event, he is accompanied by many staff and bodyguards.
Once, he went to a new film launch and brought 8 assistants to attend, which was bigger than the protagonist.
Song Dandan also angrily rebuked him for playing a big card, but the more he lacked something, the more he liked to show off something, and he only wanted to use it to cover up his "past".
In 2007, a woman named Yang Lijuan was obsessed with Andy Lau and went to Hong Kong to meet idols even if she lost her family.
When Yang Lijuan's parents accompanied her to Andy Lau's birthday party in Hong Kong, Andy Lau called for reason to follow the stars and did not agree to Yang's father's request to "meet alone".
Yang's father jumped into the sea in anger and committed suicide, and Yang Lijuan and her mother were penniless and could not be buried.
After this matter was exposed, the media carried out an overwhelming "crusade" against Yang Lijuan, and Yang Chengang was no exception.
He blamed Yang Lijuan for not filial piety, but also sympathized with her father, and decided to donate 20,000 yuan to Yang Lijuan to bury her father.
To this end, he held a special "donation ceremony" and invited dozens of media to witness it.
A few days later, a media reporter received an email from a record company in Beijing, saying that "Yang Chen is willing to pay for the funeral of the fan's deceased father out of his own pocket."
Donating money is still so expensive, the outside world questions him is to hype and eyeballs.
At the same time, some people also pulled out that he owed 80,000 yuan to several music producers and did not pay it back, resulting in his reputation being ruined and he was infamous.
In order to maintain his popularity and popularity, he began to participate in TV shows and guest TV series, no matter how good or bad the role was, what the reputation was, and he only hoped that someone would remember him.
However, while he enjoyed tirelessly pursuing fame and profit, the wind evaluation also became worse and worse, from the top stream of the past to a "jumping beam clown", and was ridiculed and teased by the public without a bottom line.
In 2011, Yang Chengang was invited to participate in the Beijing Strawberry Music Festival and performed a heavy metal version of "Mice Love Rice" on stage.
As soon as Yang Chen appeared on the scene, the atmosphere of the scene immediately reached its peak, and everyone in the audience sang along with him, interspersed with insults and ridicule.
Some called his songs "agricultural metal," some called him "brain-sick," and some threw toilet paper and garbage on the stage.
Yang Chengang just bent down to pick up the roll of toilet paper, wrapped it around his head and neck, and shouted, "Let's play together." ”
Afterwards, Liang Huan, a well-known music critic, asked him in an interview whether he knew that the organizers' intention was to ridicule him and take the opportunity to create entertainment news.
He said he knew it and knew that being on the Strawberry Festival would cause a lot of controversy, but he still wanted others to know that he was doing rock 'n' roll and was reluctant to give up the rare opportunity to appear on stage.
In the years that followed, he worked, but did not make any splashes.
It wasn't until 2016 that he sang Chinese the theme song "Rabbit Loves Radish" for the movie "Zootopia", which gained some attention.
But he just tasted a little sweetness, and once again because of the "hype" overturned.
In 2016, he rushed to Hong Kong to pay tribute to Huang Jiaju, singing "Sea and Sky" in front of Huang Jiaju's tombstone. While crying loudly.
He also posted a photo with Huang Jiaju's tombstone on social platforms, with the caption: "If it weren't for this way, I would never have been able to take pictures with my idol." It used to be because I didn't have the ability to see him, and now I don't have a chance. ”
The move caused public outrage, and netizens criticized: "Taking a photo with a tombstone is a very impolite thing, which is a great disrespect for the deceased." ”
Since then, Yang Chengang's popularity has completely fallen to the bottom and almost disappeared in the circle.
All kinds of criticism about him have never stopped.
Some say he became poor and miserable; others say he became a billionaire and lived a prosperous life.
In this regard, Yang Chengang responded in Liang Huan's program: "It is a bit too much to say that poverty is poor, but now life is really stressful. ”
His popularity declined and his reputation collapsed, but he accumulated a rich fortune when he became popular.
However, in 2014, Yang Chen befriended a "Shanghai big sister" who claimed to be engaged in the performing arts industry, and the eldest sister said that her company wanted to sign Zhang Huimei, Tan Yonglin and others, and urgently needed a large amount of money turnover, and wanted to borrow money from him to temporarily fill the funding gap.
As soon as Yang Chen listened, without saying a word, he took out all the cash, mortgaged the house, and handed over more than ten million to the eldest sister.
Later, the eldest sister went to prison for fraud, and Yang Chen just knew that he had been deceived.
The house is gone, the money is gone, the career is even more unprovoked, Yang Chen just to fill the deficit, still rely on eating old money, run to sell rice to make money.
Today, Yang Chengang and his girlfriend who fell in love before becoming famous ended their eight-year relationship and got married.
He also gave birth to a very lovely daughter, although her life is not rich, but it is also plain and stable.
However, he never gave up his musical dream, some people doubted that he could not write songs, he improvised on the spot, and sincerely replied: "I write songs every day, every moment." ”
In the interview show, the host asked a slightly sarcastic question: "Do you think your new song is a bit similar to 'Little Apple'?" ”
Yang Chengang immediately explained awkwardly, "No... Because this is in our legal definition, if there are two subsections, it will not be that. ”
In 2018, he released a new album with 119 songs, setting a Guinness Book of Records, but unfortunately no one cared.
In December last year, he broadcast his new song launch online, and the number of viewers was only single digits.
He insisted on holding concerts every year, and even if he only had two hundred fans, he did his best to perform.
Fame made him think that his talent was affirmed, and he quickly became the laughing stock of the public.
What's even more tragic is that, whether famous or not, there is a thick wall between him and his favorite music.
03. Conclusion
Many people look down on Yang Chengang and think that he has completely borrowed the east wind of the times and flew for a while in the world that does not belong to him.
No looks, no talent, no strong strength, sooner or later will fall back to the ground.
And after he became popular, he also once swelled, was fascinated by fame and fortune, and tried his best to rely on hype to attract eyeballs.
However, in addition to the sensational hype and the embarrassment of not being able to come up with the work, his path to fame does not have too many black spots.
He married his first love girlfriend steadily, treated his friends with his heart and lungs, and diligently insisted on his impossible musical dreams.
As an inconspicuous small character in the crowd, it is his luck to crash into the Internet and become famous overnight, and it is also an unfortunate thing to see the peak and fall quickly.
After all, it is easy to go from frugality to luxury, and it is more difficult to go from luxury to frugality.
But this is also essentially because of his lack of ability and cannot catch his luck.
Relying on opportunism to go far, if you want to win a place in the entertainment industry, you still have to rely on your own strength after all.
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Author: Asagiri
Editor-in-charge: Zeria