I don't know if you remember 3unshine, a group that has been full of magic from its appearance to its operation, once again entered the "magic moment" after the first leg of the new album's national tour on June 19 this year.
First, at the end of June, the hot hand culture where he was located suddenly announced that the national tour of 3unshine's new album was suspended and cancelled after holding the Beijing station; then in early August, the group's producer Zhang Kailun spoke publicly, saying that 3unshine had disbanded.
Two months ago, it was still doing concerts, and two months later it was directly disbanded, and such news really caught fans off guard.
It was not until the 5th of this month that Abby, the captain of the 3unshine group, responded through social media, denying that the group had dissolved, and at the same time pointing out everything, that everyone found that the "affected by multiple factors" mentioned in the previous concert cancellation announcement referred to the irreconcilable contradiction between the artist and the company.
According to Abby, the contradiction between 3unshine and hot hand culture has begun since April this year, although it is sooner or later to be detonated, but the four-month-long undercurrent is suddenly set off, and there must always be a reason - in early August, Zhang Kailun's interview article.
Titled "A Star-Making Experiment in the Name of Ugliness," the interview tells the story of Hot Hand Culture, Kailun Zhang, and 3unshine over the years.
Zhang Kailun portrayed in the text is like a disappointed father who dotes on his children. By chance, he "adopted" three rustic and ugly girls who escaped from Sunshine 1 that year, and then raised and taught them with painstaking efforts, and took good care of them.
Under his almost hand-in-hand teaching, even now the children are still empty-headed, and they are perfectly transformed under the gaze of the public.
The rustic Cindy has become the "C Emperor" who controls the whole scene, the cowardly Abby has become a responsible captain, and the five-tone Dora has become a unique diva in the music scene... This also completely makes this once ridiculed group into a personality icon that now exalts itself and opposes the "thin and white" aesthetic.
So why is the combination still coming to an end?
It is due to the change in the mentality of the three girls, Zhang Kailun accused them of slacking off and not training, "less than three hours a day in the company, and there are some time in the occasional brush mobile phone"; accusing them of mud can not support the wall, "no talent", "guitar learning for 5 years, a song has not been written"; accusations that they have no dreams, just want fame and fortune, "as long as you have money"... Problems led to the dispersion of the combination.
In the end, a thousand words came together into one sentence: Zhang Kailun and Hot Hand Culture created a false prosperity of 3unshine, and after years of hard work, they finally found that the essence of several children was really "difficult to violate the destiny", so they gave up and unilaterally announced that 3unshine was over.
After the article was issued, it was expected to trigger the dissatisfaction of 3unshine fans, and then the user VindictiveScorpio published an article on behalf of 3unshine to fight Zhang Kailun with the title of "a workplace bully that began with jealousy" for 5 years.
The article does not deny Zhang Kailun's creation of 3unshine, but points out that he has squeezed the three girls indefinitely in the past few years: not signing a contract, just to take away all the shares; not operating, but eagerly pushing the girls into the mainstream for profit.
As for the final collapse of cooperation between the two sides, it is not from the girls' change of mentality, but the three girls finally know how to protect their own interests and take the contract to him to sign.
Looking at the two articles, the content is basically a model for artists and companies to fight, artists talk about withholding and squeezing, and companies belittling artists while crying about how ungrateful they are. Everyone has their own opinions and only talks about what is beneficial to them. The only thing that can be matched is probably only these three girls who are still living very poorly, with almost no foreign affairs and income, and three people are crowded in a small apartment to share the rent of 6,000 yuan, and they can't afford to pay one and pay three" if they want to change the house.
3unshine's current situation inevitably reminds people of Soda Green, who was still fighting with his former boss some time ago.
In 2003, the graduating Soda Green was discovered by Lin Weizhe, who was already a well-known producer at the time, and signed to his own company. Then, Lin Weizhe began to do his best to cultivate the band. In the absence of anyone's favor, he sold cars and houses to raise money for Soda Green to produce albums, giving each member enough space and voice to write their favorite works.
The two sides were once very close, and Wu Qingfeng said bluntly: The person who gave us life is Mom and Dad, and the person who gave us musical life is Wei Zhe.
However, the story took a sharp turn in 2016, and Lin Weizhe, who was comparable to Soda Green's father, first forced Soda Green to take a break for 3 years, and then directly confronted Wu Qingfeng in 2019, demanding that he return the copyright of Soda Green's 270 original songs;
Although the dispute ended in soda green victory, the price they paid was more than a layer of skin — the three-year hiatus caused them to lose their original momentum, the band was forced to change its name to "Fish Ding", and most importantly, the emotional trauma that can never be erased after the betrayal.
Looking back at 3unshine, the hot hand culture and Zhang Kailun are almost equivalent to their "Lin Weizhe", because of their intervention, these three girls have transformed from ordinary people into today's personality icons. Even in the later stage of operation, they have no talent, and even limit the further development of 3unshine, but it can still be said that without the hot hand culture and Zhang Kailun, there would be no 3unshine today.
In this way, their relationship must have been intimate. As for the current conflict between the two sides, although they have not yet gone to court, but looking at their financial transactions in recent years, it is probably sooner or later.
However, even with similar experiences, it is unclear whether 3unshine can survive the breakup with the company like Soda Green.
After all, they are fundamentally different.
Soda Green is a band, is a singer, let them have a place in the entertainment industry is the song, is the style, even if a long time off, lost the name, no copyright, they can also write and fight again, start again;
But what about 3unshine? They have been debuting for 5 years, and in the eyes of the public, they may just be a new symbol. In such a situation, I am afraid that there are still too many problems in front of Abby's vow to "not disband".