Not to create a relationship that is not coming to the Lunar New Year, recently the stars of the old friends reunited, nostalgia bureau is also becoming more and more numerous.
Here there are "Ling Fox Chong" Lu Songxian and "Little Master Sister" He Meidian, squatting in the cold and windy streets of Guangzhou to eat double skin milk, "Smiling Proud of the Jianghu" lovers can poke here to relive old dreams;
Over there, Chen Meiqi cue Ye Tong and Zhao Yazhi, and posted photos of the reunion of the crew before the "Legend of the New White Lady".
The show set the three of them on fire, and the discussion over the years has been focused on them. But when it comes to "The Legend of the New White Lady", in addition to thinking of the White Lady, Xiaoqing and the officials, the "Millennium Wait" that has not been able to be read calmly in Mandarin should also have a name.
It's just that the original singer of this song, Gao Shengmei, compared to the starring trio red foot for twenty years, she seems to be a little weak.
Today I saw a group of photos of Gao Shengmei performing in a village, the stage and equipment are very simple, she is wrapped in a thick down jacket, and sings "Water of the West Lake ~ My Tears ~ " for the Nth time"
Fixing your eyes on it, how is this dress a little familiar?
It turned out that when the previous commercial performances and recordings, this dress had been worn several times. Maybe that's the legendary, gold-digging suit?
This dress, which has been worn many times, and the song "Millennium Waiting" that has been sung more than 1,000 times, like the trajectory of her life, has a very gorgeous beginning, and then it is repeated, repeated, repeated.
On the contrary, it is the face that keeps pace with the times and constantly changes.
——I am the dividing line after Qiong Yao's song——
Gao Shengmei's popularity was around 1990, when many readers should not have been born. But in childhood, she always heard a few songs from TV or from her parents' mouths.
When the Roaring Sect Leader Ma Jingtao had not yet fully practiced the Lion Roaring Gong, he starred in the Qiong Yao drama "Qingqing Riverside Grass" with Yue Ling.
Gao Shengmei sang the theme song of the same name of the TV series, "Green River grass, leisurely day is not old, wildfires are endless, wind and rain can not blow down" is still at the top of the KTV love singing list of middle-aged uncles and aunts.
This TV series is one of Qiong Yao's "Six Dreams" series of works, and the other "Dumb Wife" episode "Speechless Asking the Heavens", "Love Deep Lock", "Snow Falling Without a Trace" is also sung by Gao Shengmei.
However, the most popular of Qiong Yao's series is "Wan Jun", and the interlude of this drama did not fall on Gao Shengmei's head, but gave it to her sister Li Yijun of the same company.
At that time, Li Yijun and Gao Shengmei were named the "Four Golden Nobiles of Taiwanese Idol Drama", Li Yijun was considered to be the one who sang the best, and Gao Shengmei won by numbers.
Because at that time, Qiong Yao dramas were all played at 8 o'clock, and the plays sung by Gao Shengmei who sang the theme song won the ratings championship, so she also got a "high eight points" reputation.
She debuted at the age of 15, singing those sad or romantic songs in Qiong Yao dramas when she was in her early 20s, unable to find inspiration from the thin emotional experience, all by virtue of a good voice.
Her voice is gentle and soft, her voice is sweet, and her talent for appreciating food and eating has been displayed from a very young age. At the age of 8, she won a prize in a singing competition, and since then, whenever there is a singing competition or performance in the school, there will be her program.
At the age of 23, he sang a song called "Waiting for a Thousand Years", which also completely helped Gao Shengmei open up the mainland market. How red was this song at the time?
In the 1990s, every household had its doors open, and the legend of the new white lady was on TV. A strong rhythmic prelude sounds, and the TV sound resonates with the neighbors and comes with 360-degree stereo sound.
Here is an unpopular knowledge point, which was popularized when the crew of "The Legend of the New White Lady" reunited last time. The interlude of the first paragraph of this song, everyone has been singing "la la
But in fact, Gao Shengmei sang "Chi~china" according to the meaning of the original songwriter, because the legend of the white snake is a Chinese musical and dramatic literary work, so he added this little thought.
From 1992 to 2021, this pension single, in these 29 years, she sang countless times.
According to common sense, this drama has been popular for decades, and Gao Shengmei's "Millennium Wait" has also been covered and adapted many times, and she may have already earned a lot of money with copyright fees.
But the reality is that for every record she was released that year, she was only paid 100,000 Taiwan dollars (about 20,000 yuan).
At that time, 15-year-old Gao Shengmei went to participate in the examination of Shangge Records and successfully passed the signing singer. The price that the record company negotiated with her was 100,000 Taiwan dollars for a record.
At that time, Gao Shengmei was still young and did not have any concept of royalties at all. So later her records sold millions and millions, but because she had a contract with the agency first, and it was a 10-year contract, she did not draw a penny of royalties.
Later, the reporter asked her that over the years, the total amount of royalties that should have belonged to her was at least one million, but she did not get it, would she have some resentment towards the former company?
Gao Shengmei said that gains and losses are fate. Without the company at that time to give her a chance, there would be no Gao Shengmei today.
From a practical point of view, there is a reason for this idea, at that time, this 20,000 yuan was already a huge amount of money that Gao Shengmei had never seen before.
——I am the dividing line of the motivation to make money——
Gao Shengmei is a minority, a Bunun person, and when he was a child, his family of 6 people all relied on his father's meager income of a few hundred yuan a month as a policeman to support himself.
The whole family slept on a tattered tatami mat, and there was a coffin next door. When she was in elementary school, Gao Shengmei often slept until she was halfway through and was shouted out of the house because she didn't have enough money to pay the rent.
She had seen how her father worked the night shift and lived a life of poverty, so her desire to make money from an early age was particularly strong.
Gao Shengmei said that at that time, the only idea was to grow up quickly and make money quickly.
Although looking back now, compared with the millions of royalties she missed, the tens of thousands of dollars that the record company gave her were not worth mentioning at all;
But at that time, it was these tens of thousands of pieces that allowed Gao Shengmei to take it home, which not only solved the urgent need, but also let Gao Shengmei's mother experience what is counting banknotes and what is maintenance products. Gao Shengmei said she was satisfied with it.
It's just that the flowers are not red. Gao Shengmei sang sweet songs from a background, and the song path itself was limited. And in those years, competitors also emerged.
Everyone's familiar Qiong Yao drama "A Curtain of Dreams" was put on the screen, and there were a total of seven songs in the play. Gao Shengmei was only assigned one of them, Li Yijun sang two, and the remaining 4 songs were all given to Xu Ruyun, a newcomer promoted by the record company.
The two Liangzi also secretly formed at this time.
After 7 years, Xu Ruyun sent an album of cover Songs of Qiong Yao, Gao Shengmei opened Mai to spit on Xu Ruyun, and also turned out the past of the theme song of "A Curtain of Dreams", saying that Xu Ruyun stole the songs that should have been sung by himself.
Xu Ruyun responded after being silent for a long time, when the former record company owner took the sample she sang to Qiong Yao to listen, Qiong Yao approved, before deciding to sing by her, it was absolutely impossible for her to "grab" to sing.
This matter has been a long time, and more than half a year has passed, and Gao Shengmei still can't help but blacken her face when questioned by reporters.
When it comes to interest relations, there are always some difficult intentions. And in the later stage, the record company did not support Gao Shengmei as much as the earliest, so after the partnership with the record company expired, Gao Shengmei chose to leave.
Basically, since then, there has been no new progress in the singing career, and I have been singing the old songs of the past.
On the one hand, the general environment of the music market has changed.
Gao Shengmei left the record company in 1999, and in 2000, a little princess who loved pink and loved to drink milk tea made her debut by singing "Hand in Hand, Two Steps, Three Steps, Four Steps, Looking at the Sky", which has since changed the style and trend of the entire music scene, and the sweet songs that Gao Shengmei is good at have no longer become the mainstream.
On the other hand, Gao Shengmei has not found another breakthrough for a long time.
In 2005, Gao Shengmei accidentally covered Huang Yingying's "Crying Sand" and won the best female singer at the 4th Golden Melody Awards in Taiwan, which also gave her the confidence to cover more songs.
But whether it is Luo Dayou's romantic and melancholy "Love Song 1990" or Li Zongsheng's slightly sad "Hill", Gao Shengmei always uses the Qiongyao-style sweetness she is good at to interpret, so there is always less memorable and special taste.
In fact, she has also been trying to find ways to be more in line with this era.
For example, playing new tricks with old songs with Internet celebrities, or being a judge in a variety show. But she herself is not a very variety show person, so there are almost no highlights to remember.
In addition, even from the 15-second short video, you can feel that Gao Shengmei herself is obviously more suitable for quiet than jumping and jumping.
Faye Wong of the same age was photographed bouncing and shaking her head, full of vitality, and the idea of the melon-eating masses was: Sister Fei begged for a belt!
In Gao Shengmei's short video, she just does some simple actions with Internet celebrities, but it feels like it is very hard, but it is not integrated.
So, in the end, she chose the simplest way to conform to this era: to conform to the aesthetics of this era.
Put yourself from this,
It became like this.
The composer of "A Thousand Years to Wait" once said that the audience is constantly improving with the times, and if they always feed them old things, they will not swallow.
In the current era, it is actually more inclusive. The rise of nostalgia retro craze, Gao Shengmei's old songs, fully have the confidence to let her eat the old book for a lifetime.
She bought a house in Shanghai 10 years ago, and now she is not married, and she has no worries about eating and wearing alone.
Not everyone is capable, and in their 50s they can still ride the tide of the times. Perhaps, there is nothing wrong with choosing to repeat the glory of the past all the time, at least there has been glory.