Cai Weize The original strength of young idols after 97 has emerged

Cai Weize entered the final four with original works. Courtesy of the organizer

On Friday night, the final four label battles for the second season of "Children of Tomorrow" were staged. After the test of individual wheel war, the five players Cai Weize, Deng Dian, Zhang Hunhao, Si Waige and Tian Yi welcomed five "Sister Sisters Gang Choir" in the second round: Yuan Yawei, Xu Jiaying, Zeng Yike, Meng Meiqi and Zhou Jieqiong. In the end, Zhang Xunhao regretted leaving, and Tian Yi won the strongest label in this period, equaling the record of the strongest label set by Cai Weize.

Since the first episode of the show was officially broadcast on June 30, the second season of "Children of Tomorrow" has exported many excellent original tracks to the Chinese music scene in more than two months. Among them, the contribution of "creative responsibility" Cai Weize cannot be ignored - from the "5:10a.m." which surprised everyone at its debut, to the first love song "Displaced Time and Displaced You" sung in this issue, to some extent, Cai Weize has successfully entered the "leading" ranks of post-97 idols and stepped into the door of popularity with musicians in the new era.

Niche vs Mainstream: Independent thinking creates a musical aesthetic

Cai Weize has always believed that the music he is making is relatively niche, "only by finding a balance between independent music and mainstream music, it is possible to become mainstream." And the lever that supports this balance point is the second season of "Children of Tomorrow".

Coming to the mainland alone to participate in a program competition may not be an easy choice for Cai Weize. He is a typical representative of contemporary Taiwanese youth, and also has the usual distress of young musicians - the current market environment, which can give newcomers very few opportunities, which always makes him fall into deep confusion and self-doubt about the road he wants to take in the future. "Most people around me are like this and don't know how to achieve their dreams," he said.

In 2015, shortly after Cai Weize entered the university, he felt that he had the feeling of establishing the band "Fools and Idiots". "The fool represents the least socialized me in my heart, the idiot is affected by the crowd and the trend of the self, a very stupid, a very idiot." 」 From this meaning, we can probably glimpse the appearance of this young man who is not good at words when he thinks independently, and he also writes these mental processes into songs and sings them, creating a cool boy with full musical benchmarks on the stage.

Unchanged vs ever-changing: original strength determines long-term development

In the latest episode of the show, the track star promoter Hua Chenyu said in his evaluation of Cai Weize's originality: "Respond to change with no change". Indeed, from his first appearance to the present, the audience can identify Cai Weize's rich personal characteristics through his storyful tone. However, between the different tracks, Cai Weize has placed different emotions and details - the psychedelic color in "5:10a.m.", the folk element in "Nineteen", the post-rocking atmosphere in "Only Life In Sight", and the melody flow in "Displaced Time and The Displaced You"... Cai Weize used a faint narrative tone and a slightly jerky lonely temperament to complete the plump song interpretation and stage performance again and again.

Before Cai Weize, a new generation of musicians such as "hyukoh" in South Korea and "No Party in Caodong" in Taiwan used their musical aesthetic and original strength to overthrow some barriers between independence and the public. In the current year of 2018, although new people emerge in an endless stream, there is still little original music power among the young generation of idols after 97. The birth of Cai Weize just used his works to awaken the future hope of post-97 original musicians.

After the first episode of the second season of "Children of Tomorrow" was broadcast, Cai Weize forwarded the Weibo of Wu Qingfeng, the star of the track, and confessed that 21 years old was a life node that he did not know what to do. But now, after months of experience in the show, he should have already found a direction in his efforts and creations.

Written by/Beijing News reporter Yang Chang