Chinanews.com, Beijing, March 4th (Liu Yue) Tickets for Jay Chou's concert are sold out again.
After the "Carnival" Hohhot station tickets were removed from the shelves in 30 seconds on February 28, the three rounds of ticket grabbing on March 1 were still in short supply.
At the same time, with the news that many singers announced the restart of the 2023 tour, major social media were swiped by this sentence: You must go to a concert.
The stadium is full of people, and there are heat waves in all directions.
Go, let's go to a concert, maybe it's rushing, dreaming, changing, maybe it's missed, lost and regretted, but it's all the treasures of our lives.
2016 Jay Chou Fuzhou Concert.
Photo by Xu Peijun
dream come true
I come to you, you are the stars and the sea
Yang Yu, 35 years old this year, is Jay Chou's "old fan". His love can be traced back to the year when the idol made his debut-"In 2000, when Jay Chou just debuted, my sister bought a tape of him. Inside There is a very interesting song, "Perfection", he kept singing his name in the back, which left a deep impression on me."
"Perfection" was ridiculed by the outside world as Jay Chou's most "narcissistic" song, and at the end he sang "Jay Chou" a full 44 times.
This kind of coolness dazzled the head of Little Carrot at that time, and soon became a die-hard fan.
In 2008, Yang Yu was 21 years old and a sophomore in Nanjing.
That year, one of Jay Chou's "M-Zone" world tour concerts happened to land in Nanjing.
Jay Chou's 2008 "M-Zone" world tour concert ticket stub.
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"At that time, the Internet was not yet developed, and scalpers were not so rampant. I didn't feel any pressure to grab tickets. At that stage, train tickets were very difficult to buy, but tickets like this were not difficult to grab." Yang Yu showed reporters that he properly The ticket stub kept for 13 years: "180 yuan, the location must be relatively poor, because the students have no money."
However, Yang Yu believes that this performance is quite worth the ticket price: "This group tour is very interesting. Every time he goes to a place, he will sing a small song with local characteristics. In Nanjing, he sang "Caihong Ling", a very interesting little folk song."
It was the first time in my life to watch a concert, and the main character was still an idol, but Yang Yu acted quite calmly: "I am a rational fan, and my attention to him is protracted, not so crazy." The 29-year-old Blue Eagle is the complete opposite.
"It was July 5, 2010, and I was only 16 years old. In Beijing Gongti, my dad helped to get the tickets, and the location was outside the stands." Mentioning his first concert experience, Lan Ying couldn't help laughing: "It was the first time. Watching a performance with tens of thousands of people, being bombarded by the loudspeaker and being infected by the fans shouting from the mountains and tsunami, the atmosphere is very unforgettable. He sang "Fireworks Are Easy to be Cold" and "Under the Rain All Night" "Superman Can't Fly", I have been singing along with my tone-deaf voice, shouting Jay Chou's name when the audience is relatively quiet, like a crazy person."
Jay Chou 2010 Beijing concert ticket stub.
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"I brought a camera and binoculars with me when I went there, but I didn't have any support tools, so I asked the elder brother next to me to borrow a light stick, but I swung it too hard and the plastic cap on the light stick fell off, so I returned it. Sometimes I was afraid that my elder brother would say about me, but my elder brother didn't seem to care."
Blue Eagle has liked Jay Chou since the album "Still Fantasy" in 2006. He is a "hardcore old fan" like Yang Yu.
Although they didn't get any tickets this time around, the two old fans had a good attitude, and Lan Ying even gave Versailles a hand: "It's quite normal, after all, Jay Chou's popularity is here!"
Indeed, there is always some regret in the consummation of life.
Pity
The secret separation is like a number that has not been dialed
In 2017, 20-year-old Jiang Jing was studying in Wuhan.
After learning the news that Mayday was about to hold a concert in Zhengzhou, she took the five-hour train alone to go to her idol.
Since 2011, Mayday has accompanied her throughout her girlhood. When her life was at a low point, they gave her hope to regain confidence.
"In that scene, Ashin sang a relatively well-known song, "Tenderness." Jiang Jing talked about the little tacit understanding between Mayday and the "five fans": "Every time Ashin sings this song, he will Say to the audience, 'Now you can pick up your phone, call whoever you want, and let TA hear this song too.'”
Mayday concert scene.
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"Walking in the wind, the sun is so gentle today, the sky is as gentle as you are hugging me..." During the singing, Jiang Jing mustered up her courage and dialed a number: "I called a high school classmate , It's a boy, someone I... like."
"After Ashin said this, the first person I thought of was him." Jiang Jing secretly complained about her idol: "But I have to tell Ashin that there is no signal at all. This number is Can't get out."
After the concert, Jiang Jing drove back to school overnight.
That year was the 20th anniversary of Mayday's formation. On the way back, Jiang Jing lost her commemorative ticket stub.
The last line of the first verse of "Tenderness" is "Do not disturb is my tenderness", the number that cannot be dialed, the ticket stub that has been lost, seems to be doomed to a regretful ending, just like later, she and the boy did not Can be cultivated to a positive result.
In Jiang Jing's "sad land" Zhengzhou, a relationship has just sprouted.
Guan Ling's first concert in his life came as unexpectedly as his first love.
In 2016, the singer Ding Dang came to his school to sing. Before that, Guan Ling had never planned to watch the concert. The desire to buy tickets at the scene.”
Guan Ling, a freshman at that time, had just joined the student union.
During this campus concert, he was very busy, "I was in charge of managing the on-site personnel, coordinating the seat arrangement, cracking down on scalpers, and checking tickets. If anyone tried to break into the card, hold him down."
Live photo of singer Ding Dang.
Picture source Zhongyuan Institute of Technology WeChat public account
"After the concert officially started, I was fine. I leaned on a shelf in the rest area of the staff and could see the panorama of the stage." Guan Ling's evaluation of this experience was lacklustre: "I remember Ding Dang singing a successful song The famous song "I Love Him". For me, the value of this concert is just to fill a blank in my life."
The story doesn't end here.
The 18-year-old boy didn't know that when he idly fiddled with the light stick towards the stage, he became a sight in the eyes of others—the girl who secretly looked at him in the auditorium became his girlfriend later.
Later, falling in love, graduating, working, taking postgraduate entrance examinations, going to other places... The wind in Shanghai does not blow to Beijing, and the separation becomes natural.
Ding Dang sang on the stage, "I love him vigorously and crazily. My dreams have been shattered but I will never forget them." But most of the regrets in youth happened quietly.
Change
Yesterday today tomorrow is a complete circle
Luo Qi, who is in his early 40s this year, also had a period of "passion burning".
"In 1996 and 1997, Meng Tingwei was very popular in mainland China. At that time, I was in junior high school, and my schoolwork was very stressful. Every night at dinner, a song by Meng Tingwei would always be played on the radio at home. Over time, I fell in love with her very much." He bought many tapes of Meng Tingwei with the money. He likes "Look at the Moon's Face" and "A Cloud Made of Rain in the Wind".
Slowly, the boy turned into a youth.
In 2009, at Meng Tingwei's Beijing concert, 26-year-old Luo Qi sat in the auditorium with his fiancée in his arms. This was the first time he saw his idol.
At the end of the concert, a crying middle-aged male audience was captured on the big screen, and the camera was frozen for a long time.
Ticket stub of Meng Tingwei's 2009 Beijing concert.
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"Maybe he recalled the songs at that time. People at that time couldn't help themselves when they were touched by the scene." Luo Qi was full of emotion: "In fact, the song is a carrier, carrying a specific experience of a specific age. Those old songs let me I think back to the little junior high school boy who rode his bicycle home for dinner, and the big boy who sang to the female classmate he had a crush on in high school..."
More importantly, Luo Qi learned another thing from this concert: "At that time, I went with my fiancée, now my daughter-in-law. She was not feeling well that afternoon and said she didn't want to go, but I just died I begged her to go with me, but in the end she couldn't persuade me. In fact, she is not interested in these entertainment activities, she just went with me."
"Looking back later, there is no need to share many things with others, as long as you enjoy it yourself. After that, I gradually got used to exploring alone, driving alone, and talking to myself would also be a lot of fun. "
In 1997, when Meng Tingwei was still able to play, the golden age of the Hong Kong music scene was quietly coming to an end.
People in the game don't know what's going on in the game. That year, after learning that the idol Leslie Cheung was about to hold a concert in Guangzhou, Liu Dongning, a young man from a small town in Guangxi, bought a ticket in the corner with 80 yuan.
"Leslie Cheung's 97 Concert" album cover.
Screenshot of NetEase Cloud
"At that time, I had only been in Guangzhou for a year, and my monthly salary was about 1,500. I remember very clearly that I bought the cheapest ticket, 80 yuan, which is equivalent to three or four hundred today." Liu Dongning recalled that because the fare was cheap, the seat It is far away from the stage, but he is very satisfied: "The Hong Kong stars at that time were very popular, such as Alan Tam and Leslie Cheung, in our small place, we could only hear them from magazines or records. I only discovered them after I arrived in Guangzhou. , you can also see me on the spot.”
The brave new world he glimpsed for the first time gave Liu Dongning the motivation to realize economic freedom to some extent.
Today, the young man who is alone in other places is already a middle-aged man with a happy family and a successful career.
A few years ago, Liu Dongning invited three or five friends to drive to Guilin to watch Jacky Cheung's concert.
This time, the ticket with a face value of 880 in the front position became "a small sum of money" for him.
The doubled tickets were separated by more than ten years. With struggle and hard work, he finally grasped a complete circle in time and space.
youth
I just went to see an old friend far away
Girlish feelings are always poetry.
This year's senior year, Yang Yiyi and her roommate Chen Jiachun were both fans of singer Xue Zhiqian.
The former's reason for entering the pit was a bit "wonderful" - in a certain variety show, Yang Yiyi found that Xue Zhiqian's legs were very thin, and she especially liked boys with thin legs at the time.
In 2017, Yang Yiyi, a freshman in high school, learned that Joker Xue was going to hold a concert in Beijing.
Under her soft and tough paw, her parents could only nod in agreement, and used the reason of "stomach pain" to help her cover up with the teacher.
Going to the concert alone is stumbling: I was stopped by a scalper after picking up the ticket; I carried my bag to the front to prevent others from grabbing the ticket; I couldn’t buy drinks without cash after entering the venue...
Xue Zhiqian 2017 Beijing concert ticket stub.
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At the end of the performance, the calmness after the excitement made Yang Yiyi feel empty in her heart, and this emptiness was gradually filled by growth: "I used to think that I wanted to get closer to him. I learned guitar for him, including reading media later. Now I It won’t be as crazy as before, and I also know that the distance between us is very far. For me, he is the person who accompanied me at all stages of my life.”
The same is true of roommate Chen Jiachun. After accidentally watching a Joker Xue concert, she quickly fell into the trap.
The idol brings positive meaning to her: "I will tell myself, save a little money a month and study hard. For example, if you get a score in the English test, you will reward yourself to relax and go to his concert. He is equivalent to A goal that motivates me and pushes me to keep going."
Perhaps many people have had such a distant friend in adolescence.
2023 is the tenth anniversary of TFBOYS's debut, and it is also the tenth year since the girl Angel became "Clover".
TFBOYS concert ticket stubs for the 5th and 6th anniversary of their debut.
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In 2018, An Qi, who was preparing for the college entrance examination, persuaded teachers and parents to go to the 5th anniversary concert of TFBOYS.
It was the first time for her to start her offline star-chasing journey, but she had a little oolong--as we all know, every concert held by TFBOYS is a "war of lights".
Coincidentally, An Qi, whose group fan is Yi Yang Qianxi, sat in the "site" of Wang Junkai's house that day.
"Because I prefer Qianxi a little bit, I wear a red luminous headband. But the seat I sat in is Wang Junkai's house, and there is only a little red in the dark blue." Angel, who kept "beautiful.jpg" the whole time, was overjoyed : "What impresses me is that the fans around me shouted from beginning to end. I can only keep a low profile and can't shout."
This year, TFBOYS will hold a 10th anniversary concert and announce its official disbandment on the hot search.
Although it has not been officially confirmed, it still makes Angie a little sad: "If it is true, I will definitely grab tickets. To me, they are no longer just idols, they are equivalent to friends who make progress together."
The scene of TFBOYS concert.
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We often can't have youth and feelings about youth at the same time.
But the power of memory is that after the gap in life is filled, this moment of time belongs to you forever.
Go, go to a concert.
When we get old and think of that beautiful night, we will feel happiness and nostalgia in the distance.
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