The Director's Road of Airflow

The reasonable business frequency of an idol is to have at least one movie, TV series or variety show online in a quarter, so that when you join the group to film, the fans will not be too bored. With a certain frequency of selfies, the fan circle will have material to dance, and It's not that the boring atmosphere is spreading everywhere, the super chat is full of remarks like "where have you been so-and-so? Come out and let mom take a look".

Lu Ming's business frequency in the past year was extremely low, and no variety shows were launched until the end of the year.

Therefore, this New Year's Eve is very important to him, and it is a good opportunity to activate and solidify his fans.

The above logic was repeated in Lu Ming's ears by his manager, Sister Yang.

Lu Ming put down the black tea latte in his hand, slapped the itinerary on the table, turned around, and interrupted Sister Yang who was still talking loudly: "I have decided to perform a drum set for the New Year's Eve this year."

At first, Sister Yang didn't realize it, so she continued with her own train of thought: "Right, I just think you should sing a love song this time."

Halfway through, she realized what she had just heard, and said in surprise: "What did you say? You want to perform a drum set? No, on such an important occasion as the New Year's Eve, you don't sing or dance, but perform a drum set, why? Are you planning to learn now? Isn’t this fatal? It’s only two weeks before the New Year’s Eve, what tricks can you learn?”

Lu Ming was very sure. He waved his hand confidently and said, "Don't worry, I'm not just learning. My drum playing skills are completely OK."

He didn't care what Sister Yang said to stop him, so he reported the program he had set to Grapefruit TV: Wada Koji's Butter-Fly drum solo.

Three days before the New Year's Eve, Lu Ming met He Yaocheng in the lounge during the live rehearsal of this year's Guangzhou New Year's Eve stage at Grapefruit Stage.

The other party looked at him with complicated eyes, as if thinking for a long time, and finally said: "Do you want to play drums?"

"Yes."

"Aren't you considering singing or dancing instead? There's still time."

Lu Ming felt a little strange that He Yaocheng cared so much about what he was performing: We don't seem to know this well, do we?Did I miss some plot?

But on the surface, he still responded politely and friendly: "I should still be able to play drums, but thank you for your concern."

When He Yaocheng turned around, he sighed softly. After walking a few meters away, he suddenly turned back and said to Lu Ming, "Then you work hard."

After speaking, he quickly slipped away, leaving Lu Ming in a daze.

Every month before the official start of the New Year's Eve, all David TVs start a New Year's Eve announcement war. Generally, two or three days before the New Year's Eve, the war will enter a white-hot stage.

In addition to the exposure of the stage design of the New Year's Eve venue, the support battle of major fan groups has also officially started.Many fans will also patrol the super chats of other stars, and take screenshots of how many banners and light boards a certain family has brought, and take the screenshots back to their own super chat fans: Do you still want to lie down?Other support groups have added 1000 people!

All of a sudden, all kinds of playlists of unknown authenticity also ran rampant on the Internet.

An online program list reads "Lu Ming's drum set "Butter-Fly"".

The major marketing accounts immediately reposted the news and asked: "It is rumored that Lu Ming will perform a drum solo during the New Year's Eve. What do you think of this?"

Ai Cao's accusation copy is still "Non-official announcement, no appointment, Ai Cao looks forward to any performance by Lu Ming."

But passers-by chatted enthusiastically about this unknown material.

Many people have questioned whether Lu Ming can control the drum set. A well-known music blogger in the industry even made a special post on Weibo to complain that the current little fresh meat wants to get involved in everything, and An Anxin sings a few guava love songs. Forget it, the strength is not enough, and you insist on challenging an instrument that you have never practiced before, which will only increase the laughingstock.

When Lu Ming saw these comments, he laughed them off.

He is not a person who is not clear-headed. If he hadn't practiced drums, how could he choose to perform during the New Year's Eve?He just never played drums in front of an audience and never told his manager.

Sun Sifan was full of trust in Lu Ming. When Sister Yang came to him to persuade Lu Ming to change the program, he directly replied: "No need to change. Lu Ming is much better than you imagined. It’s just that you don’t know, the level of forming a band is no problem. Just wait for the surprise he will give you.”

Lu Ming started learning to play drums out of some kind of rebellious psychology. When he was 11 years old, his mother strongly advised him to apply for the middle school of music, and then take the road of piano performance.His mother didn't think too much about it, but thought that since Lu Ming had put so much energy into practicing the piano and had shown a good talent, let him continue to practice until he was about 14 years old. , and then sent to Curtis and Julia abroad.

Lu Ming showed strong resistance to his mother's arrangement.He categorically rejected his mother's arrangement and refused to go to the music high school for an interview. After entering junior high school, he formally proposed to his mother: "I don't want to practice piano anymore. I really don't like piano. Or I liked piano, but That's it, no more enthusiasm, I don't like playing the piano, I don't want to make it my life's work. I don't want to!"

His mother accepted his choice after being angry for a while, but told him that he was responsible for his decision.

Since Lu Ming was 6 years old, he practiced the piano for no less than 5 hours a day on average, and he stripped the piano out of his life at once. His initial feeling was that he had the space to breathe freely, and he had more to himself Time to do something new that interests you.

But after a month or two, he found that his life was somewhat empty. He was already very familiar with the existence of the piano in his life. Courses don’t need to take up all of his spare time. Apart from studying hard, he still has a lot of time to relax and relax, but he has no interest in games and the like. He has been a Qintong's child, the proposition of "how to play?" was canceled in his childhood, and he no longer has the ability to like games.A high degree of self-discipline has become a habit, tormenting him every spare night.

The choice of drum kit was accidental, and the rebellious emotions in his youth found a way to resolve them.When he proposed to learn to play the drum, his mother did not support it, thinking that learning the drum would be better than continuing to practice the piano, and he could also master a musical instrument.Lu Ming adopted an attitude of passive resistance. He made a fuss for a while, so his mother let him go and enrolled him in a class to learn drums.

Playing drums is a very different experience for Lu Ming from learning musical instruments in the past. Learning to play drums is not only a matter of rhythm, but also important for body coordination. He was just starting to learn hip-hop at that time. Feeling the music is no longer just depicting the progress of the emotional level, but also letting the body move with the music.

Drum kit has been his way to relieve his emotions for a long time, and he has never performed in front of an audience since his debut.Faced with the pressure of self-awareness and the positive or negative comments from all directions after his debut, he often has the urge to escape. Locking himself in a soundproof room and beating drums for an afternoon is his short-term escape from the pressure of reality. Way.Rock music is naturally bound together with youthful rebellion, giving a well-behaved child in the traditional sense a little wayward space.

Lu Ming's New Year's Eve appearance time is 08:30 in the evening, which is not a good time for a party that starts at 07:30 in the evening.

When he came on stage, he looked at the colorful light boards below the stage, and rarely saw his purple cheering color.

David TV repeatedly prohibits fans from bringing light boards into the arena, but fans of major traffic firmly believe that "there are policies above, and countermeasures below", no matter how difficult it is, the light boards cannot be missed. Even for a considerable number of people, the main meaning of watching the New Year's Eve is Bring the light sign into the arena, win this offline support battle, and line up idols, so that online fans can brag about how popular they are, and use this to ridicule and ridicule their opponents.

When Lu Ming saw that he had few light signs, he also had some complicated emotions flashed by. There may be some sadness and grievance mixed in it, but his proud character did not allow him to capture and magnify that bit of sadness.

"Digimon" is a cartoon that Lu Ming liked very much when he was a child. At his 15th birthday party, he sang the song "Butter-Fly".

This New Year's Eve, after discussing with his management team, Grapefruit TV played the card of warmth. When he was playing drums, there was a clip of his 15-year-old singing scene on the big screen behind him, and several sentences were edited in the accompaniment. original sound.At that time, he was still in the period of changing his voice, and his timbre was slightly different from now, with some immaturity and clarity.

The firm and persistent face of the 15-year-old boy on the screen is in sharp contrast with the 21-year-old youth wearing earrings and combing wolf hairstyle on the stage.

At the scene and in front of the screen, the mugwort, passers-by and black fans all listened to a past CD sent by memories, and saw the drum set that the young man had practiced alone for a long time, which was enough to join any domestic rock band as a drummer strength.

This kind of strong contrast, unexpected surprises, mixed with familiarity, disturbs the audience's mood, this is the power of time, and it is also the unique advantage of cultivating idols.If you know what a teenager has been through in the past, you will have more tolerance and kindness towards him now, because for a moment, he served as the background sound of your past life, and your tolerance for him is your understanding of the past. Nostalgic empathy.

When Lu Ming threw the drum stick on the stage, he knew clearly that the drum stick would fall back into his hands, but the wormwood in front of the screen sweated for him. In that tense moment, They seem to have regained the long-lost empathy with idols and the sense of being needed in the process of chasing stars.

At the scene of the control and comment in the Weibo replies of the major marketing accounts that night, wormwood was riding the dust. This is a scene that has not appeared in two years.

The long-silent wormwood powder circle is revived again.

At 2022:1 a.m. on January 1, 30, the [-] fans who quit the circle on the grounds of "busy three-dimensional life and return to reality" at that time-"Picking the Stars for You" returned.

Her first Weibo post after three years did not include any copywriting. It was a 7-minute mixed-cut video. It contained pictures of the scene that she had taken but not released since Lu Ming's debut and her resignation. Clips from Lu Ming's TV series and movies in the past three years.

There are more than two or three big fans of sit-ups, accompanied by various passer-by praises on the Weibo "Lu Ming" square and professional music bloggers' high affirmation of Lu Ming's drum kit skills.

But after the New Year's Eve, Lu Ming didn't read the reviews on the Internet. Instead, he and Sun Sifan, Li Haoxuan, and Chen Yuhang went to eat supper at a sugar shop they had been to when they were 14 years old when they recorded the group drama.

Turning into that alley again, passing the old tree at the entrance of the alley, Lu Ming felt both familiar and unfamiliar. It was different from the heat and boredom in Guangzhou in the midsummer evening when he was 14 years old. Guangdong in January also showed a bit of chill, and the streets were empty. , the night wind is dry.They are no longer 1-year-old teenagers with unlimited energy, who seem to have endless energy. "14 years old" is a steady word with weight, and they are taught to learn to settle down.

I don't know who started it first, but when the four of them ran on the streets of Guangzhou, Lu Ming felt that as long as he ran fast enough, he could catch up with the fragments that the memories handed him, and he could get rid of the so-called The confinement of realistic pressure.

At least when he surpassed Sun Sifan with all his strength and turned his head to smile at him, he forgot all the restraints and oppressions imposed on him by amnesia, stagnation, flow, and coffee status.