#Toutiao Creation Challenge#
On the CCTV Spring Festival Gala in 2011, there were two singers dressed in plain clothes, which attracted the attention of the audience.
They don’t have a star halo at all, but they feel extremely warm when they open their mouths.
As migrant workers, they have interpreted that grassroots can counterattack with their personal experience.
They became famous overnight, and then covered Wang Feng 's "In Spring", which brought their careers to the peak.
At that time, they gained both fame and fortune, and their fame increased so that they made a fortune and naturally lived a life of rich people.
The three words "mile workers" were quickly replaced by the two words "stars".
Xu Sun Yanggang This combination seems to have a great prospect, but no one expected it to be just a flash in the pan.
2012 can be regarded as a year of "multiple disasters and difficulties" for Xuri Yang Gang.
Not only were they taken back the copyright of the song by Wang Feng, but one of the members was also exposed to be beaten by the elderly, which was angering.
From this time on, Xuri Yang Gang's career gradually went downhill.
is not so accidental, but rather inevitable. They were just addicted to fame and fortune and did not discover it at that time.
1966, Wang Xu was born.
Like many young people at that time, he chose to go to a big city Beijing to work.
Because he has no education and skill, he can only do some hard physical work.
But even if he works hard, it will be difficult for the hard life of the family of four to improve.
Even if the child wants to eat instant noodles, he has no right to satisfy his request.
In order to make more money, he likes singing and came to the underground passage of Princess’s Grave and started his singing career.
After plucking up the courage to sing the first sentence, he earned eight yuan that day.
Liu Gang , who is 15 years younger than him, lives an unimaginable poor life.
In order to have a bite of rice, he exchanged his pot for two yuan and filled his stomach with four steamed buns. Although the competitive Liu Gang lives in poverty and is often hungry, he still does not seek help from anyone and comes to Beijing from his hometown alone with a dream of music.
He also chose the underground passage in Beijing and sang his first song when he came to Beijing in Beitaipingzhuang , Xu Wei's "Sky".
Because of his age advantage, most of his songs are more in line with the tastes of young people.
So compared with Wang Xu, his income exceeded 20 yuan on the first day.
However, what can such a sum of money do in Beijing?
In order to make a living, Liu Gang could only hold multiple positions, and could barely solve the problem of food and clothing in Beijing.
One day in 2004, because the underground passage of Princess’s Grave was controlled during the day, Wang Xu, who had no place to sing, could only walk around, and then walked to Fuxingmen without realizing it.
There he saw Liu Gang, who was singing the same as him, so he wanted to ask about some information.
But Liu Gang directly told him that there were people in front of him and there was no time to sing for him.
The second day Wang Xu came to Fuxingmen early and wanted to occupy a place there.
But I didn’t expect that Liu Gang went earlier than him. Wang Xu, who returned empty-handedly, could only look for other territory.
I thought the two had no intersection, but later, under the introduction of a friend, Liu Gang actually met Wang Xu again.
A friend introduced him that the big brother sang very well, and the two of them intersected.
Although they are a snail residence in Beijing, as long as they talk about music together, the air will always be filled with happiness.
Wang Xu saved money and bought the speakers, and often enjoyed the charm of singing at home with Liu Gang.
Among the many songs, they have a special liking for "Spring", as if they are singing themselves.
A friend likes their singing very much, so he put the "Spring" sang by the two online and shared it with everyone.
It was from then on that, the two of them had their own combination name, Xu Ri Yang Gang.
After the two quickly became popular on the Internet, the original singer Wang Feng also noticed them.
Because Xu Ri Yang Gang was born in a grassroots, Wang Feng felt that his rock could sing the attitude of the lower class, which is the real rock spirit .
So he threw an olive branch to the two and invited them to attend his rock concert at the Shanghai station at that time.
That was the first time that Xu Ri Yang Gang had stepped on such a big stage, and it also allowed more people to know the existence of their combination.
As the popularity becomes more and more high, " Avenue of Stars " also sent an invitation to them.
Facing all the strong players, they passed the opportunity and finally succeeded in making a successful debut with the second place in the year.
However, what made them even more happy was that one day they accidentally received an invitation from CCTV Spring Festival Gala, which was something they didn't dare to think about.
So on the 2011 CCTV Spring Festival Gala stage, there were two ordinary people.
Faced with audiences across the country, they have a lot of thoughts, and they can see the hardships of working hard in Beijing for those years.
was able to appear on CCTV's Spring Festival Gala, which naturally made Xuri Yang Gang the most popular star of that year.
At the peak of their careers, major commercial performances were lenient.
A 5-minute song, they quoted a price of 200,000.
Although their popularity has skyrocketed, when it comes to their names, everyone still has the cover song "In Spring". Obviously, this is not a long-term solution.
Although they expressed their hope to write a song of their own on many occasions, they have not started writing for a long time with the expectations of many fans, as if everything is just a talk.
Wang Xu said that he wanted to write songs, but he was too busy and had no time, and he couldn't write them;
Liu Gang said that he had created some love songs before, but the style of the combination is different, so it still takes time to write new songs.
As a group, they have different brokers.
Wang Xu's agent is his friend. He trusts the other party very much, while Liu Gang's agent is his cousin. The so-called "wealth is not flowing from outsiders" should be the reason.
In early 2011, Wang Feng suddenly issued a statement prohibiting Xuri Yang Gang from singing his song "In Spring".
Because in his eyes, Xuri Yang Gang had lost his original intention and completely regarded music as a tool to make money.
Perhaps Wang Feng is right, because after gaining fame and fortune, Xu Ri Yang Gang was already completely different from the beginning.
From a popular grassroots to a star plagued by black materials, there seems to be no time between them.
In early 2012, Liu Gang took his newly acquired luxury car and ignored the red lights on the road and rushed around.
He also deliberately covered up the license plate, as if he felt that he would not have to bear any responsibility in this way.
Even after these behaviors were exposed, he did not have any attitude of rehabilitation, but just apologized to everyone indifferently.
In September 2012, Liu Gang, who was driving a luxury car, had an quarrel with the elderly resting at the entrance of the community.
The two didn't recognize each other, and the scene was in chaos, and finally they even started to fight.
Perhaps seeing everyone standing by the old man, Liu Gang took out the iron rod placed in the car and escalated the conflict.
After the incident, Liu Gang explained that he didn't want to hit the old man with a latte stick, but because a middle-aged man was pushing and shoving him, he took out his weapon to scare people.
Because of Liu Gang, Xuri Yang Gang naturally went downhill.
Later, Wang Xu was interviewed by a reporter. When asked by reporters how much the performance cost, he said helplessly that the double-digit starts.
As there are fewer and fewer commercial performances, Wang Xu has to leave Beijing and return to the village.
After seeing the bright lights and wine in the entertainment industry, Wang Xu cherishes the ordinary and real life in the village even more.
He became an internet celebrity. With the remaining popularity of Xu Ri Yang Gang, he shared his life with everyone in the form of short videos, which was also a pleasant life.
In April 2021, netizens suddenly discovered that Wang Xu appeared in the video of Abao .
Two powerful singers showed off their good singing voices to the fullest and presented an auditory feast to everyone.
However, seeing the once glorious star contestant of "The Avenue of Stars" now leaving the entertainment industry is eclipsed, it is inevitable that it is a bit sad.
After Wang Xu returned to the countryside, Liu Gang still stayed in the music industry to work hard.
With the help of music producer Gao Jin , he became popular again with " Missing Youth ".
In 2020, Liu Gang released a solo album.
, but the market response is not high and the sales are not impressive.
It can be said that his musical path is declining little by little.
2021, in a nostalgic show on "The Avenue of Stars", the audience saw the scene of Wang Xu and Liu Gang in the same frame for a long time.
It’s just that they didn’t sit together, and they seemed much stranger to each other.
Although they were brothers who worked together, when they met again, the two of them had only politeness in their face, and there was no longer any sincerity.
2022, with the rise of short videos on the Internet, Xu Ri Yang Gang reunited and appeared in front of the audience again, hoping to spark a wave of memories and return to the entertainment industry.
Although they work hard to perform various scripts and jokes, netizens are not interested.
Looking at the old-fashioned plot scenes, everyone was already visually tired, so naturally they didn't want to watch more.
Some netizens left messages directly in the video, asking if this is the person who drove Audi to beat people?
Although it is not Wang Xu, Wang Xu retorted "You have to go to the hospital for treatment. You have to go to the ophthalmology department because you are blind."
Faced with the past that changed the fate of Xu Ri Yang Gang, perhaps Liu Gang has no longer cared about it, but in Wang Xu's heart, it is obviously a hurdle that cannot be overcome and has been difficult to let go.
Xu Ri Yang Gang's popularity is accidental and inevitable.
Their lack of cultural heritage and musical literacy also destined to be short-lived and it is difficult for them to become famous for a long time.
As a grassroots singer, the most valuable essence is truth and simplicity.
If this disappears, then there will be almost no existence that resonates with everyone in them, and they will naturally be gradually forgotten.
