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May Day is officially announced!
They will hold an online New Year's Eve concert on the evening of December 31st! I was really looking forward to hearing this news.
You must know that Mayday has been popular for 25 years. While many bands have been separated and reunited, Mayday has always been with us.
This can be considered a miracle!
From an unknown underground band to an irreplaceable "top band", Mayday has not disbanded or become outdated for 25 years. How did they do it?
In fact, for many fans, Mayday has long been no longer an ordinary band, but a memory of the growth of a generation.
Mayday is their youth, and youth is Mayday.
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In 1992, there were several "bad boys" in the High School Affiliated to Taiwan Normal University. Because these boys liked guitar, they joined the guitar club in the school and got to know each other.
Because they have always loved rock , the boys gradually shed the label of "rebellious and lazy". They filled their notebooks with dense scores. From then on, they developed their love into a lifelong career.
3 years later, Monster, Ashin and Qian Youda discussed and formed a small band. Soon, Martha also joined in. This band was the predecessor of Mayday.
They were all still high school students at that time, and the so-called band was just playing around in school. The name of this band is also very funny, called so band, which means band so when pronounced conversely, which means toilet.
is said to have given this name because several people wanted the band to be as common as toilets in the streets.
At that youthful age, several boys started to have a music dream that others considered "boundless". With this dream, they entered college one after another, and later Shi Shi also joined in as a guitarist. They didn't know it at the time, but not long after, their dream would come true.
In college, this small band had been secretly practicing singing. It was precisely because they put too much energy into music that they failed to get their diplomas.
But this does not hinder the music dreams of several people.
In 1997, they entered a competition using Martha's online name "Mayday". From then on, the name Mayday was officially adopted. They also officially embarked on a new journey of band development.
In January 1998, Mayday's first single " rolling car " was released, setting off quite a craze. Soon, they served as producers and composed many songs. They gradually became famous, and Ashin's creative energy also began to show its edge. A seed band like
naturally attracted the attention of many big names. A few months later, Li Zongsheng and dug Mayday into Rolling Stone.
However, Li Zongsheng's requirements are extremely high. Joining the Rolling Stones does not mean that his stardom will be smooth from now on. On the contrary, it was at the Rolling Stones that the band Mayday ushered in real growth.
Li Zongsheng asked them to "do it by themselves", such as writing lyrics, composing music, and playing and singing by themselves.
At that time, several of them were still very young, half-grown boys, so that when Ren Xianqi first saw them, he always doubted that these weak and weak boys could sing in a band?
After listening to a few of their songs, I fell in love with them and said bluntly: "They will definitely become popular in the future!"
Ren Xianqi was right.
has made rapid progress with the Rolling Stones, Ashin and others, and Mayday has also rapidly grown into a high-quality creative band.
Rolling Stone gave Mayday a platform for development, and they were able to seize the opportunity, firmly grasp this platform, and achieve a leap in life.
's first album after joining the Rolling Stones, Mayday actually tied with the popular singer Jay Chou .
's album called "'s first album " once sold more than 300,000 copies. With this album, Mayday officially made his debut.
Soon after, they held their first concert after becoming famous, named "168 Concert".
is called this name because before that, they had held 167 concerts of various sizes, but because they were not famous enough, the total number of audiences in all these concerts did not exceed 20,000.
Mayday was full of expectations for this "168th concert". At that time, their psychological expectation was that they could have 10,000 spectators. As a result, the concert was packed with 40,000 people in the venue.
Who would have thought that only 4 months had passed since their official debut.
May is really popular. On the day of
's concert, Ashin excitedly said the opening words on the stage: "We really did it! Municipal Stadium!" As soon as
finished speaking, the whole audience shouted "Mayday" together, over and over again, enthusiastically but not tired.
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Why did the young people at that time like Mayday so much?
probably loves their energy and youth.
Mayday's music style is not the same as rock in the traditional sense, so many rock fans do not quite agree with Mayday being classified as a rock band.
But in fact, it doesn't matter whether it is rock or not. The Chinese music scene at that time had Jay Chou's rap style, Nicholas Tse's fanaticism, and Eason Chan's affectionateness.
Mayday's music style, gentle, sunny, and good-sounding, these keywords just filled the gap in the music market at that time, making it unique.
There are so many people playing in bands, but Mayday took a different path.
But at this time, it is the peak of Mayday, and there is still one step left - the mainland market.
The popularity of the Taiwan market is not really a big hit. At that time, the people who were popular on both sides of the Taiwan Strait and three places were the ones who were great.
But before they could explore the mainland, several people reached the age of enlisting in the army and the band was facing disbandment.
It was September 1, 2001. At the Penghua Stadium in Taiwan, facing the reluctance of nearly 20,000 fans, they announced a temporary farewell.
Maybe God has to deal with the inseparable sad atmosphere. It rained heavily that day, and all the Mayday members were drowned, but their passion did not diminish. Ashin roared: "No matter how hard it rains, we will fight with him tonight!"
's youth and blood turned into tears and filled everyone's cheeks. At the end of
, Ashin said to the fans: "Go home, there are no more songs to sing."
The fans did not leave and responded loudly: "No! There is!"
cried on and off the stage. After
's farewell concert, Ashin, Masha, and Monster went to the army, and Shitou went to study in the UK. During this period, everyone quietly did their own thing and rarely got together. Mayday was silent for a long time.
Which band can be idle for so long without disbanding? Only Mayday once again created a miracle.
2 years later, with the last enlisted member Martha successfully discharged from the army, Mayday returned and began to prepare for the fourth album " Time Machine " and comeback concert.
When Mayday reunited on stage and told the fans, "I will always continue to move forward with you all," the audience was boiling again.
This time, Mayday embarked on a new journey, and their boundaries were opened infinitely.
In 2004, Mayday officially entered the mainland. That year, their " stubborn " became the top ten singles of the year.
"I and my proud stubbornness, I sang loudly in the wind"
Who hasn't sung the lyrics?
In the second year, the song " meets " made May Tianhuo even more miserable.
"If I fall in love with your smile, how can I collect it or own it."
For a time, every young man held a Mayday cassette in his hand, and everyone was humming Mayday's song.
But in fact, their songs are not short-lived, but timeless.
If you look through the cloud music comment section of "Stubborn", you will burst into tears. It is filled with the dreams and persistence, efforts and expectations of all the listeners:
"I scored 666 in the third grade of junior high school. I copied the lyrics of "Stubborn" onto the table and later scored 757 in the high school entrance examination."
"In the 2018 college entrance examination, I scored 606 in the first model and 676.5 in the second model. Catch the stubborn and never let go."
" breast cancer , waiting for my sister to step on you..."
The timeline has even been extended to the present.
I don’t know when, Mayday’s song has become the spiritual sustenance of many people. The dreams and spiritual support that have no place to rest are all in the lyrics, and along with the music, they sneak into the minds and hearts, and transform into infinite energy.
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Youth is fleeting, but Mayday is always there.
As they grow older, the band members have also entered the stage of marriage and love. In 2001, Shi Shi suddenly proposed to his girlfriend at a concert.
After that, other members also got married one after another, leaving only Ashin who is still single.
He also had a long-distance love affair, but unfortunately it failed to bear fruit.
Even so, there are always stories in Mayday's songs, some are sweet, some are sad, some are in love, and some are in love.
These beautiful stories are all memories of youth.
In 2003, Ashin made a "forever" promise at his comeback concert. This decision was crazy.
still remember the reunions of Huaer band and Feier band. How long can Mayday last?
Time gives us the answer, although they are getting older, have their own families, gradually enter middle age, and their youth is gone.
Mayday is always there.
In 2017, when Mayday celebrated its 20th anniversary, they released an album "Autobiography", a review of their youth. At the
press conference, Li Zongsheng said emotionally: "I have watched you calmly over the years. I really think that Mayday is the most successful band in the Chinese music scene. It has never been silent in the past 20 years."
This is indeed the case. In September of that year, at another concert, Mayday made bold remarks again: "Mayday will hold a concert again in 50 years. Will you still come?"
The audience went crazy again.
However, Mayday, which has never been quiet, did not expect that when time entered 2020, their concert would also suffer an unprecedented blow.
There were only a handful of spectators at the 2020 concert.
Faced with this situation, Ashin said: "Things that we did not expect will always happen in this world, and because of this, Mayday especially wants to maintain some things that will never change."
When you and I who like Mayday have entered middle age and are tired of life, how many of us still remember the dreams and passion of our youth?
Fortunately, Mayday reminds us not to forget our youth and ourselves.
Some things can never change.
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2022 is a special year, and the New Year’s Eve of this year seems to be endowed with more extraordinary meanings.
Mayday’s New Year’s Eve online concert also injected more power into the fans. After the official announcement of
, many netizens were excited in unison: "We can celebrate the New Year with Mayday again. They really will live up to it every year."
When the music scene declined and the band withered, Mayday's existence became a spiritual food that people can't throw away.
The story of Mayday is very long, and so is our youth.
Mayday will not disband, and youth will not fade away.
Thanks to Mayday, I can always dream of youth with them.
html In the year 2025, we are all young people when we return.31st, I will be waiting for you!
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