Does anyone remember the Wu Kequn who sang "General Order", " Big Tongue ", and once domineering flowers on music variety shows Angela Chang ?
has finally had his news recently, but it was reported by Taiwanese media that Wu Kequn launched the self-directed and acted film " for you" at the end of last year, and had a box office defeat. In order to make a movie, he almost lost over 100 million yuan in savings; recently, he has actively looked for a new record company and started from the singers of his industry, but the process is still full of twists and turns.
is quite amazing, because at his peak, he was once the little king of Taiwan music scene who was as famous as JJ Lin and Pan Weibo. The media often competed with him with Jay Chou . He also shouted that he had surpassed Jay Chou in five years at the peak of the limelight.
Of course, he lost in this game of surpassing Wu Kequn. Later, he explained that we started differently.
Later, he bid farewell to his peak and deafness, and filmed a Douban movie called "Writing Poems for You" with a box office of 3.8 points and a box office of 12.77 million. Of course, he also experienced a breakup with He Chaolian, the "most beautiful daughter" of gambling king .
Some people say that outsiders only care whether you stand high or not, and whether you fly far or not, only those who love you care whether you fall or not.
But Wu’s mother, who loves Wu Kequn’s most, also passed away.
Reviewing Wu Kequn's journey over the past decade, it is difficult to go from a new singer and a singer in the music industry to returning to the music industry now, which has truly verified the vicissitudes of this Chinese music industry.
He once wrote on Weibo with emotion , "A dream that I have spent 5 years has made me lose everything."
Wu Kequn is now indeed lost to the origin.
But why is Wu Kequn, who is so sunny, talented and handsome, working hard enough and not making any mistakes. After a while of popularity, he will never become popular again?
, can he turn the tables against the wind?
The one who was in love with the gambling king's daughter was really qualified to challenge Jay Chou
Things are amazing. Now when it comes to Wu Kequn, many people's first impression is: Is it an outdated male singer who has been in love with the most beautiful daughter of the gambling king?
But Wu Kequn is really popular.
In the last golden age of Taiwan’s record industry, a group of Chinese pop singers with cross-era significance emerged. Wu Kequn should have his own position.
A song "Big Tongue" in 2005 was sold after it was launched on the market. In the music scene, a sunny boy Wu Kequn emerged.
Wu Kequn's appearance fills the gap in love songs in the music scene. The sunny and energetic and handsome Wu Kequn quickly won the student market.
In the next few years, Wu Kequn's album was sold well, with a song "General's Order" in 2006, "HTM1 Laozi Says " in 2007, and "Writing Poems for You" in 2008, becoming drinking songs throughout the student days of a generation.
How popular was Wu Kequn at that time? Wherever you can hear music, there will be a single loop for these songs.
At that time, the media loved to chase the hot spots of the battle between the kings. He was just now taken to compare with Jay Chou. He himself was also very energetic, so he left behind a famous flag that surpassed Jay Chou for 5 years.
At that time, he wanted everything: he wanted to write the songs that topped the charts, and wanted to make the first-rate albums in sales.
Success in career and love is also proud.
The gambling king’s daughter He Chaolian is his fan. The two of them naturally got together. He was teased that "marry a good wife and work hard for decades less." This is probably the main reason why he was unwilling to admit his relationship at the beginning.
Wu Kequn never agreed to marry He Chaolian from beginning to end. In many public occasions, Wu Kequn himself admitted that he is a non-marriager and will not have children, but his relationship with He Chaolian was once stable, and even the fourth wife of the gambling king went to stand for him.
Of course, this relationship lasted for 4 years and it was over. He Chaolian also posted a sad post on Ins:
I promised myself that this is the last time I shed tears for you. I will not hold a grudge. I will move forward and will no longer be obsessed with the truth and falsehood. I will always remember the last impression you left on me at the moment of separation...
And her good friend Li Yun also seemed a little angry when she mentioned Wu Kequn: It was OK for him several times. He may have done a good job on the surface, but people will change. The woman was hurt, but not physically hurt.
Wu Kequn did not defend himself, but said that there was nothing to say about the two people.
When people became famous, good things came one after another. When luck left, they couldn't keep anything. It seemed that since the years when they broke up with He Chaolian, Wu Kequn's albums gradually became hard to sell.
Wu Kequn walked through the peak and began to gradually see the trough, but he always maintained his pride.
But life seems like a paradox: when the record company packages him as an idol singer, he is rebellious in his heart;
When the music market is too impetuous and piracy is rampant, he chooses to persist;
When he is so lonely that he can't even enter a record company, he does not forget that he is a singer.
He parted ways with the agent who encouraged him to make movies and actively looked for record companies. I first found my former boss Tian Dingfeng, but unfortunately the conditions were not agreed upon, and the other party resigned, so I failed to cooperate further. Then Wu Kequn turned to negotiate with He Le Music, who recently signed many big names such as Tian Fuzhen and Xin. As he told the media before, "What else can you do if you don't dare to invest in your dreams? At worst, you can throw away everything and return to the starting point. I have nothing to lose."
But how did he lose?
Why did Wu Kequn, who is righteous in protecting Angela Chang, lose so badly?
Even in the days of being gradually immersed, Wu Kequn has not had any bright moments.
htmlIn 013, he and Angela Chang participated in a music program with the theme of cross-border.There is an issue of the theme of opera. After Angela Chang finished singing, a judge criticized Angela Chang and turned to the judge (audience) and said, "What do you like her? Do you like her beauty? But this is a singing competition! From my perspective, Angela Chang's song is the song that is the most unlikely opera compared to other contestants before."
, including the audience, was stunned, and Angela Chang was stunned.
At this time, Wu Kequn, who participated in the competition, stepped forward and said, "Teacher, I think you are right. This is a music competition, but if this is a competition, no one will turn around and say those things to the judges. They should not tell the judges what to do. It is very easy to find other people's problems. No, the competition should not be like this!"
also attracted a round of fans for him at that time.
But he disappeared step by step. Why?
First of all, it is actually the general climate of Chinese pop music, and no longer supports record-type singers like Wu Kequn.
Due to physical reasons, it is difficult for Wu Kequn to develop in multiple dimensions. He is a standard singer, but in the past ten years, are there many impressive albums?
Wu Kequn said that the previous album "Life Super Humor" was probably the best and most in-depth album in this life, but it was not popular. Do you think life is super humorous?
is not humorous, it is just that the market no longer accepts this type.
is actually not only Wu Kequn, but also the top singers of that time, all witnessed the changes in Chinese music in this era.
Other family factors also tied his hands and feet.
Wu Ma's disease was liver fibrosis diagnosed in 2011. Wu Kequn then kept looking for a doctor for his mother, and had to reduce his time in career and seek medical treatment for his mother everywhere.
In the years that followed, Wu Kequn will spend more time with his family after work. He often takes his mother abroad and will go back to Kaohsiung to visit his mother during work.
But just because he often returned to Taiwan to visit, the filming of the movie was once in a state of stagnation.People familiar with the matter said that the loss in a day is as high as millions. The biggest problem with
is the personality of Wu Kequn's album: no turns.
Compared with the singers who became popular at the same time, Wu Kequn was very outstanding in singing skills, composing and writing lyrics at first. He was an all-round singer-songwriter. His vigorous creative ability was his greatest support for standing at the forefront.
But it is difficult to tell about inspiration. One day, it may suddenly disappear. For more than ten years, Wu Kequn was still Wu Kequn, but he never wrote a song that was widely sung like "General Order". Who should I blame?
But he was very stubborn and insisted on writing songs by himself.
His various behaviors seem so sincere, persistent and passionate. But if you examine it from the perspective of the game rules of the entertainment industry, you will only feel that it is unreasonable.
In 2013, Wu Kequn began to prepare for the movie "Writing Poems for You". The filming was not smooth at the beginning. Wu Kequn insisted on choosing the new heroine html for one week and still , which disagrees with the investor at that time, which led to the other party withdrawing its investment.
He could only borrow money from his friends to turn over, which also made him the largest shareholder of the movie.
script has been revised and modified for 4 years, and he also moved to Beijing to live, hoping to write down-to-earth good stories. Unexpectedly, the movie that spent nearly 53 million yuan to shoot only had a box office of 12.5 million yuan, ending in a crushing defeat.
At the beginning, everyone around him tried his best to persuade him to make movies as a side job, continue to release albums and start a tour. This is actually something Jay Chou has done. "The Secret I Can't Say" actually has good results, but Director Zhou has no follow-ups in this movie.
Wu Kequn showed his usual persistence in these proposals, "When you really want to do something, you really can't use it in one mind."
When everything was lost, he wore a T-shirt with the word "silly" written on it and faced the camera with a smile.
suffered a heavy blow in his career, and anxiety caused him to suffer from sudden deafness. Due to missing the golden treatment period, he lost 30% of his hearing.
He devoted all his savings to the movies, and even lost his old capital.
It is true that Wu Kequn succeeds and Wu Kequn fails.
On the one hand, he is a person who works hard and persists, and he is always a teenager; but on the other hand, he is too persistent in himself. When others see the path that is easier to walk at a glance, he insists on hitting the biggest difficulty in life.
Just like Bai Yansong said: This is an era in which everyone cares about the results.
There is such a silly, silly person who insists on it. If he succeeds in the end, this will be the best inspirational story.
But he failed.
Can Wu Kequn turn the tables? uncertain! But is it necessary to be successful in life?
But Wu Kequn really has the persistence that young and middle-aged should have in almost all positive energy.
After "Writing Poems for You" failed, he joked that he was "a fool who just wanted to make movies." But the original intention remains unchanged.
He also really worked hard.
Before debuting, Wu Kequn had a wealthy family life, when his father went to Argentina to do business. Later, his father went bankrupt and Wu Kequn lived in a difficult life. The house he lived in was not as big as the toilet he used to be, and the rent could not be paid.
The parents quarreled almost every day. When he was eight years old, his unbearable mother took him back to Taiwan.
The young Wu Kequn already knows how to learn to share the pressure and go out to explore since he was a child.
When he first debuted, he had to work part-time. Because his father failed in business, he owed a huge amount of 40 million yuan in extra debts. Wu Kequn tried his best to make money to pay off his debts, but he got tired of heart disease at a young age and reached the point of surgery.
is also this childhood shadow. He has strengthened his unmarriageism from the very beginning.
As soon as he became famous, he began to be hospitalized again and again. When his heart disease healed, his waist injury recurred. In order to work normally, he injected steroids into his lumbar spine. Steroids are a hormone similar to stimulant, which later caused deafness.
, but he never gave up.
He and He Chaolian were scolded for breaking up, but in fact he still cares about each other. The media also photographed him picking up his drunk ex-girlfriend late at night.
He is also a famous filial son.
Overall artists show love, food, and traffic on Weibo, while looking at his Weibo more often than not shows their mothers. Where does this come from traffic?
But my mother died of lung cancer at home. He posted a photo of her mother hooking his back and wrote: "Before today, I understood what regret is. After today, I understood what goodbye is... and I also understood how much I love you. I hope I can chat with you again, even if it is only half an hour and ten minutes, it has become the biggest and most inexhaustible wish in my life! Seeing your last peaceful smile, I believe you must have reached a better and more beautiful place. In this life, thank you for the opportunity to make me your son."
was so painful that I couldn't say. The most stubborn person on the surface is actually the most vulnerable. His mother is the softest part of his heart in the past few decades.
But even after experiencing this, he is still optimistic.
For hearing loss, he came forward to comfort his fans, saying that it was nothing serious and let everyone not worry. He even joked that only 60% of the remaining is enough.
He was criticized when he started filming, "Is the director's threshold so low now?", "Have you made an appointment for the top ten bad movies of the year?" As a result, he lost completely, but he did not defeat him. He still tried to start in the music industry again.
He knew that many netizens would laugh at him now: "Didn't you say you wanted to kill Jay Chou within 5 years? He is the king of heaven, but you have already died!"
He responded in his speech that if he could go back to the past and ask me to do it again, I would still do that! Maybe I won't say it out, but I still want to work in that direction.
In his life, perhaps someone has seen his own shadow.
Too many inspirational stories start from the protagonist’s struggle from the bottom of the valley. It seems that you can go all the way through obstacles, making people really think that the world is like this.
In fact, all success is a collection of some kind of huge opportunities. On the one hand, it requires precious talent, hard work, solid work, and accurate pace of the times, and crucial luck.
Even if you overcome those grievances that no one understands, you will cry alone and fight with all your might, failure may still come as promised.
Why is Wu Kequn not popular? Without a reason, he was just not popular after achieving his best. Kindness, hard work, persistence and success are never synonyms.
This is the case in the entertainment industry. Some people fall overnight, while others slowly bid farewell to the center of the stage.
But, a life that sticks to the back of the groove is worth walking on.
Can Wu Kequn turn the tables? uncertain! But is it necessary to be successful in life?
Even if he lost hundreds of millions of dollars in movies, returned to the music industry and broke up with the daughter of the gambling king, he would not be able to turn the tables against the wind in the end. He was still the Wu Kequn who once had the courage to challenge Jay Chou.
