At the beginning of summer, an entertainment carnival triggered by "Sister Lang 3" brought a long-lost sweet atmosphere to the dull Internet environment. Most of the sweetness is triggered by the song " Love You " by "Sweetheart Leader" Wang Xinling . Many people born in the 1980s and 1990s remembered the mixed feelings of adolescence through the familiar melody on the other end of the screen.
At first, people understood that the entry point of this unexpected carnival was the nostalgic Renaissance , and the independent claim of "Why can't you be sweet at the age of 40?" Soon, the overwhelming "Wang Xinling Boy" began to gain popularity, among which the most sensational call for employees to vote on the list.
To a certain extent, this program that focuses on seeing diverse women has indeed achieved the opportunity to make sisters famous. It even "breaks the circle" in the third season, attracting the attention of many male fans.
However, is the voice brought by Wang Xinling and "Sister Lang" really a "victory choice" as the mainstream voice claims?
Sweethearts forever
On May 20, the third season of "Sisters Waves" "Ride the Wind and Waves" was broadcast. According to the format of previous programs, there must be a "Sisters Waves" who became popular first, but no one expected that that person would be Wang Xinling.
This is also unexpected to the program team. In the first episode, compared to the scenes where other sisters interacted and sparked, Wang Xinling's shots only had one entry interview and stage performance.
However, when Wang Xinling, who was nearly 40 years old, was wearing a JK uniform and singing the masterpiece "Love You" 18 years ago, almost all the audiences who were guarding the screen went crazy. In just a few days afterwards, Wang Xinling became the topic of everyone's fishing at work and having a meal.
The MV close-up of that year shows cuteness and innocence.
She is in the academy style, exactly the same as in the MV 18 years ago. The ponytail with high tread, slanted bangs, and flashing eyes - whether it is appearance, figure or dance posture, Wang Xinling, who is almost forty, is still sweet. This almost one-to-one replica of
made a human emotion called "nostalgia" attack.
It seems like time passes by, a carefree sweet song brings the post-80s and post-90s back to the 2000 years when they were young, ignorant, sentimental and even love. It is not how good the past was, but the current reality and distress, which further reflects the beauty of returning to the past.
In this sense, Sylvia or other sisters who cover old songs are not as strong as the nostalgia that Wang Xinling brings to everyone by the 1:1 replica.
When the entire network is intoxicated by Wang Xinling's "40 and sweet" and emphasizes that he still has the freedom to "be a sweetheart" at the age of 40, everyone intentionally or unintentionally ignores one point: being a sweetheart not only means maintaining the sweetheart's stage style, singing style, and personality traits, but also maintaining a young and girlish appearance.
The audience exclaimed: Will Wang Xinling not grow old?
As many viewers sighed in the barrage: "Will Wang Xinling grow old?" In other words, when people emphasize that Wang Xinling can still be a sweetheart at the age of 40, another extended meaning is -
No matter how time passes, Wang Xinling must have a childish face.
Especially in the entertainment industry, the biggest homework for female celebrities is to stand the 360-degree scrutiny of the public's appearance. Sure enough, after Wang Xinling became popular, many female bloggers began to analyze "Wang Xinling's appearance", and a captured photo of Wang Xinling's "plastic surgery and collapsed face" was circulated online.
At this point, the so-called diverse aesthetics and the call for free liberation of women who can be sweet at the age of 40 suddenly became a kind of irony. As long as a little old flaw is revealed, this beautiful, bubble-like declaration will be broken.
Many entertainment accounts have started to review their appearance after praising Wang Xinling.
"Xinling Boy" that seized the limelight
In 2003, in the era when Wang Xinling debuted, the entire society was full of imagination of the new era, and the consumer society was thriving, and everything was full of possibilities. The appearance of Wang Xinling filled the gap of "sweet and cute" on the market.
In 2004, the song "Love You" was popular all over the streets and alleys.Wang Xinling's petite figure and sweet lyrics shape a type of ideal girlfriend: she likes to joking around in your arms, and hopes her boyfriend "talk more love words". The album squeezed into No. 10 on the album bestselling chart of the year at that time.
In the year, Wang Xinling released his second album "Honey". Whether it is the style of the song or the lyrics, it is similar to "Love You". In his third year of debut, Wang Xinling's grades were pretty good, but it seemed that this was a watershed.
After starring in the idol drama " Smile Pasta" in 2006, a large number of homogeneous "sweethearts" have appeared on the market, such as the new sweetheart girl like the BY2 combination. At this time, Wang Xinling, who is not at the age of the age, is in an awkward situation. On the other hand, the image of a more powerful barbaric girlfriend or sexy female has risen and transformation is imminent.
Wang Xinling didn’t want to transform, but she didn’t succeed every time. From 2006 to 2012, when Jolin Tsai became the "hot dancer" in Asia, and Rainie Yang also transformed from a "girl next door" to a "maturity woman", Wang Xinling also tried "sexy hot girls" and "mature women styles", but the market response was very average.
During this period, Wang Xinling's star journey and life were not going well. She was hurt by several bad peach blossoms, and she even had to come out to clarify the situation in the face of her ex-boyfriend's insults and accusations.
In fact, when popular culture has become increasingly aware of independent and self-reliant women in recent years, and when the general social liberation trend encourages women to live out themselves, she seems to be unable to find any place to live. In addition, the sexy and hotness in the record industry at that time were not suitable for her.
She herself was confused. She felt awkward about characters other than sweetheart. In interviews with new albums in the past, whenever the reporter asked, "I heard that your style this time is very sexy/sad", Wang Xinling likes to answer: "Actually this is just one side of me. I have many side, waiting for you to explore."
Until 2018, Wang Xinling, who was unintentional and unable to transform, simply chose to reconcile. "I don't know what transformation is. I just know that I can't be a person who is not myself. I think this is putting the cart before the horse."
reconciliation is not only a career, but also the harms I have suffered in the past.
When she first debuted, Wang Xinling sang the feeling of losing her first love - "The noisy street, I didn't find my tears, I was forgotten on the corner of the street." Later, she sang again, "One day I might be able to cure myself."
This is true. After curing herself, she had no reflection on her emotional reconciliation with her past, "Let me fall in love with him after this love, just want the flower of my heart to finally bloom, and there is no other expectation." She had no reflection on "He treats me as a fool and coaxes me once a day" and no resistance.
After going around in circles, Wang Xinling decided to be the sweetheart that needs to be protected. And this is the most longed for in the traditional heterosexual view of marriage and love, and the image that men miss the most in the era of "big heroine".
However, it is hard to say whether this aesthetic revival is natural or intentional.
Some media pointed out that on April 28, before the broadcast of "Sister Lang 3", a cultural publicity company called "Star Bu Shu Future" released its first Weibo . On May 1, Wang Xinling became the company's first publicly signed artist.
is a coincidence, nor is it coincidental.
Until the broadcast of the variety show "Ride the Wind and Waves" on May 20, a large number of videos of "husband watching Wang Xinling's reaction" were quickly seen on the two major platforms of Xiaohongshu and Douyin . At this point, the popularity of "Wang Xinling Boy" almost surpassed Wang Xinling himself, and became the main body of nostalgic culture and occupied people's attention.
In addition, "Wang Xinling Boy" was reported as a new topic, and a rumor that "Wang Xinling President Fan" organized a voting in the form of company documents made the people who were on the verge of melons. People claimed that the dominant fans saved Mango Super Media , causing its stock price to soar overnight. However, afterwards, Mango Super Media hurriedly clarified: the program team did not have a voting link.
It is reported that Mango Super Media Co., Ltd. was briefly bullish in the first episode, but then it was in a slump.
People also discovered that the domineering temperament and cute image of the "Xinling Boy" were sought after, and the anger he had when he attacked the girls in the fan circle were completely lost. The proposition of "seeing different women" proposed by Sister Lang was almost overwhelmed.
Why are there only those who ride the wind and waves, but no sister? After the third season of
"Sisters of Waves" was broadcast, what puzzled many people is why its name changed from " Sisters of Riding the Wind and Waves " to "Riding the Wind and Waves", where did the "Sisters" go?
Looking back at the first season of "Sister Lang", it was born in a social trend. At that time, mature female stars such as Haiqing and Yao Chen spoke out in public, revealing that 30+ women lack opportunities in the workplace, especially in the entertainment industry.
is also why, in 2020, Mango TV launched the first season of "Sisters of Waves". It tries to use the shell of a girl group talent show to show the diverse charm of a group of 30+ women. In the
program, the sisters compared an orchid plant and issued a sonorous declaration: "I don't want to live in a warm house, and I bask in the moonlight in the wind. I admire the vastness of the world, and the flower language is also sonorous." The producer of the
program also echoed the "female consciousness awakening", using the opening copy to point out women's age anxiety - every woman "is facing the hammer questions of gender and age, life and herself", and then made a claim: Even after the age of 30, women still have diverse possibilities.
However, this original intention has not been continued. Soon, the colorful sister stage became a palace and grand view garden, and the sisters’ goal was no longer to show their diverse charm. Judge Du Hua said that the girl group should be "neat and uniform" and there should not be too outstanding people. Even Ning Jing himself has the criteria for selecting teammates to become "neat and beautiful".
The rebellion of the sisters is just to confront age.
By the second season, "Sister Lang"'s voice is getting smaller and smaller. People have found that what female celebrities are most admired are their beautiful appearance, unshakable figure, and "elastic" skin. The show's rebellion ends up only focusing on the confrontation of age.
Until the third season, Wang Xinling, who became popular because of the show, simply responded directly: "Sweetheart Grandma" is nothing wrong! It is certainly a freedom of personal choice to insist on being the "sweetheart leader" throughout your life. But you should know that the mainstream rejection of "silly and sweet" was not a joke or a discrimination, but a reflection on experience.
Wang Xinling's 2018 album, returning to the true nature of sweetheart: "Love. Xinling"
In fact, when "Sisters Lang 1" was broadcast, some netizens asked on Zhihu: Why are the audiences on "Sisters Riding the Wind and Waves" all women? And it's all women voting. Perhaps the view of a male audience reveals the fundamental reason: "There are quite a few male audiences around me who were paying attention to "Sister Lang" at the beginning, but later they gave up because they felt too weak in their sense of participation."
Finally, in the third season, the program team carefully deleted the word "sister", erasing the "sister" relationship between participants and audiences, making it easier for male audiences to participate. In addition, Wang Xinling's song "Love You", Sister Lang 3"'s proposal was almost covered.
Guduo data shows that in the first season of "Sisters Riding the Wind and Waves", the proportion of male audiences was 36.24%, the second season was 36.62%, and the first episode of the third season increased to 40.8% as soon as it was broadcast.
lost the "sister Lang" advocated by "sister" and could still stand up Do you live in the original signature?
Although this is just an entertainment-oriented variety show, we should not be demanding too much about it, but a program that draws inspiration and nourishment from female social issues and gains full attention in the end, and ultimately leads the topic to conservative female values.
"Sister Lang 1" was broadcast with a good reputation, leaving a 6.7 score on Douban; when "Sister Lang 2" was only 5.1 points left (and is suspected of browsing points). How many points will the "Sister Lang" in this season end up?
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