dao lang "comes back", "middle-aged dao fans" are crazy about chasing stars, netizens: dao lang's songs are so good
2024-09-03
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this time, daolang brought his hometown zizhong to the attention of people across the country. outside the screen, there are some moments worth capturing where folk songs are played on the bank of tuojiang river.
daolang image source: screenshot of the official promotional video
daolang’s “comeback” actually “disturbed” this small western city more than a month ago.
in july, a video of "daolang returning to zizhong for a concert and the stage being set up" circulated on the internet. at this time, the actions of daolang and his team had already been captured.
some said that he was going back to zizhong to hold a concert, some said it was to celebrate daolang’s mother’s 80th birthday, and others said he was invited by the local culture and tourism bureau to promote his hometown.
in short, knife fans from all over the country and enthusiastic zizhong citizens made the july in the boat city look like the "chinese new year". since then, zizhong has received the first wave of traffic.
on the evening of august 30, dao lang's online concert "where mountain songs are played" was held on wechat video account. it started at 20:00 and ended at around 23:30. the three and a half hour concert attracted more than 53 million viewers and received more than 600 million likes.
this time, daolang brought his hometown zizhong to the attention of people across the country. outside the screen, there are some moments worth capturing where folk songs are played on the bank of tuojiang river.
the bank of tuojiang river in zizhong photo source: photo taken by tang yuan, a reporter from china business news
in 2004, daolang became famous all over the country with the song "the first snow of 2002".
in the past, in zizhou, nanshuncheng street meandered through it, which is where daolang’s weibo name “@南顺城街22号” is now located.
next to it, the chonglong town central school stands quietly, filled with the fragrance of books; not far away, the zizhong county no. 1 middle school is majestic and full of literary style. this is also where daolang joked that "my lowest and highest education levels are located." if kindergarten is included, 400 meters behind him is the zizhong county chonglong town no. 1 kindergarten where he studied.
looking down at tuojiang river, the railway track mentioned by daolang is below. image source: photo by tang yuan, reporter of china business network
it has to be said that in that era when the internet and social platforms were not yet popular, daolang's rise was particularly abrupt and rapid.
in 2004, he released his first solo music album "the first snow of 2002". the sales of 2.7 million genuine albums made him stand out in the "golden age" of fierce competition among many singers.
this not only impressed many of his peers, but also laid a solid foundation for his subsequent musical career, but it was also accompanied by some inevitable controversies and discussions.
that year, daolang, who was becoming famous, returned to his hometown zizhong and appeared at the "daolang hometown concert". he sang four songs, including "lover", "remembering comrades", "the first snow of 2002" and "punishment for impulse".
daolang at the hometown concert. image source: video screenshot
as a native of zizhong, chen yi recalled that at that time, since live streaming and online ticketing were not yet popular, many people rushed to the concert to see daolang. "many people who didn't buy tickets even climbed over the fence to see the concert, because the performance was held at the new campus square of zizhong no. 2 middle school, which had not yet been completed."
chen yi described to the reporter of daily economic news that at that time, she was in junior high school. in her school, except for the teacher in charge of evening self-study, most of the other teachers went to dao lang's concert, eager to "see his true face". after all, in her opinion, it was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for a county town to produce such a big star.
to this day, when she recalls this scene, she still smiles knowingly, and laments why she was not born in a better era and missed the "most cost-effective" offline concert at that time.
she recalled that the grand occasion of the streets being deserted by thousands of people is still vivid in her mind: "he has always been the pride of our zizhong, but now he may not be able to hold (a concert) in zizhong anymore, he is too popular."
daolang's "where mountain songs are played" online concert image source: video screenshot
although zizhong in july is a bit stuffy because it is located in the hills, it also shows a unique free and easy temperament because it is close to the tuojiang river.
at this time, on the bank of tuojiang river, a stage several dozen meters high is being built in full swing, and the short video platform is filled with a wave of heated discussions about "daolang returning to his hometown zizhong to hold a concert."
most drivers passing by would record a video and post it on social media, asking, "is daolang back? look, they're setting up the stage." most of the comments below were, "who said that? the streets have been like chinese new year these days, and there's no daolang to be seen?" some even asked affectionately, "is luo erwa back?"
daolang's online concert set up a stage to attract many citizens to stop. image source: video screenshot
the place where the stage was built faces the tuojiang river, which gave birth to the people of zizhou, on one side, and the old city area with many low houses on the other side. it is full of the atmosphere of fireworks and is the place that the people of zizhou are most familiar with.
on weekday nights, citizens take a leisurely stroll here, and there are also square dance groups joining in. in those days, the most common people were self-media bloggers and various internet celebrities who said "i will be wherever the traffic is."
many people changed their nicknames to titles such as "take you to see daolang" and "so-and-so in zizhong". the carnival of traffic spread in this small city along with the summer heat wave.
according to chen yi, during those days, everyone around her would go to the tuojiang river after get off work, wanting to know the progress of the concert, count the number of people watching the live broadcast, and find out the latest news, which would then become a topic of conversation with relatives and friends.
of course, they would not miss this wave of "traffic secrets" and filmed a video of the scene, adding a sentence in authentic zizhong dialect: "it has been a long time since zizhong has been so lively. come and see, there are so many people, zizhong is hot!"
in addition to local citizens, self-media bloggers and daolang's team who have not appeared in public, another protagonist that cannot be avoided is the "dao fans" from all over the country.
middle-aged people are more crazy about chasing stars than we imagined.
some people said that they had flown here from abroad, some shared their experience of driving for several days to zizhong, and some mentioned that this was the first time they had flown thousands of kilometers to another city and then taken the high-speed rail to get here.
if people listened to daolang at that time, they were still teenagers, now most of the people who listen to daolang are middle-aged, becoming "middle-aged daolang fans" who have been listening to daolang's songs for twenty years.
due to local confidentiality considerations for daolang and his team, daolang never met with his fans.
maybe daolang was discussing online concerts with his team at that time, while dao fans outside had already spontaneously organized a party for dao fans, with the theme of "since we can't hear daolang singing, then dao fans will sing by themselves".
"knife fans" spontaneously sang together under the ancient city wall. image source: video screenshot
daolang's "comeback" can be described as low-key and luxurious. low-key means that only the works speak for themselves, and all the income from tips will be used for charity. in addition, this concert did not do too much marketing and publicity.
the luxury of the "comeback" lies in the numbers behind it: 53 million views and 600 million likes, for 3 and a half hours in a row, with 39 songs.
when all the ships have passed by, some unforgettable melodies will finally echo in the place where "mountain songs are played".
just like the online promotion about this concert and the upcoming tour——
i have been walking for a long time/now i am coming back following that voice/it walks in the dust of the northwest/waiting under the northern sky/leaving the endless yearning/in the vast hearts of the people in the northwest/it follows the river flowing all over the south of the yangtze river/listening to the stories on the other side of the river/it grows into a wave with temperament/folk songs are not just mountains and songs/it is also about men and women, good and evil, ideals and reality/it can pass through the land and transcend time/folk songs are the most powerful joys, sorrows, anger and happiness among the people/the more open-minded the place is/the louder the folk songs are.
some netizens said, "no one told me that daolang's songs are so good." "it's time to awaken my bloodline."
in fact, many years later, people who listen to songs will find that when an "old friend" full of years meets you again, when he comes back with his hometown and the music he loves so much, the meaning has already surpassed the scope of music itself and is engraved with traces of "each other". behind this, what is more attractive is the resonance brought by emotion, culture and art.
citizens listening to music at the ancient city wall music square on the evening of august 30. image source: provided by the interviewee
today, the ancient city wall music square has been built where daolang held his concert. on the night of the concert, many citizens also waited in front of the big screen in the music square to listen to this special concert together.
the meaning of daolang to this city, and the meaning of this city to music and to "dao fans" may become different from august 30, 2024.
source: xiaoxiang morning news
