In the past two days, nothing has given people the most complicated feelings than Xu Meijing’s Nanjing “Meeting and Meeting”. Although this performance was called “Meeting and Meeting”, it was a concert fare, but she only sang a few songs. song, but the whole performance was strangely planned and chaotically organized, and there was a chorus of "ticket refunds" on the spot. In such an era that cannot be missed, this performance will obviously bring her a lot of trouble.
Xu Meijing faded out around 2006. Since then, she has tried to come back several times. In other words, she did not quit, but she just didn't have a chance to cheer up again. In 2008, she appeared in the soundtrack of the movie "Anna and Anna"; in the autumn of the same year, she appeared on the CCTV Mid-Autumn Festival Gala and announced that she would release a new album in November of that year; in 2011, she appeared in the Singaporean TV series "Sing Chau Night" In the original album; in 2012, it appeared on the Yunnan Satellite TV New Year's Day Gala.
Then, it was 2013. This year, she appeared on the "Era Show" and sang several masterpieces. On the screen, she is slightly chubby, wearing pink clothes, and smiling very sweetly both on and off the stage. Still there, still singing, and making a comeback. For those who like her, a stone that has been hanging high for a long time can be regarded as falling to the ground. Since then, she only appeared and sang intermittently. Until 2019, she held a concert in Nanjing. Fans rushed to Nanjing from all over the world. She did not disappoint everyone and successfully completed the performance. That night became a beautiful memory for countless "quiet fans". But in the following years, there were various scattered rumors, including singing on the street and being estranged from his family.
A rough calculation shows that Xu Meijing has been famous for thirty years. In 1992, she made her debut with the help of a beauty pageant. The following year, she signed a contract with a record company through a singing competition. In 1994, she released her first album. Judging from the time interval between releases, she is considered prolific, but her golden era only lasted a few years, and her total number of songs was not large. But her cold singing voice eventually became a distinctive feature of Chinese pop music in the 1990s.
Shanghua Records, where she works, also has a slightly cold tone. The singers of "Rolling Stone" and "UFO" records are more like stars. In addition to singing, they are also mostly media darlings, and there are often tidbits coming out. The singers of "Shanghua", such as Li Yijun, Meng Tingwei, Chen Mingzhen, Xiong Tianping, Xu Ruyun, Ruan Danqing, and "Power Train", are more like simple singers, and their private lives are rarely publicized. As a member of "Shanghua", Xu Meijing also appears in front of the public with a withdrawn attitude. From songs to records to music videos, they are all very simple. Music videos are often completed in one room and one scene. She has been criticized by music critics Dubbed the "environmentalist mv".
Low, cold, dark and quiet, that is the style of her songs. This kind of coolness and quietness made her look particularly charming. However, if we use coldness and tranquility as the standard to draw a curve for her album, we can see that her songs are showing a trend of getting colder and darker. This trend chart finally came to an end at the end of the century. In 1999, Shanghua Records was acquired and became a company owned by Universal. The company's personnel changes, plus the album "Static Electricity" she released the following year, had a good reputation but poor sales. , she gradually faded out, and "Static" became her last album.
Just when people thought she had completely retired, like in her song, she went to a forgotten town to warm each other with her lover, on June 22, 2006, she followed a stranger in a hotel in Singapore, He shouted to strangers: "Call me god!" and then received treatment. Her mental state came to the surface, and her emotional state was also exposed. What the rumors depict is a cruel relationship.
People are willing to blame her collapse on that hopeless relationship, but when we look back at her life, it is not difficult to find that she has a depressed personality, but she fell into an oppressive place like the entertainment industry, and she had to work hard to perform. , to accept attention and discussion from all directions.In the booming period of the record industry, this kind of low-spirited personality still had a place. As long as the sales of records were about the same, singers could always sing safely behind the scenes. Shanghua Records provided such a cold-toned home, but she Another big turning point in the recording industry, and the singer was thrown into the jungle to survive. The straws one after another caused the incomprehension later, and the feelings may be just the last straw.
Many artists claim that their "characters are not suitable for the entertainment industry" to express their aloofness, but in fact, what really does not suit the entertainment industry, or any vanity fair, is a depressive personality. A depressive personality may still be tolerated in other places, but in the entertainment industry, it is a fatal injury. What's even worse is that the person involved has to cover up his personality or act in an optimistic and positive manner. This character, this situation, the songs she sang, and the industry conditions after 2000 combined to eventually lead to disaster.
In 1999, in the collection of her works published by Huawei, there was a copy that read: "What makes Meijing special lies in her tranquility." That kind of tranquility is both good and bad. Now that she has finally come back, we hope that all the bad things are in the past and she can enjoy the benefits of silence and sing peacefully at an age that is gradually becoming calmer.
