They’re all reborn, what’s wrong with being a little more almighty?

Chapter 303 Sing Until You Surrender

The CCTV Spring Festival Gala has produced many hit songs. Li Guyi's "Unforgettable Tonight" is the closing program of every year's Spring Festival Gala. In the same year, Zhang Mingmin's "My Chinese Heart" shocked Chinese people at home and abroad.

Fei Xiang's "A Fire in the Winter" has also become popular all over the country; and every time shopping malls have promotions during holidays, they will inevitably play Andy Lau's "Gong Xi Fa Cai" on loop.

Young friends may not have heard of "See You in 1998" sung by Faye Wong and Na Ying, but you must have seen "Charlotte's Troubles"!

And the song "Good Luck Comes" has become a magic song for lottery. When you open boxes to draw skins and identify equipment, you always feel like something is missing without this song.

There are many other Spring Festival Gala hits that became popular overnight. They are all well-known and have been heard by men, women, young and old in the streets and alleys. It is probably like when "The Lone Warrior" was at its peak. If you sing "I love you walking alone in the dark alley" in public, a stranger will immediately follow up with "I love you for not kneeling."

But after 2010, there seemed to be fewer hit songs in the Spring Festival Gala. After more than four hours of performances, you would find that you couldn’t even remember which songs were there.

The same is true for language programs. After the older generation of artists gradually faded out of the Spring Festival Gala, jokes like "Palace Jade Liquor" and "Big Hammer Eighty, Small Hammer Forty" have not appeared for a long time. Everyone makes dumplings together all the time. Have you ever thought about the customs of Cantonese people?
People in Guangdong say: I don’t watch the Spring Festival Gala during the Chinese New Year, hehe!
When Shen Teng is not funny, people in the northerners will also say, I won’t watch the Spring Festival Gala during the Chinese New Year, hehe!
When the Spring Festival Gala's hit songs have gradually disappeared, the song "Where Has the Time Gone" came out of nowhere and became a rare Spring Festival Gala hit song in the past decade.

Everyone has different opinions on whether this song is good or not. Some people think that this song is so touching that they cry when listening to it. Some people think that this song is a sad song, a moral kidnapping, and a celebration of Chinese suffering.

But whether the audience likes it or not, the fact is that this song is very popular.

After appearing on CCTV's Spring Festival Gala, the song was mentioned many times in the 7 o'clock broadcast and was even played as the ending song in one of the programs, which is extremely rare on CCTV.

Later, when foreign heads of state visited China, they also mentioned this song.

Putting aside whether foreigners have really heard this song, just the fact that when the head of state comes to our country for an official visit, he will definitely talk about topics that are fashionable and popular here. It is impossible for him to talk to you about Emperor Wu of Han's Enfeoffment Order. This also indirectly shows how popular "Where Has the Time Gone" was at the time.

This song was released in 2011. When it appeared in the 2014 Spring Festival Gala, it was no longer a new song. It is said that the song has not become popular after three years of release, which means that the song is not popular.

Moreover, it has been three years since the release of the song, but it has not won any music awards, which also shows that the company behind the singer has no strength. Otherwise, at least spend money to buy an award for the singer!

Sometimes luck is really important. This song was picked up by the director of the Spring Festival Gala and became a huge success on this special festival of the Spring Festival and this special stage of the Spring Festival Gala.

The Spring Festival is a time for the whole family to gather together, and for some people, it is the only day of the year when they can reunite with their parents and children. This kind of song that can express the love of parents is indeed easy to resonate with people when sung at this time.

This is a bit similar to the song "Go Home Often to Visit". If it were played at other times, it might not become a hit, but when it appeared on the Spring Festival Gala stage, it was inevitable that it would become a divine song.

Imagine that I go to work early in the morning, but there is a traffic jam on the road and I am stuck on the overpass, unable to move forward or backward. At this time, your car music randomly plays a song called "Go Home Often". I am about to be late, and you let me go home?
Or maybe I'm in a hurry to squeeze into the subway, transfer from Line 1 to Line 2 and then to Line 3, running like a grandson in the transfer station, and getting into the subway car like a sardine can. At this time, if you sing "Go Home Often" to me, do you believe I will beat you?

But it’s different during the Spring Festival. No matter you are on your way home or have already arrived home, this song is so appropriate.

Even if you are stranded at the airport because of a delayed flight, waiting at the train station because you couldn't buy a train ticket, or stuck on the highway on New Year's Eve, your goal is to go home. When you hear this song, you will only feel that you are one step closer to home, and your heart will only be filled with longing and anticipation for home.

The song "Where Has the Time Gone" has the same effect. When you are with your parents and children on the night of New Year's Eve, it is hard not to resonate with this song when you hear it.

If you have children, when you hear the lyrics "Giving birth to and raising daughters for a lifetime, your mind is filled with their crying and laughing", you will inevitably put yourself into the role of a parent.

And if you are a child, when you hear the words "After spending half a lifetime on firewood, rice, oil and salt, in the blink of an eye, only a face full of wrinkles is left", you will inevitably think of your parents.

The lyrics subtly instill these psychological hints in you. You can't be like Xun Wukong, who popped out of a crack in a stone, right? You must be one of the parents or the child, or even both. It's a direct hit on the whole group.

And there is also the lament of "Where has the time gone?", which is a soul-searching question.

I am busy all year round and have little rest, but at the end of the year, I have no idea what I have been busy with all year. I can't even put together an annual work summary of a few hundred words.

Then I suddenly realized, where did my time go? I felt like I didn’t do anything this year, how come it just flew by in the blink of an eye?
……

Although this was not the Spring Festival Gala, when Zhang Wei sang "Where Has the Time Gone", he still moved the audience.

Because the audience knew that the theme of this competition was gratitude to parents. And because this theme was set in advance, when the contestants sang, the audience had already assumed that this was a song of gratitude to parents.

This can also be considered a kind of psychological suggestion, but it is this psychological suggestion that saves the audience time in building up their emotions and allows them to quickly immerse themselves in the song.

Therefore, when Zhang Wei sang the line "I've grown old before I could fully enjoy my youth", the audience instinctively thought of their own aging parents.

When Zhang Wei sang the line "Giving birth to and raising daughters for a lifetime, my mind is full of my children's crying and laughing", the audience instinctively thought of their parents' love and care for them, and could not help but recall how their parents cared for them.

When Zhang Wei sang the line "After half a lifetime of living a life of daily necessities, all you have left are wrinkles on your face in the blink of an eye", the audience would immediately think of their parents getting older as time goes by, of their hair slowly turning silver, of wrinkles gradually appearing on their faces, of their bodies gradually becoming hunched over, and of their steps becoming slower.

No one can resist the invasion of time. Before we know it, our parents have grown old. In the blink of an eye, decades have passed. The little feet and the chubby little mouth back then can only remain in our memories forever. The once young parents have become old, but no one can answer: where has the time gone?

Finally, some audience members couldn't hold back their tears, and then more and more audience members were infected, and the surrounding audience seats were all filled with red eyes.

A photographer fell down and found a female audience member crying. This female audience member had big eyes and had carefully made up. She was considered a beauty. After crying like that, her big eyes were full of tears, like pear blossoms in the rain, which made her look even more charming and loveable.

Beautiful women shedding tears always look very photogenic, and the director backstage immediately switched the shot to the broadcast screen and gave a three-second close-up.

Seeing this pitiful big-eyed beauty, the old perverts in front of the TV couldn't help but ask, whose friend is this?

At the same time, the camera captured another beautiful woman with tears streaming down her face, and then gave another shot, and the backstage director immediately cut it into the broadcast screen.

The audience was moved to tears when they heard the song, which was indeed a great show effect.

However, the director backstage soon discovered that more and more audience members were crying, and the images were transmitted to the screen in front of them through the cameras of various positions. So many audience members were crying, and it was impossible to cut them all, and the images could not be cut at all!

At the same time, Zhang Wei's off-site text message voting numbers also began to skyrocket.

Obviously, it was not only the audience at the scene who were moved. The audience watching the show in front of the TV were also moved. They expressed their support for Zhang Wei with practical actions.

Even the program planner himself couldn't help but get caught up in the song. His parents' voices and smiles appeared in his mind involuntarily. He even subconsciously reached for his phone, wanting to call his parents and hear their voices.

He finally came to his senses after taking out his cell phone. He was working, so how could he be absent-minded?
Then, he realized the power of the song "Where Has the Time Gone". Even he, who was full of hostility towards Zhang Wei, was moved, so how could the audience not buy it?
Taking another look at the SMS voting from the audience after the performance, Zhang Wei has already overtaken the opponent and his advancement is inevitable.

“The song hasn’t even been finished yet and they’ve already overtaken us?” The program planner took a deep breath and felt instantly disappointed.

I thought it would be the first time but not the third time. It was impossible to come up with three original hit songs on the theme of being grateful to parents. Even if Zhang Wei passed the first two hurdles, he would definitely fail with the third song.

But no one expected that Zhang Wei saved his trump card for the last song. This song moved the entire audience to tears, and we don’t know how many viewers in front of the TV were moved to tears by his song!
This is not the case of once, twice and no more than three times. This is completely the case of if there is one, there will be two, if there are two, there will be three, and if there is three, it will turn over!

In today's match, so many restrictions have been set for Zhang Wei, but it is still difficult to stop Zhang Wei from advancing. It seems that there is really no way to kick Zhang Wei out!
The planners now have started to think about how to explain this to their leaders when the meeting comes next week.

……

In a village in a certain city, there is a noodle restaurant that has been open for seven or eight years.

Although it was past the normal dinner time, there were still a few scattered customers in the noodle shop. They were all young people. Some were migrant workers who had just finished work and returned to the urban village, while others were young people who were going to stay up all night in the Internet cafe and came here to fill their stomachs.

A young man in his early twenties walked into the noodle shop, ordered a bowl of the cheapest noodles, and started to eat it ravenously.

The young man looked a little disheveled, with messy hair, as if he had just escaped from a storm, with a few strands of hair sticking up uncontrollably. His clothes were a little worn and greasy, as if they hadn't been washed in many days, and his face was even more untidy. If he was given a snakeskin bag, he would look like a typical tramp.

People with this kind of appearance are common in urban villages. Many people living in these urban villages do not have formal jobs and survive by doing odd jobs. It is normal for them to go hungry or have a full meal.

Especially those who eat the cheapest noodles and are reluctant to add even an egg, they must be migrant workers who are struggling to survive. The noodle shop owner has long been accustomed to this.

At this time, the "Hurry Up Boys" competition was also being broadcast on TV, and Zhang Wei began to sing the song "Where Has the Time Gone".

As the song started, everyone in the noodle shop focused their attention on the TV.

"Where has the time gone? I haven't even had a good look at you before my eyes have blurred. After spending half a lifetime on daily necessities, in the blink of an eye, you're left with a face full of wrinkles."

Hearing these lyrics, the embarrassed young man involuntarily put down his chopsticks, floated on the table and started crying.

"Young man, are you okay?" the boss came over and asked kindly.

"I miss my mother!" said the disheveled young man crying.

The noodle shop owner let out a long sigh. He had seen a lot of things like this. People left their hometowns to work outside and suffered a lot. In the most difficult times, they would inevitably think of their families and their mothers.

"Young man, if you miss home, just go and call home! Turn left when you go out, and there is a public phone at the intersection selling newspapers," the boss continued to advise.

"Thank you!" The embarrassed young man tried hard to hold back his tears, swallowed the remaining noodles, and drank half a bowl of noodle soup in one breath before asking, "Boss, is there a police station nearby?"

"Yes, go out and turn right. Turn right at the second road and walk along the road for about two miles, and you will see the police station."

The young man nodded, thanked him again, and walked in the direction the boss pointed.

Not long after, the young man arrived at the police station and walked in.

"Comrade, is there something wrong?" The police officer on duty looked at the disheveled young man and thought that he must have encountered difficulties and came to seek help.

"I am a fugitive, I am here to surrender!" Eight words came out of the young man's mouth.

The police officer on duty was stunned for a moment, then immediately shouted: "Get down and put your hands on your head!"

……

Not long after, the deputy director in charge of criminal investigation rushed over.

"Chief Lin, look, this is his information. He's Zhou XX, 21 years old this year. Three years ago, he teamed up with two other people to commit highway robbery. They committed four crimes in total, and they specifically targeted women who were getting off the night shift. Later, his two accomplices were arrested, but he absconded and has been on the list of fugitive suspects ever since." A policeman said, pointing at the computer screen.

"Is the identity verification accurate?" the deputy director asked immediately.

"Don't worry, we've checked. The information he provided is consistent with the information on the Internet. We just washed his face, and he doesn't look much different from the photo taken three years ago," the police officer continued.

"Well, the law is long and wide, and since he has committed a crime, he should actively seek to surrender himself and strive for leniency!" The deputy director paused and continued, "But this kid has been on the run for three years, why did he suddenly think of surrendering himself?"

"He said he listened to a song and missed his mother, so he turned himself in."

"What? Song? What song is so powerful?" The deputy director scratched his head in confusion, then said, "I've been doing criminal investigation for so many years, and this is the first time I've heard that singing can make a fugitive surrender!"

(End of this chapter)