On the last day of May, fortunately, I didn’t miss May Day in TME live.

Original Liuxiaotu Entertainment Hard Candy

Author | Liu Xiaotu

Editor | Li Chunhui

In 1998, Jonathan Lee picked up a record from the trash can. After listening to the whole demo, he dialed the phone number on the back of the record.

"You are Jonathan Lee, I am still Tayu Lo." It was the guitarist monster who answered the phone. He thought it was a prank after hitting the wall many times. Jonathan Lee was kind enough to explain it carefully and invited them to meet and talk first. Today, when the fraud phone keeps ringing, I am afraid it will be another story.

In this way, Mayday successfully signed a contract with the company and stood on the best springboard to touch the music dream. In 1999, Mayday released her first album, and held a concert with over 40,000 people at the Taibei Municipal Stadium, which was the first orchestra in Taiwan Province (China) to hold a concert at the stadium. At that time, although this underground band emerged, no one would have expected that they could really become the song of youth for a generation like their predecessor Tayu Lo.

Since 2006, Mayday has basically had a "date" with fans every year, which is also the fixed time for Hard Sugar Jun to build a fan group. But seeing that in 2020, the May appointment at the scene is hopeless. Fans who have seen May Day singing in TME live’s special performance in JJ Lin can only go beyond words and wish that May Day can give a special performance.

On May 25th, there was no early warning announcement in Weibo, and the online concert "Suddenly I really want to see you" will be held on May 31st. Every city and every time zone can go to this online appointment of TME live.

In the summer of 2017, Hard Candy Jun came out of the Mayday Bird’s Nest concert and was so excited that he wrote a small paper in a circle of friends: As a group established for 20 years, Mayday’s songs began to contain the content of middle-aged crisis. But in this middle-aged crisis, it is also the pride of "being a teenager until death".

In the summer of 2020, after going through the robbery, and listening to Mayday singing "My last stubbornness and I will never let go", we can finally confirm that it is not just youth, but the whole life-I am a teenager until I die. Mayday did it, and we can do it.

From youth to life

When Hard Sugar Jun was in college, his favorite was Stubborn, and he felt that he could compete with the whole world. When I first started working, I still loved "Stubborn". In difficult times, I always echoed those lyrics in my mind, so I could hold on. Today, Hard Candy Jun can still say without hesitation, "When I am different from the world, let me be different", and this online concert, Mayday also chose "Stubborn" as the finale.

Youth is short and life is complicated. Judge the situation or not change your mind? The song of Mayday, growth is an eternal proposition. Growth at the age of 20, growth at the age of 30, and even growth at the age of 40. There are ordinary and great dreams in Salted Fish; There is warm and sweet love in Love ing; There is a passion to fight again in "the Monkey King" … Fans listen that Mayday grows up and Mayday grows up.

In the online concert of "Suddenly I really want to see you", Mayday chose representative works such as An Apple, Summer Lightyear and Stubborn. Together, it is the first half of most people’s war-torn life.

Adolescence, young people’s self-awareness has just awakened, and they can’t wait to get rid of all the shackles and find freedom. Forming a band, stealing hip-hop lessons, and dreaming about the future have become the "the Monkey King" in the "Summer Light Year".

As written in the Mayday Song, "If you want me to live, let me live with hope" is the creed of life. No matter how the relatives and friends who walk ahead persuade and warn, they still adhere to the inner order, "I don’t turn, I don’t turn."

There are no waves in the world, and such youth is a story repeated in every generation. When A Xin formed a band, she was scolded by her mother that "if she keeps playing, she will become a beggar sooner or later". He was at a loss because of this, and finally went on with the belief that "that would be cool".

Now, listening to the Monkey King and Light Year in Summer in Mayday can still quickly ignite fans who may no longer be young, the soul of Form 2 that has never really been extinguished.

Chen Kaige said, "When we believe that we are very important to the world, the world is just ready to forgive our naivety". After youth is life, and all kinds of tastes are in my heart. Every lonely night, people who missed it can only ruminate on "Suddenly I miss you", which was only ordinary at that time.

At that time, who wrote in the QQ space "I am most afraid that I have made up my mind to live by myself in this life, but suddenly I hear your news without you". Now who is in the live broadcast room of TME live, brushing "I really want to see you again", maybe the person who was looking forward to listening to the song together in the past can also see it.

As a real adult, but still believe in love, and even believe in saving the earth. It may seem naive to the sophisticated, but it is the truth of life here on May Day. When the people who want to make Noah’s Ark are bruised and bruised, some learn to reconcile, some learn to be content, and some learn to avoid … but deep down, they still hide their stubbornness of not telling others.

After listening to several songs, Ronghao Li, Jam Hsiao and Mao are not easy to suddenly appear on the stage, and this cross-screen cooperation has become the biggest tear point tonight. Fans from all over the world gathered on the screen, telling each other their feelings and surprises.

May day is always young.

Twenty years have passed, and the Chinese music scene is changing. Some people are forgotten and some people are out of date. Only on Mayday, not only the proposition in the song is growing, but even the form is closely following the changes of music media and always at the forefront of innovation. Fans who want to lie flat all the time like Hard Sugar Jun are also inspired by idols, so they can’t keep in good health by Buddhism so early.

After the release of her first album, Mayday became famous with her single "Zhi Ming and Chun Jiao" and gradually became the song list overlord of Taiwan Province KTV (China). Soon, they successively created two albums, Long Live Love and Sea of Life, which won numerous awards.

In 2001, A Xin, Martha, and Monster were ready to join the army, so they had to take a break in May. For the new band, the long "silence period" is likely to cause them to disappear from the sight of fans and gradually lose their influence. Unexpectedly, Mayday returned with her fourth album "Time Machine" two years later, breaking the curse of military service with strength.

However, the Chinese language scene in the Millennium is at its peak, and many divas in Faye Wong and A Mei are in full swing. Mayday is famous in Taiwan Province, but it has a weak presence in the mainland market. Hard candy jun still remembers that he accidentally saw their news from MTV information.

In 2004, Mayday first tried to enter the mainland music market. They gave their first performance in the "Unknown Highland" bar in Beijing. That night, there were only more than 30 spectators at the scene, and some people came for other bands. This embarrassing experience was once written into the song by Mayday as a stalk.

However, with the popularity of songs such as "Stubbornness" and "Contentment", Mayday finally caught fire in the mainland. Mainland fans heard their songs on radio and TV, and crowded into record stores to compete for tapes and CDs.

By 2012, two concerts were held in Beijing Bird’s Nest on May Day, and the scene was packed. The "Unknown Highland" bar is just a few kilometers away from the Bird’s Nest, and it has been eight years since May.

During this period, the online music platform of the Internet completely changed the life of the record era. In 2016, the keen Mayday released the first digital album Autobiography. Today, on the platforms of TME’s QQ music and cool dog music, Party Animals, Any Door and Life Limited Company are still popular works.

While exploring the territory of the music scene, Mayday also showed the courage and creativity that ordinary singers rarely have in exploring the forms of music expression. They first put the concert on the big screen with "Chasing Dreams for 3DNA", which created a precedent for Chinese concert movies. Then, they made a 3D concert movie of Noah’s Ark in May, and even won the praise of director Hou Xiaoxian.

In 2019, Mayday’s third film "Mayday Life Unlimited Company" landed in the mainland cinema. Fans "bring money into the group", and the whole network has a heated discussion around fan movies. In the end, the cumulative box office of this film exceeded 50 million, winning the comprehensive box office champion of documentary in 2019.

Today, they continue to break the boundaries of musical expression and complete the May appointment with online concerts. Judging from the concert effect, TME live presented an almost perfect stage for May Day. It was specially held in the memorable Taipei City Stadium, giving people the feeling of Do not forget your initiative mind and the starting point. They first warmed up by singing "An Apple" in the small room, and then flung open the door leading to the main stage. At this moment, the audience fell into just visiting, and their feelings quickly spread.

The Mayday in each period has an unpredictable appearance. The stage has changed and the mode has changed, but the taste of their music and the emotion of their fans have never changed.

So far, so close

It is said that every five fans should listen to the scene once, and youth is worth it. However, the fans who grabbed the tickets for the Mayday concert must have felt the despair of selling for a second. Who doesn’t want the front row in the rock section, but do we have that character? !

Can you think about it, fans are crazy about grabbing tickets and even buying the front row at a high price, just to enjoy the singer’s high-definition face at close range? (In fact, you can’t see clearly no matter how close you are …) Of course not. They are looking for an organization to gain a sense of belonging in the collective ceremony.

The cost of going to the scene is extremely high. You need to set aside time and money, and be able to stand out in the fierce battle for tickets, and make great efforts to go to this distant appointment. A friend who accidentally gets a ticket to the top of the mountain is likely to see loneliness. All kinds of sadness, hard candy jun even can talk for three days and three nights.

During the current epidemic, many live entertainment went online, and every cloud has a silver lining, a fan who watched the online concert, became the lucky one. After the news of the online concert held on May Day came out, many senior five fans left messages to celebrate: I finally got the ticket! This is the favor of Mayday, and it is also the favor of TME live.

However, it is not easy to do a good job in online concert. Technology, beautiful dance and interactive play will all affect the stage effect. In order to do a good job in this online concert, Mayday has made many careful arrangements in the pre-heating, site layout and interactive process.

Before the start of "Suddenly I really want to see you", official blogs such as Mayday and Believe Music posted the event delivery door, and also distributed exclusive electronic tickets for fans. A large number of netizens spontaneously printed tickets, shared photos in Weibo and friends circle, and even gathered in bars to watch the concert on the same day. TME live also cooperated with H5, who said there was no May appointment in 2020, and took the representative of Mayday as the timeline to accompany everyone to recall the past years.

After this operation, the sense of ceremony of online concert suddenly doubled. Hard candy Jun’s circle of friends was strongly screened by the poster. In addition to making an appointment to watch, they also did not forget to share their stories with Mayday, and the audience’s nostalgia was repeatedly evoked.

The online concert audience is not in sight, so the singer can’t adjust the performance rhythm according to the atmosphere of the scene. Mayday tried many interactive ways for this, and made the stage scene into a musical film full of immersion. Although there is no audience in the huge stadium, the staff are intimately filled with light sticks, which makes the audience feel the warmth of companionship in front of the screen.

Every time I sing a few songs, I will sit down and talk about my family and accompany the audience in a special way of communicating from a distance. but

Smooth lens switching records rich scenes, which not only avoids the boring of a single picture, but also perfectly presents the excellent stage of Mayday. What is even more rare is that when they sing different works, the lights will constantly change with the genre, conveying complex emotions.

A song "Stubborn" stopped, the performance came to an abrupt end, and the audience was still not satisfied. We didn’t get encore, but fortunately we can watch the full-court playback in TME’s QQ music, cool dog music, cool music and national karaoke. Fans who used to complain that they couldn’t keep the wonderful moments of the concert, so I asked for perfection.

Mayday has accompanied us through a long period of youth, and this online concert appointment is only the beginning of a new stop. I hope that for the rest of our lives, we can still stick to our beliefs and cut through thorns. I don’t know if June is good for us, but May is good.

Original title: "The last day of May, fortunately, I didn’t miss May Day in TME live"

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