From bar band to entertainment circle

Chapter 1 Graduated, Youth
I never thought I would come to this lakeside city, let alone hang on after graduating from college!Stay alive and work hard!What is it that makes me nostalgic?What drives my heavy body to crawl forward!

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Three months ago
The school held a grand graduation ceremony. Our band was invited to participate in the graduation performance. I was the guitarist. A song "Graduated, We Don't Cry" co-written by our band kicked off with the melody of the keyboard player.

The graduates were moved emotionally by the people on the stage. I seemed to see the nostalgia and reluctance in their eyes. Although I danced the electric guitar, I couldn't change the fact that this was the end of youth.

Just like the lyrics in the mouth of the female lead singer Xia Qing: "Let the tears wash away the past grievances and fill up the beautiful regrets of the past... This is a stop of youth, slowly sailing to the end, recalling the past pictures, arguing or encouraging each other... "

What I saw through the smoke was not only the parting of the graduates, but also the parting of our band. Today's stage is the last time our Yunji band will perform on the same stage.Some people go back to their hometown to open a piano shop; some people go to graduate school for further study;

but me?

What about my choice?I have no choice!

I was the one who least wanted the band to disband. We put in too much effort to be able to play the band together with eight people; I didn't want the band to disband but failed to stop each member's choice. After all, everyone has their own plans.

I know very well that after the performance of this song is over.

Gone, my youth; goodbye, my college life!
And our band...

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"Ding Dong"

WeChat rang.

I pulled back from the illusory dream to reality, swiped open the phone, and it was a voice message from the leader, hesitated for a moment:
"Yunqian, I'm really not talking about you. There are only two days until the entry assessment period. You have completed four orders in two months. Look at other colleagues. In the last two days, if you are not satisfied with six orders, you should resign and leave! "

The thunderous voice woke me up completely, but I didn't reply, I put down my phone and went to the bathroom to slap my face with cold water.

Looking at the complexion in the mirror, full of vicissitudes, I feel more and more unfamiliar with this city. It is so difficult to walk out of the campus and into the society. In fact, I have been mentally prepared for a long time. Drumming.

"Yunqian, what are you tossing about? It's not so easy to take root in this big city. If you have no relatives and no reason, go home! Don't do those fearless struggles, go back to the small county in your hometown and live a happy life." Isn't some ordinary life not good?" I said to myself in the mirror.

I admit that I used to think about everything very well. When I was in high school, I wanted to report to the arts, study music, and be a music producer.No matter how bad it is, I will be a junior high school and high school music teacher, and I will be able to do what I like every day, and I will never get tired of it.

But dreaming is a dream after all, and my family didn’t support it. They hoped that I would work hard to get into medical school and become a doctor when I came out. For this reason, there were inevitably conflicts with my family. The family relationship was not as harmonious as it seemed to outsiders. Let it go.

Later, I chose the finance major by mistake. At first, I came to Jiangnan just to be far away from home, without the nagging of my parents, and I was always compared with other children.

Of course, I will not regret coming to school here, because here I met a group of friends who love music, and we continue to play music together as amateur music lovers.

Unfortunately, there are still some. If I was studying in a professional college at the time, I might have learned something more profound and professional, and my network of art resources and circle would be much larger.

After graduation, some students with good family conditions went abroad to study abroad; there were also those with relatively strong professional knowledge. They signed contracts with banks and securities companies during their internships and lived a stable life with good income.

And I am cloudless...

People who are always answered by others help in class, and the financial industry is destined to be unable to eat.

I walked into the bedroom and looked at the electric guitar hanging on the wall. It was lying there quietly, seemingly asleep.

I used to love it so much, I worked for it for two months during the summer vacation, but I was thrown to the ground in front of the seven of them after the graduation performance, and it was torn apart.

"Fuck the band, fuck the musical dream!"

This is what I said in anger at the time. The last dinner was because of me, and everyone didn't get together, but they didn't blame me.

There is a photo frame under the electric guitar, which was taken on an island in the middle of the lake. Eight people wrote their names and sentences on the blessing plaque of the Taoist temple together: "The Yunji band will never leave!"

At that time, we imagined a bright future, hoping to perform together like Mayday, and play together until we are 40 years old.

Our band has participated in many college student music festivals in the Jiangnan area, enjoying the lights on the stage, and being infatuated with the cheers off the stage to bring about the vanity of occasional loss of consciousness.

However, that was our confidence at the time.

The most conspicuous thing about the band is the lead singer. For the audience, the lead singer is beautiful and sings well.

So the lead singer of our band, Xia Qing, became hot. After the music festival, entertainment companies approached her. She was very embarrassed, but we all knew that she was a little shaken.

In my junior year, Xia Qing sent me a message.

She said: "Yunqian, I know what you mean when you look at me recently. I am very happy when we play together. If I really want to sign a contract, it will definitely not be on campus. Even if I sign a contract, I will talk to them about whether I can bring me Thank you, after all, if this band didn't have the songs you wrote...without all of you, I wouldn't be where I am now..."

One night before graduation, Xia Qing asked me to have a drink, and then she mentioned that the company would not train anyone other than her, and she had no choice but to refuse or go solo.

I'm not an idiot. I've known since my junior year that one day, these media companies only care about the benefits they can bring.

band?They have more professional than us; writing songs?They have more senior composition and arrangement teachers!And how can you fall in love with non-professional college graduates who have written one or two songs?

I said to her at that time: "Xia Qing, if there is such a day, you can do whatever you want in your heart. Everyone has the right to choose. I won't blame you. I don't think they will either. Don't hesitate, don't Guilty, because this is your chance, I only hope that after many years... I will become a big star... Just remember the youthful years we played together!"

I finally put away the photos in the bedroom, not to escape, but to cherish this memory, and smashing the guitar on the day of graduation was not to be angry with Xia Qing.

Because it’s not just Xia Qing, each of us has our own reasons and the right to choose. The reason for doing that may be self-blame, complaining that I can’t keep this band. Although I am not the captain, even the captain can’t do anything about it.

Then, I put the guitar that was injured on the wall into the piano case. Not only was the guitar injured, but I was also beaten by life like a drum. Music dream-I can only give up on you!

If you want to win a place in this dimly lit city, you must first solve your food and clothing.And I chose to stay here, of course, there is another important reason, you might as well guess...

Just when I was full of emotions, the phone rang again suddenly. I turned my head to look over, and my face gradually became dignified.

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The author says:

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