COSMO Out of sight Yu Yan ran for love, and was also lifted by love

Mondo Entertainment Updated on 2024-01-31

In front of and behind the scenes, different perspectives.

2023 is coming to an end, looking back on this year, there is a phenomenon that you must have experienced, that is, the recovery and popularity of offline performances. According to the statistics of the China Performance Industry Association, in the first half of 2023 alone, 506 large-scale concerts and festivals will be held across the country, directly creating 249.7 billion yuan at the box office. From the ** festivals that are blooming everywhere, 8 concerts in a row, to dance dramas, operas, ** dramas and other forms of live repertoire performances, people's life pressure has been greatly released in the performance activities.

Based on this, Fashion Cosmo has opened a new ** column:Cosmo is out of sight behind the scene。We focus on the front and back of offline performances and activities, hoping to discover more real and less well-known character characteristics from the perspective of recording.

Among the various types of live performances in the market, the energy output of singing and dancing singers is the most direct, and the protagonist of the first issue of the column, we are fixed on the metaphor of insisting on releasing raw singing works every month.

In 2020, Yu Yan joined the limited group the9 with the fourth place in "Youth with You", and left amazing stages such as "Flammable and Easy **" Lion" and "Ambush on All Sides" in the show.

In May 2023, she released her second solo EP "World Mine" after graduating from the group, and started her first solo tour in five cities across the country under this name.

We followed the footsteps of Yu Yan to record the five cities and five tours, recorded all the stories in front of and behind the scenes, and also approached Yu Yan through interviews again and again to understand Yu Yan. What we see is a story of rushing to the dream without hesitation, and it is also a story of being lifted up by love.

I'm like a drum, the side you see is always spinning, it's always different, so sometimes everyone thinks I've changed, but it's actually me rotating", she used a very vivid metaphor to explain her "contradictions", and also answered our questions about "change".

She felt that she might not be the "obnoxious child" she used to be. She worked hard to get rid of some of the "directness" in her personality, and began to think more about others, not wanting anyone to be hurt because of her unintentional actions;She went from being a person who was not afraid of anything to being cautious and "afraid" of everything;From a person who is "optimistic about everything" to a person who "does not hope for anything, and thinks for the worst in everything......

Such words sound very much like the template of "fame" that is popular in the world—slowly handing over and ceding a part of oneself in the growing public popularity. So we asked her, "Is it a big price to be famous?"She laughed and then asked, "Am I famous?"”

This is a question that doesn't hold the premise, but if she insists on the price, "there may be some cruelty in this industry, but other than that, nothing can manipulate my thoughts, and I don't have to do something I don't want to do in order to cater to anyone." ”

As you'll soon see, this isn't a traditional template story called "sacrifice," at least never that way. She has her own ambitions, but also her own persistence, she is obsessed with what she is obsessed with, and strives for what she desires, even if she is destined to be a "moth to a fire", she has to try her best, so the so-called "sleek", "cautious", "optimistic or pessimistic" are just new choices under the big proposition of becoming herself who she really wants to be. Probably because of this, you can hardly catch anything "heavy" in your conversation with her.

She participated in and led almost all the preparations for the tour, starting from "I don't know anything", step by step to implement the wish of "wanting to meet everyone on stage", choosing venues, choosing songs, choreographing, buying props, adjusting lighting, and even VJ relied on "dark" to see countless **, screening countless fonts, and slowly finding the feeling she wanted. As a bystander, we can guess the difficulties and trivialities of this by imagination, but when asked about her feelings, she only thinks that "these are all small things" and "there are references, so there is nothing difficult". Because this is the idea in her head, she can only rely on her own efforts to achieve the effect she wants. And all these time-consuming and labor-intensive things are put together, and for her, there is only a fluttering joke "I am born to worry about my life".

Lifting weights seems to be a quality that is becoming more and more admired by everyone, but for metaphors, all things related to "**" and "stage" are never important.

If you want to talk about the "harvest" of this tour documentary, it may be that you finally heard the expression "I can't say what I want to say" from the metaphor of "can't express". She doesn't like the entanglement in her personality so much, she doesn't like that she can't always express what she really wants to express in her heart, and what everyone calls "emotional maintenance" is the most difficult thing for her, because it is always difficult to say it, so for those who like herself, she can only try to do more, "complete some of the things they want to see".

When interviewing the producer of ** Mr. Lu Zhongxun, we asked him "anything that impressed me during the tour", I thought that I would get some small stories on the arrangement and run-in, but I didn't expect that what impressed him the most was actually the cute side of the metaphor on the stage that was different from the usual, and this should be the first time all of us saw the idea of the metaphor on the tour stage.

If there is a cute side to the parable in private, which is no surprise after a few encounters, then on the touring stage, you can feel very strongly that she is wrapped in love, and she herself is 100% sure of this, so she shows a more relaxed side than usual in this safest and most comfortable space.

Revealing your softest side in front of thousands of almost unfamiliar faces sounds like a new "fairy tale" narrative. And the completion of this "fairy tale" requires thousands of people in the audience to spend different time and energy to choose to come here at this moment - this should be an encounter that cannot be included in the cost and benefit system, and its realization only depends on love and innocence.

Luckily, the dreamer has her own best audience, so they complete a dream that belongs to each other.

Due to the limitations of the final duration and material of the documentary. There are also a lot of images that Cosmo has taken but don't show in the end.

For example, the little sister of a person I met by the Wishing Wall in Nanjing, who came to see the tour, braided her hair with a green headband, suddenly choked up and asked at the moment when the camera was lowered, "Can I really talk to Yu Yan?"After the performance began, I saw her again in the second-floor stands, she stood with her hand and light sticks held high above her head, looking at her sight, the metaphor on the stage was small, not far, but not close, she held a light stick, singing every song, if you look from the stage, you should also be able to see that there is a green light that has been shaking with **.

For example, a fan who came alone with a cane, she said that she came in a wheelchair at the team concert in Nanjing before, and now she can hold a cane alone, and she will definitely be able to come in good health next time.

For example, a fan who rushed back from overseas but missed the plane and had to change the ticket and finally arrived after several twists and turns, she told Yu Yan into the camera that even if she was still delayed and missed the plane next time, even if she had to walk a long and long way, she would definitely come again.

Click to participate in the documentary perks** and test it out for good luck in the New Year!Producer: Zhang Xiaodong.

Executive Producers: Zeng Yue, Royce

Project Coordinator: Zebra.

*Editor: Lu Ying.

Director: GRR

New typography: claudia

New ** American editor: Yueming.

Camera: A Editor: Li Yao.

Grading: Ah Chao.

Camera assistants: Wu Kehan, nano

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