What you believe, you will become
--Phoenix Legend Linghua "Open Lecture" inspirational speech
I am a girl from Erdos Ertuoqqi, Inner Mongolia, and everyone knows us as Phoenix Legends. My name is Yang Wei Linghua, translated in Mongolian as clouds in the sky. What I want to tell you is "You must believe in yourself". Speaking of the first record from 2004, we know that there is such a pair of singers. A man and a woman, one singing soprano and the other rapping, such a duo; on the internet it was quite hot, and everyone gave us a title, saying we were a pair of "internet singers". I remember very clearly that when the internet first started to develop, internet singers seemed to be very low-grade singers. In fact, I have always thought that I am not a network singer because I was competing with my partner. From the Youth Song Contest in 2004 to the Avenue of Stars in 2005, I think we are two powerful singers. When people said we were network singers, I was actually very reluctant to talk about it. In 2006 or 2007, our "Free Flight" was particularly hot, and we were given a new title, "Color Ring Singers". At that time, our mentality was not like that at the beginning, but we were a little bit uncomfortable inside. The first thing I'd like to say is that I don't care if it's a ringtone singer or a network singer, but I think Phoenix Legends have caught up with the good times, and I think we've got a lot to live up to.
"The most dazzling national wind" time, our song again began to fire all over the north and south of the river, fire to a lot of people have begun to annoy. Why do you say annoyed, because it began to popularize the square dance. At that time I felt especially great and thought I had done a great thing. Zeng Yi and I went to dance with the fitness dance teacher from beginning to end, and made the textbook version ready for distribution. It didn't take long for people to keep calling us names on Weibo: "Phoenix Legends, I hate you guys. Your songs are playing everywhere, and when we're off on Saturdays and Sundays, no matter where the hair salon or wherever it is, in the square you're disturbing the people and making us uncomfortable." Including some famous people that I've heard about, saying how their songs just invite annoyance. Actually at that time I thought I did a good thing, why did they all scold me like that? Later, I figured out that I don't care what people say, I just need to sing my songs well. Today, I would like to take advantage of this program to say that I hope our uncles and aunts, when dancing in the square in the future, don't play the sound too loud, and go to exercise when you are not taking a break.
From "network singer" to "color ring singer" and then to a "square dance singer". Then there's this saying that we're called "agricultural heavy metal singers", and there's a news story about how we use our songs to drive the pigs, so we said we'd drive them. There was even a white-collar worker who liked our songs and was listening to us on the subway when suddenly the cable of his earphones fell off. The whole car heard it, and all the people turned around to look at him. The man said I am particularly embarrassed, particularly embarrassed where, said I listened to the Phoenix Legends song, so everyone thinks I am very earthy. When white-collar workers look at me like that, I suddenly want to find a crack in the ground. That's what the songs were about and what they said about us. All along the way, all kinds of labels and titles have been placed on our heads. Having come this far, I feel like I'm pretty open about it, why do you say that? I feel pretty good that if one day such labels are gone, then all I can say is that people are not interested in our songs anymore. So until today, maybe it's your various statements that are spurring us on!