In 2014, a "Little Apple" refreshed people's understanding of music, and quickly exploded across the entire north and south of the Yangtze River, and even red to other countries.
After that, it became a must-have song for all major square dances.
The group called "Chopsticks Brothers" also gained numerous favorable comments again, and their career has reached an unprecedented peak. The group's career was at an all-time high, with major media websites competing for their cooperation.
Before Little Apple, the Chopsticks Brothers first became famous with Oldboy.
Like many young people with dreams, the "Old Boys" were young men who experienced a variety of hardships in the pursuit of their dreams.
When the Chopsticks Brothers weren't formed, Wang Taili and Xiao Yang were still in their own fields, searching for the fulcrum of their lives.
At the time, Wang was still an art student, and every time he sang, his classmates would tell him he sounded good. As a result, Wang Taili had a dream of becoming a musician.
Without saying a word, Wang Taili asked his family for 500 dollars and took a bus to Beijing.
With no direction at all, Wang Taili had no place to stay in Beijing, but just chased after his music dream with a passion.
On the first night in Beijing, Wang Taili stayed at the reception center.
The next day, he got up early and rushed to the Oriental Song and Dance Troupe.
Unfortunately, when Wang Taoli arrived at the troupe, he was told that the training course had been canceled a long time ago. Later, from the mouth of the security guard, he learned that Mr. Wang Ming of the Central Conservatory of Music was running a training course.
Wang Taili then backpacking, humming all the way to the reed pit all the way to the Conservatory of Music.
Originally thought, this time will certainly succeed in entering the training course, but Wang Taili was once again told that Mr. Wang Ming's training course is also canceled.
Seeing that learning music is hopeless, Wang Taili could only think of a way to find a place to settle down in Beijing first, to solve the problem of a place to live.
In the beginning, Wang Taili found a friend and lived together in the dormitory of the Polytechnic University, where he only had to spend six dollars a day. But then he was booted out when the school realized he wasn't a student at the university.
Without a job or a place to live, and with his quest for education still unsuccessful, Wang Taili could only spend 100 bucks to rent a basement house to live in first.
After a period of time, the money was almost spent. A friend said to Wang Taili:
"Taili, you have to fill up your stomach before you can think of other music dreams. Otherwise, if you keep on like this, you'll have to sell your kidney to live."
It was only after hearing this from his friend that Wang Taili decided to go out and look for a job.
Wang Taili and a lot of people in the North, in order to survive, he did what work. He worked hard every day, and was a cashier at the hotel. After the closure of the hotel, he went to McDonald's to work.
Later, he also ran to the insurance company to do insurance, buy paintings, pull ads ...... wherever the work can make money, Wang Taili have gone out of their way to try again.
Life will eventually slowly improve. After tossing a big circle, Wang Taili still use their own professional knowledge of art, for their own life to light a lamp.
In the advertising planning for other companies, Wang Taili found himself in this area is quite good. So, it is their own drumming to open an advertising company.
It was also because of this advertising company that Wang Taili met Xiao Yang, another "chopstick".
Unlike Wang Taili's difficult experience of drifting to the north, Xiao Yang's experience is a bit softer.
At the age of 16, Xiao Yang left home and traveled to Beijing to attend the Central Academy of Fine Arts. By the time he was in his third year at the Academy, Xiao Yang was able to earn his own tuition and living expenses for a year.
This is really much better compared to Wang Taili, who was then a wage earner in the North like this.
After Xiao Yang graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts secondary school, he enrolled in the Film Academy to study directing, specializing in commercials. Before he met Wang Taili, Xiao Yang followed Zhang Yimou's directing team and worked as an assistant to the director's team.
So Xiao Yang was able to support himself on his own, even though he was a student at the time.
It was at this point that Wang Taili's company wanted to find a director to shoot a commercial.
Wang Taili wanted to find Yueh-Lun Wang (Xiang Li's husband), but thought that Yueh-Lun Wang was asking for a higher price, so he gave up.
One day, Wang Taili learned by chance that there was a student called Xiao Yang at the Film Academy who was an advertising director and was said to have shot a lot of things.
So, Wang Taili asked for Xiao Yang's phone number and made a call to Xiao Yang, inviting him to come to the company for an interview.
For the first time, Xiao Yang was excited to hear that someone was looking for him to shoot a commercial.
Xiao Yang dressed up carefully and came to Wang Taili's company. The first time he met Wang Taili, Xiao Yang only thought that Wang Taili was a big brother who looked a little bit humorous.
In the process of conversation, Xiao Yang began to boast, lying to Wang Taili that he has shot many types of advertising, shot a lot of films, and so on, to "blow" himself like a proper advertising man.
As the boss of Wang Taili, naturally, also not willing to show weakness, also with Xiao Yang "blow" up. He said that his company will have a lot of big orders in the future, and if he does well this time, he will let Xiao Yang continue to do it later.
The two "brothers" are really "cheating" each other to get acquainted with each other.
After listening to Xiao Yang's "boast", Wang Taili decided to use Xiao Yang to shoot the 200,000 yuan advertisement; and after listening to Wang Taili's "tempting" words, Xiao Yang also decided to take Wang Taili's job.
Thus, the Chopsticks Brothers had their first collaboration.
The commercial was a success, and Xiao Yang and Wang Taili gradually got to know each other and found each other to be like-minded people. After the commercial shoot, the two became very good friends.
It was because of this commercial that the "Chopstick Brothers" were born.
The first time you do business, you're going to have to do business again.
In 2006, the color ringtone was on fire. The arrival of a new generation of cell phones brought the dividends of color ringtones. Hearing that "Two Butterflies" made a hundred million dollars, Wang Taili began to plan to catch the color bell this train of dividends.
With the idea, we have to put it into action. Wang Taili soon wrote a song, the title is called "bless you dear". After writing it, Wang Taili sent it to Xiao Yang, asking Xiao Yang, the brother's opinion.
At that time, Wang Taili did not know that Xiao Yang also likes to sing. When Xiao Yang received Wang Taili this song, Xiao Yang's first thought is to shoot to give short films.
Because at that time, it was also the time when the network video continued to be popular. Standing in a director's point of view, hurry to shoot a short film to the site, is also a way to catch up with the trend.
The second collaboration of the Chopsticks Brothers took place.
In 2007, they made a short film called "Memoirs of a Male Geisha" for the colorful song "Bless You Dear", which was very well received at the time.
The humor and boldness of the interpretation of the "Chopsticks Brothers" was loved and cheered by many.
The response was good, but the money wasn't there.
Because their first short film was so well received, the Chopstick Brothers made another short film, "Where Are You," in 2008. At the time, Xiao Yang had just graduated and invested tens of thousands of dollars, but still did not make any money.
So they decided not to shoot any more movies.
They decided not to shoot any more films, but some of the time they did.
The two brothers, who no longer wanted to make movies, learned of Michael Jackson's sudden death in 2009.
The two brothers did not want to make another movie, but because in 2009 they learned of Michael Jackson's sudden death, they wanted to make a short film to pay tribute to their lost youth.
After all, Wang Taili was already 40 at the time, and Xiao Yang was already 30. The two agreed that life is short, and in the process of pursuing their dreams, the gradual passing of youth, really no longer come back.
Just as a generation of singing characters, Michael Jackson is a "god".
Just like a generation of singers, Michael Jackson, such a "God" like characters, will also be destroyed by the years, but also can not resist the laws of nature and passed away.
And Michael Jackson's death was more like a miracle than an accident.
The death of Michael Jackson is more like a representative of a generation of youth is gone.
With this in mind, in June 2009, Wang Taili wrote the song that would later change the fate of the Chopsticks Brothers - Oldboy.
In order to pay tribute to their youth, the original title of "Old Boy" was "Youth". When he finished writing it, Wang Taili sent it to Xiao Yang, asking him for his opinion.
Xiao Yang suggested that Wang Taili change it again, so Wang Taili went back and changed several versions.
Until he wrote "Youth is like a running river, it's too late to say goodbye." When Xiao Yang saw the lyrics, he told Wang Taili not to change them again.
The whole song is about the two people's confusion about youth, about the pursuit of dreams in the process of all sorts of difficult and bumpy, said all the beauty of youth and the passing of the sentimental.
After the song was written, in 2010, Wang Taili and Xiao Yang began to want to shoot "Old Boy" this short film, as a "tombstone" to pay tribute to their youth.
But I didn't realize that this "tombstone" would later become a "milestone".
The filming of Oldboy didn't go so well. Because at first the budget for Oldboy was 100,000 dollars, and then the longer the filming, Xiao Yang thought that at most he would ride into another 100,000 dollars should be about right.
In the end, the two men put all the old money into it, a **** spent more than 700,000 yuan to complete the production, a little close to "losing money".
And sadly, when the short film Oldboy was made, it was just as well that Wang Taili's father died of cancer.
Before his father's death, his father told Wang Taili not to hang around, he should do some industry, not to engage in these music, film and television things.
So, after filming Oldboy, Wang said to Xiao Yang, "I'm going to go back to the office to do some industry, and no longer engage in these music, film and television."
Xiao Yang, who was still editing the short film "Old Boy," said, "Wang, you don't want to change careers. I think this movie will be a success."
It's true that you can't see the rainbow until you've been through all the ups and downs.
At the end of 2010, the click-through rate of "Old Boy" exploded once it was released, and the short film and the lyrics were perfectly combined, so that many dreamers could empathize with it, and they were in tears after watching it.
The Chopsticks Brothers became an overnight sensation.
After all the attempts, and all the difficulties, "Chopsticks" finally succeeded.
Wang Taili followed up with "Father," a song that brought tears to the eyes of many people.
Then, to avoid the label of "sad" songs, Wang decided to create an upbeat song.
So, in 2012, Wang Taili wrote the song "Little Apple", which was a hit across the country. After post-production, it was not released until 2014.
Since then, the "Chopsticks Brothers" have become the object of pursuit for thousands of fans, who were once united by their dreams and intellectual interests, and who have worked hard together to complete the transformation because of their dreams.
And in the process of pursuing their dreams, the little boys will eventually become "old boys".
Past Highlights:
7 subjects less than 100 points, entered the university "crazy", but now became a big star
Through the "bankruptcy", miscarriage. "future"
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