"The Situation of the World" and "Dreams": The Elegy of the Five People

Ah Liangzai went to South America on a bicycle? Went to Europe?

More than ten years ago, when Maotao and Renke were still rummaging through outdated rock magazines in Haifeng County and listening to the tapes brought back by older relatives and friends from Guangzhou and Shantou, they would not have thought that they would go to Guangzhou in the future to form a band, let alone that one day their band would be able to tour abroad.

A Liangzai is the protagonist in the song "The Situation of the World" by the Five People. In reality, A Liangzai may be a friend of Renke Maotao in Haifeng, or he may be the ones who could not realize their dreams but liked to dream. Now, they have realized their dream and expanded their tour territory abroad, but they still have not forgotten their possible other fate-staying in their hometown and running for three meals all day long, accepting the cruel reality, and dreaming that they will not realize. dream.

Aliangzi is this typical image of a literary and artistic youth in the county. Due to practical limitations, he is trapped in his hometown and cannot realize his ideals. However, this beautiful dream is still precious and eternal.

"World situation", in Haifeng Dialect and Chaozhou Dialect, means that a person is polite, courteous, attentive and thoughtful. In this song,"World situation" also has more literal meanings, and the implication is that "World situation" is a reality. It is also an emotion in the world.

Last night, I dreamed that I was wandering again and riding a bicycle to a magnificent country.

In another song,"Dream", the protagonist goes to another country on a bicycle with bare feet. The prodigal son on a bicycle is the early image of the five people. In the first album of Wuzhao people,"A Story of the County", there is also a famous song "Pedal Pushing a Pig". This picture-filled song title eventually became a iconic image in Wuzhao people's vision.

The two songs "World Situation" and "Dream" are both from Wujaoren's 2012 album "Some Scenery". This is a special album of Wujaoren, which contains Wujaoren's early 21 works in a random stew. Listening to these two songs together has a unique meaning. Together, they tell the dream of the same young man from rural literature and art in marginal towns. They are one and two sides."Dreams" and "world conditions" are inseparable. The sharp contradictions and cruel conflicts between ideals and reality are symbolically reconciled in the songs of the five people. And this is the moving quality of Wu Juren's works.

The five people were the lucky Aliang Zai who rode to Portugal to eat cod. They realized Aliang Zai's dream. In 2018, Wu Jao expanded his tour abroad and went to Brazil to participate in the performance of the São Paulo International Music Expo. At the end of August and the beginning of September last year, Wu Tiao went to Portugal for a five-city tour, and brought back the crystallization of this foreign travel-a live album. This album "Last Night I Dreamed that I Went Wandering Again" will be released this month. There are 11 tracks in the album, covering 4 studio albums by Wu Tiao, and most of them come from the second album "Some Scenery." As former youth in the county who realized the European and American dream, they brought these works to the country on the other side of the ocean where the sea breeze was also blowing, and then brought them back. This is also helping the Aliang children realize a magnificent dream. It is a small gift for the Aliang children.

On the occasion of the release of the new album, five people first released two live singles,"Dream" and "World Situation", and the arrangements and arrangements of these two tracks were also very different from the studio versions of that year.

The song may be new, but the dream is old. A Liangzi is sometimes called Wenqing, sometimes called diaosi, sometimes called Houlang, and sometimes called Murat. A Liangzi is always wandering silently-even wandering in dreams, in dreams, A Liangzi believes in the future, but only the old days make us happy.