I went to listen to Xu Wei’s live performance on Saturday, which I had long dreamed about, and it seemed that a wish that had been pressing in my heart for many years was fulfilled. I started listening to Xu Wei in the first grade of junior high school, the year of SARS in 2002, the third year after the second album "That Year" was released. At that time, I was buried in various test papers and tutorial books all day long. At night when my parents were asleep, they secretly took out the Walkman and tapes hidden under the pillow.

At that time, I was just like you, facing the accusations and preaching from parents and teachers.

I longed for understanding, longed for freedom, and was rebellious and wild in my heart.

No Chinese rock music before or after 2002 will reflect the desolation, possibility, spectacle and primal impulse of being on the road more strongly than this year.

You might say that Chinese rock music is bad.

Some people say that Chinese rock music is very good. In our developing country of lies and conformity, rock music is arresting the rate at which young people join inhumanity. It was named Chinese folk rock by the poet Wang Ao, because we are not cool. We live between 1.2 billion untouchables and a virtual metropolis, and even the sweat is squeezed out of reality. It is not as magical or sacred as the legend says, but it has brought about a youth subculture - in addition to singing and consumption, it also has a bit of Chinese characteristics, a spontaneous moral characteristic oriented towards resisting the dual control of centralization and capital hegemony - It preserves something precious from the slaughterhouse of education.

Yes, Xu Wei is not the most profound, nor the most groundbreaking, nor the most alternative, the most rebellious or the wildest, but just the most beautiful, Xu Wei’s loneliness, Xu Wei’s melancholy, Xu Wei’s Outstanding and extraordinary. Xu Wei's "Time Walking" He said that his second album "That Year" was not what he wanted to do, so what about this new album? Comrades who have listened to "Elsewhere", forget about the desperate, dark, and beautiful Xu Wei, he is happy now! Some people say, Xu Wei, you no longer rock and roll, you have changed! However, I didn’t expect that Xu Wei didn’t degenerate, but just changed his style. He was really happy, he was no longer desperate, he was no longer dark, he was no longer aesthetic, he was just happy, and he was getting happier, so there was no more happiness. In my autumn, there are no more bluebirds. Xu Wei gave up more musical ambitions. Apart from the Smashing Pumpkins-style guitar, apart from simple ballads and an honest tone, he almost didn't need more elements, but he was still so touching.

You are still running after all these years. Listening to the stories you told touched me deeply. From this world, from our real lives. There is always love in the story, no matter what the hardships and twists. There is always love in the story, and there is always a beautiful, warm and bright ending.