The popular ditty "Knitting Sweater" in the 1980s is popular among netizens

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Zhang Weiwei cleared his throat, plucked the strings, and sang his last "little song" at that party. This song is called "Knitting a Sweater" and it lasts for one minute. In the following period, this popular ditty has been constantly dismissed by netizens, who regarded it as a love classic and cried, and also used it as an object of re-creation. What a joy it is...

If a little tune can make the Internet noisy, then it must have its charm.

Poet Meng Yifei’s interpretation is that this is an anti-elite art form that aims to please the public and belongs to it. The popularity of the song is the carnival of the mediocre.

The "Knitting Sweater" thing

This song was sung by freelance musician Zhang Weiwei at a friend's gathering. On February 11, Luo Yonghao, affectionately known as "Lao Luo" by netizens, posted the summary and lyrics on his Weibo and Renren's public *** homepage: "Drinking sugar water at the 'Jianghu' bar on Tuesday night , Zhang Weiwei sang a folk song, the lyrics are probably like this: 'I love you deeply, but you fall in love with a stupid person, that stupid person doesn't love you, you are even more stupid than stupid person, oh... you still Knit a sweater for silly people!'"

The lyrics have since become popular online. Soon after, Zhang Weiwei's own live audio was also uploaded to the Internet, and many interpretation versions appeared, including the fast boy player and well-known music critic Zhang Xiaozhou.

Previously, some media and netizens identified the composer and singer of the song as Zhang Weiwei. The reporter learned from Zhang Weiwei and others that this song was only passed down from many popular ditties in the 1980s. A song whose author is currently unknown.

Wipe your tears and let’s do it

In sharp contrast to the “marketplace” lyrics, the melody of the song is slow, sad, simple and beautiful, “Close your eyes, it’s totally okay” I imagine that behind Zhang Weiwei’s vicissitudes of life there must be a persistent and sad heart.”

When Luo Yonghao posted the lyrics on Weibo, he wrote: “Everyone burst into laughter, only Xu Cen said in surprise, Oops. , this song is so sad. I thought about it and felt sad.”

The scene described by Luo Yonghao was surprisingly consistent with the response on the Internet. Netizens left a message: After listening to it for the first time, I laughed so much that my stomach hurt. When I listened to it for the second time, I discovered that it was not that simple and there was a story. When I listened to it for the third time, I cried.

Netizens thought of their own emotional experiences and the "silly person" they once loved, and lamented that "everyone will be stupid once in his life." Netizens define this song as a love classic and feel that the "I" in the song is really a stupid child, knowing that the most stupid person is himself.

Tears are destined not to be the main theme of the Internet. If it weren’t for a “party event” adapted from “Knitting” on Maopu.com and Douban.com, “Knitting” would definitely not be popular on the Internet.

Previously, some netizens found that "a branch of red apricot comes out of the wall" and "hanging from the southeast branch" can be called "versatile sentence patterns". No matter what kind of ancient poems or famous sentences, they have unexpected effects. . Netizens suddenly discovered that "silly × knitting a sweater" is also a versatile sentence pattern. Subsequently, various divine sentences appeared frequently in various Tang poetry versions, Song lyrics versions, Yuan opera versions, and foreign literature versions.

The reporter found that this kind of similar prank phenomenon is still continuing to ferment online.

"Knitting Sweater" Sample

[Tang Poetry Edition]

Two orioles were knitting foolishly in the green willows.

Alone as a stranger in a foreign land, I knit sweaters every festive season.

This feeling can be remembered in retrospect, and I can only blame it on knitting sweaters at that time.

Late at night, I suddenly dreamed about my youth. I only dreamed of being silly and knitting a sweater.

In the dying dream, I sat up in shock and laughed as I was knitting a sweater.

People in the past have gone away on yellow cranes, leaving little time to knit sweaters.

The garden is full of spring scenery and I can’t help but go out to knit a sweater.

We are both destitute people at the end of the world, so why bother knitting sweaters?

[Song Poetry Edition]

I don’t regret it as my belt gets wider, but I still knit sweaters for silly ×.

Wu Yan went up to the west building alone to knit a sweater for Silly ×.

As the sun sets, Silly × is still knitting a sweater.

When will the sweater be available? Silly × asked the sky.

Silly × knitting sweaters on a bright moonlit night at the place where my heart was broken every year.

The bamboo stick and mango shoes are easier than the horse, who is afraid? I am most afraid of being stupid × knitting sweaters.

The great river goes eastward, and the waves are gone, but the fool is still knitting a sweater.

Asking you how sad you can be is like watching someone knitting a sweater stupidly.

It is desolate and desolate. When it is warm and cold, I have to knit a sweater.

After so many years, the good times and good times should have been just a waste of time, so even though I had a thousand sweaters, I knitted them with Silly ×.

[Foreign Literature Edition]

The sweater is already here, can the silly × be far behind? "Ode to the West Wind"

Silly × or sweater, that is the question. "Hamlet"

[Modern Literature Edition]

There is no such thing as a fool in this world. If you knit too many sweaters, you will become a fool.

The night gave you black eyes, but you used them to knit sweaters for stupid people.

Expert interpretation: Dispelled sadness

A well-known music critic and columnist said that netizens’ re-creations are intended to use Internet language to eliminate the vulgar and sad things in the lyrics. To create a funny effect and just keep the song on a fun level.

“Netizens didn’t even know that this song belonged to the 1980s when they were following it. The 1980s was a street era (cultures such as karaoke were popular), and now is the Internet era.” He said , if there is no Internet, this song is just something in a small circle.

Previously, the music critic’s thoughts and evaluation of this song were: People who lived in the 1980s are more or less familiar with the atmosphere of this song, just like they know the origin of the scars on their bodies.

Yesterday afternoon, Chen Xiaoming, a sociologist and professor of the Chinese Department of Peking University, and Xiang Xin, director of the Institute of Sociology of the Hunan Academy of Social Sciences, were interviewed by our reporter. They both attributed the popularity of "knitting sweaters" to It was caused by loneliness and emptiness among netizens, and they predicted that the phenomenon of "knitting sweaters" would "disappear after a few days of popularity" and "next time something comes up, netizens will forget about it."

Liang Yuan, associate professor at the School of Journalism and Communication at Hunan University, once analyzed that many Internet phenomena reflect a state of unconscious entertainment among netizens. Since last year, more and more serious focus events have been difficult to attract the attention of netizens. This This kind of nonsensical incident can easily attract the attention of netizens. On the Internet, everyone is just for fun and is easily swayed by Internet promoters, causing many Internet incidents. However, there is an increasing lack of responsibility for social welfare or social responsibility. The entire network has become a noisy square. Journalist Zhou Qingshu

“The popularity of songs is a carnival for the mediocre”

Meng Yifei, a representative of the post-70s generation, poetry critic, poet, and columnist, believes that the popularity of songs is not limited to Weibo In addition to its spreading power, the stories hidden behind the lyrics, and the recommendations of Internet celebrities such as Luo Yonghao, the song itself is also in line with the tastes of literary young people.

Meng Yifei said that the threshold for Zhang Weiwei’s duck voice to be regarded as the “original” is too low. Any “copy” sung by any literary young man is not under the “original”. This is deeply in line with post-modern art. product characteristics.

“Simplification, salivation, foul language, and retardation are the inevitable results of postmodern art today. This anti-elite art form takes the crowd as its starting point and affiliation. This kind of song The popularity is just the carnival of the mediocre."