You are cool, I rate you.

Author: Liu Kexin
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: Hans Christian Andersen wrote a story called "The Nightingale," a very beautiful fairy tale. Mr. Andersen told us that a real nightingale is higher in quality, although it is not perfect; an artificial nightingale has a gorgeous appearance, a loud singing voice, and a compliant personality, but it lacks life. I disagree. Natural and artificial things each have their own beauty and excellence, why must we compare them and declare one superior to the other? Why is the latter considered inferior? Pop music, an artificial nightingale, is always bright and beautiful but never praised. It brings us so much joy and has soothed our hearts many times, yet it doesn’t need us to thank it. But after listening, if we casually label it as "shallow," is that not lacking in tolerance? Pop music is filled with imperfections, which needs no hiding. But why do we listen to pop music and sometimes laugh, sometimes cry? Why do seemingly shallow things so easily break through our defenses, open our hearts, and play with our emotions? Thinking through these questions is very difficult, very difficult. Jin Yong’s martial arts, Qiong Yao’s romance, Huang Yi’s fantasy, Japanese idol dramas, and the mysterious costumes of the Korean wave—we are increasingly in love with them, to an almost unbearable extent. Simple moral condemnation is useless against them; they won’t disappear just because of a few righteous criticisms. Don’t rush to paste big posters on any vulgar or simplistic things. First, open your heart to tolerance and learn to love them.