In the latest season of The Voice of America, show instructor Adam Levine led his cadets on stage to sing a chorus of "Hey Jude." Many people in the audience hugged and cried, and a tearful middle-aged aunt kept muttering, "Thank you, thank you..." Their tears were to commemorate and recall Christina Grimmie, the 2014 Voice of America contestant and runner-up winner.
Christina Guimi is a rare American singer, born on March 12, 1994, since the age of 15, she has been publishing her cover works on the foreign video website Youtube, and in a very short period of time, she has received more than 2 million followers. In 2014, at the age of 20, she stepped onto the stage of The Voice of America, and her first attempt to cry was recognized by all the instructors, and eventually became a student of Adam Levine. Her family is not very wealthy, and she finally made her official debut on the stage of "The Voice of America", and her future looks like a bright future.
On June 10, 2016, Christina Guimi held her own concert in Christina Guimi Orlando. After the show, she stayed on site to sign autographs for her fans. When she hugged Kevin Loibl, a male fan present, as usual, she did not expect that what awaited her was the crazy murder of the male fan who fired five shots in a row. Although Christina Guimi's brother and staff immediately stepped forward to stop her, her life was forever fixed on the most beautiful 22 years old. The male fan who fired the gun also committed suicide by drinking bullets on the spot.
According to the TMZ website, a colleague of Kevin, the murderer of Christina Guimi, said in an interview that "Kevin's fascination with Christina has no limits", and in order to change his appearance, he not only underwent hair transplants and myopia surgery, but even hoped to lose weight by eating vegetarian. He also listens to Christina Guimi's songs when he goes to work, and claims to have met Christina privately when he went to the show in March, and the two played online games together, saying that the two would soon be married. Christina Guimi's friend refutes the matter, stressing that neither side met in private, and that all this was just the suspicion's fantasy.
This tragedy also reminds people of Christina Guimi's idol Pantera, who had the same tragic experience of being brutally shot and killed by the so-called "music fans". Known as "the most successful heavy metal band since Metallica", Pandora's legendary guitarist Timebag Darrell. On December 8, 2004, while Timberg Darrell was performing with his new band, Damageplan, at a club in Ohio, USA, a schizophrenic claiming to be a Pandora fan, rushed to the front of the stage and shot Timberg Darrell and three others present, injuring the remaining seven. After the massacre, Nathan was quickly killed by local police.
The murderer Nathan Gore is said to have lived under the illusion that Timberg Darrell and his band were able to steal his thoughts. As a "fan" of Pandora's band, he firmly believes that Timberg Darrell himself and his Damageplan band are the culprits that led to Pandora's separation and separation. So he chose to repeat history on the 24th anniversary of John Lennon's shooting.
Adam Levine's choice to commemorate Christina Guimi's departure with "Hey Jude" is too apt and hard-hitting. As the Beatles' most popular classic song, re-singing "Hey Jude" in 2017 is not only a nostalgia for the rock giant John Lennon who was killed by the "fan" skin, but also to convey comfort and brave wishes to christine Guimi's family on the spot – because "Hey Jude" was Paul McCartney's five-year-old son Julian of John Lennon Lennon) wrote songs about warmth and love.
From the well-known John Lennon being shot and killed by a mentally ill American fanatical male fan, Mark Chapman, in front of his home in New York, to Christina Guimi, who was only 22 years old, the crazy people who called "music fans" and "fans" cruelly deprived them of the lives of the musicians they called "beloved" and other equally innocent civilians. And this tragedy has always been close to us.
Born in 1995, Masayuki Tomita, a member of the Japanese girl group "Secret Girls", was assassinated by a male fan, Tomohiro Iwase, on the evening of May 21, 2016, and after being stabbed more than twenty times in a row, his heart stopped beating, but fortunately he recovered a life after trying to rescue him...
Jodie Foster, who was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress at the age of 14 for her superb performance in "Taxi Driver", once faded out of the film world. It was precisely because her crazy movie fan John Hinckley Jr. chose to assassinate the 40th president of the United States, Ronald Reagan, in order to attract the attention of Judy Foster...
Tang Anqi, a member of the Chinese girl group SNH-48 born in 1992, suffered accidental burns while eating at a coffee shop on the evening of March 1, 2016, and the fire spread throughout her body. Although Tang Anqi released the news six months later that it was an accident, the rumor of "fan revenge" once prevailed...
Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez, too, have received frequent death threats for their careers or love, but fortunately nothing is too serious...
There is also the most notorious serial killer, Charles Milles Manson, who, in the name of loving rock and roll and the Beatles, has tortured and killed several lives, including the wife of the famous director Polanski and the famous Hollywood actress Sharon Tate in the sixties...
Whether it is a well-known musician, actor, rock giant or a youth idol, while they are sitting on fame and attention, they also expose themselves to the most dangerous places. Looking at the tragedies that have occurred repeatedly over the past thirty-seven years, the reasons why these victims have been harmed are all nonsense. But they paid a terrible price for these nonsense, even many lives. In the end, all that remains is the endless pain, resentment and longing left for loved ones, friends, and later followers.
At this point, the mind sang the moving melody of "Hey Jude":
“Hey Jude, don't make it bad.
Take a sad song and make it better.
Remember to let her into your heart,
Then you can start to make it better.”
These four lyrics seem to be the only comfort that can be said for the families of the victims. But what we need is not to "sing a song of sorrow", not to let the victim "enter your heart" and then the world "will be a better place". Such a world is not good at all.
Violence cannot hide behind any excuse.
Love is not a passport to violence.
May the "Sad Song" that has been sung for thirty-seven years since John Lennon stop here, and the days to come can "make it better"; may from now on, we have classic songs that can be sung for generations, moving performances that can never be tired of watching, magnificent and unforgettable works of art; no longer a lonely, cold and solemn tombstone that stands alone after wiping away the blood with tears...
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