Lay features in T Magazine's December 2018 issue.
Images: Lay Studio Weibo
Translation: eternallyixing (Reposted with permission)
Under the garb of a popular idol, Zhang Yixing, as a fresh individual, is trying to create a unique cultural landscape
Through music, Zhang Yixing has also accomplished many thing outside of music. For example in his <I Need You> MV, he invited his grandfather and grandmother who celebrated their 50th golden wedding anniversary to appear in it with him, where they acted out a touching paragraph related to love and family in Paris where Chaumet's headquarters is.
Zhang Yixing says, "Music can be an outlet, but it's not the only outlet."
He not only found his own life's setbacks in music, but he also attempted to treat music as a companion who has life, leaving each other space, no overstepping but also inseparable. He says he only does three things when he's alone, including learning, making music and feeling his solitude. As to how he feels it, this public idol wishes to leave the answer in one of his few personal spaces, as for us, we can imagine anything we want.