''Towards the Light'' (

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: 向着光亮那方) aka "Towards the Bright Side" is a song recorded by Chinese singer

Xu Weizhou Xu Weizhou (born October 20, 1994), known internationally as Timmy Xu, is a Chinese actor and singer-songwriter, best known for playing the character Bai Luoyin in the Chinese web series ''Addicted''. He was the first artist to achieve the top ...

. The single was officially released on 2 May 2016 as one of the promotional songs of the film Yesterday Once More

Background

''Towards the Light'' is a soundtrack with a length of four minutes and thirty seconds. It pertains to the struggles and passion of youths. Its music video was first released on 21 April 2016 for the promotion of the film Yesterday Once More but the single was officially released on 2 May 2016. It gained praises and it was the first time a song achieved top spots on both China V chart and Mandarin chart in Billboard China at the same week. ''Xu Weizhou'' performed the song live on his "First Light Asia Tour" with the other songs from his album Light. Afterwards, he performed it on music festivals such as Forest Music Festival, Zebra Music Festival and 20th PEACEBIRD Music Festival on late 2016.

Composition

This single was composed by Chen Yu while the lyrics was written by Tintin Zhang. It was produced by Liu Tong, vice president of Beijing Enlight Pictures and the writer of the said movie. Liu stated that they chose Xu to sing ''Towards the Light'' because they think he is very suitable for it and "it also wasn't easy for him to be known by people, but because of certain policy reasons, he was being suppressed"; pertaining to the ban of Xu to appear on television shows by

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but Liu added that people can't blame the higher-ups because things got out of control. He also added that "...even though he is in this state right now, he will definitely still head towards the direction of the light and become better and better".

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