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Last Friday, "Time Concert" broadcast the third episode, and the ratings of this episode of the program came to the first place, and the third episode of the broadcast won three consecutive championships, becoming the highest-rated variety show of provincial satellite TV in the three intelligent networks. In addition, the program "Zhang Jie mixpop version of the moon above", "Wang Sutaki adapted the song of the Phoenix legend is too flirtatious" and other topics on the hot search, won the first place in the variety topic list.
Anyway, Hunan Satellite TV's music variety show has exploded again.
After the second phase of this variety show pays tribute to Tan Yonglin, the third phase ushered in the cover phoenix legend, and in addition to the six time musicians, this variety show has two musical friends in each issue, the second period is Li Keqin and Liao Changyong, and the third period of musical friends is Ren Xianqi and Wang Sutaki.
When Wang Sutaki appeared, I think this music variety show finally appeared in an interesting place in the selection of musicians. Wang Sutaki is just the watershed of the decline of the Chinese music scene, and there is no meaning for Wang Sutaki here, but it means that Wang Sutaki was the peak of the Chinese music scene before, and after them, it represented the decline of the Chinese music scene.
Maybe many people don't understand what this means above? The answer is actually quite simple. Because Wang Sutaki is the dividing line from the record era to online digital music, including Xu Song, Xu Liang and other internet singers who were at the same time as Wang Sutaki.
Before them, the Chinese music scene was the record era, and the musicians selected so far in this music variety show are all in the record era, Tan Yonglin, Li Keqin, Xu Ruyun, Lin Zhixuan do not mention, they were originally Chinese musicians at the peak of the record era.
Although Ren Xianqi debuted in the 90s, his real fires of "Heart Too Soft", "Sad Pacific" and so on are all in the late 90s, anyway, around the 2000s, this time is close to the Phoenix Legend, including Daolang who did not appear but had a full sense of existence.
Then there is Zhang Jie, who came out of "Fast Man" about five years late, and he is undoubtedly in the record era. Yu Kewei debuted in the 2009 session of "Supergirl", although the time and Xu Song, Wang Sutaki they are similar, but because of the formal draft, songs and albums are still mainly released records.
This is not to say that Xu Song, Wang Sutaki did not send records, they also issued physical albums in the early days, but they are basically popular with the online digital music situation, the influence offline is not comparable to the predecessors, and the popularity of super female fast men is not the same.
After 2010, whether it is a variety show, various idol stars or short video music developed later, it is basically digital music, and at this time, it is almost recognized that the Chinese music scene has declined. So the question is, why is the Chinese music scene declining?
1, the aesthetics of Chinese listeners have a big problem, the battle line is too long.
This is not to say that the aesthetics of Chinese listeners are not good at anything, it has an objective reason that China's economy is developing too fast, while the structure of 1.4 billion people is very complex, and the social development is too fast, resulting in the Chinese audience's cultural aesthetic front being stretched too long.
What does this sentence mean?
The audience of developed countries such as Europe and the United States, including Japan, from becoming a developed country to the post-World War II economy, the development of culture is gradual, and it takes several generations or even more than a dozen generations to complete. For example, the older generation lays the foundation, the second generation receives systematic education, and then this slowly continues, and the entire state of cultural development is linear.
China, on the other hand, grew too fast, and in the 50s and 60s, Chinese listeners listened to red songs, operas and Republic of China music. Then to the 70s, 80s, 90s and listen to Teresa Teng, Luo Dayou, the four kings of Hong Kong, and then to the Jay Chou generation after 2000, and even to the generation of singing and dancing idols after 2010, all the listeners are mixed together.
As for the music education of Chinese listeners, the concept of the older generation has long been formed, and there will certainly be no major changes. Everyone walking the streets and alleys can also see many elderly people listening to opera, very old listeners of red songs. Chinese young people are also generally educated in music, and Jay Chou's generation of listeners and the audience of singing and dancing idols feel that there is a huge gap.
This kind of complex demographic structure, the combination of the age front is too long, and the combination of the rapid development of the economy and society, which is ultimately reflected in the taste of music, has led to one thing: that is, among the entire Chinese audience, the songs that can be popular in the north and south of the river are usually popular, the melody is simple, the lyrics are brainwashed, and the most easily disseminated kind -
Is this still blithing to Chinese audiences for aesthetics? The answer is no, it involves the second point.
2, the overall aesthetic of Chinese listeners under the basis of the overall unchanged, music platform, music capital to provide consumers with music products, it has played a decisive role, at least one of them.
This is why music that is back in the era of records is better than the later singing and dancing love beans and short video music.
Those songs that sing and dance love beans can sell for hundreds of millions, and ordinary people have never heard of it. This is a freak out of the Development of china's music industry and even the world's entertainment industry (South Korea is still a little more professional), I will not discuss it here, people's consumers are not ordinary listeners at all, right?
Why do we feel that the songs that are on fire in short videos now are not as good as the pop songs of the early ten or twenty years? The level of musicians is really a big problem, and there is passive transmission. Technology is more developed, information dissemination is more convenient, older people have a smart phone, app on the line, songs and videos fingers casually slide -
Popular is not necessarily good, but it is definitely the most popular.
Short video on a short paragraph a short time a group of people follow the trend, a very short time quickly spread, and then quickly passed. The same is true of the short video divine comedy, no one will listen to last year's hot short video divine comedy. These big folk songs are the same thing as the passages on short videos.
I think the musicians who write these songs, the short videos push these brainwashing divine comedies are all for the BGM service of short videos, the difficulty of information dissemination is lower, the popular songs are simple, brainwashing, easy to spread, and the rhythm of the composite short video platform. Especially with DJ mixing, with short videos of various card points, this kind of song is just right to cater to the fast-paced life and increasingly impetuous social phenomena.
You may earn more by creating a blockbuster song than someone else's album, so what kind of serious music do you make?
Previously, record companies made money by selling albums, and listeners would spend money to buy records. Even if it is a pirated disc, it costs a few dollars to be cheap, right, and when the listener buys it, they still have to choose an album that they think is good and worthwhile.
In the era of digital music and short videos, listening to songs basically does not cost money, especially short videos can slide their fingers.
Therefore, if the songs of the record era want to sell well, in addition to being popular to the public like to listen to (that is, popular), the voices, songs, lyrics and production of musicians will naturally be carefully engaged (to have a certain level), and people are essentially making music. Now these big folk songs on the short video are simply for the fire for a while.
In particular, the so-called hot songs that are hot every time on the short video are not the universal DJ rhythm of adding three customs, or the simple brainwashing melody + lyrics, the ancient style song to the whole section of what exploded performance, as for the instrument or the drama everyone set it up.
These things all sound similar, Wang Sutaki wrote not many Chinese style songs, and his contemporary Xu Song's "Shocking Side" is not much higher than these grades? This year you may still listen to "The Amazing Side", and some people will use it to cut short videos, but last year's hottest ancient style on short videos you even forgot what its name was.
This is the essential difference, saying that these big folk songs on the ugly short videos are shoddy garbage.
The public aesthetics of the Chinese music scene that have caused this situation and the platform changes brought about by the development of music are jointly caused by the fact that today's musicians are not as good as before, but not the most important reason. In fact, like the Internet songs before 2010, most of the Internet songs are shoddy things, but some people buy it, because human beings all over the world are very vulgar.
Do you like to watch Marvel movies, do you like to watch online cool articles?
Speaking of pop songs before 2010, "Mouse Loves Rice", "Wrong wrong wrong", "Love Sale" was originally you had to separate, separate and separate, and now you have to use true love to coax me back, love is not what you want to sell, you can sell if you want to buy -
Honestly, did you sing along.
At this time, the problem came, Wang Sutaki and Ren Xianqi together as a time musician on the "Time Concert", Ren Xianqi was a representative of Taiwanese pop singers around 2000, the results do not need to be said more, and the later mainland musician Phoenix Legend is the same.
So is Wang Sutaki worthy? Then you have to ask Xu Song if he is worthy of the same.
Xu Songfa's first album "Custom" was in 2009, Wang Sutaki's first album "Foster" was in 2010, almost at the same time, there was also a Xu Liang known as the qq music three giants, I personally feel that the debut time and style similar can also add back strings.
(Singers like Zheng Yuan, Liu Zhe, Huan Zi, and Indifference can be classified as popular love songs.)
Zheng Yuan, Pang Long, they were all angry, and Xu Song, Wang Sutaki and the Phoenix Legend had broken out. I personally think that although they are all popular, the Phoenix Legend and Daolang have become legends.
I personally think that popular songs also have good songs, and really popular songs can be popular, but they cannot be popular to bad customs. Although the lyrics of popular songs are simple and straightforward, they are directly lyrical and close to the public. The musicians have strong singing skills, good voice recognition, strong appeal, direct attack on people's hearts, and have a rough feeling of unpolished.
Like the Phoenix Legend and Dao Lang, they are actually quite vulgar, but they are so vulgar that people are awe-inspiring. The recognition of Daolang's voice and the emotion of the song, the singing skills and emotions of the two people of the Phoenix Legend, people are artistic customs are popular, not rotten, vulgar, vulgar and kitsch.
Xu Song and Wang Sutaki were able to catch fire until now not because of how strong the singing skills were, but because of their talent in music creation. Combined with a recognizable voice, it eventually formed its own musical style, and everyone knew it was them as soon as they listened to these songs, and many songs have been passed down to this day.
Of course, wang sutaki in terms of musical achievements, I think it is still a loss to Xu Song.
Finally, everyone has their own preferences for music, but the music itself is divided into good and bad. It doesn't matter what type of form it is, classical or pop, jazz, rock, R&B. Chains of contempt for what doesn't exist in my place.
This good music is the key, pop it is a neutral word, just popular, can not represent its good or bad. Perhaps the public's standards for good and bad are very vague, and the so-called good sound is only based on its own aesthetic standards for music.
The variety show "Time Concert" is still quite unique, at least from my personal point of view. This music variety show probably shows why Chinese pop music in the era of records is strong, and why Chinese pop music is poor now, Wang Sutaki is benefiting from this watershed.
Of course, the vast majority of the audience has no responsibility, nor is there an obligation to understand these things, according to the current trend of public opinion, most of them are praising the Chinese music of the past, and then blindly mocking the current Chinese music, and then everyone's entertainment will pass for a while. It doesn't make sense to entertain in this way.
If Chinese listeners can learn more about some real problems and then give platforms and music companies some feedback, how come there are really good songs and good musicians, in fact, a lot.
Finally, I hope that "Time Concert" is getting better and better, and Chinese music is getting better and better!