Just today at noon, the final stage of "Rap Listen to Me 2" was officially broadcast, and as many people already knew in advance, Good Morning and Gong Linna finally won the championship of this season.
Watching the full episode of the show, I think that whether it is Good Morning, Gong Linna or Deng Dianguo and You Changjing winning the championship, I can accept it from a personal emotional point of view.
Good Morning and Gong Linna are obviously growing all the way, and the performance of this period is also very eye-catching, especially the atmosphere on the live stage is very good.
Deng Dianguo and You Changjing belong to the Zhu Lian Bi and that one, and the same background abroad plus musical understanding is very compatible at a glance. If there are no mistakes in this issue, the championship should belong to them.
Hu Yanbin and AJ seem to have been too strong in the previous issues, and the works in this issue are not as amazing as before.
Zhu Jingxi and FEEEleven did not intend to make all audiences accept them from the beginning, and their "Space Acid Space Acid" is also my favorite in so many issues.
At this point, "Rap Listen to Me 2" is also the end of the curtain, in this last issue of the article, I do not want to talk about the specific stage performance of each group, but want to talk to everyone, the whole season of the show, some of my thoughts on this show.
First of all, compared to the previous season, this time's "Rap Listen to Me 2" obviously learned a lot of lessons and listened to the suggestions of the audience.
Some of the most criticized points of the show last season: boring and lengthy formats, undecided rap instructors, and Hit Song's fanatical aesthetic. All of them have improved in this season of the show.
In terms of format, the program group greatly reduced the number of works in the knockout stage, and the past kind of program often had more than a dozen songs and a large number of Cyphers, but finally disappeared.
In other words, the birth of the "Gemini" format, although this format has always been mixed, but for a show, it is better to be able to innovate on the format than to stand still.
Not to mention that judging from the weak program traffic of "Rap Listen to Me 2", the addition of six musicians has really increased the heat of the program, such as young musicians such as Shan Yichun and You Changjing, whose works on the stage every time, the data on the music platform are quite impressive.
Without them, the show's attention is estimated to be even lower.
It is also because of the addition of Gemini musicians that the various rap recommenders can really speak freely, and no longer have to worry about which real-life acquaintances, because their own sentences are eliminated.
In this season of the show, the evaluation of several rap recommenders can be said to be quite pertinent, and it is not as blind and muddy as the previous season.
This is especially evident in the episode when the too handsome flower was eliminated, after everyone has eaten the cake, you can rarely see the various instructors making such harsh evaluations in rap variety shows.
In the early stages of the show, the rap recommendation officer also got a relatively large number of authorities to decide the promotion list of each group, and after the formation of the Gemini stars, they had a stable number of votes, which did not keep them away from the stage.
Functionally, this season's rap referee is more like the big professional critic on the show.
Finally, there is the aesthetic of fans, in fact, the reason why the fan love for melody appeared in the last season of the show is mainly caused by the format of the Hit Song link.
This season's Gemini format, only You Changjing and Shan Yichun are mainly in the direction of the pandemic, Gong Linna, Hu Yanbin, Zhu Jingxi, and Wu Kequn have several brushes in their respective fields, which has objectively avoided the situation of aesthetic singleness.
From the first two rounds of the 100s stage, it can also be seen that it is getting more and more difficult to do the melody at present, which is related to the environment of the entire rap market, when everyone is doing melody, the melody is not so valuable.
And the melody wants to do well, not only closely related to your personal composition ability, but also tests the musician's own singing ability, which is enough to brush off most of the newcomer rappers.
However, even if "Rap Listen to Me 2" absorbs many of the lessons of the previous season, it can still only be regarded as a decent variety show.
The 4.0 rating on Douban is more of a spit on six musicians and a huge dryness, and this rating basically comes from the first few episodes of the show.
One thing to say is that in those issues, in addition to Zhang Zihao's "Restart", the overall look and feel is really not good. I believe that if you read the whole show and then evaluate it, the rating should be able to reach about 6 points.
Even more difficult to accept than the ratings is the number of ratings, the first season of the show due to the excellent mentor Cypher and the "rap circle's own variety" two gimmicks, nearly 10,000 people to evaluate, by this season there are less than 2,000 people.
The "Junior Rap Project" next door has only more than 2,000 evaluations, while the number of evaluations of "Black Afraid Girl" is only more than 1,700 people, which means that the popularity of the three rap programs this year is not high.
In my opinion, there are two reasons why Rap Listen to Me 2 is not popular. One is that the environment of rap talent shows has begun to decline, and after four years of development, the domestic music lovers market that can accept rap and like rap has become more and more mature.
As the most solid backing of the rap draft variety show, the aesthetic level of these new rap fans continues to improve, and at the same time, it is also forcing the rap draft variety show to come up with better players.
After all, the rap star selected in the previous two years has not retired now, and you can't pull more and more in the whole draft.
However, the growth rate of newcomers is definitely not able to catch up with the consumption rate of the draft, which leads to the champions in rap variety shows, often old faces that we are familiar with.
Capper of "Junior Rap Project" and Good Morning of "Rap Listen to Me 2" have been debuting for many years. As long as there is no strength to crush their newcomers, the championship will always belong to these veterans.
But this also deviates from the ultimate purpose of the draft variety show, so in my opinion, the rap draft variety show has basically completed their historical mission.
The second is the self-positioning of "Rap Listen to Me 2". In the case of a weak environment, the self-help method of rap programs must be to seek change.
In this year's three programs, "Black Afraid Girl" found a subdivision track, focusing on female rappers, and "Junior Rap Planning" also chose another subdivision track "Generation Z Cultivation".
Only "Rap Listen to Me 2" is the most ambitious, not only wants to attract rap fans, but also wants to attract popular fans.
It turns out that the fans of pop singers are more loyal, watching clips of their idols in the show, while rap fans are more pretentious, basically looking at the situation of the show from the public account and Weibo.
Although the final "Gemini" format actually worked well, when it was first promoted, it would indeed cause people to have bad reverie.
In particular, crossover itself is not a creative idea, and over the years, we have seen countless examples of pop singers working with rappers and finally rolling over.
Fundamentally, we couldn't believe that six pop singers with different styles and rappers could spark something different. At the beginning of the publicity, many people thought that this was a rap version of "The Voice of China".
Therefore, in the case of doing a decent job in the later stage, "Rap Listen to Me 2" did not come up with something that could make the audience change their minds. This proves once again that sometimes choice is more important than effort.
Finally, this season of "Rap Listen to Me 2" has ended, and we still don't know if there will be a next season on the show.
Overall, this season's show is decent, low and not high, there is nothing particularly eye-catching, nor is there anything particularly worthy of criticism.
If there is a next season, I hope that the "Rap Listen to Me" program team can bring some real surprises, because now the taste of rap show audiences is getting more and more stubborn...