Looking back at 2021, the entire Chinese music market has come to a new round of restructuring. Among them, the fastest rise in the status of singers is a singer who has just established his own music studio for only half a year - Zhou Shen. The fastest decline in the status of singers is Hua Chenyu, who was awarded the "King of Songs" by Tianyu Media's own family in 2020.
In 2021, Zhou Shen released a total of 38 albums or independent singles, including the spy war TV series "Rival", the family TV series "Xiao MinJia", "Ebola Frontline", "Octagonal Pavilion Mystery Fog", "White Snake 2", "Burning Wild Boy Sky", the movie "On the Cliff", "Xiao Shede", "Linglong" TV soundtrack, "Samurai Order" theme song, a total of 10 film and television works soundtracks of TV series, movies and web dramas, a total of 42 singles.
42 singles were released a year, more than 80% of which were the main songs of the original film and television albums, and the non-theme song was the climax song. This means that all TV series and a small number of movies released in 2021 are almost competing for Zhou Shen as the singer of their own theme song, hoping to use Zhou Shen as the traffic entrance to drive their own works. And you need to compete for the schedule to get Zhou Shen's singing. It is worth mentioning that the core music in the current hot "Human World" is Zhou Shen's "Light Word Piece", which is much hotter than the theme song.
In 2021 alone, the amount of film and television music cooperation completed by Zhou Shen may be an achievement that many singers cannot complete in a lifetime. Different from the small fresh meat that eats by the face, Zhou Shen has the source of such a perfect traffic appeal, which lies in the musical aesthetic improvement caused by his perfect professional singing skills. As soon as Zhou Shen's musical works were released, they represented the core comments of 50,000 starting points. This kind of phenomenon-level flow ability of singers who complete their singing skills is really rare.
On the contrary, Hua Chenyu, who is known as the new singer king in 2020, ushered in the lowest point of his career in 2021. The workload and music professional works completed by Brilliance Chenyu in 2021 can be indicated in just one sentence: "Ace vs. Ace" Season 6, Season 7 and Mars Concert. Not a single new piece appeared.
Although there are other factors affected by the event, Hua Chenyu, who has been appointed by Tianyu Media, is so easily replaced by Zhou Shen, or Zhou Shen easily surpasses Hua Chenyu, and there is already a professional gap in the direction of the two singing skills. The following is a brief exposition of the three aspects of the musical education background, timbre and range of Zhou Shen and Hua Chenyu;
1: Music education background, bel canto VS acting;
Zhou Shen and Hua Chenyu actually both have professional music education backgrounds, Zhou Shen graduated from the Lviv State Conservatory of Music in Ukraine, and Hua Chenyu graduated from the Wuhan Conservatory of Music. Most people think that the gold content of the Wuhan Conservatory of Music is not as good as the Lviv Conservatory of Music in Ukraine, but in fact, the overall level of the two is between Bozhong, but in the specific vocal music major, Lviv has a certain advantage over Eastern Europe.
The Lviv Conservatory of Music attended by Zhou Shen is not the best conservatory in Ukraine, and compared with the Ukrainian Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Lviv is obviously at a greater overall disadvantage. But the History of the Lviv Conservatory of Music is very long, and among this long-standing conservatory, the best major should be general music, rather than specialized and artistic subjects, such as vocal science, composition and music history, and the Lviv Conservatory of Music is the advantage.
Rather than instrumental piano, violin, conductor, orchestra, these are the strengths of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory. The Lviv Conservatory itself is a complementary presence to the Tchaikovsky Conservatory. For music students, to go to the Tchaikovsky Conservatory, they will definitely not choose Lviv. Zhou Shen chose the Lviv Conservatory of Music to apply for the examination through independent expertise, and this threshold is not very high. It is Lviv's application channel for the whole world.
Therefore, the Lviv Conservatory of Music where Zhou Shen studied is not a very authoritative music conservatory in vocal music, but it is a music conservatory with good accumulation and is at the second level of foreign conservatories, so why did Zhou Shen go to Lviv and improve his singing skills by leaps and bounds? Because the major is well chosen - the bel canto major. And the Bel Canto Academy in Lviv is called, the Academy of Bel Canto Science. Notice the name. That will be discussed later.
Hua Chenyu graduated from Wuhan Conservatory of Music. Here I have to say that the Wuhan Conservatory of Music is not worse than Lviv, because the Wuhan Conservatory of Music is an independent art academy with the scale of eleven independent key universities in our country, and these eleven schools advertise our top music education. Among them, the Central Conservatory of Music, the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, and the Zhejiang Conservatory of Music are among them. The Wuhan Conservatory of Music is no less than the Lviv Conservatory of Music in Ukraine in terms of size. So why is the public acceptance of Brilliance Yu's singing not as good as Zhou Shen? Because professional.
Among the vocal music departments of Wuhan Conservatory of Music, there are only two majors: bel canto majors and ethnic singing majors. There is no pop singing major. The major Hua Chenyu chose is called the Popular Vocal Singing and Choreography Major of the School of Performing Arts, which also includes singing, but the focus is on acting rather than vocal professionalism. Moreover, among our national conservatories of music, popular singing and popular singing methods themselves have only risen and supported in the past seven or eight years, and when Hua Chenyu studied, the faculty could not achieve the expression of vocal ability at all. And professional is also right.
Zhou Shen: One of the most senior bel canto science majors in Eastern Europe in Lviv;
Hua Chenyu: Popular vocal singing and choreography of the Department of Performing Arts, Wuhan Conservatory of Music;
What really leads to the difference in brilliance and Zhou Shen's singing skills is that the music professional focus of the two is completely different. One is a professional bel canto foundation based on science and voice protection. One is popular singing that focuses on the performance stage.
From a vocal point of view, Zhou Shen's choice of bel canto is a very wise and even iconic and correct way to choose. For pop music singing, it is often the lack of high pitch ability that constrains commercial singers, and the high pitch that constrains the high pitch in vocal music is the larynx of the singing, because the larynx is the culprit that causes the vocal ligaments to invert the voice. As the cornerstone of vocal art, bel canto is essentially based on bel canto variations of any type of singing, whether it is national, opera, pop, local singing, drama, musical, etc.
The bel canto method is based on exploring how to sing a more reasonable, scientific and more protective voice. Zhou Shen's choice of bel canto is also to solve his own high throat problem.
Whether it is Michael Jackson, Celine Dion, or Mike Burton and other European and American superstars, their vocal teachers have gone from bel canto majors to pop music. Bel canto is the core of the popular vocal voice protection singing method, and it is also the theoretical basis of the LSL treble training method. Bel canto professional, can be several times or even more than ten times to extend the peak period of a commercial singer, there will be no Daolang, Tao Zhe, Wang Jie because the vocal music is too amateur, taking the wild road to cause Fei Voice, and have to retreat to the second or third line, and even quit the song world.
Therefore, Zhou Shen chose to bel canto major, which has more singing significance than Brilliance Chenyu. Today's perfect high-pitched Huang Xiaoyun is also a bel canto major, turning to popular singing. And Zhou Shen is not the first, in the future more people will choose bel canto majors, and then develop in pop music. The top singers in the entire pop music market will inevitably become more and more professional. This is also one of the reasons why Lin Junjie learned SLS singing, SLS singing is an in-depth and simple castrated version of the bel canto professional summary.
2: Timbre;
Based on the bel canto profession, Zhou Shen has better professional knowledge and voice protection awareness, especially after he experienced a vocal cord summary caused by vocal cord friction when learning bel canto, he paid attention to his own scientific voice protection pronunciation. In this case, Zhou Shen's vocal skills are as follows:
Pop vocal cord marginalization, ordinary true voice, ordinary false sound, strong mix, weak mix, metal core treble, head overtone, and vocal cord compression as an important personally recognizable timbre for female male vocals.
Based on its own vocal ligament structure, Zhou Shen's vocal ligament itself is a thin presence among male singers, which is also the core reason why his early treble is very sharp and the midrange is close to the female voice. After the bel canto learning, through the training to achieve a more perfect solution to the laryngeal problem, Zhou Shen has a more mature vocal cord compression, can actively maintain the feminization of the vocal ligament, and based on this feminization basis to complete the secondary skill expression. The starting point of all of Zhou Shen's singing skills is inseparable from the professional voice protection pronunciation skills and awareness provided by his bel canto profession.
In contrast, Brilliance is inferior, because Brilliance itself is not a pure vocal profession. In terms of timbre, Brilliance Chenyu's personal recognition of the timbre is a little too niche, and lacks a certain cavity resonance. For today's Chinese music students have reached the million level, Brilliance does not actually have much timbre beauty. The overall timbre is dry, lacks thoracic resonance, and the pronunciation point is too high, and there is a lack of bass overtones in the vocal line. In general, it belongs to the high-pitched expression of the pharyngeal training method. The training method was used as a kind of final singing method. Brilliance Chenyu specific timbre: ordinary true sound, pharyngeal sound, low-quality weak mix;
In terms of timbre results, the richness of Zhou Shen's content is higher than that of Brilliance Chenyu. The richness means that the public has a long period of aesthetic fatigue for singers, and Brilliance Chenyu's timbre has basically reached the threshold of aesthetic fatigue. This is also the core reason why he lost the vocal market.
3: Vocal range;
The difference between the theoretical range of the two people is not large, and the difference in quality music is large:
Zhou Shen theoretical range: C3-C liter 6 (special characters do not play, will be reported errors);
Brilliance's theoretical range: G2-A liter 5;
ZhouShen mass vocal range: C3-C liter 6;
Brilliance quality vocal range: D3-E5;
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