Text/Yangcheng Evening News all-media reporter Ai Xiuyu
Figure/Program Group
On April 24th, the new Hong Kong Music Competition Music Variety Show "Sound and Endless" was launched on Mango TV, Hunan Satellite TV and TVB in a stepwise manner.
The program premiere data is gratifying, and in the national satellite TV live broadcast data list of Cool Cloud Data Statistics, the live broadcast attention of "Sound and Endless" reached 0.6005%, and the market share reached 3.2748%, ranking first in the list. In the "National Satellite TV 55 Cities Viewership Data" displayed by Huan.com, the market share of "Sound and Endless" is as high as 3.6815%. On the network side, as of the 25th Yangcheng Evening News reporter's press release, the number of hits on the first episode has exceeded 150 million.
It can be said that "Sound and Life" has swept away the downturn in variety shows this year and has become a veritable hit.
【Lineup】
Big god-level singer partner in the music world "Little MengXin"
The reason why "Sound and Endless" can achieve a good start, the attraction brought by the super guest lineup is indispensable.
In terms of Hong Kong singers, Lin Zixiang and Ye Xuanwen, who led the franchise in the music scene, undoubtedly played the role of "fixing the needle of the sea god", setting the tone for the guest level of the entire variety show. And Li Wei, Li Keqin, Yang Qianwei, Lin Xiaofeng, all of them are Hong Kong power singers who have debuted for more than 20 years, experienced the glorious period of Hong Kong music, and have excellent representative works.
The program group also recruited Li Jian, Mao Buyi, Zhou Bichang and other powerful mainland singers with high popularity, and "selling mechanics Cantonese" became a major highlight of their program - in order to better show the charm of Cantonese songs, Mao Buyi, a northeasterner, deliberately "brought a large copy of the "Modern Cantonese Dictionary" into the group", and Li Jian, who is also a northeasterner, followed Li Keqin to a Cantonese idiom class as soon as he appeared. The performance of the two has become the memory point of the show, and it has also made many mandarin-speaking viewers in front of the screen smile.
In addition to the god-level singers, "Sound Is Endless" also brings together the "Little Mengxin" of the mainland and Hong Kong music scenes, and Shan Yichun, the annual champion of "The Voice of China 2020", and Anzaki, who debuted in a group through the draft, brought fresh vitality to the show. The magic flash group and rock band Mosaic, which are known for their rap, also got the opportunity to pay tribute to the classic Hong Kong music golden songs in their youth memories.
And Tsang Bit and TVB "Legend of Sound Dream" 2021 overall champion Yan Mingxi are the new generation of singers in the Hong Kong music scene who have high hopes, and they have been committed to the inheritance of Hong Kong music. Their performances also gave the audience an insight into the young and new forces of the Hong Kong music scene.
【Tracks】
Listen to the ear oil, the first capital is a classic song
Music is the root of a musical synthesis. The competition tracks in "Endless Sound" are undoubtedly the top priority of the audience's concern. Judging from the first episode of the program, the song list selected by the program group can be described as "the golden song of the golden song".
At the beginning, Lin Zixiang used the "Head Cannon" of the stage with the suite "Shine a Thousand Points of Light", which was composed of three songs: "Long Road with You", "Boy When Self-Strengthening" and "Butterfly Change", and the 74-year-old Lin Zixiang brought the audience back to the martial arts world of swords and swords in Hong Kong movies as soon as he opened his mouth.
In 1988, this song won the 11th Top Ten Chinese golden melody awards, which not only became a classic in Hong Kong pop music in the late 1980s, but also pushed Ye Xuanwen's singing career to a new peak. Tam Wing Lin said bluntly when talking about this song: "How can I be a Hong Kong person if I haven't heard of "Blessing"? ”
Li Jian's debut song "If Silence is Golden" is a combination of Zhang Guorong's "Silence is Gold" and Gao Qi's "If I Am Now", accompanied by Li Jian's affectionate singing, Zhang Guorong's image appeared on the stage screen, evoking the memories of many audiences.
And Miriam Yeung chose her friend Eason Chan's "Unconditional" for interpretation, she said, "although she was not born beautiful enough", but thanks to the love of many musicians in front of and behind the stage, helped her to play the role of singer, and "Unconditional" also gave her a lot of strength when life was difficult.
"Fireworks will be thankful, sheng song will stop", Li Keqin's "Pouring Affection" is equally affectionate and delicate. Competing with Li Keqin is the new generation of singer Shan Yichun, she covered Faye Wong's classic song "The Edge of Love and Pain", a white long dress fairy fluttering her, even soaring high pitch straight to the heart, super infectious.
In addition, Lin Xiaofeng's "Lonely Man", Zhou Bichang's "Sunset Drunk", Liu Xijun's "Obsessed with No Regrets", Mosaic Band's "Earth", Zeng Bit's "First Love", Mao Buyi's "Distant Her", Anqi's "Hug", Magic Flashmaster's "Karaba Forever OK", and Yan Mingxi's "Worm" are also golden songs that have been tempered by the years.
It is worth mentioning that Li Wei, who has not appeared for a long time, brought his Cantonese song "Really Want to See You", which was red with purple, full body sequins, flared pants and lantern sleeves of the 1970s disco style, which showed the style, style and sexiness of the night, becoming the best style of the night in the hearts of many viewers.
【Format】
The pulse is far warmer than the smell of gunpowder
In terms of competition format, the program team divided 16 singers into male and female teams, and through the confrontation of 6 theme competitions, selected the final song list, and created a "sound and endless" Hong Kong music era record with the audience.
In the first program, the first stage was themed "Hong Kong Music and My Pride", and the public jury advanced the original audiovisual songs, and gave each song a different expectation value. In each group of competitions, the men's and women's teams each produce a group of singers to compete, and after the performance is completed, according to the voting rate, the winning party receives the corresponding score according to the expected value of the song.
Lin Zixiang, who took the lead in the scene, made a war post with a sentence of "husband can not lose to his wife", and Ye Xuanwen naughtily replied with a sentence of "the women present do not agree" to easily resolve it. In the process, Tsinghua xueba Li Jian automatically played the role of "military master" of the men's team, and according to the team members and singing songs sent by the women's team, he used "tricks" such as "Tianji Horse Racing", "Momentum Overwhelmed" and "Differentiated Strategy", but encountered Zhou Bichang's relentless "debunking": "The boys are so naïve, think we don't know their tricks? ”
In the end, the women's team led by Ye Xuanwen was slightly better and won the first competition. And Miriam Yang's performance of "Unconditional" became "My Pride× the most popular golden song winning team finale song", and the newcomer Zeng Bit's "First Love" became "My Pride× the first song of the most popular golden song".
In fact, despite the existence of the competition format, it is rare to see the smell of gunpowder in the program, but everywhere you can see the harmonious situation of tears in the eyes of the stage and the chorus of the whole audience, full of pulse warmth.
As Lin Xiaofeng said: "I will not think of this as a game, but only as a memory of the good times I experienced in Hong Kong." Li Keqin also said: "If we can bring some of the relics of Hong Kong Music to the public again, maybe this is the meaning of my coming to this show." ”
In addition to the competition, the program team took great pains to engage in "science popularization" - not only invited Zheng Guojiang and other Xiangjiang poets to come to the history, development and characteristics of Hong Kong music, but also invited a number of scholars from the mainland and Hong Kong academic circles to interpret the cultural status of Hong Kong music from the aspect of culture and language, expound the relationship between Hong Kong music and Hong Kong movies, and even asked dialect experts to popularize the language characteristics of Cantonese that are different from Mandarin. Netizens have sent bullet screens to say: "After watching a variety show, my knowledge has grown" "Before I only knew cantonese songs to be good, I didn't expect how many doorways there were."
【Story】
Private memories are precious, and good stories are heartwarming
"What is Hong Kong Music?" "Sound Never Ends" raises such a question in the introductory film. Lin Zixiang heroically replied with "Hong Kong music is me". He lamented that in the 50 years since his debut, there have been many superstars in his contemporaries, and now most of them have gone away, and he is still lucky to stand on the stage: "I started singing from the starting point, singing until now, is it not me? ”
Not only that, almost all the singers on stage told their private memories with Hong Kong music in the show, which also became one of the highlights of the show.
Ye Xuanwen, who "has a very smooth career as a singer", shared his lucky singing path of winning numerous awards and hanging all the way. However, she said that she is "actually a very simple and happy person, there are not so many ideas, compared to winning awards, she is more concerned about 'singing out', and having fans company is the greatest blessing."
Liu Xijun, a "happy female voice" who has not appeared for a long time, recalls his story of studying and growing up in Zhongying Street in Shenzhen: "When I was a child, my mother's work unit was there, that street was magical, half of the shops belonged to the mainland, half belonged to Hong Kong, but everyone got along like a neighborhood neighborhood. ”
Mosaic Band shared the experience of using Beyond's songs as a must-have exam material for learning guitar as a student.
Li Jian's relationship with Hong Kong Music can be traced back to 1995, when he performed in Hong Kong on behalf of Tsinghua University, and was able to personally appreciate the charm and style of the Pearl of the Orient. Known as a "talented man" by the outside world, he talked about Hong Kong music creators such as Huang Xia and Gu Jiahui, and revealed a great sense of admiration.
Li Wei, who grew up listening to Hong Kong music, shared with the audience the secret of "29 years of waist circumference remains unchanged": "Sing! Hong Kong music makes me more disciplined, sports and fitness are all to keep singing in the best state! ”
Zhou Bichang, who has been debuting for 17 years, mentioned that Hong Kong Le was full of gratitude: "I remember when I was a child, I had to put on the radio at the head of the bed, I must listen to Hong Kong Le to sleep, and I would also save the pocket money given by my parents in the change jar. When I had saved enough, I rushed to the video store with it to buy tapes... Hong Kong Le spent my youth with me in this way. ”
Zhou Bichang said emotionally that he was glad that he had been doing what he liked, and it was precisely because of the seeds sown by Hong Kong Le in his heart that he finally held a solo concert at the Hung Hom Stadium in 2015: "I still remember the night before the start of singing, I was so excited that I couldn't sleep. When I was a child, my wish really came true! In my heart, Hong Kong Music will always have magic. In the future, I also hope that I can continue to sing the songs I want to sing to you! ”
Editor: Zhu Fan