Recently, the famous cross-talk actor Yue Yunpeng suddenly sent a Weibo dynamic, asking three questions in a row: "Is China's Good Songs Doing It This Year?" Has the project been approved? How can it be done?
Yue Yunpeng's three questions immediately made netizens nostalgic for the "Good Songs" program. As a brother talent show of "The Voice", "The Voice" is about to hold its eleventh season, and "Good Song" has now passed six years since the end of the third season in 2016, and has not held a fourth season.
For some reason, Yue Yunpeng suddenly asked about "Good Songs", and it could be seen that he had a deep affection for this show.
"Good Songs" held three seasons, and many excellent singer-songwriters and original songs emerged, such as Dai Quan's "Wukong", Zhao Zhao's "When You Are Old", Su Yunying's "Wild Son", Mo Xizi's "If You Want to Die, You Must Die in Your Hands", etc., these works are well known to the audience through the stage of "Good Songs".
At the moment when the cover music is rotten, "Good Songs" has won a good reputation with high-quality original songs, the first two seasons of Douban scores are above 8 points, and the third season has dropped slightly, only 7.4 points, but it is still a classic.
Many people are curious, such a high-level talent show, why is it not held after the third season? I summarized three reasons.
First, the ratings are poor.
"Good Song", like "The Voice", is a talent show launched by Canxing, but compared with "The Voice", the ratings are a bit worse. Of course, there must be a reason for the poor ratings of "Good Songs", such as not hyping, after all, it is a talent show of CCTV, the authenticity of the program has been guaranteed, but it is less topical, and the natural ratings cannot go up. Any show, no matter how noble it is blown, the ultimate purpose must be to make money, only make money to hold, but without ratings can not make money, can not make money, can not make money then can only stop.
Second, the audience's reception of original music requires a process. The songs on the stage of "The Voice" are basically cover songs, and many of the cover songs are familiar to everyone, and the audience can easily receive them. The works on the stage of "Good Songs" are all the original works of the contestants, basically unpublished, that is, everyone has not heard of them.
A brand new work, if you want to be quickly accepted by the audience, unless it is really well written, the audience will feel average, there is no audible, and naturally it will not pay attention to it for a long time. "Good Songs" has no shortage of good works, but it is also a minority, and most of the works are still almost interesting.
Third, China lacks excellent singer-songwriters. I remember that Liu Huan, the mentor of "Good Songs", said such a sentence, he said, "We have never lacked good singers in China, what is missing is excellent singer-songwriters." Indeed, in the current Chinese music scene, really good singer-songwriters, we can count them with our fingers.
But singers who sing well may not be able to count. Of course, it is not difficult to find a group of singer-songwriters to compete, but it is not so easy to find a group of good singer-songwriters to compete. Just like "Happy Comedians", the top comedians comedians come back and forth are just a few, and now the show is almost to the end.
In short, the suspension of "Good Songs" is a pity, but it also reflects the current situation of the Chinese music scene - there are too few really good singer-songwriters. "Children of Tomorrow" held five seasons, and only Mao Buyi was able to gain a foothold in the Chinese music scene, relying on his outstanding creative talent.