"It was seconds by 61-year-old Andy Lau."
"Hong Kong's aesthetic degradation has been too serious over the years."
"Looks like this, put it in domestic entertainment, is a degree that talk shows and comedy variety shows do not want."
This is the first reaction of many netizens when they saw the terms "Andy Lau and Jiang Tao group photo" and "Hong Kong top stream" on the hot search recently.
Here's the thing --
Not long ago, the Hong Kong Film Awards held an awards ceremony, inviting more than 50 stars, Andy Lau and other old acquaintances in Hong Kong circles to attend.
Boy band Mirror members Jiang Tao and Liu Yingting also participated.
On that day, many people's attention was attracted by these two people.
There is no other reason, good looks.
Unexpectedly, under the high-definition lens, the most popular top stream in the Hong Kong entertainment industry is actually like this↓
Last year's Academy Awards, the red carpet picture of their whole group attendance was like this ↓
After the photo of Andy Lau and Jiang Tao at this year's Academy Awards spread on the Internet, it brought this wave of discussion about the serious aesthetic degradation of Hong Kong entertainment to a climax.
Many netizens called out that this night Hong Kong's top stream cured their appearance anxiety.
Soon, Jiang Tao's stage direct shooting was also picked up.
This is expression management ↓
This is a dance move ↓
This stage performance ↓
Emmm, that's hard to rate.
Jiang Tao's stage directly shot the comment area, which is a rainbow fart such as "super positive" and "type explosion" of fans.
Even the time management master who recently participated in Thailand as a vermilion comment: handsome!
Hong Kong media reported that he and Andy Lau took a group photo, and the words were directly "two generations of Hong Kong kings".
The attitude of mainland netizens is very different: "With Andy Lau, who has won many actors for forty-two years since his debut, he is called the king of Hong Kong, is it really not considered to have landed on the moon and touched porcelain?" ”
And after carefully picking up this top person who took a photo with Andy Lau, I was even more speechless.
01 Hong Kong's top stream of "Red But Lo Wu"?
Some people may ask, who is Jiang Tao?
He is a member of the boy band Mirror, the hottest draft boy band in Hong Kong since 2018, consisting of 12 members.
Although almost no one cares about it in the mainland, it is very popular in Hong Kong.
How much is the fire?
They all have the resources and achievements of the top class of internal entertainment, and they get it effortlessly.
Take business resources, for example.
In the first half of 2021 alone, Mirror endorsed 27 Hong Kong brands.
Walking the streets of Hong Kong, you can see their endorsements everywhere.
Even McDonald's hamburger boxes with their photos were snapped up, selling for HK$30 on second-hand websites.
Statistics show that the number of advertisements they shoot in a year has reached 330, bringing in up to HK$100 million in revenue.
The number of fans is also strong.
Its fans are of all ages, from first- and second-grade elementary school students to aunts in their fifties and sixties.
The husbands of female fans even set up an online group called "My Wife Marries Zuobi Mirror and Causes Marriage to Break Up", with more than 350,000 members.
As soon as Mirror appears, they feel that they are snubbed by their wife/girlfriend and instantly become "ex-husbands".
So much so that the word "ex-husband" has become Yahoo Hong Kong's top ten trendy words in 2021.
The popularity of fans is also directly reflected in the concert ticket price.
At their Red Hall concert last year, the first row of seats was speculated by scalpers to 4.6 million Hong Kong dollars.
With this sky-high ticket, you can directly buy a two-bedroom apartment.
As the C position of Mirror, Jiang Tao's popularity is even more outstanding.
Take birthday support.
On Jiang Tao's 23rd birthday last year, fans spent a seven-figure fortune to celebrate his birthday.
These include free tram rides for all Hong Kong citizens, large-screen advertisements for birthday support, and birthday charity sales.
On his birthday, Causeway Bay became "Jiang Tao Bay".
Because the scene was too crazy, Asir had to come forward to maintain order.
Not only birthday support, some fans even bribed the principal of the primary school in order to let the child study Jiang Tao's alma mater...
There is also a list of awards.
At the pop chart awards ceremony of the music industry that once fought with the gods, he won two awards in the two years since his debut, "My Favorite Male Singer" and "My Favorite Song Award".
At that time, it was Eason Chen and Zheng Zhongji who lost to Jiang Tao...
In the list of "Global Top 100 Handsome Guys" in 2022, he ranked 5th, beating Xiao Zhan, the highest ranking in domestic entertainment.
Judging from these, Jiang Tao is indeed a top existence in Hong Kong.
However, for mainland netizens, this "Made in Hong Kong" boy group still has no status of this group in domestic entertainment.
In the words of netizens, it is "red but Luohu" (Shenzhen Luohu District and Hong Kong are only separated by a small Shenzhen River).
Even the senior melon-eating masses only have two things to remember Mirror.
One is last year's Red Hall concert accident.
At that time, a giant display weighing about 500 kilograms suddenly fell from a height, injuring two dancers.
One of the dancers was in a coma for nearly a week and left the ICU for two months.
The other is the recent Lin Junjie concert incident.
Last month, Lin Junjie went to Hong Kong to hold a concert and invited all members of Mirror to be guests.
Due to a misunderstanding in communication, Mirror only arranged for one member to perform.
During the rehearsal, the staff suggested that the other six members present could dance together on stage.
The member felt disrespected and led the team away.
Afterwards, he not only took Lin Junjie's social account, but also took a photo with his teammates outside the venue on the day of the concert.
As soon as this matter came out, Lin Junjie's social account comment area was greeted by Mirror fans: "JJ overestimates himself. ”
Hong Kong media reported the incident, and the headlines were directly "Mirror humiliated" and "Lin Junjie offended the top boy group".
Of course, Lin Junjie's fans couldn't bear it, and called don't touch porcelain.
As public opinion intensified, Lin Junjie's concert production unit and Mirror members issued an apology to calm the turmoil.
This legendary "red but Luohu" Hong Kong top boy group finally topped the hot search list.
The photo of the Academy Awards and Andy Lau once again pushed this "Made in Hong Kong" boy group into the public eye, and triggered a big discussion about the top of the old and new Hong Kong.
02 What is the real top class in Hong Kong?
In terms of popularity and fans, Jiang Tao is indeed the top in Hong Kong.
But in terms of appearance and strength, does he really match this status?
In the public's impression, the real top stars in Hong Kong are former Uranus superstars.
The top stars in Hong Kong in the 80s were Alan Tam and Leslie Cheung.
In 1984, Alan Tam, who had been famous for many years, and Leslie Cheung, who quickly became popular, formed a situation in the Hong Kong music scene.
Whether it is the number of golden songs, record sales, or the number of concerts, or the winning results of major award ceremonies, they are far ahead.
When it comes to Alan Tam, everyone will think of his countless golden songs, such as "Love in Late Autumn", "Knowing Your Heart as a Doll" and "Can't Say Goodbye".
Not only music, he also won the Golden Horse actor in 1981 with "If I Were Real".
Leslie Cheung also has many golden songs that have been sung to this day, such as "Monica", "I" and "Silence is Golden".
Starring in movie masterpieces are even more impressive, "Farewell My Concubine", "A Fei's True Story", "Qiannu Ghost" and so on.
This Tan Zhang battle lasted for 5 years and ended due to fan conflicts.
From the beginning of the 90s to the millennium, the top position in Hong Kong was the seat of the four heavenly kings.
At the 1992 Hong Kong Top Ten Golden Melody Awards Gala, Jacky Cheung, Andy Lau, Kwok Fucheng and Liming were officially named the Four Heavenly Kings.
At that time, they had Asian-level influence.
Andy Lau looks handsome and orthodox, and is the dream lover of countless female fans.
Even if he is over 60 years old now, his appearance and strength are still very capable, and the live broadcast 40 years after his debut has attracted 100 million people to watch.
Jacky Cheung, who is not known for his appearance, became popular by relying on his singing.
Because the song is loved by everyone, there are even many fugitives who took risks to see his concert and were directly arrested on the spot.
The refreshing feeling is like the teenager Kwok Fucheng, with stage performance to circle fans.
When the concert was held at the age of 56, the state and expression of dancing still won a lot of junior Jiang Tao.
The dawn is as elegant as a noble son, and everyone knows it in Korea when it is the hottest.
Don't look at the low profile now, for a long time, the popularity was overwhelming the other three.
From the perspective of musical performance, all four of them have highly sung classics and won music awards with high gold content.
Jacky Cheung has "Love You More Every Day" and "Kiss Goodbye", Andy Lau has "Forget Water" and "Love You for 10,000 Years", Kwok Fucheng has "Can't Finish Loving You" and "Should I Go Away Quietly", and Liming has "Will You Come Tonight" and "Which One Day I Don't Want You".
These are just a few of their classic songs.
Judging from the film and television results, the four people also have many masterpieces and have won numerous awards in the film industry.
Taking the Golden Statue Golden Horse actor as an example, Andy Lau has won 5 times, Kwok Fucheng has won 3 times, and Liming has won 1 time.
Even Jacky Cheung, who is seriously "partial to the subject", has won 1 Academy Award for Best Actor and 1 Golden Horse Award for Best Actor.
It can be seen that the above top Hong Kong are all film and television song three-way development, whether it is appearance or strength.
And now the top class in Hong Kong looks like this ↓
The other members are like this ↓
And such ↓
It's even more abuse in the MV.....
With the foil of his teammates, it is not difficult to understand why Jiang Tao, who has not yet been blessed, is the C position in the group.
The appearance is not enough, the strength can always make up.
An Academy Awards performance that directly tears off their fig leaf.
The singing is out of tune, can't keep up with the accompaniment, and the dancing is also loose and looks uneven.
As for the work, it is in a state of "fan visibility".
In contrast, C position Jiang Tao and the Mirror boy group were all crushed by the previous Hong Kong top stream from appearance to strength to works.
03 How did this strength become the top in Hong Kong?
Seeing this, everyone must be curious, how did this level become the top in Hong Kong?
From the perspective of domestic entertainment drafts, it is the situation plus capital.
Jiang Tao and Mirror were able to mix in Hong Kong Entertainment to where they are today, firstly, because they caught the draft.
As we all know, 2018 is the first year of the domestic entertainment idol draft.
The talent variety show "Idol Trainee" was born, and Cai Xukun, the top C of the popular election, was born.
"Creation Camp 101" followed by it was also a hit, winning an astonishing 200 million views.
When the elected show was popular in domestic entertainment, Hong Kong's Viu TV also took advantage of the trend to launch the Hong Kong version of 101 to create a program called "All People Make Stars".
Although the model is no different from the internal entertainment draft, the content is really difficult to compare.
Not to mention the appearance and talent of the players, it is difficult to say a word.
The styling alone is very shocking, and many contestants have a bit of a "washing, cutting and blowing" style.
The show is also visibly poor, and the stage background is extremely rough, even allowing the contestants to run to abandoned factories and the main road to dance.
It was such a show that finally won the C top Jiang Tao and the boy group MIRROR of the fire.
In fact, Jiang Tao's earliest draft was Hunan Satellite TV's "Happy Male Voice", but it stopped at the top 30 in the country.
Seeing that his debut was hopeless, he returned to Hong Kong to participate in "All People Make Stars".
Although he is not very handsome in the show, he is more than enough compared to other contestants.
Coupled with his successful character for weight loss in order to debut, it has resonated with many Hong Kong descendants.
Jiang Tao became the C position without suspense, and made his debut with 11 other people to form the boy group Mirror.
Their appearance just filled the gap in the Hong Kong idol group market.
Second, because there is capital to support.
In addition to Hong Kong's Viu TV station, which created this show, there is also Li Zekai, the son of Hong Kong's richest man.
According to reports, the brokerage company to which Mirror belongs, Li Zekai is the largest shareholder.
When the Red Hall concert accident occurred last year, he issued a statement saying that the company would cover the medical expenses of the injured.
It is not difficult to understand why Mirror resources are so good, and so many veteran Hong Kong artists take the initiative to throw olive branches to them.
To some extent, Mirror's popularity is a gradual self-help move by Hong Kong Entertainment.
Today's Hong Kong entertainment industry is obviously showing a state of green and yellow.
The former first-line artists have left the nest and went north, and the newcomers at the level of the king have not appeared for a long time, and they cannot be alone.
When it comes to the top of Hong Kong, the first thing that comes to mind for the public is Tan Zhang of that year, or the four kings of that year.
At such a point in time, Hong Kong Entertainment urgently needs a new top stream to save its Hong Kong star from withering.
Jiang Tao, who promised to become the number one in Asia, just fulfilled this sustenance.
Even if they are ridiculed by the group, Hong Kong Entertainment still expects them to complete the handover of generations and return to the peak with Hong Kong Entertainment.
In the face of doubts, Mirror brokers have publicly stated that they will not come to the mainland to develop, and also contend that Hong Kong stars who go to the mainland to develop are because there is no heat in Hong Kong.
It is not difficult to see that she is very confident in her artist, and believes that she can become the top in Asia without going to domestic entertainment.
Obviously, this agent is still immersed in the local carnival, and does not realize that the problem of the aesthetic degradation of Hong Kong entertainment has been thoroughly exposed.
It is clear that he is a big cut from the top strength, and he pretends not to know.
Is this a cover for the ears, or sitting in a well watching the sky, or an explosion of self-confidence?
Time will be the best way to test.
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