Mayday concert, who are the guests satisfied with?
The controversy over the selection of guests invited to the Mayday concert seems to have not yet ended.
Last weekend's Beijing Bird's Nest Field, the guest was Hua Chenyu, which directly triggered a conflict between the five fan teachers and the "Martian", which ended briefly with bassist Martha's response to a comment on Weibo.
As a result, within two days, rumors emerged that the guests of the Mayday Hangzhou scene were the Times Youth Group, the truth of this news is unknown, but there are already Times Youth League fans ridiculing "Don't make up the life of the Times Group", and some viewers said: "Don't be the day I go." ”
This is not the first time that the selection of concert guests has caused controversy: the artist team and the performance company have their own expectations for the tour, and there are many reasons for whether the concert guests are invited or not, and who to invite, and it is difficult to generalize; But for audiences who bought tickets to go to concerts, it seems equally reasonable as consumer dissatisfaction to see artists they don't like appear on stage.
Inviting guests to the concert is indeed a science, and only by learning well can you smoothly retreat from this "scolding battle".
Five Fans Teacher vs Martian
This quarrel between fans of the two parties began from the moment the online guest candidate was exposed.
Mayday has not come to the Bird's Nest to sing for three years, and this time six performances were officially announced, and during the performance, it was already reported that Wang Yuan and Hua Chenyu were the last two guests.
Mayday once went to be a guest at the sixth anniversary concert of TFBOYS, and previously found Wang Junkai as a concert guest, Yi Yangqianxi filmed the MV of "Fame in Sight", plus Wang Junkai and Wang Yuan were originally famous for covering Mayday's "Onion" was forwarded by Ashin, the two sides can be regarded as having contacts, and the teachers of the five fans are also "not strange", even if the audience is dissatisfied with this, most of them divide the guest into "toilet time" when they appear.
Source: Mayday official Weibo
In contrast, the intersection of Hua Chenyu and Mayday is much less, and because of various reasons such as musical style, private life and fan ecology, Hua Chenyu can hardly be considered a singer with "good popularity" in the public sense. The audience who bought tickets for the Mayday concert expressed dissatisfaction and many mocking remarks against Hua Chenyu on the online platform.
Of course, Hua Chenyu's fans are not very satisfied with this public opinion feedback, accusing Hua Chenyu's past achievements under related topics, bluntly saying that "it is better to look forward to his personal concert", and those with a radical attitude began to "shout through the air" on Weibo as early as possible.
Mayday concert tickets are already difficult to grab, and every time there are many spectators who did not grab tickets to listen to songs outside the venue, and Hua Chenyu fans also gathered outside the venue. As for the off-site shouts that were on the hot search after that, fans on both sides had their own words-
One side's view is that during the session where Hua Chenyu and Mayday sang "Where My Heart Has Not Broken Yet", Hua Chenyu fans shouted the name of their own idol, including Hua Chenyu fans hanging banners and holding up signs outside the venue. But after all, the home of the concert is Mayday, and many people think that Hua Chenyu's fans are too noisy, trying to shout Mayday's name to cover the voice of Hua Chenyu's support, but without shouting trained fans, they switched tactics in time and shouted Zhang Bichen's name.
And Hua Chenyu fans said that hanging the banner is only for taking pictures, and did not hang out the whole process, the scene was just whispered along with Hua Chenyu's solo session, and as a result, some male audiences began to sing Mayday's "Stubborn" and shouted Mayday's name, and "howled like an ape", Hua Chenyu fans shouted their own idol's name just to fight back, the opposite side could not shout Zhang Bichen's name, the handling of the marketing number is a blurred timeline "upside down black and white".
What exactly is the situation at the scene is already difficult to distinguish in this "Rashomon" with many opinions, and the final result is that both sides are holding a cloud of fire.
Under Weibo posted after the concert, Ashin thanked Hua Chenyu in the comments, and Martha also said that the cooperation with Wang Yuan and Hua Chenyu was "the happiest harvest in this Beijing performance", but it was still difficult to extinguish the anger of some fans.
Many netizens suggested in the comments that "please consider carefully next time", and finally Martha replied to a fan who expressed dissatisfaction in the comment area: "I will respect your likes and dislikes, but I will also insist on my likes." Some fans felt "backstabbed", but the whole incident ended with Martha's reply.
Why are guests invited at the concert?
The topic of "concert guests" has increased recently. But first, do you have to invite guests to the concert? Scores depend.
KPOP groups, which often host world tours, basically do not invite guests, most of the guests are solo artists, Kwon Zhilong and IU have been guests at each other's concerts, and last year's concert of "Uncle Bird" PSY also found (G)I-DLE with the hit song "TOMBOY".
"There are more people in a Korean group itself, and everyone can't share a few words in a song, and then find guests to sing less," a fan of a Korean boy band told Poison Eyes, "and the audience of their tour is basically their own fans, and they really don't need to invite guests." ”
The biggest role of concert guests is to drive the box office and topics. Yang Qianwei's concert once invited Zheng Xiuwen to the same stage, breaking the rumors of "discord" between two generations of divas; Mayday once also performed in Taipei and invited Liang Jingru, who has the identity of "Martha's ex-girlfriend", and became a talking point for a while.
Some singers will announce the concert guests in advance, even if it is not public, there will always be some gossip before the opening, so that fans can buy tickets on demand. Some concert guests who were not announced in advance became surprises in the performance, and the stage where Jay Chou and special guest Jolin Tsai sang "Give Me Time for a Song" became an eternal "famous scene" in his concert.
Therefore, for many brokerage companies, it is reasonable to invite traffic "warm-up" during the tour, even if the two sides are not familiar, they will find popular guests for concert exposure and hype topics, even singers with large passers-by.
In March this year, fans of Hong Kong's top boy band MIRROR and Lin Junjie clashed over concert guests. It is rumored on the Internet that the guest of Lin Junjie's Hong Kong concert is MIRROR member Chen Cheuk-yin, but no guests appeared at the concert scene that day.
After the Hong Kong media reported that Chen Zhuoxian arrived at the rehearsal, but Lin Junjie thought it was the MIRROR team, and some people at the scene asked "Isn't it all MIRROR" and proposed to let other teammates on stage to dance, Chen Zhuoxian thought that his teammates were not respected, and left the scene with his teammates with the company's permission, and then closed Lin Junjie. To this end, Lin Junjie's concert director Li Zhilun posted an apology on social platforms, saying that it was a mistake in conveying the message between the two sides, resulting in a gap in the performance format.
However, most concert guests still have to consider the artist's own wishes.
Umbrella participated in the preliminary work of a singer's tour, and the decision to "not invite guests" was discussed by the artist and the team. "If you invite guests, it is basically the artist's own personal relationship." The umbrella told the poison eye.
Some artists will be willing to "promote" friends in concert guests, the most famous of which is Jay Chou and his brothers, as early as 2015, fans complained in the comment area of his account, asking Jay Chou not to bring them to the concert next time, but Jay Chou said that "I want to" and "I will still find".
For the company, being a guest at a concert is also a cost-effective "old with new" way, which can give newcomers the opportunity to be exposed. Not long after Mayday's debut, Ren Xianqi took them to a concert, and they also brought their junior brothers and sisters from the same company to this concert. Even at the previous TFBOYS concert, the second-generation trainees would serve as guest performers.
Ren Xianqi and Mayday members
Therefore, whether or not to invite guests to the concert, what guests to invite, in the final analysis, is a very impromptu and irregular thing, there are many reasons, different directions, it seems difficult to summarize anything.
An audience that doesn't want to settle
Whether it is bringing newcomers or asking for traffic in order to stir up topics, the singers who can afford to open concerts still have a lot of "my own way" in terms of guests - whether it is Jay Chou, who wants to take the brotherhood on tour, or Mayday, who defends Hua Chenyu on social platforms and is considered to be a "backstabbing fan", in the end, they don't care too much about the protests of fans.
At the end of the day, the concert audience has reached this size of singers far beyond the core fans, and as long as their songs remain the youth memories of a generation, the ticket purchasing power of the concert can maintain a good level.
Including this guest incident that caused controversy in Mayday of Hua Chenyu, the number of fans of Huachenyu is large, if it is a concert of other singers, fans may not directly express their dissatisfaction with fanfare, and the audience who go to Mayday to watch the tour, many of them are fans who have heard and can sing Mayday songs, and they do not understand the so-called "unspoken rules of Weibo speech" pan-audience, and have a huge "pan-audience", which is the advantage of Mayday's concerts.
Non-core fans are naturally fearless, but once they start to directly bring Hua Chenyu Daimyo on social platforms to express their dissatisfaction, they are easily "patrolled" by fans, and then become the fuse of quarrels between the two sides.
Even the follow-up Mayday fans are divided into two factions, some think that the guests are also selected by Mayday, as fans should respect their choice, really dissatisfied can not look at the time of the guests on stage, and arguing with fanfare does not meet Mayday's expectations.
But for the audience, the same consumers who spend money to buy tickets, the audience can also put forward their own requirements: the guests of the concert should have been friends to surprise the warm-up, and invite artists who have not had much intersection in the past, the fan ecology is too "rice circle" and many audiences do not like it, and it does not meet the audience's expectations for the concert. Two fans who watched the Mayday tour told Poison Eyes: "Let's hope the team learns its lesson." ”
In general, this farce is more like the dislocation of the mass passerby fan ecology and the core fan ecology - even if the fans of both sides have no grudge before, under this dislocation, it is very easy to be dissatisfied with each other.
In this sense, at the moment when the concert returns to the hot, with the rise in ticket prices and even the difficulty of finding a ticket, it is the concert guests that have finally become an expensive "blind box", and if it happens to be their favorite artist, it will become a surprise scene of "double chef ecstasy". If the final stage is an artist that the audience feels is not suitable enough, there are more people who are "unwilling to settle".