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Once a year, leave after scolding.
As the teaching director of the rap circle, Uncle Gem, this year brought a song "Elevator God of War" to the audience.
In the lyrics, Uncle Gem calls himself a godfather, taking an educational attitude towards other rappers in the current rap industry, and the lyrics of "stuffed dissatisfied Pixiu" represent that many people in the rap circle have been controlled by desire, no matter how they fill their dissatisfaction, just like Pixiu, only in and out, a metaphor for insatiable greed.
And the phrase "you are not a rapper, you sell clothes", this lyric refers to those singers who open trendy brand stores in the name of rappers with an annual income of more than 100 million, the jewel uncle seems to be ironic, but in fact it is also a reminder that those rappers should focus more on research business.
This isn't the first year Uncle Gem has been on stage as a diss rapper, and last year, Uncle Gem and the old-school collaboration "You're a rapper" satirized all rappers.
However, the explosion of the whole audience and the praise of the whole network does not change anything.
Uncle Gem was eliminated...
The one who eliminated him was Will who "temporarily held Buddha's feet".
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"Alternative" rap
Who is Will?
Last year's song "Tree Move", which repeated the lyrics of "Tree Big Move", made people think it was just an "accident" on stage.
The "What did you do in the morning, what you did at noon, and what you ate" in the "diary of a primary school student" made countless netizens shame.
Unexpectedly, Will "continued the previous work", pulled his throat, repeated the phrase "temporarily holding Buddha's feet", and a song "Temporarily holding Buddha's feet" was successfully "out of the circle".
As soon as "China Rap Peak Showdown 2023" was broadcast, "Temporary Buddha's Feet" quickly occupied the hot search lists of major social platforms.
Its "brainwashing" melody and "catchy" lyrics have been sung on major social platforms, and even many netizens have "created" many adapted versions, and the click rate is also high.
Whether from the perspective of program popularity or commercial value, "Temporary Buddha's Feet" is undoubtedly a success.
But whether it is from the means of creation or the form of expression, this song is not nutritious at all:
Some netizens gave "new works":
However, this is also "limited" to the complaints of netizens, after all, many "musicians" have praised this song "Temporary Buddha's Feet".
Han Xiao, CEO of Dream Music, released a hot search collection of "Temporary Buddha's Feet" on social platforms, with the posture of a successful person:
Rapper Ai Ge gave a high evaluation of "Temporary Buddha's Feet" on social platforms with the help of replies to netizens:
Repeating a few lyrics became an expression of "brainwashing", "irony" and "true feelings", sorry, I really didn't hear it!
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The "deformed" Chinese music scene
The rapid development of the Internet has spawned many traffic stars, and a casual saliva-saliper song, after the "polishing" of these traffic stars, can become popular on the Internet, and can even dominate the music charts for a long time.
I don't know, whose sorrow is it?
To this end, Mango Satellite TV has launched a singing program, which is different from previous programs, this show does not have traffic stars in the circle, but focuses on a small number of "treasure singers" in the entertainment industry.
These "treasure singers" all have one thing in common: the singer is not popular, and he is on the verge of "passing".
And from this show, Jiang Meiqi, Chen Chusheng, Jin Haixin, these "treasure singers" have reappeared in the public eye, whose youth are they?
It doesn't matter, what matters is how many good singers are buried, as the lyrics of Uncle Jewel say, competitions are often lost to "human feelings".
Around 2000, it was the era of the sudden rise of the Chinese music scene, and many good singers emerged during this period.
Jay Chou is one of them.
With a song "Nocturne", Jay Chou swept the five major awards of the 18th Golden Melody Awards, and his acceptance speech was also crisp and neat:
However, the prosperity of the Chinese music scene did not last long.
In 2019, top Cai Xukun won the annual golden song of the Global Chinese Golden Melody Award for "Wait Wait Wait", ironically, the highest award of "Chinese" music was won by an English song that did not even have a Chinese character.
Looking at the music celebrities in the audience, I don't know how to feel.
If Jay Chou opened up a prosperous era in the Chinese music scene, then Cai Xukun's song "Wait Wait Wait" closed the door to a prosperous era.
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summary
A few years ago, singer Yang Kun posted on social platforms:
Rock singer Zheng Jun said even more bluntly in a show:
Music 10 years back? This is undoubtedly the biggest denial of the Chinese music scene.
But compared to Yang Kun's evaluation, Zheng Jun's evaluation is to the point.
Why do these saliva songs still have many "professionals" to affirm, I don't know where these "professionals" measure singers?
Or are these "professionals" also the same kind of people?
Music knows no borders, but it's really good or bad!