The black hand of capital, the black hand of traffic, the cultural chaos that went crazy? It is also time for domestic entertainment to "fight corruption"

Text | Ling Hu Boguang

Let's talk about a recent show and Coco, originally the death of Coco was a sad thing for the Chinese music scene. After all, Coco's few Chinese music divas since 2000 are beautiful, sunny and confident, and no one expected her to leave in this form.

This nine-minute recording, and the matter itself, will not be analyzed here.

One is that I personally have always looked at problems from a development perspective, and I don't like to analyze events from the perspective of event analysis. The second is that now a certain station is now using its power to delete manuscripts and videos, and Bo Guangjun, as a small self-media, really can't afford to be accused in case he is sued.

I think the essence of this matter is very simple, capital and certain forces have been overly involved in the problem of the cultural industry over the years.

I don't know if you found one thing, since the chaos caused by "Youth with You 2" in 2020, and the official ban on idol drafts. Later, except for the works of "Sister Lang" and "Phi Ge" that speculate on star feelings, there are no popular music variety shows in China.

Just like a certain music variety show that is still on the air in 2023, it is getting more and more boring, and the audience is not watching it more and more. Even the band's variety show "Lexia 1" became popular, "Lexia 2" had a mixed reputation, and "Lexia 3", which has just been broadcast so far, does not have this momentum, and the matter of coco can be said to have opened a corner.

Chinese audiences, why don't they watch variety shows more and more? We know it by watching "Fengsheng"

In fact, the problem of domestic variety shows can also be extended to movies, TV series, music and other fields, after all, entertainment is not very divided, the general environment is like this, and the entire industry is also like this.

Since 2023, there are not many popular young traffic stars in China, on the contrary, the young actors who are really popular are still like Jiang Qiming of "Long Season" and then the young actors of "Fengsheng" in the summer. Especially the boy group of "Fengsheng", you must know that this summer's stalls are surrounded by enemies, and the box office of many movies is much higher than "Fengsheng".

This celebrity with fame, coffee position and traffic is even more. But the six or seven young actors of "Fengshen " and Daji's Naran, and even the Easter egg at the end of the first part caught a glimpse, and Deng Chanyu, who only appeared in the second part, this actor Narnaqian was a little fire.

Why is the young actor of "Fengsheng" so hot that he can't be more popular? Because Chinese audiences have suffered from "garbage traffic stars" for a long time.

In fact, there is a TV series "Sauvignon Blanc" in the same period that is the best comparison. The quality of this ancient puppet is not bad, and Yang Zi has been somewhat controversial in recent years. But actor Zhang Wanyi was very popular when "The Age of Awakening" and "Children of the Qiao Family", and Tan Jianci's "Crime Hunting Guide" was also popular when it was broadcast last year.

Even if Deng Wei is because of other ancient puppet dramas, he can be regarded as a famous student in recent years. But compared with the "Fengshen Boy Group", this popular Chengdu is completely incomparable.

In fact, the production of "Sauvignon Blanc" is not bad, like the protagonist's art costume road is not bad, but the ancient puppet assembly line "Sauvignon Blanc", which is common in the market, was still hit by the dimensionality reduction of "Fengsheng". This dimensionality reduction blow lies in the selection of amateurs from all over the world, and then training professional ability for two years.

Under the high investment and the high quality of the film itself created by the director's ability, the contrast is too obvious.

Over the years, the little fresh meat in the costume idol drama has no power of chicken, and the acting skills are still rotten but are maintained by fans. Martial arts is to pose for special effects, and the fight is soft and intense. And the young actors of "Fengsheng", although the literary drama is average, but sincere, the muscles and bodies are all real.

(Some ancient puppet male protagonists also stick fake muscles and can't hold actresses).

The Fengshen men's and women's group rode horses in the martial arts, and all the martial arts and archery went into battle by themselves, and even the long hair was left by themselves.

Some time ago, the young actors of the fire of "Feng Shen" were touted, and one of the points of the fire was compared with the real long hair, the ancient doll wig film seemed too false, stiff and rigid, and it seemed unattractive on the screen (such a comparison even made the originally good "Sauvignon Blanc" actor a little oily).

Coco's matter is just a corner of the chaos of "internal entertainment"

I know that in the current public opinion environment, there are many fans of "Sauvignon Blanc", and there will definitely be people who say that they will step on it.

In fact, "Sauvignon Blanc" is good, although there is no big explosion but it does not thunder (this is a victory), from "Long Moon Ember Ming" to "Fireworks in the World" since this year, please ask how many domestic idol dramas have thundered, all of which affect the starring resources.

"Fengsheng" high-investment movies and TV series are not comparable, it is true, but the domestic entertainment problem is the same.

I have always believed that "Fengshen " is the most suitable "idol show" program in the eyes of Chinese audiences, selecting unknown amateurs from the country and the world, spending a lot of money on the construction of training camps, equestrian, martial arts, dance, acting and other strict training, and then spending a lot of investment on scripts, as well as physical production such as serving the Tao.

Finally, it handed over an excellent literary and artistic work with excellent quality, industrial technology and cultural content to the Chinese audience.

Officially, it established China's film and television industry and provided a large number of jobs. At the cultural level, it establishes a blockbuster of Chinese mythology and epic in the new era, which is a cultural export both internally and externally.

For young audiences, it has produced a large number of idols from the people, who are powerful and simple and can succeed through hard work.

Early Chinese variety shows like "Supergirl" and "Fast Man" period, until the first few seasons of "Good S Sound" and "Good Song" and so on. Although there was also a shady scene or something at that time, just like the song soil that spit on the legend of Dao Lang and Phoenix at that time, compared with "Learn to Cat Call" and "Thunder" now, you find that Dao Lang is art.

In the talent show at that time, the contestants were more soil than the other, one by one would not control the expression, one by one fought for strength, and in the end they really held a large number of powerful people. There are exemplary cooperation between the industry and beyond, and it also promotes the development of Chinese entertainment.

Around 2015, China's "traffic economy" reached its peak, and the traffic pattern affected all aspects of the literary and art industry. In terms of Chinese music variety shows over the years, why are Chinese variety shows getting worse and worse? Chinese audiences are increasingly disliking the current variety shows?

1. The official and social environment is becoming more and more tighter for cultural public opinion, resulting in stricter restrictions.

What song lyrics have to be changed, what show dare not be too realistic, like sketch crosstalk must end up on values, dumplings, this is indeed an important reason do not need to be denied.

2. Traffic is the ruler, strength is no longer important, it naturally leads to all parties only traffic left and right

There are many chaos under this article, because "traffic" can determine data and revenue, and all parties are creating traffic, and they are beginning to cheat in creation.

What is completely without excellent works to be a mentor in a music variety show, not to mention it from above.

Because of the lack of strength, it is common to fake singing, retouch, stage performances and works to be fraudulent.

Chinese movies have "The Wandering Earth" and "Fengsheng", but Chinese variety shows do not

The two items of "flow" and restrictions are easy to lead to ugly literary and artistic works, and the most serious is the third one.

3. Chinese audiences hope for more fairness and justice, and literary and artistic works can be more excellent. It can not only serve the audience well, but also lead the cultural values of society. In particular, I hope that there is strength, but there may not be capital, and people with connections can succeed, but after capital intervenes, they say no.

"Good S Sound" was originally an introduction of foreign copyrights, domestic variety shows or competitions, including film and television dramas, documentaries, etc., once there is capital intervention in China, often things will start to get worse.

Here is a non-famous example, CCTV's famous documentary "China on the tip of the tongue".

At the beginning, there was not much investment, the main creative team got some money to do the most classic, and the first season exploded. The capital and leaders of all parties came, and in the second season, there were relationships such as requests for trust and unhealthy tendencies. But the same team can still watch, and even the director's team was kicked out in the third season, and it was completely rotten in the end.

Too many literary and artistic works in China are this process, such as music variety shows after so many years of variety shows on Hunan Satellite TV, the cultivation of star chasing, coupled with the rise of the "traffic economy", young audiences are also different, and the entertainment industry itself is also a situation of conformity.

This has led to a group of domestic entertainment works, but it has become a "game of capital and traffic".

Originally, the flow economy, restrictions led to the work is not very good, capital is overly involved in various operations. Like a music variety show, the mentor is acting on stage, and various dramatic conflicts, character backgrounds and experiences are scripts. The performance above lip-synching, sound repair, lackluster music did not break through, and the powerful contestants were eliminated.

There are capital, relationships, and traffic are retained, and the show is naturally not good.

Personally, because I pay more attention to Chinese music, I still pay attention to music variety shows, and the music variety shows that have been popular in China since the "epidemic" for three years. In addition to "Sister Lang" and "Phi Ge", which are not counting the stars who speculate on stars, it is probably a few programs such as "Lexia 1", "Rap New Generation" and "Sound into People's Hearts Season 1".

Their process is very in line with the process of domestic entertainment programs, and I don't know if it will be popular at first, the investment is not high, and the capital involvement is not deep. Everyone is very sincere, the team is sincere, the players are sincere, the works are sincere, and in the end, it will be popular. But the second season started to get involved with all parties, and then it rotted.

Why are Chinese variety shows getting worse and worse? Why is it getting less and less popular?

Because they have become capital, TV stations and vested interests in the entertainment industry are acting. Finally, there are no excellent works at all, most viewers don't watch them at all, but they still make a lot of money (who makes Chinese mouthful).

This time the coco thing broke out, in fact, it was not unexpected, but everyone was a little sad and indignant. After all, all Chinese people know that these shows have been acting, have always had scripts, and have been rotten under capital manipulation, but because of Coco's unexpected death, combined with this matter, it is too ironic, it is really rotten.

After the Coco incident, the Chinese entertainment industry (Juan) should usher in "anti-corruption"

At present, the Chinese entertainment industry really cannot bear the art and ideals demanded by the Chinese audience, financial capital, traffic economy and vested interests in the entertainment industry are in cahoots, and the matter of coco recording is only a corner.

Finally, in the past two years, due to the official ban on the "traffic economy", the development of China's pop culture industry has improved.

Web novels, games, animation, movies, TV series, music, variety entertainment and other fields. Online novels are also a problem of capital monopoly; Games, animation, but because they don't need real people (traffic is difficult to intervene), the development is much better (these two areas are the most restrictive, and they are reported at every turn).

In the past two years, domestic film and television dramas have risen with intentional teams such as "The Wandering Earth" and "Feng Shen". It's just that these two movies were the same when they were released, but it is good to see that Chinese film and television dramas are changing rapidly.

Only the music industry bound to idols, and the variety show industry bound to entertainment, are really rotten. At least there is no sign of improvement in the mainstream, neither excellent works can be created, and coco breaks out from time to time.

I think the suppression of the "traffic economy" is not enough, and it is time for the Chinese entertainment industry (juan) and even the entire literary and art industry to usher in an anti-corruption.