"The Voice of China": From trump card to rat crossing the street This summer, Zhejiang Satellite TV's prime time lacks an ace program, "The Voice of China". Its absence makes it feel a little quiet this summer. Originally, October was supposed to be the end of "The Voice of China", but this year it will no longer be seen. Instead, the eighth season of "Ace vs. Ace" is scheduled to be broadcast every Friday primetime on October 20, which means that "The Voice of China" in 2023 is no longer expected to be broadcast.
"The Voice of China" in 2023 can be said to have suffered heavy losses one after another, falling from the altar to the end of today after the suspension of broadcasting. In the twelfth season of "The Voice of China", the show underwent a drastic revision and upgrade, the biggest change of which was the addition of a singing and dancing track, although it was finally presented in the form of "Ming Xuan Track", but this revision seems a bit unusual. The good voice was originally based on "good voice", but the addition of singing, dancing and dancing made people feel a little incongruous.
Fortunately, in the end, "The Voice" is still the key, while "Bright Selection Track" is somewhat redundant. This is also one of the common problems in The Voice revision. Another big change is a major change in the lineup of mentors. Zhou Huajian, Pan Weibai, Xue Zhiqian, Liu Xianhua, all four mentors this season have changed, and no new faces have joined, which shows the determination of The Voice to reverse the decline and regain its strength.
However, the announcement of the mentor lineup caused controversy, except for Zhou Huajian, the other three mentors are indeed somewhat inferior compared with previous seasons, both in terms of qualifications and age. Of course, this season's The Voice mentor lineup is also the youngest in the past, and Liu Xianhua has become the youngest mentor, as the show promotes, they focus on a "youth spring".
But from another point of view, such a lineup only increases the sense of variety, enhances popularity and traffic, from this point of view, the purpose is indeed achieved, the effect is also there, but it is a little too much, summed up as "too hard". The show caused controversy before it started, and word of mouth also polarized after it started. The Voice of China in 2023 ushered in a major setback. Dao Lang's new song "Rakshasa Sea Market" has dealt another blow to "The Voice of China".
The song brought renewed attention to "The Voice of China", and the phrase in the lyrics, "Turn your belly before speaking", was interpreted as satirizing the good voice, especially the mentor, and satirizing the entire show. I have to say that this description is indeed apt. "The Voice of China" is a special and important existence in the Chinese music scene. In addition to the promotion of singers, the promotion of the mentor's personal acting career has also played a vital role, and many mentors have ushered in a new spring of their careers with this show.
However, this has also caused controversy, because participating in variety shows will make them less focused on music, resulting in little achievement in the past decade. Compared to Dao Lang, these mentors have indeed regressed. In the case of "The Voice of China", the show only really selected a batch of "good voices" in the first few seasons, and then gradually declined and became dispensable.
"The Voice of China" has produced a total of 11 champions, including Liang Bo, Li Qi, Zhang Bichen, Zhang Lei, Jiang Dunhao, Tashi Pingcuo, Tenzin Nyima, Xing Hanming, Shan Yichun, Wu Keyue and Liang Yuying, and now only Zhang Bichen and Shan Yichun still maintain a high reputation, and the other champions are eclipsed or even unknown. Of course, there are some non-champions who have also achieved good development, even surpassing champions, such as Zhou Shen, Xilinnayi Gao, Huang Xiaoyun and Yuan Yawei.
Among them, although Zhou Shen did not go to the end on the stage of The Voice, he has now become a dark horse in the Chinese music scene. "The Voice of China" has indeed selected a group of outstanding singers and sent a large number of talents to the Chinese music scene, although everyone's opportunities are different, but The Voice is the key to their growth. The third blow was the "Li Min recording incident". In fact, on the occasion of Li Min's death, the condolences on the official Weibo of The Voice caused controversy.
But the real turmoil occurred more than a month after Li Min's death, and a 9-minute recording of Li Min's accusation against The Voice was exposed, causing a huge sensation. At first, the good voice showed his arrogance and contempt, and dismissed, but he did not expect that the incident intensified and could not end. When the fourth program was broadcast, the barrage was full of abuse, and under the crisis of public opinion, it dragged down the stock price of The Voice's company, which fell all the way, and even fell below the issue price, and has not yet recovered.
All parties to The Voice of China have paid a heavy price for this. The official finally came forward and issued an announcement announcing the launch of the investigation. This time, "The Voice of China" could no longer be arrogant no matter what, and finally bowed its head and accepted the investigation. On August 25, also a Friday, "The Voice of China" announced the suspension of broadcasting. After only four episodes of the program, "The Voice of China" in 2023 was forced to stop broadcasting, and the results of the investigation have not yet been released.
However, Friday's prime time has been occupied by "Ace vs Ace 8", so the 2023 "The Voice of China" is likely to have no hope of re-airing, and it will never be seen again this year. Back at this time last year, the dispute between Li Min and The Voice escalated during the finals recording, and finally when The Voice of China ended in 2022, all of Li Min's Weibo posts about The Voice of China were deleted.
Now that we know the problem with the finals, it all stems from Li Min's unfair questioning of the early format, which clashed with The Voice program. Although The Voice program team said in response to the recording incident that there had been a misunderstanding and had been resolved, when the recording was exposed, we knew how much grievance Li Min had suffered at that time, she was a diva in the Chinese music scene. The well-known host Tu Lei once said: "The deceased did not sleep for a long time, because the heart is unyielding and unwilling and unclear, perhaps this is called death without blindness."
The last words of human death should have been nostalgic thoughts and explanations, but they did not turn out to be a 9-minute accusation. Mentor Li Min's trainees also stood up one after another. Tu Lei believes that these recordings and videos are more like a slap in the face, a loud slap in the face, pumped not just on a person, a program or a station, but the entire entertainment industry. "The Voice of China" has become the target of everyone, stopping the broadcast is the best choice and result, as for whether it can be rebroadcast, it is another story.
"The Voice of China", as the longest existing music program, is embarrassing. It once had a national status, burning all over the streets and alleys, igniting all summer, but in the end it could not be sustained, and it became a "rat crossing the street" that everyone shouted at. There is no such a hot music variety show yet, "The Voice of China" is nostalgic, but even more disappointing. Q: What do you think about the suspension of The Voice of China? Please leave a comment.