"The Sound of Life: Family Years" premiered, the program has high intentions, the song selection and arrangement are flat, and the reality show is embarrassing and funny
Text | Grilled entertainment
In the domestic entertainment music variety market, the one-of-a-kind mango can be described as a frequent masterpiece, and even every subdivision has a masterpiece that can support the façade, and "The Sound of Life" is a benchmark work in the field of competitive singing music comprehensive.
Whether it is the HK Phil season or the Treasure Island season, they have truly found expressions that fit the perspective of young people, and the program has won a win-win situation in terms of topics and ratings.
After two successful seasons of the show, the third season of "The Sound of Life" also arrived as scheduled. On December 2, "The Sound of Life: Family Years" ushered in its premiere.
"The Sound of Life: Family Years" can be said to be the first to be broadcast, and the program poster jointly created by the program team and the black unicorn was the first to come out of the circle. This poster is full of details and information, highlighting the cultural heritage, and completely opening up the pattern of the show.
In a courtyard, the red ribbon on the branch of the tree reads the prayer "God bless China, the country and the people are safe". In the shade of a tree. The elders sat around the table, and the five people happened to look like the five stars on the national flag, and even the direction was the same. The shadow of the tree is a rooster map, a little boy in the arms of his parents, a red bauhinia, a green lotus, running towards his parents' children, and the shadow is the shape of the treasure island Taiwan.
"The Sound of Life: The Years of Family" not only has far-reaching promotional posters, but also the pilot film is directly tearful.
"It is never the luck that nourishes this land, but the blue threads and succession of a generation. "The years are upright, and the country is prosperous, and what is the home is called China." "Like the previous two seasons, Mango's million-dollar copywriting is still the ceiling-level existence in the industry.
The pilot film of "The Sound of Life: The Years of the Family" connects the history of Chinese music for a hundred years, and tells the story of music in the fate of the family and country.
The program team also hides deep meanings in the selection of songs by the guests, and the interviews of Pang Zhonghua and Cai Guoqing are tearful. I believe that many people have used Mr. Pang Zhonghua's calligraphy when they were young, and his interpretation of his name and the ideals and aspirations of that generation are touching. Cai Guoqing gave up a scholarship abroad and finally chose to sing at the Asian Games, and when he said "I want to sing for my country all my life", he suddenly understood why he could become an artist with both virtue and art.
Whether an audio variety program can be "gods", in addition to content planning, copywriting, and editing, the final thing to look at is the content of musical attributes. Whether there is a spark in the guest lineup, whether the song selection and arrangement are brilliant, whether the stage is out of the circle, etc., all determine the final direction of an audio variety show.
The first episode of "The Sound of Life: Family Years" has 140 minutes of content, and 14 guests sang 17 songs, full of memories and killing, which is more enjoyable than the concert, but there are also some problems hidden behind the big pattern and high popularity of the show.
First, the guest lineup is strong enough, but too many familiar faces also make the audience lack freshness, and traffic singers are a double-edged sword.
Second, the selection and arrangement of the first episode of the program are relatively bland, and the introduction of the background content of the song is too long, giving people the illusion of interspersed song performances in the documentary, which greatly affects the viewing experience of the program, and there is a strong sense of separation.
Third, the reality show gives people an embarrassing and funny feeling, and the guests are obviously not familiar enough with each other, and they need to be further polished.
The lineup is strong, and the traffic is a double-edged sword
Looking at the entire lineup, it has a deep relationship with Mango's popular programs, including Wang Xinling, Chen Chusheng, the champions of "Sister Lang" and "Brother Phi", and half of the original cast of "I Am a Singer 3", Huang Qishan, Mao Amin, Yu Kewei, Zhou Shen, Wang Sulong and others all have in-depth cooperative relations with Mango.
The entire guest lineup is very strong, and professional singers and powerful singers gather together to ensure the level of singing in the show. However, too many old faces in variety shows have appeared, which has also caused many netizens to have serious aesthetic fatigue.
Like Ma Jiaqi, Song Yaxuan has also become the focus of this season's program, not only singing the opening song "Mountains and Rivers", but also the solo song "Wake Up Your Ears", "Happy Guide", "On the Field of Hope" and other choruses also have him. The cover and title of this episode of the program on the Mango platform were also directly given to Song Yaxuan, which can be said to have a very obvious intention.
After the show started, social media was jubilant, there were praises in the barrage, and various data were also eye-catching, but when I looked at the stage and reality show content, the overall performance was decent. It can only be said that traffic is a double-edged sword, the program team uses it well and gets twice the result with half the effort, and if it is not used well, it will lift a stone and shoot itself in the foot.
The selection and arrangement of the songs are bland, and Mao Amin is brilliant
The first episode of "The Sound of Life: The Glory of the Family" focuses on the history of Chinese music in the past century, and selects representative songs at different time nodes for singing. Red songs, Spring Festival Gala songs, and classic film and television OSTs have all been taken care of, and the guests have also worked hard in singing.
However, the song as a whole lacks a sense of substitution, the arrangement is not particularly brilliant, and the selection of some songs is not representative. Once you come across a singer or song that the audience doesn't like, there is an urge to pull the progress bar quickly.
Zhou Shen's "Follow You to the Edge of the Sky" instantly brought people back to the years of smoke, and the melodious chanting made people intoxicated, full of a sense of story and picture.
Red songs such as "Hymn to Heroes", "Guerrilla Song", "We Walk on the Road" glow with new vitality, and the performances of singers such as Tan Weiwei and Han Hong are inspiring, but Hu Yanbin and Zhang Qi's singing makes people play every minute.
Chen Chusheng and Yu Kewei sang "Meet 1998", which brought the audience's thoughts to the beautiful memories of the Spring Festival Gala. The magnetic male voice and the tactful female voice are intertwined, telling the story eloquently and silently. Songs such as "My Tears Are Only You" and "Wake Up My Ears" also awaken sleeping memories and hit the softest corners of the heart.
Classic OSTs such as "Who", "Shanghai Tang", and "You'll Come Back" were sung one by one, and they also took the audience back to the era when the gods and goddesses fought in the Chinese music scene, and full of memories came to their hearts. Until "The Shadow of the Fence Wall" appeared, as soon as Mao Amin opened his mouth, this is the taste and quality that the Chinese season should have, the eldest sister really calmed the scene and made people cry, but unfortunately Mao Amin is just a flying guest.
In the first two seasons of "The Sound of Life", the opening performances were very shocking, and the theme could stand up at once. It's a pity that the opening song "Mountains and Rivers" of "The Sound of Life: The Glory of the Family" did not bring too many surprises.
The reason is that there are too many songs available in the Chinese season, and this "Mountains and Rivers" obviously cannot be a typical representative and is not deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. The "Sister Lang" program has already sung this song, and the freshness of the audience has also been discounted. Tan Weiwei and Song Yaxuan sang from the Great Wall to the studio, but they did not sing the majestic momentum of the song, and the treble was not strong and penetrating enough, and the young Song Yaxuan obviously couldn't support the song.
The most impressive thing about this episode of the show is the final chorus "On the Field of Hope", the prelude sounds, people can't help but follow the chorus, and can't help but burst into tears. The guests all sang their own characteristics, and each lyric seemed to be tailored to our lives, which is the charm of classic songs.
Reality shows are awkward and funny, and the guests need to be integrated
"The Sound of Life: The Glory of the Family" brings everyone together in the form of a street, and everyone is a street resident, highlighting the concept of "home". The program team spent nearly half an hour showing everyone's assembly, but the content of this part of the reality show was embarrassing and funny.
Although some guests have crossed paths with each other, everyone is obviously a little rusty together, and it takes more time to run in. Previously, Li Jian, Na Ying and others had an active atmosphere, and the variety show sense of this season's big brother and big sister needs to be further explored.
Everyone sat at a table, the seniors had the harmony of the seniors, and the juniors had the embarrassment of the juniors, and the overall atmosphere was very subtle. Wang Sulong and Zhou Shen's two "conspicuous bags" are very similar to the employees of the company's team building who were forcibly pulled out to toast the boss. Fortunately, they have their own variety show attributes, and they have contributed a lot of laughs in the limited reality show clips.
Zhou Shen can not only change all kinds of voice lines and timbre and contribute to the beautiful stage, but his ventriloquist is also a must. In the interaction with He Jiong, Zhou Shen imitated the gramophone to amaze everyone, and it also became an easter egg in this episode of the show.
The idea of the first episode of "The Sound of Life: Family Years" has been established, and the pattern of the program has also been highlighted, but the editing is indeed a little flat, and there are too many things to express, which finally leads to the lack of focus. Once the music is not pure enough, the audience will naturally not be able to resonate, and I hope that the next episode of the show can return to the music itself, and look forward to the amazing performance of the singers.
Do you have anything to say about the first episode of "The Sound of Life: Family Years"?