Reporter Chen Qianxiu/Comprehensive Report
Tiantuan Mayday was caught in a lip-synching turmoil, and a concert was held in Paris on the 7th of this month, inviting the whole people to witness. The controversy over the questioning of lip-synching was hotly discussed, and mainland officials conducted an investigation. The results of the lip-to-play investigation have not yet been released, and some law enforcement officials revealed to the media that it is difficult to supervise the concert.
The Mayday concert was questioned about lip-syncing. (Photo/Believe in the music provided)
According to the Lu media "Beijing Youth Daily", the music expert "Farmer in the Wheat Field" identified the audio file of the Mayday concert through pitch correction software, and bluntly said that some songs were falset-synched, and at the same time, music blogger "Acoustics" also went to report. In this regard, You Jingbo, deputy dean of the School of Pop Singing of Beijing Modern Music Academy, agrees with this principle of pitch analysis, but Huang Sen, a mixer with 14 years of concert experience, said through the media that the analysis method of "Farmer in the Wheat Field" is not scientific, and in the stadium environment, there is a gap in the width of the sound heard by the audience in the infield area and the outfield area, and it is not rigorous and sufficient to judge falsetto singing with live recording audio files.
Huang Sen, a sound mixer, explained that pad sound is a common mode of performance tuning, and pointed out that "most of the performances that are known so far will do this to some extent, because it can make the performance convenient and achieve a good performance effect." He said that in order to restore the full vocals of the album, large-scale concerts will use cushion sound effects, but cushion sound is only a tool to assist the performance, and it cannot be improvised and cannot be changed, "the probability of a sentence being true and a sentence false is very small."
On the other hand, Lu media pointed out that the sound technology of the concert made it difficult for law enforcement officers. A cultural law enforcement staff member of the provincial bureau of culture and tourism revealed to Lu Media that the standard for judging lip-syncing in the past was very simple, that is, to see whether the singer was completely silent and lip-syncing, but after the promulgation of the "Regulations on the Administration of Commercial Performances" in 2009, law enforcement officers used binoculars to supervise whether the singer had lip-syncing through on-site recording, and asked the performance team to sign a letter of commitment not to lip-synch, and then it was not until 2019 that they began to know the "pad sound", which is similar to playing accompaniment, and at that time I thought it was "electronic music" This is easy to be exploited, because 20% or 90% of the pads only rely on the performers' own morality to maintain.
The law enforcement officer believes that the biggest difficulty is the "quantification of technical additions", but how to quantify it? Calculate the intensity or the time? What kind of performance needs to be quantified? Only raised questions and did not disclose the answer, but believed that "standard quantification" can reduce the controversy and difficulty of law enforcement, but in the final analysis, quantifying culture itself is a paradox, and finally said that "this industry has too much management and no vitality, many fans like to get together and see their favorite singers, as for whether they actually sing, they don't seem to care so much." 」
Zhu Fenglian, spokesperson of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council of the People's Republic of China, responded to the scandal of the Mayday concert and Rainie Yang's concert at a press conference on the 13th of this month, saying that the Bureau of Culture and Tourism is investigating, "We actively support cross-strait cultural exchanges and cooperation, and welcome Taiwan performers to come to the mainland for development. It is also hoped that the relevant performers will consciously promote the art of conduct and establish a good social image.
Zhu Fenglian, spokesperson of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council of the People's Republic of China, will respond to the concert turmoil of Mayday and Rainie Yang. (Photo/Photo by reporter Ren Yifang)
The music expert "Farmer in the Wheat Field" began to identify celebrities' real singing and fake singing through software in January 2023, and more than 20 people have been identified in the past 1 year, including some lip-to-sing at Mayday's Shanghai concert, and the video has more than 4.59 million views, but his latest update was on December 3 Mayday 3 song lip-synching identification, and he has not updated it since. The music blogger "Acoustics", who reported Mayday lip-syncing, officially showed his face through an exclusive interview with Lu media a few days ago, and said that his personal information was exposed, his family was implicated, and he complained of being bullied online.
said that part of the Mayday concert was lip-syncing, and the music expert "Farmer in the Wheat Field" is currently suspended. (Photo/Retrieved from Weibo)
Mayday lip-synching music blogger "Acoustics" complained of being bullied online. (Photo/Retrieved from Weibo)