Author | Yan Gongzi
On Chinese New Year's Eve on December 31, post-95 actress Meng Ziyi posted an apology Weibo:
"I'm sorry Brother Zhou Huajian, I'm sorry everyone, I really tried my best, Happy New Year!"
At the same time, two related entries appeared on the hot search: "Mencius Yi's out-of-tune is very prominent", "Mencius Yi's mouth scared me to death".
I don't know how everyone is, anyway, that night, I brushed Mencius to sing no less than 5 times, and I really had mixed feelings after watching it-
Angry and distressed.
Angry, angry is Mencius and the planning, marketing, and promoters behind him.
is distressed, and it hurts the old drama bones and old singers represented by Zhou Huajian.
Let's start with what happened.
At Jiangsu Satellite TV's New Year's Eve party, many artists such as Zhou Huajian and Meng Ziyi were arranged to sing the song "Let Me Be Happy and Let Me Worry" on the same stage.
Zhou Huajian is no stranger to everyone, a representative of powerful singers in the eighties and nineties, and his representative works include "Flower Heart", "Friends", "Let Me Be Happy and Let Me Worry", etc., it is not an exaggeration to say that he is a predecessor in the music world.
Meng Ziyi is a Chinese mainland actress, born in Jilin on December 5, 1995, graduated from Beiying, and played Wen Qing in "Chen Qingling".
The times have changed, the entertainment industry has changed, and the old generation of singers and the new Xiaohua performed on the same stage, which was originally regarded as a regular stage planning.
But no one expected that Mencius would overpower Zhou Huajian and other artists who performed hard, and led the way.
With a big white voice without emotion and skill, without a trace of undulating tones, and a stable and slow singing output.
The live video is here, everyone can feel it for themselves.
Thanks to the platform of his predecessor Zhou Huajian, this song can be sung smoothly without interference, and ordinary people have long been led astray.
It's just funny if you usually go to the hole, but on the stage of the New Year's Eve party, the organizer is really confusing to operate like this.
Isn't it time to choose people + rehearsal in advance? Shouldn't you take it seriously?
If you ask sharply again, does this song have to be sung by Mencius?
But for the organizers, the answer may be "it has to be".
Speaking of Mencius, viewers who know a little will think of two labels:
The first is a beauty, and the second is a "sound idiot" beauty.
That's right, singing out of tune has long been Mencius's public character.
Different from the inferiority complex of the "music idiot" people who dare not sing in public, Mencius often shows his singing voice in various programs.
In a variety show, she sang a song "The Secret of Winter" by Zhou Chuanxiong to Zhou Shen.
Zhou Shen looked frightened and confused, and immediately turned on the original song, unable to believe that the mobile phone was playing the same song as Mencius.
In another program, Mencius Yi sang a song, please Wang Feng commented.
Wang Feng said helplessly: "I didn't understand what the melody of this song was, I really couldn't tune it." ”
Mencius stared at his beautiful and innocent eyes, and said equally seriously: "Teacher, I don't think I sing badly. ”
Singing publicly again, Meng Ziyi looked at Xue Zhiqian on the side with a smile, waiting for him to comment.
Xue Zhiqian smiled and said, "Mencius, your singing is quite interesting. ”
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The list goes on. The so-called food and fun-loving may be Mencius.
And such a special music idiot beauty has also gained a lot of popularity.
A large number of fans chanted "Sister Meng is cute" and became a fan of Meng Ziyi.
Even Zhou Chuanxiong's "The Secret of Winter" more than ten years ago became popular again because of Meng Ziyi's singing.
Perhaps it was because of this that Jiangsu Satellite TV invited Mencius in the chorus program.
Facts have proved that Jiangsu Satellite TV's move has indeed reached the expected popularity.
After the show was broadcast, Mencius Yi even exploded in hot searches, and a large number of fans also began to praise, "You gave the first happiness of the new year".
And the initiator, Jiangsu Satellite TV, has also received a wave of praise from Qingqi, many people said:
Meng Ziyi proved that Jiangsu Satellite TV definitely does not engage in lip-synching. ”
This scene seems to be joyful, but it is actually sad-
The seniors and juniors are on the same stage, and the powerful faction and the idol faction sing together.
As a result, the juniors got out of the circle because they "sang badly", and the seniors who sang seriously saved the scene were not cared for.
Does anyone care about Zhou Huajian's feelings?
Imagine a musical predecessor who has worked hard for decades and practiced Xi vocal skills before finally succeeding.
performed seriously at the New Year's Eve party, but was taken away by the out-of-tune singing of the younger rounds.
No one cares how serious he is, how much he loves it, how hard he works.
The TV station regards the out-of-tune post-natal as the focus of propaganda and non-stop marketing, and fans also regard the out-of-tune as cuteness and excessive favor.
What's even more sad is that many people think that the organizer's operation seems to be reasonable:
If it weren't for such a beautiful out-of-tune student, no matter how hard you work and have qualifications, how could so many people watch it?
Fortunately, not everyone can accept the "joy of singing rotten".
Someone asked, "Why does an out-of-tune person keep singing?" ”
Someone pointed out that Jiangsu Satellite TV did not respect the audience and staff, "I know that she can't sing, but she still has to go on stage to attract attention, and she doesn't respect the stage." ”
Some people even said: "Why do you want to put a person who can't sing and a person who can sing together? ”
Mencius is an actor, she can't sing, it's understandable, she can't sing but she likes to sing, it's understandable, in informal settings, it's her freedom of hobby.
But on a stage of such a level as the New Year's Eve party, arranging an actor who can't sing to sing is indeed not enough respect for the stage, not enough respect for the artists on the same stage, and not enough respect for the audience.
As for Meng Ziyi herself, even if she has to be on stage in this show, she can completely keep her voice down and try not to affect the overall singing effect.
But obviously, neither the organizers nor Mencius had the idea of "hiding clumsy".
On the contrary, they are afraid that they will not be "clumsy" enough and not attract attention enough.
I don't know when the mixed entertainment industry needs beauty, luck, and capital, but it no longer needs strength.
Crying with the old drama bone Andy Lau, Angelababy, who has a beautiful face, can't cry.
The staff stepped forward to help him drop eye drops, and Andy Lau had a serious expression and complicated eyes on the side.
The photos of the scene flowed out, and fans praised their sister's beauty while feeling distressed about "my sister is so hard".
Cai Xukun released a new album, and the sales reached 80 million in 4 months.
However, with real money in the pocket, the new album with 11 songs was originally scheduled to be released only 5 songs, including songs from the previous group album and pure music.
There are 6 songs left, which have not been released for a long time, and they don't even have song titles, so they can be put on the song list and accept the "pre-sale".
Li Yifeng's acting, which is both a stand-in and a cutout, can complete the "shooting" without being on the scene.
When asked, he said, "There are some things that have a long vision, but they don't affect too much." ”
Does it really not affect?
What about professionalism, morality, and professional ethics with a daily salary of 2.08 million?
is such an undedicated traffic star, the award is soft, and the number of fans is ridiculous.
The old-timers who have worked hard for most of their lives, many times they have to match them in order to have a little attention.
It's hard to say whether the industry has regressed, or the audience is more tolerant.
If you can go back more than ten years, professionalism and ethics are definitely an important part of an artist's career.
The hidden metaphor of Mencius's out-of-tune incident may be one of the reasons for the decline of the entertainment industry:
Even if you have neither talent nor hard work, as long as you have a good skin, you are willing to cater to capital, you can lower the lower limit, then you can become the idol of 1.4 billion people.
Even if you are superior in strength and serious and hard-working, but you have no topic, no heat, you can't pull the lower limit and can't attract attention, capital wants you to be a green leaf, you are a green leaf.
It seems that they have indeed "succeeded", successfully manipulated the eyeballs, and succeeded in gaining traffic.
But such a "success" will definitely be short-lived due to short-sightedness, just like the short-lived careers of Angelababy, Li Yifeng and others.
There is an episode in "SpongeBob SquarePants" about SpongeBob SquarePants accidentally torn, which caused everyone's laughter and attention, so he began to deliberately tear his pants on various occasions, but slowly everyone was "desensitized" and no longer had any interest in such a performance.
Meng Ziyi did prove that he didn't lip-sync, but there is nothing to be proud of, compared to the truth, it is to be more powerful than whom, not worse than whom.
Giving up a professional image for the sake of traffic is tantamount to losing a watermelon and picking up sesame seeds, selling ugliness and laughing to sensationalize, and there will be a boring day.
At that time, capital will still be capital, satellite TV will still be satellite TV, and it will only be Mencius who will be abandoned.
Of course, the choice and future of artists are not the turn of ordinary people to worry about, what we have to pay attention to is another deeper issue-
There is a pair of big invisible hands that are gradually manipulating, influencing and lowering the lower limit of the entire society.
When the New Year's Eve party also began to be "rotten" as the beauty, not ashamed but proud, it means that the traditional aesthetics quickly slipped to the ugliness, and the profession was forced to give in to the amateur.
The traffic is greater than the strength, and the bad money drives out the good money, which is of course the evil consequence and sorrow of entertainment to death.
But if you think about it, doesn't this phenomenon exist in other fields?