The core point of this article is mainly to talk to you about Zhou Shen's singing skills, and also to talk to you about my personal views on young singers.
Personally, I would prefer singers with strong singing skills, so it is inevitable that there will be subjective filters, this article is relatively very subjective, you can also learn about vocal common sense, and the author will try to use as little professional terms as possible.
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Some netizens sent me a private message saying that recently, many fans of young singers have been posting posts to compare their singing skills with their idols and Zhou Shen.
In fact, everyone may think it is an exaggeration, but the author thinks it is completely correct: none of the mainstream singers of the younger generation is stronger than Zhou Shen.
Whether you like Zhou Shen or not, but the strength of singing skills is indeed an objective thing, and Zhou Shen's singing skills are there, not whoever has the loudest voice is justified.
So, the younger generation of pure singers, why can Zhou Shen stand with the king? Take a look at his choices over the years.
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In Zhou Shen's choices over the years, in the author's opinion, there are the following points:
First, instead of making albums early, they began to choose excellent producers to make albums for themselves after having a high status.
The advantage of this is that the quality of the album will not pull the crotch, and the attitude towards the album is attentive enough, and the majority of netizens can see it.
Compared with a patchwork album, such an album with a complete concept and excellent production is obviously more brilliant.
Second, the development route of variety show + OST was determined.
Don't underestimate this concept, not all singers are suitable for variety shows, variety shows here refer not only to music variety shows, but also to a large number of reality shows, such as "Run".
High exposure + continuous output of effective sound source.
Third, he has never stopped practicing his voice and constantly improving his singing skills.
The first two choices, if you want to succeed, are actually based on the last point.
On the road to success, singing skills can't pull the crotch.
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Zhou Shen's current singing skills are the top existence in the Chinese music scene, which is different from ordinary male and female voices, and Zhou Shen has his own regular two sets of timbre.
The former is a male voice, and the latter is a female voice. In the process of use, Zhou Shen has achieved silky switching, and the male voice ensures that he can use a small amount of chest voice in the conventional middle and high pitch area to cooperate with the head voice to continue to output in the voice change area, and there is no pressure to mix weakly.
The female voice is Zhou Shen's extremely exaggerated head cavity resonance ability in the area of more than three groups of small characters, so that the sound texture of the treble area is truly different.
Compared with ordinary male voices, Zhou Shen's voice is more textured;
Compared with ordinary female voices, Zhou Shen's voice has more support at the bottom.
For the public, the most familiar is actually when Zhou Shen uses his head voice more, and Zhou Shen's representative work "Big Fish" is typical.
Relying on the support of the beautiful head voice and a small number of chest voices, the whole song has a completely unusual beauty, because Zhou Shen taught himself bel canto singing, and borrowed a lot of the current mainstream vocal practice system on the side of the flow of singing, and mastered the balance and weak mix.
In places where strong mixing is required, add more bel canto singing methods to increase support and achieve a sense of power in hearing.
In the final analysis, singers who take the pure singer route need to improve their singing skills infinitely, have more styles to be good at, have a wider controllable vocal range, and have a high singing quotient enough to allow themselves to have more possibilities.
And the upper limit of a pure singer is not necessarily lower than that of a singer-songwriter.
Just look at the QQ Music Singer List, now Zhou Shen's ranking is second to Jay Chou, higher than Lin Junjie's, and has been stable for a while.
I'm looking forward to seeing if Zhou Shen can maintain this result after the release of the new album for a period of time!
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