In the early morning of April 21, 2024, a Weibo posted by mainland male singer Huang Zitao attracted people's attention, and the relevant content behind this Weibo quickly rushed to the hot search.
The cause of the incident began with the 2024 Checkered Flag Music Carnival held in Shanghai on the evening of April 20.
At this carnival festival, Huang Zitao, as a guest, should perform with the famous Dutch DJ Martin Garrix (Little Martin) according to the arrangement of the event.
What everyone didn't expect was that Huang Zitao not only failed to cooperate with Martin Jr. that night, but started a live broadcast on the night of the carnival to complain that Martin had changed the program process without permission and was unable to go on stage.
After learning of Huang Zitao's behavior, Martin Jr. quickly posted a response on the Internet, and the dispute between the two became a hot topic.
It is reported that according to the arrangement of the program team, Huang Zitao and Little Martin need to work together on a song between 7 o'clock and 7:05 on the night of the carnival.
Huang Zitao's appearance as a guest is very short, in this song of about five minutes, only one or two minutes are reserved for Huang Zitao, and the rest is all for Martin Jr.
However, on the night of the carnival, this supposed very wonderful program went wrong.
According to what Huang Zitao said in the live broadcast that night, little Martin went on stage privately before the show time and played all Huang Zitao's songs, and when Huang Zitao needed to come on stage, little Martin refused to go on stage!
Since large-scale music events such as carnivals need to be notified to the relevant departments in advance for approval, guests can only perform programs that have passed the approval during the event, so Huang Zitao cannot perform other programs when the rehearsal program is messed up.
Based on this premise, Huang Zitao said emotionally in the live broadcast: "I am 30 years old, I have debuted for 13 years, and I have never seen this kind of thing. ”
In addition to this incident, Huang Zitao also said that Martin Jr. also refused to rehearse and appeared directly before the event, and he thought that Martin Jr.'s behavior was very disrespectful.
Huang Zitao's remarks made the people in the live broadcast room that night very angry, but it didn't take long for little Martin, who was called "the pinnacle legend of the electronic music industry" by the outside world, to respond publicly to the matter.
Martin Jr. said in the video that Huang Zitao did not take the stage at the performance time stipulated by the event, but "seemed to hide in the bathroom or the area of his dressing room."
In this regard, Martin Jr. said bluntly: "The part where he sang can already be heard in the audience starts, but he is not on stage, what am I doing, so I left the stage." ”
In addition, Martin Jr. also said that he attaches great importance to this performance in China and has never missed any rehearsals.
All in all, after that, Huang Zitao issued an apology Weibo at 1 a.m. on April 21, apologizing for his "inappropriate remarks".
The official account of the event checkered flag music carnival also issued an apology, saying that they were "deeply sorry for the emergency last night" and would "strengthen management and implementation in follow-up activities".
Regarding Huang Zitao's behavior of opening a live broadcast on the front foot and apologizing on the back foot, netizens' attitudes were divided.
Huang Zitao's fans believe that his idol must have been forced to apologize, because Huang Zitao only apologized for the part where he sweared, and did not say that he distorted the facts.
But many other netizens believe that this is likely to be a hypocritical incident made by Huang Zitao for the sake of popularity.
Regardless of the truth of the matter, the contradiction between Huang Zitao and Martin Jr. is true.
Over the years, phenomena such as "fake news" and "playing big names" have emerged in the entertainment industry, and no matter which party has a problem, we should call for "healthy competition" and "healthy business" in the entertainment industry to avoid bad atmosphere affecting the overall atmosphere.
What do you think about Huang Zitao and Martin Jr.?