The conclusion of the Mayday lip-to-singing storm has finally arrived. According to media reports, in response to the question of "whether there is an investigation result for the questioning of fake singing at the previous Mayday Shanghai concert", the reporter received a telephone reply from the Shanghai Cultural Inspection Hotline.
The staff's reply was, "During the Mayday concert in Shanghai in November 2023, the Law Enforcement Corps of the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism arranged law enforcement officers to supervise the concert site, and after verification, no illegal acts were found in your report. ”
More than five months have passed since the turmoil fermented last year, and the original incident has cooled down, but with the launch of a new round of concerts on Mayday, it has once again aroused a large number of netizens' questions and concerns. This time, the topic of "Shanghai Culture and Tourism Bureau's response to the investigation of Mayday's lip-syncing turmoil" was on the hot search, and in the eyes of Mayday fans, their idols finally "apologized", and the fans also raised their eyebrows, and shouted "The rumor-mongers get out and apologize".
But objectively speaking, the storm in Mayday has not settled, because there are at least three major doubts that have not been clarified.
The first question: Why didn't such a public opinion boil over a social incident with a formal investigation result?
There are questions and answers, and there is a commitment to intervene in the investigation at the beginning, it is obvious that after Mayday fell into the lip-syncing storm last May, it was the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism that was responsible for the investigation, evidence collection, and conclusions.
With the fermentation of the lip-syncing turmoil, after the situation got out of control, it was actually not just Mayday's own business, nor was it simply the act of lip-syncing. After all, according to media statistics, the last round of tours in Mayday attracted nearly 3 billion yuan in the mainland, and I don't care how much money they make on Mayday, and how much tax they can pay with so much income has more to do with the people. Once Mayday is identified as lip-syncing, the tax revenue will suffer somewhat!
So the problem is, the relevant departments have the responsibility and obligation to investigate and give conclusions, especially in the face of such a huge controversy, normally speaking, after the results of the investigation should be made public and announced as soon as possible, and a detailed explanation should be given, as well as the entire investigation process.
But the way the results are given this time is too weird! When I received a phone call, who replied? Is the content of the reply authoritative? Why are no formal conclusions given? These are all very confusing, is it so casual to give conclusions?
The second doubt: the reply itself is not convincing.
Pay attention to the content of the phone reply, which is "The Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism has arranged law enforcement personnel to supervise the concert site, and after verification, no illegal acts have been found in your report." In this reply, no violations were found, referring to the on-site supervision process.
But Mayday's lip-syncing turmoil, netizens who have followed know that in fact, when the lip-synching was questioned, the concert had already ended, and it was impossible for the on-site law enforcement officers to record the whole process, and there was no way to go back in time, so how to use the conclusion of on-site supervision as the conclusion of this investigation? Shouldn't the investigation be a technical one? At least like the bloggers who questioned lip-synching at the beginning, they divided the tracks, discriminated technically, and finally came to a conclusion.
And I clearly remember that when the relevant departments made a clear investigation, they said that they would find experts to participate in the investigation, so which experts were involved? And what are the conclusions of the experts? None of these.
The third doubt: the late response and the huge gap in the level of performance
Looking back at last year's lip-syncing turmoil, the blogger questioned the lip-syncing at the end of November, and then public opinion fermented, triggering a discussion on the whole network. According to normal logic, if there is no lip-syncing and being wronged, should you respond and deny it immediately, and give strong evidence to prove that you are not lip-syncing? Blu-ray discs will be released at the end of the singer's concert and other tours, so there will basically be a staff recording and recording of each round of concerts, in fact, the release of the singer's audio track is the best proof, but these Maydays did not do it.
Incredibly, it wasn't until more than a week after the lip-syncing turmoil continued to ferment that Ashin responded with a small composition. And the response did not clearly say "I didn't lip-sync, all of them are real singing", but used various euphemistic expressions, Qiong Yaoti and pain literature to write "love letters" to fans, it should not be such an ambiguous response, and the sentence "Every scene, every sound, comes from my voice that I have relied on for 24 years" was also interpreted by many netizens as his own voice even if he played the recording on stage. Obviously, Ashin's small essay is not enough to respond to public doubts.
Moreover, what is the scientific explanation for the huge difference in performance standards?
Therefore, there are still many doubts about the lip-synching turmoil in Mayday, fans should not rush to carnival, let the bullets fly for a while, and expect the Shanghai Bureau of Culture and Tourism to give a detailed, authoritative and credible conclusion.