What I'm going to talk about today is the variety show that swiped the screen in your circle of friends this past weekend.
In 2024, can variety shows become popular?
That's right.
The weakest publicity in history, just when everyone thought they were going to hit the street, after the broadcast, it was so popular that they almost couldn't put it down on the Weibo hot search list.
Come on.
There was blood on the stage, and there was madness off the stage
Naying, a fifty-year-old lady who braved the wind and waves, guarded the city gate, and Yehenara Yingzi fought against foreigners
Singers 2024
01
First of all, let's give young readers a science popularization, what kind of coffee was this old music comprehensive that made a comeback after being suspended for 4 years.
Share an example.
In the finals of the fourth season of "I Am a Singer", Coco Coco Li wore a red cheongsam and sang "Moonlight Lover" passionately.
This outfit and this first choice song are exactly the same as when she performed at the Oscars.
△ Above: Coco Lee sang at the Oscars in 2001; Below: Coco Lee competes in "Singer" in 2016
For the first Chinese singer to sing at the Oscars, the stage of "I Am a Singer" seems to be as important as the stage of the Oscars, which is enough to see the weight of "Singer" in the hearts of professional musicians at that time.
It is not an exaggeration to say that it is the real "Chinese Singer King Competition".
At that time, Zhou Xiaoou in the first season said that the show "Singer" was to let the public see what a professional singer is like (professional).
By the way, at that time, it was "The Voice of China" that was sung by amateurs.
If the original "Singer" exploded because it was really professional, professional musicians who have become famous are scrambling to polish and show their singing skills.
So today's "Singer" is also popular again because of one word, true.
First of all, you really dare to play.
Live competition, real singing.
Note that this is not a new word.
The "Super Girl" or "Happy Boy" we watched in the early years were all live competitions, although their various "car accident scenes" are still circulating on the Internet, but it is undeniable that such "truth" is the motivation for us to vote for it back then.
It's just a pity.
Since "The Voice of China" has created one "god-level scene" after another, this kind of "truth" has gradually disappeared.
On the one hand, people question lip-syncing and over-editing.
On the one hand, I am worried that the real live competition will lead to a mess of the competition.
And so for many years.
"Real singing" and "real live broadcast" have always stayed in the slogans of various parties and variety shows.
It can be done.
One of the best.
And then, it's really delicious.
This can be divided into three games: upper, middle, and lower.
In the first half, it can be called "Internal Entertainment Version Opens Eyes to the World".
两位在华语歌坛名不见经传的外国选手香缇·莫(Chanté Moore)和凡希亚(Faouzia Ouihya)一展歌喉,看呆了一大票观众。
Let's not talk about others, and look at our expressions.
When Fan Xiya performed, our Ying smashed eyes lit up with stars, and nodded unconsciously, but in the few seconds when we bowed our heads, why are you worried?
Is it for the performance to come, or for the future of the Chinese music scene?
By the time of Shanti Mo Kaimai, who ranked first in this issue, every look on Ying's face was expressing surprise and affirmation.
It's just that as a senior in the Chinese music scene, Ying Smash, who was sitting there, was obviously very entangled and divided in his heart, and he couldn't help but applaud with his hands on one side, and a mask of pain appeared on his face on the other side.
Yes, the burden of supporting the entire Chinese music scene is on me, I thought it was 5 to 2, but it turned out to be 1 to 4 to 2, and 56 years old (forced) became the age to break through.
The midfield can be called "Internal Entertainment with the Fig Leaf Peeled Off".
In addition to Na Ying, the Chinese musicians participating in this "Singer 2024" also include Rainie Yang, Wang Sulong, Hailai Amu, and Second-hand Rose.
In fact, for the sake of fairness, Sir should continue to use Na Ying's expression as a reference, so as to present the level of the rest of the musicians relatively objectively.
In the case of no sound repair, no pad sound, full open mic, pure live, and instant live broadcast.
After all, the true temperament of our Yingsmash, if we want to be the first in internal entertainment, the rest of us can only be called second.
Obviously, the director of Mango Channel knows Ying Smash's true temperament very well, and when Rainie Yang and others are singing, they rarely catch Na Ying's expression.
One of the few pictures is the corner of Na Ying's mouth that wants to speak and stops, as if to say, "This is okay?" ”。
One thing to say, the performance of Rainie Yang and others is not so bad that it is unbearable, but under the backdrop of the two foreign singers and the Chinese predecessor Sister Na Ying, it seems that it is really not very good to fight.
Think about it from another angle, they can play a role in a music variety show and add a different flavor.
Hailai Amu who strangled his voice performed a deep and melancholy performance, Rainie Yang, who did not pull up the treble, made the hoarse voice concrete, and Wang Sulong, who was unstable, performed a young singer who tried to stand firm in the music world, wearing a black suit and playing suona second-hand roses to show national characteristics of rock music.
△ The state of second-hand roses is quite relaxed
Things got to this point, and the audience spontaneously started the second half
Netizen Dadianbing, also known as "Singer 2024: Save Yingzi".
It's too embarrassing, and you have to find someone to fight side by side with Yingsmash.
The so-called "national team" is actually almost "over 50 years old", and most of them are players who have participated in the "Singer" series.
What about the new generation of singers?
There are many people who are music comprehensive tutors, but there are few who dare to really open the microphone.
Counting and counting, the young singers who can make netizens really trust just have a mahjong table, Deng Ziqi, Zhou Shen, Mao Buyi, Shan Yichun (mainly because of age, they are all college students if they lose or win).
The situation is urgent, "Deng Ziqi, why are you still in the mood to eat noodles!" ”
△ I have to say that the creativity of netizens playing stalks is N times stronger than that of the contemporary music scene
The music field of "Save Yingzi" seems to have lit a fire for the Chinese music scene, which has long been in flux, steaming, and the true face of the music scene revealed after cooling down is like a piece of ashes, which does not need to be blown by the wind, and it will be scattered lightly.
Seeing that He Jiong, who is also in his fifties, is still hosting "Singer", no one has been able to shake the status of "the first brother who hosts" so far.
The inability to fight is not just a phenomenon unique to the music world.
Some netizens believe that the Chinese lineup invited to the first issue of "Singer" is not very capable of overwhelming the scene, and it is not at the same level as Shanti Mo and Fanxia.
Later, it was found that because of the live broadcast form, many singers said "politely declined".
The netizen audience is also really tolerant.
Netizens who have been good at discovering advantages all their lives still try to add some oil and some rainbow farts to this piece of ashes, in a vain attempt to turn the desert into an oasis.
Rainie Yang and Wang Sulong became the "lonely braves" who rescued the scene, and suddenly everyone praised their "courage".
emm……
Sir is not denying that Rainie Yang, Wang Sulong and others saw the lack of people in the show and the righteousness of the temporary top, but this kind of atmosphere of using "hard work" and "courage" to cover up weak strength has lasted for so long.
Is it going to go on now?
02
So it's a fiasco in internal entertainment?
Maybe we can't jump to that conclusion, after all, for music, vocal skill is not the only criterion for judging the quality of a work.
Not even the most important criterion.
Judging the quality of a live song is not only technical, but also emotional, some unexpected loss of control, or improvisation, often reveals the singer's most current state of mind, as well as emotions.
So sometimes, the live is even better than the studio production.
Singers won't fail to understand this.
However, what is interesting is that now singers from all walks of life have regarded the concert as a sports meeting, and their singing skills have been raised to an unprecedented height.
"Patriotic" sentiments are strong.
The "competition" directly turned into a "battle for national honor".
That's right.
Such a result may make many people re-attach importance to the role of vocal.
But.
Can the "righteous indignation" of netizens and the "unity" of singers really save Chinese music?
Sir is actually skeptical.
In fact, the situation of "Singer" this year makes it hard not to think of 2018, when Chinese and foreign singers also sang on the same stage, and foreign singers beat the domestic entertainment world, which also made the audience scratch their ears and cheeks anxiously.
"Sino-foreign confrontation" is not the first time that the "Singer" program team has played this competitive method.
That time, after Jessie J won the championship for four consecutive years, the program team invited Hua Chenyu and immediately broke back a game, saving some face for the Chinese music scene, but not much
In the end, the "King of Singers" fell to Jessie J.
It stands to reason that such a "fiasco" will usher in more follow-up effects, right?
Actually, no.
On the one hand, it was because the national sentiment of the audience at that time was not as strong as it is now, and on the other hand, "Singer" that year did not have as many hot searches as it is today.
And so it passed, and it passed.
Since then, it has rarely been mentioned.
To be honest, in fact, Sir felt that this was a good example of music communication at that time, which not only broke the "national protection theory" of "Singer", but also maintained the fairness of a competitive competition; It also allows the domestic audience and the Chinese music scene to see how far foreign music has developed.
Especially the latter.
made many people believe at that time, "shame and courage", this year's Chinese singers lost in the vocal competition, it doesn't matter, hone hard, and win back next time.
The result?
As you might expect, in the past 5 years, the sound synthesis has been frequent.
The old-fashioned, "Singer" and "The Voice" made a little effort; Later, "Tomorrow's Son", "Sound into the Heart", "China's New Rap", "I Am a Singer-Songwriter", "Summer of the Band"; focuses on a sentimental one, "Sister Riding the Wind and Waves" and "Brother Overcoming Thorns".
Chinese, bel canto, rock, folk, singer-songwriter, rap...... The circle of music categories is so subdivided that it can hardly be subdivided.
But five years have passed.
is also as you expected, the result of the explosion of music comprehensive is just to provide one "god-level stage" after another for those traffic fans.
and the fan-exclusive "invincible singing skills".
When it's time to compete in technology.
only to find out.
There is still no one in the Chinese music scene who can play, and they still need to rely on the old-timers.
△ Can professional musicians go to music festivals and Avenue of Stars to lower their professionalism?
So you see.
A "Singer" can't actually change the status quo of domestic entertainment at all.
As long as the environment remains the same.
No matter how happy netizens are playing memes, and no matter how "patriotic" the singers are, at best, they are just adding some topics to this increasingly sluggish music market.
Expect that from now on, singing skills will be raised to the entry standard of singers?
Apparently impossible.
03
So even now, Sir doesn't care so much about whether the final win or loss of this "Singer" is a Chinese singer.
As the program team itself said:
Winning is just a part of the singer's journey
Welcome is the destination of music
What Sir really cares about is how sincere they are and how far they will accompany everyone to the "truth" they keep saying.
That's right.
"Truth" is the biggest motivation for Sir to watch "Singer".
Live broadcast, no sound repair, and live announcement of rankings, no matter which one, it seems that they are all going to the chaos of the internal entertainment music comprehensive over the years.
It seems to be another "rectification of internal entertainment".
But the question is, will it really be able to hold on?
To know.
At a time when everything in the world can't escape the word "refinement", it will be difficult for people to continue to pay attention to those bleak truths.
They prefer to accept those "false prosperity".
At the very least, it should be good-looking.
In fact, the so-called "non-repairing" music variety has always existed, for example, as early as a few years ago, there was a program called "China is Listening", which seems to be using "non-repairing" to "rectify the industry".
But the result?
Not to mention the dismal ratings, just by looking at the comment area of Douban, you can feel the audience's grievances.
Why should I watch such a nasty show?
So over the years, more and more variety shows have been doing selective truth when they claim to be true and sincere.
For example, "The Singer".
In the third season of "I Am a Singer", there was an episode.
After the competition, some contestants violated the rule that they could not canvass for votes and went directly on the stage to canvass for votes.
At that time, the chief director Hong Tao blackfaced for the first time and solemnly reaffirmed the competition rules of "I Am a Singer": all singers can not speak from the beginning of the stage to the end of the stage, and can only use pure music to impress the audience.
How real and sincere.
But it turned out that this was only "partially true".
A real game
Yes, there is no need to do the following modifications
Just sing what you want
All talent shows
After singing that day
When I go back, I have to go into the recording studio to fix the sound
Television talent shows are like that
So you don't have to take it seriously
Deception?
Maybe.
It's more of a helplessness.
Of course, the 2024 season of "Singer" will be in the form of a live broadcast, which will rekindle people's expectations for "reality".
At least in terms of the effect presented in the first issue.
It is conducive to promoting the popularization of the "real singing" environment, so that people no longer equate "real singing" with "car accidents".
And only true singing.
It is the basis for reaching the truth.
Therefore, Sir does not deny the current sincerity of this season, but to promote the change and growth of the new generation of Chinese music, it is not to shout slogans and play tragedy, nor to create topics and disperse in a hurry.
It requires long-term sincerity, reliable truthfulness, and deep introspection.
It's really "shame and courage".
Put professional skills in front of the heat and topic.
Otherwise.
Today's acting variety show is the tomorrow of music variety
Everyone is so real, real and rotten, and they can also earn the audience's vision and money with "real rotten".
Just like the song "Monkey Play" sung by Secondhand Rose
Who said to play monkey drops
He is not an artist
The previous "monkey tricks" were lip-synching, sound repairing, broken sounds, unskilled and inappropriate majors, and they could all sit on the judges' bench and be honored as a "teacher".
The current "monkey" is a way for internal entertainment to bring out its own rotten clarity and become an eye-catching gimmick and a means to attract money, which can be called "new performance art of internal entertainment".
The audience who laughs at the entertainment children in the country treats the stars as monkeys, and the stars and program teams who stand and earn ratings, money, and popularity are also treating the audience as monkeys.
Who played whom?
Hey, everybody's it.
In the end, let's remember the sweetness and bitterness.
"Singer" was once regarded as the "ceiling of domestic music comprehensive", not only because it was a "singer king competition".
In an era when amateurs are selected and famous musicians sit on the judges' bench and ask "what is your dream", "Singer" instead puts famous musicians in the position of "being selected" and "being rated", and for the first time, the right to speak in music is truly handed over to the audience.
At that time, the singers who participated in the competition, they respected their food skills, and also respected their food and clothing parents (audiences), and showed their sincerity not to fool people, and went to each other with the fans.
Therefore, knowing that the "gods fight", it will still bring unexpected surprises to the audience.
Lin Zhixuan's wordless song "Opera" is still an unsurpassable existence on the stage of "Singer":
The rookie singer, who was originally not well-known, can conquer the audience with his singing voice and become a dark horse:
Even some veteran singers that everyone is familiar with can be refreshing on the stage of "Singer":
△ The audience at that time didn't expect Li Jian, who has always been mainly "singing and writing", to hide so deeply in music (also in terms of humor)
At that time, it was the mutual respect between singers and fans, not the mutual teasing between monkeys and monkeys.
It's just a pity.
Gone are those days.
At the moment, almost everyone is playing the role of "sincerity" and is trapped in this "sincere" performance, they sing "with feelings" and act with "feelings".
to get compliments that are only visible to fans.
As for the profession itself.
It seems that it is no longer worth mentioning.
So today's explosion of "Singer 2024" will indirectly bring back this bygone era?
Sir doesn't know.
But I really hope that this will be a good start.
The picture in this article comes from the Internet
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