#头条创作挑战赛#
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The clouds swept in, obscuring the warm evening sunshine and casting a melancholy veil over the city. The heat dropped suddenly, as if to foreshadow the upcoming accident.
The ocean of music should have been a clear blue, but it was stirred up by this fierce wind and rain, and the roar seemed to be able to shake all reason and calmness.
"Singer 2024" opens the stormy waves of the music scene
There were waves and rage above the TV, and it was two competing camps fighting fiercely on the stage of "Singer 2024". For a while, the entire Chinese music scene was set off in a monstrous wave, and a decisive war of words immediately ensued.
It is not only a few singers in this live broadcast competition, but also the deep-rooted contradictions and estrangements in the entire music world. The confrontation between young online singers and experienced traditional celebrities is undoubtedly the trigger for this riot.
"More earthy than Zhang Jie!" Musician Ding Taisheng criticized Internet celebrity singer Hailai Amu.
The words were amazing, and in an instant, the raging war became more and more intense. As a rising music star born on the Internet, Hailai Amu's singing voice has a primitive charm of earthy fragrance, and it has a lot of popularity among young people. But Ding Taisheng's reckless shooting completely reduced his grassroots music to "tasteless" dust.
There is no high or low music, do not judge by a hole
To put it bluntly, Ding Taisheng is actually using a single aesthetic to judge and examine the diversity of the entire music. Music art should never only have the exclusive "elegance", it should also be like a hundred flowers in this world, with a variety of forms.
Even Hailai Amu himself said sincerely after being attacked:
"Maybe my music isn't elegant enough, but that's probably why a lot of people like my music."
As an influencer musician, his audience positioning should not be arbitrarily denied and belittled. They have gathered a group of people with different hobbies and tastes for music, and they have survived and developed in this way. As an industry insider, Ding Taisheng should learn to appreciate the blossoming of the music scene, rather than resting on his laurels and only allowing state officials to let go.
Music has never been high or low, it is precisely the most beautiful sustenance of human nature, and the most thresholdless artistic expression.
The original ecology is the source of a hundred flowers in the music world
It may be difficult for people to imagine that if the music controversy caused by grassroots singer Daolang's "Shichahai" raged again, would those classic folk works still survive the difficulties? It is undeniable that this original ecological sound from the bottom is the sap and nutrients on the towering tree of Chinese music.
At that time, many people lashed out at Daolang:
"He doesn't have an aesthetic point of view", "Is that music?!"
If he had been dissipated by the prejudices of the music industry at that time, would his voice have been buried forever under the concrete swamp of the Shichahai? The Chinese music scene may lose this grassroots flavor forever.
A towering tree needs roots to dig deep into the soil, and if we always reject or even humiliate musicians who draw nutrients from the bottom, the entire music scene will lose the fertile soil for continuous reproduction.
Polarization where intolerance and tolerance coexist
In fact, it is not uncommon for people like Ding Taisheng to be aggressive and stubborn, they often think that they are the standard of aesthetics, and refute and humiliate musicians who do not agree with their own views.
For example, Na Ying and Yang Kun's judgment on Daolang's music back then:
"He doesn't have an aesthetic point of view"
"Is that music?"
This is one of the great ironies of the music industry: they don't have a higher aesthetic understanding than others.
And in today's incident, there are also netizens who are angry at Ding Taisheng:
"Ding Taisheng actually belittled my favorite musician, it's just nonsense!"
"I support Hailai Amu to continue to develop his own music line, I like that rustic flavor so much!"
It can be seen that intolerance and tolerance also coexist in the music industry. We should choose the latter, because tolerance and respect are precisely the gifts that music gives to the world.
If there is a lack of openness and inclusiveness, Chinese music may only stop at this narrow realm in front of us, and it will be difficult to make any innovations and breakthroughs. The advanced music system of the outside world will always be out of reach.
There is no difference between the flow of technique and the flow of creation
In the past, singers like Huang Xiaoyun, Zhang Jie and others have also suffered similar doubts and criticisms:
"Only skills but no feelings", "Lip-synching", "Show off skills"
once caused endless infighting in the music scene. It wasn't until the "dolphin sound" of foreign singers came out that everyone began to realize that skillful technique is also an indispensable part of music.
On the other hand, the singer-songwriters who are now complained about, such as Wang Sulong, Rainie Yang, Hailai Amu, etc., they mainly focus on creation, although they may be slightly inferior in live interpretation, but the connotation and creativity of the music works themselves are also worthy of recognition.
In fact, truly great music often requires a perfect combination of superb singing skills and creative originality. The maturity of the pop music system in Europe and the United States is a model of this integration: most pop singers not only have a solid academic singing foundation, but also have excellent pop song creation talents, and it is this combination of skills that makes their music works extremely popular.
Prejudice in the music world is deeply entrenched
However, in mainland China, due to the narrow and rigid mainstream aesthetics for a long time, many musicians lack the tolerance of different styles and genres. Rather than appreciating the diversity of music itself, they are more interested in artificially drawing a distinction between technique and creation.
This kind of prejudice has long been hinted at, and the comments on Daolang, Huang Xiaoyun, Zhang Jie and others back then are ironclad evidence. Even the well-known Jacky Cheung has a deep understanding of this:
"Actually, I admire the singers who participated in "I Am a Singer", and I have to judge the judges, to be honest, those judges don't know whether they understand or not
One sentence hits the essence of the judges' inadequacy. Many so-called "judgments" are actually just putting the cart before the horse, preconceived to use their own narrow aesthetics to cut the vast world of music, which is quite a bit too self-conscious.
Only through openness and integration can we achieve steady and far-reaching results
People of insight have long seen this disease first-hand. In fact, if we are forever stuck in the conflict between the technical stream and the creative stream, and have a biased attitude towards various styles, it will only make the Chinese music scene stand still and cannot move forward steadily.
The real road of music should be a variety of genres to learn from each other, blend and merge, learn from each other's strengths, and continue to innovate. Just like European and American pop music, the perfect combination of the essence of the technical flow and the creative flow can achieve the leap and sublimation of music at a higher level.
We should encourage singers of all styles to compete on the same stage and communicate on the stage of "Singer 2024", resolve each other's estrangement and prejudice through positive and direct dialogue and collision, and find opportunities for mutual learning and development. Even powerful singers like Han Hong have actively joined this musical feast.
Only by letting go of prejudices, breaking down barriers, and embracing various music genres can the entire music scene bloom and contend, and finally achieve a true sense of "elegance and common appreciation".
Look at the society and be open-minded
If you think about it, isn't this irrational rejection of different styles in the music scene a microcosm of the inherent mindset of our entire society? When it comes to new things and avant-garde ideas, we tend to instinctively take a wait-and-see or even hostile attitude.
This kind of conservative mentality can certainly maintain tradition to a certain extent, but if it is too rigid, it will inevitably hinder the openness and progress of a nation's thinking. We should embrace this rapidly changing era with a broader mind and a broader vision, just as we tolerate the contention of a hundred schools of thought in music and art.
Only by truly "embracing all rivers and being tolerant of all rivers" can social development keep pace with the times and national rejuvenation be full of vitality.