Preface
You would never have imagined that Zhou Shen sang in Shenzhen on June 1, which should have been a high-profile event, but was filmed by witnesses at the scene - a huge number of empty seats and glow sticks filled the scene! How could a frequent guest of the hit variety show and a post-90s idol with hundreds of millions of fans stage such a Waterloo? Is this due to low popularity, or is it another big conspiracy in the entertainment industry? Let's get the curtain off quickly!
First: The building is full but empty
Dream Mirror, Dream Mirror, who is the most popular one in the Celestial Empire music scene? Presumably, the answer doesn't need to be thought about, it is Zhou Shen, a post-90s idol known as the "voice of nature". At this time a year ago, he swept all the traffic stars of variety shows and Yokosuka, and countless obsessive fans had to flock to him wherever he went.
But on June 1, Zhou Shen started the tour of the Shenzhen station. It was supposed to be another carnival night of 10,000 empty alleys, but who expected that a large-scale "empty city plan" was staged at the scene?
High-definition photos taken by multiple witnesses at the scene showed that most of the seats in the stadium were empty before the performance began! Feelings of disappointment, frustration, and anger exploded on the Internet all at once. Some fans directly questioned: "It's too easy for me to make money?", why is it too sparse!" Could it be that the fans have run away when they see the money eye?"
What's even more incredible is that a video revealed that the organizer actually placed light sticks on the empty seats, trying to create the illusion of "popularity"! For idol planning, this is almost digging the word "face" deep into the mud, which shows that it is fully prepared to damage word of mouth.
It's a pity that Zhou Shen not only failed to curb the cloudy decline beforehand, but also stupidly added fuel to the fire. According to netizens, they have frantically sent free tickets for help on major online platforms and local media. But in the end, no one cared, the scene was too embarrassing and heartbreaking!
Thinking about it now, it was nothing less than a wolf howl to encircle and suppress Zhou Shen at that time. Immediately afterwards, the second wave of information soon surged in, making this "empty door", which was once regarded as a small contradiction, completely expand into a major earthquake in the entertainment industry.
Second: Shocking data exposes the clouds of infighting
After the dust settled, people began to calm down and reflect, what caused the haze of Zhou Shen's empty field? The root of everything seems to go back a month before the show.
At that time, the number of people who "wanted to see" in Zhou Shen's new show was only in the early 60,000s, which was a world of difference compared with his record of hundreds of thousands in previous years. For a popular idol of the post-90s generation who was once in the limelight, this is undoubtedly a huge warning sign to make matters worse. Many fanatical fans were yellow at that time: it is difficult to buy tickets online, and it is expensive to buy tickets offline, and we can't watch it if we want to!
Immediately afterwards, a set of more cruel data hit everyone: on the second-hand ticketing platform, the ticket price of Zhou Shen's concert was as high as 3 times the original price! This kind of outrageous price once upon a time only happened to top traffic stars, how could Zhou Shen squeeze into this top fashion column? Not to mention ordinary little fans, even heavy fans have been completely dissuaded.
Faced with such absurd data, netizens couldn't help but fry the pot:, the scalper's hands are too dark; The organizers are so eager to attract attention and make a lot of money? Or is there something else behind it?
Sure enough, soon some industry insiders came forward to break the news: this is likely to involve infighting between Zhou Shen and the record company! Due to various reasons, the upper echelons of the company became more and more unpleasant to Zhou Shen's packaging and operation, and secretly began to make the stumbling block hold back, and finally caused today's empty farce...
What a suspicion this time! You must know that Zhou Shen and his brokerage company are once good brothers, who have been embarrassed and tired for many years, and have earned enough money and fame for both parties. Now that he has turned his face, he has turned his face, and the conspiracy theory of Huang Que's infighting behind him has suddenly been amplified. Could it be that the financiers are really riveting their minds to completely strangle this "Zhou Shen phenomenon" that once made people crazy?
Just when the online scolding war was at a stalemate, there was a third, more astonishing wave of information...
Third: Trace the root cause of the "song thief".
Just when public opinion was gradually getting out of control, a torrent of information like a rush in the face finally touched the crux of this turmoil. It turns out that to trace the roots of Zhou Shen's "empty door", we must start with his music career in the past ten years.
In 2014, a young man named Zhou Shen became famous overnight with the program "The Voice of China", and his unique voice and appearance were immediately wildly sought after by audiences across the country. But in the years that followed, many people must have discovered that Zhou Shen's smash hit "Zhou Shen phenomenon" did not actually come from his original works.
From "Nocturne" to "Big Fish", from "Dara Bang" to "About Winter", and even his latest hit single "Lemon Popper", almost all the songs that are regarded as "masterpieces" are just his recovers and reinterpretations of pop classics. This finally caused an uproar among netizens: Aren't you just a "song thief"?
In this regard, many former die-hard fans have also joined the ranks of ridicule and questioning: What a natural sound! What catches people's ears is nothing more than the results of his absorption and appropriation of other people's efforts. is full of praise for Zhou Shen's outstanding singing skills, but his original ability has been severely degraded to a level.
Some netizens even sarcastically said: "It is estimated that he was targeted by those original musicians who were 'stolen songs' by him, and secretly retaliated in the entertainment industry, so it caused today's dilemma, right?" Before the words fell, the climax of the plot was directly preempted...
The pride is short to say, just when the online scolding war is intensifying, the fourth wave of turmoil has been surging, and the shady and suspicion behind this "empty door" incident have focused on the deadly quagmire of the entertainment industry.
Fourth: A conspiracy of the underworld is hidden in the entertainment industry?
Throughout the evolution of the entire incident, more and more people began to question: Could it be that Zhou Shen just encountered the consistent "cold reception" process in the entertainment industry?
was first held high by the company's operation team, clamoring to make him an idol king who will "never fade"; But when he became completely popular all over the country and grabbed enough eyeballs, the companies quickly "cooled him". In order to seek greater benefits for the next wave, did they deliberately create public opinion in the outside world that "Zhou Shen is outdated" and "Zhou Shen's popularity has seriously declined", so as to better detonate the next round of marketing hype?
This kind of coercive popularity model of "driving high and going low" is not uncommon in the entertainment industry. Some analysts broke the news that this is likely to involve infighting behind the scenes of a big drama!
We all know that behind Zhou Shen, not only the "Iron Lady" of the brokerage company controls him, but also the "sugar daddy" of the record company is controlling the direction inside. If there is a disagreement between the two sides on major issues such as the future development path, then the next plot is easy to guess: the record company will deliberately leak a lot of negative news in an attempt to suppress the agency's ability to operate idols, and then completely control the entire marketing power.
And the "Zhou Shen Empty Field Gate" is likely to be a "bomb" that was unintentionally or intentionally leaked out in the record company's power regain campaign. After the bombardment of public opinion, the market appeal of the agency will be greatly reduced, and when the reshuffle is opened, the record company will naturally be able to dominate the entire marketing strategy.
However, this is only speculation after all. What's more, there is another possibility: everything is just a behind-the-scenes game between capital and interests!
In the music entertainment industry of the Celestial Empire, there has long been a huge and dark chain of interests. Record companies, brokerage companies, fan economy, live broadcast platforms, variety show producers, and idols themselves, they are just core nodes in this chain of interests. Once the rules of the game change, either side may "lose both people and money". So in this case, they will naturally have to work hard to intrigue with each other, and you will hurt and disable.
Is this the truth? Or is the truth far more brutal and terrifying than that? The more we delve, the more we may find that the entire entertainment industry has long been reduced to a quagmire dominated by interests, which is full of countless invisible black hands and conspiracies...
In short, just when netizens were shocked by this amazing suspicion, the fifth wave of turmoil was already overwhelming. This time, the focus of the discussion fell on a more thought-provoking direction...
The fifth wave is thought-provoking: how musicians can regain their original intentions
There are many discussions and debates on the Internet, and more and more people are beginning to reflect: As a natural voice who once swept thousands of armies and traveled all over the country, what did Zhou Shen do wrong to fall into such a laughable predicament?
Looking back on his music career, it is not difficult for us to find that Zhou Shen was a natural "lucky person" from the beginning. In 2014, through the exposure of the talent stage, he became a household name overnight; In the next few years, with the blessing of variety shows, he has reached the peak of popularity one after another. But just when people thought that he would remain popular forever, just a few months later, this "pride of the sky" quickly fell back to the mortal world.
In the past, we questioned him only to ridicule his status as a "song thief" and accuse him of lacking originality. But now it seems that this is no longer the most critical issue. What's even more puzzling is why a powerful singer of Chiguoguo has started such a crazy round of marketing hype before he has completely fallen? Has he and his companies despered with the path of simply speaking through music?
Yes, he still has a group of die-hard fans who are obsessed with him and regard him as the ultimate among idols; But at the same time, there are also a large number of people who have doubts about the "rationality" of other characters and music concepts. A scholar from the country's highest university once commented on him: "He has good singing skills but lacks humanistic temperament, and he drags pop music with classic masterpieces."
So, should Zhou Shen become a short-lived wonder and soon be washed into the long river of history? Or does he still have a chance to make a comeback? If it's the latter, what changes and reinvigoration does he need to make to regain the confidence of his former fans and make those who once questioned him look sideways?
In this regard, we call on everyone to calmly reflect on the original intention of music itself, instead of personal attacks and verbal criticism. Music has always been an artistic expression, pursuing the talent and strength of the core. Only by abandoning the flashy and artificial, and doing a good job of oneself seriously, all doubts and criticisms will naturally be self-defeating.
Let's either wait and see, or look forward to it, to see if this former "natural sound" will eventually make a comeback, and move everyone again with pure notes. Of course, I also hope that the entire entertainment industry can be completely eradicated under the trigger of this incident, and bring the industry back to the track of rational and sunny development!
Undoubtedly, this discussion has gone far beyond individual criticism and has triggered a reflection on the way the industry operates as a whole. Who would have thought that a seemingly ordinary "empty door" could set off such turbulent waves? We'll see where the next wave will take us!
epilogue
The significance of exposing this matter is not only Zhou Shen personally, but also triggers our thinking about the unspoken rules of the entire entertainment industry. As the media, we have the responsibility to restore the truth and call on the industry to return to the value track of rationality, fairness and sunshine. Looking forward to Zhou Shen starting again with musical strength and responding to the masses with positive energy.