In the latest issue of "The Voice of Heavenly Gifts", most of the seven flying guests who came were relatively unfamiliar faces, and only one group of partners was more familiar, that is, Ardor and Wang Xiaomin.
Ardor is a post-80s goddess, and Wang Xiaomin is a post-90s goddess. Although Ardor has not heard from her for many years, she was once extremely popular; and Wang Xiaomin, who has been debuting for ten years so far, has also been on the Spring Festival Gala three times, but she has never been popular, which has also made many people wonder and regret.
There are so many singers who are not popular, why do many people always feel sorry for Wang Xiao? Because she has two major conditions for a star (singer) to become popular: one is to sing well, and the other is to look good. Good sounding and good-looking, strength idol faction, there is no reason not to be red, right?
Today we will talk about Wang Xiaomin, a singer.
Wang Xiaomin is a Guangxi girl born in 1992. In 2011, Wang Xiaomin, who graduated from high school, participated in Qinghai Satellite TV's talent show "Flowers and Blossoms". She progressed all the way to the championship of the year. Because of her outstanding appearance, the outside world had questions about her "vase" before winning the championship, but in the end, she defended the glory with strength. After winning the championship, he was given the opportunity to sign a contract and officially joined Seed Music. It can be said that Wang Xiaomin's debut is still very smooth.
The following year, Seed Music released Her debut album "Baby Girl Baby Girl" for Wang Xiaomin, which contained ten songs. With this album, Wang Xiaomin won two nominations for "Best Newcomer" and "Most Popular Newcomer" in the 20th China Song Chart. Although it is only a nomination, it is still just the beginning, the first album. However, when we look back today, this is her only album in a decade, and since then, an EP has been released in 2014.
In 2013, Wang Xiaomin returned to her hometown to participate in the new folk song draft of "A Voice of Love • Flying Song of the Earth", and won the overall championship of the show again after The Flowers won the championship.
The biggest gain brought to her by this draft is an opportunity to appear on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala. At the end of the year, she represented the program to participate in CCTV's "Straight to the Spring Festival Gala" and advanced to the final four, getting the opportunity to attend the Spring Festival Gala. On the stage of the Spring Festival Gala, Wang Xiaomin sang a song "Standing on a High Post", showing its super explosive power in front of Chinese people all over the world.
With two consecutive champions, coupled with the solo singing of the Spring Festival Gala, Wang Xiaomin is like a rising star in the singing world, and the future is promising.
However, the subsequent developments were not as desired. After the release of the EP "Empty" in 2014, there was no release; most of the performances were cover songs on the stage of various parties, and occasionally sang some film and television theme songs. In 2016 and 2017, she went to the Spring Festival Gala for two consecutive years, but she did not shine as brightly as the last time, once participating in the group song and dance program, and once participating in the singing of "Unforgettable Tonight". It is worth mentioning that from 2016 to 2018, she played the heroine Lu Xiaoyu in Jay Chou's musical "The Secret That Cannot Be Said" for many times, and got the approval of Jay Chou.
Over the years, Wang Xiaomin is no longer a pure singer, she seems to have spent more time starring in some web dramas, TV series and movies, but it seems that none of them are popular, so she has not left any deep impression on everyone.
Why does Wang Xiaomin no longer sing professionally and does not send new songs? This time on the stage of "The Voice of Heaven", she finally expressed her confusion, and she also had the heart to seek advice.
It turned out that over the years, her biggest confusion was not that she was not red enough, but that she did not have her own work and style.
Although everyone said that she was beautiful and good at singing, it didn't matter; but for so many years, she had been singing other people's songs, and she didn't have a masterpiece of her own. So she said, "I want to have something of my own, I want to have something of my own!" ”
At this time, an interesting vignette occurred. When Xiao Min's words were excited and her eyes were red, Ardor next to her patted her shoulder to cheer her up and said, "We still need to cover songs... If she thinks she's happy when she's covering, then let her cover it, she just wants to be a happy cover singer..."
Xiao Min turned her back to the stage and seemed to be a little out of control. I think that Ardor's words did not comfort XiaoMin, but made her more embarrassed. Xiao Min said that she especially wanted to have her own masterpieces, so it was obvious that she did not want to be a so-called "happy cover singer" all the time! In fact, who would want to? Is Ardor's understanding quite biased?
After wiping away her tears, Xiao Min said the real reason for her tears, not that she was unwilling, but that she "couldn't find her own style" . "I admit that I am a person who does not have much character", but she also said that I will try hard and hope that everyone will give me some time, after all, I still want to make music very well.
Wang Xiaomin's words like this make people feel sad. She is not red, perhaps it is true that there is no masterpiece; but there is no masterpiece, is it because she has no characteristics?
I don't think so. What is a feature? The characteristic is the personal style shaped and presented by a series of masterpieces. That is, it is a consequence, not a cause. To put it more directly, you have characteristics when you are red, and if you are not red, who will care whether you have characteristics or not.
Wang Xiaomin's characteristics in the song world are not prominent, indeed because of the lack of representative works, rather than the lack of singing strength. The lack of masterpieces is not her alone, she is just a singer, and the lack of strength of the company and team behind it obviously occupies more factors.
Many accomplished female singers in the history of the music world often have a master-level "noble" behind them, and Wang Xiaomin does not have such a mentor, nor does he have a strong enough team. If someone can give her a clear style positioning at the beginning, and continue to create suitable good works for her, strive for good resources to push her to a larger platform... Then will you not see a clear Wang Xiaomin? Will she still be in a state of floating and confused ten years later?
Of course, Wang Xiaomin himself is not a singer-songwriter, compared with Deng Ziqi of the same age, he does have less competitiveness, and his grasp of his own style will be passive. In addition, Deng Ziqi had an important springboard such as "I Am a Singer", while Wang Xiaomin did not. In other aspects, she was not inferior to Deng Ziqi.
Wang Xiaomin has sung many classic songs, such as "The Sea and the Sky", "Standing on the High Post", "The Favorite of a Lifetime", "Above the Moon", "Where Has Time Gone", "Dang", "When I Miss You", "A Thousand And One Songs", "Let Everything Go with the Wind", "A Dream"... Chinese, Cantonese, english are all at your fingertips, and various genres such as love songs, rock, and folk songs are all in the list. With her technical strength and vocal tension, she can sing any song; she is loyal to the original song (will not be blindly changed), but does not lose the original song, but has her own taste. Anyway, each capital is very good, and there has not been a single mistake.
Such a cover song is actually popular for the general public. But for a professional singer, it is rare to do so. You see, those professional singers on stage, either singing their own songs, or cover songs of others are also great adaptations. Singing unchanged, no matter how well it is sung, it seems that it is difficult to obtain professional recognition.
This time on the stage of Tianci, Wang Xiaomin, under the guidance of Hu Haiquan, made a bold attempt, including the adaptation of the song and the design of the stage, which was unanimously recognized by the judges on the stage. But after she finished herself, she said: "I am really very difficult to accept my change like this, I will even think that I am very exaggerated, very contrived..."
It can be seen that the young Wang Xiaomin is actually a more conservative singer at heart, she will only use her powerful vocal function to sing each song well; but she will not be like many young musicians, using some trendy, alternative and even weird ways to set up some distinctive labels for her music.
This kind of singer with a distinct label may not be liked when they first listen, but there will also be people who give praise for "ideas and talents", and then get more attention in this controversy, and eventually form their own distinctive style; music has no style, just like the stars are not set, even if it is good, it lacks a sense of presence. Just like Wang Xiaomin, a singer who never goes out of line, even if he can easily and beautifully win every song, he gives the impression of "singing well", without clear highlights or slots, so he always gives people an impression of "no characteristics".
I have heard some professionals say that as long as the cover song does not involve the issue of infringement, there is nothing right or wrong in itself, but it is potentially harmful to the singer itself; because you cover too much, you will gradually lose yourself and it is not easy to find your own style.
For example, Zhuo Yiting, who we were very familiar with when we were children, the most famous Chinese cover diva, it seems that there is not a pop song she has not covered; after the 21st century, she has also released several original albums, but it is difficult to attract the attention of others. If you suddenly want to establish a style, it is difficult for others to accept it; if you maintain it, others will not feel as good as the original cover.
Perhaps, now Wang Xiaomin has entered such a dilemma, and it is difficult to break through for a while and obtain greater development space. That's why she sings well and looks good but isn't red.
Maybe she really needs time, and she needs an opportunity to achieve her transformation. Let us bless her, and in the near future, we can bring her masterpieces and show us a different Wang Xiaomin!