Youku's hip-hop reality show "This is Hip-Hop!" The fourth season of "The Fourth Season" began broadcasting at 8:00 p.m. on August 14, 2021, and now the gods of all walks of life have also fought to the semi-finals, and are about to usher in the final battle for the championship. Compared with the previous three seasons, this year's "This Street" has new changes in terms of captains, players, and formats, which can be described as gods gathering, gods fighting, and bright spots.
The selection of the captain of each season of "This Street" will become the most discussed topic among fans before the show starts, this year's program group not only invited wang Yibo, the champion captain of the previous season, Zhang Yixing, who admired the integration of national style street dance, but also invited the old captain Han Geng, who sat in the first two seasons, and liu Xianhua, the new captain of the popularity, these two were teammates as early as the Time of the Korean Boy Band, who ridiculed and pitted each other in the show, and also added a lot of fun to the show. Popular stars must be the key factors that determine the ratings of a variety show, and from this point of view, the lineup of "This Street 4" is more than in previous seasons.
This is hip-hop! From the third season, the overseas registration channel was opened, and many foreign street dance gods also left classic works on the stage of the third season of "This Street". This year, the composition of this street player is very rich, there are like Ye Yin, San'er, Han Yu, Stone, AC and other highly popular players in the first two seasons, the top OG of domestic street dance, and there are international street dance gods like GOGOBrother, HB group, Nelson, and even the elders of the entire street dance circle, called the teachers among the teachers, the scene can be described as a group of heroes, the friction of new and old street dance concepts, the great fusion of various dances, must be a visual feast.
This is hip-hop! The overall production concept of "Season 4", Chinese style, is a major highlight in my opinion. Many people think that the street dance culture originated in Europe and the United States, and then gradually radiated around the world, too much emphasis on the "national style" will make the original street dance culture taste bad, and even some radicals put forward the view that "street dance is not street dance" and "modern choreography is not street dance", and these views have become a bullet screen floating on the screen of each program. However, I prefer the fusion of street dance and Chinese style.
I think that if an emerging culture wants to be promoted in an area with a deep traditional cultural heritage, it needs to be localized, and advocating the "Chinese style" of street dance is a process of localization of street dance. Cultural dissemination is not colonization, and there is no need to break and stand up, and if a culture wants to endure in the change of the times, it must also have the characteristics of inclusiveness. In the process of cultural dissemination, "people" is the focus - so I think the production concept of this season of "This is Street Dance" is in line with the original intention of the show, to spread street dance culture, first of all, to let Chinese audiences know it, accept it, popularize niche culture, and first solve the problem of cultural survival. I can understand that many friends who love street dance culture do not understand the overemphasis of the program on "Chinese style", because the stage on which we are based when we consider each other is different, perhaps they think further and think of how to develop and inherit the street dance culture, and I think that what the show wants to do at the beginning is nothing more than to seek a sense of cultural identity.
In fact, many dancers active on the screen, such as Huang Xiao, Ma Xiaolong, Yang Wentao, etc., are passionate about traditional Chinese culture from the heart, showing the beauty of Chinese civilization through the charm of body language, they draw artistic inspiration from the chapters of history, and use their own unique expressions to promote the inheritance of civilization, I think this spirit is worthy of our "respect", and the Chinese stories they tell with dance have also become classics on the stage of "This is Street Dance".
Overall, This Is Hip Hop! The fourth season of "the fourth season" did not open high and low because of the popularity of the first three seasons, the program group is more combined with the advantages of the first three seasons, taking the essence, bold innovation, although there are many controversies in the process, but this show, whether it is ornamental, technical, or professional, in the domestic competitive reality show can be regarded as a boutique. Controversy is a good thing, indicating that there are many topics worth exploring with outsiders in the circle, and all the ultimate beneficiaries of the heat are culture itself. I wish the show better and better, and I also hope that the street dance culture can become popular with the public.