Zhou Chuanxiong, as the "godfather of love songs" known in the Chinese music scene, has left many popular classic works, but the development in the circle in the past decade has not been satisfactory. Many fans pity him, thinking that he should get a more respected status, and it should be more than enough to go to the major music roundups as a decent mentor, rather than appearing in various low-grade commercial performances for many years, or singing a song on the show, but instead being commented on by some juniors.
With Mr. Zhou Chuanxiong's industry qualifications and musical achievements, there is certainly no problem in being a program mentor. As early as 2004, when he went to the mainland to do a singer's club, Hunan Satellite TV's "Super Girl" invited him to serve as a program judge. At that time, he gladly agreed, because he was also interested in discovering new musicians. But through further communication with the program team later, he found that the core of this show is not music, but variety shows, the most important thing is ratings, and the way to decide the winner or loser is SMS voting... This made him unable to agree, so he eventually declined the offer.
Since then, he hasn't had much interest in being a judge. But a few years later, Zhou Chuanxiong, who had experienced a stomach disease and was thin, had a change in his mentality.
Looking back on the past ten years, Zhou Chuanxiong has also been a judge (mentor) three times.
The first time was in 2011, when Zhou Chuanxiong was appointed as a judge of Qinghai Satellite TV's "Flowers and Blossoms".
At that time, Zhou Chuanxiong was already very thin, and the reason why he served as a judge for this show was mainly because of the partnership between his company "Seed Music" and the show. However, the attention of the program is relatively limited, and Wang Xiaomin, the champion of that year's flowers, has not yet become popular.
Another time was at the end of 2015, when Zhou Chuanxiong was appointed as a judge of CCTV's "Straight to the Spring Festival Gala".
At the end of 2015, Zhou Chuanxiong sat in the "Straight to the Spring Festival Gala" to check the players who impacted the 2016 Spring Festival Gala. He sat on the judges' bench and showed his style of generalship, giving pertinent evaluations and warm encouragement to all kinds of contestants.
South Korea's popular girl group T-ara also competed as a contestant, because his son liked this girl group, and Zhou Chuanxiong also took a photo with them after the show to realize his son's dream of chasing stars.
In addition to these two times, there is another time in the middle that we need to focus on, that is, the spin-off program "Return to the Peak" of "The Voice of China" in 2014, which was broadcast on the network. Zhou Chuanxiong served as a judge in it.
There may not be many people who pay attention to the show "Return to the Peak", but everyone must know that Zhou Shen, he was actually eliminated earlier in the good voice, but on the night of the peak of the finals, he returned again, and Li Wei sang a song "Lake Baikal" again, and won the Good Voice Annual Golden Melody Award.
The reason why Zhou Shen returned is precisely because of this "Return to the Peak". The show has a total of 9 episodes, the first four episodes are screening promotion, respectively, selected Na Ying, Qi Qin, Wang Feng and Yang Kun four team of several relics. In each period, the tutor selects the "strong recommendation" players, and then the netizens vote for the "swivel chair", and finally decide the promotion candidate.
In each issue, there are two mentors, in addition to the music director Wang Zhiping, there is also a well-known singer who is specially invited. From the first to the fourth period, chen xiaodong, pinguan, Zhou Hui and Zhou Chuanxiong were respectively.
That is to say, Zhou Chuanxiong only sat in one episode of the show, and together with Wang Zhiping, he selected the strongest bead of the Qi Qin group. The four relics of Qi Qin's group are Liu Zhijia, Luo Jingwen, Zheng Xinci and Li Zhixian. After each person sang a song on stage, they elected Zheng Xinci as the strongest bead.
But through this show, we can also see Zhou Chuanxiong's commenting style as a mentor and the warm characteristics of his personal heart. At the beginning of the show, Zhou Chuanxiong said that he had come to encourage everyone, because he was afraid that their setbacks on the stage of good voice would affect their future music career.
Later, when he and Wang Zhiping selected the "strong recommendation" player, in fact, the opinions of the two people were not the same, and the first candidate in his mind was not Zheng Xinci, but he took the initiative to give in and unified his opinion with Wang Zhiping.
In this episode, Zhou Chuanxiong, as a special guest, was also asked again about the reason for his body weight loss, he also talked about the previous experiences that were lamentable, and finally, he sang a song "Notepad" for everyone.
The show's most notable contestant is, of course, Zhou Shen. As a contestant in the Naying group, he appeared in the first period and sang a song by Faye Wong's "Beauty and Mistake", which directly shocked the two judges, Wang Zhiping and Chen Xiaodong. Chen Xiaodong said that when he thought of Wu Qingfeng, the voice was an "unparalleled beauty". Wang Zhiping said that hearing Zhou Shen singing made him think of Vitas, the voice was terrible, and said that Zhou Shen was the only voice he felt could go out of China.
Whether these lost pearls can eventually return to the peak depends on the "turn" of netizens. Platform data shows that on the day of the launch of "Return to the Peak", netizens turned around 960,000 times, of which Zhou Shen alone accounted for 710,000, which was surprising. In the end, it stood out and made it to the night of the peak of the finals.
In addition to the above three programs, Zhou Chuanxiong does not seem to have been a mentor or judge in other programs. The influence of these three shows is limited in itself, and the number of times he appears as a judge on the show is also quite limited, so not many people may know. With Zhou Chuanxiong's open and optimistic attitude now, I believe that as long as there is an invitation, he must be happy to experience. There was only one reason - the program groups did not include Zhou Chuanxiong in the scope of the invitation for their own considerations.
Through the three programs of "Return to the Peak", "Straight to the Spring Festival Gala" and "Flowers and Flowers", we can see that Zhou Chuanxiong's comments are still relatively professional, but the style is indeed a very conservative type, giving people a very gentle feeling, but I don't know if this also poses a certain restriction on him, after all, he is not good at gags, not strong, not very good at "acting" and "talking"... And these are actually the necessary "skills" to be a mentor.
In the past few seasons of "The Voice of China" before the official announcement of the mentor, there will be a high voice on the Internet to support Zhou Chuanxiong as a mentor, but as the year passed, Li Ronghao went on several seasons, Li Yuchun also went on, and the name of Zhou Chuanxiong fell short every time.
Could it be that his level can only go to the level of "Return to the Peak" and cannot go up? "The Voice of Heaven" is also only equipped with a one-issue flight partner, and is not qualified to be a resident music partner?
Zhou Shen at that time, after a few years of silence after a good voice, is now really back to the peak; when will Teacher Zhou Chuanxiong return to the peak?