Xu Geyang
Xu Geyang, born in 1996, is a female singer who became popular and debuted because she participated in "China's New Song" (earlier and now known as "The Voice of China") to sing "Chasing Dreams and Pure Heart".
She said in her 2016 appearance on "China's New Song":
"Never learned to sing professionally"
"No professional knowledge"
"There are a lot of trainees who speak out professionally... I don't know anything yet" [^1]
In fact, when she was later interviewed by Tencent Entertainment, she was recorded:
She has experienced two college entrance examination failures. Obsessed with applying for art colleges, compared with ordinary colleges and universities, the cost is much higher, and it costs a lot of money to make up classes alone. Xu Geyang recalled that at that time, her family invited a teacher from a conservatory to make up lessons, charging 800 yuan for a supplementary fee, twice a week, for three consecutive months. After calculation, the tuition of professional courses alone will cost nearly 20,000. [^2]
This is an ordinary interview, I believe that similar to other reporters interviewed her has also said similar things, it can be seen that Xu Geyang has learned to sing professionally. She sang in "China New Song" "Chasing Dreams and Pure Hearts" is the best version I have ever heard, more than so many professional singers, singing there are a large number of people who have not learned vocal music do not know the so-called "head sound", she won the rank of mentor Wang Feng group runner-up, the fourth place in the national finals, saying that she has not learned vocal knowledge is incredible. This question I in 2017 on Sina Weibo @ her, she did not have a little response, on the fans said "it is necessary to tangle this, listen to her song well will not get it." [^3]
In fact, the style of "The Voice of China" ("China New Song") has always been like this, in order to rate, close the relationship with the audience, the status of the singers on the stage is civilianized, try not to mention the vocal professional background of these singers, and the other backgrounds of these singers are mainly described, nor do they say that these singers have won singing awards before (such as Yao Beina is the champion of the pop singing group of the CCTV Young Singers Television Grand Prix (often known as the Youth Song Competition) to create a dream effect that is almost a phoenix in the chicken nest and Cinderella is selected by the prince. When two (group) singers PK duel, basically can not see the star teacher on the stool on the evaluation of the two of them have a big gap, the program creates suspense, the last moment does not announce the voting results do not know who wins. If the full score is one hundred, it seems that everyone is eight or ninety, rather than having a score from zero to one hundred (unless there are dozens of people voting).
I have seen in the outer part of the second season of the official production of "The Voice of China" that there are hundreds of thousands of people who sign up, so many people can finally sign up and can be broadcast on stage (not those on stage can be officially broadcast) It can be said that it is one of the best, a large number of singers from professional colleges and universities have not been selected, if it is a singer who does not understand professional knowledge, how many can be selected?
The way to solve the routine of these variety shows can be that the original materials must be made public, or even the third-party supervision on the spot.
The Voice of China
source:
[^1] China Blue TV/China New Song /29Th july 2016/34:40, http://tv.cztv.com/vplay/214537.html
[^2] "New Song 6 Strong Xu Geyang: No matter how much explanation there are still people scolding, no longer want to go back to the bar to sing", Tencent Entertainment, October 2, 2016. Tencent Entertainment, https://xw.qq.com/ent/20161002005116
[^3] Sina Weibo @ Psychology and Character / April 16, 2017 20:43.