Introduction: 133 days, 6 performances, 57 stage shows, "The Birth Night of the Almighty Singing Family" announced the end of this story about "cutting thorns and thorns", and once again forcefully explained to the audience the true meaning of "cutting thorns and thorns".
Text | Kun Tong
"Respect ourselves, honor ourselves, ourselves who have changed slightly in the order."
——The brothers' journey through thorns ends in a "toast". From the "Stupid Child" full of youthful and childish atmosphere on the first stage, to the final "Toast" that was frank and free, waving, 133 days, 6 performances, and 57 stage shows, all the narrative lines skillfully formed a kind of closed-loop echo in this "Birth Night of the Almighty Singing Family", announcing the end of this story about "cutting thorns and thorns", and once again forcefully interpreting to the audience the true meaning of "cutting thorns and thorns".
Since the beginning of this summer, Mango TV's new creation of this "Brother with Thorns" has been breaking through the bamboo, becoming a beam of light in the "bitter and explosive" national comprehensive market, not only illuminating another possibility of variety shows in an all-round way, but also shining the deep thoughts about life in the program into every corner of the audience's heart.
As a key word that has been repeatedly recorded, interpreted and interpreted, "cutting through thorns" is undoubtedly the most profound memory point left by the program to the audience. At the end of the season, it is more like a spiritual coordinate, becoming synonymous with breakthroughs, struggles and struggles, continuing to inspire brothers to explore better themselves outside the show, and encouraging the audience to find their own "piping hot life".
Do "stupid kid" again,
It is the time to remember the youth, and it is also the time for the teenager
Back at the very beginning of the show, the brothers put aside their professional identities as musicians, dancers, rappers, and actors, and started again on the relatively unfamiliar track of "singing and acting". In the first episode, they were divided into 8 teams, bringing both individual performances and working with team members to complete the stage of cooperation. When a song full of feelings and countless memories is sung again, the brothers seem to return to the green years at that time, the melody is wrapped in the memories of the years, and the round after round of "memory killing" makes many people cry.
The initial stage's re-appreciation and remembrance of the past when they were teenagers has become a firm declaration that the brothers have returned to zero and set off again. Since then, in all the previous performance stages, they have tried the field they have never set foot in with a new attitude, and with the courage and courage to be a "teenager" again, they have launched an impact on another new peak. Just like the song "Stupid Kid" that was completed with all the brothers in the first episode, "Stand up bravely and let it go up and down the mountain and the sea", this journey of thorns and thorns is officially completed in this fearless tone.
It is not easy to do a "teenager" again, especially for an older brother who is 30 years old+, especially those who are nearly 50 years old. At the beginning, the brothers of the "Greater Bay Area" used the Buddhist system of "a worm to work, a dragon to work" to fight against the discomfort caused by change; hot dogs and GAIs who were worried that "there was no way to explain to street brothers" had great resistance to singing songs of other styles and trying to dance; huang Guanzhong who "tried to practice for 0 hours", and Yan Chengxu, who "bought a ticket and escaped anytime and anywhere"... In the process of stepping out of the "comfort zone", the brothers experienced another pain of "teenager" growth.
Of course, labor pain is often accompanied by unexpected frustration, but for brothers with rich experience, these sudden challenges further ignite their fighting spirit to break themselves and leave no regrets. By the middle and back of the show, all the brothers seem to have become accustomed to being re-given the status of "teenager", and they are becoming more familiar with the new rules of the "singing" track. Practicing music and dance over and over again, racking their brains to conceive stage effects, even if they stay up late, hurt, and physically exhausted, they insist on fighting to the end - they are like truly returning to the old adolescence, full of enthusiasm, courage and fearlessness, and using "youthful spirit" to overcome the weights and measures of time and years.
So, in these 133 days, we witnessed one breakthrough after another full of surprises for our brothers. On the stage of "So Many People in this World", the brothers have a natural fit with the song with the thickness of life, and the words are full of storytelling and picture sense; the subversive adaptation of "Dalabang Bar" integrates a large number of dark elements, with a different sense of beauty and innovation; the retro interpretation of the Cantonese classic "Love of the Year" makes people can't help but recall the glorious era of Hong Kong music; "Love Letter to the Filmmaker" replaces the film experience of the three brothers, laying out the filmmaker's sadness and joy in front of the audience. Naturally, the love is deep and touching... These four stage shows full of memory points have also been selected by netizens as the "annual hot singing stage".
On the closing night, after all the thorns and thorns, they ushered in the final summit meeting. The 22 brothers who stayed on the stage were divided into "One Flower Camp" and "Kirin Camp" to carry out three rounds of duels, "My Boo", "Papillon", "Friendship Years", "Sea wide sky", "Stars and Seas", "Existence" The perfect presentation of the six big shows, fixed the most highlight of this stage moment.
At this time, they on the stage seem to have a "sense of youth" more than at the beginning, and this "sense of youth" is not the youth and innocence that has not yet been involved in the world, but another charm of the teenager who can still be washed away and returned after being involved in the world. Or perhaps it is precisely because of the capture of this "sense of youth" that is fearless, this show has become a rare "white moonlight" in the hearts of countless people this year.
Pay attention to the stage, care for the heart,
Look at every life outside the lens
"This is not a variety show, it is several times coming to you."
Comments such as these in the barrage have become the most empathetic intertext between the show and the audience. As the process of the brothers' thorns and thorns has been released one after another, we can also see more and more that this variety show is not only the golden age of those established memories, but also a hot and vivid life imprint that extends from the past to the present and the future.
From strange to familiar, from friends to brothers, brothers have experienced a series of processes such as tribal establishment, alliance formation, and then camp reorganization, and family birth, and they have produced a wonderful "chemical reaction" in the connection between each other's lives while extending their own life marks, and the tension between individuals and groups, groups and groups has thus become the core point of this show outside the stage.
The originally close-knit "Five Sons of the Greater Bay Area" naturally formed the same tribe, and the tacit understanding between them naturally conveyed the friendship tempered by time; the "street affairs hood" led by Zhao Wenzhuo had the pleasure of martial arts and the spiritual resonance of "peace is precious"; and the "Jin Dance Troupe" and "full staff nice" created a team atmosphere of family brothers and an ordinary sense of life.
In order to further focus on the tension between these relationships, each episode of "Brother with Thorns" spends a lot of space to present the daily life of the brothers preparing for the stage show, and the program team also specially designs the promotion of good things, summer night parties, unique competitions, lawn concerts, fire value competitions and other links, so that the fermentation of emotions can be more full and real. On the eve of the closing night, the brothers also gathered as a team, asking each other curious sharp questions, or painting the team members who impressed them the most. The frankness of their respective encounters, as well as those trivial truths, are not only the strength to impress the audience, but also pieced together into a pluralistic and three-dimensional male group portrait.
Under the expression of male group portraits, the program does not ignore the focus on individuals, and the personal trajectory of each brother is fully respected and recorded. The stage of the closing night also set up an honorary title in the name of the individual - Zhang Jin was selected as the "X-Leader" of the year, and Chen Xiaochun and Lee Seung-hyun became the "X-Fire" of the year. Of course, whether or not they have received this honor, and whether they can occupy a place in the "Almighty Singing Family", all the brothers' changes and the other side of them that have not been recognized have been interpreted to the greatest extent in the program, and they themselves have done their best to leave no regrets, and this is the purpose of "cutting through thorns".
After the end of the show, many brothers posted articles summarizing the mental journey of participating in the show, from which we can also see this show. "Like a fish in the water, free to swim." We enter the sea and branch the stream again", Zhang Qi described this journey as "will turn into an armor and blade to accompany me to continue to cut thorns on the road of my hot life in the future". Yan Chengxu used a diary to review the 133 days in the show, from trying to escape to escaping and failing, and finally understood that "true bravery is not not afraid, but obviously very afraid, but did not stop." Zhang Yunlong even used a long text of more than 2400 words to tell the growth and friendship he harvested, "I also want to become a person like them, so that I can become a light that can warm others."
On the stage, every brother has cut through thorns in his own life before he comes to the public. This time, they started a new start on the stage of "Brother With Thorns", restarting a journey of thorns and thorns to meet at the top, just like opening a "metaphor" for another life, which is wrapped in the desire to explore more possibilities in life. Outside the stage, this kind of spiritual power of "cutting through thorns and thorns" has become more and more "pyrotechnic" in the interpretation of the brothers, and thus has a more powerful resonance ability, allowing the audience to see themselves, and under the demonstration and encouragement of the brothers as role models, try to open another imagination of their own lives.
Depart at the end of the curtain,
Write the undefined futuristic tense with "cutting through thorns"
The brothers used 133 days of personal interpretation to make "cutting through thorns" become perceptible. Because of this, even if the program ends, the spiritual power represented by "cutting through thorns and thorns" is still strongly pulsating. Not only that, the release of the creative signal of the second season of "Brother With Thorns" also makes us have greater expectations for the inheritance and development of this spiritual power.
At the "Family Birth Mobilization Conference", the "Singing and Acting Family" signed a new letter of intent for cooperation with the "Brother Who Cut through thorns" program group. Judging from the existing information, the "singing family" may be retained as the core team in the new season of the program, and the story of the brothers' "cutting through the thorns" will be continued and witnessed again in the near future.
As far as Mango TV is concerned, "Brother With Thorns" itself is also a bold attempt to "cut through thorns" in the industry as a head minister video platform. Whether it is the stage presentation that breaks the ceiling of the industry in the program, the initiation and landing of the concept of "singing and acting family", the synchronous derivative development of the series of IP programs, or the social attention and discussion caused by the program, all of them declare the successful test of this pioneering innovative variety show.
It is difficult for us to classify "Brother With Thorns" into the existing variety show form, which completely gets rid of the "routine" of traditional variety shows, abandons the so-called traffic, personality and topic, does not whitewash, is not greasy, is not deliberately carved, and is not pretentious. Just purely presenting and interpreting the spiritual core of "cutting through thorns and thorns" has given this show the confidence and strength to open high and go high, which has also changed the creative logic of previous variety shows to a large extent.
"The Brother With Thorns" is more like a piece of spiritual belonging for the audience - not only does it make the male group portrait in the audience's imagination, but also makes the unique personality of each guest three-dimensional and vivid enough, and also allows us to draw corrected spiritual values in more real touching.
It is worth mentioning that from the planning layout of Mango TV's variety show content, "Brother Who Cut Through Thorns" may be the "prelude" to its announcement of the full opening of "Thorns and Thorns". At the recent Attack 2022 Mango Marketing Content Conference, Mango TV released a number of variety IP in one go, and will be full of fire on multiple tracks. Among them, there are not only the "comprehensive N generation" that are well known to the audience, including "The Great Detective 7", "The Great Escape room 4", "Goodbye Lover 2", etc.; there are also new categories that integrate elements such as national tide, traditional Chinese medicine, and diplomacy, such as the first domestic artist Chinese training class to cultivate a reality show "Good and Beautiful Chinese Words", the large-scale Chinese medicine role model competition "Tianxia Di Doctor", and the first domestic documentary observation variety show focusing on China's diplomatic and foreign affairs work" "Hello, Diplomat".
Since the beginning of this year, the rare "explosive" national comprehensive market has been mute for a long time, and the "inner volume" on the same track has been consuming the expectations of the industry and the audience all the time. It was not until the launch of "Brother With Thorns" that this silence was completely broken. At the same time, on the basis of this "game-breaking", Mango TV is using a more forward-looking variety content layout to continue to open up its own differentiated competitive advantage. Mango TV's "thorn-and-thorn" journey is already sharp.