In 1986, Jackie Chan broke his skull while filming "Dragon and Tiger Brothers" and was rushed to the hospital for craniotomy.
After the successful operation, he remained in the intensive care unit, worried that his friends would not be able to know the situation.
Tan Yonglin, who also starred in the film, had a sudden whim and whistled outside the ward to play the prelude to the movie interlude "Friends".
After Jackie Chan in the hospital bed heard it, he continued to sing in a weak voice, which reassured his friends.
This scene is just like "Friends" sings: go to the tribulation together, hold your hand in despair, friend.
And this song also became a witness to the friendship between Jackie Chan and Tan Yonglin, and later they often used "Friends" to greet each other.
In 2021, Tan Yonglin shared the touching story behind the song on the show, listening to the audience in front of the screen crying.
And this show awakens part of the singer's memory, poking at many audiences of the variety show is "Time Concert".
Although the early publicity was low-key, after the broadcast of a period on Hunan Satellite TV, it got the first place in the ratings of the three networks, and the Weibo hot search was as high as 21, and the number of short videos played on the whole network exceeded 50 million.
In addition to the gratifying ratings, this variety show has also received repeated praise from mainstream media such as People's Daily and Guangming Daily.
After the blockbuster variety show "Brother With Thorns", there is such an achievement, and it feels like another trump card.
Ratings and popularity are very good, so what about word of mouth?
At present, this new sound roundup Douban has not yet been scored, but many netizens have expressed their love.
The short evaluation area is mostly four stars and five stars, directly calling "the music synthesis that can continue to live after the singer" and "the heart-warming variety show of mango station".
So, why can "Time Concert" make the official media like it, and let the audience clap their hands and applaud?
First, the form is novel, and the clear stream in the music variety show
Over the years, there have been many fast-paced music variety shows in China, from the initial talent selection show to the competition between stars, and then to a large number of star pk programs, it can be said that all directions have tasted over and over again.
Take Hunan Satellite TV, which has created too many music masterpieces, and has successively launched phenomenon-level music variety shows such as "Super Girl", "Happy Male Voice", "I Am a Singer", and "Sound into People's Hearts".
During the popularity of "Supergirl" and "I Am a Singer", the domestic variety market was almost "unified" by music variety shows.
This year is a blowout trend, according to incomplete statistics, there are nearly 50 music programs on the line. Despite its considerable numbers, there are very few well-known ones, and the music program is exhausted.
In such a big environment, the outdoor slow-sound roundup "Time Concert" with the theme of singing classic old songs can be described as a clear stream.
Different from the common competition music variety shows and simple singing programs, "Time Concert" is more like a "longing for life version of the singer".
For the first time, the show tried the outdoor concert model, inviting 8 cross-era powerful singers to interpret each other's classic songs and share the stories hidden behind the works.
There is no gorgeous and dazzling stage, no intense competition format, just a group of musicians sitting around, singing and chatting in a peach blossom-like place.
However, it is such a slow-paced variety show that makes the audience look intoxicated after broadcasting, and has become the energy for many people to heal loneliness and anxiety.
The healing singing voice coupled with the picturesque scenery makes "Time Concert" come with a healing buff.
In addition to the innovation in the form, the program also added nostalgic elements, such as setting up a link to read the letter.
Each guest will need to write a handwritten letter to their past selves, relive that year's musical years, and share the stories behind classic masterpieces.
In the first program, when Tan Yonglin read her letter to herself in 1985, it not only reminded other musicians of that year, but also brought us back to the fan years of many years ago.
In the show, the guests and the audience seem to take a "time machine", follow the letters, jump to 1985, 1992, 1996, 2004, 2010, 2019...
Using letters as a carrier to connect different eras, the program has formed a richer emotional background.
As Ren Yang, the show's producer, said in an interview, the letter allows the singer to calm down and do a serious thought, and also avoids the singer from delaying the main line of music because of the story.
Judging from the first two episodes currently broadcast, the show is soothing and flat, there are no big ups and downs, although it lacks a large degree of dramatic tension, but it also contains temperature and power.
For audiences who are accustomed to watching competitive music variety shows, this unique program model naturally gained a wave of goodwill.
Second, cross-era singers help, and the music story resonates
As we all know, a music variety show that wants to look good must be indispensable to professional singers, and "Time Concert" has gathered many powerful singers in the Chinese music scene.
Tan Yonglin, Liao Changyong, Lin Zhixuan, Li Keqin, Xu Ruyun, Zhang Jie, Phoenix Legend, Yu Kewei, each of them is a representative musician of all ages.
When these idols who carry many post-80s and post-90s youths appear again to perform the immortal golden song, it is difficult not to trigger the boiling of the audience and netizens, and directly call "Grandpa Qinghui"!
Principal Tam Wing Lin is the longest-active guest in the show and has the largest audience of all ages.
As the first singer to "travel through time" in the first episode of the show, he chose to go back to 1985, and a song "Friends" opened up the time memories of listeners.
The second program features Tam Wing Lin sitting on the throne, and other musicians reinterpret the principal's golden songs of different eras.
In the letters and memories of the singers, we learned the story of their association with Tan Yonglin's songs, which were moving and touching.
Li Keqin, who participated in the recording as a "time friend", is a loyal fan of Tan Yonglin and a friend for many years.
18 years ago, the duo's "Left Lin Right Lee" group achieved many successes and held hundreds of concert tours around the world.
Now that the "Left Lin Right Li" has been reunited, so that everyone can collectively break the defense, Tan Yonglin is even more moved to tears by Li Keqin's singing.
The guests present were all warmed by this yearless friendship, and Yu Kewei cried until he could not help himself, and his eyes were red with tears.
Li Keqin chose to sing "The Favorite of My Life" to pay tribute to Tan Yonglin, jumped off the stage directly in the middle of the singing, and sang with the principal, and many netizens were poked hard by the tacit understanding of "Left Lin Right Li".
Tan Yonglin has too many familiar golden songs, in addition to Li Keqin, other guests also chose several songs related to their time to perform.
"Prince of Love Songs" Lin Zhixuan sang the Cantonese version of "The Roots of Love", returning to his 18th age.
That year, he saw the movie "Gentleman Good" starring his dream lover Lin Qingxia, and he also heard the song sung by the male protagonist Tan Yonglin in the film for the first time, and he was envious.
It can be said that "Time Concert" has made the audience resonate with the music and stories in the program and immerse themselves in it.
Third, the behind-the-scenes production team is luxurious and powerful, and the adaptation of golden songs is surprising
In 2018, a music reality show has achieved impressive results since its inception, with ratings and word-of-mouth flying together, and official media such as People's Daily have also praised it.
This variety show that received a high score of 9.2 in Douban is "Sound into People's Hearts".
The success of "Sound into People's Hearts" is not only inseparable from the behind-the-scenes team of the show, in addition to the contestants' "high value, high education, and high literacy" to obtain topics and traffic.
This treasure team is the Ren Yang team, and they have also successfully created many music programs such as "Who is the Treasure Singer" and "Ode to the Earth".
"Time Concert" is also created by the team, and from the perspective of the effect of broadcasting, it still maintains the high-quality output of the past.
In addition, "Time Concert" also has a top music team.
Music director Arai Eleven won the Golden Melody Award for Best Producer for the first time with the album "Not Scattered, Not Seen" produced for Karen Mok.
After that, he wrote works for popular musicians such as Chen Rei, Su Yunying, A-lin, Lin Youjia, Xu Jun, Chen Chusheng, Yi Qianxi, Cai Xukun and other popular musicians.
Gu Zhongshan, the director of the band, is the most influential jazz guitarist and composer in China.
Violinist Liu Xingmaru, bassist damien banzigou, keyboardist Liu Xiaoguang, guitarist Hu Chen and other well-known musicians in the industry have formed this top music team.
Under the support of a strong production team, the golden song was given a new life, rather than being adapted for the sake of adaptation.
In the first episode, a number of popular masterpieces were adapted refreshingly.
Li Keqin's "Red Sun" has been reinterpreted with more cheerful and playful, Lin Zhixuan's "Tears of the Mona Lisa" has been adapted into Apanish playing style, and the Phoenix Legend Gypsy Girl version of "Above the Moon" and so on.
Top singers coupled with a new adaptation of the live band, such a musical configuration is not at all lost to the music variety show in the studio.
In the post-epidemic era, people prefer to watch variety shows that are warm and stress-relieving. And "Time Concert" appears in the style of musical healing at the right time, catering to the audience's psychological demand for healing.
Judging from the preview of the next issue released by the show, Phoenix Legend will become the owner of the third phase, and at the same time, there are heavy joins from Ren Xianqi and Wang Sutaki, which seems to have added a lot of surprises to the show.
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