On the afternoon of April 12, IBelieve Music officially announced that it will resume concerts on Mayday.
The last concert of Mayday’s last tour was held in Paris on December 7. After more than four months of silence, this time they resumed the performance with great care in form, content, and official announcement details. For example, the official announcement time is chosen at 17:20, which happens to be "520".
And it is obvious that there is some intention to restore the reputation. This time the officially announced "Embrace Concert" Quanzhou Station will adopt the form of "no cost deduction, full donation".
This decision actually requires a lot of courage and sacrifice.
I believe Music gave a very detailed explanation in the official announcement copy. This concert will sell 9274 tickets. The total revenue from all ticket sales will not deduct any costs and will be donated in full without compensation. The donation object is the Charity Federation. The funds are used to support needy students, renovate and upgrade old school buildings, purchase teaching facilities and equipment, etc., covering as many as four towns and two townships, which can be said to be quite powerful. Does
really have so much money to spend? According to the pricing of previous concerts, even if the average price of each ticket is 600 yuan, the income of this concert exceeds 5.56 million, which is indeed a large amount. Add in Mayday’s donation of 1 million, then the total donation amount will be The amount will exceed 6.5 million.
If tickets are income, then in addition to donating 1 million, Mayday also has to bear other expenses. Believe Music emphasized in the official announcement that no costs will be deducted from this donation. Basic expenses are essential for holding a concert, including venue rental, stage construction costs, transportation costs for singers, bands, etc. As well as various expenses incurred in administration and ticket sales, etc. Let’s not talk about other purposes. Mayday can pay for such a charity concert out of his own pocket, which really deserves everyone’s big praise! Looking at the entire pop music world, apart from Mayday, no other singer or band can be found who can do such a charity performance regardless of the cost, personal donation, and completely.
Moreover, in addition to Mayday singing by herself, they also roped in three co-starring ambassadors Su Huilun, Ding Dang, and Jia Jia. Since the tickets were donated in full, the three guests must not have received a penny, and they can also be considered as contributing to charity. Yes, I also like the three of them.
But the problem cannot be avoided.
As mentioned before, everyone wants to make money. I believe the same goes for music and Mayday. There is a great side to doing charity performances, but it will inevitably make people feel that they are intentional, especially in connection with the lip-syncing controversy more than four months ago. .
To put it simply, during the Mayday tour, some music bloggers used professional software to import the audio track "Real Hammer" Mayday lip-syncing. The 17-minute video was screen recording + commentary. You will find that the performance levels of different tracks are quite different. Big, specific to the details, the blogger judged some songs to be real singing because the pitch was very different during singing, but in the songs judged to be lip-syncing, the performance was quite perfect. Probably such judgments, as well as some exaggerated movements during the concert, such as vigorously swinging the body, turning the head, the mouth being far away from the microphone, but the voice is still very stable, etc., all make people doubt whether they are lip-synching. ?
According to the law, for-profit performances such as concerts must actually sing. However, evening parties such as the Spring Festival Gala are not for-profit performances and do not charge audience fees, so lip-syncing and other performances are allowed.
As public opinion grew louder, law enforcement agencies intervened and stated that they would launch an investigation. Unfortunately, as of press time, Mayday has officially announced a new concert, but law enforcement agencies have not yet made a conclusion.
Because the controversy over whether to lip-sync or not has always been unresolved, even a charity performance with all proceeds donated still caused a lot of controversy and the public opinion was quite polarized.
A large number of fans support their idols and are happy to say that there will be many more shows in the future. Netizens who opposed it secretly mentioned the inconclusive investigation, believing that this charity performance was actually paving the way for continued "making money" in the future, and scorned this approach.
Finally, I still stick to the same point.Before the law enforcement authorities come to a conclusion, we cannot conclude that Mayday is lip-syncing. Of course, the evaluation of their live performance level is another matter. As for this performance, it is completely charity and they donated money out of their own pockets. This behavior is worthy of praise and encouragement. I hope more singers will follow suit in the future!
