Mango Channel released another big move last night.
They found five Chinese singers, Na Ying , Hai Lai Amu, Secondhand Rose, Rainie Yang , Wang Sulong , plus two foreign singers, Chanté Moore (Shanti Mo Yi), Faouzia (Fan Xi) Asia).
played a "real live, real live broadcast", making a familiar music variety return after 4 years -
"Singer 2024".
In January 2013, " I am a singer " became an instant hit after its premiere. On the domestic mainstream video websites, the on-demand rate of "I Am a Singer" has surpassed the previous chart-topping "Happy Camp" and " If You Are the One ". Hunan Satellite TV also replayed the first episode 6 times for the first time, setting a record for Hunan Satellite TV. Drama program has the most reruns.
Another manifestation of the popularity of the program is the bonus to the participating singers themselves: Lin Zhixuan, Huang Qishan, Deng Ziqi, Yang Zongwei and many other singers have become popular through variety shows. Even Li Ronghao is now in full swing , which also opened up public popularity through the "Round Tour" in the show.
It can be said that "I Am a Singer" not only established Mango Channel's position in the music variety show industry, but also opened an era of internal entertainment and music variety shows. Until 4 years ago, the show went off the air.
After that, Mango Channel produced popular music variety shows such as "Time Concert" and "The Endless Sound", and major TV stations also continued to create various music programs.
But in the past four years, no music variety show has reached the heights of the singers back then.
It’s time for it to “come back”.
Everyone understands the importance of the word "singer". The programs produced by Mango Channel are always unexpected. The singer
not only returns this season, but also has a new way of playing - live broadcast.
Live broadcasts not only test the singers' real singing ability, but also their psychological quality and on-site condition. It may also mean that the scene of the singer's car accident may also become the Waterloo of the show. The golden signboard may be smashed here.
But that’s what Mango Station did. The premiere of
's show, social media, exploded. It was the most searched topic all night, and the discussion was overwhelming.
Kuyun's ratings quickly exceeded 0.5, and then continued to rise, with an average of 0.578 and a peak of 0.67, significantly surpassing "Running Man 12" and winning the satellite TV ratings championship.
The results of the first competition were basically in line with public expectations - the first place was American R&B and jazz singer-songwriter Shanti Moyi.
No. 2 is Canada's new generation of popular female singer Vancia.
No. 3 Na Ying, No. 4 Wang Sulong, No. 5 Secondhand Rose, No. 6 Rainie Yang, No. 7 Hailai Amu.
After the first episode of the program was broadcast, the candidate who was once considered to be the most certain singer became full of suspense again.
But is the king of singers really still important?
The changes and ups and downs over the past eight seasons of " Singer " over the years are actually a reflection of popular domestic entertainment music. When music no longer has a "unified standard", there will no longer be a "king of songs" who can "finalize the sound" of the first-level music comprehensive.
music is the best footnote for this returning Wang Zhaoyin variety show.
01, the most daring music variety, with fun base, interactive humor, and "little accidents" to enhance intimacy
because what it does is not just a live broadcast.
uses the most violent way.
allows the audience to hear the most authentic singing and the most vivid scene.
and this. It is exactly what is scarce in domestic entertainment nowadays.
However, when we preconceptionally thought that this must be a music variety show that was "unplayable", Mango Channel gave us an unexpected surprise.
This kind of surprise comes from three aspects.
The first aspect is the hosts He Jiong and Haiquan.
In recent years, He Jiong's hosting skills have always been the ceiling for variety show hosts.
"Singer 2024" returns through live broadcast. In addition to testing the singers, the most testing thing is the host.
He Jiong will not have an accident, but another host Hu Haiquan soon had an "accident".
As the overall champion of the first season of "Singer", he was also the first singer to appear in the first season. I really didn't expect that he would be so nervous.
made a mistake on the stage and made the first joke of the whole night, "Let's drink singers together." After saying this, Haiquan felt like his whole body was about to break, and even his hands were shaking.
But you say it’s magical or not. Originally the most difficult thing was self-certification via live broadcast. Now there is no need to prove it at all. Haiquan has just proved it hahahaha.
Next, it depends on He Jiong's ability to save the situation. Teacher He still won't have any surprises. A eloquent opening line instantly brought the audience's memory back to the memory of the show.
As a result, Hu Haiquan unexpectedly uttered a golden saying: Don't cut too hard. You may not be able to match his normal performance even if you use 100% of your strength.
The audience burst into laughter, and the atmosphere was instantly warm.
The only pity is that the results announcement section is missing a familiar guest host - Hong Tao who drinks water. Netizen
said: It is almost meaningless to announce that Hong Tao is not included in the ranking.
smells a bit wrong.
would like to ask the program team if they can invite Hong Tao to come back next week to announce the rankings?
The second aspect is the interesting Na Ying.
Na Ying has participated in many variety shows on Mango Channel. She is a bold person who dares to speak and act, and has always been a live treasure on the stage.
Unexpectedly, in this variety show, Na Ying has not yet appeared on the stage, which will bring about a lot of chemical reactions.
staff: "Congratulations to our program for finally bringing Teacher Na Ying to the show."
Na Ying: I was a concert guest in Australia that year. When I saw Hong Tao coming, I asked: Is Hong Tao Australian?
Hey, why don’t I talk like that? (joking tone)
final summary: "I really don't know what is good and what is good."
Na Ying is really funny.
said in the interview that she was "shocked". She also said, "After receiving the live broadcast invitation, I often have nightmares , I dreamed that all I sang was 'Car Accident'. "
The funniest thing was when the results were announced. Na Ying knew that she had won third place and immediately said: I still have room for improvement.
This is the first episode. I just want to know what Na Ying will create after the show is over. The "famous scene" comes out.
The third aspect is the surprise that breaks the rules.
Since it is a live broadcast, there will be surprises.
For example, Rainie Yang's singing of "Take Me Away" is actually familiar. The melody flowed from her mouth, and a kind of nostalgia and emotion from the past suddenly poured into my chest, and the past seemed like yesterday.
But to be honest, Rainie Yang could really hear it, and she was very nervous. If you are nervous, the singing will be very tight, which makes people feel very worried. Even the conventional arrangement was mistaken by some netizens as being out of tune.
In fact, Rainie Yang has been to "The Sound of Life" and has heard her singing on the show. People know that her singing skills are more than that.
But this is the charm of live broadcast.
For example, Wang Sulong is the only one who sings a new song in the first episode of "Singer 2024". "Thinking of Us" has an ups and downs melody, and the lyrics are pathos and touching.
There is one problem: new songs are never suitable for singers, no one is exception.
And when singing new songs, it is easy to have flaws, such as breathing and word pronunciation. It will appear; there is also tension.
In fact, this song is full of story and is definitely a good song. When Wang Sulong sang, the voice of Yang Zongwei who participated in the first episode of "Singer" flashed in my mind. There are indeed many, but accidents are the basis of this variety show's popularity.
02. Real singing competitions by powerful singers. This music competition is really amazing.
The biggest charm of "Singer" is that it premiered in 2013. "I Am a Singer" pioneered the concept of a competitive variety show for famous singers - using music to compete, and an on-site amateur jury of 500 people will decide whether the singers will stay or go.
But for the past eight seasons of Singer, one problem that has always confused viewers is: what they hear is inconsistent with the ranking.
One of the important reasons is that what the live audience hears may be inconsistent with what the audience in front of the TV hears.
because of the phonetic modification.
In "Singer 2024", what the live audience hears is what the TV audience hears. In addition to the
ranking, this can maximize the charm of music.
In terms of stage performances, the first issue of "Singer 2024" has many amazing works, which are also memorable for a long time.
For example, the most sentimental song is "Mo" sung by Na Ying.
The audience is very familiar with this song. On many music reviews, this song has been sung by different singers. Unexpectedly, in this episode, Na Ying sang "Mo" again and gave it a new definition.
Na Ying was really nervous. The first half was a bit tight, but in the second half, she was fully fired up, and the high notes directly exploded. But the most important thing about this song is not the technique, but the delicacy.
"Mo" is the kind of song that sounds catchy but is actually difficult to sing. Skill alone is not enough to move people.
The best thing about Na Ying is that she integrates emotion into the technology. She lowers the sound of the orchestration to the lowest level and tries to highlight the human voice. The rich and slightly hoarse tone makes the story come to her face, lingering with the down-to-earth tenderness, two different times. The processing of "Ah ~ losing you" also uses a "sense of fragmentation" to give the lyrics and music a sad artistic conception.
finally sang this classic song in an even more poignant and heartfelt way. The taste floats in slowly, and the beauty accumulated over time touches the hearts of the audience.
also has the funniest song - "Monkey Play" by Secondhand Rose.
When the suona sounds, there is a thousand taels of gold.
In fact, audiences who are familiar with the singer stage know that this song is suitable for singing live, but it is not suitable for "Singer", because it is easy to mobilize the atmosphere of the entire stage and the atmosphere of the audience, but the shout-out performance has audience limitations. People who like it will be very happy, and people who don't like it will not feel cold at all.
To put it bluntly, it is a risk. In comparison, "Xian'er" is obviously a safer choice with basically no mistakes.
But Diplodocus chose weird rock and roll. He was having fun on stage and the audience was also having fun. I think there is nothing wrong with it.
finally talks about the two songs with the most perfect singing skills in this performance.
When Vancia, who was the first to appear, sang "Crazy", I wondered if this was the best stage of the show, but it turned out to be second.
"Crazy" is familiar to many viewers, and Fan Xiya sang this song with a completely different texture.
's opening piano solo and crooning blended into the song's sense of destiny. A change in the middle brought the rhythm to a new high, and Fancia also set the stage on fire. The female voice had a penetrating power and the sound of a moth flying into a flame. Fearless.
This new Canadian female singer is not only beautiful and can sing very steadily, but more importantly, she completely commands the stage.
's two-style interpretation of the whole song, the front and back complement each other, and the emotions gradually advance, making people believe that she is the "crazy in love" person in the song.
Just a few sounds can evoke a myriad of emotions in me. Sure enough, love songs and guava always make people crazy.
But I didn’t expect that there would be a more powerful one behind.
Shanti Mo is not only a natural stage singer, but also a songwriter. In 1992, her first album "precious" was released and it ranked first on the US charts.
Her song "if i ain't got you" is the most standard competition song. If you can sing it, it will be a big blow to the dimension reduction, but the premise is that the singer must master the song and sing with ease. If you don't sing well, it's easy to fall over.
I didn’t expect her to be so good.
's chest voice is sufficiently supported, especially in the mid-bass range, and its high-quality chest voice gives her voice a sense of spaciousness.
When it is in the high-pitched range, the sound is not too sharp, and it seems to soar into the sky. The singing is like waves hitting the shore, one wave higher than the other, surging the eardrums, pushing the emotions of the audience to the peak, just this atmosphere is refreshing ! After listening to the original sound of
, I finally understood where this title of soul singer came from.
She not only enjoys the stage, but also perfectly combines the strengths of a stage singer and a studio singer. The whole song has a perfect emotional progression, and at the same time, it completely shakes up the big venue and directly turns the scene into a personal concert.
is a song that fully brings out the advantages of the singer's singing skills and singing style. It is delicate, wild, explosive in high notes, and lyrical and touching.
After listening, I have become an immortal.
Putting aside other factors, "Singer 2024" is also a music feast in terms of music quality alone.
03. Really hard-core live broadcast, with profound feelings. Mango, this music variety show, is going to force domestic entertainment to show its real skills.
It’s so cool.
This is my biggest feeling after watching the first episode of the program, it’s refreshing because it’s scarce.
I don’t know when, but a lot of pop music for domestic entertainment started to be packaged and post-produced. They like to fill the songs with complicated synthesizer sound effects and unknown samples.
The audience can't tell who is really good at singing.
It’s been a long time since I heard this kind of music scene that doesn’t pretend to be external and is purely honest.
Real singing and proficiency are originally the special skills of "Singer".
"I Am a Singer" reached its peak ratings in 2015. The average ratings of that season of "I Am a Singer" reached 2.725%. The singers who participated in that season included: Han Hong, Sun Nan, Zhang Liangying, Hu Yanbin, Ku Juji, Kit Chan , Huang Liling, Li Ronghao.
Under the competition between these ace singers, the audience's expectations and aesthetics have been pushed to the upper limit. Even on Mango Channel, there is no more famous singer. The biggest enemy in the later stage of "Singer" is actually himself.
No domestic music variety show dares to say that they are better than singers, but it is too difficult to surpass myself at my peak in the past.
This is why, when I saw the singer's live broadcast restarted, I was actually a little worried:
would not have enough celebrity status, and would it be able to meet the audience's expectations of being fattened for four years?
results.
After reading the first issue, my doubts no longer exist.
Because the best thing about a singer, apart from the music itself, is something that comes with competitive programs, called suspense.
A music variety show without suspense is not good to watch.
And now, the suspense is back.
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with this season’s lineup. On the contrary, I think it’s rich and interesting.
Although there are differences in singing skills, Na Ying is better in terms of musicality. Na Ying, who has stood firm through many eras, plays rock and roll and has become a second-hand rose in the hearts of contemporary young people. Hailai Amudu is here, whose songs are everywhere.
Just like Hailai Amu's "Your Thousands of Waters and Mountains", the whole song has no treble, making it difficult to show a big voice. It is a disadvantage on the singer stage, but the on-site emotional processing of this song is seamless.
The singers on the "Singer" stage should not be the only so-called singers with big voices.
's current suspense is that after the first wave of singers, what kind of imagination can the replacement singers bring to the future of the show.
Don’t forget, fill-in singers have always been the trump card of singer programs. Li Jian, Tengger, Zhang Jie, and Hua Chenyu have all appeared as fill-in singers.
In a sense, the first and replacement singers of previous "Singer" have been doing one thing, which is to show the true power of the domestic entertainment pop music scene.
Don’t forget that the Three and Four Seasons, where powerful actors gather, have contributed to many classic stages. This is the most attractive part of the show.
It's competitive, but it's more than competitive. The moment the program rankings are announced.
Audiences have never felt that we are so moved by music at the same place and at the same time.
As for the performance itself, it is not the most important. Who still remembers who was the singer in the first eight seasons? But those stages recorded the most glorious moments of the powerful domestic entertainment music scene.
As Li Jian said in 2015: "Even if you win the King of Songs, you are not. There is no king of music."
Now, the Chinese music scene is different, and so is the music genre. It has been 4 years, and there is no new music. Comprehensive, surpassing "Singer".
And "Singer" must take a big step forward to surpass "Singer".
This big step for domestic music comprehensive music should be taken by Mango Channel, and it can only be taken by Mango Channel. The challenges brought by
's live broadcast will certainly stop some singers. Just as director Xiang Xiao said: "Singer 2024" not only requires singers to have the courage to challenge, but also needs a fixed schedule to coordinate with the competition, so many people cannot come. , so we have the current team.
The next suspense is that besides Na Ying, who had the closest results to the top two in the first show, who else in the Chinese music world can serve as a fill-in singer and beat Shanti Mo Yi and Fan Xia?
Perhaps, this is not just a problem for Mango Variety Show, but also a problem for the Chinese pop music scene and domestic entertainment.
