□ Li Haoyun (Changsha University of Science and Technology)
Recently, the broadcast configuration and lineup of "Singer 2024" have triggered heated discussions among netizens - the top-notch vocal configuration, a lineup of powerful Chinese and foreign singers, and are different from previous recordings and broadcasts , this season's "Singer" uses a full live broadcast format, which extremely tests the guests' live performance. When the two foreign singers showed particularly outstanding strength, netizens were sweating for Na Ying, the most recognized among Chinese singers. Na Ying and the Empress Dowager Cixi have the same surname "Yehenala". Netizens jokingly called this season of "Singer" "Yehenala guards the country."
However, as public opinion continued to ferment, netizens became more and more nervous and began to "shake people" on the Internet, hoping to find more singers who could "fight" to "aid" Na Ying. The "Yehenala defends the country" slogan has gradually evolved into a manifestation of the "battle of victory and defeat" between domestic and foreign countries, and the sense of confrontation has gradually overshadowed the beauty of this music festival.
Of course, this sentiment is not the "unreasonable" behavior of netizens. The results of each episode of the program are displayed in the form of rankings. With rankings, a sense of competition will naturally arise. In addition, the foreign singers invited this time contributed excellent stage performances, which gave the audience higher expectations for domestic singers and hoped to better showcase our country's music culture. And when domestic singers make even the slightest mistake under heavy pressure, it will cause a lot of dissatisfaction among the audience who are in high expectations. Such emotions continue to spread and accumulate on the Internet and infect each other, gradually turning this supposedly "beautiful and beautiful show together." "The music festival was divided into two "camps" - "China" and "foreign countries", which invisibly built a "national border" barrier for music, allowing the sense of confrontation to cover up the beauty of music.
Although we can understand where people's sense of confrontation comes from, this does not mean that the sense of confrontation is correct. French composer Debussy once said: "Music is a passionate free art, an outdoor art, as boundless as nature, like the wind, like the sky, like the ocean." Music is an art common to the world, and is a different art. The "language" circulating in the spiritual world of people from different regions and backgrounds is a unified communication medium based on different languages in the real world. Inviting such outstanding foreign singers should allow us to see a broader world and see more diverse and beautiful music and art, instead of narrowly limiting our vision to the winning and losing, and the level of foreign singers and Chinese singers.
Some people may be dissatisfied and angry with domestic singers because of their superb standards and "show off skills", or even personal attacks. But we should also see that they who are on the stage experience the strength of foreign singers more personally than we do. They are willing to participate in live broadcasts and want to perform better than any of us. This also brings them She was under great pressure - as a veteran, after finishing singing, Na Ying put her hand on her chest and exhaled deeply. Under such pressure, several domestic singers still completed their stage steadily and tried their best to bring the audience into the country of music. Perhaps some of these mistakes will cause us to be dissatisfied, but we should also discuss them rationally, instead of indignantly "shaking people" and demanding replacement of singers, elevating the singers to "soldiers" who "fight for the country", and turning a musical feast into a feast of music. Alienation has become a musical "confrontation" between different countries. Too extreme thinking is not helpful to our music scene. Such a sense of confrontation will only blind the window of our souls for appreciating music and dim the beauty of music.
As the official Weibo of Hunan Satellite TV's "Singer" said: "Winning is just a part of the journey for a singer. Welcome is the destination of music." "Welcome" excellent singing in, let our singing sing out, and forget about winning or losing. , let go of confrontation, share the beauty of music, and embrace the colorful world. This is the true meaning of "Singer".
