□Liu Yi (Xi'an University of Technology)
html On May 10, Hunan Satellite TV's "Singer 2024" was officially launched, quickly igniting a frenzy of heated discussion among the people. This program was originally regarded as an ordinary music variety show, because of the fierce competition of domestic and foreign singers. The competition has escalated into a "battle to defend the Chinese music scene." There are 7 starting singers in the program, including 2 foreign singers and 5 domestic singers. Although there are many domestic singers who are capable, there is a certain gap compared with foreign singers. After the first competition, domestic singers ranked behind the two foreign singers. This caused netizens to complain one after another, asking, "Is this singer the Grammy vs. Strawberry Music Festival?""Singer 2024" adopted the "full live broadcast" broadcast format for the first time. This innovation challenged the singer's live performance. The singing ability shows the singer's singing ability without reservation and brings a true and pure music feast to the audience. In this all-on-mic live broadcast format, the participating singers feel even more pressure, and it also exposes the difficulties faced by the Chinese music scene without millions of tuners. During the performance, the two foreign singers were able to move freely on the stage. With their excellent singing skills and stable psychological quality, they easily won the top two. However, the domestic home singers seemed to be in a hurry due to the live broadcast format. Even the strong singers Na Yingdu said that "with two bottles of Jiuxin Pills, he stepped off the stage and leaned against the wall"... This situation can't help but make people think deeply, what happened to the Chinese music scene?
The main reason is that the mainland entertainment industry has formed a relatively closed greenhouse. Whether it is film, television dramas or music creation, there is a lack of communication and collision with the international community, resulting in an obvious talent gap. As early as the 1990s, in order to maintain the development of local cultural industries, my country issued a "foreign restriction order" and set strict requirements for imported content from abroad. Subsequently, a series of policies such as the "Korean Restriction Order" and "Restriction of Overseas Film and Television Dramas from being broadcast during prime time" have protected local culture to a certain extent and made the public pay more attention to domestic works, but the consequences are also obvious. , under the protection of policies, although the domestic performing arts industry is booming, the works have gradually become shoddy and of varying quality. The living environment of
internal entertainment is deeply affected by the "traffic theory", which makes the entire industry become increasingly impetuous, especially for the new generation of singers, who have long been in a greenhouse environment with star halo, traffic effect, and sound modification technology. , leading to the gradual neglect of the value of music itself. In addition, domestic entertainment is deeply affected by marketing. Some saliva songs can quickly become popular through large-scale marketing across the entire network, even if the quality is not high. In such a greenhouse environment, it takes a lot of courage to let them choose to live broadcast all open wheat.
"Singer 2024"'s attempt to live broadcast without audio editing has given the Chinese music scene a certain spur, forcing us to face the gap between the Chinese music scene and the international music scene. To reverse the current decline of the Chinese music scene, we must face up to the gap with international singers, abandon the impetuous mentality of only pursuing external packaging and short-term popularity, return to the essence of music, make music according to our duties, practice singing skills, and live in the practice of music. It’s time for the singers in to wake up!
