Text | Anqing
Editor | 9527 Miaogujun
Before Adam traveled thousands of miles to eliminate the most controversial Hai Lai Amu with his own hands, Hai Lai Amu later made a comeback and defeated Huang Xuan.
The breakout competition of "Singer" has just been launched, and the audience's doubts have arrived late.
had played 10 episodes of the program with great success, but in the 11th episode of the breakout competition, the singers who had been eliminated before were brought back to compete again.
Just these few singers came and went, but the results of the competitions of these singers made the audience complain constantly. The 11th breakout competition of
is an 8-in-3 competition. Sun Nan won the first place, Tan Weiwei ranked second, Hai Lai Amu returned and won the third place. The three singers successfully broke through, and among the other five eliminated Huang Xuan, Yuan Yawei, Zhang Yuqi, and Xu Jun are all talented players who play independent music and have strong musical abilities.
After such a program, "Singer" likes to mention a new hot search. "Singer's aesthetic regression" has become the most hotly discussed topic after this program. Click on the hot search topic, and you will get unanimous comments from netizens.
Some netizens complained about , " is too small to look big. The aesthetics of the Chinese music scene has been regressing. Only a few people support innovative and avant-garde music." netizens even complained about . "This year's finalist list is almost the least stylish in the history of singers." Diverse, almost all musicians who can bring different aesthetics and styles have been eliminated during the program."
Obviously, the public’s eyes are sharp. The problem of Chinese music was revealed in the first episode of “Singer”.
Question 1: The general strength of singers has regressed . Since the launch of "Singer 2024", various topics have revolved around the Grammy, Golden Melody Awards, Strawberry Music Festival, and rural stages. Many singers, especially those headed by Wang Sulong The singer is a singer-songwriter himself, and he is very biased.
is not aimed at the singer himself. Although musicians in the European and American markets are divided into creative and technical types, no popular popular singer will have obvious shortcomings in the scene. Swift is also a pop singer and also relies on The quality of creation is great, but Swift’s performance is explosive, both in terms of tone and technique, which can support the work.
In contrast, our singer-songwriters seem to be able to perform well only when singing sweet songs.
Question 2: There is a serious separation between the academic school and the pop school. , why can the audience feel the ingenious skills and shocking emotions in the singing of Vancia and Shantimo. But in the singing of Sun Nan and Yuan Yawei, we often hear a sense of virtuosity that is all about technique and no emotion?
The essence is a serious separation between pop music and academicism. In the European and American music markets, professional singing styles such as bel canto have actually integrated well with pop music. However, in the Chinese music scene, academics have not yet entered the pop music market. It is difficult for us to find tenors and sopranos to sing some pop music. music.
The most fundamental problem is that Sa Dingding cannot sing "Come Meow Meow", and Zhang Xinzhe cannot sing the Internet song "Hanging" well.
The aesthetics of the Chinese music scene have regressed, starting from blindly chasing traffic
And the essence of the existence of these songs is the aesthetic regression of the Chinese music scene. Many popular songs in the early years had arrangements that could be called golden songs. These songs were not just a single chord, and they also had a certain degree of difficulty in singing. However, today’s popular songs are composed of C chords. If it is not possible, just integrate Xu Song’s songs into one. melt.
The market environment has brought about the arrival of the traffic era. In this era flooded with short videos, good creations are more likely to be buried. The simpler the saliva songs are, the simpler they are, the more they can spread like wildfire on the Internet platform.
Hai Lai Amu’s journey has indeed not been easy, but I still want to say that it is unfair to allow Hai Lai Amu, Secondhand Rose, Rainie Yang, Wang Sulong and singers like Adam, Fan Xia and Shanti Mo to appear on the same stage. of.
"Singer 2024" is positioned as a PK for palace-level musicians. Some singers with poor singing skills should not appear on this stage. When the program "Singer" lowers the threshold, it is positioned at a palace-level and professional musicians. The pk competition system is meaningless.
What "Singer 2024" should really do is to keep independent musicians who can play music on this stage.
Yuan Yawei, Huang Xuan, new generation singer Zhang Yuqi, etc. They may occasionally have abstract singing styles that the audience cannot get, but their ability and strength are the true meaning of music communication. The purpose of the program
is to bring niche music to the attention of the public, and to allow academic singing and pop music to develop in a direction of mutual achievement.
In fact, European and American music has also encountered its own bottleneck period. However, compared with the rapid development of the domestic traffic era, the predicament of European and American pop music is still within control. But Chinese music is different. Even the so-called prestigious professional stages have begun to bow to Internet songs and grassroots music. This will only aggravate the situation where more musicians give up their careful creation and study the formula for hit hits.
Looking back now, what Yang Kun said back then was not alarmist. He bluntly said "This era is progressing, but music has regressed for at least ten years. Yesterday, I accidentally discovered that I was wrong and that I was too conservative."
Yang Kun has been full of contempt for shoddy music a long time ago. He opposed the phenomenon of singers releasing music demos for a few hundred yuan on the Internet and being praised as professional singers after a small hit.
It’s not that grassroots singers are bad, it’s not that saliva songs should disappear, but that too many musicians regard low-level music aesthetics as the mainstream.
Of course, the principles and mission of professional singers, and the pursuit of music that they strive to persist even if they are niched out, are very important, but the current situation of "Singer 2024" does not indicate a certain kind of bowing down? Queens, kings of hits, and Internet singers share the stage. It’s called a music collision, but it actually forces the audience to choose one of the two.
The traffic era has its good and bad aspects, but not only the Chinese music scene, but also the entire entertainment industry is under the impact of the traffic era. The threshold has been lowered and aesthetics have regressed. There are too many examples of Internet celebrities becoming actors and singers, and the audience is forced to make a difficult choice between strength and traffic. .
But everyone seems to have forgotten that in the early days, both actors and singers were all-rounders. Skill and creation are indispensable, and strength and charm are both at the same time.
This is a healthy entertainment industry ecosystem, and it should also be a sign that Chinese music is progressing rather than regressing. Unfortunately, we have only now realized that the choices for viewers and listeners are getting fewer and fewer, and they are becoming more and more limited. No wonder some netizens lament that "there is no one in the entire entertainment industry who has not regressed."
Finally, what do you think of the results of the latest competition of "Singer 2024"? What do you think of the statement that the aesthetics of the Chinese music scene have regressed? Join the discussion in the comments section.
