The much-anticipated second episode of "Singer" will be aired tonight. Do you plan to watch it? As a "palace-level stage" for domestic music variety shows that once resisted the trend of refinement of sound editing and mixing, "Singer" has several major highlights: the lack of so

As a domestic music variety "palace stage" that once resisted the trend of refinement of sound editing and mixing, "Singer" has several major highlights: no sound editing, the singer lineup, and the later stages of the show. Now that it has restarted after four years, "Singer" has added another major attraction, "live broadcast", which should attract the collective attention of music fans and music critics.

However, as you can see, the focus of the audience is not on the stage, but on the controversy of "who else domestic singers can send to fight against foreign singers?" And all this stems from the first episode of the restart of "Singer". The performance of several foreign singers "instantly beat" domestic singers except Na Ying, which made the audience tense.

So, is "Singer" really worth watching? Among the list of "self-recommended" and "citizen-recommended" singers on the Internet, who can save the show's watchability? Let’s talk today.

Disseminate excellent music through mainstream channels

Give the audience the right to choose aesthetics

The results of the first phase of the "Singer" competition, the top two are American soul singer Chante Moore, and the new generation European and American singer Faouzia born in the 2000s. On a live broadcast stage that emphasizes basic singing skills and the ability to perform on the spot, the two foreign singers are obviously better able to enter the "performance state", allowing their bodies to rhythm with the song itself, and stimulating the audience's emotions.

Even a lay audience who doesn’t understand music can see this through the screen.

So the first point of controversy after the broadcast of "Singer" is: in the face of such a one-sided result, whether it is "the poor performance of the first singer" or "the lineup of these domestic singers is too weak", it has been fully exposed At present, compared with the European and American music scene, which has a larger music market, the Chinese music scene lags behind in terms of aesthetics and basic skills of singers.

But precisely because "everyone can see it", it makes unmodified live TV programs like "Singer" valuable.

In an era when online streaming media is popular, audiences generally accept that editing, editing, and post-recording in music programs are "routine operations." Hunan Satellite TV, as one of the leaders of domestic TV stations, presents a real live broadcast program that allows the singer's flaws to be exposed on a gradually declining "mainstream channel" such as television. It is indeed a bold and epoch-making attempt.

"Leave aesthetic choices to the audience." Have you and I not heard words like this for a long time?

It is not difficult to imagine that after the first episode of "Singer" was broadcast, the first reaction of many viewers was "shameful" and "is this just the Chinese music scene?" But this "shameful" feeling just proves the necessity of the existence of this kind of music program.

Aesthetics are not developed in a day. Aesthetics needs to expose the truth and discover gems from good and bad things.

Then the question is

Where is the next gem that can be featured in "Singer"

In 2014, 23-year-old Deng Ziqi starred in "I Am a Singer Season 2" as the first singer. With his song "Bubble", he became famous all over the country and finally won the Runner-up in the finals.

In 2015, Li Ronghao, who had previously been a behind-the-scenes worker, became a featured singer in "I Am a Singer Season 3". Although the song "Model" was not successful, Han Hong said "You are popular" at that time. After that, many songs composed by Li Ronghao himself were also known to many fans.

Although in a palace-level music variety show like "Singer", "uncovering new talents" is not the biggest goal of the program, the audience generally loves to watch the stunning narrative of "emerging from the sky" and "a hidden gem in the ocean". It is estimated that "Singer" The program team is also well versed in this and will add fresh settings in subsequent matches. What is unexpected is that before the "treasure new talent" has appeared, the Internet has spontaneously launched a marathon of self-recommended and popular singers "I want to be on "Singer"".

's first self-recommended list includes national singer Han Hong, who has already won the championship of "I Am a Singer Season 3", and "born singer" a who stunned the audience with "Give Me a Reason to Forget" in the same season. -lin, as well as powerful singers such as Li Jiawei, Liu Meilin, Jiang Yingrong, and Zeng Yiming.The various "declarations" of the

singers and the program crew's responses set off the first wave of off-site enthusiasm after the program was broadcast.

Of course, the more exciting thing is the "list of popular singers". Jacky Cheung, Eason Chan, Lin Yilian and other "great stars" who rarely participate in competitive variety shows were once again brought out by netizens. In addition, long-established national singers such as Sa Dingding, Phoenix Legend, and Lin Zhixuan seem to be on the "list to be invited."

As for the representatives of the new generation of singers, there are Ma Jiaqi, the leader of the Youth Team of the Times, who was shouted by Na Ying in the program, "You should come here to exercise", and Ma Jiaqi, who gained countless fans in Hunan Satellite TV's music variety show "The Sound" two years ago. Shan Yichun, a female singer born in the 2000s.

seems to be a very lively and popular "Internet job-pulling operation", but it actually hides a tacit fact that everyone knows: whether they are self-recommended or nominated singers, people believe that in this "phonic modification is commonplace" "In the era of music and entertainment where "post-editing is a common practice", there are excellent candidates who are able to withstand the challenge of "Singer" being broadcast live without editing.

Since the first episode was aired and felt "embarrassing", the audience's psychological expectation for subsequent programs must be to "invite some domestic singers who are not embarrassing". How to do it without being embarrassed? Isn't it because the singers can withstand the test of "real live"?

It should be said that netizens are spontaneously resisting the phenomenon of "bad money driving out good money" in the Chinese music scene. In the era of popular celebrities, if the audience generally has a full understanding of the empty persona of the "perfect idol", they will naturally have an encouraging force towards singers who can sing well.

If the "Singer" program team realizes the value of this power, I believe the emergence of the next "jewel" is not far away.

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Please focus on "enjoying music"

However, before the second episode of "Singer" was aired, the trend of "singers asking for competition" on the Internet has gradually gone astray.

Netizens originally ridiculed such innocuous Internet memes as "a 50-year-old woman (Na Ying) is guarding the country", "Grammy vs. Strawberry Music Festival", "music variety has become an international championship", etc., but gradually evolved into "discussing national borders". "the behavior of.

But among them, comments such as "We are the Chinese singer Hanggai Band!" "As a national rock band, it's time to step up!" Although they cater to this wave of Internet memes, they will still make the audience Shift attention to the direction of public opinion of "Chinese singers versus foreign singers."

In competitive music variety shows, it is certainly a good thing to have a "sense of competition". But after the first episode of "Singer" was broadcast, everyone in the audience understood that compared to the relaxed performances of the two foreign singers, our domestic singers were still too tight. The source of the tension may be a "desire to win" and the aesthetic differences caused by the different training systems in the music industry at home and abroad.

How to enjoy music while singing and lead the audience to enjoy music at the same time should be the singer's performance that we are most looking forward to seeing in this program that focuses on music and art.

After all, the restart of "Singer" after four years is of course a welcome thing for those who like music and enjoy the music stage.