The eighth issue of "Singer" was officially released, Tan Weiwei's folk music stage was amazing, and Fan Xiya's "The Devil from Heaven" was even more memorable, but from the perspective of overall quality, the eighth issue of "Singer" came to the second half of the program group, and it was already a little tired. The format of the eighth phase of the competition has been changed to the "Ultimate List Competition", and this is already the fifth competition system of the "Singer" program group:
- The first competition system: Zhang Bang Competition - the first singer performs and competes;
- The second competition system: unveiling competition - online voting singers take the stage, rush into the top seven and eliminate the seventh place in the starters;
- The third competition system: the list competition - the introduction of international celebrities, the starting singer challenges the list singer, and if successful, the starting singer is eliminated in the seventh second;
- The fourth competition system: Ranking Tournament - a specific competition system opened for Shang Wenjie and Yuan Yawei, the top four challenges were carried out, and the seventh place in the starting game was successfully eliminated;
- The fifth competition system: the ultimate Zhang Bang Tournament - a specific channel opened for Tan Weiwei, Tan Weiwei won the first place in the airborne start.
- Hidden competition system: Fill the singer space, Sun Nan, Tan Weiwei.
- Future Format: The Ultimate Leaderboard? The ultimate leaderboard match? The ultimate leaderboard? Super invincible ultimate leaderboard competition?
These five competition systems and the hidden fill-in competition system are too complex, and the significance of the unveiling competition and the ranking competition is gradually disappearing (Zhang Yuan failed to hit the list, Huang Xiaoyun failed to hit the list, Zhang Yuqi was eliminated after the list was unveiled, and the Kazakh singer failed to hit the list). The redundancy and changeability of the competition system of "Singer" has directly caused the following very serious problems:
- 1: The competitive stage does not have the fairness that was originally conventional.
- 2: The essence of the change of the competition system is that the director team strengthens the right to speak in the competition by interfering internally.
- 3: There are obvious traces of intervention in the four dimensions of arrangement, harmony, stage, and song selection of each singer.
Taken together, these three points will form a very bad music experience: the selection and arrangement of "Singer" have a very clear purpose, but the overall quality is seriously declining. The underlying reason is that the singer himself does not have the ability to choose musical expression, and the singer must play under the requirements and limitations of the director team, which greatly limits the upper limit of the singer to a non-professional extent. That is: the public convincing degree of the ranking is low, the singer's ability cannot be bloomed, and the follow-up plot of the show is at a glance.
So from a professional point of view, why does "Singer 2024" have the problem of destroying the competition system but the quality of the performance is declining? Today, I crumpled and talked about it, and the answer is as follows:
Huang Xiaoyun failed in the challenge
1: The Chinese orchestra is not available, and there is no one available for the ranking competition and the opening competition. Had to change the format
The most important factor in the change of the competition system is that there is really no one in the Chinese orchestra, and among the new generation of singers, there is simply not enough professional ability to occupy a good ranking on a high-pressure stage like "Singer". Among them, Zhang Yuqi and Huang Xiaoyun have already practiced their true knowledge - newcomers in the Chinese music scene are really not good.
1: Representative Zhang Yuqi: A singer who is already highly famous as a singer who has studied in Europe and the United States for the new generation, but it turned out to be a day trip to the stage. On the premise that Huang Xuan has released the water and can no longer put it, Zhang Yuqi successfully rushed to the list, but it caused a great controversy "Zhang Yuqi's timbre is stuffy" appeared on the hot search, and in the second issue, Zhang Yuqi's song selection was gone, and he could only choose an unpopular song, but the last issue just joined, and this issue was directly eliminated.
2: Representative Huang Xiaoyun: The vocal genius who was blown into the sky still failed to pass the serious Waterloo challenge on the special counterpart competition stage. Huang Xiaoyun's failure is a very serious stage accident in the director team, because Huang Xiaoyun's fame and singing skills are too dazzling, as the first place in the bel canto major of the Central Conservatory of Music, and showing off his singing skills in countless variety shows, he is almost invincible in my singing head, but in the face of the younger European and American post-00s, he can't complete the victory.
In addition, Huang Xiaoyun's exposure of the aesthetic problems of the music profession is more serious. A national talent at the level of a college student, but it is a market aesthetic of the Internet style, even if this aesthetic is successfully challenged, it is very difficult to arrange the repertoire.
In recent years, there is only one young talent in Chinese music who can take on a big role - Shan Yichun. Shan Yichun's stage has been verified in the all-open microphone stage of Jiangsu Satellite TV's New Year's Eve party: surpassing the invincible R&B singing skills of Tao Zhe, the original singer of "Everyday Day", and the perfect professional aesthetics of highly pop music, academic counterpart, and excellent aesthetics.
But when there is only one newcomer in a music scene who can appear, it means that the music scene itself collapses. What's more, Shan Yichun is popular, her own concerts, music festivals, and variety shows are full, and "Singer 2024" itself is a stage where the controversy is far greater than the strength, not to mention that Shan Yichun's singing strength does not need to be proven, in this case, Shan Yichun did not choose to come. This in itself is also a kind of wait-and-see for the "Singer 2024" program group, and Huang Xiaoyun's failure is the best proof - the live broadcast quality of the "Singer" program group is not high, and it has not accumulated enough experience in the music industry.
2: The "Singer" band is not capable enough, and the singer's repertoire arrangement needs cannot be interpreted. The high-pressure stage of the first weekly update, live broadcast, and full open microphone real singing, lack of industrial experience.
The second reason for the decline in the quality of "Singer" is that the "Singer" program team itself is seriously lacking in ability and experience, and the level of the band is too low to reach the music quality of the same scale with recording and arrangement. Here we have to know one thing: the stage composition of "Singer" is not only singers, but more important personnel composition: musicians and harmonic singers.
The musical literacy issues under the eight issues of "Singer" are as follows:
- The first issue of "Singer": Singer Rainie Yang is out of tune;
- The second issue of "Singer": Na Ying's drummer is in the wrong rhythm;
- "Singer" Issue 3: Fatal Error in Teleprompter;
- The fourth issue of "Singer": string crossing;
- The fifth issue of "Singer": The band pulls across;
- The sixth issue of "Singer": Fancia's arrangement is amazing, the chorus is amazing, and the strings are stretched; Because the drummer couldn't play the drum, let Shang Wenjie change the song.
- The seventh issue of "Singer": The band is stretched, and there is too much ballot; It is rumored that Huang Xiaoyun also chose the simpler "Sea of Stars" because the band could not perform its own repertoire in a short time;
- The eighth issue of "Singer": Na Ying's stunning arrangement, guitarist's stunning Solo, and the perfect harmony of the harmony singer;
The quality of the stage in each episode, and the level of the arrangement in essence, is very poor. It is even said that the director team can complete a great degree of ranking intervention just by relying on the orchestra interpretation ability of the arrangement. And this kind of intervention is not known to the general public. In the composition of music, the accompanist is more important than the singer in the four-part harmony. Because the vocals are only one part, and the accompaniment is the complement of the other three voices.
The quality of the arrangement and the performance ability of the band have the following industrial problems in the case of "Singer" full open mic, live broadcast, and weekly update:
1: The band is not professional enough to complete the arrangement. Drummers often make mistakes. The string group was too small and the arrangement was given too high priority. To be honest, string music is something that you don't have enough people to listen to at all, and you can't complete the momentum. In the arrangement, the melancholy of the strings is too high and low, and you say that he is not good, but it is definitely not very good. The solution is to hire more professional performance guitarists, drummers, string groups, and band members at a high salary. Rotate personnel in two groups, one group for one, which can change the proficiency from 7 songs in 7 days to 7 songs in 14 days;
2: The arranging ability is seriously insufficient, which should be a problem that the "Singer" program team should solve, and it cannot be said that the singer should bear the cost of the arrangement period by himself. Because there is a black hole of communication here, the singers have paid the copyright fees, and as a result, the "singer" vaccination code said one sentence: Our band can't play this complex arrangement, and the singer's tantrum is considered good-tempered. It is also arranged for more than five professional arrangers to carry out the outsourcing signboard of the workers, so that the outsourced arrangers can directly connect with the singers to ensure that the arrangement is sufficient.
These two points mean that singers have become a resource, which is squandered by the "Singer" program team. In Na Ying's words: I can't prepare at all for a week, I'm scared to death, it's song selection, arrangement, band running-in, practice singing well, and memorize lyrics.
Zhong Xingmin
In this way, every singer has become a consumable resource for the program team, and these consumption should be the responsibility of the band, arranger, and music director. This kind of profligacy has caused too much change in the singer's personnel, making the stage that is already short of people even more lacking. Eventually, the format had to be changed.
To sum up, the destruction of the competition system of "Singer 2024" is due to the first live broadcast of the program group, the lack of capacity of the music industry, and the fact that there is really no one available for the Chinese orchestra.