The new issue of "Summer of the Band" ushered in a cooperative competition. Guests need to choose one of the guest information cards with very obscure tips to cooperate, and finally rank according to the number of votes on the spot.
In fact, this kind of play has been around since last season.
If you want to shine in this competition system, you must be careful in the choice of guests. It is difficult for unprofessional guests to really cooperate with the band. But if too strong guests participate, the band becomes an accompaniment group, and the guests usurp the role of the host.
In the first season, the program did a good job in inviting guests, which were basically insiders and highly recognized, such as Luo Qi, Cindy and Ar Fi. These guests were very professional and didn't steal the thunder of the band.
Several scenes have also been achieved in the cooperation, such as "Erebati" by Xin Ku and Cindy, which has been loved by many fans and directly made this song one of the hot songs last year.
But this season's guest arrangements have to be said to be amazing.
The first guest to appear was Qin Xiaoxian, a comic actor of Deyun Society's "Fresh Meat", and his band was INXS Dalang.
Not surprisingly, Qin Xiaoxian, as a crosstalk performer, knows nothing about rock and roll, knows little about bands, and doesn't even know live house.
In the singing, Qin Xiaoxian became a foil completely. The original attempts of Dalang and Qin Xiaoxian to join the elements of Quyi were finally forced to give up and were not adopted in the final performance. So the whole cooperation became Dalang's own play, and Qin Xiaoxian sang with him as a taste.
Later, there were Shangguan favorite and two members of Yamy women's group. Both of them enthusiastically added rap to the original song, but many netizens didn't buy the final effect.
For example, the story of Kunlun Mountain sung by Yamy and Haya Orchestra was originally a world music with Mongolian flavor, but Yamy joined an abrupt rap, and many netizens immediately recognized the flavor of Phoenix Legend. The style of square dance and the style of this world music should not be too strong.
It's not that Phoenix Legend is bad, but it's the result of confusing the common guests, which makes the band's performance lose its own iconic style and the music quality is greatly reduced.
In fact, artistic cooperation is very predestined. Even Charlie, a recognized "God-given", will not be satisfied when he meets an inappropriate partner, just like his cooperation with New Pants in the final of The Singer at the beginning of this year, which directly led him to miss the second round.
Therefore, it is not difficult to imagine that there is a serious disharmony in the program, such as the cooperation between Wei Liu and the Chair Orchestra, which has caused a very big problem. Zhang Yadong bluntly said that the scene was not good, not because the orchestra or Wei Liu was not good, but because the two sides were really inappropriate.
In the three-hour program, the cooperation between village head Jiang Liang and Mandarin, and the cooperation between six-year-old talented guitar girl Miumiu and Joyside produced the effect of 1+ 1 greater than 2.
It can be seen that Jiang Liang, the village chief, cooperated with Putonghua with his ideas, so Putonghua finally brought the best performance in the hearts of many netizens since the program started. Six-year-old Miumiu used children's voice to add a lot of fraternity to Joyside's works, which unexpectedly sublimated the artistic conception of the original song.
The rest of the performance was either very disobedient or didn't play to the normal level of the band.
I believe that the program group must have anticipated these situations in advance. But if the program group clearly knows that the music quality in the program will decline because of these arrangements, why do they choose such an arrangement?
From the utilitarian point of view, most of these guests are newcomers and need to be praised. Except for Su Yunying and Silent King, the other guests are basically artists who need to be informed by the program. Considering the low cost and profitability of the program group to invite them, it is not difficult to understand.
From the program itself, we can also see that this arrangement has achieved a program effect, that is, it shows the picture that the bands try their best to break through the obstacles and win the game under the difficult problems of the program group.
This kind of picture satisfies the audience's spectator psychology, that is, to see how these bands are tossed, how to "turn decay into magic" and how to highlight the besieged mentality in contradictions.
Just ask yourself, will fans really buy such a picture? Is it really what the band wants to experience when they participate in the program?
Since the second season of "Summer of the Band" was broadcast, the program has experienced a profound high opening and low going, and its popularity and word-of-mouth have dropped again.
For example, the Douban score of the program is currently declining, from the initial 8.4 points to the current low of 7.6 points.
It is not difficult to understand the disappointment of the fans.
However, this season's "Le Xia" failed to maintain the charm of the program itself, and its efforts in music itself were very limited, but it made great efforts on how to toss the band and how to create the effect of the program.
In the second round, the controversial song list provided by the program group was the most obvious.
The second round of competition is an adaptation competition. The band needs to choose one group from the ten groups of song lists specified by the program, and then choose songs from the song list for adaptation.
There was such an adaptation last season, and the effect was good. There are some masterpieces in the program, such as Mavis Fan's oxygen being covered by tour groups and Wang Feng's fireworks being covered by New Pants. The reason why we can achieve good results is that the songs provided are of good quality and fans buy them.
But all the songs provided this season are songs from such bad streets as We Are Different, Love Transaction and Teenager. The band is helpless and the fans are speechless.
So there are many "famous scenes":
Houhai sharks are disgusted when they hear these songs, such as love buying and selling, Dongbala. Guitarist Zi Wang bluntly said that he never expected to sit and listen to this kind of song one day. It was not until he heard Tianzhu girl that he was slightly comforted and said, "This is like a song."
There are also wild children who look puzzled about life after opening the "national wind song list" they chose with anticipation. After listening to these songs, the sense of helplessness simply formed a picture of the world famous paintings.
This arrangement shows at least one thing: the plan has deteriorated irretrievably.
In fact, in the face of vulgar songs, the band's face is "loveless". Although the fans will be angry, the program group will do it without hesitation, because such pictures mean contradictions and topics.
For example, isn't this effect achieved by adapting love business to big waves? Perhaps in the view of the program group, it is meaningless to change a song originally sung by 100 to another song by 100. Changing a song with a score of 30 to even a score of 70 is to attract people's attention and be more dramatic.
Therefore, in the face of interests, the purity of the program, the quality of music and the respect for the band can all be compromised. The band has just been invited by the program group to participate in a competition.
Therefore, it is quite understandable why the wild children expressed their resistance in front of the rules of the game, preferring to be eliminated or withdrawn from the competition, rather than accepting the songs in the national style song list given by the program group and insisting on singing the true national style song "Zhuzhici" in their hearts.
Although many viewers questioned that Wild Children were too arrogant, unruly and took themselves seriously, what Wild Children did was undoubtedly silently protesting the program group's contempt for music quality.
Perhaps their attitude, like the majority of netizens, contains a trace of regret for the degeneration of the program.
At present, Lexia 2 will continue to go further and further on the road of the game.
The next program is still an adaptation competition, and the top ten bands will cooperate with each other, and choose one of the five film and television songs, such as Once in a Thousand Years, Sister, Go Forward Boldly, Hero's True Color, Out of the Window and Light Chaser.
Of these five songs, only Dou Wei's original song and Zhou Xun's cover theme song "Out of the Window" are suitable for rock band adaptation.
So in the trailer, we heard the Mongolian band HAYA lose all spiritual songs "Once in a Thousand Years" and the song "Sister, you go forward boldly" by Dalang KTV.
If it weren't for the needs of the program, I don't think these bands would have thought that they would give up their most spiritual style and their musical independence one day and sing these songs that cater to the market.
However, the program group has the ability to use these games to toss the band, thus obtaining a higher degree of topic.
As early as before this season's program was broadcast, Zhou Yunpeng expressed his views in an exclusive interview, saying that the existence of "Summer of the Band" overdrawn the music market prematurely, thus forming a monopoly platform, which made more and more independent musicians unsustainable.
In fact, Zhou Yunpeng's alert posture has emerged.
Excellent bands want to get ahead, and attending the Summer Music Festival is not only a shortcut, but also a springboard that must be experienced.
Many bands saw the general trend, such as Houhai Shark, which didn't say anything in the first season and actively participated in the second season.
It is precisely because of Lexia's position that its attitude is no longer to complete the band, but to arrange a lot of "overlord clauses"-like competition systems, and the band has to bow to the capital.
In this case, it is difficult to guarantee the fairness and purity of the program.
Previously, the band's off-site resurrection voted to cut the list. In the last two days, Houhai shark parachuted from the eighth place to the second place at an unpredictable speed, and successfully joined the ranks of resurrection, making people wonder what happened behind it.
As spectators, we can't decide the case, but everyone's disappointment is uncontrollable. Just like in the new program, netizens have already brushed it in the barrage and don't want this program to have another season.
It is difficult to predict where the band's summer will eventually go, but the only certainty is that the band's pure, true and audio-visual feast is getting farther and farther away from the fans.