Entertaining Children

  Chapter 293 Advantages of the Korean Group

  In this life, China and South Korea also have a "Hua-Han Song Meeting" similar to the "China-Korean Song Meeting" in the previous life. "Hua Han Song Festival" is a multinational pop music event jointly organized by China CCTV and South Korea's National Television Station. It is held in China and South Korea alternately every year. In the previous song conferences, both China and South Korea will have their respective domestic first-line big-name singers appearing, with a strong lineup. Since its launch, it has maintained a very good ratings and attention.

  But like the Spring Festival Gala, this kind of song also has a certain ZZ meaning in it. Therefore, there are many restrictions on the selection of singers and the whole process. In terms of singer selection, singers with relatively low qualifications and short debut time are seldom qualified to be on the stage that represents the country. Therefore, compared with popular variety shows, they lack a lot of timeliness and entertainment.

  In the Korean pop music circle in recent years, various idol groups have been popular. The Korean stars that have received the most attention in China are not only the actors in Korean dramas, but also these Korean idol groups. These men’s and women’s groups are going out in a stubborn stubborn, and the speed of replacement is relatively fast, so they don’t seem to be qualified to be on the stage of the song because of the lack of precipitation. In addition, as more than a dozen programs have passed, people I am no longer satisfied with simply counting the stars at the "Song Club". Therefore, the program groups of the Chinese and Korean TV stations that held the song have produced a derivative program such as "Cool Electronic Music".

  This show was born to make up for the shortcomings of the "Hua Han Song Hui". First of all, in terms of the format of the program, compared to the "Song Club" which is a simple concert, this is a music variety show with a total of ten episodes and lasting more than two months, which can gain attention for a long time. In terms of music genre, the more trendy electronic music is also selected. In terms of singer selection and mode, it adopts the mode of using the Mesozoic first-line big-name singers as the captain and leading their respective team members to PK. The audience selects a champion song in each period, and finally gathers all the champion songs together. Hold a championship night concert.

  This show is the first season of this year. The four captains are also carefully selected first-line big-name singers who have a certain reputation in Asia.

  In South Korea, the two captains are former idol group member Goo Sung Hyun and Park Dae Sung of the stage name SKY. On the Chinese side, singers Sha Zhou and Wan Peiling, who have become quasi-tianwang queen-level singers.

  Gu Sung-hyun is a member of ET, a popular Korean idol group in Asia more than ten years ago. After the group disbanded five years ago, the 30-year-old Gu Sung-hyun also turned to become a producer behind the scenes. However, with the accumulation in the group over the past ten years, he still has a very good reputation and popularity.

  Park Dae-sung, whose stage name is SKY, is the opposite of Gu Sung-hyun. He graduated from the Boston School of Popular Music in the United States. He has been engaged in the work of music creation and producer since the beginning. Although he has also released original songs and albums, he is a very good behind-the-scenes musician due to physical limitations. As a singer, he has always been tepid, until last year his divine comedy with funny dance "KPOPSTYLE" became popular in South Korea and even Asia, and even appeared on the American Grammy stage as a guest performer. The identity of a singer has become popular all over the world.

  Compared with the two Korean captains, the two captains of China are not bad.

  Wan Peiling made her debut at China CCTV’s "Young Singers Competition" and won the championship of that year's "Young Singing Competition" in one fell swoop. As a pop singer, she is also proficient in bel canto, and is one of the few Chinese female singers who have been invited to hold a concert in Vienna's Golden Symphony Hall in her thirties.

  Shazhou is also a singer who has won international awards. He once represented China in Europe and won the gold medal in the International Pop Song Contest at the International Music Festival held in Europe, and was once famous internationally. At present, he has not only become a big-name singer among Mesozoic male singers in China, but also has a certain reputation in the European music scene.

  The new program has a new music format and program mode. The four captains are all Mesozoic big coffees in their thirties, and their team members are also newly emerging singers and groups in their twenties. This program is broadcast by both China and South Korea’s TV stations, and it is also a good opportunity to show fans of the other country’s newcomers. It was originally an opportunity for the two countries to promote each other's newcomers, but after five episodes of the show were recorded, the situation has been seriously tilted, and there is a feeling of one-sidedness.

  On the one hand, the two captains of South Korea both have rich experience in behind-the-scenes production and are also very good at arranging and scoring. However, the two captains of China are good at singing skills in front of the stage. Although they have also brought in their own team of producers, they are indeed in line with the two Koreans in terms of arrangement, soundtrack and overall stage performance. There is a certain gap.

  On the other hand, it is the popularity and development of electronic music. Korea was originally earlier than China. Korean music is originally dance music. Although electronic music does not only refer to electronic dance music, it is undeniable that dance music is still the most impressive and heard music genre of electronic music.

  Finally, it’s the personnel aspect. Korean newcomers mostly make their debuts in groups. The four teams of the two South Korean captains are directly the three men's teams and one women's team that have recently emerged in South Korea. Although some Chinese netizens once ridiculed South Korea’s trainee system, which made the stars of these Korean groups look like products coming off the assembly line, it cannot be denied that the long career of trainees not only gave them solid skills in singing and dancing. The basic skills and their cooperation on the stage after practicing together for a long time are also very tacit, which can fully reflect the advantages of the group on the stage.

  In China, although many entertainment companies have begun to learn from South Korea over the years, they have also begun to launch idol groups. However, in China, most of the newcomers who can become popular in a short time after their debut are still single. After all, there are many more opportunities in China Entertainment Industry than in South Korea. A variety show can attract a lot of newcomers, and you don’t have to form a group to push it out. And South Korea has so many mature groups chasing them. It is indeed difficult for domestic groups to come out.

  Currently, among the team combinations in China, the most well-known is a two-person group that has existed and been active for more than ten years, and they are still a pure singing group, not the kind of idol group that sings and dances. Speaking of the idol group that sings and dances, China’s most famous group is the TeenStars group consisting of four junior high school students. Their success and age are a very important factor among them.

  In this show, it is said that the competition is electronic music, but in the final analysis it depends on the overall performance on the stage. In addition to its own music and singer's interpretation, dance is actually a major attraction. A single singer can also add a backing dancer on the stage. There is still a big difference between the model of the singer lead dancer plus the backing dancer and that of the group dance. No matter how tacit the cooperation between the performing singer and the backing dancer is, the only thing that stands out is the singer. It is impossible to integrate the singer into the entire dance team on the stage. The audience always seems to be divided, and the eyes are only on the singer. A person's body spins around. The dances of those groups are entirely a whole, and in terms of visual effects, they are more sensational than individual ones.

  So, in general, it is not unreasonable to have such a tilt.

Shazhou has long seen that team competitions on this stage will have certain advantages. Therefore, at the beginning, he chose a domestic men’s team FIVE that debuted for two years. Although this five-member group is already regarded as China’s domestic men’s team. The group is very good, but compared with those South Korean men's groups, both in terms of fame and stage performance, they are quite different.

  Wan Peiling has a young pop singer Gong Chen who is as proficient in bel canto. In the first episode of the program, she cleverly added an opera-like accent to Gong Chen's songs. This novel arrangement that has never appeared in electronic music unexpectedly helped her win the first episode. However, in the next few games, the audience who had seen this novel form lost their freshness and did not continue to buy it. They turned to the men and women's groups in South Korea. Therefore, in the third episode of the program, she took the initiative to change and replaced it with a well-known basic female group Green Apple Girls formed through the draft in China. While retaining the characteristics of Gong Chen, she wanted to come together as a group. The group contended, but still failed to regain the decline.

  Shazhou was inspired by Gong Chen’s unexpectedly operatic vibe in the first phase of winning the championship, and thought of Xiao Yao, who had stimulated himself with creativity. On the contrary, he won the men's team that his subordinates had never gotten very good results, and replaced him with Xiao Yao, who has given him countless surprises. I hope he can also bring everyone a surprise in this show. After all, of the four captains, currently only his team has not tasted the taste of a single-term championship.

  On the second day after Xiao Yao agreed to Shazhou’s invitation, the fourth episode was also broadcast on China’s CCTV three programs. On the second day after the show was broadcast, another online friend broke out a post about a green apple girl who sang in the show. Some netizens watched the video of the show carefully and discovered that at least half of the 13 girls, the Green Apple Girl, had a mouth shape and voice in the high-pitched part of the song. Since there is no discordant voice in the singing, So it is concluded that these people are lip-synching in the show.

  In fact, the female idol group that came out of this draft is not based on singing as its main selling point. In terms of dance, it is more of a youthful and cute style that depends on selling cute. Wan Peiling chose them because of their popularity, appearance and number advantages. But Wan Peiling herself is a singer who is good at singing. The team of this style does not match her own style. The songs adapted for them are a bit more difficult for them. In addition, in order to fight against Korean groups, the choreographer’s choreography for them is also slightly more difficult. It is almost impossible to take care of both, so lip-synching is also the helplessness of the program group for the effect. The move, I didn't expect to be caught by netizens all at once.

  This time, the audience who were originally dissatisfied with the performance of the singers of the show's Chinese Summer became more emotional and began to scold them on the Internet. It’s fine if you can’t beat others in singing and dancing. Now that this kind of scandal broke out, the pressure on the staff of the show has increased.

  And Xiao Yao, under this situation, brought Chen Chen and the boys from the "Dawn Xi" dance troupe to participate in the fifth recording of the show.

  (End of this chapter)