The premiere of "The Endless Voice" is a perfect tribute to Cantonese classics

The premiere of "The Endless Voice" is a perfect tribute to the Cantonese classics. On the evening of April 24, it will be broadcast by TVB and Hunan Channel ***The music variety show "The Sound of Life" co-created by Mango TV premiered. After the first episode was broadcast at noon, Mango TV ranked third in the popularity of the entire network within 6 hours. The premiere of "The Sound of Life" is a perfect tribute to Cantonese. classic. "Eternal Sound" premieres, a perfect tribute to Cantonese classics 1

"Unrepentant", "Earth", "She's Far Away", "Karaoke Forever OK", one after another Cantonese classics, you Has your DNA moved? I never thought that I would see a music variety show with Cantonese songs as the theme. Now "The Everlasting Sound" is here.

On April 24, the music program "The Sound" jointly produced by Hunan Satellite TV and TVB premiered. The theme of this program is Hong Kong Philharmonic culture. The program invites Hong Kong singers and well-known mainland singers to sing Cantonese songs to connect everyone's memories, experience the unique music culture, and pay tribute to classic Cantonese songs.

Hong Kong Philharmonic and Hong Kong drama exist in many people’s memories. The era when Hong Kong dramas were popular was also the peak period of Hong Kong Philharmonic. Both have become memories for a generation.

"The Sound of Life" pays tribute to the classics. In fact, it is also a tribute to ordinary people's past lives. From this perspective, the program can attract more attention. Therefore, such a program will become the most powerful music variety show in 2022 and the real hottest program.

No one can refuse to use emotions as the program structure and experience the culture of the Hong Kong Philharmonic again.

There has never been a period of music culture with such sentiments. Not only will the songs not be forgotten as time goes by, but as soon as the music plays, people will sing along unconsciously. Especially those born in the 1970s and 1980s have a special liking for this kind of music culture. This is the Hong Kong Philharmonic.

Musician Yang Kun once said that the current music market is going backwards for 10 years or more. In fact, ordinary people can also feel this concern of musicians. A wave of hot songs can instantly set off on the Internet, but in many cases such hot songs only exist for a short period of time.

There are many musicians who create "fragment music" and "fast food music" for short-term music effects and traffic. The emergence of this music form has no positive significance and has caused the embarrassment of current music culture. As mentioned above, both musicians and ordinary people can feel the regression of music culture.

Under this current situation, emotional music programs will be more arousing. "The Endless Sound" puts the feelings in front of everyone and directly makes a special topic. No one can refuse this form. However, only Cantonese classics seem to be more suitable for this thematic format. This is a well-founded music culture.

Li Jian said that the popularity of Hong Kong music culture in the last century is inseparable from the lyricists. Although many songs at that time were covers, local songwriters were able to enrich Hong Kong culture into the lyrics and form a cultural identity.

The well-known songwriter Huang Zhan has created unsurpassed classic songs such as "A Laugh in the Sea", "My Chinese Heart" and "A Chinese Ghost Story"; and Zheng Guojiang "I Just Like You", "The Wind Keeps Blowing" and "Walking on the Road of Life" have been passed down to this day.

The songwriters of that period had a strong sense of family and country, and they had the same pattern of creative works as Jin Yong and other literary giants. At the same time, they also have high cultural literacy, and their lyric style is close to Tang poetry and Song poetry. These have become important elements for Huang Zhan and others to create excellent works.

Today’s “fast food music” is in sharp contrast to the Hong Kong music culture of the last century. In this way, the launch of the program "Continuous Sound" seems very meaningful. At the same time, programs that focus on emotions will undoubtedly arouse memories for a generation, and ratings and reputation will naturally not be considered.

Co-produced by Hunan TV and TVB, the audio and video platform has rich experience to protect the program.

"The Endless Sound" will become the strongest music variety, and it will also benefit from the reputation of the production platform. Hunan Satellite TV has always been famous for producing entertainment programs. The entertainment programs launched have always been second to none in the country. The program has been recognized by the industry and the audience in terms of creativity and quality, which has become an indisputable fact.

Take the 2021 popular variety show "Brother Who Overcomes Troubles" as an example. Once it was aired, it ranked first. During the show's broadcast, it almost monopolized all the hot topics in variety shows. Due to the high popularity of the guests participating in the show, the program team immediately launched two spin-off variety shows, "Nights in Greater Wan Chai" and "Brother's Hot Life". Similarly, spin-off variety shows have also stood out among many variety shows, achieving both good reputation and ratings.

This also shows that the audio variety shows launched by Hunan TV can always understand the market demand immediately and become the most anticipated program by the audience. "Continuous Sound" is a program jointly launched by Hunan Channel and TVB***. It has a clear theme and the production team selects the best from the best, which becomes a guarantee of program quality.

The guests invited to the program include seniors in the music industry, who are highly recognized, and they are also new generation singers.

In the first episode of the program, Hong Kong music veteran George Lam made a brilliant appearance. Guests who also appeared include Michelle Yeh, Hacken Lee, Miriam Yeung, Coco Lee, and the beloved Lin Xiaofeng in "Brother Overcoming Troubles". Just mentioning the names of these people makes their stage worth looking forward to.

Representative mainland singers Li Jian, Mao Buyi, Zhou Bichang, etc. will also show their understanding of Cantonese songs. Of course, new generation singers also actively participated in the show. Liu Xijun, Shan Yichun, An Qi and others will also sing on the same stage as their predecessors in the music industry.

For these new generation singers, "The Voice" is their opportunity. The program attracted a lot of attention and exposure, forming a powerful publicity to a certain extent. Singers who have just debuted sometimes have strong musical abilities, but they just lack a stage. If they can seize stage opportunities like "The Endless Sound", it will be very helpful for their future musical development.

It is another show about the return of youth, and it is also a stage that makes people cry. "Continuous Sound" attracted countless fans as soon as it was aired. But the popularity of the show also makes people have mixed emotions. "Eternal Sound" instantly became the "demon mirror" of today's music scene. If another 10 years pass, will we still be looking for the memories and feelings of the last century?

This is a question worth pondering. Why is the music scene stagnant? Why do most people still remember songs from decades ago? When will the music world stop going backwards?

"The Endless Sound" is a program that pays tribute to classics and a culture. This theme is undisputed. But other music variety shows are not a tribute at all. Most of the time, the programs are just to cater to the capital market and earn topic traffic and popularity by adapting classic songs.

The consequence of this is that no musician is willing to calm down and create, classic songs have been changed beyond recognition, and the music world has fallen into an endless cycle of regression. Of course, the launch of a program cannot immediately change the current situation of the music scene, but it should give musicians something to think about.

There are many singers, a huge platform, and amazing traffic. We look forward to the explosion of music culture. "The Sound Never Ends" premiered, a perfect tribute to the Cantonese classic 2

On the evening of April 24, the music variety show "The Endless Sound" co-produced by TVB and Hunan TV Station premiered. The production team is the original crew of "I Am a Singer".

There are many singers among the singers, including Lin Zixiang, Ye Sianwen, Hacken Lee, Miriam Yeung, as well as Li Jian, Coco Li, Zhou Bichang and Mao Buyi who have appeared in "Singer".

There is also the super girl Liu Xijun who became famous again with "The Wind Blows", and the Mosaic band which has become popular in recent years.

Some musicians commented that the greatest significance of this program is to allow new and old singers to sing Cantonese songs on the same stage.

Before it was broadcast on Hunan Satellite TV, Mango TV ranked third in the popularity of the entire network within 6 hours after the first episode was broadcast at noon, and the program broadcast volume has exceeded 100 million.

The husband-and-wife team of Ye Qianwen and Lin Zixiang, who has not stood on the stage to sing for a long time, has even appeared on many hot searches. At first, the audience speculated whether Michelle Yeh would collaborate with her husband Lin Zixiang. As a result, the male singer and the female singer were divided into two teams that night. When the woman learned that the first singer sent by the man was Lin Zixiang, the first reaction of the others was to arrange a PK between Yeh Sinwen and her husband. Lin Zixiang. Ye Qianwen appeared on the stage in a red dress with slightly curly silver hair, full of momentum.

Ye Qianwen sang her classic Cantonese song "Blessing". Her voice was gentle and tough. There was no broken sound during the song, and the muscle lines of her arms were obvious. No trace of fat at all.

"Ye Qianwen sings so steadily" and "Ye Qianwen is so beautiful" have also been on the hot searches.

Lin Zixiang sang "Shine Out a Thousand Points of Light", which is a medley of martial arts songs. The 74-year-old Lin Zixiang sang sonorously and powerfully. Hearing this familiar classic melody made people go back to the martial arts song again. That era of watching martial arts dramas.

Surprisingly, Ye Qianwen originally did not expect that he would win. When Lin Zixiang learned that he lost to his wife, he said that there was no other way, and her wife would definitely win. , the two hugged on the spot. Many netizens said they were overwhelmed by the sweetness. "The Sound of Life" premiered, a perfect tribute to the Cantonese classic 3

At noon on April 24, the new variety show "The Sound of Life" was launched on Mango TV for the first time. This variety show was also broadcast on Hunan Satellite TV and Hong Kong TVB on the same evening. Based on the content that has been fully broadcast in the first episode, this time "The Sound of Life" can be regarded as full of Cantonese song sentiments, especially the "Hong Kong Philharmonic" banner, which can easily win the general approval of the audience. sexual approval.

In terms of program production, Hunan Satellite TV has also put forward its best ability to produce music variety shows. It can be said that Hunan TV has always been able to produce music variety shows with almost zero flaws - you can't find any faults with it.

First let’s talk about the emotional appeal of Cantonese songs. The first episode of "The Endless Sound" started with the couple Lin Zixiang and Ye Qianwen taking the stage respectively, bringing the familiar "Long Road Is With You", "Butterfly Transformation", "Men Should Be Strong" and "Blessing" and other songs.

These songs are all Cantonese songs that the audience is very familiar with in the 1980s and 1990s. And to this day, these songs are very popular and are familiar to young audiences. It can be said that Lin Zixiang's suite and Ye Sianwen's "Blessing" immediately brought three generations of audiences, old, middle and young, into the familiar Cantonese song context.

The context of this kind of Cantonese song is truly full of emotions. When we listen to songs, what exactly are we listening to? In fact, this is the ultimate audience problem that many music variety shows have to solve to the end. When people watch music variety shows, it’s really not a competition to see who sings better, who is more in line with academic artistic standards, etc., but to see who brings songs that can bring everyone together. in a familiar musical context.

The music variety show that the audience needs is to recall the artistic conception of the surroundings when they heard this song in the familiar melody. Therefore, music variety shows with familiar melodies are simply top priority.

Hunan Satellite TV's "The Sound of Life" this time chose Cantonese songs, which are very accessible to audiences from both sides of the Taiwan Strait and three places, and are aesthetically pleasing in a familiar melody context. Especially for mainland audiences, the intimacy of Cantonese songs brings a sense of joy from the 1980s and 1990s.

And it should be noted that there are two other interesting things about Cantonese songs. The first point is that if we don’t pay attention to the lyrics and only listen to the melody, we will automatically enter an exciting aesthetic of the pronunciation of the melody and lyrics. Why and how, some explanations were given in the first issue of "The Endless Sound".

The second point is that if we look carefully at the lyrics of Cantonese songs, we will find that these lyrics also have the beauty of Chinese literature, especially the beauty of ancient Chinese literature. This is where many Cantonese songs fascinate listeners. Many of our current popular songs on the Internet are often based on the straightforward meaning of the lyrics, and many of the lyrics are even typical of slobbering. This kind of vernacular does not match the artistic conception of traditional Chinese music and literary aesthetics.

Whether it is literature, poetry, or even music, in the category of Chinese aesthetics, all seek flexibility, charm, and beauty. For many Cantonese songs in the 1980s and 1990s, in terms of lyric creation, it was really a peak period for the flexibility of Chinese characters.

Therefore, it is easy for Cantonese songs to achieve a situation where it does not matter who sings it. What is important is to respect the characteristics of the original singing within the established Cantonese melody. In the first episode of "Eternal Sound", many new-generation singers sang old Cantonese songs, and they could still achieve very good results. This is the reason.

At the same time, I have to point out that Hunan Satellite TV’s Cantonese classic song variety show has achieved a crucial point, that is, there is no “making up”. On the other hand, many music variety shows, using hip-hop to adapt classic music, using pop to tamper with national music, etc., are all just following the trend. Respect the original version, and if you sing the same song, you can basically do it right.

At the same time, it has to be said that Hunan Satellite TV can achieve almost zero flaws in its production capabilities of music variety shows. If music variety shows on other platforms can still point out some shortcomings, then many music variety shows on Hunan Satellite TV are good at all aspects and show their ability to exceed the average level. For example, on the stage of "The Sound of Life", from the stage design to the use of camera language, especially the coordination of camera movements with the melody and content of the song, there is really no flaw to be found.

Based on the content of the first issue, "The Endless Sound" uses a 1V1 competition between the women's team and the men's team to perform songs, and the results of the competition are not announced immediately on site, leaving it to the singing guests. Go backstage and watch. This is also a more interesting part of the program. The significance of the competition is to ensure the intensity of the program's highlights. When watching it from the backstage, the confrontation was not overemphasized, allowing the audience to focus more on the songs. This is a successful program production plan.

The hosts of He Jiong and Wang Zulan complement each other. Of course, the better one is He Jiong. This seems to be the signature host of Hunan Satellite TV's music variety show. Without He Jiong, this music variety show seems to be missing something. And with He Jiong, it doesn't seem to be anything more. A good host should obviously exist in this way. Overall, Hunan Satellite TV's "The Sound" is one of the best in recent music variety shows.