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**The lip-synching incident hasn't hit the ground yet, and the ripple effects are ongoing.
Concert-related events continue to be reported. Rainie Yang's inappropriate remarks at the concert caused controversy;Deng Ziqi's Guangzhou concert, the stage and sound, and the placement of the pillars were complained about;Some netizens said that during the ** Yu Kewei concert, the lens of the camera was damaged by the stage laser;Jay Chou's concert ticket pre-sale method was ridiculed as "ugly". The Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council also responded to the incident on December 13, saying that the administrative department of culture and tourism is currently verifying the specific situation.
After the outbreak of the first scale after the epidemic in 2023, all kinds of chaos and improvements in the performance market have surfaced. After experiencing a big dive in ticket grabbing, pillar tickets, and ticket pricesThis time, the protagonists of the concert chaos have dispersed from the "hard-hit area" ticket market to various fieldsThe chaos in the performance market needs to be clarified, and the upstream and downstream industries of the performance industry have also been able to correct themselves in the outbreak period.
We are also curious, the lead singers of rock bands do not all eat "youth rice", not to mention that it is normal for people to be in poor physical condition, how can performers ensure the quality of performances when their physical functions decline and are not enough to cope with high-intensity performances?At the same time, lip-synching has become an addiction to internal entertainment, and it has been repeatedly "whipped" by netizens as a classic compilation album. Now, all David TV has also officially announced that the New Year's Eve party is full of open microphones and real singing, ** fake singing incident, can it set off a wave of self-proof true singing?
There is no excuse for lip-syncing", believes veteran music fan Liu Xi (pseudonym).
The rollover live compilation of world-class rock bands is still "talked about" by music fans today, but no one really mocks them with it. The abnormal performance is related to the on-the-spot state of the lead singer and musicians, the on-the-spot performance and other factors, and the difficulty of its performance and singing has been determined in the creative stage.
For example, the hard rock band Metallica's work "One", the guitar overtones of this song are often not playable, and everyone ridicules the lead guitarist Kirk for his "poor" skills, which has formed a meme among music fans over the years. Although the verbal complaining has not stopped, Liu Xi believes that the general perception is that "it is normal to play badly, because it is very difficult for them to write." Therefore, in addition to the rock lead singer who has been recognized for his singing skills like Rose, the lead singer of Metallica or Pink Floyd, has been complained about by music fans.
AbsolutelyCompared with the "strength problem", the lip-syncing incident has touched more on the "attitude problem", and the eyes of netizens are bright, whether it is "deliberate" or "accidental", the opportunity is only once.
Looking at the international market, even Beyoncé has been forced to lip-sync, including top bands such as Red Hot Chili Peppers and Nirvana Nirvana, who have been forced to perform more or less on occasions when they are forced to perform perfectly. For example, Nirvana was asked to lip-sync when recording a BBC program in 1991, and the band immediately objected, and after negotiations, the two sides reached an agreement that they could sing with the recorded ** and Kurt Cobain. In the end, the whole process was sung in a lower octave, and a group of musicians also exaggerated the "fake bullet", which can be said to have opened a precedent for "gothic grunge".
In China, such as Mr. Sa Dingding's classic anti-microphone and other scenes, a large number of netizens came to save their respect, "This is deliberately done for the audience", "express to the organizer the attitude of rejecting hypocrisy". However, on the opposite side of obvious lip-synching to show attitude, there are also a number of "rollover scenes" produced due to poor performance of on-site equipment and physical condition, which have also been talked about by Lezipai netizens for many years.
Professional ** people have more legal ways to ensure the quality of performances. Half-open mics, harmonies, and even handing the microphone to the audience are all more decent options than lip-syncing.
Music fan Lin Xue (pseudonym) listened to OneRepublic live at the Grammys in 2018 and could hear some small pad sounds. Among the several domestic concerts that Lin Xue watched this year, the most impressive was Wu Bai's concert in Beijing. Before going to see the performance, Lin Xue was ready for a large-scale KTV of "singing to Wu Bai". But after he actually arrived at the scene, he found that the saying "hand over the microphone to the audience" on the Internet was just a joke, "Wu Bai sang the least song is "When I Wake Up from a Dream", but he also sang half of it. Although some of the soprano singing did not go up, Lin Xue believes that the concert is very good overall, and there is a guitar solo in the middle, which is very dedicated.
Xu Wei's annual tour has a harmony group, the whole concert is about two hours, when the song is difficult, it is very tiring to sing multiple songs in a row, at this time, the musical instrument troupe, the harmony group can also play more roles, such as padding the main theme, helping to sing, or solo, etc. And Li Zongsheng's songs are all written by himself, and he has the ability to change the tone for himself, and there will be no lip syncing.
The requirements of Chinese music fans are low enough, and at the scene of the five-person lawsuit, everyone will at most ridicule a few words of breath, and no one will criticize the whole band because of their live flaws. Liu Xi thinks. But for a pop band with a sizable fan base and deep roots, the pressure on them may not just come from dissatisfaction with the state of their voice. According to statistics, ** has opened 68 concerts this year, and behind the exposure**, it has opened eight concerts in a row.
There is another way of thinking that fits the new era, not long ago, the visual kei rock veteran band kiss announced that the future will go to the digital ageIn the future, it will be performed as a virtual band。In the relevant promotional video, several septuagenarians wore motion capture equipment and upgraded and reproduced the classic scenes such as spitting flames, burning guitars, and setting off fireworks at the scene.
Before the identification of the *** singing incident, the ** account "Wheat Field Farmer" has updated the identification category ** for nearly a year, and the earliest identification category ** can be traced back to January this year to identify whether Wang Yibo is lip-syncing.
As of press time, the number of "**Shanghai Concert 12 Songs True and Fake Singing Identification" published by it exceeded 45550 thousand. Among the various types of identification, the party category has a higher click-through rate. In a large-scale gala that blended professional singers, idols and actors, onlookers were curious about its hard power.
After a few issues of party identification, it can be basically found that the true and false singing of a whole party is not completely unified, and most professional singers will choose to open the microphone;Some idol-type artists will choose a combination of full open mic and semi-open mic, such as singing 4 songs, half of which will be full open mic;And there are some non-professional singer-type artists who are lip-syncing visible to the naked eye. It should be noted that the semi-open microphone is to play the pre-recorded track, but the volume is weakened, and the singer can listen to the pre-recorded track and sing along to achieve a stable state without going out of tune.
Of course, the software for professional identification of audio is not a copy for everyone, and netizens have also summarized a set of quick and rough versions of the fake detection formula**: First, the tactical puller does not affect the sound, and the identification is fake;Second, if you dance and sing effortlessly, you can identify it as fake;Third, if there is no fluctuation of air and no vibration of the vocal cords, it is judged to be false.
Behind the fact that everyone is a "true connoisseur", after the booming concert market, the threshold for audience appreciation has been raised, which has reduced the fault tolerance rate in multiple dimensions such as performance content and venue. According to the data released by the China Performance Industry Association, in the first three quarters of 2023, the number of commercial performances nationwide will reach 34240,000 games, an increase of 278 over the same period last year76%；The box office income of the show is 3154.1 billion yuan, an increase of 453 over the same period last year74%。The data for the first two quarters is that the total number of performances in the country is 19330,000 games, with a total box office of 1679.3 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 6735％。And the promotion of the aggregation effect of performances to local cultural tourism does not need to be repeated.
It can be seen that with the recovery of various concert projects due to the backlog of the epidemic, the performance market is still in a period of rapid growth. After the lip-syncing incident, first music fans and professional KOLs expressed their opinions one after another, and then, some local satellite TV officials announced that the New Year's Eve party was fully open and singing, and the pressure was put on other satellite TVs. Although the audience's requirements for online evenings are not the same as those for concerts with ticketed admission experience, the performance market will also gradually get better in a round of self-evolution as related problems emerge.