Recently, the broadcast configuration and lineup of Singer 2024 triggered a heated discussion among netizens - top vocal music configuration, a strong lineup of Chinese and foreign singers, and different from the previous recording and broadcasting, this season's Singer adopts the form of full live broadcast, which greatly tests the guests' live performance. When two foreign singers showed their outstanding strength, netizens were worried about Na Ying, the most recognized Chinese singer. Na Ying and Empress Dowager Cixi share the same surname "Ye Henala". Netizens jokingly called this season's Singer "Ye Henala guarding the country".
However, with the constant fermentation of public opinion, netizens became more nervous and began to run around on the Internet to "shake people", hoping to find more singers who can "fight with one another" to "help" Na Ying. The theme of "Yehenala guarding the country" has gradually evolved into the expression of "victory and defeat" between domestic and foreign countries, and the sense of confrontation has gradually overshadowed the beauty of this music festival.
Of course, this emotion is not the "vexatious" attitude of netizens. The results of each episode of the program are displayed in the form of rankings, which will naturally generate a sense of competition. In addition, the foreign singers invited this time have contributed excellent performance on the stage, which makes the audience have higher expectations of domestic singers and hope to better show the music culture of our country. However, when domestic singers make a little mistake under heavy pressure, they will make the audience in high expectation produce a lot of dissatisfaction. Such emotions continue to spread, accumulate and infect each other on the Internet, and gradually split this music festival which should be "beautiful and common" into two "camps" - "China" and "foreign countries", Invisibly, it has built a "national boundary" barrier for music, and let the confrontation consciousness cover up the glow of the beauty of music.
Although we can understand where people's sense of confrontation comes from, this does not mean that the sense of confrontation is correct. Debussy, the French composer, once said: "Music is a passionate free art, an outdoor art, as boundless as nature, as wind, as sky, as sea." Music is an art common to the world, a "language" circulating in people's spiritual world of different regions and backgrounds, and a unified communication medium based on different languages in the real world. The invitation of such excellent foreign singers should be to let us see a broader world and a more diversified and beautiful music art, rather than narrow our eyes on the winning or losing of foreign singers and Chinese singers.
Maybe some people will be dissatisfied and angry with domestic singers, or even rise to personal attacks, because of the high standard and tricks of foreign singers. But we should also see that they who are on the stage have more personal experience of the strength of foreign singers than we do, and those who are willing to participate in the live broadcast want to play better than any of us, which has also brought great pressure to them - as an older generation, Na Ying, after singing, put her hands on her chest and breathed deeply. Under such pressure, several domestic singers still completed their stage stably and tried their best to bring the audience into the country of music. Maybe some of these mistakes will cause us dissatisfaction, but we should also discuss rationally, instead of indignantly "shaking people" to ask for replacement of singers, elevate singers to "soldiers" who "fight for the country", and alienate a music feast into a music "war of resistance" between different countries. Too extreme thinking is of no help to our music world. Such a sense of confrontation will only blind us to the soul of music appreciation and make the beauty of music dim.
As the official microblog of Hunan Satellite TV's Singer said, "Winning is just a way for singers. Welcoming is the destination of music." The true meaning of Singer lies in "welcoming" excellent songs, letting our voices sing, giving up winning and losing, letting go of confrontation, sharing the beauty of music, and embracing the colorful world.
