Poverty alleviation variety show goes to the countryside, my talent can no longer be hidden

Chapter 449: Auditions Begin

After half a month of consultation and interaction, the judges and mentors for the first season of "The Voice of China" were officially announced.

Xu Min was the first mentor confirmed. After receiving a call from Zhou Hao personally, he agreed without saying a word and did not even ask about the recording fee.

The second confirmed mentor is Chen Fangjin from Hong Kong, a singer in his forties who was once a popular singer in both sides of the Taiwan Strait and Hong Kong and Macau more than ten years ago.

This half-step superstar is well-known in the circle for his top singing skills and musical accomplishment, but he has only one flaw - he sings without emotion.

A real singing machine.

Perhaps it was because of this that he was always lacking in various honorary awards and could only remain at the level of "Half-Step King".

The third mentor is from Taiwan, the former R&B queen Sun Zhuolin. Even though she hasn't released a new song for six years, she is still very popular in both sides of the Taiwan Strait and Hong Kong.

Even though there are endless outrageous scandals that could make a melodramatic TV series, it still does not affect her popularity and commercial value.

She proved with her actions that as long as the health bar is high enough in her prime, she can do whatever she wants as long as she doesn't cross the red line.

The fourth mentor is from the mainland, a famous folk song singer named Wang Lei. He is a typical example of a person whose ability is greater than his fame, and whose songs are popular but he himself is not.

If you say his name, many people may not know it at all, but as soon as his songs are played... most people will exclaim: "Wow, it's him?"

The four mentors cover both sides of the Taiwan Strait and Hong Kong, and their styles also cover most of the mainstream music genres... basically, they can be said to have covered all aspects.

After the four mentors were decided, the auditions were immediately started.

In order to facilitate screening, Youying directly divided the audition work into several major areas... basically all of them were located in several large cities.

In order to expand the selection range as much as possible and build its reputation, Youying has made a ruthless effort this time - for contestants who travel long distances to the audition site, half of the travel expenses will be reimbursed directly, and boxed meals will be provided during the waiting period for the audition!

Looking at this benefit alone, it doesn’t seem like a big deal, but if it is expanded to more than 100,000 auditionees... this expenditure is likely to be a huge sum of money!
Youying really tried its best for this variety show!

The first stop of the audition was very interesting, going directly to Hangzhou, the hometown of the richest man...

Zhou Hao was also invited as a special guest for the first audition and watched the entire two-day Hangzhou audition.

These two days were the two days in which he laughed the most in the past two years.

There are not many truly amazing geniuses, but there are a lot of weird greats.

Things like singing out of tune or being tone-deaf are just trivial matters that are not worth mentioning.

There were men in their forties singing nursery rhymes, carrying pots and pans and accompanying themselves on the spot, carrying guitars that they couldn't play and just posing, and performing ridiculous "original songs" that made a fool of themselves...

The ghosts and monsters showed off their magical powers, which was very exciting.

The most outrageous thing is that some people even questioned the instructor's singing to his face and directly wanted to teach him how to sing...

After two days, Zhou Hao felt like his mouth was about to break from laughing.

But no matter what, the first audition was very successful, and the creative idea of ​​"only listening to the voice and not looking at the face" received unanimous praise during implementation.

However, during the audition stage, the production team still had a trick up their sleeve and did not directly bring out the rotating chair segment. Instead, they adopted a blind listening method in cubicles to select materials.

So when the program team posted the audition trailers online, the audience did not make too many comments on this selection method.

After all, there is no variety show effect, so people naturally won’t pay too much attention to it.

Besides, there were too many evil spirits during the audition stage, and almost everyone's attention was sucked away by them.

The entire audition footage was basically used as electronic pickled mustard greens to go with rice. Three days later, the second audition moved to Jinling.

This time Zhou Hao did not go with them and went directly to Xu Lingyue's grandmother's house to stay for a few days.

The old man and the old woman basically treated him as their grandson-in-law and took care of him in such a meticulous manner that Zhou Hao felt a little embarrassed and left after staying for two days.

After returning home, I continued to write in seclusion, and took time to check the progress of the post-production editing of "Those Years".

Because of the intrusion of "The Voice of China", he is not so anxious about the progress of this film now. He will just take his time editing it, the more detailed the better.

While he was working between two points, The Voice of China had completed eight auditions across the country and finally selected 80 contestants to enter the next formal recording stage.

On the first weekend of July, when the whole country began to endure the test of high temperatures, "The Voice of China" also ushered in a formal recording, and Zhou Hao was invited to the scene again.

Originally he really didn't want to join in the fun, but Fang Jing came to him three times and was so kind that he couldn't refuse, so he could only go and punch in and scan his face.

The first stage of the show is the so-called "blind audition".

One of the killer features of the show - the swivel chair, was presented to everyone for the first time.

Under Youying's arrangement, the first blind audition basically gathered more than half of the top talents, striving for a stunning start.

For variety shows, the retention rate of the first episode often determines the subsequent performance, which is similar to the so-called "golden three chapters" in online articles.

Don’t talk about whether it’s slow to warm up or not. If you can’t retain the audience in the first episode, it will basically be a flop afterwards.

Therefore, this first round of blind auditions almost became a scene of "a fight between gods".

The first contestant to come up was Zhou Miaomiao, a female college student from Jinling. She amazed the audience with her song "Red Bean".

Not only did he astonish the audience, but he also won the first "four turns" without any suspense.

After Zhou Miaomiao finished singing, the four mentors even stood up and applauded to show their respect.

Then, a scene that shocked the entire audience appeared—the four mentors began to fight for the candidate.

"Zhou Miaomiao, come to my team." Chen Fangjin, the half-step king of heaven, was the first to speak: "You have very good conditions, but your singing skills are still a little flawed. I can help you reach a higher level..."

"Stop it." Xu Min interrupted directly: "This child is so smart, but if he sings along with you, he will be useless, just like a soulless radio."

The whole audience suddenly fell silent, and many viewers looked at Chen Fangjin with some concern.

Xu Min's words were somewhat revealing. If Chen Fangjin got angry...

Chen Fangjin was indeed angry, but her way of being angry was very exaggerated. She started to roll up her sleeves and asked, "Sister Xu, what do you mean?"

At this point, the whole audience laughed out loud, and everyone understood that this was a show effect.

"Kid, don't be fooled, come to my place." Xu Min ignored him, "Your style is just right for me, it's just right for you to come to my place!"

Seeing this, the audience has been piqued.

It has always been students fighting over mentors, but this is the first time I have seen mentors fighting over students.

Fresh!

(End of this chapter)