With 23 variety shows and 8 permanent shows, Charlie has become a variety coffee delayed by singing？

In the past two years, the variety market "occupied" by group idols and variety coffee has finally ushered in some new faces.

Singer Charlie taught vocal skills to the contestants in Creation Camp 2021, and officially announced to join "Go online!"! Huacai Junior became the official of Huacai Online, and in the upcoming new issue of Happy Camp, he also joined as a guest and made a contribution to the audience.

Looking back on the variety market in the past two years, Charlie frequently brushed his face in major programs, showed his singing skills and created variety topics through various stage performances, which was dubbed by netizens as "variety coffee delayed by singing". So why can Charlie become a hot variety guest in the variety market where guests are constantly changing?

Become a frequent visitor to variety shows

Charlie is known as a "model worker"

At present, "depression" is still a key word in the mainland music scene. In particular, due to the impact of the epidemic, offline concerts, live performances and other activities have been suspended on a large scale, which has affected many singers and musicians. For singers, how to maintain exposure and attention is a particularly important thing, and variety shows with different styles and different positioning have become a good choice.

More and more singers are keen to participate in variety shows. For example, Hua Chenyu acted as a fixed MC in Ace to Ace, contributing a lot of jokes, while Angela Zhang made brilliant performances in Classic Chanting 4 and Praise for Songs. Among many singers, Charlie is obviously the most active one.

In 2020, Charlie was called "model worker" by many audiences. He has participated in TV variety "Singer’s Year of Playing", "Our Song" and "Travel Notes of Youth Circle 2", and the online comprehensive "Exciting offer2", "Summer of the Band 2" and "The Band Season of Tomorrow".

Charlie has participated in the variety inventory since 2020.

According to incomplete statistics, Charlie participated in 23 variety shows in less than one and a half years, among which, 8 shows, such as The Great Wall, Travel Notes around Youth, and Novice Arrive, were permanent guests, and the rest were flying guests.

Judging from the types of programs he participated in, he can not only perform on the stage in music programs such as Singer’s Year of Playing, Tomorrow’s Son’s Season 4, but also perform brilliantly in outdoor reality shows such as Travel Notes around Youth and The Great Wall, and most of these programs are the head content of brand variety shows or video websites of First-line TV. His lively personality and natural expression make him a hot announcement king.

Besides variety shows, Charlie is also a very sought-after "hot potato" in the New Year’s concerts on various platforms that test the popularity of stars. On the New Year’s Eve in 2021, Charlie shuttled to CCTV, bilibili, CCTV, Jiangsu Satellite TV and Beijing Satellite TV, and showed the audience a "depth-dividing technique".

Charlie made her debut in the third season of The Voice of China in 2014. But soon, the fame brought by the draft was drowned by waves of new people. After a few years, Charlie, like many draft singers, became a "small transparency" in the entertainment circle. In May, 2016, the national wind song "Big Fish" swept the major music platforms, and Charlie also gained some popularity with this song. Since then, although he has also participated in Jiangsu Satellite TV’s "Masked Singer Guess" and Tencent’s video "I Love the Second Yuan", it has always been tepid.

In 2018, Charlie stepped onto the stage of Sound Into People’s Hearts. Her soft voice and clear voice conquered the hearts of the producers, and Liao Changyong, a leading figure in the bel canto world, praised her as natural. With the increasing popularity of the show, Charlie also began to gain a large number of fans. After years of polishing in the music world, he finally gained a certain popularity.

In 2020, Charlie joined two music variety shows, Our Song and Singer’s Year of Playing. With a recognizable voice and just the right sense of variety, he sent topics such as # Charlie Monster# and # Charlie’s Back to the White Wall Live Competition # to Weibo Hot Search. While harvesting a large number of fans, he has also become a frequent visitor to major variety shows and an artist with rising exposure among singers.

In fact, singers and actors often have problems such as lack of sense of variety and unpleasant people when they participate in variety shows. However, Charlie’s performance in variety shows was remarkable and was welcomed by the audience.

On the one hand, Charlie has outstanding strength in the professional field. In Our Song, Charlie and Hacken Lee formed a "diligent and deep" combination, unique interpretation and tacit cooperation, and finally won the "Golden Voice Partner"; In Classic Chanting 3, as a classic singer, he brought a poem "Touching Fish and Yanqiu Ci". Kang Zhen, an appreciation group, said, "We are always so busy in life and work, and when we hear voices like nature, we feel that the whole person seems to have been liberated."

On the other hand, Charlie has excellent ability of throwing stalks and grafting stalks in variety shows. For some singers and actors who lack variety experience, it is not difficult to get rid of the idol burden, but for Charlie, it doesn’t seem to be a difficult thing, such as telling jokes, producing expression packs and imitating performances.

In Travel Notes of Youth Circle 2, Charlie’s partner Yang Di imitated CoCo Lee’s "Tick-tock" rollover scene, which triggered the hilarity of the guests on the scene; In "Creation Camp 2021", he is also full of golden sentences. The contestant introduced himself that the best result in the long jump was 7.4 meters. Charlie teased in surprise that 7.4 meters was five selves. When he saw the contestant singing too hard, he also laughed that it was a man with a barrage on his face, and the program was full.

To sum up, excellent talent, high cooperation and high cost performance may be the reasons why Charlie has become a frequent visitor to variety shows.

Being questioned as "doing nothing"

How can singers make good use of the "double-edged sword" of variety show?

Variety shows provide artists with a platform to show themselves, which improves the popularity and exposure of artists. For example, although singer Mao has released a new album, held an online concert and won many music awards in the past two years, according to Baidu index, his personal popularity peak is still during his participation in "The Year of Singer". However, when an artist frequently appears in a studio that is not related to his career, he will always receive questions about "doing nothing", whether it is an actor or a singer.

Frequent appearances in variety shows have triggered a "war" between fans and artists. Last year, Allen’s fans made a long speech in Weibo, saying that it took about 50 days to shoot in a year, but they took over four variety shows, and their main work revolved around variety shows; Justin, who debuted as a member of NINE PERCENT Men’s Team, was also questioned as a "variety coffee" by participating in the variety show "Saving the Country by Curves" after the dissolution of the group.

In the eyes of many fans, frequent participation in variety shows constantly consumes the "mystery" of artists, and a little carelessness in the program will also affect the reputation that artists have accumulated. After participating in more than 20 variety shows in succession, Charlie seems to have begun to face the same question of "doing nothing". Some netizens think that he is gradually losing his original intention as a singer, and some netizens call for him to stop being a variety coffee.

Has Zhou Shen been delayed by the variety show? In the past year, Charlie released 32 original songs and 40 arranged songs, which is equivalent to releasing more than two original songs in one month. However, although the number is considerable, in the audience’s impression, apart from the "Big Fish" a few years ago, there are not many original songs that he really made a circle. Most of the hot searches are scenes of his cover songs in variety shows and parties.

For a singer, spending a lot of time on variety shows is, to some extent, an excessive consumption. However, in the era of traffic, almost every singer who participated in variety shows got more opportunities to be exposed after having a certain degree of popularity, which helped him to go further.

The broadcast of "Summer of the Band" made the new pants band enter the public’s sight; Liu Mintao’s chorus "Do you want to dance" broke the dimensional wall, and "Guest" and "Sister Riding the Wind and Waves" brought a high-burning stage and received many commercial advertisements; With variety shows such as "The Masked Singer Will Guess" and "The Voice from Heaven", Angela Zhang, who has been against the music scene for many years, has also ushered in the second spring of his career.

Variety traffic is undoubtedly a "double-edged sword" for singers. It is the original intention of many singers to participate in the program to gain popularity by participating in variety shows and return to music creation when the time is ripe. However, after getting used to the lively laughter of variety shows and the rapidly growing popularity, it is probably a big test for many singers to return to the initial heart of music creation. In the face of the double-edged sword of variety show, singers should really think about how to grasp it.

Author | Li Yang

Editor | Peng Kan

Edit | Hu Yuxin

Typesetting | Li Kexin