Cheng Xiaoyu was busy making movies, and he didn't know that in addition to the photos of him and Xu Qinning dating in New York, "The Voice of America", which set off a ratings boom, also caused controversy on the Internet. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

In the "The Voice of America" broadcast on July 23, Mary Hughes was in the "Mentor Choice Competition" of the James Dylan team, with earrings for a while and no earrings for a while, and was caught by sharp-eyed netizens and posted them on the Internet.

This incident has alarmed many fans who like "The Voice of America", and in an instant, this matter is not only on the hot search in the American version of "Whisper" but also in Huaxia "Whisper", although CW TV has repeatedly emphasized that it is just an editing problem and there is no fraud.

But this once again triggered a heated national discussion of "The Voice", and many netizens with rhythm also said with righteous indignation: "American Idol" dumped "The Voice of America" several streets, and it looks real, let's watch "American Idol"!

Then some entertainment media secretly broke the news, pointing out that the crew of "The Voice of America" requires all students to sign a 32-page "inhumane" contract, which is enough to protect the crew from various "legal" frauds, such as "The crew can change the rules at any time", "No matter whether the students win more votes from the audience, the crew can eliminate them at any time", "The crew can ignore the voting results at their discretion", "Force the students to do physical and mental health examinations, and if necessary, the crew can disclose the diagnosis results on TV programs" And so on, but in fact, most talent shows will sign such a contract.

Judy Hill, a female singer who had high hopes in the "Mentor Choice Competition" in the Will Kingson group, still stopped in the "Mentor Choice Competition" despite her excellent performance in the match, and was regarded as the most unexpected and inexplicable elimination of the season.

Netizens left a message under the official whisper of "The Voice of America": "I originally thought The Voice was a different competition, but now I know that I think too much, there are 'unspoken rules' behind all the qualifying competitions, although there is nothing to be too surprised about, but I am still very disappointed." ”

"Judy Hill really didn't stand up and speak, but you have to know that whether it's for dramatic ratings or some other reason, WC TV thinks you should stop, you don't have anything to say, too much, then I'm sorry, according to the contract, please pay between 100,000 and 1 million dollars. ”

"The so-called 'draft' show, the key issue is in this 'selection'. Some viewers mistakenly thought that we were selected by the public, and some viewers mistakenly thought that the judges were selected, but in fact, it was the program team that selected it. In terms of the operation of selecting students, it is estimated that the talent shows all over the world are about the same. For example, in "The Voice", according to one of my buddies in CW, the students have to go through three rounds of auditions and a round of recording sessions (some people say a total of five), and the interviews before the 'blind audition' have also been recorded a long time ago, and there are several rehearsals that have to wear the same costumes, so that it is convenient to 'even dress' when editing - the singing voice on the show is also tuned, and the listening effect is better, do you think that Chinese woman, Xia Shamo can really sing such a good effect on the spot?"

Immediately, another person in the American television industry broke the news and said: "How expensive it is to make a TV show these days, do you know how much money has been invested in "The Voice of America"? The tutor's salary alone exceeds 70 million US dollars, where can there be no control, 99% of reality shows must have scripts, or it will be a waste of money if you don't shoot indiscriminately. Of course, it's not that there is no realism at all, but basically as long as there are celebrities joining, there are presets in advance - everyone thinks that "The Voice" is a real show, and that's really thinking too much. ”

As the talk grew, even director John Bree had to come forward and publicly admit that they didn't count the thousands of votes cast online and social media at the event. However, the WC has always insisted that there is no 'cheating', and the purpose of abandoning votes from some channels is to ensure 'more fairness'.

In fact, John Brie didn't lie, because if you count the votes from the Internet and social media, then you don't need to compare, just award the championship to Xia Shamo, and record a wool competition, Xia Shamo has more online and social media votes than all the other contestants combined.

Even if the votes from Huaxia IP are excluded, Xia Shamo's votes are still more than twice as many as the second place.

It's just that the director team can't say anything about this matter, although Xia Shamo is the favorite to win the championship, but if there is no suspense at all, who will have expectations for the game? This is bound to affect the ratings, so the director team did not say the real reason, but it is a little darker and darker.

When Mary Hughes's group, that is, Xia Shamo's group, was about to start recording, it was revealed on the Internet again, and some people said that the director team of "The Voice of America" was manipulating the competition.

A netizen named "Shirley" said: "My friend is a student of "The Voice of America", she told me that she is about to be eliminated, how does the director team choose and control which students to continue to move forward? In addition to discretionary selection through the ballot, an important means of control is the selection of songs. Don't think that the songs are all chosen by the students themselves, the songs are also selected by the director team and the tutor, if you want you to enter, you will be given songs that suit your voice and characteristics, and if you don't want you to enter, you will be asked to sing a few twists. ”

"For example, my friend, she was in a group with a minority singer who won the championship, but she didn't have the right to choose a song, and she didn't sing a song that everyone was familiar with, it was a song that someone else tailored for this singer, and my friend didn't want to sing it at all, first, she was not good at singing such a song, and second, this song was too foreign to her, and the singer was very familiar. So all this is not fair at all, of course my friend put forward an opinion, and then it was ignored, the director team and a certain mentor are blatantly trying to praise this singer to enter the finals, who wants this singer to be familiar with the behind-the-scenes financiers of "The Voice of America"?"

Soon this minority's favorite to win the championship was guessed by netizens to be Xia Shamo, and that "Shirley" friend was naturally Xia Shamo's PK opponent Chrissy Wendy.

American netizens are quite dissatisfied with the approach of the director team of "The Voice", especially when one person is white and one person is Asian, so Xia Shamo has countless sunspots overnight.

But the fact is that the song selection was agreed by Chrissy Wendy, Xia Shamo has published a lot of English songs, plus Cheng Xiaoyu has written more English songs, Xia Shamo's request is to choose any Chris Wendy within this range.

Chrissy Wendy didn't agree at first, but after the director team and Mary Hughes did the ideological work, she still agreed, after all, she alone can neither go against the director team nor Mary Hughes, she wants to quit hard, but she is reluctant to have another chance to appear on this hot stage, after all, one more exposure, more fame, and more money in the future.

Although she knew that she was definitely going to be eliminated, her purpose was to try to alleviate the impression that she was eliminated because of her lack of strength in everyone's hearts, so that people would have the impression that they were hacked and lost, and take advantage of the situation to brush up on a wave of popularity for themselves.

For Chrissy Wendy, this is a multi-bird approach with one stone, and she is also fantasizing about what if the program team can't resist the pressure from netizens and makes a new choice, or that somewhat weak Asian woman can't bear the pressure and sings badly?

After all, CW TV has never done this kind of talent show, is inexperienced, and did not make a statement at the first time, plus this "Shirley" is very smart, and after the major entertainment accounts and media forwarded it, it didn't take long to delete the post, and the crew of "The Voice of America" didn't care about it with the mentality that rumors stop at the wise.

As a result, it led to a lot of discussions on the Internet, and some "professionals" fished in troubled waters, saying that "The Voice of America", especially Xia Shamo's singing, had serious voice repairs.

In particular, a post that seriously misled the audience was posted, which attracted countless retweets.

"First of all, I would like to advise those ordinary viewers who believe that the live pitch of the students of "The Voice of America" is against the sky, and they should not be confused anymore! As far as I know, a large part of the audience is attracted to the program because they are shocked by the CD-like pitch of all the students, and think that the real master is in the people! If you are really shocked by this, then I want to tell you that you have been deceived!

Simple techniques like pitch repair have long been an open secret in the recording industry, but almost no one has come out to popularize science, probably for jobs and ratings, as long as someone continues to be deceived, there is a rationality and inevitability in the existence of pitch repair.

Let's start with a basic common sense: recording is not a real Live. Because the pitch and rhythm of all singers and musicians can be corrected after the split track recording, the quality of the recorded live is of course much better than the live broadcast.

Go straight to the scene of "The Voice of America" and you will be able to see this very clearly.

The recorded Live can also achieve the pitch of the CD, of course, the premise is that the quality of your voice must have a high degree of stability, like Xia Shamo's whistle sound, dare to sing on the spot, they are definitely god-level female singers, even if Ms. Mary Hughes sitting in the audience can only have such a level of performance in the most glorious victory period.

But today, in a competition that was not well-known at the beginning, it was performed by a Chinese American who was not well-known, which is really incredible.

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This article, which is piled up with a lot of technical terms, has been forwarded a lot, and the director team of "The Voice of America" has to stand up again and officially issue a statement: "There is absolutely no degree of sound editing in the competition video, in order to prove everything, it will be broadcast live in the finals to set the record straight." ”

But these words still did not dispel the doubts of the audience, and even aroused the suspicion of many viewers about Xia Shamo's "fake singing" and their dissatisfaction with the unfairness of other contestants.

For a while, Xia Shamo seemed to have become the target of everyone's .......