Chi Pu's participation in a singing contest in China called "Sister Riding the Wind and Breaking the Waves" has sparked controversy about the standards required of a singer.
Singer Chi Pu. (Photo provided by the character)
A little too confident?
For most audiences, Chi Pu is not qualified to be a singer because of her lack of voice, even though she always tries her best and invests in her products. Therefore, when Chi Pu participated in the program "Sisters Riding the Wind and Breaking the Waves" (now renamed "Riding the Wind 2023"), it surprised many audiences.
Up to now, Chi Pu has been highly appreciated for her beauty, but her talent has always received mixed reviews even though she has ventured into many fields, from acting, singing, to dancing... Chi Pu's voice is said to lack tone, often out of tune when performing live, unable to hit high notes.
Previously, Chi Pu's two MVs (music videos) "Black Hickey" ( Sovereign Seal) and "Sashimi" received more negative reactions than praise. Some viewers thought that the MV was cliché, not groundbreaking, and also contained sensitive content. This led to the MV "Black Hickey" "flying" off YouTube after only a few days of release, while "Sashimi" received about 3.6 million views after 1 month of release. This is a fairly low number compared to Chi Pu's previous MVs.
In China, there have been many entertainment articles praising her beauty, calling her beauty with many beautiful words such as "Vietnam's number 1 beauty", not inferior to "milk tea sister" or comparing her appearance to actresses Trieu Le Dinh and Duong Mich. Thanks to her appearance that is popular with Chinese audiences, it is not difficult to understand why Chi Pu and her crew chose Chinese showbiz to try their hand.
In fact, the program's organizers invited many Vietnamese music stars to participate, but they all declined, and in the end, Chi Pu was the one who accepted. It is impossible to say whether Chi Pu wanted to expand her market or if she simply participated for fun, but Chi Pu's overconfidence in her voice made Vietnamese audiences somewhat worried.
Runner-up Hoang Thuy performs at a beauty contest. (Photo provided by the character)
Too much gossip...
The story of beautiful women singing is not new, but the frequency is becoming more frequent. Many beautiful women in the past, when the audience reacted to their singing ability, they immediately stopped. Nowadays, when criticized, some beauties say that "it is because of jealousy"; some beauties ignore the comments and still release "unacceptable" music products; even many show organizers, wanting to attract attention, invite beautiful women to perform regardless.
Recently, social networks have shared a clip of runner-up Hoang Thuy performing at the finals of a beauty contest. On stage, the beauty from Thanh Hoa wore a red dress showing off her hot curves, collaborating with a dance troupe in the song "Bloody Happiness". This is also the song whose MV the beauty had just released not long ago. On a showbiz forum, some viewers said that the 9X beauty only has a pleasant voice, not enough to become a singer or perform at events.
One viewer commented: "Singing without any emotion". Another account commented: "You don't have the charisma of a singer. You should just catwalk". Netizens commented: "Actually, you are pretty but your performance is like going to a school performance in the old days". "You are doing well in what you are doing, so keep doing it, don't follow the path of a singer" - another viewer advised.
Exactly 24 hours after the release of "The Lying Butterfly", Phi Phuong Anh shared the achievements that this product has achieved: reaching the top 12 trending YouTube, 1 million real-time views, top 1 HOT14 Realtime, 13 million views on TikTok, 14,000 likes and 21,000 comments. And the number of dislikes reached 34,000, 2.5 times the number of likes on the first day of release.
The achievements are like that, but the quality of the product is worth mentioning. Netizens have found many similarities between the product "Cánh butterfly giải gian" and Vietnamese, Korean and Chinese music products from the melody to the choreography. First, a melody in Phi Phuong Anh's song is very similar to the song "Don't anyone live stingily" by the group R1SE (a Chinese group). Next is the very familiar melody of "BBoom BBoom" that made the name of the Korean group Momoland. The beginning of the song is similar to Momoland's and the ending is exactly like Blackpink's.
The ending of the song "How You Like That" is copied exactly into "Cánh Butterfly Lies". Not only that, the most expensive part of Zico's song "Okey Dokey", considered the identifying feature of this song, is also in "Cánh Butterfly Lies".
Phi Phuong Anh's song was also accused of plagiarizing music from Kpop groups such as: Roly Poly (T-ara), Face (NU'EST)... turning the song "Cánh butterfly lưu gian" into a Kpop hotpot.
Talking about choreography, the MV "Lying Butterfly" continues to be criticized for copying the choreography in TWICE's "Candy Pop", ITZY's "ICY" and even the choreography in Chi Pu's "Rose" - Phi Phuong Anh's idol.
According to experts, the trend of beautiful women singing has been developing in the Vietnamese youth music scene recently. The reason why many beauty queens, models, and actors have moved into singing is partly because of their personal passion, wanting to prove themselves, and partly because of the increasing demand for enjoyment from young audiences. This has led to many beautiful women dreaming of becoming singers like the cases mentioned above. However, due to lack of real ability, the number of beautiful women who sing successfully is small, causing a lot of negative reactions.
Musician Nguyen Van Chung affirmed: "Music must have aesthetic value, art must be beautiful. Music is a means to convey and spread positive feelings of love to each other, to the audience, to the community, without these things it cannot be called music".
Singing seems to be a very attractive profession among all professions, so many beauties have been attracted to hold the microphone to perform as singers. Miss H'hen Nie, who seems simple and devoted to her modeling career, has also ventured into singing. Actress Vu Ngoc Anh went on stage to sing, making viewers shake their heads because of her offensive revealing outfits. Miss Thuy Van, Mai Phuong, Lona... are all building singing careers after being crowned.
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