Let me first explain that LZ does not comment on the plot (but discussions are welcome), because LZ has always been very calm in the face of all the fucking plots in musicals - of course, someone who is as brainless as someone on the next stage is indeed a little bit like that - mainly singing and dancing, yes A good plot is naturally good, but it is also the icing on the cake.
EP01
National pass time
The song and dance segment presented for the first time in the whole play, Baseball dance, Ivy's singing and dancing ability has been brought into full play. But back to the feeling that the singing and dancing itself is a little too vulgar, the singing is more airy, and it's okay, and the dance is also, the bombing of the sensual bombs under the red dress is really quite... the feeling of being too sexy. But there is nothing to be picky about technically, but the positioning is a bit too much.
Beautiful
EP01 strives to create the feeling of Ivy and Karen's red and white roses, so I chose this beautiful inspirational song, CA fans of course said that it is not as good as the original (you are enough), Karen lacks the sense of strength in CA's voice, and there are Obvious traces of tuning.
EP02
Call Me
I can only say, it's a good K song. In the draft, it's a mid-to-high level, but if you really perform... please, it's a fast song, and it's a fast song with a strong rhythm. Standing still like a typhoon is indeed detrimental to the typhoon. The direction Karen needs to work hard is to communicate with the audience. Interaction and atmosphere mobilization.
20th Century Fox Mambo
is a wasted performance. I guess what I want to say is Monroe, who just changed her name to enter the entertainment industry. Then the whole performance feels like I want to make the ugly duckling into a queen. The transformation from practice clothes to Chinese clothes.
But back to the performance itself, how should I put it, Karen was too young at the beginning: the singing was accurate, but there was no emotion or skill, it was purely straightforward, and there were several lyrics that clearly had room to play, For example, the recurring "20th Century Fox Mambo" can be sung with different tones, and the two sentences "I could do it clothed or undress" and "Make it up, shake it up" should be more empty and thinner, not from scratch At the end of a tune, fortunately, after changing the costumes, the singing immediately became lively. In dance, Karen is too tall, and tall girls will actually look very good if they dance well - who doesn't like tall and long legs - but for beginners, the dead point is that the center of gravity is not lowered, and Karen has other One problem: the posture is too rigid, and the shaking of the shoulders is really horrible, like a washingboard swaying from side to side. Ivy shivered much more naturally during the National pass time.
EP04
Rumor Has It
One of my favorite songs from "21"! But my feeling is that not only is this song not as good as one thousandth of the original, it's not even as good as the Mash up on Glee next door. Put this song on a private practice occasion, the stage is rudimentary, and then it's Karen's dance! If you compare it with Bobby next to you, the gap is very obvious. There are two shortcomings: one is unnatural, she will easily shrink her limbs when she is in the queue, and the other is the point of exertion is wrong, and the dance is not evenly exerted. Yes, be strong, and that's why I've always found this girl very inconsistent.
EP07
LZ has no pits, LZ is back to write the freshly released seventh episode.
The two female protagonists in this episode, Karen's vocals are as straight as always, and the effect of singing a little song in this episode is much better than the previous roar (how much I don't like her roar), and this episode's Ivy is not very good either, (the scumbag director is criticizing her for wandering, but it makes sense) Although the re-singed original song mix has added a lot of playful tricks compared to Karen's version, it doesn't actually hit the point (my favorite is still her The Let's be bad scene, I didn't take it out this time), and the last song of Joe's SOLO was directly made into a vase...
But these are not the most important things, the highlight of this episode is definitely Will Chase's On Lexington & 52nd Street ah Ow!
The singing skills are excellent, the emotions are very full, and the degree of coordination with the plot is simply perfect! The last tear hit the girlish feelings of countless girls who were eager to be pursued by infatuation, and forgot that it was a married man who robbed his wife! (Including LZ)
This section is entirely performed with singing. The emotions revealed in the singing are full and varied. In this song, the anger towards others peeping at Monroe, the inability to recover from the seven-year itch, and the gradual relationship with Monroe. The sadness of getting away is all shown, and these have a subtle correspondence with the plot. (Legendary play-within-a-play?) I think what makes a lot of Broadway actors better than most pop-singers is the way they deal with the aria that always makes you feel their emotions. (Maybe it's because their vocals are exaggerated? LZ is a layman who doesn't know...) Joe in the previous episodes didn't have any sense of existence, and when the curtain call (?) finally broke out!
The main song and dance part of this episode of EP08
is Karen's Touch Me.
In fact, when I first watched this episode of LZ, I thought it wasn't bad. The overall stage coordination was very good. Ryan's cameo was a highlight, and Karen's performance was decent (although she only stood on the bed and waved her hands).
But... After hearing the quarrel between the scum director and the composer over the plot, LZ suddenly became enlightened. The scum director tried to use this song to express Monroe on another level, not the sweetness that the composer showed before. Man's Monroe is the "sex icon with drug addiction and suicidal tendency" Monroe, the dark side of Monroe, so the performance of this song should be depraved, lost, confused, and a little Vulnerable, All kinds of sexual explicit hints are obvious, trying to seduce others to "Touch Me" and self-satisfaction thoughts. So Karen's "beautiful and dazzling" performance is not enough for a moment...
ps, the temptation performance on the bed, the most impressive thing LZ has seen so far is a Live from the early years, almost Make out level, but Really expressive.
EP10
Ivy's Breakaway is too smooth and smooth, Kelly Clarkson's voice has a rough feeling, even a little tearing, which makes it easier to bring out emotion and resonance. It was the same when Ivy sang Jessie J's Who you are before.
The funniest song in this episode is Tom's Don't say yes until I finish talking! The song is written lively and the choreography is also very happy, and the group of dancers are so cute! Tom is actually not like a rich and powerful boss, like the big wife of a rich and powerful boss... (Hey!) Lying there waiting to be beaten and pumping a towel for the dancers is really too queen!
EP 11
only said that Dig Deep was a custom-made song for Rebecca, which was the best choice for someone with a pentatonic and limited range, and Rebecca's deliberately large tongue was also very fun. It's just that scene is funny, Monroe dressed like this? Also, Rebecca's expressions don't have any Monroe feeling at all, Karen has her Pure, Ivy has her Insecure, she is completely ambitious.
EP12
In the song One Thousand and One Nights, Bollywood is most suitable for exaggerated and joyful plots. As a result, Karen used the same acting method as usual and will naturally be criticized for having a stiff face. My personal understanding is that when performing Bollywood, boys have a strong sense of strength, girls should exaggerate in both singing and expressions, and the singing should be soft and more inflected, and then the expressions should highlight the charming and "eye-rolling" feel, you can refer to Karen The female backup dancers next to them, although they are probably half-hearted, are much better than Karen's expressions. As for the dance moves, Karen's movements in SOLO are too big, her arms are too straight, her waist is too rigid, and she shrunk her hands and feet during group dances... After the stab, it's a good and powerful song in general. It's just that some details of Karen can Just do it more beautifully.
Favorite Second-hand white baby grant! I have cried more than once! ! Can't comment anymore! Ivy's ability to handle this Ballad is too strong! Every time I hear the phrase "waiting for a partner to compose", my nose gets sour, please tell me I'm not alone!
EP15 Season Finale The first season finale
as everyone knows, LZ has been stimulated by this episode to change the rating to one star... At the end of the season, let's talk about the overall performance of the two heroines.
When smash's promotion came out, LZ was very optimistic about KM, American Idol, the girl next door, and she was not bad-looking. She was completely suitable for this kind of Cinderella inspirational drama. Then I saw the much-anticipated first episode of the plot, oh, it turned out that the second villain in the plot was called Ivy. At that time, I felt that Karen was sweet but light, and Ivy was sexy but gaudy. It was indeed a typical setting of red and white roses. I want to be the producer of Monroe's musical. Although Karen has great potential, and the style deviates too far and is conservative, Ivy is a relatively safe choice.
But after chasing Smash all the way, from the second episode, I realized something was wrong: in the callback, Ivy's interpretation of "I'm not crazy" in the script made me realize the solid acting skills of Ivy (or Megan Hilty). And the understanding of Monroe, this is far better than Karen, who shook her shoulders and stiffened horribly in 20th Century Fox Mambo, which made me wonder if the so-called "potential" is exaggerated, and Ivy is not the ignorant in Korean dramas. But the second girl who is jealous of the heroine's talent, her own talent is beyond doubt.
During the workshop, Ivy was proud of spring breeze, and Karen was full of experience points. These can be expected. These are also the most reasonable episodes. Ivy made it from the lyrical Smiths, History Night (thanks to the girls in the group for translation), To the fragrant Wolf, she has done very well, confirming her strong singing skills and stage aura. And Karen is singing K songs and auditioning for pop music, which avoids her shortcomings of rigid limbs. I think it is the performance of two people showing their strengths.
Then after the workshop, the plot started to become frustrating and crap, Karen's presence became weaker and weaker, but the aura of the white lotus became stronger and stronger, Ivy looked unhappy all day, and halfway through, he didn't know how to sing. Movie Stars - WTF! Then the slag guide has all kinds of bad eyesight and hallucinations in his brain - your sister, aren't you emphasizing your professionalism? Do professional directors think that there is no gap between their fantasy and actual reality? ! The scumbag can see a perfect Karen in her fantasy, but in fact, she can't achieve the standard due to the gap in strength! So under the insistence of the unprofessional scumbag, the cup was finally born in the last episode...
Karen's version of Wolf - I can only describe it as appalling. It's even scarier than the Ivy version. First of all, Ivy's version adds a lot of air sounds and Monroe's characteristic big tongue sounds, and Karen's handling of these syllables is real (when the real treble starts to use falsetto), there is no naivety at all. Xiang Yan, may I ask Miss Karen, if you imitate carefully, you will die. Are you acting or singing your own song? What's more terrifying is that it's too frivolous, and the ending sound is raised not only but not enough! (For example, the phrase A wink and a smile, just listen to it) This kind of tune on the edge of the song really shouldn't appear on stage performances, real stage performances, no matter how impetuous the theme and plot of your performance, Or how high you sing, you must at least be sober and know how you should sing, not just how you like it, and stable performance is a must. The erratic syllables and the ending of the rush are really amateur, okay?
The song On Lexington & 52nd Street didn't really have anything Karen could do, just stand on it and make a vase - but that's still not up to the mark, Miss Karen! Standing on the stage, standing and sitting and sitting, the so-called aura of the stage comes from this! It's completely different from life, okay? The whole person is soft and looks very shapeless! If Monroe is so hunchbacked and breasted, a generation of goddesses will be reduced to a generation of female diaosi!
Finally, there is the dissatisfaction of the three views of the whole drama. I read the introduction of this drama and the interaction on the website at first, and felt that this drama is actually promoting "the kind people keep the clouds and see the moon, and finally get everything" and "the evil ones are doing their best." machine, you can win temporarily but lose everything in the end.” OK, this is no problem. Many Korean dramas are played like this. It is good to be a Korean drama. But the problem is, when the screenwriter begins to pursue depth, when the character of Ivy becomes more and more plump and closer to the situation of people in the real world, and when the character of Karen is always stuck in that thin chick in the dream world, people I began to put my own projections on Ivy, instead of bringing everyone into Mary Su Karen as the screenwriter wanted at the beginning. At this time, the simple dualistic values of good and evil began to fail to keep up with the screenwriter's settings. The audience start to differentiate. Coupled with the gap between the actors' singing and acting skills, the actors have made the female lead who should have been talented enough to be mediocre.
Another very controversial point is that Karen, who Ivy pointed out in the play before, did not try hard at all, which is a fact. Karen is a puppet doll in the play, she does whatever the scumbag tells her to do, and even as the first substitute when the movie star quits at the end, she can only compose two-thirds of the songs - she doesn't understand herself Privately save some experience points to train and level up, and spend some private time learning those songs and then you will die. When she calls back, she and her boyfriend watch Monroe's movies and do their homework. Compared with Ivy, who can give various opinions to the scumbag, watch all the movies and biographies, and imitate Monroe's pronunciation, Ivy really works hard to make a judgment. Just ask yourself, if it was you who experienced all this, and if you worked so hard to be robbed of your role by someone with mediocre aptitude and little effort, it would be strange not to be depressed. Therefore, because the end of good and evil is separated, the message to the audience is rather chilling: a Cinderella who does nothing at all and waits for something for nothing, as long as she is favored by important people, she can sweep away all her dreams. People who work tirelessly to climb up.
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