The beautiful sister is inferior to the talented brother: Is Vietnamese music more dominant than negative?

After the "big brother" music game shows paved the way for an entertainment idol industry, people expect that "Pretty Sister Riding the Wind and Breaking the Waves" season 2 will take advantage of that path to continue and go further.

The beautiful wind-riding sister is losing out to her talented brothers - Photo: CTCC

But from the first performances, that prospect seems remote.

It seems that we can expect a hotly discussed program but to create a "long tail" phenomenon (an economic term coined by entrepreneur Chris Anderson to talk about the sales of a product that remain stable over time) like Brother overcame thousands of obstacles is more difficult.

Is it more difficult to create female idols in Vietnam?

The initial reason was quite obvious: the performances of beautiful sister Up to this point it has been slipping by, leaving no impression.

Remaking old songs is always the trump card in game shows like this. But the songs chosen here are not old enough for people to feel the freshness when remaking them.

Compared to the extremely entertaining, highly unpredictable, rewatch-worthy acts with a soundscape that continually expands to many genre frontiers such as While the performances of the brothers such as Drum Rice, Winter Coat - Return, Mother Loves Child, Long Road Wet Rain - Don't Go That Way ... were staged with less ideas, more carelessly and sometimes even a bit similar.

Everyone knows that My Linh, Thu Phuong or Bui Lan Huong are great singers, but if their performances only highlighted that, we wouldn't need "Beautiful Sister" to know.

That being said, is it possible that the disadvantage of Beautiful Sister compared to Brother also comes from the fact that creating a female idol in Vietnam today is also more difficult?

Since My Tam, Vietnamese music has not had a female idol who has truly influenced popular culture.

Meanwhile, although there are not many male idol phenomena, they always exist: Son Tung M-TP, Jack (before the private life scandal), HIEUTHUHAI and now the "brothers who have overcome thousands of hardships" group.

The beautiful woman is inferior because of... sex appeal?

Which male idol can compare to Taylor Swift? - Photo: Reuters

In fact, most idol industries in the world, in their early days, started with male idols.

In Japan, before the 1970s the introduction of rock music from the West also led to male dominance, before "girls next door" like Momoe Yamaguchi represented the freshness, innocence and optimism of a Japan that was shining again after the post-war period, creating a boom in female idols.

The same thing happened in the history of Western popular music. Elvis Presley and The Beatles created walls.

During the Beatles' boom, for example, Cilla Black was their friend and she was also a very famous female idol, but compared to the fever that The Beatles created, it was not on par.

Female superstars like Madonna and Britney Spears had to wait until the 1980s and 1990s to appear.

The fact that male idols often pave the way for idol culture comes from the fact that the audience spending money on idol culture is mainly female, and sex appeal is one of the core elements that make up what is called an "idol".

Not to mention other prejudices, when female stars are often scrutinized more about their morals.

A classic example in the history of popular music is Mick Jagger and Janis Joplin. Both were alcoholics, lived wild lives, and enjoyed pleasures, but Mick Jagger was considered a rebel, while Joplin was considered a self-destructive person during her lifetime.

Perhaps it's just because Jagger is a man and Joplin is a woman. Or back in Vietnam, while Pretty Sister is always directed into trivial "drama", in Brother, people only see bright brotherhood.

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