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[Caption] Prudence Liew is the host for "The Voice", but the audience felt that she was trying to crack jokes by the things she said, but it was not funny at all.

[Caption] Justin Lo, Edmond Leung, William So and Kary Ng were on "The Voice" as guest judges. TVB wanted to attract higher ratings by bring more Stars on the show, but because there were too many Stars, the audience felt that the camera focused too much on the Stars and not enough on the contestants.

American Idol has become one of the greatest hits around the world and now even TVB and ATV joined in the battlefield. TVB's "The Voice" and ATV's "Asian Millionstar" have both broadcast 3 episodes each. With the increasing heated battle between the two shows, both shows present similar advantages and disadvantages. Audience said that the style was consistent, using so many Mandarin songs, Hong Kong stars are snatching the limelight from the contestants and highlighting that the Hong Kong Music Industry seem to be in a temporary shortage.

Strange Phenomenon: Cantonese Songs are isolated

Although the shows are held in Hong Kong, but not many contestants sang Cantonese songs, the majority of them sang Mandarin songs. The Cantonese songs sang were revolving around the same ones, such as Beyond and Jacky Cheung's old songs. Mandarin songs were used 80% of the time. The most popular Mandarin songs used were songs by Jay Chou and David Tao. Criticisms are often made to the contestants that they do not have their own style. The majority of Cantonese songs sang were mostly old songs, not many songs from the recent years. Is the Hong Kong Music Industry today really that bad, that even their own people aren't supporting?

Source: 21CN.com
Translated by: aZnangel @ AEU