Culture Analysis Of Original Music Reality Show "Sing My Song"

In 2014 a new music reality show called "Sing my song" attracted attention of the television industry, because it challenged the flagship program of Hunan TV "I am a singer" which broadcasted in the same period, and continuously led the ratings for 5 times. With the background that most of the domestic music reality shows are buying copyright of overseas program, it become the first mainland China’s reality show to be exported overseas for its innovative programming models and concepts. Thus it soon became the hot topic in both academia and industry. TV shows and pop music are both parts of popular culture, and music reality show is a combination of the two. There is no doubt it is a typical text of popular culture.Birthed with the Industrial Revolution, popular culture has long been criticized by academia.With the representative for the Frankfurt School, popular culture criticism pointing out its standardization, pseudo-personalized, think it is neither cultural nor public. In the reality of,domestic music reality shows indeed appear homogeneous, vulgarization and other undesirable phenomena. "Sing my song" has made some achievements both in audience and the music industry. Copyright output also can be seen as the recognition of the international television industry. Its innovation worth further study and summary.This dissertation the innovation model of "Sing my song" from the cultural perspective study to see as a representative sample of popular culture how music reality show can attract the public, but also compensate for the natural defects by combining elements from elite culture,and folk culture to enrich the connotation of the program. Finally, this article demonstrates the mutual penetration among popular culture, elite culture, folk culture, and the dominant culture in "Sing my song",and discusses how they work together to construct a more popular music reality show, with high aesthetic value.