The popular special program “Celebrity Ratings Check: Autumn 3.5 Hour Special” (TV Asahi), in which Downtown’s Masanori Hamada (62) serves as MC, was aired on the 27th. The program was a project in which junior high school students were treated as “dogs to be chewed up.” Leading entertainers such as Naoto Takenaka (69), Katsunori Takahashi (60), Kika Fujiwara (54), and Udanji Ichikawa (61) teamed up to compete in a variety of contests. The challenge is to get a “taste for zero”. Each time they make a mistake, their rank drops from first-rate to ordinary to second-rate (……), and when they reach the final rank of “not worth showing,” some of them disappear from the screen. In the “rating check” challenge, the contestants compare a bottle of 300,000 yen luxury champagne and a bottle of 2,500 yen sparkling wine and guess which is the more expensive one. The “mixed ensemble” is an ensemble that combines different types of musical instruments. In this case, the performance consisted of a violin, viola, cello, marimba, and piano. The two groups of professional and amateur players performed “Let It Go – As It Is”, a big hit from the movie “Anna and the Snow Queen”. Both vocalists were May J. (37). This is not to fail the person who made a mistake, but to praise the junior high school students who performed at a level that could be mistaken for professionals, and it is disrespectful from the compcept to the junior high school students who were prepared as inferior to the professionals. The junior high school students who performed in today’s rating were all students who had won first place in competitions and were doing well, but there were many comments that made fun of them. One entertainment journalist pointed out, “Perhaps there was a lack of consideration for the project itself. According to the program’s website, “The program compared a mixed ensemble of top professional musicians with a mixed ensemble of amateur junior high school students. The correct answers are performed by seven professional players who have graduated from prestigious music universities in Japan and abroad and are recognized worldwide.” The article says, “The correct answer” is a tricky word, isn’t it? ……. The junior high school students who performed at the festival may have been “amateurs,” but they were serious about their music, having won prizes at famous competitions. It is not right to treat them as if they were “dogs to be chewed up. Furthermore, the following comments were made about X: “I wonder why everyone who was there did not praise the junior high school students for their good performance, but instead said they were deaf and ashamed of themselves. It’s really not a good look. (Original text) “The content of the show is that the performers prove that they are entertainers who can recognize the best, so some of it can’t be helped. …… However, many people said that the junior high school students’ performance was better. Perhaps it was edited out, but it might have balanced out if there had been even one performer who praised the junior high school student who had beaten the pro. –I think it’s a good idea to be considerate of the people around you.
