A rare moment when reality TV is worth a darn
Written By: Due-East on July 10, 2007
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| My friend who’s also learning Chinese sent me these two videos a few minutes ago, and I thought I’d post links to them here mainly because it’s amazing how much difference it can make when a singer is truly passionate about a song. Now, I’m a big fan of Stefanie Sun (孙燕姿) over all, but this amateur from a Taiwanese version of American Idol blows her out of the water with his version. |
| Here’s the original version of the song, with a video that appears to be about an obsessive, wannabe-Riverdancer fan of hers getting dumped by her boyfriend for being a weirdo: |
| And here’s Yang Zong Wei’s (杨宗纬) version. He puts his all into the vocals here, I think, as is evident by the emotional response of the audience. Whether you like the song or style of music or not, you have to admire the performance. Just try to ignore the fact that he looks like he’s trying to pass a kidney stone while he sings. |
| Update: Aska Yang didn’t win the competition from the video here (he dropped out after it was found out he lied about his age), but he did get a record deal out of it. His debut album’s songs were “…meh…” nothing special, but hopefully he’ll pick better songs or get better writers for his next album. |
