Like any Communist country, capitalist innovations tend to have a 30-year delay before reaching the reds. The last time I visited China in 2000, Michael Jackson and Boys II Men were still the premier American pop stars. Inn reality, China today is as capitalist as anyone and North Korea’s not exactly following the guidance of Karl Marx. Where Fidel’s “stepped down”, Russia’s playing video games and importing Fords, the Berlin Wall is no more, and China has refreshed their playlists on American pop – moving beyond communism has brought us another blight.

With a regular influx of American pop into Asia, we in turn get fresh interpretations of how American songs ought to be sung. Sometimes in the form of jersey and hat sporting pop-rap and sometimes in William Hung’s She Bangs American Idol performances. Since the airing of Hung’s performance, the latest buzz on dreadful Asian interpretations reside amongst our Korean friends.

I don’t know the name of this guy, but singing Mariah Carey’s Touch My Body… just watch the clip, it speaks for itself.

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