Move over William Hung, Here comes Ken Lee

American Idol always has its horrible singers that are good for a laugh or two, but because the show has spread its wing around the globe we can now start laughing at foreign singers whose dreams are being crushed. Valentina Hasan is a nice Bulgarian woman who really loves Mariah Carey and found herself auditioning for Music Idol. Only problem: Hasan doesn't really understand English. Of course that's where the hilarity begins (since the song is really called "Without You"). Hasan was laughed off the audition stage but after the show aired all of Bulgaria knew her name.

Just like with William Hung on American Idol, Music Idol figured out a way to milk the national joke and invited her back to mess up belt out "Ken Lee" in front of a live audience later in the season. Sadly she had learned English a tad better and that performance can be seen after the jump.

To add insult to injury French Idol had Mariah Carey herself on their show to show her the disaster and Mimi was d'accord avec le mess. Voici:

h/t Joz Joz Joz

-- Tony Pierce

Comments

[Ken Lee]

My name is Ken Lee and I approve this advertisment of me.

[Me]

A very minor point--it's not a Mariah Carey song. It's a Badfinger song first made famous by Harry Nilsson. Later, Air Supply, Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, and doubtlessly countless others covered it.

[bloopy]

i dunno if the song ever made it to the US but several years ago when i lived in prague there was this band called "las ketchup" that had a *huge* hit in which the chorus was this nonsensical string of words that they, as kids, would parrot as they sang along to "rapper's delight". . . i'll bet a youtube search would bring it up. . .

the first few times i heard the song i was like, "hey, that sounds. . . familiar", but i could never place it. . . it wasn't 'til a few months later that my friend clued me in. . .