Chinese 'Backstreet Boys'
(AP) Updated: 2006-12-13 07:40
Huang Yixin, front, and Wei Wei, back, former
college roommates from south China who last year found worldwide web notoriety
with their low-quality, high-hilarity lipsynching clips, perform one of their
famous numbers during a recording session in Beijing, China Dec. 12, 2006. Their
mock music videos draw millions of Internet viewers and thousands of fawning
reviews by fans who declare them hilarious, talented, cute, and hot. They posted
their first 'performance,' a 4.5 minute clip of lipsynching to the Backstreet
Boys hit 'I Want It That Way,' to their college intranet in March 2005. It
quickly migrated to big sites like YouTube and Google Video and fast became one
of the most watched and highest rated amateur clips online. [AP]
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