Were you, like The Corsair, rapt on Friday night, glued to the bar tv set? Were you, like The Corsair, fixed on the obviously lip-synched over-saccharine song sang by that little Chinese girl? Sure you do: It was the one that sounded like a drill going through you head. If you were in on the scam, then you are not The Telegraph -- and Matty Drudge -- who are pouring kerosene on an international non-issue (But that doesn't mean that this blog won't post in the hope of some extra international page views). From The Telegraph via Drudgie-Poo:
"The girl in the red dress with the pigtails, called Lin Miaoke, 9, and from a Beijing primary school, has become a national sensation since Friday night, giving interviews to all the most popular newspapers.
"But the show's musical designer felt forced to set the record straight. He gave an interview to Beijing radio saying the real singer was a seven-year-old girl who had won a gruelling competition to perform the anthem, a patriotic song called 'Hymn to the Motherland.'
"At the last moment a member of the Chinese politburo who was watching a rehearsal pronounced that the winner, a girl called Yang Peiyi, might have a perfect voice but was unsuited to the lead role because of her buck teeth."
The mandarins can Beijing.
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