Want to see something amazing? Drop what you’re doing right now and go watch this video clip of a Taiwanese boy who sings the Dolly Parton song “I Will Always Love You” in a pitch perfect, note-for-note recreation of Whitney Houston’s famous cover for her movie The Bodyguard. This kid, despite being pudgy and having a bad haircut, just might be the greatest singing sensation since The Muppets started doing cover songs. I’m blown away.
The boy, Lin Yu Chun, is a contestant on Taiwan’s version of American Idol, Super Star Avenue. The top prize is a record contract and $1,000,000. If I were a betting man, I’d be putting my money on this kid, because he just blew my mind! Have you seen anything like this before? I mean, Susan Boyle was and is great, but this kid just… absolutely smashed one of the hardest songs you could ever want to sing, and he sang it better than Whitney can these days!
Just watch this.
See what I mean? He killed it, didn’t he? This kid is frighteningly good.
Image: The Daily Mail
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