Chopsticks Brothers’ win raises questions
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CHINESE viral hit “Little Apple” is a nationwide phenomenon, so questions were being raised yesterday about a US music prize it received after it emerged the Chopsticks Brothers’ performance never made it to air.
The song by Xiao Yang and Wang Taili has spawned a myriad copies, even in police information videos, with the original and its imitations racking up hundreds of millions of views online.
On Sunday it was given the International Song Award at the American Music Awards, with the Chinese media saying the pair — who are neither brothers nor composers — performed during the ceremony.
But Chinese fans were outraged when the band admitted they had lip-synched their performance, and it emerged the song was recorded during a commercial break, without featuring in the actual program.
The award itself was presented backstage, rather than on screen, prompting some to speculate that the band had paid for their triangular glass trophies.
“Chopsticks Brothers bought an award” started trending on Weibo.
“I can’t stand that the Chopsticks Brothers lip-synched at an overseas awards ceremony!” said one user. “They’ve lost face for us abroad.”
Mark Rafalowski, executive vice president of Dick Clark Productions which produces the show, told Xinhua news agency that both prizes were “honorary” awards based on the artists’ demonstrated levels of popularity.
It was the first year the International Song Award and the International Artist Award, won by another Chinese singer, Zhang Jie, had been included in the line-up.
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