# Ken Lee - oh dear **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 2, 2009, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-lee-oh-dear/512339 "2009-10-02T13:39:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![JimNightshade](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jimnightshade/32/3354_2.png) [@JimNightshade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimNightshade)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2009, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-lee-oh-dear/512339/1 "2009-10-02T13:39:46Z")
[![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RgL2MKfWTo) From the Bulgarian version of Idol. Someone should have paid more attention in school. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2009, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-lee-oh-dear/512339/2 "2009-10-02T13:44:33Z")
While it’s funny to point and laugh (as always, with this type of show), I wonder how many of us would be able to give a cromulent performance of a song with Bulgarian lyrics? ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2009, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-lee-oh-dear/512339/3 "2009-10-02T13:50:05Z")
> [@Colophon](#): > > While it’s funny to point and laugh (as always, with this type of show), I wonder how many of us would be able to give a cromulent performance of a song with Bulgarian lyrics? Well I think the main point is how many of us would even think of trying to sing a Bulgarian song in Bulgarian on TV ---
**Author:** ![Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/bc8723/32.png) [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unauthorized_Cinnamon)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2009, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-lee-oh-dear/512339/4 "2009-10-02T20:38:48Z")
ooolibadibadowyooooo! She was a good sport - went back at a later date and sang it properly, then segued to her old version, with the audience singing along! ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2009, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-lee-oh-dear/512339/5 "2009-10-03T01:33:22Z")
I had several people send this video to me when it first started circling the internet. I’ve seen it like twenty times and it still cracks me up. I watched Music Idol (the actual name of the show) pretty religiously during the first season and would talk about it with my students a lot, but found the second season - which this clip is from - a lot less amusing and didn’t watch more than a couple episodes. This bit is really egregiously bad, but there was a LOT of tragic English on this show. I was always telling my kids that if they ever wanted to go on Music Idol and not look like idiots, they should pay close attention in class! If I were still teaching, now I’d be able to add “if you don’t want THE ENTIRE WORLD to see you make a fool of yourself on youtube, you should pay attention in class!” BTW, a guy from my village managed to be bad enough that he got on the show, too, singing a song ABOUT the village! [Check it out.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DB9-JiieFNs). (My village is Pavel Banya, it’s “famous” for its mineral hot springs and this guy worked in one of the rehabilitation centers. No, I didn’t know him.) And **Colophon** , _I_ can sing quite cromlently in Bulgarian, TYVM. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/soul_brother_number_two/32/3515_2.png) [@Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soul_Brother_Number_Two)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2009, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-lee-oh-dear/512339/6 "2009-10-03T21:29:56Z")
Kyla, why are they laughing at him? What’s the backstory on the guy with blue hair? Who’s the goodlooking judge with the big pointy nose?