“Taiwanese Susan Boyle” Would Also Like You To Know He Dances, Too

So in case you decided to take your “I’m Taking a Break From the Internet” moment over the past 36 hours, you’ve missed a YouTube clip of Eric Lin — otherwise known as Lin Yu-chun — hit a note-for-note rendition of Whitney Houston’s I Will Always Love You, reaching viral proportions and having it broadcast over every single nationally syndicated morning show, drive-time radio program and Internet website as the “Taiwanese Susan Boyle.” Which begs the question: do any of the Taiwanese talk shows know how big this guy is getting?

The answer: Uhmm, kind of. This news clip from CTi today does a segment on him, but never actually brings up the fact that a foreign audiences has suddenly become totally engrossed that he does a pitch perfect version of Whitney Houston’s hit — there’s no reference to YouTube at all. Instead, the clip shows chest-popping in his red bow tie and bowl-cut, then sashaying across a dance floor. Yes, seriously. No, I don’t understand why, either.