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<今日美国>(USA Today)刚刚发的关于"超级女声"的文章
??China under spell of mighty 'Super Girl'
By David J. Lynch, USA TODAY
The name may not roll off the tongue quite like American Idol does, but that hasn't kept the Mongolian Cow Sour Sour Yogurt Super Girl contest from sweeping China.
Like Idol, which named its winner Wednesday night, China's Super Girl gives aspiring singing stars a shot at televised fame and fortune. And amid an Idol-like mania, young women all over China have lunged at the opportunity. (But only women: There's no national Super Boy show.)
Last week, the spotlight fell on the regional finals in Changsha, a polluted industrial backwater known for its spicy food and its links to Mao Zedong, who graduated from a teachers college here in 1918.
The three-hour program, televised live, featured five finalists: a moody, Avril Lavigne-type rocker; a prepubescent baby doll; an energetic schoolgirl; a glamour queen in evening wear; and a rough-and-ready tomboy.
Almost 1,000 people crammed into a firetrap of a studio surrounding a postage stamp-sized stage. Silhouettes of dancers appeared on enormous screens behind the singers, along with a wall of monitors showing commercials for products such as Johnson's baby wipes.
As the night began, the rocker, Huang Jing, a college student majoring in advertising, seemed the favorite. But after she belted out her opening number in English, one of the four judges, music producer Cang Yanbin, chastised her. "You should trust the charm of the mother tongue," he said.
Throughout the night, there were plenty of similarities to American Idol. Contestants crooned syrupy songs like Pengyou ("Friend"), shed tears, offered heartfelt thanks and catapulted through numerous costume changes.
Though other amateur talent programs have aired on local television stations, Super Girl is China's first nationally televised show of its kind, according to Liao Ke, its co-creator and a program designer for state-owned Hunan province satellite television.
Unprecedented popularity
In a country where televised fare still features military officers belting out patriotic anthems, viewers have found Super Girl irresistible. "This is the most popular entertainment program we've ever done," Liao says.
Ultimately, Super Girl will pit winners from each of five cities in a national final in the fall. When the program started a few months ago, more than 100,000 would-be singers ranging in age from 4 to 89 applied, Liao says.
To reach the Chengdu auditions, one teenager endured a 15-hour train trip from her home in western China, according to weekly magazine Liaowang Dongfan Zhoukan. It reported that a woman from Fujian province traveled to each city in sequence, losing in the first round every time. She spent more than three months' wages before finally abandoning her quest for fame.
Through May 6, an estimated 30% of all television sets in the country - or 210 million viewers - had tuned in to an episode, The show drew its largest audience to date during the regional finale in the southern city of Guangzhou; more than 22 million watched. (Super Girl can be seen in the USA on the Dish Network satellite television system.)
China has a reputation for copying everything from North Face jackets to the latest Hollywood DVDs. But Liao says he was only dimly aware of American Idol's British predecessor, Pop Idol, when he developed Super Girl.
He says the program grew out of China's rising standard of living, which has spawned more "colorful" entertainment options than in the days when art and entertainment were required to serve the country's Communist revolution. "Everybody wants to express themselves, and Hunan TV just became th | 
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