METEOR POWER

from ONLYJERRY posted by laurenda78

2003: Bombshells, boy bands,
breakouts, breakups
Posted: 8:48 PM (Manila Time) | Dec. 31, 2003
By Jocelyn Valle
Inquirer News Service

'Meteor' power

The land was also rocked by another bombshell, which kept on
returning like an old song-the Taiwanese boy band called F4, from the
Taiwanese soap "Meteor Garden."

First came Vaness Wu and Ken Zhu in September; they sang three songs
each at the muddy Philsports field, and the huge crowd loved them.

Then came Jerry Yan and Vic Zhou in November; they sang three songs
each at the Fort open field, and the huge crowd loved them.

Then came all four young men together in a show at Philsports again,
and the huge crowd loved them still, no matter that it was the day
after Christmas.

Will the "Meteor" power ever fall?

Bigger, lesser

Other foreign stars-far better artists than F4, and lesser
celebrities than F4-came to town, but their audiences were not as
huge as the F4 multitude: Mariah Carey, Mandy Moore, Duncan Sheik,
Ronan Keating, Boyz II Men, Michel Legrande, Dionne Warwick, Stephen
Bishop, and Michael Buble.

"Spaghetti Song" by the Sex Bomb Girls and "Otso-otso" by Bayani
Agbayani became national anthems, drowning out even the live acoustic
music of Paolo Santos, Jimmy Bondoc and Nyoy Volante.