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Chinese Backstreet Boys Want It "That Way"

The hit show "Heroes" has a tribute to these boys in the pilot episode where two Asian guys wearing red basketball jerseys (one with a headband, just as in this video) lipsync on stage to the same song. See the homage here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DixeqM0_wsk

From WikiPedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_Dorm_Boys):

Back Dorm Boys refer to a Chinese male duo who gained fame for their lip sync videos to songs by the Backstreet Boys and other pop stars. They are also referred to as "Back Dormitory Boys", "Chinese Backstreet Boys", "Dormitory Boys", and "Two Chinese Boys". Their videos, captured on a low quality Web cam in their college dorm room, have been viewed by Internet users within China and around the world. Many of their videos can be seen on YouTube. The two, Wei Wei and Huang Yi Xin, were sculpture majors at the Guangzhou Arts Institute. They graduated from that university in June of 2006.

As many fans do not know the real names of the Back Dorm Boys, Wei Wei is often called simply "the big one" and Huang Yi Xin "the small one". In most videos, Wei Wei is seated on the viewer's right and Huang Yi Xin on the left. Huang Yi Xin has a cast on his left arm in some early videos.

A third "dorm boy", Xiao Jing, is in the background of most of the videos. He is often playing the Counter-Strike computer game while Wei Wei and Huang Yi Xin are performing. His back is usually turned to the camera and his face is only rarely seen. He does, however, occasionally play a role in the videos. In the video for the Trio song "Da Da Da", Xiao Jing gets up from his chair to hold a cardboard football in the air for Huang Yi Xin to kick.

The Back Dorm Boys phenomenon has resulted in an Internet meme and spawned a variety of parodies and imitations. The Back Dorm Boys received mainstream media attention in the United States through The Ellen DeGeneres Show.

The Back Dorm Boys have been signed as spokespeople for Motorola cellphones in China and Sina.com, one of the largest Chinese Internet portals. The Back Dorm Boys maintain a Chinese-language blog through Sina.com. There is also an English-language "Dormitory Boys" blog on Blogger.com, but this has been proved to be a hoax written by someone other than Wei Wei and Huang Yi Xin (see External Links), who has threatened to sue the blogger that unmasked it.

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