They saw their idol was gone, assumed his name had been singled out for removal, and adapted.
But that wasn't enough to satisfy his fans, who were left baffled, then angry that their idol's set had been cut short.
The plan, says Zhao Qian, another manager at Taihe, is to put the Back Dormitory Boys together with their idol, Yao Ming, a Chinese basketball prodigy who plays centre for the Houston Rockets.
At any rate, the scientist in him would have been intrigued to learn that Goethe-ites have set up an Internet website chronometer that ticks off in milliseconds the time to their idol's birthday on August 28th.
This man has proved what we already knew - that he is certainly no Gareth Gates and their Pop Idol rivalry is pretty much where the similarities end.
But that is not to take anything away from Spurs - and their new Dutch idol - who shook off what was threatening to be a European hangover and secure a win that helped them leapfrog Villa in the table.
For a fleeting moment, these men were granted the distinct honor and privilege of not only verifying the authenticity of their autograph, but also coming in close contact with an idol from a simpler time in their lives.
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The throng had come to say goodbye to their scarlet-tressed rock idol, Matsumoto Hideto.
Once viewers can watch live events like sports and the American Idol finale on their iPads, cord cutting will accelerate.
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In TV land, viewers of the megahit U.S. show "American Idol" vote with their phones, shaping its future along the way.
Another popular career path for Idol contestants is taking their voices on to Broadway or on tour with roving productions of popular musicals.
Los Angeles (CNN) -- Ryan Seacrest became the latest celebrity targeted by a "swatter" when a hoax 911 call reported armed men were shooting their way into the "American Idol" host's home Wednesday.
He takes their calls on the radio, responds to their tweets and chats with them during Idol rehearsals.
To appease the crowd of headline-hungry journalists at the Television Critics Association semi-annual TV confab and the 26 million viewers who regularly watch Abdul's top-rated series American Idol, the two men and their team have spent the 36 hours since the famously loopy host announced her departure via Twitter seeking alternatives.
Most of us have watched with a mixture of bemusement and pity as delusional American Idol contestants with no discernable talent confidently declare their imminent stardom.
The downturn echoes recent years of audience declines for Fox's "American Idol, " whose numbers last season dropped about a third from their peak of 31 million in 2006.
Meaning there may not be, as these stories infer, less interest in what Mr. Obama has to say than in what happens on American Idol, but far less interest in whether Nielsen gets to take their attendance.
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