7-year-old Xia Vigor wowed the audience as she impersonated the American pop singer Taylor Swift on the stage of a popular Filipino TV Show “Your Face Sounds Familiar Kids.”
As the title suggests, the show is a competition featuring kids singing and impersonating popular music icons. Take a peek at the other contestants.
Xia performed Taylor’s 2008 hit “You Belong with me.” She entered in a marching band costume, but eventually changed to a shining, shimmering dress similar to something Tay Tay has worn in one of her concerts.
Taylor’s mini-me mastered the popular artist’s movements. The Filipino judges of the show were all praises for her performance.
Xia even got noticed by online personality, Perez Hilton.
However, not everyone thought the performance was adorable.
British journalist and television personality Piers Morgan called it “one of the creepiest things” he has watched.
“It’s not good, this whole sexualisation of young girls like this. I don’t like it at all, I’m afraid, and that’s my withering verdict on what everyone else is saying is so cute. That’s not cute,” Morgan said in a report by the Mirror UK.
In a report by the Daily Mail, Xia’s British father Alan Vigor, has replied to the criticisms, saying that the performance was not sexualized at all. He assured Piers Morgan that Xia is in good hands.
He also revealed that Xia has received an offer to become the “next Shirley Temple.”
“He’s wrong. He doesn’t understand the context. The culture here is very, very different. People in the Philippines see things differently,” Vigor said.
Here is the full performance. Cute? Creepy? You decide.
So, see you in Hollywood, Xia?
