Jadon Lim might not have won a BYD ride at last night’s Star Search 2024 finals, but he did achieve one thing – virality.
The 23-year-old NTU engineering student showed off his erhu-playing skills during the talent segment, but it wasn’t his performance that got everyone gawking.
A close-up of the instrument revealed a conspicuous $450 price tag.
Of course, Singaporeans went wild in the comments with many laughing at the boohoo and the clip garnering over 200K views since the incident.
Jadon is known to be one of the most outspoken of the Top 12 (who can forget his tired outburst during the 8days.sg photoshoot?), and he responded to the incident in a @mediacorp.re.dian IG Reel.
“The price tag was there because it wasn’t my erhu,” he said.
“I borrowed it from the NTU Chinese Orchestra,” added Jadon, before revealing that his own erhu was broken.
In his defense, Jadon said: “It didn’t occur to me to checkl the price tag, because why would you?”
We can only point fingers at the cameraman then.
However, it seems the NTU engineering undergraduate didn’t mind his newfound online fame one bit, and said: “At least I am known for something, right?”
Of course, Jadon was tasked to react to a few hilarious comments.
To one that read: “Good performance. Who cares about the price tag?”, Jadon beamed before he dryly said, “Apparently, everyone else lah because it wasn’t great”
“I did better during practice, by the way” he admitted.
Another netizen asked, “Who actually zoomed to that price tag to make us have a good laugh?”
Jadon’s response? “If I couldn’t play it well, at least I gave you all a good laugh!”
Then there was one netizen who wrote “At least we now know Mediacorp doesn’t use cheap knock-offs.”
Sorry to burst your bubble but the credit isn’t Mediacorp’s to take.
All things considered, there is no such thing as bad news, right?