Silver Bells

Published: Dec. 18, 2006, noon

b'William Hung, 2004 \\u2014 This isn\\u2019t really fair, because William Hung\\u2019s entire career is based on the fact that his singing is terrible. And to be honest, I wasn\\u2019t all that amused by the whole thing the first time around; for an Asian guy doing awful karaoke versions of popular songs, he wasn\\u2019t particularly interesting or innovative. I had a Grinch-style change of heart when I realized that Silver Bells absolutely belongs to William Hung. Like Jeff Buckley covering Hallelujah, Hung has made the definitive version of the song \\u2014 for better or worse \\u2014 and all future versions will be measured against it.'