"Ken Lee" (a hackneyed interpretation of the words "Can't live") is an interpretation of the popular song "Without You," performed by Valentina Hasan, a contestant auditioning for the Bulgarian show Music Idol in February 2008. Before the performance, Hasan informed the judges she was going to be performing "the Mariah Carey song 'Ken Lee,'" and when she was corrected that the song was called "Without You," Hasan insisted that the song was named "Ken Lee." Although she did not continue to the next round of the competition, a video of her performance was soon posted on the web where it became popular both in Bulgaria and abroad. Hasan's extremely broken English (upon finishing the song, she insisted the garbled lyrics she sang were English words), coupled with her yet undeveloped singing abilities, combined to great comic effect, and garnered the video over four million viewings in its first month on the video sharing website YouTube. The popularity of the video encouraged Music Idol...