We always roll our eyes at people at awards shows who say they didn\u2019t expect to win.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Then it happened to JJ Lin at the 2025 Asia Artist Awards (AAA) in Kaohsiung on Saturday (Dec 6), and we actually believe him.<\/p>\n
Celebrating AAA\u2019s 10th anniversary and held in Taiwan for the first time, the star-studded ceremony saw some of Korea\u2019s biggest names like IU, Park Bo-gum, Yoona, Le Sserafim, and Stray Kids lighting up the Kaohsiung National Stadium.<\/p>\n
And somewhere in this sea of K-pop royalty sat one very unsuspecting Mandopop king.<\/p>\n
Lin had been invited as a performing guest, so the Singaporean singer genuinely didn\u2019t think he\u2019d be collecting anything other than applause.<\/p>\n
Yet he walked away not with one but two awards \u2013 Best Artist (Singer) and Asia Star (Singer) \u2013 making him the only non-K-pop act among nine winners to snag a Best Artist trophy that night.<\/p>\n
No wonder he looked absolutely confused.<\/p>\n
When his name was announced for Best Artist, cameras caught him sporting the most \u201cWait huh? Me? Are you sure?\u201d expression.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We always roll our eyes at people at awards shows who say they didn\u2019t expect to win.\u00a0 Then…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[3623,156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-174814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-celebrity","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}