Embracing a world of variety

A lot of Angela Chang fans were upset by my June 11 column, in which I wrongly attributed the song Invisible Wings to Zhang Liangying, 25, a Sichuan singer who rose to stardom three years ago on the Chinese version of American Idol.

In fact, as several emails have informed me, Invisible Wings was made popular by Chang, 27, a popular singer in Taiwan. It was the theme for a TV drama series, released in 2006, in which Chang played the protagonist, who had to grapple with the fact that the man she loved had killed her twin sister. Later, Chang included the song on one of her albums.

I'm afraid I'm a victim of the "generation gap". I have been out of touch with pop culture for so long that I confused Zhang Liangying, whose fans include some of my young colleagues, with Angela Chang, whose fans are mostly teenage girls.