Girl is compared to ‘Mulan’ for lying about gender to join a boy band

nypost.com:

the BBC reported.Per the statement, Fu had pretended to be a guy so she become a member of YGN Youth Club’s boot camp, a challenging program that trains preteen boys, aged 11 to 13, the requisite dance and vocal skills to become rich and famous pop stars.

A study, entitled the “White paper on idol industry and fan economy in 2019,” projected that China’s idol economy would attain $15 billion by 2020.The aspiring diva was never an official member of the band, only the boot camp, but she did appear in training videos, which depict her rocking a short haircut a la “Shakespeare in Love,” according to the Daily Mail.

Fu’s cover was blown after sharp-eyed Weibo users pointed out that she was, in fact, a girl. YGN Youth Club has since claimed that.