July 2007 was a fairly ordinary month in Taipei, with hot, fickle weather and frequent thunderstorms. But while mainstream popular culture was caught up in the spectacle of an American Idol style television show, in an underground mall between Zhongshan and Shuanglian MRT stations shoppers were met with thunderous music and groups of young people spinning and contorting themselves in all sorts of unusual positions.
平凡的 7 月，除了跟往年一樣熱的天氣、詭譎多變的午後大雷雨外，發生在台灣流行文化界的大事，就屬電視歌唱擂台捧出來的「星光幫」。但在媒體鏡頭外，台北捷運中山站到雙連站間地下街的廣場，充斥著震耳欲聾的舞曲，成群的青少年正在擺腰扭臀。