Talent show judges blown away by 47 year old
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I think that is a little harsh. That panel show has uncovered some pretty fair talent. Susan Boyle this year. Potts last year. But let's face it. It is show business. The entire audience had a different face after Susan Boyle sang than they did before. When I first saw her I have to admit that I was a bit skeptical but when she sang, the lady made a believer out of me.
Yes,indeed! The lady is a great find:smile: I am often amazed when upon hearing some decent song on my radio, the singer is one of the Talent Show winners.Carrie and Kelly are two of them.
Actually, Paul Potts was a 2007 find. 2008 winner was a 14 year old break dancer. I think they have their 2009 winner already.
Very true
I admit to being not a little skeptical and I was imposing artificial limits that were purely in my own mind and I was a bit embarrassed for her. Once she began to sing, however, my skepticism went out the window.
This poor woman looked after her mother all her life and had put her own ambitions on hold until the mother died. I hope with her new-found fame she can make a good life for herself. I understand that the top prize on that show is a hundred thousand pounds....That should give her a start.
You know, I have to admit I was as skeptical as the rest of them. Once she began to sing, my response quickly shifted to amazement, then to humbled by the sheer force of her talent… then to being ashamed of myself for the judgments (limits) I'd also placed upon her.
I remember thinking what a smug pr!ck Simon looked like as he openly mocked her when she swivelled those 47 year old hips on stage before she sang…. and yes, maybe I was even a bit embarrassed for her when she did that… but I also remember hoping she could pull off a passable rendition of something to at least give the panel less to mock once she was done … so when that amazing song spilled out of her …. I noticed my own amazement, and I realized I was just as susceptible to pass judgment as anyone else… else why would I have been so shocked to hear such an incredible singing voice come out of her?
My response reminded me that I can stand to look first at myself before I point at anyone else for whatever limits or judgements they place upon others. Often times it's those of us who think we're above such things that need to look within the most.
Yes Simon did look like a smug prick when he mocked her and cast his eyes either to the ceiling or to the other judges. Did he have to ask her age?
Susan had the voice and the talent but before she sang I found myself wishing that somehow she could have got a bit of a make over and clothing that didn't shout "frumpy" to the rafters. When she did start to sing, there was beauty and honesty about it that is rare these days and it cut through all the seeming disrespect that was coming from the judges and out of that noisy crowd. I really hope she does well.
LONDON - A 47-year-old Scottish charity volunteer has become an unlikely international media sensation after a stunning talent show performance, amid reports she is set to cash in with a quick record deal.
By Thursday, a video clip of Susan Boyle's singing debut on the "Britain's Got Talent" television show last weekend had been viewed by over 12 million people on YouTube, with the numbers rising fast.
U.S. actress Demi Moore was apparently moved to tears by the clip, while the story has been picked up around the world, with U.S., Australian and other broadcasters reportedly queuing up for interviews.
"Susan has clearly wowed the audience, the judges and the world with a truly fantastic performance," said Tom Kerr, leader of West Lothian council in Scotland where Boyle lives alone with a cat called Pebbles.
The West Lothian Courier, her local paper, added that she was "doing what the Beatles did in the 60s" — that is, taking the United States by storm, as the Fab Four did four decades ago.
And, while press coverage in Britain was relatively muted, media in the United States are lapping up the story.
Global news channel CNN said it had been flooded with messages about Boyle, who was filmed tucking into a sandwich shortly before taking to the stage.
The San Francisco Chronicle, under the headline "Just Who Is The Singer Susan Boyle?" noted that "Unless you live under a rock, you know about the Scottish woman who has taken the industrialized world by storm."
"U.K. talent show stunned by Scottish virgin Susan Boyle," ran Australia's Herald Sun newspaper.
In Britain coverage was less high profile — perhaps because "Britain's Got Talent" airs on private broadcaster ITV and so the story is not highlighted by rival channels.
In the clip, the unglamorous-looking Boyle drew laughter from the audience when she walked on stage, saying she dreamed of emulating West End star Elaine Page.
When she began to sing, however, the panel of three judges led by music guru Simon Cowell was visibly shocked, and the audience in Glasgow rose to its feet, as her voiced soared through "I Dreamed A Dream" from "Les Miserables."
Cowell is already lining up a record deal for her, Britain's Press Association reported, while versions of the Les Miserables song she sang entered the midweek singles chart here and the iTunes chart.
U.S. actress Moore posted the comment "It made me teary" on her Twitter page, after viewing the clip.
Boyle's success — she is now favourite to win the British talent show — has drawn comparisons with Paul Potts, an opera-singing mobile phone salesman who won in 2007. Potts went on to have number one albums in 15 countries.
Perhaps inevitably, the story — in which comment on Boyle's appearance has been prominent — triggered media soul-searching. The following paragraph bothers the hell out of me:
"Is Susan Boyle ugly? Or are we?" wrote Tanya Gold in Britain's Guardian newspaper.
"On Saturday night she stood on the stage . . . small and rather chubby, with a squashed face, unruly teeth and unkempt hair.
"Why are we so shocked when 'ugly' women can do things, rather than sitting at home weeping and wishing they were somebody else?
"Men are allowed to be ugly and talented," she wrote, saying businessman Alan Sugar — who stars in reality TV show "The Apprentice" — looks "like a burst bag of flour," while chef "Gordon Ramsay has a dried-up riverbed for a face."
© Copyright (c) The Vancouver Sun
By Thursday, a video clip of Susan Boyle's singing debut on the "Britain's Got Talent" television show last weekend had been viewed by over 12 million people on YouTube, with the numbers rising fast.
U.S. actress Demi Moore was apparently moved to tears by the clip, while the story has been picked up around the world, with U.S., Australian and other broadcasters reportedly queuing up for interviews.
"Susan has clearly wowed the audience, the judges and the world with a truly fantastic performance," said Tom Kerr, leader of West Lothian council in Scotland where Boyle lives alone with a cat called Pebbles.
The West Lothian Courier, her local paper, added that she was "doing what the Beatles did in the 60s" — that is, taking the United States by storm, as the Fab Four did four decades ago.
And, while press coverage in Britain was relatively muted, media in the United States are lapping up the story.
Global news channel CNN said it had been flooded with messages about Boyle, who was filmed tucking into a sandwich shortly before taking to the stage.
The San Francisco Chronicle, under the headline "Just Who Is The Singer Susan Boyle?" noted that "Unless you live under a rock, you know about the Scottish woman who has taken the industrialized world by storm."
"U.K. talent show stunned by Scottish virgin Susan Boyle," ran Australia's Herald Sun newspaper.
In Britain coverage was less high profile — perhaps because "Britain's Got Talent" airs on private broadcaster ITV and so the story is not highlighted by rival channels.
In the clip, the unglamorous-looking Boyle drew laughter from the audience when she walked on stage, saying she dreamed of emulating West End star Elaine Page.
When she began to sing, however, the panel of three judges led by music guru Simon Cowell was visibly shocked, and the audience in Glasgow rose to its feet, as her voiced soared through "I Dreamed A Dream" from "Les Miserables."
Cowell is already lining up a record deal for her, Britain's Press Association reported, while versions of the Les Miserables song she sang entered the midweek singles chart here and the iTunes chart.
U.S. actress Moore posted the comment "It made me teary" on her Twitter page, after viewing the clip.
Boyle's success — she is now favourite to win the British talent show — has drawn comparisons with Paul Potts, an opera-singing mobile phone salesman who won in 2007. Potts went on to have number one albums in 15 countries.
Perhaps inevitably, the story — in which comment on Boyle's appearance has been prominent — triggered media soul-searching. The following paragraph bothers the hell out of me:
"Is Susan Boyle ugly? Or are we?" wrote Tanya Gold in Britain's Guardian newspaper.
"On Saturday night she stood on the stage . . . small and rather chubby, with a squashed face, unruly teeth and unkempt hair.
"Why are we so shocked when 'ugly' women can do things, rather than sitting at home weeping and wishing they were somebody else?
"Men are allowed to be ugly and talented," she wrote, saying businessman Alan Sugar — who stars in reality TV show "The Apprentice" — looks "like a burst bag of flour," while chef "Gordon Ramsay has a dried-up riverbed for a face."
© Copyright (c) The Vancouver Sun
I approved the video for you Herboozle. Just for a future reference, you normally can't post imbedded videos until you get more posts under your belt.;-)
April 17, 2009
Scot Singer Susan Boyle, the anti-Obama?
William Tate
[FONT=times new roman,times]There is something viscerally compelling about the current viral internet video. If you're one of the three people in America who haven't yet seen Susan Boyle's appearance on Britain's Got Talent--American Idol with a bunch of accents--you owe it to yourself to watch it. [/FONT][FONT=times new roman,times]It may be the most riveting 7 1/2 minutes of television ever.[/FONT]
[FONT=times new roman,times]I, and apparently millions of other people, have found ourselves watching the video over and over. And I'm struck by our fascination with it.[/FONT]
[FONT=times new roman,times]From the moment she strides resolutely, solidly, on stage, this frumpy Scottish spinster captivates our attention. Not because of her beauty; to call Miss Boyle's appearance plain would be like saying the U.S. Marines have a lot of firepower. Or her style; she's wearing a beige dress, dark stockings and white shoes. Not because of her poise; at one point, flustered, she has trouble answering a question from the show's judges.[/FONT]
[FONT=times new roman,times]About the time she finds the right term -- villages, she realizes -- to describe her hometown, Blackburn in West Lothian near Edinburgh, we begin to suspect that we're about to be served haggis, when we had hoped for filet mignon. After all, average people usually only have average talent. And on first glance it would be stretching the word, average, to apply it to Miss Boyle, bless her big Scottish heart. A mini-bump and grind, causing the show's judges to roll their eyes, convinces us that heartburn will surely follow.[/FONT]
[FONT=times new roman,times]Then Susan Boyle opens her mouth and sings.[/FONT]
[FONT=times new roman,times]And her voice sends a shiver through you. Just as it must have the audience, even the jaded judges--come on, you've heard Simon Cowell called worse than that--on hand to hear it in person.[/FONT]
[FONT=times new roman,times]I have heard the song Miss Boyle sings, I Dreamed a Dream from the musical Les Miserables, performed at least a half-dozen times by professional cast members in theatres around the world. I have never heard it sung so beautifully. Even in London. Even in Paris.[/FONT]
[FONT=times new roman,times]Miss Boyle finishes to a standing ovation from a stunned audience, and two of the three judges. Then she walks off the stage.[/FONT]
[FONT=times new roman,times]She had explained in the lead-in to her performance that she "always wanted to sing in front of a large audience." Having accomplished that dream, she turns to exit, stage right. The judges have to call her back to review her performance.[/FONT]
[FONT=times new roman,times]It is a remarkable performance that, even now, gives me goosebumps. As Britain's Got Talent judge Amanda Cooper says in the clip, we've just been given a stunning wakeup call not to judge a person by her, or his, looks.[/FONT]
[FONT=times new roman,times]But I suspect that there's something more powerful even than that at work, to cause the almost-universal appeal of Miss Boyle's performance. What we sense is that this plain woman--hair unstyled, eyebrows unplucked, an image consultant's worst dream sprung to life--is the rarest of things in this age of soundbites and spin doctors and focus groups: a real person, completely lacking in artifice.[/FONT]
[FONT=times new roman,times]At a time when the President of the United States feels compelled to use a teleprompter for even the most minor appearances, when Grecian columns are necessary props for campaign speeches, when public figures are as carefully packaged as your morning cereal boxes, after watching plain Susan Boyle sing with a voice for the ages, you feel like you have witnessed a real person do something that's real. And right. And good. No, extraordinarily good.[/FONT]
[FONT=times new roman,times]She is, in effect, the anti-Obama. No artifice. No teleprompter. As likely to stumble over words, or do a spontaneous bump and grind as she is to belt out a song that could leave you with chill-bumps.[/FONT]
[FONT=times new roman,times]I don't know what Miss Boyle's politics are. I don't care. Whatever they are, I hope she keeps them, just as I hope she stays true to her small-town--uh, village--Scottish roots and to herself after the big, and no doubt well-deserved, payday she has coming.[/FONT]
Scot Singer Susan Boyle, the anti-Obama?
William Tate
[FONT=times new roman,times]There is something viscerally compelling about the current viral internet video. If you're one of the three people in America who haven't yet seen Susan Boyle's appearance on Britain's Got Talent--American Idol with a bunch of accents--you owe it to yourself to watch it. [/FONT][FONT=times new roman,times]It may be the most riveting 7 1/2 minutes of television ever.[/FONT]
[FONT=times new roman,times]I, and apparently millions of other people, have found ourselves watching the video over and over. And I'm struck by our fascination with it.[/FONT]
[FONT=times new roman,times]From the moment she strides resolutely, solidly, on stage, this frumpy Scottish spinster captivates our attention. Not because of her beauty; to call Miss Boyle's appearance plain would be like saying the U.S. Marines have a lot of firepower. Or her style; she's wearing a beige dress, dark stockings and white shoes. Not because of her poise; at one point, flustered, she has trouble answering a question from the show's judges.[/FONT]
[FONT=times new roman,times]About the time she finds the right term -- villages, she realizes -- to describe her hometown, Blackburn in West Lothian near Edinburgh, we begin to suspect that we're about to be served haggis, when we had hoped for filet mignon. After all, average people usually only have average talent. And on first glance it would be stretching the word, average, to apply it to Miss Boyle, bless her big Scottish heart. A mini-bump and grind, causing the show's judges to roll their eyes, convinces us that heartburn will surely follow.[/FONT]
[FONT=times new roman,times]Then Susan Boyle opens her mouth and sings.[/FONT]
[FONT=times new roman,times]And her voice sends a shiver through you. Just as it must have the audience, even the jaded judges--come on, you've heard Simon Cowell called worse than that--on hand to hear it in person.[/FONT]
[FONT=times new roman,times]I have heard the song Miss Boyle sings, I Dreamed a Dream from the musical Les Miserables, performed at least a half-dozen times by professional cast members in theatres around the world. I have never heard it sung so beautifully. Even in London. Even in Paris.[/FONT]
[FONT=times new roman,times]Miss Boyle finishes to a standing ovation from a stunned audience, and two of the three judges. Then she walks off the stage.[/FONT]
[FONT=times new roman,times]She had explained in the lead-in to her performance that she "always wanted to sing in front of a large audience." Having accomplished that dream, she turns to exit, stage right. The judges have to call her back to review her performance.[/FONT]
[FONT=times new roman,times]It is a remarkable performance that, even now, gives me goosebumps. As Britain's Got Talent judge Amanda Cooper says in the clip, we've just been given a stunning wakeup call not to judge a person by her, or his, looks.[/FONT]
[FONT=times new roman,times]But I suspect that there's something more powerful even than that at work, to cause the almost-universal appeal of Miss Boyle's performance. What we sense is that this plain woman--hair unstyled, eyebrows unplucked, an image consultant's worst dream sprung to life--is the rarest of things in this age of soundbites and spin doctors and focus groups: a real person, completely lacking in artifice.[/FONT]
[FONT=times new roman,times]At a time when the President of the United States feels compelled to use a teleprompter for even the most minor appearances, when Grecian columns are necessary props for campaign speeches, when public figures are as carefully packaged as your morning cereal boxes, after watching plain Susan Boyle sing with a voice for the ages, you feel like you have witnessed a real person do something that's real. And right. And good. No, extraordinarily good.[/FONT]
[FONT=times new roman,times]She is, in effect, the anti-Obama. No artifice. No teleprompter. As likely to stumble over words, or do a spontaneous bump and grind as she is to belt out a song that could leave you with chill-bumps.[/FONT]
[FONT=times new roman,times]I don't know what Miss Boyle's politics are. I don't care. Whatever they are, I hope she keeps them, just as I hope she stays true to her small-town--uh, village--Scottish roots and to herself after the big, and no doubt well-deserved, payday she has coming.[/FONT]
I don't understand the concentration on this woman's personal image....
Her gift is in her voice and her ability to stand with courage in front of television cameras, judges and a huge international audience and sing as she did. What do her look have to do with anything when it comes to natural musical ability?
There are many talented professional singers who are not blessed with beauty - male and female - but when they sing one forgets their looks and listens to their
talent.
No doubt the publicity folk will tart her up for any future performances, but as long as she remains true to her own gift - her voice - and doesn't give in to the commercial crap of beauty and 'presence'.... may she sing as long as she wishes ... she has waited enough time to let the world know of her gift.
Her gift is in her voice and her ability to stand with courage in front of television cameras, judges and a huge international audience and sing as she did. What do her look have to do with anything when it comes to natural musical ability?
There are many talented professional singers who are not blessed with beauty - male and female - but when they sing one forgets their looks and listens to their
talent.
No doubt the publicity folk will tart her up for any future performances, but as long as she remains true to her own gift - her voice - and doesn't give in to the commercial crap of beauty and 'presence'.... may she sing as long as she wishes ... she has waited enough time to let the world know of her gift.
Beauty is only skin deep and ugly is a state of mind. "Ugly" is not a person of innocent joy....
We have been conditioned to be such shallow creatures. We are daily bombarded with plastic replicas of humans in the form of "entertainers" - Hollywood mannequins, sculpted to ideal artificial beauty. We expect talent to come from such manufactured clones. Susan Boyle surprised everybody because she is real and we have become something else.
I hope they don't go too far. A smart looking suit and maybe a bit of makeup but leave her to be Susan Boyle.....She can never look like Madonna and Madonna will never sing like Susan Boyle.
Is it just me, or is everyone waiting to hear her sing another song...A different song?
Don't mention it...
That was from a charity album she was involved in, in 99. No one noticed her then. She has an amazing voice and does that classic so much justice.