Rahotep's Comments
As a fellow Scot and stage singer of over 30 years experience, I can tell you that Susan Boyle sang with more passion in her voice than the Fantine of the original London cast of Les Mis ever did.
And listen to the last line of the song;
My life has killed the dream I dreamed.
It's a song of someone who knows suffering, who is suffering.
As to this lady's looks ... there are hundreds of stage performers who can sing well, but are not "beautiful" ... but you never hear of them, because our society is fixated on the cult of Youth and Beauty. It doesn't matter for Susan. She'll get image-fixers now ans within the year she'll have a record deal and the offer of several musicals.
Her voice has been trained, but never performed in a big venue with 4000 people. It's unnerving ... but did she do the job or what? She said, "I'm gonnae make that audience rock!" And she took them by the scruff of their stupid disbelieving necks and shook them! She was, as that idiot Morgan said, STUNNING!
If I weren't retired, I'd be hiring her yesterday because she has a strong and powerful delivery within a beautiful voice. Not perfect, but songs evolve with their performers ... no stage song is ever perfect!
I predict that win or not ... Susan Boyle's life, as Karen Carpenter might say, has only just begun!
And listen to the last line of the song;
My life has killed the dream I dreamed.
It's a song of someone who knows suffering, who is suffering.
As to this lady's looks ... there are hundreds of stage performers who can sing well, but are not "beautiful" ... but you never hear of them, because our society is fixated on the cult of Youth and Beauty. It doesn't matter for Susan. She'll get image-fixers now ans within the year she'll have a record deal and the offer of several musicals.
Her voice has been trained, but never performed in a big venue with 4000 people. It's unnerving ... but did she do the job or what? She said, "I'm gonnae make that audience rock!" And she took them by the scruff of their stupid disbelieving necks and shook them! She was, as that idiot Morgan said, STUNNING!
If I weren't retired, I'd be hiring her yesterday because she has a strong and powerful delivery within a beautiful voice. Not perfect, but songs evolve with their performers ... no stage song is ever perfect!
I predict that win or not ... Susan Boyle's life, as Karen Carpenter might say, has only just begun!
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You're absolutely right. It's called manipulation. And we as an audience were manipulated to think Ms Boyle was a "weirdo", hence the "funny music" as she came onstage.
I'm not denigrating Susan Boyle's obvious talent at all ... just the dishonesty factor the GBT Team use to make her even more of an underdog.
She had to go through a preliminary audition and they'd have known then they had something special.
Cowell at least, if not Dumbo Morgan and Mutton-dressed-as-lamb Holden, knew of Ms Boyle well before her very public first showing. PR Guru (and general pain-in-the-bum) Max Clifford said as much in a very recent interview.
And of course ... the manipulation was successful.
25 million YouTube and worldwide fame through viralvid is testament not just to Susan Boyle's talent ... but also how intrusive media-manipulation can be!