Her pluck, determination, and towering talent cannot be denied.
And it's a wake up call for shallow people everywhere.
And it's a wake up call for shallow people everywhere.
Susan Boyle: Amazingly Good Singer
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I think she's wonderful!
Last year, they had Paul Potts, who was the male equivalent....not a polished image, but with amazing talent.
I hope Susan wins BGT.
I bet that Susan won't go unkissed much longer!
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Last year, they had Paul Potts, who was the male equivalent....not a polished image, but with amazing talent.
I hope Susan wins BGT.
I bet that Susan won't go unkissed much longer!
Lawrence/Maytagbear
andyelectrolux
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Fantastic. This is so refreshing in a time when the mass public places more value on looks and being a certain size than it does true musical talent such as this lady possesses.
Look at Ella Fitzgerald. One of the best voices there ever was. She was successful simply because of her talent and not due to any certain physical appearance. Or Edith Piaf. She just stood on the stage and sang and that was all that was needed. No pyrotechnics, no dancers, no intricate routines or trashy bootyshaking. Just her.
Now, lot's of todays artists have computers singing for them, but that's apparantly okay because they're blond and thin and hardly wear anything at all onstage. I wish the masses would get back to a place where true talent is appreciated, but I don't have my hopes up.
Look at Ella Fitzgerald. One of the best voices there ever was. She was successful simply because of her talent and not due to any certain physical appearance. Or Edith Piaf. She just stood on the stage and sang and that was all that was needed. No pyrotechnics, no dancers, no intricate routines or trashy bootyshaking. Just her.
Now, lot's of todays artists have computers singing for them, but that's apparantly okay because they're blond and thin and hardly wear anything at all onstage. I wish the masses would get back to a place where true talent is appreciated, but I don't have my hopes up.
There are plenty of good looking but mediocre singers. For example, Tim McGraw. The guy is buff and handsome but can barely carry a tune.
I'd like to see (and hear) Andrea Bocelli and Susan Boyle sing a duet.
I'd like to see (and hear) Andrea Bocelli and Susan Boyle sing a duet.
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WOW, what a voice! I hope she wins as well.
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I would rather watch an average looking person with a great voice and talent, than a great looking singer with no talent.
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If the measure of talent is based upon the ability to invoke emotion in others, Susan Boyle is Queen!
Don't know why, but I got all misty-eyed.
Don't know why, but I got all misty-eyed.
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Steve, it had the same effect on me before she was even half way through the song.
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I had goose bumps when she was singing. I was blown away by her.
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Never undersestimate the power of a woman who knows how to use her mouth.
I mean, think of a great female lawyer or your grandmother singing to you a lullaby.
I mean, think of a great female lawyer or your grandmother singing to you a lullaby.
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What a voice!
I have watched her video several times today! Absolutely spell bound! It brings me to tears everytime I watch it. Goes to show you looks aren't everything!
I have watched her video several times today! Absolutely spell bound! It brings me to tears everytime I watch it. Goes to show you looks aren't everything!
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Hair style
I don't think she's ugly, she just needs a new hair style. I would do it for free as long as she sang to me! BTW, did you see rosanne Barr on Comedy Central called "Blonde and Bitchin"? She was AWESOME!!!! With her blonde hair she looks like Nicki Newman on the Y&R!!!.....Bill in Az...
I don't think she's ugly, she just needs a new hair style. I would do it for free as long as she sang to me! BTW, did you see rosanne Barr on Comedy Central called "Blonde and Bitchin"? She was AWESOME!!!! With her blonde hair she looks like Nicki Newman on the Y&R!!!.....Bill in Az...
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Paul gotta voice!
This guy was also a nobody who surprised everyone.
RCD
This guy was also a nobody who surprised everyone.
RCD
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Susan ROCKS!
I love the song from Les Miserables....and I can also confess to being teary....
Bloody soppy sod
I love the song from Les Miserables....and I can also confess to being teary....
Bloody soppy sod
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I'm not a big fan of opera, but wow what a powerful voice!
On "the meaning of human grace"
From Vacuumland's thread on Susan Boyle...
I thought you might appreciate this post by Aeoliandave
This editorial snippet I found encapsulates the profound shades of humanity this woman represents. You go, Girl.
"Quenten Tarantino was guest mentor on last night's American Idol. In his attempts to get these wobbly singers to communicate the actual meaning contained in their songs, Tarantino hit on a key quality that most American Idol competitors lack. Namely, the awareness that the pop nuggets they perform aren't just some vehicle to show off their latent star quality, but rather compositions that tell stories and convey emotions.
Tarantino's advice got me thinking about another televised reality competition performance that's been making waves recently: Susan Boyle's jaw-dropping, heart-tugging appearance on Britain's Got Talent. By now, most of you are probably familiar with the unassuming bird from Scotland who's become a sudden sensation. The video of 47-year-old Boyle singing I Dreamed a Dream, from the musical Les Miserables, went viral over the weekend; by now, the official clip on the Britain's So Talented YouTube page has received close to six million views.
What's marvelous about Boyle is how she managed to completely challenge not just our preconceived expectations (and those of the Britain's Got Talent judges) but also the collective perception of what an undiscovered star looks like. Watch the initial moments of the clip and you can tell that the producers are salivating over Boyle's potential as a wacky character who'll make great television fodder. An unemployed, eccentric dowager from a small Scottish village who lives alone with her cat, Pebbles? A 47-year-old clad in an unflattering taupe housedress who claims not only that she's never been married, but that she's never been kissed? "This?" they're silently guffawing, "This woman thinks she's got a snowball's chance in hell of becoming a professional singer?"
The set-up is cruel: a collection of spliced-together clips of Boyle making doddering, off-colour comments, snarky tween audience members rolling their eyes and the Britain's Got Talent judges addressing the self-proclaimed singer as though she's a recent escapee from a mental institution. We've seen this character in similar competitions before, most recently in the guise of delusional drama queen Tatiana del Toro on this season of American Idol. This character is usually painfully misguided and sorely lacking in skill. He or she is unattractive by conventional standards and often given to grand proclamations about his or her talent. Producers adore these figures because they make for melodrama, because they're limitless sources of cheap jokes and surefire targets for our own mean-spirited mockery. These shows revel in these characters because laughing at the poor saps on television provides a nice boost to our own self-esteem.
But Boyle screwed all of that up. When she opened her mouth to sing, something exquisite and jarring came out, something that, as Entertainment Weekly's Lisa Schwartzbaum describes it, "reordered the measure of beauty." Boyle herself underestimated her incredible ability and left us speechless. "In our pop-minded culture so slavishly obsessed with packaging," says Schwartzbaum, "[with] the right face, the right clothes, the right attitudes, the right Facebook posts -- the unpackaged artistic power of the unstyled, un-hip, un-kissed Ms. Boyle let me feel, for the duration of one blazing showstopping ballad, the meaning of human grace."
I'd go even further. The reason Susan Boyle's performance has become such a worldwide phenomenon is simple: she genuinely felt and understood the meaning of what she was singing and demonstrated a kind of uncompromised honesty that we rarely witness in popular culture. And the facts of her biography -- she's alone and attached to an impossible hope she's had since the age of 12 -- provided an affecting context for her performance of a song about dreams deferred.
The detached, sheltered pipsqueaks on American Idol would do well to follow Susan Boyle's lead. Who knows -- maybe she'll show up as a guest mentor next season."
-- Sarah Liss
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Well put indeed!
Dave, thanks for sharing Ms. Liss's comments.
Somehow Ms. Boyle seems to have raised our collective consciousness singlehandedly and taught us all some very valuable lessons in a very beautiful and mighty powerful way. As I was always taught, actions speak much louder than words. And, boy, does Susan's gift speak volumes. The exciting part is that people get it. And, with our current state of affairs--how timely. What blessing she has bestowed upon us. And, how lucky we are for it. (And, I'm not just talking about her voice.)
BTW, as of this writing, the Susan Boyle clips on YouTube have topped 21 million... in six days!
Here's a link to a High Def five-minute version. Click HQ for the high definition version.
From Vacuumland's thread on Susan Boyle...
I thought you might appreciate this post by Aeoliandave
This editorial snippet I found encapsulates the profound shades of humanity this woman represents. You go, Girl.
"Quenten Tarantino was guest mentor on last night's American Idol. In his attempts to get these wobbly singers to communicate the actual meaning contained in their songs, Tarantino hit on a key quality that most American Idol competitors lack. Namely, the awareness that the pop nuggets they perform aren't just some vehicle to show off their latent star quality, but rather compositions that tell stories and convey emotions.
Tarantino's advice got me thinking about another televised reality competition performance that's been making waves recently: Susan Boyle's jaw-dropping, heart-tugging appearance on Britain's Got Talent. By now, most of you are probably familiar with the unassuming bird from Scotland who's become a sudden sensation. The video of 47-year-old Boyle singing I Dreamed a Dream, from the musical Les Miserables, went viral over the weekend; by now, the official clip on the Britain's So Talented YouTube page has received close to six million views.
What's marvelous about Boyle is how she managed to completely challenge not just our preconceived expectations (and those of the Britain's Got Talent judges) but also the collective perception of what an undiscovered star looks like. Watch the initial moments of the clip and you can tell that the producers are salivating over Boyle's potential as a wacky character who'll make great television fodder. An unemployed, eccentric dowager from a small Scottish village who lives alone with her cat, Pebbles? A 47-year-old clad in an unflattering taupe housedress who claims not only that she's never been married, but that she's never been kissed? "This?" they're silently guffawing, "This woman thinks she's got a snowball's chance in hell of becoming a professional singer?"
The set-up is cruel: a collection of spliced-together clips of Boyle making doddering, off-colour comments, snarky tween audience members rolling their eyes and the Britain's Got Talent judges addressing the self-proclaimed singer as though she's a recent escapee from a mental institution. We've seen this character in similar competitions before, most recently in the guise of delusional drama queen Tatiana del Toro on this season of American Idol. This character is usually painfully misguided and sorely lacking in skill. He or she is unattractive by conventional standards and often given to grand proclamations about his or her talent. Producers adore these figures because they make for melodrama, because they're limitless sources of cheap jokes and surefire targets for our own mean-spirited mockery. These shows revel in these characters because laughing at the poor saps on television provides a nice boost to our own self-esteem.
But Boyle screwed all of that up. When she opened her mouth to sing, something exquisite and jarring came out, something that, as Entertainment Weekly's Lisa Schwartzbaum describes it, "reordered the measure of beauty." Boyle herself underestimated her incredible ability and left us speechless. "In our pop-minded culture so slavishly obsessed with packaging," says Schwartzbaum, "[with] the right face, the right clothes, the right attitudes, the right Facebook posts -- the unpackaged artistic power of the unstyled, un-hip, un-kissed Ms. Boyle let me feel, for the duration of one blazing showstopping ballad, the meaning of human grace."
I'd go even further. The reason Susan Boyle's performance has become such a worldwide phenomenon is simple: she genuinely felt and understood the meaning of what she was singing and demonstrated a kind of uncompromised honesty that we rarely witness in popular culture. And the facts of her biography -- she's alone and attached to an impossible hope she's had since the age of 12 -- provided an affecting context for her performance of a song about dreams deferred.
The detached, sheltered pipsqueaks on American Idol would do well to follow Susan Boyle's lead. Who knows -- maybe she'll show up as a guest mentor next season."
-- Sarah Liss
--------------------
Well put indeed!
Dave, thanks for sharing Ms. Liss's comments.
Somehow Ms. Boyle seems to have raised our collective consciousness singlehandedly and taught us all some very valuable lessons in a very beautiful and mighty powerful way. As I was always taught, actions speak much louder than words. And, boy, does Susan's gift speak volumes. The exciting part is that people get it. And, with our current state of affairs--how timely. What blessing she has bestowed upon us. And, how lucky we are for it. (And, I'm not just talking about her voice.)
BTW, as of this writing, the Susan Boyle clips on YouTube have topped 21 million... in six days!
Here's a link to a High Def five-minute version. Click HQ for the high definition version.
