Way to go, Susan Boyle

[breakinglight11]

I read something really cool today. Apparently on "Britain's Got Talent," a TV show where British people show off their performative talents, there was an unlikely woman named Susan Boyle. She's a forty-eight-year-old woman from a tiny village in Scotland, as unworldly and old-fashioned as they come. She's kind of homely and she wore very dated clothes. To say the judges and everyone in the audience didn't take her seriously when she first came out is an understatement-- they rolled their eyes, they sneered, Simon Cowell spoke to her with exquisite condescenion. But she sang with the voice of an angel, and by the end of her song, everyone was crying and cheering for how beautiful her song was. She wowed the judges and now the public, everyone is so impressed with what this unlikely little lady could do. I'll bet she's going to get a recording deal now, and realize her dream of being a singer.

You really can't judge a book by it's cover.

This makes me so happy. God bless her.

Comments

[hanasaseru.livejournal.com]

My mother posted a link to that video on LJ. It was pretty wonderful. :)

[usernamenumber.livejournal.com]

Here it is on youtube. *sniff* =:)

[youareverysmall.livejournal.com]

I watched it, and I have to say, it kind of pissed me off. She looked homely, but she was no Quasimodo...so I didn't get the judges' and audience's reaction at all. Especially after Taylor Hicks on American Idol. But then she started singing and there was this IMMEDIATE audience reaction. It was just weird. As if the audience and the judges simultaneously had thought "people over 30 can't sing..." and when she started doing so they immediately realized they were wrong.
What makes me angry is that there's a pattern on shows like this. When judges/audiences are amazed by the "ugly" people, that amazement is what carries them through to the next rounds. After that, they start listening to their voices and picking out any little tiny mistake. Her singing was good, but it wasn't THAT amazing. I don't think she'll make it through to the end of the show, and I think it'll be because of her looks.

(But who knows. Hopefully I'll be proved wrong here.)