WE’RE all going crazy for Susan Boyle, the woman who showed Saturday night telly watchers that you don’t need to show your false chest, wood-stained skin and G-string to get on telly, but can keep it all under wraps, like Susan Boyle did.
Susan is in interview, and has this to say:
“Modern society is too quick to judge people on their appearances. There is not much you can do about it; it is the way they think; it is the way they are. But maybe this could teach them a lesson, or set an example.”
See her performance here.
That Susan Boyle can sing is self-evident. That’s she is not judged on her appearance seems odd when nearly all reports call her a frump, awkward or make reference to her appearance.
The Times goes on:
At the pre-recorded audition, broadcast four days ago, audience members laughed at the frizzy-haired, church-going Catholic who lives alone with her cat in a rundown council estate…
Susan removes her fright wig and tosses back her naturally golden curls to tell us:
“What you do is ignore that and get on with your act. You have to… I’ve had people recognising me but I have gone on as normal - I am very down to earth…”
Adding to the narrative that Susan Boyle (36-24-29 out of her padded suit) is not to be judged on her looks, is the Sun’s news:
The Sun: “HOLLYWOOD star Demi Moore has told how she was moved to TEARS by Susan Boyle’s sensational Britain’s Got Talent performance.
That would be bionic Demi Moore, the woman rebuilt by Doctors Nip ‘n’ Tuck?
A show source said: “Thanks to Demi’s Twitter posting, Susan is now a genuine global megastar. This is the stuff dreams are made of.”
Who does not dream of being spotted on the telly by Demi Moore – without our without her bifocals on?
America Reacts:
We bow before her - get that arse up higher, Demi!
I’m still stuck on Susan Boyle, and still weeping. I suppose that’s so 24 hours ago, and I should be thinking instead about how Mel Gibson’s divorce might affect his box-office cred with conservative Catholics. Instead, I play the YouTube clip over and over of Boyle, the frumpy, middle-aged British lady who marched out on the stage of the national TV show Britain’s Got Talent this past weekend. She bided her time through the judgmental hoots and snickers of the studio audience and judges (headed by international snickerer-in-chief Simon Cowell). She sang “I Dreamed a Dream” from Les Miserables. And she brought a worldwide audience to their feet — to her feet — with the grandeur of her voice - Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly
Pass the adolescent tissues:
Maybe the humble and talented Ms. Boyle is a reminder for our pop-obsessed culture that we shouldn’t be so quick to judge. To see Susan Boyle’s performance. Click Here . Warning: stock up on some tissues! – Hollyscoop
Emote!
“Can’t stop crying…..Human spirit….. in the flesh……… Susan Boyle,” one person posted on
YouTube.
“I truly, truly am inspired by her courage and talent. What an incredible, incredible moment! This teaches so much about human natures and how shallow we all are,” wrote another.
Another said: “The human face of this little lady from nowhere. Singing her heart out - its should touch us all” – Illawarra Mercury (Aus)
Justice!
Grace: “I am a woman, 56, Black and I have been called a failure. I really cried when I saw Susan Boyle sing and read her story. It gives me much hope. Her day came and I too dream and believe that my day to shine will come.” Carol: “I didn’t want to cry but I did. I’m 59 and have a life-threatening and debilitating disease. Because of it, I’ll most likely be unemployed soon. I watch as the world, including the church, seems to increasingly belong to the young and healthy. I have no singing talent like Susan’s but listening to her gave me the tiniest grain of hope that perhaps I am not yet a totally useless person.” - Belief Net
Amen!
What we are witnessing, with Susan Boyle, is the birth of one of the greatest singing talents in all of human history…and we who are alive today get to witness it! - LA Times
Susan Boyle pets her Siberian white Tiger, Pebbles, pushes some new potatoes down her silk stockings and pulls on her fifth jumper. She is ready for her close up now, Mr Cowell…
Video: Susan Boyle On Britain’s Got Talent
Susan Boyle Look-Alike Exposed
Susan Boyle Is Britain’s Got Talent
Boyle by name - Susan Boyle Is Boiled Alive
She’s as big as a garage - Susan Boyle Sings In Her Garage
Susan Boyle To Sing At Olympics Opening Ceremony
Posted: 15th, April 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts, Susan Boyle Comments (19) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
Comments
- June on In Pictures: Herman Van Rompuy’s Pet Dalek Introduces President Iain Duncan Smith
- Cheryl on In Pictures: Herman Van Rompuy’s Pet Dalek Introduces President Iain Duncan Smith
- Cheryl on Sven Goran Eriksson: Then And Now
- Anorak on I’m A Celebrity: Naked Katie Price Becomes Kate And Jordan ‘Dies’
- Anorak on In Pictures: Herman Van Rompuy’s Pet Dalek Introduces President Iain Duncan Smith
April 18th, 2009 at 12:35 pm
[...] “anorak.co.uk” (april 15th 09) This is more “Satire” I guess(I am German, English is second language, so I am not getting all the subtleties) and plays around the sentence(Quote from Susan Boyle) “our society is too quick to judge people by their apearances”. Which is a judgement of course(saying: this “bad”). This statement is repeated in many, many articles, comments and blogposts. And can easily sound like moral accusation, and implicitly states, that “we can just decide” not to judge a person by their appearance.Is that true? Can we? My special take on “judgemtal language” I have been studying “judgemental language” systematically since 2004, And I experienced it to be well worth exploring. (If you want to learn some basic and profound things about “judgements” and “violent language”, here is a basic piece about it by Marshall Rosenberg, and it shows, how deeply rooted the language of judgement is in our global culture - and how deep the implications are not only in show business but in wars, in everything, where strong human needs are involved) I think, somehow, people who address this topic from a “clowns perspective” like “satire” e.g. can somehow mirror the “essential craziness” of judgemental language and also the inherent hypocrisy of criticizing it, because it is really in all of us. [...]
April 17th, 2009 at 2:18 am
SUSAN BOYLE POSING FOR PLAYBOY IS A DEAD CERT.
SHE IS THE GREATEST MILF EVER!!!!!!
April 17th, 2009 at 12:54 am
What a hateful, ignorant article. Maybe a gunny sack, a rock and some kittens might make you laugh as well.
Pathetic.
April 15th, 2009 at 10:57 pm
Diary, once she started singing she had that crowd on its feet applauding (not to mention Amanda and Piers) all most throughout the whole song.
She hasn’t been over here but she already has nationwide coverage on TV stations telling her story and showing the film of her singing! She’ll take this country by storm and guaranteed sell out if she appears over here to sing.
I remember when Paul Potts won and came over here. He was on every TV station and talk shows.
The UK can certainly stand proud of their two just ordinary citizens who have brought such beauty into this world with their singing.
April 15th, 2009 at 3:56 pm
After what has been said , I have decided against sending Anokak the pictures of my gran….but I feel it is time the papers showed a proud & pretty pensioner on page 3…so I have sent them to the Sun instead.
April 15th, 2009 at 3:18 pm
Dairy, I think I prefer baying to howling, it gives it more of a pack instinct flavour to it
April 15th, 2009 at 3:14 pm
…it’s what is normally referred to as “the good old British music hall tradition”…
April 15th, 2009 at 3:12 pm
Cheryl - the audience for that programme sniggers and sneers at most of the acts who go on there - Susan Boyle was not an exception…
we are not talking highbrow TV here….!
to be fair to Simon Cowell, out of the 3 programmes he is involved with - Britain’s Got Talent, X Factor and Americal Idol - he has had to sit through a whole shedload of crap over the years - and how often do people like Susan Boyle come along….? the audience, however, are basically just a howling mob at the best of times….
April 15th, 2009 at 2:37 pm
C&C, was just getting ready to put my ‘last jab’ at ( I promise, Anorak) the UK over Susan Boyle. EVERY morning talk show over here this morning carried Nationwide is talking about her and showing her singing, an interview also with her by a TV station in Scotland, and they are giving her rave reviews and one announcer was in tears as they showed her singing. Also, every show is talking about the way people over there “sniggered”, “sneered” at her, including Simon, when she walked on stage. There have been over 5 million hits on U-Tube to watch her sing.
April 15th, 2009 at 2:28 pm
..in your dreams Yampster!!!!
April 15th, 2009 at 2:14 pm
I will mock and jeer Cheryl Cole given the opportunity. Geordie scrubber
April 15th, 2009 at 1:52 pm
Morning to you too Cheryl. Hope all is well?
I think your assessment is probably right.
When Cheryl Cole was voted most beautiful woman in the world then I almost lost the will to live in that world!
That sadly is what it is all about and the likes of Susan Boyle, (a good kind woman with a sense of humour and a rather nice talent), are mocked and jeered.
Sad really.
April 15th, 2009 at 1:17 pm
Good Morning, C&C! It is rather disappointing, isn’t it, that Anorak has somehow let itself be drawn into the crowd that ridicules and jeers at those not as perfect as one thinks they should be. Read she is not ‘the norm’. What is the ‘norm’ over there? All T&A, 36-24-36, empty headed dummy, beautiful face from a plastic surgeon’s knife, morals of an alley cat? NBC carried her story on the news and note was made of how the people over there acted when she first walked on the stage.
April 15th, 2009 at 11:39 am
and you can stop it as well Yampster.
April 15th, 2009 at 11:04 am
Yes, stop it Anorka. I have Kenneth Connor playing Hengist Pod in Carry on Cleo burned into my brain and I can’t shake it
April 15th, 2009 at 10:43 am
Anorak you disappoint me. You too are now starting to sound judgemental of the woman herself.
‘Send pics so we can take the pi*s’. No no no. leave her be now.
April 15th, 2009 at 8:33 am
Submit your pics to the forum - closest one to the orginal wins…
http://www.anorak.co.uk/forums/
April 15th, 2009 at 8:30 am
“Riding bareback on a motor bike?”
You should tell your grandma, the fine woman that she is, about safe sex.
April 15th, 2009 at 8:14 am
Another great googlegrabbing headline Anokak….but I bet you really did have the pics of a butt naked Boyle to show the punters…..will a picture of my gran in full beard do?…I’ am sending you the pics to see…and yes…she can sing soprano , play the piano and make cottage cheese while riding bareback on a motor bike?…