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John O. -> RE: Go Susan Boyle! (Apr. 19 2009 23:46:27)
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Watching the judges feign total shock, horror, amazement was nauseous, it was such a set-up, of course they already knew how she would sound, they had heard her before.
Hey, finally somebody who agrees with me on this! FAKE! Paul Potts singing Nessun Dorma was so successful, they had to give the same scenario another run-through.
Look at this woman's hand-movements, eye contact etc. It's not absolutely top-notch, but it's stage experience, you don't get that singing alone at home while you're ironing. You can see unexperienced boy bands on MTV doing it very badly all the time.
There are millions of euros behind these shows, and they're not gonna let anybody up there unless they're marketable for the show, cell-phone jingles, a one-hit-wonder... And in these talent shows it's not good enough to just have a good singer. An embarrassing, horrible singer can have more success than a good singer if marketed correctly. A scandal is a good seller, too. I see people at the Irish Pub on karaoke night who sing better than some of these finalists.
That said, she is a great singer, and deserves all the success that comes to her - get it any way you can, I say. But Les Miserables is played all over the world and there are many people, old, young, beautiful, ugly, who sing it every night on stage and will never be on TV.
Yup, John is wearing his cranky pants today [:D]
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