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Thread #120173 Message #2612012
Posted By: Stilly River Sage
15-Apr-09 - 07:06 PM
Thread Name: A Most Heartwarming Performance-Susan Boyle
Subject: RE: A Most Heartwarming Performance-Susan Boyle
I must disagree wholeheartedly with your jaded view, glueman. That wasn't contrived, as much as you'd like to convince us. Half the charm of the video is the realization, in several micro-expressions amongst them, of just how wrong their original assumptions were.
I wonder several things after watching that. I know people (folkies!) who have very average looks and have wonderful voices. They're not famous either. If you look like Alison Krause or Emmylou Harris, your career goes one way. If you look like Susan Boyle, your career doesn't get off the ground because you don't get your mouth open. This was a remarkably brave and joyous thing for Ms. Boyle to do, and when she turned to walk off stage after singing her song you could see that singing before a large audience was her main objective and she had achieved it. When they called her back that was the icing on the cake, but she'd had her cake and she'd eaten it, so to speak. She didn't need the icing, though was at the same time very happy with it. It might seem contradictory to say that, but look at her when she turns to walk off the stage. "I did it. Mission accomplished. That showed them."
Who will be first in line to tell her to color her hair, pluck her brows, get some surgery to reduce those chins? Who will be the first to suggest that she has the "fix" her appearance to go with the voice? The brows and hair are things that many women of all ages have doctored, but here's hoping she resists the nonsense that she must conform to have a career. Put some elegant clothes on, they will fit the voice and the venues and her character, and that will be enough. Get out of her way and let her sing! (Wouldn't it be nice if Elaine Page took her in hand and helped launch a new career? Would a star do that for a rising talent? It's nice to consider.)
This is a Cinderella story for thinking middle-aged women of average appearance. You go, Susan!
SRS