The lady should be allowed to sing whatever song she chooses, the more eclectic the better.

                         Britain's got talent? Well, where is it? We are constantly being bombarded by this punter-fodder for months on end; and night after night on numerous TV channels the stuff is churned out - and they have yet to take this circus on tour, so heaven knows how much more we are in for.

                         Real talent means writing and singing your own songs, not being dictated to as to your choice of performance. The "Editor's choice" might not do your voice justice (!). Where are the novelists, poets, playwrights, painters of masterpieces, costume designers, modelmakers, sculptors etc.? Not there, are they. Yet everyone must surely agree that people in these categories surely do possess talent.

                         Instead, we are expected to listen to hapless hopefuls going through various degrees of humiliation, whether it's catawauling into a microphone - with the rare exception of Susan Boyle here - or leaping around the stage in a raucous frenzy.

                         Why do we allow people like Cowell and the "judges" to belittle people who try so hard? Why is there uproar when a woman with an amazing voice nearly wins and is almost destroyed in the process? Here' why: she's never been heard of before the age of forty eight, and aren't singers required to have big hair, in-yer-faceness, high cheek bones, and a brazen way of writhing around the stage whilst showing all they've got? Shouldn't they be screeching in their pornophonic voices against God knows how many blaring backing tracks and bass-ridden drums, giving us all a good impression of someone being garotted?

                         For a lady like Susan to receive so many votes goes against the commercial grain of Cowell and his ilk, who find it hard to cope when an anomaly occurs. Like when Michelle won, a couple of years ago, I believe, but as she was "overweight", the axes were swift to fall on every side, despite her good performance.

                         My advice to Susan is: milk this for all it's worth while you can, before they change their fickle minds - it's brilliant you got so far.

                         As for which song she should sing next - might I suggest "Sleeping Sun" by Nightwish - the world is badly in need of some lyrical, genteel songs.

                                              Indrani.