I don't begrudge Susan Boyle her success, and her rise to fame certainly merits attention from any cultural sociologist looking to explore how the contemporary musiic/fame machine works.

She has a very good voice in her genre.

But her genre (which I would define as that hideous middlebrow zone where show-tunes get pretensions of operatic status and pop/rock songs get 'respectabilised' through pseudo-classical singing) is my utterly least favourite zone of music ever.