Susan Boyle – Britain’s Got Talent 2009 Episode 1 – Saturday 11th April
This clip is actually from the weekend, but I only found it yesterday and am so desperate to share it with you all. Bare with me and the long ass clip, but this is one of about, um, one things that I have watched online in a long while that actually brought a tear to my eye. Seriously.
Who is the person responsible for smelting the stony cold heart of the Editor of AG.com you ask, well it is a 47-year-old woman who appeared on UK talent show, Britain’s Got Talent.
[Susan Boyle is] a 47 years old and she’s unemployed and she’s never been kissed. But she’s never given up on her dream of being a professional singer.
Dlisted notes that she hasn’t sung in the two years since her mother died. And she clearly has no idea how gifted she is, as she seems genuinely unaware of her talent.
Boyle is a classic example of how, to be fair, you can look like one hot mess and still have a bitchin’ set of pipes. So, all you wh*res in the charts right now, watch your backs and let it be known, being enemies with your stylist/ hairbrush/ toofsbrush is no excuse for not killin’ like ol’ Boyle does, above.
Skip to 1 min 45 seconds in to watch. Trust me, it’s worth it.
Video & story via Zelda Lily & Celebitchy.
Maybe I would buy her album, didn’t watch the video btw, but I wouldn’t see her on tour. Too boring.
Fair enough honey, we know you like it lively
I’m officially on “Team Old British Lady Who Had No Idea That She Could Sing And Really Needs To Use Whatever Money She Wins On This Show To Get Her Eyebrows Waxed Because I Thought She Was A Man At First.”
But seriously, I love this lady.
Woohoo Celebrity Dirt, welcome to the site and thanks for leaving a comment.
I am sooo on the same team (and the team name, btw, may be the funniest thing I’ve had the pleasure of reading in my comment section all year).
She needs to save up all her coins and get a few things, um, fixed, but all I care about is talent. And yes, she has it!
I’ve been watching this almost incessantly since I found it on Junkfood Science. I’ve watched it probably 50 times now, and it gives me chills, physical goose-bumps, Every. Single. Time.
I had JUST gotten immune enough to it that I stopped bawling every time she hit that series of notes midway through, when I noticed that the YouTube entry I was looking at had the lyrics. I read the lyrics, and I had to start all over:
“I had a dream my life would be
So different from this hell I’m living”
(I don’t know who wrote that song, but there must have been time-travel involved because they pulled those lyrics right out of my head this week.)
I even ordered a copy of Les Mis last night because I am uncultured like that and had never heard of it.
I was sad that Piers and Amanda had to put so much criticism into their compliments – “Everyone was laughing at you,” “what a complete surprise,” “everybody was against you” – Jesus! I hope no one ever compliments me like that: “Hey, I expected you to look like a f*cking HAG, but you actually look pretty good!” Uh, … thanks?
I do concur, reluctantly, with the eyebrows, because once you get your breath back from her first few notes they are a bit distracting. Other than that, I for one hope she does NOT get “remade.” I hope that the world would simply be willing to say, “Hey, wow! People don’t have to be stick-thin, 20 years old, and surgically enhanced to be talented, beautiful, amazing individuals who are worthy of respect and admiration.”
*sigh* I’ll just keep on dreaming…
Tch. I wish I had proofread that better. s/b “I read the lyrics, and had to start my desensitization/’no! don’t cry!’ training all over again.”
Jesus. I wish I had FINISHED proofreading before I hit “submit” on the LAST comment…
Of course I’ve heard *OF* Les Mis, but I’ve never seen it, listened to the music, or read the book. Not much into opera, so I bought the book.
Okay, I promise to stop cluttering up your site now! Feel free to edit/integrate my additions into the one post if you like. Sorry.
(And this comment might come through twice, but I’m horrified by the fact that I said I’d never heard *of* Les Mis and don’t want the internet to think I’m that clueless, so I’ll risk it.)
*takes deep breath…*
First, I am usually semi-comatose, after getting home from work and then trying to spend 5-hours-per-day on this site. So comatose and dazed am I, that it is pretty unlikely that I will notice any one else’s typos.
The clip is really great, as it is the kind of surprise that one so rarely finds on UK reality TV. The mocking of her at the very beginning of her audition only serves to drive home the point that you cannot judge a book by its cover, nor can you write off a vocalist over something as immaterial as age.
I am disturbed to hear that someone was recklessly engaging in time-travel and without asking, pulling thoughts out of your head. I shall hurriedly ask them to return the above, forthwith.
Should Susan progress, there will probably be an amazing “Tada” moment, when they redo her. But, at least we can prepare ourselves for the tedium of that eventuality.
(P.S. It’s been a long day for me and the first back from the Easter hols, so please don’t mock my fail typing
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