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I dreamed a dream... - katreus - 04-17-2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY
Britain's Got Talent - Susan Boyle
Wow. I can't imagine anyone not smiling while watching this. Just awesome. Love the expressions on the judges' faces, esp. Simon's!
- Bob Schroeck - 04-17-2009
Holy cow, that's a voice.
I surely hope she got a recording contract out of that.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
- Ayiekie - 04-17-2009
She's been offered one, yes. I freely confess to getting misty-eyed when I saw that. It's the climax of every cheesy underdog movie ever, only real.
I dreamed a dream - Rev Dark - 04-17-2009
I waited nearly a week from hearing about this to actually clicking on the link.
I did not think it was due to the performance being anything less than amazing. It was.
I was more concerned with my own perception of the current meme in popular entertainment and how it would effect my viewing of it.
(Yes, it was all about me, and that in an of itself in embarassing to type. Bloody introspection.)
I grew up with the likes of Pete Townshend before the age of music video. Pete with his funny hair, monstrous nose and plain British face. Then he picks up
the guitar and you are ripped apart by a rock hurricane that makes a Maxell commerical look like a light breeze. So while intellectually I do not equate good
looks with talent, a small part of my emotional response still makes the frankly grotesque connection between pretty-good/ugly-bad.
That small part yammered and gibbered as she took that stage; and while the song was from Les Miserables, I was thinking of another Victor Hugo story.
Shallow, mean-spirited, judgemental; it might have been a small part, but it was not a part I was paritcularly proud of.
I was with Simon Cowell (May the Owls get him - http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/Owls/) I was expecting
something extraordinary; good or bad - mostly bad.)
I was expecting a train-wreck - a combination of mediocore voice and skill.
The train wreck was imminent, and then Superman flew in and fucking saved the day!
Awesome.
- Wiregeek - 04-17-2009
O_O
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies
- WengFook - 04-17-2009
Whoa. What a voice on that lady. I think they said it right. It truly was a privilege to hear that. Beautiful. Haunting and beautiful.:O
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- Epsilon - 04-18-2009
Quote: tjalorak wrote:
Love the expressions on the judges' faces, esp. Simon's!
I hope Simon never breaks kayfabe.
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Epsilon
- Bob Schroeck - 04-18-2009
She's gone mainstream in the US -- http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/ar ... -show.html]Jay Leno just did an impression of her on the Tonight Show.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
- ECSNorway - 04-18-2009
Yeah.
The way the judges' eyes just POP when she starts singing... that's something to see.
--
Sucrose Octanitrate.
Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode.