Posted on 04/16/2009 7:56:23 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Susan Boyle, a 47-year-old singleton from a small village in Scotland, who's never been kissed and lives with her kitty named Pebbles, shocked "Britain's Got Talent" audience and the judges with her performance of "I Dreamed a Dream."
If you missed seeing this, be prepared to laugh and cry.
What a plucky little gal. It took some major gumption to get up there and face those snickering people snarky judges.
The Wall Street Journal reports that as of 11 a.m. EST Thursday, the YouTube video of her appearance had been viewed more than 12.3 million times.
And she's set the blogosphere on fire and fans a-Twittering. “When a dowdy, homely, 47-year-old woman sings beautifully, it is headline news,” Tamar Abrams blogs in a Huffington Post article headlined “Susan Boyle: Talent Without Judgment.”
A fan has launched a fan site at susan-boyle.com that already has more than 5,000 members.
Steve Rosenbaum, chief executive of Magnify.net, which hosts the site, told the WSJ that the domain was registered after the show aired in the United Kingdom Saturday. Traffic rose from more than 27,000 page views Monday to 167,000 Tuesday, 461,000 Wednesday.
Even Ashton Kutcher posted a link on his Twitter site to Boyle's YouTube clip, along with the comment, "This just made my night." Added Demi Moore, "You saw it made me teary!"
According to the WSJ, TweetStats, which monitors recurring terms on Twitter, “Susan Boyle” has been a top trend on Thursday morning
Does Susan Boyle have a shot at a singing career?
Or will she go back to her village and her cat, happier for having accomplished her dream of singing before a large audience?
Will she set a new trend in eyebrow shaping?
And who should star in the movie of her life? Helen Mirren? Judi Dench? Angela Lansbury?
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LOL!
Someone please tell me WTH is Twitter?
(no, I don’t get out much)
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What a lot of people don’t know is Britain’s Got Talent singing sensation Susan Boyle recorded the jazz standard -— Cry Me a River for a charity CD in 1999. Only 1000 copies of the disc were produced. So, she isn’t entirely without recording experience.
She’s awesome! I love this recording.
Listen to it here :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI2DxkrgpgQ
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