[MaestroLC]

Oy vey! He makes me cry for all the wrong reasons.

I don't blame him for riding the wave, but let's get a grip on reality: he's only an average singer that got a lucky break. He's just the flavor of the moment. He'll make his money and disappear.

More important question: Would he be nearly as loved if people were well-educated about musical arts? I don't think so. Put in a different way, could you fully understand and enjoy baseball if you didn't know the rules? Of course not. It's the heartwarming human interest story people are reacting to, not his vocal production.

[Publius6961]

More important question: Would he be nearly as loved if people were well-educated about musical arts? I don't think so. Put in a different way, could you fully understand and enjoy baseball if you didn't know the rules? Of course not. It's the heartwarming human interest story people are reacting to, not his vocal production.

The elitist view of the world.
Why is it necessary to repeat this?

Many universally-loved composers today were similarly attacked by the cogniscenti. The common folk, the unwashed, is what makes certain things "universal", for better or for worse.

[PJ-Comix]

I don't blame him for riding the wave, but let's get a grip on reality: he's only an average singer that got a lucky break. He's just the flavor of the moment. He'll make his money and disappear.

AVERAGE singer??? Didn't you read the Wikipedia quote I posted? Even Pavarotti was impressed by Paul Potts when he was getting lessons in Italy. He will make money...and stick around for a LONG time.

[gcruse]

” Of course not. It’s the heartwarming human interest story people are reacting to, not his vocal production.”

My reaction of tears on first hearing him sing seems to be near universal. Given that very few of us knew his human interest story before hearing him sing, I can’t agree that we were reacting to something we didn’t know.

[aristotleman]

The lowest common denominator wins again. Just because this mediocre guy is on TV for two weeks, everybody swoons. There are so many truly great concerts every week that no one goes to, and suddenly the sheeple have a musical opinion and become offended when one offers their expert take on mr Potts.

I’m absolutely disgusted, but not surprised.

Serious music has no place in a culture of “me”, “now”, ADD driven knowledge and tastes.