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I said she's got a pretty voice. But look at this article. The first two paragraphs prove my point. It's all about the fact that she was frumpy and old and no one expected her to sing well. Even your comments contained phrases about how she didn't have training, had never performed before, etc. That's what makes it compelling. If the expectations were different, she'd be judged differently. She did OK. It was pretty good. Those mean the same thing. And like I said before, she has a pretty voice. But it's not as if her voice is a huge deal. Plenty of people can sing as well as her. And she couldn't hit the low notes in the bridge.

I teach music professionally, and I asked one of the voice teachers what she thought of her performance. She said it was comparable to Ruthie Henshall's renditions, quite remarkable when you consider Ruthie is a classically trained singer and Susan spent years hiding in her basement playing with her cats.

I said she's got a pretty voice. But look at this article...

Arguing with Huck is like wrestling with a pig.

It's a waste of time and it annoys the hell out of the pig..

Huck admits he doesn't know anything about anything. He somehow ascribes some sort of credence to my "article", but I am just a Freeper passing comment, so frankly I would put little stock in his opinion, though of course he is entirely entitled to it..

Suffice it to say Ms Boyle now has over 5,000,000 hits on her youtube videos and over 31,000 comments - most of which appear to overwhelmingly positive though I confess I have only sampled them and not read them all.

I think a star is born..

I teach music professionally

Me too. You a guitar teacher? That's what I do. I'd ask our vocal teacher, but she's a kook. Anyway, maybe this lady is better than what I think of her. We'll see when her album comes out, I guess.