Posted on 04/17/2009 6:43:40 PM PDT by Born Conservative
The song title "Cry Me A River" brings Justin Timberlake to mind for Generation Y. But that is likely to change thanks to Susan Boyle, the Scottish singing sensation whose Britain's Got Talent appearance wooed millions of broadcast and online viewers.
Boyle's moving rendition of "Cry Me A River" was uploaded to YouTube Thursday night, sparking further interest and frenzy over the extremely talented singer.
Boyle's "Cry Me A River" is a remake of the blues standard, not Timberlake's pop ballad. Boyle's track went virtually unnoticed when it was independently released 10 years ago on a charity CD reported Times Online. The Whitburn Community Council in West Lothian only pressed 1,000 copies of The Millennium Celebration compilation.
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LOL!!!!
Susan has the most amazing voice I have ever heard!
Wow, you are right!
I have played both of them over and over.
The 7.5 minute Youtube video of I Dreamed a Dream has 22.8 million views.
And that is only one of about 20 Boyle videos. Many of those others have hundreds-of-thousands to a few million views, too.
We'll see as time goes on. I know that on "American Idol" many of the singers were gussied up as they advanced through the finals. It's not unreasonable to suspect that the same forces might come to bear on Ms. Boyle.
So have I. For hours last night I played the I Dreamed a Dream video. I finally shut down my computer at 3:30a...it was time for my hubby to go to work.
I hope not. She’s fine just as she is.
Yes, exactly.
Agreed, although I would naturally expect that she'd be outfitted in nicer clothes as the season goes on, and it would be similarly expected that a hairstylist would be employed to create different looks for different songs. That's just show biz.
But the producers of this show and "American Idol" are not stupid. They wanted you to think that Susan Boyle took them by surprise, and she just might have done so when she originally auditioned. I wouldn't put it past them to have dowdied her up a bit, and that little shimmy move she did before the song didn't seem in character with her life's story. I think it was possible she was coached to do it, as a way of taunting the crowd before wowing them.
The producers of these shows have done the obscurity-to-fame storyline for quite a few years now, and they're still pretty good at selling the same tale with new characters. They know the appetite of an audience for the makeover type of TV show, and they know they have a winner again. Most TV shows work hard to squelch YouTube, etc. broadcasts of portions of shows, these folks have used it as a free marketing campaign. Right now, I'd bet they're making deals with Fox TV to simulcast Susan's next appearance on American TV, and they're lining up sponsors waiting to pay big bucks.
In my case, the only caveat I have is of the most brutal and cruel human lice in Britain; that of the British tabloid press. They have absolutely destroyed ordinary and extra- ordinary people, all because of rumours or spite.
This my only bit of apprehension here.
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