You be the judge.
Paige by a mile. Great dynamics, clarity and emotion. Boyle sings one volume, with a bit too thick an emphasis on vibrato.
So, how does it work with this show? Do the judges pick the winner on the spot, or is it like American Idol where viewers vote and the results are the following day?
She sure has learned quickly how to play the crowd. It appears her energy rises with their response. I have seen very talented people bomb out because they cannot draw the crowd into their performance, she has figured out how to do it.
There is no frickin way she would of even got on that show unless the producers, including Simon, knew way in advance what she was capable of.
This whole thing is orchestrated reality tv at its worse. Thousands of audition tapes are submitted to the producers to even get a shot at being on that show.
But they act like Boyle just walked off the street lost and ended up on that stage looking all frumpy and hair like a rats nest. And right before she sings, they pan to the audience to clips of girls making mocking faces at her apperance.
Watched both videos.
Elaine Page is a professional musical theater singer. Great emoting, voice not that great.
Susan Boyle is an amateur, and it shows. But she has a vocal range that Page doesn’t which is demonstrated by the difference in how both handled the very last refrain. Boyle naile those high notes, whereas Page didn’t even dare to try.
What a snide writer.
I am personally sick of reading words like 'dowdy', 'spinster', 'uncoifed', 'mousy hair', 'clumping gait', 'dull looks', 'small talent', in relation to Susan Boyle.
The only small talent is in the writer, NORMAN LEBRECHT, who has nothing complimentary to say about Susan Boyle at all.
I wonder what she will sing for the finals? Hard to find one as beautiful as the last two.