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Some History of Susan Boyle
Susan Boyle (born 1961) is a Scottish church volunteer and amateur singer who
came to public attention when she appeared as a contestant on the third series
of Britain's Got Talent. Boyle leapt to almost immediate global fame when she
sang "I Dreamed a Dream" from Les Misérables in the competition's first round.
Before she sang, both the audience and the judges appeared to express scepticism
based on her age and what was seen as an unattractive appearance. In contrast,
her vocal performance was so well received that she has been dubbed "The Woman
Who Shut Up Simon Cowell". She received a standing ovation from the live
audience, attracting yes-votes from Cowell and Amanda Holden, and the "biggest
yes I have ever given anybody" from Piers Morgan. The original talent show and
audition was recorded in Scotland in January 2009.
The juxtaposition of the reception to her voice with the audience's first
impression of her triggered global interest. Articles about her appeared in
newspapers all over the world, while online videos of her performance totalled
over 40 million views within a week. Cowell is reported to be setting up a
contract with Boyle with his Syco Music company label, a subsidiary of Sony
Music.
Personal life of Susan Boyle
Boyle is the youngest of nine children and lives in Blackburn with her
ten-year-old cat, Pebbles. Boyle has learning disabilities. Her classmates
teased her because of this and her appearance.
Early on she received some professional voice training in Livingston, Scotland.
She stopped her pursuit of singing to look after her sick mother, who died in
2007 at the age of 91. Her performance in the regional finals of Britain’s Got
Talent was the first time Boyle had sung after her mother's death. Boyle stated
in The Washington Post that she entered the contest at the behest of her late
mother, who urged her to "take the risk" of singing in front of an audience
larger than her parish church. She is unmarried and currently unemployed. During
her audition video she said she had "never been kissed.", although she later
clarified that this had been a joke. She aspires to become a musical theatre
singer in the vein of Elaine Paige.
Television performance
Boyle performed a rendition of "I Dreamed a Dream" from Les Misérables in the
first round of the third series of Britain's Got Talent, on 11 April 2009. This
performance was widely reported and a video of her singing was viewed by tens of
millions of people on the website YouTube. Boyle was reportedly shocked and
amazed by the strength of this reaction.
News media
Many British newspapers carried articles on Boyle's performance and subsequent
Internet coverage. The Sun writer Colin Robertson gave her the nickname "Paula
Potts" in reference to the contest's previous opera-singing winner Paul Potts.
In an interview with the Daily Mirror, Boyle confirmed she had a meeting with
the Sony BMG record company but said "I can't say much about it. It's early days
and I'm taking baby steps."
Many international news outlets also carried stories on her including the New
York Daily News, Australia's Herald Sun, Canada's Maclean's, Germany's Der
Spiegel, China's Xinhua News Agency, Macau's The Macau Post Daily, Portugal's
Correio da Manhã, Korea's The Chosun Ilbo and Holland's De Telegraaf.
In the U.S., ABC News coverage suggested that Boyle may be "...Britain's newest
pop sensation...", and the Entertainment section ran the headline The Woman Who
Shut Up Simon Cowell. Several commentators have drawn parallels between Boyle's
performance and that of Paul Potts, another unexpected singing talent discovered
by British reality television, with Forbes magazine predicting that Boyle could
follow in Potts' footsteps and enjoy a long, successful and profitable career.
The comparison with Potts has earned her the nickname "Paula Potts" in at least
one British tabloid.
TV shows
Following her performance on Britain's Got Talent, Boyle was a guest on STV's
The Five Thirty Show. She was interviewed via satellite on CBS's Early Show and
ABC's Good Morning America, and via a telephone interview on FOX's America's
Newsroom. In an interview, Simon Cowell said Boyle had received an invitation to
appear on The Oprah Winfrey Show and predicted that if she did appear "there's
every chance Susan Boyle will have the number one album in America".
Susan Boyle in Social media
Writing in The Guardian Leigh Holmwood stated that web technology such as
YouTube and social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter have been
critical in facilitating Boyle's rapid rise to fame. The most popular YouTube
video submission of her audition garnered nearly 2.5 million views in the first
72 hours. As of April 17, 2009, the video had been viewed more than 22 million
times, making it the most viewed video of the month worldwide. On the day
following the performance, the YouTube video was the most popular article on
Digg. The same video was also popular on Reddit, with enough clout to top this
site's front page. The Los Angeles Times wrote that the popularity of this video
may in part be due to the broad range of emotion packed into a short timeframe,
noting that this makes it "perfect for the Internet, where short clips rule."
Susan Boyle's fame also spread by links posted on the Twitter website, including
praise from celebrity couple Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore. When told
about this, Boyle was said not to have ever heard of Kutcher. Although
recognising the name 'Demi Moore', Boyle knew little about her either, but
thanked them for their support.
CD for Charity
Boyle recorded a version of "Cry Me a River" for a charity CD produced in 1999
at a school in Whitburn, West Lothian. This recording has now been released on
the web, and has gathered immediate acclaim, with the New York Post writing that
this shows that Boyle is not a "one-trick pony" and that the rarity of this CD
imprint, with only 1,000 produced, will make them valuable collector's items.
Other media reaction was similarly positive, with Hello! magazine stating that
the recording is a further illustration of the level of Boyle's talent, going on
to write that the song "cements her status" as a singing star.
Susan Boyle Signs Cry Me A River - CD made for Charity
Boyle's sudden fame has drawn much commentary on why this story was so widely
reported and what it implies, while others drew moral lessons from people's
reactions to her performance. For instance, writing in Scotland's The Herald,
Collette Douglas-Home described Boyle's story as a modern parable and a rebuke
to people's tendency to judge others based on their physical appearance.
Similarly, Lisa Schwarzbaum, in an article in Entertainment Weekly, stated that
Boyle's performance was particularly moving as it was a victory for talent and
artistry in a culture obsessed with physical attractiveness and presentation.
Commenting on the audience's reactions before she started singing, Boyle stated:
“ Modern society is too quick to judge people on their appearances. ... There
is not much you can do about it; it is the way they think; it is the way they
are. But maybe this could teach them a lesson, or set an example. ”
—Susan Boyle, The Washington Post
“ In her success, we see a phoenix rising from the ashes of disappointment,
sadness and heartbreak. We see prosperity after recession. We see good trumping
evil and we see a restoration, albeit ever so slightly, to the belief that
dedication and perseverance can pay off in the end. ”
—Nick Barron, Societrends
After Boyle's performance, Holden stated:
“ I am so thrilled because I know that everybody was against you. I honestly
think that we were all being very cynical and I think that's the biggest wakeup
call ever. And I just want to say that it was a complete privilege listening to
that. ”
—Amanda Holden, Britain's Got Talent
Echoing these comments by Holden, Jeanne McManus wrote in The Washington Post
that, in talent shows such as Britain's Got Talent, one of the main sources of
drama is the collision between performers' sometimes exaggerated sense of
self-worth and the opinions and reactions of their audience. In Boyle's case,
McManus believed that her initial demeanour and homely appearance caused the
judges and audience to be "waiting for her to squawk like a duck". Indeed, New
York's Daily News stated that it was this stark contrast between the audience's
low expectations and the quality of her singing that made Boyle's performance
such an engaging piece of television. This article also noted that the idea of
an underdog being ridiculed or humiliated but then enjoying an unexpected
triumph is a common trope in literature and that this is why, when this theme
made its unscripted appearance in reality television, it created an enduring and
powerful effect.
On the other hand, although this audience reaction was unscripted, it may have
been anticipated. Writing in The Huffington Post, Mark Blankenship noted that
the producers of the show would have been aware of the potential of this story
arc, stating that the programme seemed to deliberately present Boyle in a manner
that would enhance this initial reaction. He does note, however, that "as
fabricated as it is, her on-camera arc is undeniably moving." The fact that
Boyle is in her forties has also been cited as contributing to this strong
emotional impact. In another Huffington Post article, Letty Cottin Pogrebin
wrote that people may have been "weeping for the years of wasted talent", since
most of Boyle's life has been spent in obscurity and those wasted years can
never be recovered. All the same, Pogrebin still classed Boyle's performance as
a triumph for what she called "women of a certain age", as she saw it as
representing a victory over a youth culture that often dismisses middle-aged
women.
In a feminist analysis, a columnist in The Guardian pointed out what she
perceived as a fundamental difference between Boyle's hostile reception and the
more neutral response to Paul Potts in his first audition, which she saw as
reflecting a societal expectation that women be both good-looking and talented,
with no such expectations being made about men. In a similar vein, a columnist
on Salon.com wrote that Boyle's performance reminded people that "not all
fortysomething women are sleek, Botoxed beauties", going on to say that Boyle's
sudden fame came from her ability to remind her audience that, like them, she is
a normal, flawed and vulnerable person, familiar with disappointment and
mockery, but who nevertheless has the determination to fight for her dream.
Several British newspapers commented that Boyle's success seemed to have
particular resonance in the United States. Writing in The Scotsman Craig Brown
quoted a U.S. entertainment correspondent who compared Boyle's story to the
American Dream, in that it represented talent overcoming adversity and poverty.
The Associated Press described this as Boyle's "hardscrabble story", dwelling on
her modest lifestyle and what they saw as urban deprivation in her home town.
Similarly, The Independent New York correspondent David Usborne wrote that
America is a country that will always respond to "the fairy tale where the
apparently unprepossessing suddenly becomes pretty, from Shrek to My Fair Lady."
Piers Morgan, one of the show's judges, also commented on the unusual power this
story seemed to have in the U.S., stating that "Americans can be very moved by
this sort of thing." He likened Boyle's rise to fame from poverty and obscurity
to that of the fictional boxer Rocky Balboa, who was the subject of a series of
Hollywood films.
