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Originally Posted by carrie721
if someone goes on american idol, why would they sing a mozart aria? it's a show for cultivating pop talent. that's not to say they still couldn't make better choices of material, but neither mozart nor schubert makes any sense.
however, this wasn't even american idol, it was britain's got talent. i don't know enough about the show to say what kind of material she had to choose from.
that being said, i dig susan, but i think the way the media is handling the whole thing is silly. first of all, the audience/judge reactions to her before and after her performance were so craftily edited, it felt contrived and disingenuous, and that's a shame. and the way the interviewers on the early show talked down to her was cringeworthy. she might have off-kilter looks and a brogue, but she's not an idiot.
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The whole point of Britain's Got Talent is that it isn't confined to just singing - that's for the X Factor. BGT is a talent show for just about everything. Last year a contestant brought her dog with her as part of her act. A burlesque dancer went through last week. Whilst Susan Boyle isn't the epitome of glamour, her talent isn't a big stretch on a talent show where anyone can try out.