Susan Boyle

[carrie721]

Originally Posted by David

What the hell was that song? it sounded like the theme at the Convention of Maudlin Mooncalfs.

Why do these singers on American Idol always sing such dreck? Or am I generalizing (because I don't see the show often)?

Do any of them ever perform any Mozart arias, or Schubert lieder?

I hate so much of that poppy, sappy stuff from Lloyd Weber & all his copycats. Is that the only **** that these wannabe-famous singers work on?

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.