Havent seen a thread for this here yet.
I watched a few clips on You tube. Dance group Diversity were wonderful, 10 year old Natalie chose a song that didn’t suit her, the “belly dancer” was terrible & Susan Boyle had a very shakey start to her song. I guess the momentum from her previous performance will carry her through though.
I thought Diversity were great. I didn’t think Susan had a great performance. Very shaky start and quite a few bum notes.
I did feel a bit evil at the end though. That little girl’s face just falling when she didn’t make it through was classic. It was like “WTF?”
Wow, Susan Boyle certainly started a bit…pitchy, to say the least. I feel bad for her, as she got too much praise for a very good performance and now it is hard to live up to. Is this her first performance since her debut on the show?
I don’t even get what the big deal was about her initial performance. Were we really supposed to be surprised that a big bodied average woman can sing well? There are tons of ladies like her singing in church in countless churches every week.
It was the 'stache that threw everyone off.
Yep. She’ll perform(maybe twice) at the final and that will be it. It’s a different format to Idol/Xfactor. The Live semi’s are on every night this week with 7/8 different acts per show. Two go to the final from each show which will be this weekend IIRC.
I think people just got caught up in the emotion of the clip rather than her singing. The performance last night was very week indeed IMO. Even the crowd was pretty quiet during it. She’s got such strong recognition/good feeling from the first clip I’d guess she’s basically unbeatable now no matter how she actually performs. There may be a backlash though.
One way or the other she really needs to do better in the final. I’d advise to stay away from Elaine Paige songs as she is certainly no Paige.
Here’s the Diversity dance group that people have mentioned. All self choreographed.
Her performance satisfied me. 
Why are they called “Diversity”? They all look white to me 
Huh?
Okay, my bad. The actual diversity is much clearer in the photo. I blame my previous comment on grainy YouTube video - they really did look all white to me.
This has been hashed and rehashed ad nauseum both here and elsewhere on the Internet, as well as in the popular media. I suspect that it was really more her demeanor than her appearance that caused her initial ridicule. She’s a little slow in the head, and clearly lacks properly developed social skills. That, combined with her initially frumpy appearance, is what caused the audience’s incredulity. If she had come out at her initial performance made up the way she was last night, and said something like “hello, my name is Susan Boyle, and I’m a happily married associate professor of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh, and an accomplished amateur pub and choral singer,” nobody would have batted an eyelash. In fact, if were anybody else, I would suspect that she had deliberately been playing the audience. But as it stands, the world basically loved her because she appealed to the underdog in all of us.
And they dress the same, too!
Why would you assume they were saying their skin colour was diverse, anyway? They had a diverse range of ages there, too. Perhaps they were referring to the diverse range of dances they do.
The second semi final the results are out. To me, the deserving two were much less clear cut this time. The bad acts were really bad though
My wife remarked that a nearby town (Geneva, IL) was pleasantly diverse. Huh? I know she normally uses the word in the conventional sense, so I had to say, “Yeah, they have Swedes AND Norwegians.”
Boyle’s cracking voice couldn’t have been more perfectly choreographed if both Simon Cowell and Piers Morgan had written the script themselves. The rubes were sold by her first performance, but this “Aw, shucks! I’m just like you!” moment sealed the deal.
Diversity explained that they had different:
norwegians are a totally different shade of blond(e)! any scandi will tell you that.
ms. boyle did sound a bit off and more nervous.
Semi final 3 was a pretty weak heat I still like Stavros Flatley & I also thought the girl duo Harmony was good fun! Once again Shaheen picked (or had picked for him) a song that didn’t suit him.
Our local news programme featured a man in his 70’s doing a very energetic break-dance in one of the semi-finals. It turns out that this man is claiming over £70 a week disability allowance for a bad leg! I think he will soon be getting a call from the authorities asking for their money back for what seems a bogus disability.