Please take a few minutes and become the 86,489,787th person who’s watched this.
Nice voice. Was that a show tune? Not at alll in my area of musical interest, but you gotta appreciate talent where you see it.
(You posted while I was typing. I should have previewed. It’s from Les Miserables.)
Ooops, 7,934 people have watched it since I posted a short while ago, so make that the 86,497,722nd…or whatever it may be at the time.
Really, it’s worth watching at least once, just so you’ll know what people are talking about. Not just in this thread, but as a cultural touchstone. You may or may not like it, but please watch anyway, all the way to the end. (Edit to add, thanks for watching)
I’m not even into that kind of music, but I still get teary.
I watched it. In its entirety.
I Dreamed a Dream is from Les Miserables. It’s Fantine’s one big song before she drops dead.
As Forbidden Broadway parodied it:
I dreamed a show in days gone by
When pathos wasn’t overstated.
I didn’t sing one song and die.
I didn’t act so constipated.
I hadn’t either, and during Christmas break my relatives were all crowded around the television crooning. Some special was running on her, and honestly I was a little put off. Essentially the story is “Everyone thought balding cat lady was crazy - let us laugh at her! Oh wait, she can sing so she is now worthy of our respect!”
Gee, let us rejoice in our now found appreciation of humanity. :rolleyes:
Previews of next week: More mocking funny looking people when they fail at singing.
She has cats?? That changes EVERYTHING!
Elaine Paige is a huge fish in a small pond: most people have never been to an A-list stage musical, either in the U.S. or Britain. And like most such narrow, semi-isolated universe, there’s a cultish aspect. So Elaine Paige fans probably have no idea that most people have never heard of her. So they resent her lack of mainstream success. Couple that with the fact that Paige, while the owner of a strong set of pipes, sings with very little personal style. Another strike against her in the mainstream pop world. In other words, there’s more to her feeling of resentment, or martyrdom, or whatever, than youtube: Broadway divas rarely become huge popstars. But she sees herself as someone who has put in the work, paid the dues, and earned all the superlatives and accolades that are obtainable in her universe, but this flybynight broad comes along and, purely a case of right place right time, becomes overnight 100 times more famous than Paige ever was.
Not to say the article quoted in the OP didn’t twist Paige’s words to conjure a catfight out of thin air. Still, Paige’s repeated references to youtube, and the viral phenomenon, etc., as the reason for Boyle’s fame, is her attempt to minimize Boyle’s talent as a factor. Not vicious, but a little catty, and very sour grapey.
Not that I wouldn’t probably have handled it far worse in her place, but there it is. While “virus” is not the insult the article makes it seem, Paige is not entirely blameless in this exchange.
Just my take.
Actually, here’s the act that should’ve beaten Boyle.
Hell yes! Completely > Boyle in terms of aesthetics.
Mild hijack, youtube took me places… This kid beats all of them out.
Well you got luckier than me. The youtube path it led me down got Flatlier and Flatlier. Watching Michael Flatley videos would make me want to cut myself if I could stop laughing long enough to breathe. Truly the most ridiculous person in the history of the planet.
Slithy Tove, Charlie Brooker is a jerk. What’s he got to say? Just this:
- Susan Boyle is kind of homely.
Yeah, and Charlie Brooker isn’t so great-looking himself. Furthermore, once she got a make-over (which is no more than any middle-aged celebrity gets all the time), she is about average in looks for her age in my opinion.
- Susan Boyle is just little better than average as a singer.
He’s entitled to his opinion. He’s wrong in my opinion. She’s a pretty good singer. Perhaps she isn’t a great singer, but most of the finalists on those TV talent shows aren’t great singers either.
- Susan Boyle is over-exposed.
True, but most of the “celebrity” news that can be seen and read everywhere is about over-exposed people. Instead of one more story about Jon and Kate or Brangelina, we got a story about a nobody who got a chance to display her talent to a big audience. I call that a win.
- By insulting Susan Boyle and everyone who ever said anything nice about her, he has shown that he’s a more honorable person than all of them.
All that he’s shown is that he is good at insulting people, as though that was a talent that we desperately need more of.
Susan Boyle didn’t win Britain’s Got Talent. Here’s the act that DID beat Susan Boyle.
An advertisemant for Primark. Civilisation has fallen.:mad:
What, Edith Pilaf didn’t throw you?