Susan Boyle – All I Can Say Is WOW!

I rarely watch reality TV much lately, generally due to lack of time (and inclination), but when I read all the buzz about Susan Boyle, I had to take a few minutes to see what it was all about.

Like probably just about everyone watching that excerpt from BRITAIN’S GOT TALENT (including Simon Cowell, Piers Morgan, Amanda Holden and the entire audience that night), I would have thought she had more cheek than talent given her opening remarks and looks if I hadn’t had an inkling ahead of time that she was something very special.  (Sometimes I swear so many people get on those shows just so the judges can make snarky remarks that it gets too easy to lump contestants into that category, especially, and unfortunately, based on looks.)  So I wasn’t as surprised as I might have been…

Yet, I was still bowled over by Susan’s voice!  She has one of the purest, sweetest voices I’ve heard in a long time, especially for someone 47 years old.  And her delivery and stage presence is amazing.  Nowadays, you get too many singers who have pretty good voices, but who don’t really know how to sell a song or you get ones who can use a stage well, but don’t have the voice.  She’s got both in spades.

I can’t wait for her to come out with an album.  I rarely buy them, because usually only a few songs on each are worth having, but I think she’d be wonderful across the board, making whatever she does a keeper.  (There’s a limited edition charity CD she sang on years ago that shows she’s not a fluke…)

Here’s hoping she wins on BRITAIN’S GOT TALENT.  She surely does.  (If "Mamma Trish" makes it to the finals, and she doesn’t, I think I’ll puke prolifically, and then I’ll remember why I don’t usually watch these shows in the first place, not to mention boycotting any future Simon Cowell productions should that be the case…)

Click on the photo above to watch her performance or here.

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