Susan Boyle "I Dreamed A Dream" Era (Out Now!!!)

[shaq91]

Susan Boyle Records First Song for New Album

Susan Boyle took time out from the Britain's Got Talent tour to record the first track on her planned album with Simon Cowell's team, who are clearly excited by what they heard.

"She sounds fantastic on record," says Cowell. "She's so good, the album is not just going to be show tunes. We're going to take our time with this."

Boyle, 48, also visited the Sony Music offices in London last week to meet with executives, who are treating her gently. Mindful of the pressures and subsequent hospitalization after she finished second in the Britain's Got Talent final, the label says she could walk away from the project any time she wants.

"There's no pressure on her to do this at all," an insider tells PEOPLE.

Boyle missed a few dates on the tour, which ended Sunday. But she returned triumphantly and is expected to sing her to fans in three U.K. cities over the next three days.

www.people.com/people/article/0,,20289456,00.html

[realityBITES]

It was good... I felt it was such a contrived moment, but it was good.

[K.]

She's definitely talented. I would be surprised if she didn't get some kind of contract, but obviously not a radio star. Not that that matters.

[tsw2008]

to be honest she is enjoying her 15 minutes of fame..and good for her :). She can sing but so can many other people. All this sudden hype around this lady is because her performance was so unexpected, due to her appearance more than anything.

Don't judge a book by it's cover the saying goes, but it's human nature to do so. If she was an attractive lady with exactly the same voice I doubt she would get that much attention.

[oldskool2]

She now has a record deal

[ashley]

This sums up how I feel about it:

It wasn't singer Susan Boyle who was ugly on Britain's Got Talent so much as our reaction to her



Is Susan Boyle ugly? Or are we? On Saturday night she stood on the stage in Britain's Got Talent; small and rather chubby, with a squashed face, unruly teeth and unkempt hair. She wore a gold lace dress, which made her look like a piece of pork sitting on a doily. Interviewed by Ant and Dec beforehand, she told them that she is unemployed, single, lives with a cat called Pebbles and has never been kissed. Susan then walked out to chatter, giggling, and a long and unpleasant wolf whistle.

Why are we so shocked when "ugly" women can do things, rather than sitting at home weeping and wishing they were somebody else? Men are allowed to be ugly and talented. Alan Sugar looks like a burst bag of flour. Gordon Ramsay has a dried-up riverbed for a face. Justin Lee Collins looks like Cousin It from The Addams Family. Graham Norton is a baboon in mascara. I could go on. But a woman has to have the bright, empty beauty of a toy - or get off the screen. We don't want to look at you. Except on the news, where you can weep because some awful personal tragedy has befallen you.

Simon Cowell, now buffed to the sheen of an ornamental pebble, asked this strange creature, this alien, how old she was. "I'm nearly 47," she said. Simon rolled his eyes until they threatened to roll out of his head, down the aisle and out into street. "But that's only one side of me," Susan added, and wiggled her hips. The camera cut to the other male judge, Piers Morgan, who winced. Didn't Susan know she was not supposed to be sexual? The audience's reaction was equally disgusting. They giggled with embarrassment, and when Susan said she wanted to be a professional singer, the camera spun to a young girl, who seemed to be at least half mascara.

She gave an "As if!" squeak and smirked. Amanda Holden, the female judge, a woman with improbably raised eyebrows and snail trails of Botox over her perfectly smooth face, chose neutrality. And then Susan sang. She stood with her feet apart, like a Scottish Edith Piaf, and very slowly began to sing Les Miserables' I Dreamed A Dream. It was wonderful.

The judges were astonished. They gasped, they gaped, they clapped. They looked almost ashamed. I was briefly worried that Simon might stab himself with a pencil, and mutter, "Et tu, Piers, for we have wronged Susan in thinking that because she is a munter, she is entirely useless." How could they have misjudged her, they gesticulated. But how could they not? No makeup? Bad teeth? Funny hair? Is she insane, this sad little Scottish spinster, beloved only of Pebbles the Cat?

When Susan had finished singing, and Piers had finished gasping, he said this. It was a comment of incredible spite. "When you stood there with that cheeky grin and said, 'I want to be like Elaine Paige', everyone was laughing at you. No one is laughing now." And it was over to Amanda Holden, a woman most notable for playing a psychotic hairdresser in the Manchester hair-extensions saga Cutting It. "I am so thrilled," said Amanda, "because I know that everybody was against you." "Everybody was against you," she said, as if Susan might have been hanged for her presumption. Why? Can't "ugly" people dream, you flat-packed, hair-ironed, over-plucked monstrous fool?

I know what you will say. You will say that Paul Potts, the fat opera singer with the equally squashed face who won Britain's Got Talent in 2007, had just as hard a time at his first audition. I looked it up on YouTube. He did not. "I wasn't expecting that," said Simon to Paul. "Neither was I," said Amanda. "You have an incredible voice," said Piers. And that was it. No laughter, or invitations to paranoia, or mocking wolf-whistles, or smirking, or derision.

We see this all the time in popular culture. Do you ever stare at the TV and wonder where the next generation of Judi Denchs and Juliet Stevensons have gone? Have they fallen down a Rada wormhole? Yes. They're not there, because they aren't pretty enough to get airtime. This lust for homogeneity in female beauty means that when someone who doesn't resemble a diagram in a plastic surgeon's office steps up to the microphone, people fall about and treat us to despicable sub-John Gielgud gestures of amazement.

Susan will probably win Britain's Got Talent. She will be the little munter that could sing, served up for the British public every Saturday night. Look! It's "ugly"! It sings! And I know that we think that this will make us better people. But Susan Boyle will be the freakish exception that makes the rule. By raising this Susan up, we will forgive ourselves for grinding every other Susan into the dust. It will be a very partial and poisoned redemption. Because Britain's Got Malice. Sing, Susan, sing - to an ugly crowd that doesn't deserve you.

[MikeCheck12]

I've seen that clip a dozen times....I love it. Good for her!

[Deleted]

Can't believe people are falling for this.

[switch]

Even if it was set up to portray her a certain way, it's a feel-good story and I love that.

I hope she finds a nice career in Broadway or something.

[212]

Apr 16, 2009 21:00:30 GMT -5 realityBITES said:

It was good... I felt it was such a contrived moment, but it was good.

Apr 17, 2009 8:50:34 GMT -5 @backintime said:

Can't believe people are falling for this.

Exactly how I feel.

I knew some fool was gonna start a thread about her. As if people will care once this competition is over.

[@DiegoMarcondes_]

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This have airplay on US lol

I don't like her voice... but she can sing perfectly!

[Deleted]

Her 15 minutes will come and go before you know it

[theprophet]

lol she is just a gimmick, the record industry will use her and spit her out

[nsfb17]

If she ever actually releases an album, I'll be shocked. No record label is going to take her seriously; she's completely unmarketable. I hate to say it, but it's the truth. She has a great voice, but her looks (or lack thereof) pretty much ruin any chance she would have at a career in music.

[Deleted]

A movie based on her life is supposedly being worked on. Umm this is getting a little out of hand.

[Deleted]

Apr 19, 2009 23:13:04 GMT -5 theprophet said:

lol she is just a gimmick, the record industry will use her and spit her out

The swine flu has already stolen her shine. Bitch is a has been!

[cking33]

Apr 20, 2009 0:17:03 GMT -5 @nsfb17 said:

If she ever actually releases an album, I'll be shocked. No record label is going to take her seriously; she's completely unmarketable. I hate to say it, but it's the truth. She has a great voice, but her looks (or lack thereof) pretty much ruin any chance she would have at a career in music.

Simon Cowell begs to differ. There's not reason she can't have a decently successful album given all that's happened with her.

[shaq91]

Susan's Demo Version Of "Killing Me Softly With His Song"

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Apr 29, 2009 15:50:47 GMT -5 @tonyaharding said:

Apr 19, 2009 23:13:04 GMT -5 theprophet said:

lol she is just a gimmick, the record industry will use her and spit her out

The swine flu has already stolen her shine. b***h is a has been!

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Apr 29, 2009 16:36:58 GMT -5 Glove Slap said:

Apr 29, 2009 15:50:47 GMT -5 @tonyaharding said:

The swine flu has already stolen her shine. b***h is a has been!

For real though. All I heard about on the news was Susan Boyle for months or whatever. Now that swine flu is the top story, I haven't heard her name mentioned once. Both are just decoys to keep people from thinking about the economy anyway.

[Glove Slap]

Apr 29, 2009 16:40:42 GMT -5 @tonyaharding said:

Apr 29, 2009 16:36:58 GMT -5 Glove Slap said:

For real though. All I heard about on the news was Susan Boyle for months or whatever. Now that swine flu is the top story, I haven't heard her name mentioned once. Both are just decoys to keep people from thinking about the economy anyway.

POST OF THE YEAR!
Maybe she should rush out a single about treatment & vaccinations.

[shaq91]

Susan Boyle Records First Song for New Album

Susan Boyle took time out from the Britain's Got Talent tour to record the first track on her planned album with Simon Cowell's team, who are clearly excited by what they heard.

"She sounds fantastic on record," says Cowell. "She's so good, the album is not just going to be show tunes. We're going to take our time with this."

Boyle, 48, also visited the Sony Music offices in London last week to meet with executives, who are treating her gently. Mindful of the pressures and subsequent hospitalization after she finished second in the Britain's Got Talent final, the label says she could walk away from the project any time she wants.

"There's no pressure on her to do this at all," an insider tells PEOPLE.

Boyle missed a few dates on the tour, which ended Sunday. But she returned triumphantly and is expected to sing her to fans in three U.K. cities over the next three days.

www.people.com/people/article/0,,20289456,00.html

[Legend-ona Lewis]

I hope she does well!
You Yanks are just jealous she's not one of yours.

[LeonaLewis]

Apr 20, 2009 0:17:03 GMT -5 @nsfb17 said:

If she ever actually releases an album, I'll be shocked. No record label is going to take her seriously; she's completely unmarketable. I hate to say it, but it's the truth. She has a great voice, but her looks (or lack thereof) pretty much ruin any chance she would have at a career in music.

lol Do you not think that is the exact reason she will succeed? It's this very contrast that has got her all the attention and fanbase.
She's going to be very successful, I would say. Maybe not CHR, but definitely AC--where voice is really the primary factor to success.

[marcjm]

Are you serious?

[LeonaLewis]

For sure.

[Diablo Cody™]

OMG first single will be titled "Watch Me Work My Swag" and will be sent to radio in September!

[shaq91]

Video: Check Out Susan Boyle's Makeover

"You look gorgeous, I'm loving the hair!"

That's Meredith Vieira of the Today show's reaction to a newly-elegant Susan Boyle, who will make her U.S. debut on America's Got Talent July 22 with a new hair color, softer locks and expert makeup.

"I brush up quite well," is Boyle's typically bashful reply.

In a preview of an interview scheduled to air on Today and on Wednesday night's NBC broadcast of America's Got Talent, Vieira asks Boyle to describe the incredible ascent that began with her audition for Britain's Got Talent, her second-place finish on the show, a U.K. tour, a new album in the works and now her debut in America.

"I'm having a wonderful time," says Boyle. "It's just been unbelievable ... It's a bit like going on a long journey. You don't know what's going to happen. You don't know where it's going to end."

"I don't want it to end," she says.

www.people.com/people/article/0,,20292156,00.html

[worldwide]

She's so annoying. That's what overexposure does.

[sunpeach]

She's a good singer- I now think she can do well. If she can get a piece of that Il Divo crowd, she could be real successful. I don't think anyone expects her to have a #1 on the HOT 100.