Tell It Like It Is Gone Quiet

Susan Boyle and Simon Cowell have truly entertained the entire world, as Susan’s silken voice achieved what many others wished they could do. It momentarily shut Simon Cowell up.
By: Lyn Thomas
 
April 22, 2009 - PRLog -- Entrepreneur, television personality and producer and acid-tongued judge, thirty-seven year old Simon Phillip Cowell, made history when his only comment after listening to 47 year old Susan Boyle, was an unqualified, “Yes”.

Scottish Susan Boyle, with an accent as broad as the Clyde River, walked onto centre stage of ‘Britain Has Talent’, tv show, wearing an outdated dress and a contestant identification around her neck, like a prisoner in an identification photograph.
Chatting nervously with Simon about her Scottish village in western Scotland, Blackburn, Susan revealed a down to earth sense of humour.

Susan was a far cry from the usual half-dressed floppies trying to impress their way to the Royal Variety Performance in December. The 2000 strong crowd were seen to visually snicker when the Scots lady from the back of beyond, declared, “I’m trying to be a professional singer.” You could almost hear Simon Cowell saying “Over my dead body”, as the camera conveniently caught an audience member rolling her eyes in disbelief.

Or was it? The first basic rule of entertainment is to entertain. Everyone knows that magic is slight of hand and showmanship. Yet everyone loves to be fooled by magic.
It has been suggested that the ‘American Idol’ programme was beginning the long slow slide to oblivion, with a strong possibility that Simon Cowell is bored to tears and leaving the show. Could the British version of the show save the day?

An unknown, overweight, unmarried, unimpressive mobile phone salesman, rose to stardom in 2007, when he was ‘discovered’ in the first series of ‘Britain Has Talent’. Thirty-seven year old Paul Potts, travels the world today, with his rich operatic voice.
Two things helped the series this year. The British public is hungry for even the slightest glimmer of hope, after the Doom-and-Gloom of the financial tsunami of 2008. People are reaching for anything that could even remotely make them believe there can be a better tomorrow. ‘Britain Has Talent’ and ‘American Idol’ needed to find a down and out, unimpressive nobody, they could make into somebody, in order to raise the shows’ television ratings. They needed a miracle to help keep those applications for auditions to appear on the show, coming in.

The producers got lucky. Unemployed, unmarried, unkissed, volunteer church worker applied for an audition. She is their wrinkly garden style caterpillar, who is quite capable of being transformed into a high flying, gem studded butterfly.

“I’m gonna make that audience rock,” Susan joked on camera, before going on stage
From the first powerful notes of “I Dreamed A Dream’, from the show ‘Le Miserables,’ and the gob-stopping look on the faces of judges Simon Cowell and Amanda Holden, the audience went wild. It rose to its feet in delighted captivation. How could such a frumpy ordinary looking middle aged person, contain such an inspiring voice, capable of bringing tears to the eyes?

Was Simon joking or was he ‘Telling it as it is’, when the only comment he made was, “I knew from the moment you walked out on that stage that we were going to hear something extraordinary and I was right.” Simon sat silently observing the other two judges reacting in elated shock, not having made any of his usual acidic and derogatory comments.

Was Simon under instructions from the producers? Susan does have a fantastic voice, but was it also a unique and well performed piece of showmanship as well? Obviously the producers would never have let someone like Susan on their show if they had not been convinced there was a good chance she would achieve exactly what she has done.

Susan deserved to be ‘discovered’ and will rightly go a long way. The show will gain a new popularity and the general public will have been inspired, that it is possible to ‘Dream a Dream’ and see it come a reality. All in all, it was great entertainment. The clip on YouTube of Susan’s performance has had over 8 million hits. You can’t just watch it once and forget about it.



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