I Dreamed Someone Else’s Dream… - bryanb
Let me share with you a recent IM chat I had about the messiah-come-again UK idol contestant Susan Boyle and her recent canonization.
whitford65: What do you think of the Susan Boyle video—(I’m beginning to think i am the only one who doesn’t find it remarkable.)
bryanb: Well, the boyfriend and i got into a little argument about this last night.
bryanb: Can she carry a tune —yes. Is she unattractive—yes. I guess I get caught up in the medium/message of the whole thing—someone sends me a link to a video and says “YOU HAVE TO SEE THIS” and some ugly woman comes on stage, of course shes gonna sing well—who would send out a video of someone singing badly who’s already ugly…wheres the glory in sending something like that around…I just hate setups like that.
bryanb: And Simon Cowell is so “industrious” and “savvy” he already knew of her “talent”— it was just a setup for a fake feel-good story.
bryanb: All fabricated, nothing more nothing less.
whitford65: That’s what I thought immediately, and it sounds pre-recorded.
whitford65: There’s no way she sounded that good on stage.
bryanb: And if she was pretty, with the same vocal skills—she would have been kicked off.
bryanb: Because her voice is unremarkable.
whitford65: Exactly!
whitford65: But everyone’s so WEEPY, ugh.
bryanb: But I can’t say that because I sound like a monster.
whitford65: I FEEL THE SAME WAY.
bryanb: Like I’m not allowed to criticize someone who decided to perform in front of millions of people.
whitford65: Hahaha
bryanb: Oh…and to top it off—I know that song was chosen for her—”I dreamed a dream”…COME ON, that has Ugly Duckling written all over it.
whitford65: Haha…Yes!
whitford65: And that song was written to pull “heart strings”.
bryanb: Exactly.
bryanb: I mean at the end of the day, good for her, make some money and have your 15 minutes, I ain’t hatin’ on you. But this whole phenomenon has to stop.
whitford65: Yeah. And it’s not teaching anyone any lessons about superficiality—it’s only driving the point home that we are even more.
bryanb: Yes exactly—she walked out and everyone hated her immediately—what does that say about us? And then when she does have some shred of talent—however small—then she’s valuable and worthy of our love?!?!?! That’s fucked up—these American Idol shows revel in humiliating people that look just like this, the anti-star. Stop toying with my emotions!
whitford65: Yeah, I’m not playing the game—I want pretty people on stage.
bryanb: Thank You.
whitford65: She didn’t even brush her hair.
bryanb: Because she wasn’t allowed to!
whitford65: Hahahahahaha
bryanb: I’m convinced they made her look WORSE.
whitford65: Yeah, I watched an interview, and her hair looked fine, but on stage it looked like she just woke up—(this whole conversation makes it seem like I really care about this).
bryanb: She looked like a dead rat on stage, I’m sure in real life she just looks like a house mom.
bryanb: Ya, I agree—but it’s good to vent…I have been bombarded by this everywhere i go.
whitford65: Yeah, she looks like any other Brit.
bryanb: Ouch—but seriously, I think we’ve made some real progress here.
whitford65: I was going to post my status yesterday as “thinks there are two types of people, those who wept for Susan Boyle, and me”, but I thought people might get offended.
bryanb: As we’ve learned through this whole ordeal, the only true offense—is not telling everyone exactly how you feel.
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It’s like the Cinderella story of 30 Rock’s Kathy Geist.
I don’t play into the heartstrings bit, but yet…I find myself wanting to follow her trek. Scripted? Maybe. A media ploy? Maybe. A success? Definitely.
She was in my uncle’s class at school apparently
I mean, I feel like people are indeed overreacting about this…and there probably was some pre-production to squeeze drama out of the whole situtation…but to me this conversation also has hints of contrived cynicism for the sake of cynicism. And this is coming from someone who doesn’t really give a damn about Susan Boyle either.
Just sayin’.
I couldn’t agree more. Simon’s retorts increasingly sound rehearsed to the dot and the fact she picked a track with an excessively long intro to build suspense suggest a major staging.
However, since the shows eventual winner will get to perform in front of the Queen it is possible that this woman is actually appropriately average.
Er, just so you kno, they pre-audition people on that show so of course Simon knew she could sing. This is also why people seem genuinely shocked when told they can’t sing, they have already passed an audition and told they can sing way before they meet the judges. I hate everyone who likes this show, even though I know that is most people. Fucking people, they are a bunch of drama queen, over-emotional bitches. This shite is unavoidable and I have fallen out with people that have tried to show me it. That Rob guy who commented further up sounds like a real prick, I mean seriously mate what’s your problem? Have you got no testicles or are you a fairy or what?
Haha, yes…I am a fairy. A fairy with no testicles at that! Well said champ…you totally proved what I had to say wrong with those crushing insults.