Susan Boyle Is The Lesson

Slum Dog Millionaire move over. Susan Boyle has her WIKI.   Susan Boyle even has her own FAN SITE.  Rags to riches stories are medicine for a stressed out world.   It feels good to see the established norm smacked down.  In the 1930s, Shirley Temple was the go to image for a population struggling to survive the Great Depression.  Temple prevailed over insurmountable obstacles from the “established conventions” of her day.  Susan Boyle shattered the “established conventions” of BLINGed out, cookie cutter, mini clad, thought challenged bombshells everyone expects from the entertainment industry.

Susan Boyle blows the judges away!

Susan Boyle, 48, from West Lothian stunned the judges on Britain’s Got Talent singing ‘I Dream A Dream’ from Les Miserables.

Judges Apologize To Susan Boyle

On Early Show, They Say Sorry For Judging Her At First By Her Looks, Before She Belted Out Tune That Made Her Famous

“Sometimes love is a song, a passion”

UK singer ‘gobsmacked’ by overnight stardom

Susan Boyle’s next interview stops: Larry King and Oprah

Susan Boyle recording of Cry Me A River uncovered

Raise your hand if you cried at Susan Boyle

Susan Boyle and inner beauty

Susan Boyle sings to America

Finding the love of your life, Susan Boyle singing sensation

Britain’s Got Talent’s Susan Boyle appears on US TV as worldwide success looms

…  a TV event is being dissected like a lab specimen. The simple fact of the matter is that one normal woman, who lived in a normal village and had a nice singing voice went on to a talent contest and blew everyone away. There must be hundreds of people like Susan all over the country, but it just so happened that it was Susan Boyle that managed to represent on TV.

… too much emphasis is put on looks and there’s a real homogenisation of our TV stars, and that people perhaps like looking at glamorous people on telly because it makes them forget about themselves. But I really don’t think people were surprised, in this case, because they thought Susan Boyle was, to use 21st century vernacular, a minger. No, people went crazy for because she was normal and getting credit for something she has never been credit for – on this level – before.

I read in today’s Independent a round-up of global opinion provoked by the performance. One paper said: “In a world of nasty pirates, mean internet commentators, and crazy right-wing extremists, we have to stop and embrace Susan Boyle for making us smile.”

Fair enough. Another said this:  “People like Susan Boyle are the glue of our society and it’s nice when finally something good happens to them.”

Such a welcome distraction from smoldering world news Susan Boyle is, that the fragile moment she created must be nurtured.  With instant celebrity comes a lot of attention, good and bad.  Please protect this person who has ignited the heart warming imagination of a hungry world.  Do not turn her into the familiar celebrity psycho that we are hammered with every day.