This is an amazing clip. I felt the need to make a post on it because of some of the comments I’ve seen on other websites. Here is a 47 year old woman from rural Scotland that knocked the socks off of all the judges on Britain’s Got Talent, including Simon Cowell. Now, I don’t usually watch these kind of shows, because I hate watching other people fail and then get mocked for it. It’s terrible, and it breeds a very cruel mindset. But thoughts on reality television aside, I saw this clip over the weekend.
This woman has never had any training, never sung outside of school or church. And she is singing “I Dreamed A Dream” on television, and doing a great job with it. For the people who say she’s got a mediocre voice, a “B” voice, that if she wasn’t eccentric and frumpy she would never have gotten the attention for her voice, or that you’ve heard performers in the professional shows do a better job of it, I have a couple of things to say. First off, have you ever tried to sing “I Dreamed A Dream”? I have. It has a much lower range than many women naturally sing at, since a lot of people seem to be first sopranos. It’s pitch can be difficult to hold, and it requires breathing control to do properly. It might sound simple to you, but many of the simplest sounding songs are the hardest to pull off. For her to even be able to sing the song on pitch and without any awkward breaths is great, and for her to have done it with little or no training is even more impressive. I have had vocal training for many years at this point. I can watch the video cynically, and see where she could improve the song and what training would do for her. But that’s the entire point – she has this wonderful voice, with no training. Imagine what she could be when she received some training! And I don’t even say that to downplay her performance, just to make a point to everyone that would say something negative about it. I don’t think anyone who knew anything about vocal performance would say that she was mediocre considering the circumstances she came from. Now, someone who had years of vocal training – well, it would still be a great performance, but not worthy of quite as much praise as Susan Boyle is receiving.
Keep on singing, Susan Boyle, and thank you for that amazing performance. It cheered up my weekend.
And I really hate to see so many cynical people, who cannot sit back and enjoy someone else’s accomplishments rather than tear them apart because they’re not perfect. I would hazard that many of them can’t do anything very impressive or perfect themselves, much less sing like that.
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This is an amazing clip. I felt the need to make a post on it because of some of the comments I’ve seen on other websites. Here is a 47 year old woman from rural Scotland that knocked the socks off of all the judges on Britain’s Got Talent, including Simon Cowell. Now, I don’t usually watch these kind of shows, because I hate watching other people fail and then get mocked for it. It’s terrible, and it breeds a very cruel mindset. But thoughts on reality television aside, I saw this clip over the weekend.
This woman has never had any training, never sung outside of school or church. And she is singing “I Dreamed A Dream” on television, and doing a great job with it. For the people who say she’s got a mediocre voice, a “B” voice, that if she wasn’t eccentric and frumpy she would never have gotten the attention for her voice, or that you’ve heard performers in the professional shows do a better job of it, I have a couple of things to say. First off, have you ever tried to sing “I Dreamed A Dream”? I have. It has a much lower range than many women naturally sing at, since a lot of people seem to be first sopranos. It’s pitch can be difficult to hold, and it requires breathing control to do properly. It might sound simple to you, but many of the simplest sounding songs are the hardest to pull off. For her to even be able to sing the song on pitch and without any awkward breaths is great, and for her to have done it with little or no training is even more impressive. I have had vocal training for many years at this point. I can watch the video cynically, and see where she could improve the song and what training would do for her. But that’s the entire point – she has this wonderful voice, with no training. Imagine what she could be when she received some training! And I don’t even say that to downplay her performance, just to make a point to everyone that would say something negative about it. I don’t think anyone who knew anything about vocal performance would say that she was mediocre considering the circumstances she came from. Now, someone who had years of vocal training – well, it would still be a great performance, but not worthy of quite as much praise as Susan Boyle is receiving.
Keep on singing, Susan Boyle, and thank you for that amazing performance. It cheered up my weekend.
And I really hate to see so many cynical people, who cannot sit back and enjoy someone else’s accomplishments rather than tear them apart because they’re not perfect. I would hazard that many of them can’t do anything very impressive or perfect themselves, much less sing like that.
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