I'm sure by now many of my readers have seen the headlines, and maybe even watched the video, but I thought for those few who may have not I'd post this. Five days ago, on the reality show "Britain's Got Talent," a frumpy-looking, middle-aged Scottish woman who lives alone with her cat and admitted she'd never been kissed came to the stage to sing. Simon Cowell (one of the judges of that show as well as "American Idol") and the entire audience were skeptical of her; but when the music for "I Dreamed A Dream" from Les Miserables began and she started to sing, their laughter was changed to surprise, thunderous roars of applause and even tears. (If you watch the video, there's a priceless shot of Cowell's eyebrows going up within the first couple of seconds.) She delivered an amazing performance with a lovely, powerful voice that, over the course of a day or two, has become a huge Internet sensation. The YouTube video has been seen almost twelve and a half million times (a full ten percent of the total views of YouTube's all-time most watched video, in five days)--and that's only the full version, never mind the couple million more views of other versions. It's worth checking out.
You can read an article about the performance (albeit a flowery one) here. Unfortunately, embedding of the YouTube video has been disabled by request; please click here to watch it.
Is she the best singer on reality TV? No. Is she really a good singer? Yeah, she is. Was her performance expectation-shattering and moving? Heck yeah it was.
2 comments:
Hey, that was a cool performance. What's really funny about all their shock and awe, she had to perform three times previous with those judges before getting on TV. The power of acting ;)
Hi Rauta,
She was actually singing in the auditions stage of the show, rather than the actual competition; so it's likely that it was, in fact, the first time the judges had seen her. I'm pretty sure....
AJ Harbison
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