You must’ve already seen Susan Boyle’s fantastic performance in Britain’s Got Talent.
She walked on the stage,this 47 yr. old woman, looking like your everyday home-maker, and not appearing one bit a super star-in-the-making. Her looks aren’t really what you would want to see on billboards or music videos. Her head held high, she came there prepared to rock the audience. She was funny and cheeky, she was confident. And people don’t like that. That’s why she was met with ridicule and cynicism by what seemed like majority of the audience. They wanted her to be meek like Paul Potts, another underdog of Britain’s Got talent who eventually won 1st place.
People already judged her even before she started to sing. Even the judges were sort of guilty of that. They already made up in their minds that she was just going to be one of those desperate characters seeking their 5 minutes (yep, it’s shorter now) of fame that would be make good material for the bloopers section of the show. They thought she had no right being confident and aspiring to be like Elaine Paige. They wanted to put her back in her place, that’s why all they kept rolling their eyes.
They were dead wrong. Susan Boyle blew them away with her soaring, clear, powerful voice. I like her because she knew she had talent and she didn’t play the meek, unsecure woman.
‘Never judge a book by its cover’ rings truer every time stuff like this is revealed around us.
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