Wow, wow, what a performance

Wow Indeed...

Those are two very gifted people there :clap:

Bravo to them both for pursuing their dreams in life and best wishes to them as well!!

Thanks for links ;)
 
Watching and listening this magnificent people is indeed one of those precious few moments in our 3D STS environment, when we can sincerely celebrate and enjoy other peoples victory over big and unscrupulous system, perhaps adding a bit more of positive frequency into our realm! That is, if all this is not prearranged!?
 
wow, that was so wonderful to watch.... such an amazing tone! it made me cry ~
You can really feel the emotion in his voice. Susan too!

Thanks guys, I needed that!
 
These Paul Pots and Susan Boyle clips really stir the emotions. There is so much humanity there. It's just sad that they had to have magnificent voices to get "the okay" from society. And that's the unfortunate reality of the way we are. That one girl in the audience rolling her eyes in the beginning is a perfect example. And I myself am also guilty of this. We live in a visual world and it's almost impossible for us not be influenced by visual impressions of someone and to make scores of assumptions before someone even opens his/her mouth.

I often wonder who decided what kind of face 'officially qualifies' as pretty and what kind of face 'officially' doesn't. It's as if it's hard coded into us from the beginning. No one told us at a tender age "this is pretty" and "this isn't". We just all consider the same type of look as attractive / beautiful / pretty and another one as 'ugly'. Very interesting. And very sad as well. Maybe this emphasis on physical appearance is another assignment / lesson we all signed up for in this 3D density. Because the way one looks certainly influences one's life tremendously.

Another great act from this season of Britains Got Talent. Damn these guys must have worked hard. It's a pity there can only be one winner.

_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GrOMLylvhQ&feature=related
 
Not to rain on anyone's parade, but by the standards of the field, Mr. Potts has not proven himself as an operatic tenor. The lack of operatic material on the CD is not surprising. Hype him as having talent for pop music, but when such ado is made out of such obvious lack of vocal capability and knowledge of style, it is insulting to those who have dedicated years of hard work to the craft.

Many people may fare well in a 5K race, but few are able to compete in the Olympics.
 
Mountain Crown said:
Not to rain on anyone's parade, but by the standards of the field, Mr. Potts has not proven himself as an operatic tenor. The lack of operatic material on the CD is not surprising. Hype him as having talent for pop music, but when such ado is made out of such obvious lack of vocal capability and knowledge of style, it is insulting to those who have dedicated years of hard work to the craft.

Many people may fare well in a 5K race, but few are able to compete in the Olympics.
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Identification is an interesting and powerful thing, isn't it, Mountain Crown?
 
I noticed the woman in blue (in the board) said that it is "a wake up call". Yes it is, and even if her singing (for a trained ear) is not technically perfect, this wake up call is what touches people IMHO the most. She comes in this reality (a dream), having a dream, and singing a dream. And she touched that part of us who know in a certain way that appearances are superfluous when it is the hidden inside that really counts. I would note also he courage, to open her heart, while people are laughing at her.
Years ago, I took a bus. And there was that old man sitting alone and nobody wanting to sit with him, because he has that strong smell of an oil, traditionally used to keep demons away. So I sat next to him. He asked me why I don't run away from him like the other guys in the bus. He was apparently satisfied with my stupid answer, and it was one of my best encounters in my life. This guy improvised poetry during our discussion and he talked about many things. This guy, contrarily to what his appearance may have suggested, was intelligent, cultivated, and full of humanity. I think we have the same wake up call here, something that transcends the only fact of a singing performance.
 
For those of you who are HH, deaf, or want
CC (Closed Captions), here is the link!

_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzfCVBSsvqA

By the way.... I don't have a good ear and wow! It
is a real eye-opener, full of sensation, good body
language, sang with conviction, courage, and confidence
against her "tormentors", and won them over!

FWIW,
Dan
 
Here's more Susan Boyle, a song she recorded for a charity CD in 1999 -- "Cry Me a River" -- which shows a completely different side of her. I'm thinking this woman can probably sing anything....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI2DxkrgpgQ
 
Yes I heard that one. It's a totally different style of song and yet sounds incredible.

While this whole Susan Boyle phenomenon is something of a "wake-up call", hopefully the public at large don't lose sight of the fact that it's a wake-up call that what is "inside" a person is what really counts, NOT what that person possesses, whether that be money, or indeed particular inborn talents. I was reading one of countless articles about Boyle, and the author posed the question, "What would the audience have done had Susan had a terrible singing voice?" He answered that she would have been ridiculed and jeered off the stage, but rightly pointed out how wrong and repugnant that attitude is because the woman, Susan, would still have been the same woman who cared for her dying mother and who did local charity work. So inborn gifts, whether it be singing, acting, attractive appearance, a mathematical genius, or even the gift of being born into a rich family -- should never define who a person is. It is what they DO with the gifts, time and energy that is important.
 
Mountain Crown said:
Not to rain on anyone's parade, but by the standards of the field, Mr. Potts has not proven himself as an operatic tenor. The lack of operatic material on the CD is not surprising. Hype him as having talent for pop music, but when such ado is made out of such obvious lack of vocal capability and knowledge of style, it is insulting to those who have dedicated years of hard work to the craft.
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Identification is an interesting and powerful thing, isn't it?
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I think this is precisely the point.

This kind of genius is as common as dirt, as John Taylor Gatto had said. There are so many, many people who can sing like that, or better. My own great-grandmother had a supremely powerful voice; she was a total natural, never had a lesson in her life. I can just see her with her "babushka" kerchief over her gray hair on that video, instead of Potts, bringing down the house.

Yet, most of these people had never "proven themselves". In fact, they had never celebrated or expressed their talent, because the ugly truth is that the psychopathic world doesn't need their music, doesn't need their voices. The abysmal state of mass music education, and the extreme melodic and harmonic poverty of pop-music is just one symptom of it.

For these people to come out and sing, after lifetime of pain, disregard, bullying and self-doubt, is a great achievement -- and THAT'S what the crowd is responding to. To the fact that it's ONE OF US out there, singing his\her guts out, that they CAN, and so we remember that WE CAN too.

Identification is a powerful thing indeed, and it could be harnessed and used to do something creative, but can also dampen creativity and bring out resentment -- depends on what you identify with.

I have been following Susan Boyle's story and have noticed a pattern in the negative reactions to the story. They all have to do with the way the episode was managed on TV. How it was "fake, all planned out, of course they knew it in advance and we were duped; her voice is ordinary and she is ordinary, she just makes for a cute TV episode etc.".

I have not listened to Mr. Potts' CD, but the critique of it, if that's indeed so, follows the same pattern. In an ideal world, Mr. Potts would have taken lessons and polished his voice after winning the show, and embarked on his dream career. In an even more idea world, he would have done it even without going on the show.

In our world, he cut a CD "as is" and as soon as he could, to capitalize on his fame and the audience sympathy. I am sure this was indeed the best for him. This is the way to get into the celebrity and showmanship-oriented music world. CDs, world tour, tv appearances, the movie in the works. IN short, he is not that different from those who have "proven themselves". He just jumped to the end of the line fast, due to a stroke of luck.

The point is, it's what you SEE that counts. And IMO there is something really powerful in the original key event of a regular guy\gal getting on the stage and singing with their true God-giving voice, against all odds and all prejudice. That's the kernel of it. The hype, the planning, the smug monkeys behind the stage, the lack of truly operatic material on the debut CD -- that, on the grand scheme of things, is the shaft to be separated and thrown up in the wind, to be blown away.

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That woman Susan Boyle has an incredible voice and a physique which is the total opposite of what we're used to in that industry. It's great to see someone normal for change.

But I was really amazed at the size of the phenomenon: she had several million hits on You Tube in just a few days, TV news having her performance as headline of the day (in Belgium, in France), American TV shows talking about her (Jay Leno, Larry King). One comment from an American TV presenter annoyed me in particular: 'In these times of global economic recession, it gives people joy to see someone like that".
I think she has quickly been used to have people forget - if only for a short time - about recession and what's going on in the world in general. To have everybody go back to sleep once more with nice fairy tales. 'You too you can be a big star in no time thanks to some Talent Discovery Show!".

I may be wrong but that's the way I felt after the constant press coverage of the last days.
 
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