You’ve all seen Susan Boyle’s triumph on Britain’s Got Talent. If not catch it on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY .
I suspect it’s all a marketing ploy by Simon Cowell – who wears beige dress for their TV opportunity of a lifetime by choice? But even so I think it’s great that such an ordinary person can become a celebrity even for a few weeks.
I suspect it’s all a marketing ploy by Simon Cowell – who wears beige dress for their TV opportunity of a lifetime by choice? But even so I think it’s great that such an ordinary person can become a celebrity even for a few weeks.
And I love our attitude. It’s such a change from the usual approach to celebrity, where we are waiting for the trainwreck of Amy Winehouse’s or Britney Spears’ lives. After the initial dismissive reaction of the audience they were transformed, like the rest of us. Now we want her to succeed, to become a star.
Whereas most celebrity watching is about envy, our reaction to Susan Boyle is one of hope – if she can do it anyone can. We don’t envy her success, wanting her to fail, we revel in it pushing to higher heights. I’d sooner choose hope over envy any day, and it gladdens me that the public as a whole have as well.
We’ve seen nothing like it since Eddie the Eagle and the Jamaican Bob Sled team brought so much joy to the Calgary Olympics. Perhaps it’s related to the economy. On Monday, October 19, 1997, known as Black Monday, the Dow Jones crashed by 23%. The Calgary Olympics opened a few months later on February 13, 1998. Now ten years later we are in a similar position and up pops Susan Boyle.
You go girl.
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