Ms. Susan Boyle and Cinderella???
I thoroughly agree with diarist gravitas13 the Susan Boyle phenomenon is more than a mere Cinderella story as attempts from the main media try to impose upon us. The reasons millions upon millions of people have cried watching a tape of her could be only the tip of the iceberg.
In my opinion, Ms. Boyle has done something the oligarchy of the world so desperately want us not to have: Basic human instincts. There have been tons of movies, talk show host, gruesome stories told over and over to de-sensitize us and now they have to own up to their utter failure. They “reject and denounce” that fact. Ms. Susan Boyle has made the world express a collective human instinct most of us could only cling to as a fading dream.
Ms. Boyle put us back in touch with ourselves. Our humanity. She let us know, as many have suggested, you do not, should not and can not judge a book by its cover. That lesson has always been a precious one in a humane society. It is one of the weight bearing pillars of a society and I will venture our American society has to still learn the lesson. A little of the lesson has leaked out with Ms. Boyle and most notably, on November 3rd, 2008.
A little anecdotal recollection from my field of music regarding Broadway Musicals and Ms. Boyle. Commencing around the 60’s as the lights of Ethel Merman, Martha Raye and Carole Burnet began to fade, the producers and backers of musicals decided to go for the “American girl” look which was a disaster. Broadway has never recovered. The audience found the “American girl” look was well and good but she could not sing and she could not act but the theater prices remained high. As a matter of fact, theater tickets began to get more expensive at prohibitive levels where they remain to this day and even to this day, everybody and their Mama think they can write a Broadway Musical. As another aside and regarding looks and talent, I am mindful how fast African-American opera singer Kathleen Battle was thrown out of the Met reportedly “..for complaining about the air-conditioning”.
Ms. Susan Boyle is going to be around for a long time haunting the mainstream media. There may be others who the name of Susan Boyle was instantly burned in their memories and I sure as hell am not one who remembers names so easily. I think the only thing working against Ms. Boyle is the fact she is not a Neo-con. This is going to give her a though row to hoe in her field of music. . I am mindful when Mr. Van Cliburn won the Tschiakowsy International Piano Competition in 1958. I think Leon Fletcher was in the same competition and a favorite to win. It got very ugly in the music world. Neo-con critics still have not let up on Van Cliburn. I hope Ms. Boyle stays the “tuff” little lady she appears to be.
As always,
BB
P.S. If Ms. Boyle prevails in her present form, what will plastic surgeons do then? I even note how un-happy they are that Pres. Obama shook Pres. Chavez’ hand. “There goes the neighborhood!” (Smile)
Has Susan Boyle Come at Just the Right Time
by gravitas13
Sun Apr 19, 2009 at 05:59:37 PM PDT
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/4/19/722055/-Has-Susan-Boyle-Come-at-Just-the-Right-Time
Excerpt:
Leave it to the mainstream media (MSM) to take the poignancy out of the moment. We love her, we watch her over and over, we are reduced to tears. But some media cynics just don’t get it. Kind of like how the pre Christmas Eve Scrooge was unable to see what most dogs and kids knew all along. They tell us that we are overreacting, and tritely dismiss her popularity as coming from the disparity between how she looks and how she sounds.
In my opinion, Ms. Boyle has done something the oligarchy of the world so desperately want us not to have: Basic human instincts. There have been tons of movies, talk show host, gruesome stories told over and over to de-sensitize us and now they have to own up to their utter failure. They “reject and denounce” that fact. Ms. Susan Boyle has made the world express a collective human instinct most of us could only cling to as a fading dream.
Ms. Boyle put us back in touch with ourselves. Our humanity. She let us know, as many have suggested, you do not, should not and can not judge a book by its cover. That lesson has always been a precious one in a humane society. It is one of the weight bearing pillars of a society and I will venture our American society has to still learn the lesson. A little of the lesson has leaked out with Ms. Boyle and most notably, on November 3rd, 2008.
A little anecdotal recollection from my field of music regarding Broadway Musicals and Ms. Boyle. Commencing around the 60’s as the lights of Ethel Merman, Martha Raye and Carole Burnet began to fade, the producers and backers of musicals decided to go for the “American girl” look which was a disaster. Broadway has never recovered. The audience found the “American girl” look was well and good but she could not sing and she could not act but the theater prices remained high. As a matter of fact, theater tickets began to get more expensive at prohibitive levels where they remain to this day and even to this day, everybody and their Mama think they can write a Broadway Musical. As another aside and regarding looks and talent, I am mindful how fast African-American opera singer Kathleen Battle was thrown out of the Met reportedly “..for complaining about the air-conditioning”.
Ms. Susan Boyle is going to be around for a long time haunting the mainstream media. There may be others who the name of Susan Boyle was instantly burned in their memories and I sure as hell am not one who remembers names so easily. I think the only thing working against Ms. Boyle is the fact she is not a Neo-con. This is going to give her a though row to hoe in her field of music. . I am mindful when Mr. Van Cliburn won the Tschiakowsy International Piano Competition in 1958. I think Leon Fletcher was in the same competition and a favorite to win. It got very ugly in the music world. Neo-con critics still have not let up on Van Cliburn. I hope Ms. Boyle stays the “tuff” little lady she appears to be.
As always,
BB
P.S. If Ms. Boyle prevails in her present form, what will plastic surgeons do then? I even note how un-happy they are that Pres. Obama shook Pres. Chavez’ hand. “There goes the neighborhood!” (Smile)
Has Susan Boyle Come at Just the Right Time
by gravitas13
Sun Apr 19, 2009 at 05:59:37 PM PDT
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/4/19/722055/-Has-Susan-Boyle-Come-at-Just-the-Right-Time
Excerpt:
Leave it to the mainstream media (MSM) to take the poignancy out of the moment. We love her, we watch her over and over, we are reduced to tears. But some media cynics just don’t get it. Kind of like how the pre Christmas Eve Scrooge was unable to see what most dogs and kids knew all along. They tell us that we are overreacting, and tritely dismiss her popularity as coming from the disparity between how she looks and how she sounds.
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