Ms. Boyle decided to stay on plateau
In my opinion it is unfortunate Susan Boyle made the decision to once again sing the song “I dreamed a dream” from Les Miserable. “I dreamed a dream” is the song that raised her to such astronomical heights in the musical world when she made her first appearance on the show “Britain’s got talent”.
I would always tell my choir students, “Talent without discipline is like having no talent at all”. In the field of music there are many who have succeeded due to the fact they only have discipline. A disciplined person is easy to work with. A disciplined person will work their ass off. Most of the time it is a real pleasure working with them. They work hard. However, if that’s all you have to deal with, well and good, but add talent, I mean real talent to the mix and you have a very different can of worms.
In the arts, you can not sit on your laurels. You have to do as the poet said, “Build ye more stately mansions, O my soul, and make each nobler than the last”. Art demands this of you for it is a horrific slave master.
I am happy for Ms. Boyle’s second place winning in the finales but not so happy about her choice of a song for the finals. I am uncomfortable thinking Ms. Boyle wasted a week for two reasons; not building up adrenaline by working beastly hard on presenting a new song to the public and not keeping up her vocal quality to sing a song she has probably sung many times before. I speak of her singing once again “I dreamed a dream”. The word “overconfidence” comes to mind with the word “lazy” lurking in the background. Ms. Boyle may now realize how much work and discipline it takes to realize her dream as she stated to the judges, “(I’m) trying to be a professional singer”. I still love her and wish her well. “Life is a learning experience.”
As always,
BB
P.S. I think my real disappointment is not hearing any evidence of "hard work" difference between "I dreamed a dream" #1 and #2. I hate to say this but I think I heard a little bit of FU in #2. Thinking out loud (does Susan have a piano at home? Does she read music?)
I would always tell my choir students, “Talent without discipline is like having no talent at all”. In the field of music there are many who have succeeded due to the fact they only have discipline. A disciplined person is easy to work with. A disciplined person will work their ass off. Most of the time it is a real pleasure working with them. They work hard. However, if that’s all you have to deal with, well and good, but add talent, I mean real talent to the mix and you have a very different can of worms.
In the arts, you can not sit on your laurels. You have to do as the poet said, “Build ye more stately mansions, O my soul, and make each nobler than the last”. Art demands this of you for it is a horrific slave master.
I am happy for Ms. Boyle’s second place winning in the finales but not so happy about her choice of a song for the finals. I am uncomfortable thinking Ms. Boyle wasted a week for two reasons; not building up adrenaline by working beastly hard on presenting a new song to the public and not keeping up her vocal quality to sing a song she has probably sung many times before. I speak of her singing once again “I dreamed a dream”. The word “overconfidence” comes to mind with the word “lazy” lurking in the background. Ms. Boyle may now realize how much work and discipline it takes to realize her dream as she stated to the judges, “(I’m) trying to be a professional singer”. I still love her and wish her well. “Life is a learning experience.”
As always,
BB
P.S. I think my real disappointment is not hearing any evidence of "hard work" difference between "I dreamed a dream" #1 and #2. I hate to say this but I think I heard a little bit of FU in #2. Thinking out loud (does Susan have a piano at home? Does she read music?)
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