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May 24, 2009

Susan Boyle advances to next round in 'Britain's Got Talent'

Not so surprisingly, Susan Boyle won the first semifinal round of Britain's Got Talent. EW.com has a more detailed recap, but here's a video of her performance of "Memory" from Cats:

 

Posted by Sarah Kickler Kelber at 7:54 PM | | Comments (3)
        

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Susan Boyle has a beautiful voice. Her talent is God given. I would hope that one day soon she will begin recording as we would love to purchase her CD's.

Her first performance was great. A second Paul Potts perhaps. As much as I wanted her second performance to be wonderful like her first, I was not impressed. She did not receive my vote because I felt that although she wowed everyone the first time around, she did not deliver for her rendition of "memory". I have heard "memory" sung much better by 2 other artists on 'youtube' and felt as though Susan Boyle did not do it justice. I predict that she will be a "one hit wonder". She was delightful at first, but not, not so intriguing.

It is without doubt a very beautiful voice. Many professional and famous singers do not have the same quality voice as Susan. When she sings the tone is absolutely wonderful. Remember a lot of critics are comparing and judging her from recordings of other singers. Recordings now are digitally perfect not musically perfect. If we close our eyes from distraction and listen to Susan's charity recording of 'Cry me a river' we will appreciate just how good her voice is, it is like listening to an analog LP record, warm and sweet unlike a perfectly tweak digital CD. Listen to Elaine Paige's, Susan's aspire to be singing role model, recordings and I believe Susan's tone is very much better. With due respect to Elaine Paige, Susan is still an amateur without professional experience.

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About Sarah Kelber
Sarah Kickler Kelber, an editor in the features department since 1999, got sucked into reality TV with the first episode of MTV's The Real World in 1992. Then came Survivor and American Idol, and suddenly, the genre was everywhere. She started blogging about it for The Baltimore Sun in January 2006 and has logged more hours watching and writing about such shows as Dancing With the Stars, Big Brother and, of course, Idol, than she'd like to admit.
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