Susan Boyle - Singer - Britains Got Talent 2009

This isn't what we usually talk about on here. But screw it. Let's talk about something fun for a change. Our friends at RickWrites have this posted, and amazingly I did see it at the weekend, and never normally watch these shows really, occasionally I catch a glimpse of them.

And occasionally, very occasionally television creates a great piece of television. It's very rare, and if anything, it's getting rarer. But occasionally it happens.

I guess I'm a little wary of this Simon Cowell guy and Ant and Dec etc, but there's nothing actually wrong with the format of the shows. But frankly this is a brilliant piece of television and a brilliant performance by this woman.

I don't know how 'constructed' her story and image has been for this show, and there must be some degree of management with this, some degree of presentation, and I would imagine she must have trained seriously at some point previously. But I guess it doesn't really matter.

The theme here is that we are disarmed because she looks kinda frumpy and middle aged, and 'isn't it quaint and quirky she's not yet married.' And I was just reading about this, apparently everyone from the Telegraph to ABC News talks about this in a tone as if it ought to be an 'issue'.

Well there's a reason the media don't like anything that's not part of their own putrid propaganda schema, and it's not because they think it's funny, it's because it's actually quite threatening to them.

This lady is an absolute sensation, with an astounding voice and delivery. Unfortunately every single YouTube version of this won't let you embed it presumably on the orders of Simon Cowell and his production company. So here's the link:

Susan Boyle - Singer - Britains Got Talent 2009