I do not watch...

[sparkindarkness]

...the various "talent shows" blighting our televisions screens. Most of them are glorified freak shows where millions can gather to laugh and mock. Worse, they show all that is wrong with the music industry (well, a lot of what is wrong with it - there's a lot of wrong there) and why we went from being a rather dominant force in music to the insipid offerings we now have.

And I hate Simon Cowel.


And then they produce something like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY

And, after some obligatory minutes of open mouthed awe I don't know whether to be overjoyed or to cry. Overjoyed because she has been found and that incredible talent has been recognised.

Or be sad because, with the music industry, she is not young enough, not sexy enough and not beautiful enough for them to make her a success. Or even more sad that for so many years this talent has been unrecognised

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[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

It's shocking isn't it when it suddenly hits you? Such an amazing surprise

What gets me is she performed so incredibly and she's not from any formal singing background - has she had any voice training or anything? It's just perfect. The siong, the performance the emotion - she has owned that song.

Glamorising won't work and won't be her, part of the contrast is amazing and she has character.

[baranduyn.livejournal.com]

What gets me is she performed so incredibly and she's not from any formal singing background - has she had any voice training or anything?

She said she'd had training since she was twelve, though I think that may have been for her church choir. She sings in the choir and does karaoke and has a cut on an obscure charity disc for her village.

Apparently (or they were lying) half the village knew she had a great voice they just looked at her appearance and thought "Nothing will come of it". Also, she looked after her Mum until two years ago.

I just loved the way she locked eyes with Simon, Amanda and Piers in turn. When Simon said she was a tiger I don't think he was half wrong and she surprised him so he almost managed a real facial expression, botox be damned.

I just think the nerve it took her to sign up, show up and do her best is beyond belief. She's I guess been bullied by the locals most of her life and had very little emotional support, unlike the wanna-be Josephs on Any Dream Will Do, who all have fan clubs and half-mad stage mums. She put on her nicest dress and had a bit of a brush up and off she went. That's amazing, almost as amazing as her voice. What nerve that took. Had she failed I can't imagine the local bullies would have let up on her one bit.

I think I'm a fan. ;)