So I've been considering for 2 days what to write about next. I suppose you could say my blog life is having an identity crisis (much like my professional life, but more on that someday... maybe). With no narrow, previously identified reason for blogging - like cooking, or healthy living, or politics, or entertainment - I could write about anything and everything. This somewhat overwhelmed me. I am going to take the easy road out, and write about what everyone has been talking about this week on TV (which I've devoured much more of lately than usual due to my soon-ending spring vacation): Susan Boyle.
In case you have been living in a box this week, or consumed by work or school or anything more meaningful than TV, Susan Boyle is a sweet, small-town British woman who walked onto the Britain's Got Talent show last week and blew everyone away with her sugary and powerful rendition of a beautiful song from Les Miserables. Immediately the judges, including His Majesty Simon Cowell, looked stunned and started apologizing for the way they treated her when she walked out on the stage, i.e. as a poor frumpy old woman who deserved pity for even thinking she could participate in what is essentially a national popularity contest. By now, however, she has been unofficially crowned Miss Popularity, appeared on every talk show in America, and I can only imagine how much press she has gotten in Britain.
Through her evolution so far from sweet, small-town British woman to Miss Popularity, she has maintained much of her charm as a woman who never expected so much attention, and truly seems excited - rather than entitled - by it all. She has, however, started to be "made-over" gradually as her popularity grows. She has had her hair styled, has appeared in flashy jewelry, and has no doubt heard all the celebrity talk show hosts mention immediately following her interviews, "How great would it be if we could get her into our make-over episode!?" Think of the phone calls she (or her people, as Miss Popularitys usually have people for these things) receives from network suitors bidding over the chance to publicly turn the ugly duckling into a swan. I only hope that this interest dissipates quickly, with enough people realizing that her beauty is in her charm, personality, and natural talent - and by goodness if she isn't just adorable all together anyway! I'm curious if folks in Britain have treated her appearance with so much interest, and my guess is, that's something special about us Americans.
I do also have a recently started blog (for shame!)...mostly to read my friend's blogs and ramble online...internet, hear me roar and so forth. My mom actually showed me Susan Boyle's performance. Having seen Les Miserables half a dozen times, I can't say it was the best performance I had heard...but it was definitely not the voice you expected to hear from such a woman. I found it heartbreaking that she said she'd never been kissed...and was immediately rooting for her. :)
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