My Susan Boyle Fears

As Susan Boyle's stardom catapults to unknown and unimaginable heights, here is what I fear for the future:

• The phrase, "He/She is no Susan Boyle" referring to the next unattractive person who competes on a reality show who doesn't have her talent.
• Alternately, the phrase, "Pulling a Boyle" if someone is unattractive and surprises people by succeeding at something.
• People yelling at me for calling Susan Boyle unattractive.
• The Susan Boyle Movie (Working title: "I Dreamed a Dream") with Susan Boyle played by Hollywood Actress Anne Hathaway in heavy makeup.
• The interviews with Anne Hathaway detailing her weight gain to play the role of Susan Boyle. (Anne Hathaway loves ice cream!)
• The woman's magazine articles explaining Anne Hathaway's Ways To Lose Weight (And Fast!). (No more ice cream!)
• Anne Hathaway's tearful Oscar speech when she wins Best Actress for her role as YouTube Singing Sensation Susan Boyle in "I Dreamed a Dream." (She could have never done it without Susan Boyle).
• Anne Hathaway calling Susan Boyle on stage with her during her acceptance speech. (I do look forward to Susan Boyle saying something charming and Scottish).
• Anne Hathaway/Susan Boyle duet at the Oscar ceremony with Sting as surprise guest.
• The Susan Boyle Halloween costumes.

Comments

[raker]

You're so right. I can see it now. Anne Hathaway IS Susan Boyle in The Singing Frump.

[ur doing it rong]

Boyle-Gate = Susan Boyle is a phony it's really a cute little Chinese girl singing backstage

[EllembeA]

I heard her and thought about God-given talent. Aside from wardrobe and makeup, I saw her as Ethel Merman reincarnated Merman had no acting talent and danced little, but no one could ever forget her voice. Cole Porter wrote entire musicals so she would have a job. Yes, Boyle's an easy target, and there will be masks in October, but her voice is a force of nature.

[rektruax]

I'm still trying to forget Merman's voice...

[Classof89]

You would even like to forget the illustrious Ethel Merman disco album?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5b-iQwkM2AE&feature=related

LOL

[dontomas]

One of my fears has come true which is bloggers and assorted "journalists" using the Susan Boyle event to put forth their pithy drivel. I am tired of it, she is a really great singer and that is all we need to say.

[Samalabear]

Amen.

[mzwednesday]

This is almost funny

[Boringat]

Paul Potts burst on to the stage in a similarly enchanting way. He,too,has an amazing voice,but spare a thought for the 2,000,000 Cambodians he killed.

[anshumanmishra]

Now that I've pronounced the name in my head, I salute you.

[rektruax]

Funny...

[RoadCrossingChicken]

I am a little tired of people talking about how "unattractive" this woman is. She looks about like 99% of the people we see every day. I think it speaks of people thinking of THEMSELVES as unattractive when compared to people in magazines and movies.

She probably looks as good as a lot of Hollywood "stars" if you could see them without being airbrushed and photo shopped. I remember some pics floating around the net of Heather Locklear just a few months ago and she looked like everyone else who is over 40.

Or, do most of you believe those gals in Play.boy actually look exactly like that in person?

[Perla]

Thank you! Well said.

[rektruax]

99 percent? Where do you live?

[Lauren Whitman]

I agree with RoadCrossingChicken - put the majority of us over a certain age under those bright camera lights and we're not exactly going to look ready for our Hollywood close-ups either.

[applehead]

dear sarah walker. my fear for mz boyle has to do with the fact that pierce morgan fellow asked her out on a date. maybe it's nothing, harmless, sweet, but maybe because of all the movies i've seen (and last season’s celebrity apprentice) i think he could end up hurting her (pulling a pierce) --- in a variety of ways. (legal, medical, emotional, physical).please keep your eyes on that situation, lest he bobby browns her or she gets janet jaxoned. in the perfet world she would marry sir paul mccartney and they would live happily ever after. here’s hoping…

uncle applehead .

[Eclipse-girl]

I find this article trite, and offensive.

Susan Boyle's fame since appearing on BGT has YOU worried about what will happen to pop culture.

Who cares about pop culture? It is what is and it is transient. It is the nature of the beast.

Did you ever refer to toe touching as a "Larry Craig"?
Or are you pulling a "Bernie Madoff" swindling your friends?

I feel your only reason to write this was to write some fluff about Susan Boyle, and have it on the internet.

[peithecelt]

Huh, and I read it more as her fears of hollywood making an amazing woman's triumph over stupid assumptions into something trite that completely misses the point.

[Osomec]

The details of pop culture don't matter at all, but its quality, and the changes in its nature are immensely important. More so when it interacts with technology, which is what drives social and political change nowadays,

[djwfutbol]

Those of you who think that Ms. Boyle somehow cannot handle herself and anyone who comes her way did not grow up with Irish grandmothers and great aunts as I did. They have the gift of gab and the gift of song. They know people and can spot a line of blarney a mile away. They see the world for what it is. And, they can drink.

These women are granite. Underestimate them at your peril. I guarantee you that Simon Cowell takes her seriously.

[cassidycourt]

Susan is Scot, not Irish. I live in Scotland. Never tell a Scot that he/she is Irish.

(vice versa)

[warrenpax]

Anne Hathaway? I think Jack Black could do the part better.

[AGarcia]

LMAO! That would be pretty rad.

[RoadCrossingChicken]

Could you and AGarcia post a picture of yourselves, please? I know, I know... you are both so attractive we will all be stunned.

I'm willing to risk it.

[Dots]

Please Sarah,
Give us a little more time to be lifted up by the event,
before you start the cynicism.

[zkazan]

Thanks for that. The level of grace and humility Susan Boyle has shown is something to be emulated. Imagine the amount of courage it took for her to get up there. People, she knows what she looks like. Just a little decorum from the ugly americans. Please.

[PhilipB]

I am not ready for cynicism, myself. Others can laugh and trivialize, but I was moved, and since Susan and I are the same age and I was laid off the day she first sang, I could relate and it helped me.

[smileatfear]

Susan looks like a woman who can take care of herself. If she wasn't intimidated by the crowd and the judges at Britain's Got Talent than it doesn't seem she will be intimidated into doing anything she doesn't want to do by anyone else. Besides, lucky gal, she truly has a village looking out for her. How many of us have that anymore.

[swift goat pet for truth]

Truly, scenarios to be feared.

REALLY feared.

[Craftyone]

I shudder to think that you are probably spot on.