The Appeal of Susan Boyle
What is the appeal of Susan Boyle? Is it that she is "one of us"? She is humble? Shy? Unassuming? Why has her performance on Britain's Got Talent, been viewed over 25 million times on YouTube?
What is the appeal of Susan Boyle? Is it that she is "one of us"? She is humble? Shy? Unassuming? Why has her performance on Britain's Got Talent, been viewed over 25 million times on YouTube?
Jarvis Coffin | Posted 05.25.2011
Think short. Then, think big. The Internet is about segments and slices of content reached through countless entry points.
AP | GREGORY KATZ | Posted 05.25.2011
LONDON — The economy is scary, jobs are disappearing and taxes are going up. But Britain is buzzing over something else _ Susan Boyle's new hair...
Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
Britian's YouTube singing star Susan Boyle is backtracking on her claims that she has never been kissed. Boyle, appearing on Simon Cowell's "Britain's...
Jacob Dickerman | Posted 05.25.2011
Susan Boyle does not succeed in spite of her looks, as the Hollywood story we all want to make her out of would suggest, but because of them.
Huffington Post | Katherine Thomson | Posted 05.25.2011
How famous is Britain's YouTube sensation Susan Boyle? Her home is staked out with photographers and journalists hoping for an interview, nine days af...
Elizabeth Tillinghast | Posted 05.25.2011
Susan Boyle changed our image of her, but also our image of ourselves. She turned us from a crowd of snickering sophisticates into people with a shared sense of loss and longing.
Washington Post | Jose Antonio Vargas | Posted 05.25.2011
Susan Boyle is headed for the history books. The online video of Boyle's performance in the reality show "Britain's Got Talent" has set the record fo...
Iris Erlingsdottir | Posted 05.25.2011
Now that the secret's out, I fear that the corporate powers will try to polish Susan up to fit into their mold.
Huffington Post | Katherine Thomson | Posted 05.25.2011
Susan Boyle, Britain's YouTube singing sensation, continued to conquer America on Friday and ducked questions about potential suitors. She appeared ...
Letty Cottin Pogrebin | Posted 05.25.2011
Susan Boyle steps into the spotlight and opens her mouth, and before she's sung three glorious, crystal clear notes, the audience is cheering, the judges' jaws have dropped, and I'm choking back tears.
Huffington Post | Katherine Thomson | Posted 05.25.2011
Susan Boyle, the British talent show competitor who became a YouTube sensation this week, made her first US appearance Thursday morning. She told ...
Mark Blankenship | Posted 05.25.2011
I have a theory on why Susan Boyle has become such an instant and inescapable internet star -- she rebukes the bitchy cynicism that often defines reality talent shows.
Tamar Abrams | Posted 05.25.2011
When a beautiful, under 30-something sings like an angel, she can become an American Idol. When a dowdy, homely 47-year-old woman sings beautifully, it is headline news.
AP/Huffington Post | JILL LAWLESS | Posted 05.25.2011
(SCROLL FOR VIDEO OF THE ORIGINAL PERFORMANCE) SEE SUSAN SING FOR AMERICA ON THURSDAY LONDON -- A middle-aged volunteer church worker with the voice...
Joan E. Dowlin | Posted 05.25.2011