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AMAZING VOICE, MARKETING NIGHTMARE
Britain is tiny. Isn’t it like the size of Alabama? Let me go check…OK, yeah, Great Britain is slightly larger than the state of Alabama, and roughly the size of the state of Arizona – yet, they can still have a show called Britain’s Got Talent. I guess London has a huge population, but they’ve got to run out of people at some point. Even American Idol is pushing it at 8 seasons, and we have 300 million people.
Anyways, the latest buzz out of Britain’s Got Talent is 47-year-old Susan Boyle, a woman who claims she has “never been kissed” and “lives alone with her cat Pebbles”. I’m not making this up, and by the looks of this video, I’m not arguing it either. I wish I was making this up.
She decided to sing “I Dreamed a Dream” from Les Miserables, and left Simon Cowell practically speechless while garnering a standing ovation.
Rumor has it that she’s in talks with Simon’s record label. I pity the man that has to find a way to make her marketable. Turn her into an animated character like The Gorillaz? Not a bad idea…
