Comments on: Four things we can all learn from Susan Boyle ..

By: Tracy

Tracy — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 14:38:14 +0000

What a beautiful lesson to be learned! We should see these kinds of heart-warming stories more often.

By: Ajit Jaokar

Ajit Jaokar — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 07:27:36 +0000

I could not agree with you more Antonietta
See the two sections from the BBC link below which indicate the same thing(and add to the appeal of Susan Boyle)
thanks for your comments. kind rgds Ajit
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8005767.stm
“Poor Madonna and Kylie are desperately keeping up appearances, holding back the years with Botox and face-fillers just so they’re allowed to continue with their careers.”
Lisa Schwarzbaum, writer for US celebrity magazine Entertainment Weekly, said the performance was a powerful reality check.
She wrote: “In our pop-minded culture so slavishly obsessed with packaging – the right face, the right clothes, the right attitudes, the right Facebook posts – the unpackaged artistic power of the unstyled, un-hip, un-kissed Ms Boyle let me feel, for the duration of one blazing showstopping ballad, the meaning of human grace.
A star has been born. Whether she will she leave a dent on our prejudices about age and appearance remains to be seen.
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By: Antonietta

Antonietta — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 19:11:21 +0000

Hi,
Yes she’s amazing. But I really don’t understand the point: a singer cannot be an average 50 years looking woman?
There’s a basic problem here: we are used to see things in a determined way and we are surprised when things are different: the TV, the discography business… they transmit a distorted image of musicians (and music in general). They are so centered on their product as a beautiful package (that in many cases is an empty package) that the real meaning of art, of transmitting feelings and emotions through the voice, through the music is often forgotten.
An engineer or a computer science specialist can be an ugly guy (or a freak-looking guy, that’s better in this case) and a singer has to be good looking. In the same way if we go to a conference and we see that a beautiful girl is going to present high tech news we think automatically that she’s a hostess and not a specialist… and in many cases is not true (technicians women are increasing, be careful!)
That’s not fear. )
We should find the real meaning of things in all the aspects of our life.