Susan Boyle, the Scottish lady who wowed the judges on Britain's Got Talent last week and who's garnered 20 million plus viewers on YouTube for her rendition of "I Dreamed a Dream, has another song that's making the rounds of the internet--"Cry Me a River."
She recorded the song back in 1999 to raise money for a local charity. Only 1000 copies of the CD were ever made.
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I just discovered she had sung another song and was going to search for it online. Thank goodness you have it here.
I hope she has a cd out soon. I know I'm going to buy it.
Thanks for putting this up!!
I’ve read comparisons to Chaucer’s Wife of Bath, and maybe those are apt; don’t forget that the Wife had enormous sex appeal, and a perfectly sensual nature … we need to expand our ideas about beauty, attractiveness, and sex appeal to encompass the old, the fat, the hairy, the unplucked and ungroomed, to include those with heavy features, including massive eyebrows (and Susan’s, I thought, were nice and defined), diastemas (the Wife had one and so do I!), and frumpy dresses from the Mamie Eisenhower collection. (Actually, to our collective amazement, I think we have!)
I LOVE Susan Boyle and am prouder than proud to be her "landswoman!" And I love all those who love her!
Rated!
See you tomorrow!
Thanks for sharing.
She does have an incredible grasp of music.
I wonder if all of this new found fame will do her in (hello pessimistic Beth, how are you?)
God, I hope she gets kissed (she said she's never been. I think I'll stop complaining!)
I'm wondering how they will do her makeover.
I thought her dress was wonderful - her best dress, I think. How can you improve on her glow?
She's going to win the whole thing - but I hope she gets a nice career out of it.
INCREDIBLY BEAUTIFUL I could listen to her for hours. Let's hope all this attention gets her the notoriety she so well deserves.
Kudos to Boyle -- she's not afraid to take on incredibly challenging songs.
She's terrific and seems like a REAL human being, the kind who would be pleasant to know.
Great song and, she let her bluesy feeling through.
She reminds me of a singer who blew me away the first time I heard her.
That other singer is Diane Schuur.
She's an extremely talented singer.
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Nonsense. Haven't you ever heard someone singing in a different accent, or for that matter a different language? Rent the DVD of "Little Voice".
Singers generally don't sing the way they speak, either. Mel Tellis stuttered horribly when he spoke, but sang perfectly fine. The Swedish band ABBA certainly didn't have a trace of Swedish accent in their songs. Amy Winehouse is a white Jewish girl from London and you can hear it when she speaks, but on "Rehab" she sings like a black woman from Detroit.
Boyle has a very thick Scottish accent when she's speaking, but when she sings "I Dreamed a Dream," it's only slightly noticeable on two or three words ("afraid" is the one I remember.)
"Cry Me a River" doesn't contain the two or three words that her accent comes through on in "I Dreamed a Dream."
Either way, the odds are against there being not one but two Susan Boyles with that very specific talent both in a district with a population the size of Evansville, Indiana.
"hoax. not even a hint of a brogue in her voice. different timbre altogether."
The Irish speak with a brogue. If you know Scots, you'll know it's called a "burr." Americans don't seem to know the correct term for the Scots accent. Nor that Scots are called that, for the most part.
Her burr was what delighted me most after her appearance and performance! Yay! She's Scottish. "Here's tae us; wha's like us? Gey few, and they're a' deid."
Fail.