clipped from www.huffingtonpost.com Britain, Slideshow, Susan Boyle, Susan Boyle Photos, Susan Boyle Youtube, Entertainment News Susan Boyle Staked Out By Her Home by Katherine Thomson How famous is Britain's YouTube sensation Susan Boyle? Her home is staked out with photographers and journalists hoping for an interview, nine days after she belted out a song on "Britain's Got Talent" and shot to superstardom. On Tuesday Getty took a new batch of photos of her in Blackburn, West Lothian in Scotland, including shots of one journalist trying to get a quote. For photos go here: PHOTOS

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Apr 17, 2009, 11:54 AM | by Ken Tucker The Susan Boyle phenomenon continues to fascinate. I think there are some clear reasons why. 1. The way most Americans first encountered her was by viewing a YouTube segment from Britain's Got Talent. In one of those fine accidents of pop culture, this proved to be a perfect, three-act drama in a mere seven-plus minutes. Act. I: The hero is at first reviled (Boyle was met with eye-rolling from the judges and guffaws from the audience). Act II: The hero reaches within herself and displays great strength, bravery, and talent. Act III: The villains are humbled; the hero is triumphant (those twitty Brit judges fall all over themselves to apologize for their cynicism and doubt). 2. To look at the comments on both my first post on Boyle, and Lisa Schwarzbaum's, and Adam Markovitz's, many people find in Boyle not mere talent but an inspirational quality. In post after post, you find phrases such as "I only wish I could have have an ounce of her confidence!" Times are tough; people are looking for examples of fortitude, perseverance, and reward for a job well done. Boyle is a shining example of this to many. The danger of this, as my colleague Mark Harris has pointed out in a column many of you liked a lot, is that someone like Boyle should not be forced by her new popularity into being seen as a role model, or some sort of ideal person. We don't know her, the same way we don't really "know" Bono or Tom Hanks or pick-your-favorite-star. 3. Boyle is perceived above all else to be "authentic." This is crucial for many music fans. (I don't actually buy this argument -- i.e., that Bruce Springsteen is inherently better than, say, the Pet Shop Boys because he writes out of a tradition of realism while they glory in artifice -- but it matters to a lot of people.) 4. The whole her-voice-isn't-that-great argument is meaningless when it comes to pop music. Bob Dylan and Little Richard and Willie Nelson and Kurt Cobain and Taylor Swift have voices that are technically, note-by-note, "worse" than, say, Luciano Pavarotti's, but that doesn't mean they aren't extremely good singers by every measure of popular music: they communicate emotions and ideas superlatively. Judging solely from the single performance we have of Boyle's, she fits the bill as a first-rate singer. 5. Never underestimate the age factor. Yes, we live in a time when the youth audience commands box office profits and drives TV programming via advertisers who want "young eyeballs" to watch shows. But there's a huge segment of the population that feels cut out, annoyed, and even angry about this situation. Lots of middle-aged people are fed up with being dismissed as "gray-hairs" and out-of-it; the success of Boyle is one small but potent example that you're not ready for the trash -- or as Boyle would probably say, the dustbin -- at age 30. What do you think? http://watching-tv.ew.com/2009/04/why-susan-boyle.html

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On the British television show "Britain's Got Talent" Susan Boyle shocked the judges, the audience, and now thanks to the YouTube video featuring her performance, she has shocked the world.

In what must be a YouTube speed record this clip has been viewed (as of the writing of this) over 15.6 million times in less than a week!

What I love about this story and this woman is that she came out on stage and patiently endured the snickers and cynical laughter of the audience and the eye-rolling and sidelong glances of Simon Cowell but she needed only to open her mouth in song for mere seconds to dispel it all.

I cried through her performance, largely because of the beauty of her voice but also because of the triumph I felt for her. It was a moment of pure inspiration for me thinking of how this woman walked out of obscurity and in a moment won the hearts of everyone in that room and raised them to their feet for the homage shown her by their standing ovation.

My prayers are with Miss Boyle. I think she should win easily but a part of me feels like she's already transcended the venue of this television competition and winning it would almost be an unnecessary formality at this point. I am impatiently looking forward to more enrapturing melodies from the lips of Susan Boyle with an anticipation I haven't felt in years.

God bless you Susan!


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THE MEANING OF GOBSMACKED from Dictionary.com

Main Entry: gobsmacked
Part of Speech: adj
Definition: flabbergasted, astounded, shocked; also written gob-smacked
Etymology: from gob 'mouth' + smacked 'clapping hand over in surprise'

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It’s a fairly recent British slang term: the first recorded use is only in the eighties, though verbal use must surely go back further. The usual form is gobsmacked, though gobstruck is also found. It’s a combination of gob, mouth, and smacked. It means “utterly astonished, astounded”. It’s much stronger than just being surprised; it’s used for something that leaves you speechless, or otherwise stops you dead in your tracks. It suggests that something is as surprising as being suddenly hit in the face. It comes from northern dialect, most probably popularised through television programmes set in Liverpool, where it was common. It’s an obvious derivation of an existing term, since gob, originally from Scotland and the north of England, has been a dialect and slang term for the mouth for four hundred years (often in insulting phrases like “shut your gob!” to tell somebody to be quiet). It possibly goes back to the Scottish Gaelic word meaning a beak or a mouth, which has also bequeathed us the verb to gob, meaning to spit. Another form of the word is gab, from which we get gift of the gab. Says language expert Michael Quinion of World Wide Words .

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clipped from www.accesshollywood.com BLACKBURN, Scotland -- In a week, Susan Boyle has gone from karaoke and her local church choir to global fame and an invitation to the Oprah Winfrey show. The frumpy 47-year-old, who says she’s never been kissed, has gained celebrity fans and millions of admirers — including a fair number of men — since she wowed judges on the TV show “Britain’s Got Talent.” Her fame has been fueled by new technology, with a clip of her performance viewed more than 12 million times on YouTube. “Susan can’t help herself, she just sings whenever she can sing,” said Jackie Russell, the manager of the Happy Valley Hotel in Blackburn, Scotland, where Boyle occasionally sings karaoke. “We weren’t surprised by her talent, but we were surprised by the reaction around the world.” Until recently, few outside the village of Blackburn had heard of Boyle, who lives in a modest row house that she shared for years with her widowed mother, who died two years ago. In the past few days, she has appeared on TV around the world. Demi Moore is an avowed fan. “It has been surreal for me,” Boyle told The Associated Press on Thursday in Blackburn, 20 miles (30 kilometers) west of Edinburgh. “I’m going to be on ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show,’ CBS and other American networks. “I didn’t realize this would be the reaction, I just went on stage and got on with it. “I did this for my late mother,” Boyle said. “I wanted to show her I could do something with my life.” Boyle has won over millions of viewers — just as she melted the heart of television’s harshest judge, Simon Cowell — with her rendition of “I Dreamed a Dream” on an episode of “Britain’s Got Talent” that aired Saturday. The skillfully packaged segment, which has taken the Internet by storm, is a mini-opera of underdog triumph. The studio audience laughed and guffawed as Boyle took the stage with frizzy hair and wearing a dowdy dress. She told viewers she had “never been kissed — shame, but it’s not an advert!” She drew skeptical looks when she said she wanted to be a professional singer like Broadway star Elaine Page. Then she launched into “I Dreamed a Dream,” from the musical “Les Miserables.” Her soaring voice drew startled looks and then delighted smiles from judges Cowell, Amanda Holden and Piers Morgan. The audience leapt to its feet to applaud. Cowell called her singing “extraordinary.” Morgan said her “stunning” performance was “the biggest surprise I’ve had in three years of this show.” “I can hardly remember what happened on the night as I had my eyes closed most of the time,” Boyle said. “It really didn’t dawn on me what was happening.” Copyright 2009 by Associated Press. All rights reserved.

clipped from www.latimes.com An appearance on 'Britain's Got Talent' propels the 47-year-old singer onto the world stage - with nary a speck of glitz or glamour. By Scott Collins and Janet Stobart April 17, 2009 Less than a week ago, she was just another 47-year-old Scottish virgin. Now, more than 13 million YouTube views later, Hollywood agents and talk-show bookers are jostling for a few minutes with Susan Boyle, a stocky, beetle-browed woman who would not ordinarily rate a second glance on the street. "Do you understand what a big deal this is?" Harry Smith asked her Thursday morning on CBS' "The Early Show." continued...

clipped from buzz.yahoo.com April 13, 2009 12:53:39 PM "American Idol" isn't the only launching pad for aspiring singers. Across the pond, "Britain's Got Talent" scored a huge boost in the Buzz after an unassuming contestant gave an amazing performance. Susan Boyle (remember that name) became a Web phenomenon after singing "I Dreamed a Dream" from Les Miserables. The performance brought the audience to its feet and left the judges (including Simon Cowell) either speechless or in tears. Before going on stage, Ms. Boyle admitted some self-deprecating facts about herself (she's never been kissed and lives alone with her cat, Pebbles). For those reasons and more, audiences were expecting the female William Hung. They were wrong.

There was a time when men were kind,
And their voices were soft,
And their words inviting.
There was a time when love was blind,
And the world was a song,
And the song was exciting.
There was a time when it all went wrong...

I dreamed a dream in time gone by,
When hope was high and life, worth living.
I dreamed that love would never die,
I dreamed that God would be forgiving.
Then I was young and unafraid,
And dreams were made and used and wasted.
There was no ransom to be paid,
No song unsung, no wine, untasted.

But the tigers come at night,
With their voices soft as thunder,
As they tear your hope apart,
And they turn your dream to shame.

He slept a summer by my side,
He filled my days with endless wonder...
He took my childhood in his stride,
But he was gone when autumn came!

And still I dream he'll come to me,
That we will live the years together,
But there are dreams that cannot be,
And there are storms we cannot weather!

I had a dream my life would be
So different from this hell I'm living,
So different now from what it seemed...
Now life has killed the dream I dreamed...