Today I learned that I actually really like Valentine's Day. Is that okay?
Favorites include:
2004: Performing Mozart's Requiem with Holden at ACDA*
2007: Beauty & The Geek party. And The Little Mermaid? Or was that '06?
2009: Gallo pinto in Cambridge UK
2010: 10-person dance party, and Disney 'n' pizza
*interestingly, only my third favorite Mozart's Requiem memory, following the (life-changing) first performance in December and the Eliot JCR singalong during comm choir '05.
Showing posts with label unpopular opinion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label unpopular opinion. Show all posts
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Monday, April 20, 2009
Unpopular Opinion Monday
Susan Boyle ain't much of a singer.
I enjoyed the clip from "Britain's Got Talent" as much as anyone. It was a fabulous five minutes of television.
But you know who deserves credit for that excellent video? It ain't Susan Boyle. I'm sorry, internet hordes, but she's just not much of a singer. Strong voice, but untrained and with no range (can *you* hear the "but the tigers come at night" low note? which isn't low at all?). She is no different than anyone else on these Idol shows - she's just uglier.
The people who really deserve credit for the Susan Boyle video are the people who put it together - the director and editors who took the raw footage and made it heart-tugging. In fact, I just spent ten minutes trying to find the program's credits, to give the crew some truly deserved props by name, but even ITV's website snubs them.
Congratulations to the crew of Britain's Got Talent - your video went viral. Congratulations to Susan Boyle - you lucked out, big time.
And for the rest of you... You can stop patting yourselves on the back. It is no different and no better to be wowed by Susan Boyle because she sang better than you expected, than it was to expect a joke in the first place.
...Plus I've had Les Miz stuck in my head for a week now and it's really not okay.
I enjoyed the clip from "Britain's Got Talent" as much as anyone. It was a fabulous five minutes of television.
But you know who deserves credit for that excellent video? It ain't Susan Boyle. I'm sorry, internet hordes, but she's just not much of a singer. Strong voice, but untrained and with no range (can *you* hear the "but the tigers come at night" low note? which isn't low at all?). She is no different than anyone else on these Idol shows - she's just uglier.
The people who really deserve credit for the Susan Boyle video are the people who put it together - the director and editors who took the raw footage and made it heart-tugging. In fact, I just spent ten minutes trying to find the program's credits, to give the crew some truly deserved props by name, but even ITV's website snubs them.
Congratulations to the crew of Britain's Got Talent - your video went viral. Congratulations to Susan Boyle - you lucked out, big time.
And for the rest of you... You can stop patting yourselves on the back. It is no different and no better to be wowed by Susan Boyle because she sang better than you expected, than it was to expect a joke in the first place.
...Plus I've had Les Miz stuck in my head for a week now and it's really not okay.
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