I despise television. But I'm a huge internet whore. And when I signed on today I always get MSN news and I clicked on a link that lead me to Susan Boyle. And I wished I hadn't because I was appalled, completely. Not from the woman herself, but from all of the reactions I saw from the crowd before she started singing. People chuckling at her when she shared her dreams, and people shaking their heads almost embarrassed for her. She opened her mouth and people shut up like they needed to breathe. And what's even worse is the retarded judges.
"What a shocker! What a shocker!" How is this shocking? It's so aggravating how people just assume that just because she's not a 20 year old blonde with badly dyed roots and a history of manic depression that she obviously can't sing. What is shocking for a normal everyday older woman to sing so well? Is this how shallow we all are? People are referring to her as the "Hairy Angel" as if she's some sort of side show freak. But they all love her now don't they? They've even come up with the cliche slogan "Don't judge a book by it's cover" with her picture all over it. Jesus people. This is sad. It has millions of views on youtube and people are all sparkly eyed and drooling over an elderly lady who doesn't look like she's made out of fantastic plastic.
But then they give the broad a makeover. Because they're 'afraid' that she might lose some of her followers. Even after they've went through all of that effort to make up that completely unoriginal slogan to degrade the poor woman even more. The woman just wants to sing and they're calling her Hairy and saying outdated crap like "More chins than a Chinese phone book. I might feel a bit outraged, but this is to be expected.
We ignore people like Susan Boyle and worship spoiled 'can't hold my own umbrella, can't pick up my drink by myself' lamers like Mariah Carey. And when people like Susan Boyle actually appear we're stunned and wonder why she didn't surface sooner. It's because we're a bunch of lousy pricks and in the end, did we really want people like Susan Boyle on television? Clouding our perfect screens with imperfections. Nobody wants to see imperfect, we've got this solid image in ours minds of what these type of people should look like. That's why we beat Brittney Spears down when she went a little wacko. People were tearing their scantily clad 'back in the day' posters of her off their walls. But now she's not fat anymore and her hair grew back so we bought new ones and hung them all over our ceilings. We also jam to bad songs about a Circus and consider it music. Why god?
I hate to rant about things that can't be changed, but I guess it's my only option. It's cool to boo elderly people and humiliate them I suppose. I've never personally tried it but whatever helps you sleep at night. I think she has a wonderful voice, regardless of her age and her appearance. If only American Idol and other retarded shows such as these took talent into consideration rather than who has the best wax job and who looks better in horrid spandex pants and pumps. If I were really surprised, I'd probably go slit my wrists now.
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