Susan Boyle Roundup

She was born disabled, grew up the laughingstock of her school, lived all her life in her parents’ house and cared for them until they died, and now lives alone except for her cat Pebbles. Oh, yeah, and she goes to Mass every Sunday and sings in the choir, except for the last two years when she was too depressed to sing in public after her mother died.

And at the age of 47, she broke her silence and went on Britain’s Got Talent.

Oh, and get this — they filmed not in her village, Blackburn, West Lothian, but in the next one over, Bathgate, because the show thought her town was too hardscrabble and ugly. Perhaps their lesson is not yet learned.

An interesting story from the Daily Mirror.

A very nice editorial from the Herald.

A marketing guy’s take on Boyle as an example of just telling the story instead of lying or hyping things up.

Alas, many of the stories, while fully acknowledging a conquest of the audience and expectations that was as thorough as Genghis Khan’s sweep through Central Asia, are written by people who cannot help insulting her. Their mental habits (and envy) are displayed despite their intentions. Twits.