I HAD A DREAM THAT TURNED INTO A NIGHTMARE
November 28th, 2009 | 
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FROM AN ARTICLE ON LATIMES.COM ABOUT ADAM AND BOYLE’S SALES. The Adam Lambert brouhaha resulting in a sales winner
THIS STANDS OUT…
Ann Powers discussed the appeal of Boyle in her recent review. Wrote Powers, “Since she first raised her arms in what now seems like a blessing on the talent show ‘Britain’s Got Talent,’ revealing herself as the new queen of pop’s Island of Misfit Toys, Susan Boyle has come to mean several things to her fans: hope, the triumph of the ordinary, the reality-television embodiment of the Euro-American Dream. As a singer, though, she offers something else: relief
AS I TOLD JC “GOING TO THE BATHROOM OFFERS RELIEF TOO.” (THOUGH I SAID IT IN MUCH MORE COLORFUL LANGUAGE).
SINCE LITTLE THUMB SUCKER BOYLE (WTF?) IS GOING TO BEST OUR BOY IN SALES (IF NOT LONGEVITY) I HAD TO WONDER. WHAT’S UP WITH DAT AMERICA? NOT TO HATE ON A FELLOW SISTER BUT…..WHAT’S THE APPEAL? IS IT HER STORY MORE THAN HER ACTUAL TALENT THAT IS MAKING HER SELL? IS IT THE MASS BUYING POWER OF THE OVER 65 SET? HAVE PEOPLE BEEN SECRETLY YEARNING ALL THESE YEARS FOR A CD FULL OF COVERS FROM A MEDIOCRE SINGER? KINKY GRANDMA FETISHES?
REALLY.
SO I HAD TO POLL THIS SHIT.
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LOL. I have to vote NFC cuz i really don’t get it!!!
As a Brit, I apologise!!!
I actually feel very sorry for her current situation.
The one thing her and Adam both have in common is that they both want to sing.
Subo didn’t give up, she went on a talent show after being told over & over again by the industry she wouldn’t make it, she’s no spring chicken but she didn’t stop singing. She is actually singing no autotune overproduced stuff, what many considered good old fashioned singing. I work in sales the baby boomers are plentiful, plus they do not download for free & burn cd’s.
Truthfully, Adam should do a LP with nothing but actually ROCK with him & the band which showcases the band & his voice no extras and this same demographic would purchase his CD by the masses in the US.
This segment actually miss the music in its truest form the voice.
LMAO! You are genius! Srsly, tho. I think all the fat, frumpy losers in the world (myself included) wish we could open our mouths and have something resembling a voice come out. It is the revenge of the menopausal nerds!
MS.ANN–I ENJOY SINGERS SINGING STRAIGHT FORWARD STUFF, BUT THAT’S NOT WHAT ADAM WANTS TO DO. HE WANTS POP, THE SPECTACLE AND EVERYTHING. THAT’S THE KIND OF ARTIST HE WANTS TO BE,AND WHAT I THINK IS HIS NICHE. I THINK HE WANTS TO GO BEYOND BEING A FLASH IN THE PAN, WHICH IS WHAT I SEE BOYLE BEING. I MEAN I MAY NOT ENJOY HER STYLINGS BUT…..A CD OF COVERS? IT KINDA REEKS OF THE SUITS TAKING ADVANTAGE OF HER AND THEN WILL PROLLY DUMP HER ONCE THE NOVELTY WEARS OFF. I MEAN AT LEAST TRY TO GIVE HER HER OWN IDENTITY. I DUNNO.
HH COULD OUT OUT A CD OF STANDARDS, NO FRILLS.BUT I AM PRETTY SURE THAT’S NOT THE DEMO HE IS GOING FOR. AS HIS AMA PERFORMANCE SHOWS CLEARLY. LMAO.
WANNABETHESNAKE–OH I WOULD LOVE TO BE ABLE TO SING TOO. HAHAHA. REVENGE OF THE MENOPAUSAL NERDS??? OMG.. AWESOME! I WOULD LIKE TO THINK WHEN I AM MENOPAUSAL THOUGH MY REVENGE WOULD BE LOOKING FINE….AND WIELDING A AXE.
You left one out in the poll, Candy.
Bad. Fucking. Taste.
Seriously, the people who will buy SuBo’s CD are the same ones who think Kenny G is a genius. They also like their music comforting and boring, instead of exciting and making you either want to dance or protest (yeah, child of the ’60s here).
NEWSWOMAN-
HAHA THIS IS ACTUALLY MY POST. IT’S AIGHT THOUGH. LOL.
SEE I GOTS NOTHING AGAINST STRAIGHT UP MUSIC/STANDARDS….BUT I JUST DON’T SEE BOYLE’S APPEAL AT ALL. NOTPARTICULARLY CHARISMATIC AND IMO HER VOICE ISN’T THAT AMAZING. ADD IN THE VIBE THAT SHE MAY BE MENTALLY UNSTABLE AND…LEAVES A BAD TASTE IN MY MOUTH
GURL, THESE THINGS STILL NEED TO BE MULTIPLE CHOICE.
I went for the trainwreck in the making one, her fall will be more epic than her rise. See Britney’s Blackout, released at the height of her crazy? – sold huge amounts more than her sane person Singles Collection, and not much less than Circus.
Look, I’m British. If you think she’s huge in the US, it’s nothing to compared to her uglylady deity status across the pond. I now have to buy my mom this shit for Christmas. I CAN’T EVEN EXPLAIN MY RAGE RN.
o_O she kinda scares me
I voted NFC. I’m gonna b blunt: She makes me want to vomit. I prefer my musical/entertainment idols to be fierce, glittery, magnificent, beautiful, adorable and F!GOOD PERFORMERS
- i want to DREAM about them
, not feel sorry for them!!!!!??? eewww and ugh. i apologize to anyone who is offended by this, but she is just gross.
For what it’s worth, I don’t personally know ANYone who wanted or bought her album? I think one of my SILs mentioned her once, back when the show was on, and asked had i heard about her? When I saw a pic of her, maybe a clip of her singing, I wasn’t impressed and was physically repelled. That was the last time anyone that i know ever mentioned her.
Personally, I prefer to just pretend she doesn’t exist rather than compare and bellyache about sales figures…I will continue to promote all Kradison’s albums/performances with exuberance the way I have since the beginning
…& take personal delight when I ‘turn’ someone
Mwahahahahahahaha *making Elaine Benes (a la Seinfeld) devil face* blaughjblaughjblaugh!!!!! 
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Sorry, Chunkey! I should have recognized the all caps, lol. Great post by the way, and I’m with you. Nice voice, nothing special. She won’t last long, IMHO.
MEA CULPA, MEA MAXIMA CULPA.
Should also have recognized the wonderful manip. I give it two thumbs up!
I voted NFC. I’m gonna b blunt: She makes me want to vomit. I prefer my musical/entertainment idols to be fierce, glittery, magnificent, beautiful, adorable and F!GOOD PERFORMERS
- i want to DREAM about them
, not feel sorry for them!!!!!??? eewww and ugh. i apologize to anyone who is offended by this, but she is just gross.
For what it’s worth, I don’t personally know ANYone who wanted or bought her album? I think one of my SILs mentioned her once, back when the show was on, and asked had i heard about her? When I saw a pic of her, maybe a clip of her singing, I wasn’t impressed and was physically repelled. That was the last time anyone that i know ever mentioned her.
Personally, I prefer to just pretend she doesn’t exist rather than compare and bellyache about sales figures…I will continue to promote all Kradison’s albums/performances with exuberance the way I have since the beginning
…& take personal delight when I ‘turn’ someone
Mwahahahahahahaha *making Elaine Benes (a la Seinfeld) devil face* blaughjblaughjblaugh!!!!! 
- i want to DREAM about them
, not feel sorry for them!!!!!??? eewww and ugh. i apologize to anyone who is offended by this, but she is just gross.
I voted NFC. I’m gonna b blunt: She makes me want to vomit. I prefer my musical/entertainment idols to be fierce, glittery, magnificent, beautiful, adorable and F!GOOD PERFORMERS
For what it’s worth, I don’t personally know ANYone who wanted or bought her album? I think one of my SILs mentioned her once, back when the show was on, and asked had i heard about her? When I saw a pic of her, maybe a clip of her singing, I wasn’t impressed and was physically repelled. That was the last time anyone that i know ever mentioned her.
Personally, I prefer to just pretend she doesn’t exist rather than compare and bellyache about sales figures…I will continue to promote all Kradison’s albums/performances with exuberance the way I have since the beginning
…& take personal delight when I ‘turn’ someone
Mwahahahahahahaha *making Elaine Benes (a la Seinfeld) devil face* blaughjblaughjblaugh!!!!! 
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I voted NFC. I’m gonna b blunt: She makes me want to vomit. I prefer my musical/entertainment idols to be fierce, glittery, magnificent, beautiful, adorable and F!GOOD PERFORMERS
- i want to DREAM about them
, not feel sorry for them!!!!!??? eewww and ugh. i apologize to anyone who is offended by this, but she is just gross.
For what it’s worth, I don’t personally know ANYone who wanted or bought her album? I think one of my SILs mentioned her once, back when the show was on, and asked had i heard about her? When I saw a pic of her, maybe a clip of her singing, I wasn’t impressed and was physically repelled. That was the last time anyone that i know ever mentioned her.
Personally, I prefer to just pretend she doesn’t exist rather than compare and bellyache about sales figures…I will continue to promote all Kradison’s albums/performances with exuberance the way I have since the beginning
…& take personal delight when I ‘turn’ someone
Mwahahahahahahaha *making Elaine Benes (a la Seinfeld) devil face* blaughjblaughjblaugh!!!!! 
“the triumph of the ordinary” – this is the answer
Why is there no Kris Allen related option in this poll… I don’t know how to vote… lol.
How about option 8: Because America prefers the runner up to the winner, sorry Kris Allen… hehehehehe…
Okay… I am not as funny as you, but I tried… lol
PS – Just for the record, I
BETH THAT’S ACTUALLY PRETTY DARN GOOD! AHAHAHA I FORGOT SHE DIDN’T WIN!
I’m certain someone (not me) will buy this for my mother in law for Christmas, but then she’s big on the Sons of the Pioneers.
I wish the best for SuBo, but doubt if she makes it through to the end of her tour, or 2011, before falling completely apart. She had the strange spinster/cat lady/recluse existence before this all happened. Can’t see how she’ll be able to hold it together.
NO clue what is up with Susan Boyle. Obviously I voted NFC in the poll, but I was about to go with the “advocate for thumbsuckers” thing before I did.
It’s because she’s not all that attractive and has a seemingly decent voice. Vocally, she is actually nothing special, but because her looks are so dramatically different from her voice, she is a legend.
That, of course, makes no sense. I mean, when someone young and pretty and talented like Adam takes the stage and is far more exciting and controversial, he still may get less sales than the thumbsucking housedress-wearing SuBo (no offense, dude) due to her lack of physical appeal. :p
she doesn’t even DESERVE a nickname…like that spencer and heidi vomit that just takes up space and air on earth
again, sorry for the blunt nature of my comments regarding this issue…dunno where it is coming from???
maybe just that SOME ppl don’t DESERVE the *15* minutes they r given???
case in point: woman beaters getting airtime on GMA over HH grrrrrrrrrrrrr
chunkey i was simply referring to huge sales & the demo group factor.
the one thing i luv most about adam & even the hoopla he’s doing what
m happy.
PLEASE!!!!! DO NOT DUMP ON US ‘OVER 65′S’ WE ARE PART OF THE BOOMER GENERATION WHEN IT COMES TO OUR MUSICAL TASTES, WE WERE 14 TO 18 WHEN ELVIS HIT THE BOX. MAYBE THE OVER 75′S LIKE SUSAN’S TYPE OF TUNE AS THEY LISTENED TO PERRY COMO, DORIS DAY, DEAN MATRIN ET AL, BUT OUR SMALL GENERATION OF ‘JUNIOR SENIORS’ LOVE ADAM, GAGA ETC..
WANNABETHESNAKE!! WE HAVE BEEN MISSING YOU SO MUCH OVER ON THE GLAMBS SITE!! COME BACK PLEASE! ONE CAN DO TWO SITES, CAN’T ONE?? LOL
ADAMADDICT HAS TO HOLD THE FORT ALL ON HER OWN!
TERRY
all things consider being in #2 for a new Idol artist this is extremely impressive. So I’m more than happy. I DON’T know what SuBo’s appeal is. I mean her story is sweet in a Cinderella way but does it have a lasting appeal? Will people care, especially considering she hasn’t produced any of her own ORIGINAL music yet, ten years from now. Not that I know for sure Adam will, but I certainly have more hope he’ll last much longer.
I feel that she is much more suited for a quiet type of fame. I don’t think she could last long when the younger generation moves on up in the world and the older generation…well. There’s a HUGE generation gap right now I feel. One that I don’t think will help SuBo last long. Again one of the big problems is that all her songs are covers. Nothing original. She can be respected, but who will know her? She can sell millions, but who will talk about her? Can she handle herself in an interview? Will she be revelant on talkshows? Will people WANT to have her perform at BIG award shows? I can’t see her on the VMA/MVV’s movie awards, or late night talk shows. She appears very reclusive. Adam however has that appeal to be, well, INTERESTING. He’s had more interesting things happen to him this past week than most artists do in an entire career.
So, no I haven’t a clue why SuBo is doing better. But in the long run, I see Adam winning. *crosses fingers*