Scots singing sensation Susan Boyle was poorly served by whoever was advising participants in the Britain's Got Talent blockbuster TV show. It's PR 101 that if you sing the same song in the final that you sang to get into the competition in the first place, you'll look like a one-act comic. So was she set up? Or just personally naive?
It hardly matters I guess, since with the dollar-eyed
Simon Cowell in the equation, she's sure to be pushed, or more accurately, given recent events, cossetted into stardom. She's the stuff of which reality TV is made. It'll be fascinating to see who undertakes the not inconsiderable task of morphing the cygnet into a swan - if that's their strategy. Or will she be consigned to recording studios instead of the live concert stage? It remains to be seen.
Piers Morgan, Cowell's co-judge, was making like Sigmund Freud regarding the mental health of Susan Boyle. A gibbering Irish shrink - former British 'Big Brother' TV program psychologist, Dr. David Wilson - also tried to add his tuppence worth. He looked (and sounded) so agitated, flustered and incoherent that one wondered whether he shouldn't have been checking into the rehab clinic for rest therapy instead of Ms. Boyle. ;-) Talk about the Roman arena phenomenon with the voyeuristic philistines 'tossing their sweaty nightcaps into the air' as the Bard might have said. Eish!
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