Heh. The world gets a "feel good" story and the "piss on the cornflakes" brigade breaks out in droves.
"Overhyped", "hundreds of thousands as good as this lady", "it's nice and that's all"
If something makes people happy, there will be others all set to tear down that thing and smugly claim that they are better/smarter/cooler people that didn't get snookered by this farce/fad/con.
Now sometimes I've been guilty of the same. Hell, the very type of show that Susan Boyle was on was something I would typically turn my nose up to. Survivor and any reality show. Made-for-TV celebrities like Myliee Cyrus. But what bothers me more in this instance is that the focus of this snootiness is a poor, frumpy, unemployed cat-lady.
To see someone of such meager status can take her one opportunity in life to break out of her shell and shock the world with something as beautiful as that song... I definitely see that as an uplifting story and I don't know why others want to make me feel like a d*ck for feeling that way. I don't care if you want to say "this is nothing special" and that there are hundreds of thousands more talented than her... I'm still going to believe that this is a wonderful story so screw you....
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