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Originally Posted by Devils'Advocate
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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I don't think anyone is saying you or anyone else can't feel good about this woman "making it big", we're just saying she isn't some generational talent that we should be amazed and grateful for. Perspective is always appropriate.
Much of her success can be attributed to the audition she got on an abomination of a show whose judges openly admit they judged her on appearance alone before she sang. Their condescending attitude of "oh, she showed us heh heh heh" frankly makes me ill; if she had bombed out they would have undoubtedly shown no mercy and heckled her into tears.
THAT is the story I get out of this - nobody cared about this woman until she showed she had something they could take advantage of. Sorry if I don't find that uplifting.
Lastly, I don't think it's inappropriate to wonder why we make heroes out of people who can sing, this is supposed to be a discussion board, not a Facebook fan group. I thought it was an interesting question to discuss, and pertinent to the topic. No more was intended.