Susan Boyle says she’s unfazed by insults directed at her by Ricky Gervais.
It seems the British comic hurled some nasty remarks at Susan back in October, when he said in a routine, According to E! Online, that she’s famous because she looks like a “mong.”
The term “mong” is or has been used in the UK as a pejorative slang term for people with Down Syndrome. (It’s the short form of “Mongoloid,” which was apparently used by John Langdown Down, who first characterized the chromosomal condition, to reference the “epicanthic folds” seen in the eyes of those with the condition as well as those of Mongol people. “Mongoloid” was used to refer to people with Down Syndrome until about the 1970s, when it was deemed unacceptable and insulting. [I just looked in up])
Oh my GOD, people! Susan Boyle totally LIED to you.
Remember how, when the Britain's Got Talent contestant auditioned, back in 2009, at age 47, she told the judges and the audience that she had "never been kissed"? Well, it wasn't true. She HAS been kissed. Back when she was 25. But, even though she was all grown up, her Dad put the Kaibosh on the relationship.
Hey Susan Boyle fans. I know you like Susan Boyle so here's some Susan Boyle.
She's debuted her cover of Depeche Mode's "Enjoy the Silence" and as expected, she's slowed it down and added soaring orchestral instruments and...you guessed it...a choir! (There was a moment there where I started to think "What? No choir? Has she gone mad?!" But then there it was, in all its bombastic Susan Boyleness and all was right with the world again).
So, enjoy, Susan Boyle fans. You love this sort of thing.
Susan Boyle, who has never met a perfectly good song she couldn't turn into an Niagara of adult contemporary bombast, will be covering Depeche Mode on her next album.
According The Sun, she'll Subo-ize a rendition of Enjoy The Silence on her upcoming LP Someone To Watch Over Me (coming out November 7). I assume that there will be strings and a choir added to the new wave classic.
She'll also take on Tear For Fears' Mad World.
One has to admire the woman's innovation, or that of her managers, at any rate. Before she took a Lou Reed song about heroin addiction (as far as I understand it), and made it worthy of an Andrew lloyd Webber musical, the craziest thing she'd done was remake a Rolling Stones classic.
Susan Boyle debuted a new song on America's Got Talent this week.
You Have To Be There was written by Abba's Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus for their musical Kristina from Duvemala, which is apparently the most popular musical in Swedish history.
And here's the performance, because you people love this woman, no matter what she does.
Of her performance, Susan said, "I'm so pleased the audience enjoyed the song. I really loved performing that big number. I was also a little nervous introducing something new.
"America's Got Talent - it's where I started with my first album, so it was wonderful to be back and for the support."
Susan's upcoming album, Someone to Watch Over Me, drops on November 1. Her third record in just over two years, Someone... is described as "a diverse mix of music that will captivate the generations. Susan has specifically chosen songs that are emotive and reflective in response to the outpouring of life stories from so many people who wrote letters to her from around the globe."
Susan Boyle wants to work with Lady Gaga, which is a collaboration I could totally get behind.
The adult contemporary star has named GaGa and Rihanna as recording artists she would like to work with on her next record.
She's sold over ten million albums worldwide with her first two releases - never underestimate the sale value of sticking a choir and orchestra behind a classic rock song - so, she should really be able to work with whoever she wants, no?
"I'd be interested in an album of duets. There are so many people I'd love to sing with. Lady Gaga would be fun. But then, so would Donny Osmond. I really like Adele and Rihanna," Boyle told the Daily Record. I know! Can we have them all on one song? Maybe a cover of You Shook Me All Night Long? With, like, cellos and bagpipes and the Vienna Boys Choir? It'll be a smash. I can't WAIT for the tour.
The 50-year old Scottish singer recently teamed up with America's Got Talent contestant 11-year old Jackie Evancho for her track A Mother's Prayer.
"It was a pleasure to record such a beautiful song as A Mother's Prayer with Jackie," Boyle said. "She has so much talent for someone so young and I wish her a long and successful career, she certainly deserves it."
Look! Guess who! Its Susan Boyle's wax figure at Madame Tussaud's in Blackpool.
It's quite good, isn't it? These things can be really hit and miss.
The freaky thing about this is that TWO years ago Susan Boyle was an unknown woman living in a small town with her cat Pebbles. Now she has two multiplatinum albums and a wax figure. Amazing.
Today is Susan Boyle's 50th birthday. And we know how much you LOVE Susan Boyle. She's the feel good story of TV talent shows, the inspiration for living the dream. She dreamed a dream two years ago and transformed from a lady living with her cat (Pebbles) in a wee Scottish village (West Lothian) into one of the biggest stars in the world.
Aw. Poor Susan Boyle had a frog in her throat during an appearance singing O Holy Night on The View. Of course, this would happen a lot more often if everyone actually sang during their own performances. Props to Sue for keeping it real.
Susan Boyle has recorded a cover of Lou Reed's Perfect Day. Remember how he supposedly wouldn't let her perform it on America's Got Talent and then there was this whole kerfuffle. Susan left the venue and cried all the way to the airport. Lou claimed he knew nothing about any of it. Simon Cowell called Lou names. Oh, it was terrible.
Well, that's all sorted out now.
Billboard says Susan "will follow last year's record-setting debut I Dreamed a Dream with The Gift, her second full-length. Set for release Nov. 9 on SYCO/Columbia Records, the 10-track album will feature the Britain's Got Talent superstar offering a "seasonal collection" of holiday songs and inspirational pop covers."
The Christmas songs will include O Holy Night, Away In a Manger etc.
Perfect Day will be the first single. The song was released on Lou's 1972 album Transformers. It may or may not be about his relationship with his (later) first wife Bettye Kronstadt. It also may or may not be about heroin addiction, as this guy argues.
