After watching Susan Boyle performance on “British got talent” I was more or less speechless. The way she had just blown the audience away, and got a standing applause was incredible especially since everybody was against her from the beginning. Even the judges had a laughing smile on their mouth when she walked in. In gets me to think: why didn’t anyone expect that she could sing, and why did we only expect the worse? And shouldn’t not-so-pretty-people be allowed to sing, like pretty people do?
I would guess that a lot of people, almost everyone have a lot of prejudice against people that look and act different than what they find normal. When Susan Boyle entered the stage on “British got talent” everything about her, her clothes, attitude, and hair told us that she would not do a great performance. But why do so many people think this way? I would guess that people like Susan Boyle is not the type of person you would normally se on TV. In every commercial, TV-series and news, there are people who are considered pretty enough to be on TV.
That Susan Boyle got showed that “ugly people” can be talented to is as the judge Amanda Holden said “It was the biggest wake up call ever”. And I personally think, after watching Susan Boyle, that it was about time. It really shouldn’t only be pretty people on TV. And of course “ugly people” have the same right to sing and perform the same way as pretty people do.
I hope that Susan Boyle gets far in “British got talent” And that she gets a career in singing afterwards. I also hope that seeing Susan Boyle performing give inspiration to other people who really want to show what they can. At least get out there and give it a try.
