Thread: Susan Boyle on Britan's Got Talent

Originally Posted by Rick Scarf

She has no vocal training (I have a decent amount, so I tend to naturally be the dick who judges people singing abilities even though I can't sing for crap these days myself) which furthers my point.

She is really good, but just at that one song Search youtube later for when people post her clip from Larry King, she really is pretty terrible and it sucks that the judge from the show is also on there and lauding her abilities even after Larry asks her to sing and she sucks ass

edit: as a caveat, and to reinforce an earlier point in my post, she will definitely make a million dollars because come on, studio magic can touch up anything and she is certainly par if not above par for singing abilities before the mixer person works their magic. She is pretty good but not anything as spectacular as the media outlets are putting her out there as. Damn, I'm a jerk (I'd love to see her and her story be the next superstar), but it seriously is the truth.

Wikipedia disagrees.

Early on she received some professional voice training in Livingston, Scotland

Although I must agree, I do half agree with you. She's not the most amazing singer in the world. But her version of Cry Me A River as posted above makes me think she does have a significant amount of talent. And since that was just a charity album recorded 10 years ago for a school, I doubt there's much studio magic going on.