Susan Boyle’s Sister City is in North Texas

Posted on April 16th, 2009 9:42am by Eric Celeste
Filed under Entertainment

385x200_susanboyleAnd that’s enough reason to post the video that’s made me cry like a baby the past two days. The unemployed 47-year-old Boyle lives in West Lothian, Scotland, sister city to Grapevine. (Perhaps she’ll play Glass Cactus? No? Bad idea?) If you haven’t seen her sing on the British version of American Idol America’s Got Talent (Britain’s Got Talent), block off about seven minutes. And grab a tissue or two.

23 comments

  1. Britain’s Got Talent is the British version of America’s Got Talent

    @ 10:04 am on April 16, 2009

  2. She’s a bit too cheeky for me. Hello Vicar. Who’s your mum?

    @ 10:15 am on April 16, 2009

  3. Eric, Bless your heart for being man enough to admit the tears.
    I’d like to join you in admitting to weeping when she began to sing.
    And I really AM a man.

    @ 10:20 am on April 16, 2009

  4. Why is it, the whole time I was watching that, I was thinking, “I bet that is the only song she can sing well”

    @ 10:22 am on April 16, 2009

  5. The image says she’s 47, you say she’s 48. Did she have a birthday this week?
    Both America’s Got Talent and American Idol are based on U.K. shows.

    @ 10:30 am on April 16, 2009

  6. I was quite dubious at first, then astounded… who cares if that’s the only song she can sing – my gosh, that’s the best rendition I’ve ever heard. I didn’t quite cry, but could have… phenomenal.

    @ 10:30 am on April 16, 2009

  7. Eric did you get this in your email because I sent it out to a few people with the “British version of American Idol” mistake a few days ago.

    @ 10:36 am on April 16, 2009

  8. Joshua: Thanks. Tom: She was ID’ed as 48 in news story. I took that over a headline posted on YouTube. But, some more googling suggests she probably still is 47. I will change. No, John M, wife sent it to me. I just don’t watch these shows, so I didn’t know any better.

    @ 10:42 am on April 16, 2009

  9. well you’ve done it. Congratulations on usurping the DMN on most ridiculous attempt to tie something to north texas.

    And does anyone else find this situation oddly similar (like, the same) as Paul Potts on the same show from 2007? Video:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k08yxu57NA

    @ 10:43 am on April 16, 2009

  10. Would.

    @ 10:45 am on April 16, 2009

  11. Somewhere Vicki McClure is smirking…

    @ 10:45 am on April 16, 2009

  12. I dropped to my knees and raised both clenched fists to the heavens, face turned radiantly to the heavens and tears popping out my eyes. Life is such benefaction as to be almost too bittersweet to properly savor! I shouted to God in great, heaving sobs. Case in point: A lady who looks like John Belushi can sing show tunes. Thank you! Thank you!

    @ 10:53 am on April 16, 2009

  13. I get this feeling that this post’s comments are heading toward a pile of male nasties.

    @ 11:22 am on April 16, 2009

  14. I almost cried while watching that clip, but the frequent cuts to the cheesy hosts kept distracting me from being one with my feelings.

    @ 12:01 pm on April 16, 2009

  15. I am as cynical as the next guy but this was awesome…

    So now m reaction is temporarily bound by cliches about books and their covers and the shattering of expectations.

    Don’t watch shows like this but it’s a rare “reality tv” chance to actually recognizable a teachable moment.

    And then there are the concluding lyrics to the song which I could not help noticing:

    So different now from what it seemed…
    Now life has killed the dream I dreamed…

    Wow.

    @ 12:02 pm on April 16, 2009

  16. This video made me very happy for Ms. Boyle. But what really made me smile (laugh perhaps), was Eric’s last phrase in the post.

    @ 12:23 pm on April 16, 2009

  17. Susan is Hot, she can sing pretty well too.

    @ 12:24 pm on April 16, 2009

  18. When Patty Page’s great nephew says, ‘Listen to this woman sing’, it’s stop the press time at my house.

    @ 1:12 pm on April 16, 2009

  19. She was amazingly good.

    Of course, she would have sounded ten times as good if she was hot.

    @ 2:14 pm on April 16, 2009

  20. Paul Potts could play hide the bologna with her and have some of the ugliest babies with the greatest voices ever.

    Just like The Rolling Stones.

    @ 3:00 pm on April 16, 2009

  21. Getting the Dallas area reference to this deserves an award. It is the Frontburner version of my brother’s friend’s college roommate story.

    @ 4:12 pm on April 16, 2009

  22. I think the chances of Mr Potts making babies with this woman is impossible.

    At her age, Ms Boyle’s eggs have long since fried.

    @ 4:16 pm on April 16, 2009

  23. I’m left wondering this: Why is West Lothian the sister city of Grapevine when Midlothian is right there? Did the two Lothians have a falling out, causing West Lothian to rebound with Grapevine?

    Curious mind(s) want to know.

    @ 7:49 pm on April 16, 2009