http://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/2009/04/27/she-did-it-her-way/ Culture, Politics, Academia and Other Shiny Objects Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:26:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/2009/04/27/she-did-it-her-way/comment-page-1/#comment-6639 joetru Mon, 01 Jun 2009 10:08:43 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=801#comment-6639 <a href="http//SusanBoyleTalent.com" rel="nofollow">Susan Boyle</a> I agree with you that in some level the audition was process in the cutting room to exaggerate some reactions and to seem the entire audition reflect the personal feelings of the viewer while watching it, because most of us when we first saw it we probably thought "Oh no, poor lady this is going to be embarrassing" then we all heard her sing and probably though, "actually she sings quite well", this story is media meat, it's a well cut diamond and I'm sure the producers of the show master pieced the video presented to the public. I'm not sure the whole thing would have had the same impact if we all knew she was going to sing well, so it doesn't really matter whether it's reality TV or not, what we see is not real it's a well cut piece of reality. Susan Boyle I agree with you that in some level the audition was process in the cutting room to exaggerate some reactions and to seem the entire audition reflect the personal feelings of the viewer while watching it, because most of us when we first saw it we probably thought “Oh no, poor lady this is going to be embarrassing” then we all heard her sing and probably though, “actually she sings quite well”, this story is media meat, it’s a well cut diamond and I’m sure the producers of the show master pieced the video presented to the public. I’m not sure the whole thing would have had the same impact if we all knew she was going to sing well, so it doesn’t really matter whether it’s reality TV or not, what we see is not real it’s a well cut piece of reality.

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