Posted on 06/06/2009 10:15:42 AM PDT by Steelfish
Sorry, Mr Cowell you know little about true talent
By MARTIN SAMUEL 04th June 2009
We have been down the road from top of the pops to The Priory before. Remember Lena Zavaroni?
This vulnerable, naive girl from Scotland shot to fame on a television talent show in the early Seventies and became an overnight celebrity.
Like Britain's Got Talent's Susan Boyle, it didn't end well.
Talent is having a repertoire, an act, not some five-minute novelty schtick. Modern bogeymen such as Pete Doherty and Russell Brand have more talent in their little fingers than anyone who will ever pass through Simon Cowell's portal, because talent involves a craft and a means of expression that has been honed for years.
Ken Dodd, putting on a performance that makes his audience miss the last bus home: talent. Noel Gallagher of Oasis, playing his songs to 250,000 people at Knebworth: talent.
There was not a single act on Britain's Got Talent that could individually sustain a proper show of any length. Not even Susan Boyle. Singing is about expression.
Maybe this dude is another in a long line of critics whose only connection to talent is they managed to swing a job criticizing it. Some hone their talent for years, some don't. What about all the teen and early twenties performers who've made it big over the years and had long careers?
Simon Cowell's shows have found several artists who've become very successful: Paul Potts the first BGT winner in opera had made millions and is popular in many countries. Kerry Underwood from AI is now one of the most successful country singers, and several other winners on Cowell shows have great careers going. Jennifer Hudson in film and on Broadway.
And Susan Boyle might prove the most successful of all.
I think this writer needs to see his psychiatrist and work out some issues.
He’s a pimp. Nothing more, nothing less. He looks for crap that sells on his AI show.
The best version of Light My Fire is by Shirley Bassey, not The Doors, because, unlike Jim Morrison, our Shirl genuinely sounded like she wanted somebody to light her fire
Too funny
>>He looks for crap that sells on his AI show.<<
Susan Boyle is crap? She has clearly worked on her instrument for many years, if not in the way the critic wishes.
Cowell is a businessman — he looks for acts that can make money. In the USA this is considered to be a Good Thing.
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Yes, I do! I remember watching her on the Merv Griffin show. What ever happened to her?
sorry anyone who says anything good about Russell Brand loses his argument
And he's been immensely popular doing it, meaning not only does he recognize talent, but he HAS a talent...
It's not Britain's Got Entertainers With Well-Honed and Developed Acts ...
It's a search for ordinary people who may have a smidgen of talent that they haven't yet developed or exploited.
Speaking of Doherty and Brand and Amy Winehouse: It's also not Britain's Got Well-Paid Entertainers Who's Lives are Train Wrecks either.
The people who make shows like Cowell's may be exploitative. But filling up columns of newsprint with attacks like this from the Daily Mail is just another way of getting on the bandwagon and making a buck off the show.
Says Martain Samual who has acomplished what? I dont like Simon but he’s made a forture at what he does....Martain Samual....wtf is Martain Samual.
She died at the age of 35 after a long battle with anorexia nervosa.
Sorry to hear that.
You can just feel this guy’s envy dripping off of each word.
This person obviously never heard Jose Feliciano’s version of Light My Fire. It won an Emmy. The Doors’ and Bassey’s did not.
Sorry ... that should be a GRAMMY, not an EMMY!
>>And he’s been immensely popular doing it, meaning not only does he recognize talent, but he HAS a talent...<<
He did a good job of establishing the “bitchy” now-TV-archetype.
Let's revisit this in a year. I predict she will have sold a few million albums by then and have done sold out shows all over the globe.
The author sounds overly critical.What does he expect?I must admit upfront i haven’t watched either of the shows.But isn’t the premise to find amatuers(aka non-professionals)with talent(and lots of guts!)willing to perform in front of millions of viewers and at the same time compete with other contestants for a shot at the “big time”?
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