People are really into this Susan Boyle thing, huh? She has over a million Facebook fans, including half the people I know, ranging from my raging party friends to my fourteen-year old cousin. People like her. (I first heard about her on the feminist blogs, oddly, though even the gay porn ones are really into her.)
Anyway. It’s nice and all. What’s also nice, speaking of inspirational things we can pick up from reality television, is Linda Andrews, who last month won Denmark’s X Factor. In addition to having a very nice voice–which she does–she’s a) thirty-five and b) curvy. Imagine that ever happening in the US. Behold, as Linda sings Natasha Bedingfield’s stupidly likable Unwritten:
(X Factor is basically an Idol show, but it’s sort of complicated because people have mentors and individuals compete against groups. Or something. All I know is the groups were all very, very bad and the bald judge is kind of foxy.)
I like to sometimes watch Idol shows from other countries, because I like to watch people sing and because people everywhere else are so much less inclined to sing stupid Bryan Adams songs than Americans are. After the jump, other highlights from the season:
Sidsel did the original a capella version of Tom’s Diner:
Here’s Tainted Love as performed by the adorably bespectacled Lucas–not to be confused with the Lucas whose lid was off, though he was Danish, too:
He also sang The Lovecats, which isn’t the best performance but for Christ’s sake it’s The Lovecats:
Mohamed, who (I think) placed second, managed to somehow not massacre Amerie’s perfect 1 Thing (not that you can see it. Jeez with the tagging, Youtube uploader.)
And here’s everybody, including Linda with faux-hippie extensions, doing Fly Me To The Moon:
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