Susan Boyle Hype Revitalizes 10-Year-Old Cover
The song title "Cry Me A River" brings Justin Timberlake to mind for Generation Y. But that is likely to change thanks to Susan Boyle, the Scottish singing sensation whose Britain's Got Talent appearance wooed millions of broadcast and online viewers.
Boyle's moving rendition of "Cry Me A River" was uploaded to
YouTube Thursday night, sparking further interest and frenzy over the extremely
talented singer.
Boyle's "Cry Me A River" is a remake of the blues standard,
not Timberlake's pop ballad. Boyle's track went virtually unnoticed when it was
independently released 10 years ago on a charity CD reported Times Online. The Whitburn Community
Council in West Lothian only pressed 1,000
copies of The Millennium Celebration
compilation.
The singer, who said she has never been kissed, now has an offer on the table from Britain's Got Talent judge Piers Morgan who has said he would take her on a romantic date. Still, Boyle isn't eager to abandon her more homely looks for an extreme makeover just because she is on the television show.
"I
wouldn't want to change myself too much because that would really make things a
bit false," she told CNN's American
Morning on Friday. "I want to receive people as the real me, a real
person."
It's not just Boyle's singing that has fans searching the internet for related information. Web searches for the term "gobsmacked" spiked after Boyle used the British slang meaning utterly astonished when describing her reaction to newfound widespread acclaim.
The humble 48-year-old unemployed singer who began performing in school productions when she was 12 credits her late mother as the inspiration to audition for the competition show. Boyle's story has already won her talk show circuit interviews on CNN and Larry King Live. An appearance on Oprah is said to be in the works.
