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Some time ago the following article was made available as a response to the treatment Susan had undergone at the hands of some of the media. It refers to a period starting during the 'Britain's Got Talent' semi-finals continuing through to the finals, in which the less respectable media attempted to degrade Susan and demonstrated contempt toward Susan, through name calling, exaggeration, and humiliation. The article below, written at that time, was a response to the ferocity of that media attack on Susan. This article was a strong, emotional, heart-felt attempt to neutralize their negativitiy and impact on Susan and her world.

For Susan

A scant few weeks ago an amazing story started to unfold. Susan Boyle.

In a brief period you have moved from being a hidden treasure to captivating many millions of people with a voice of wonder, a heart of strength and a charisma that has wooed the world. Unassuming, gentle, polite, and giving, qualities that so many hollow people lack, you have also affected a very rare thing. Of this you may not really know, but you have created a truly huge global community of supporters, who have found acquaintances and friendships that cross boundaries of nations, language, race, and religion. This has happened through the sheer joy of experiencing your voice, your character and your humour. It has brought people closer and made our world a smaller, more comfortable place.

For the many years previously that you have toiled and tried, that joy was only to be experienced by a few, but now it has heartened millions. You are a great gift to the world. We care naught for those who deny this; they are shallow, shameful people who have no soul. They will never aspire to one ten thousandth of your abilities, and they will wither in the bile of jealously and ignorance. They will be gone.

It is fitting you have come to so many of us in Spring, from being small blossoms in a town far from many of us, to be a wide field of glowing flowers, thousand upon thousand of radiant heads turned upward toward the sun. But wherever great things happen the black forces gather. They came and admired with praise that inked so falsely from their pens and in their ruthless, avaricious, selfish ways showed their real colours, those of turncoats and despicable liars. They took a scythe to the beauty that was blossoming before us and in a few fell swoops had completed their acts of hate, ready to pounce on the dying blooms. A million hearts dropped, another million despaired, another million cried, for this was a needless act of wanton violence.

They pushed you to the edge of a precipice, below was a mighty deep and dark chasm; they hoped to see you fall so they could revel in disgusting glee. But you won. You turned and worked your way backward from that terrible abyss and you will now trample over those ethically and morally bankrupt wastrels as you ascend the mountain with ease, to take a lofty place so fitting for you.

In centuries to come you will be singing with the angels, resplendent and resounding in harmonious notes with Apollo. Their foetid corpses will lie rotting, reviled and repulsed by the mother earth in which they will lie, denied even the crossing of the Styx to the underworld, they will not be welcomed by Hades but remain in a state of perpetual torture.

Go now Susan, and create your world as you want it; you deserve anything your heart desires, and it can all be yours. If we are blessed with your desire to continue to warm, enlighten and cheer us with your voice, we will be eternally grateful.

You came to us in honesty, humility and good heart to sing to us in the sweetest tones. Those who sought to be tigers coming to pass will no longer tear your dreams to shame; you are greater than all of them put together; you exude goodness and remind us of the beauty and wonder that can exist in a human being.

Thank you, Susan
5th June 2009

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Links to other articles are below.

• Naik, Shivani, The reality check: India will find it hard to replicate success of Delhi, Indian Express
  (22 July 2014)
• Green, Brent, Is American Idol Ageist? On the Possibilities for a New Culture of Fame, Huffington Post
  (24 May 2012)
• McCade, Fiona, Scots have love-hate thing with success, Scotsman
  (30 November 2011)
• Pogrebin, Letty Cottin, Why Susan Boyle Makes Us Cry, Huffington Post
  (22 November 2009)
• Powers, Ann, Time to take Susan Boyle seriously, Los Angeles Times
  (17 September 2009)
• Hinckley, David, The Susan Boyle story: If only she could freeze-frame this moment, NY Daily News
  (04 May 2009)
• Susan Primer for Dummies
  (May 2009)
• Gunn, Angela, You Tube, Susan Boyle, and a slap at snark: What a homely woman singing a show tune tells us about life online now, Beta News
  (16 April 2009)