Politicians can learn from Susan Boyle - 'The Scotsman'

[canetoad]

The Susan Boyle story is like someone you just met asking your star sign. It's a conversation starter.

This is from Alastair Campbell, Blair's former spokesman:

In a post on his blog, Mr Campbell said: "If politicians tend to read the Sunday papers with a mix of horror and trepidation, one person who must read them week after week with a sense of his own skills in shaping the popular culture agenda is Simon Cowell.

"The overnight sensation that is Susan Boyle and her 25 million YouTube hits is the latest chapter in Cowell's story.

"If there is a lesson from her success for politicians, it is authenticity. It is the only communication that works."
http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/Campbell-has-new-spin-on.5184440.jp

[emilyg]

1. This lady is authentic

I like this part

And yesterday Ms Boyle's singing teacher revealed that she was a serial talent show failure who had previously auditioned without success in the late 1990s for My Kind of People and abandoned the auditions for The X Factor when she realised people were being chosen for their looks. Fred O'Neil said that Ms Boyle's audition for Britain's Got Talent was her final throw of the dice.

He said: "I remember a phone call late last year when she said she was too old and that it was a young person's game."

Mr O'Neil urged her to reconsider and attend the auditions in Glasgow.