So Susan Boyle didn’t win “Britain’s Got Talent”.  Boo hoo.  The whole bloody internet is in an uproar because she came in second.  I’ll be quite honest.  Who gives a shit?

A lot of you are going to be angry at me for that statement, but let me explain.  I think she really is an amazing singer and it’s great that she has had this opportunity.  I think she belongs on Broadway or London’s West End.  In our pop culture obsessed society, we’ve made a big deal about this woman who has lived a hard life and doesn’t portray the image  that we have come to expect from pop stars.

The whole idea of having to be surgically enhanced, airbrushed, fluffed and polished to make music is relatively new.  Musicians and singers have always presented an image to the public to be consumed, but this envelope gets pushed further and further as we get more obsessed with celebrities.  My generation is responsible for much of this, as we were teens in the 1980s, when the use of the music video as a marketing tool became de rigeur.  I remember me and my friends going crazy for Duran Duran videos because there was not one unattractive guy in that band.

This is gone to such an extreme now, that when a woman that can sing but is considered unattractive comes along, a huge media circus is created.  Has anyone ever taken a look at some opera singers?  In this era of lip syncing and Pussycat Dolls, people are surprised when a woman without a nose or boob job gets on a stage and sings.  Whatever happened to getting a recording contract based on talent, not looks?

I am really sick of celebrity obsessed culture.  You see it plastered all over the internet, tv and magazines at the check out stand.  It screams out at you everywhere.  Do I care if Jon and Kate are having marriage problems?  What are Britney and Lindsay and Paris up to this week?  WHO CARES!!!!  I used to like Mel Gibson movies, especially Braveheart, but now because of the anti-semitic trash he spouts and now all this pregnant girlfriend stuff,  I can’t even watch his stupid cheesy face anymore!

Congratulations to the winner of “Britain’s Got Talent” (whomever you are) and congratulations to Susan Boyle.  You got pretty far for an ugly girl (I hope you all get the sarcasm).