Friday, November 22, 2024

Susan Boyle Gets Her Perfect Day After All

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Susan Boyle, who is famous and popular for reasons I cannot fathom, has been in a brouhaha with Lou Reed all month.

The backstory: on September 9th, Boyle says she wasn’t allowed to perform Reed’s song “Perfect Day” on Simon Cowell‘s “Britain’s Got Talent” TV show. The story went that Reed said no before the taping, and that Boyle returned to the UK “in tears” because she didn’t know any other songs.

I mean, really: newsfeed editors are just lemmings to pick this stuff up and repeat it. Does it even make sense? Boyle “in tears”? Didn’t know any other songs? Simon Cowell making proclamations against Reed. Reed even caring about this stuff? Bollocks.

Anyway, so guess what? “Perfect Day” is the lead single from Boyle’s album, due November 9th, called “The Gift.” Surprise! Cowell, mastermind of publicity, manages and owns Boyle. The whole controversy was concocted. It’s not like the “Perfect Day” track hadn’t been recorded and scheduled for the album before September 9th.

I love all the web-wags saying Reed “stood up” or “wouldn’t sell out.” Lou Reed stands to make a fortune with Boyle warbling his tune. Believe me, he’ll take the money.

What’s so strange about this is why Boyle chose “Perfect Day” in the first place. It was on Reed’s famous 1972 album, “Transformer.” I always thought it was about getting high and wandering around a zoo.

Roger Friedman
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Roger Friedman began his Showbiz411 column in April 2009 after 10 years with Fox News, where he created the Fox411 column. His movie reviews are carried by Rotten Tomatoes, and he is a member of both the movie and TV branches of the Critics Choice Awards. His articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. He is also the writer and co-producer of "Only the Strong Survive," a selection of the Cannes, Sundance, and Telluride Film festivals, directed by DA Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus.

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