Adam Lambert vs. Susan Boyle

One of my favorite past times is reading music blogs or blogs talking about music and the musicians making the music. This week a lot of them are filled with the Adam Lambert/Susan Boyle controversy. Most of the times I do not comment; I just read and move on. Occasionally one will spark a thought and off I go. As was the case with this article: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/gossip/susan-boyle/. When I tried to post, a message informed me “data not accepted”, so here I am where I know my data will be accepted.

My comment as written for the blog:

I am weighing in late on this, but find it intriguing and felt compelled to comment. I will not applaud or condemn this article, because this article like almost every article in a blog is mostly opinion based on fact. Whether or not Adam Lambert was misquoted is not what intrigues me; I am always amazed that some artists and their listeners hardly ever consider the fact that music is relative to the maker and the listener.

I had not heard the Rolling Stones’ version of Wild Horses, as a matter of fact I have not heard much of anything by the Rolling Stones because I do not care to listen to their style of music, nor had I heard Susan Boyle's version. So I listened to the selections offered here. I started Ms. Boyle’s video and proceeded to reading the comments posted. When it ended I started the Rolling Stones video and continued to read the comments, after several bars I couldn't take it anymore and had to stop it. It was just not my cup of tea.

I didn’t buy Susan or Adam’s album because neither one appeals to my eclectic taste in music. If Adam indeed said “if it weren’t for Susan Boyle”, I would hope he was sarcastically joking. People buy what they like. Apparently, more of Susan’s type of listeners found something to buy that week than Adam’s type of listeners. If a benefactor had offered me money that week and said I had to buy Adam’s album or Susan’s album I would first ask for another choice, if I couldn’t get that choice and had to choose between the two…I would have chosen Susan.