{"id":3422,"date":"2009-04-16T07:05:57","date_gmt":"2009-04-15T23:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/04\/16\/i-am-going-to-make-that-audience-rock\/"},"modified":"2009-04-16T07:05:57","modified_gmt":"2009-04-15T23:05:57","slug":"i-am-going-to-make-that-audience-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/04\/16\/i-am-going-to-make-that-audience-rock\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI am going to make that audience rock.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was an interesting if very <a href=\"http:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/Breaking%2BNews\/Lifestyle\/Story\/STIStory_364288.html\">short news article<\/a> in this morning\u2019s The Straits Times; where an amateur singer took to the stage in Britain\u2019s Got Talent 2009 \u2013 I\u2019m guessing the UK version of American Idol \u2013 and received standing ovations.<\/p>\n<p>The strangest part of it was that this was a 47 year, frumpy looking church worker from Scotland who\u2019s never kissed, never had a boyfriend. And when she got on stage and gave her introductions, there were sniggers from the audience. Even Simon Cowell looked irritated.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/image2.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" width=\"330\" height=\"220\" \/><\/p>\n<p>4 minutes later, they weren\u2019t laughing. I\u2019ve seen the video of her performance, and it\u2019s absolutely stunning.<\/p>\n<p>The video is spreading on Youtube now, with this following one already viewed 11 million times. The video cannot be embedded into the post, so it&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY\">here on the link<\/a> instead.<\/p>\n<p>Tears will well up.:)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was an interesting if very short news article in this morning\u2019s The Straits Times; where an amateur singer took to the stage in Britain\u2019s Got Talent 2009 \u2013 I\u2019m guessing the UK version of American Idol \u2013 and received<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/04\/16\/i-am-going-to-make-that-audience-rock\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  \u201cI am going to make that audience rock.\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-news-letters","wpcat-11-id","wpcat-12-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}