I don't imagine she has much experience of heroin addiction?

Awful woman I can't stand her..

I now can't stop singing bloody Perfect Day.

and I cannot believe I missed a 'religion is the opium of the masses' opportunity there.

I would be in tears too having no talent of my own and not being allowed to sing a song from one of music's true legends. She must have been gutted. I still don't get the X Factor logic that you can be talented by singing other people's songs while being completely and utterly incapable of producing one of your own.

Funny old world innit. Bye Velvets, hello Jedward.

I would  LOVE  to hear a song written by Jedward.

Prom thats a daft argument
You can have a truly great voice and not  write your own stuff.
Musical talent comes in many guises...

A definition of talent...

"a person who possesses unusual innate ability in some field or activity"

So I am afraid to say that it is perfectly acceptable that someone can have a natural talent at singing, even though they cannot write their own stuff.

So they can sing. Lots of people can. Can they write songs other people want to hear or are they just going to hang around waiting for other people with genuine talent to do that for them? What do they sing if nobody writes songs for them? Correct answer: nothing.

I hope you have a lot of time on your hands. Hell freezing over is currently favourite over Jedward producing anything remotely resembling 'talent'.

What about people who can write songs and cannot sing? LLoyd Webber, Tim Rice, Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hammerstein to name but a few.....
They would look silly if there were not talented people to sing their songs.
Symbiotic relationship ...

Having listened to a lot of bands that have a great vocalist singing absolute rubbish, or a poor vocalist singing good songs and making them sound horrible, I am  REALLY  glad that some people just sing songs or write songs.

I hate having to listen to a talented vocalist singing a load of cliched crap about love and doves and that, just because they felt they had to write their own stuff even though words clearly aren't their thing.

You forgot Oasis. Writing songs is a talent, it's creative. Singing is just something people do. I suppose we should sign up that girl in Waitrose because she sings in tune. No wait, she doesn't look right. 

Manufactured bands/artists are exactly that. The writers have the talents, the 'singers' are just handpicked based on the fact their voice doesn't sound like a banshee wailing or a cat being strangled. I suppose I could look up to them on that basis, but I shan't.

Yep...

oh it doesn't have to resemble talent, I'd just love to hear what Jedward come out with if they wrote a song.  I bet it would be about quiffs and pigeons or summat.  I imagine I'd only listen to it once...

ha ha ha I see you have listened to some of the bands I have heard Isadora.

It's really annoying when they are nearly an ace band, but just really needed the singer and songwriter not to be the same person.

So Oasis are talented? Well that is open for debate - their songs make NO sense but heigh ho!
And you are completely missing the point. We are not talking about manufactured bands. We are talking about singers with good voices who do not write their own stuff.,
Singing is NOT something people do.
Some people cannot sing for toffee.

We've all heard that, but I have more respect for them than some clown singing a song someone else has written and taking all the credit. Two sides to the coin as always. You can't turn a bad songwriter into a good one. You can't turn a talentless twat (all X Factor contestants) into a talented twat, you can just make them sing giving the illusion of talent. 

Or you can be Louis and take two completely talentless turdbags with stupid hair and pretend they're not the spawn of Satan (which, in fact, they are).

Elvis I think only wrote one song ever, and he was alright?  Apart from that jumpsuit, etc.

If anyone thinks singing well isn't a talent I will force them to listen to a Youtube video of me attempting to sing.

Are you just showing off btw because you were the singer and songwriter for your band?  While it's impressive, I still like Elvis a bit more, soz.

All actors should write their own scripts.

I demand nothing less!

ha ha ha.  I imagine even Eastenders would get worse if actors had to write their own script.

Haven't read all replies, too late, but along the way of getting here I saw mention of Jedward. What the heck have Jedward got in relation to Susan? absolutely nothing!!!! she's talented they're not!!!!

I can't believe I am saying this but I would rather listen to Jedward than her.

I bet John McCririck has a fine baritone voice. 

Hiya Growlybear!  But can he write his own songs or Prometheus will hate him.

I would love to see John in an opera or something.

Perhaps he could write an opera about the 2.35 at Kempton Park?  I'm sure it would be thrilling, with lots of intrigue, and he could sing the lead part of the winning jockey. 

Genius!  I hope it gets a grant from  the Arts Council.

What a relief for the audience.

well maybe you should read all the replies to see what context it is in.. 

I also have zero tolerance for her, but a lot of people seem to like her. Thus another example of mean spiritedness from the so-called Commander of the losing forces.

Back to the original point I think Susan Boyle is very unstable, what a ridiculous thing to walk out for!

A bit of throwing her toys out of the pram I think.
Besides after what she did to Wild Horses, I can hardly blame Lou Read 

I haven't forgiven Leona Lewis for what she did to Run

I don't believe it! You are making me feel a small ammount of support for the emotionally challenged SoBo.

Wild Horses is one of the worst songs ever written by the Stones and one must assume that someone had interfered with their pharmaceuticals somewhere along the line.

Oh don't get me wrong, I don't really like Wild Horses either but her interpretation did nothing to enhance it.
Now if she ever touched a Beatles song, I may have to get really nasty..

I can think of a couple a dozen Beatles songs that she couldn't spoil.

Octopus' Garden
Yellow Submarine

I bliddy love those two songs - in fact I cannot think of a single Beatles song I don't love.

I don't think I can either.