I hadn’t written about the swirl of controversy surring the Brit American Idol knock off “The X-Factor”, despite the Yank version starring Simon Cowell waiting patiently in the wings.
Apparently some of the voalists in the contest used auto-tuned. We have a word for this when I was a kid: cheating.
But, whatever, I tended to agree with the wag who wished they had used it on AI ths season.
However, discovering that Susan Boyle, the singing phenom, was a big surprise. No wonder she is going bonkers. I doubt very much she had much choice in the matter but how must it feel to change your life based on, and even though probably slight, lie

