Susan Boyle is still famous. She still brings tears to people’s eyes when she sings “I Dreamed a Dreamâ€. She has released an album and used the proceeds to buy a home in her quaint little Scottish village. She is charming and popular because she people want to see her perform even though she doesn’t look the way most famous singers do, and her figure is more Pavarotti than Madonna. Bless her heart for not going on the magic lemonade diet to fit into Hollywood beauty standards. But Susan is now looking beyond show tunes and love songs, and her new dream that she’s dreaming involves a collaboration with Lady Gaga. More frightening than that is Lady Gaga’s mutual interest in recording with the former Britain’s Got Talent runner-up.
Do they make this costume in Susan Boyle's size? Gaga ooh-la-la.
Boyle has said that she even wants to wear the famous “Telephone†hat. It’s somehow difficult to imagine our Scottish dame watching the full, ultra-controversial video of Lady Gaga’s “Telephoneâ€, with its prison scenes and serial killing, and thinking: “That’s someone I’d really like to get to knowâ€. This is not the same shy, unassuming Susan Boyle who nervously performed on British television. This is Boyle 2010, a woman who likes the funky costumes that Lady Gaga wears and gets white gold jewelry encrusted with diamonds from Simon Cowell for her birthday. So far, the closest the two have come to performing together was in last year’s Halloween episode of Regis and Kelly Live, when Kelly dressed up as Gaga and Regis, predictably, as Susan.
But the two would like to work together, and that’s something. Since she became famous, Boyle has been fielding offers from some really interesting sources. 50 Cent has said he’d love to do a track and even perform live with her. Snoop Dogg has also said that he wants to work with her. On an episode of Jimmy Kimmel, Kimmel asked Snoop how he can achieve the same laid-back ultra-cool vibe that the rapper exudes. Snoop’s response was to join him in the aptly-named Green Room before the show. It would be worth whatever came out of the recording studio to see Susan Boyle and Snoop getting lit together and then struggling to understand each other’s location-specific accents. Boyle is not, one imagines, well versed in the language of the LBC. She has admitted to not experiencing the “Sexual Eruption†that became one of Snoop’s most popular recent tracks. Snoop has filmed his own porn films in the Girls Gone Wild style, although he was not an active participant. Although she has started wearing makeup, added a little fashion to her wardrobe, and colored her hair, Boyle still looks like a 4th-grade teacher. Snoop barely attended school.
But still, the most unlikely and interesting duo is easily Boyle and Gaga. Would they cover a song together? Would we hear Susan’s voice belting out the “Rah rah ah ah ah/ Roma roma ma/ Gaga ooh la la†that has become the Lady’s signature? Or would Gaga work her own rendition of “How Great Thou Art� Or, dare we dream a dream that they would write a song together? And can we get video of their lyric-writing sessions?
As long as they don’t trade costumes, I’m all for it.