Re: Dream Your Dream
Susan's bravery, I think, lay in the fact that she DIDN'T put herself in the hands of the 'presentation' people, the dressers and stylists and 'management' folks.
Our shame, I think, was that we 'expected' her to...thought she wasn't worth anything without it...except to laugh at her discomfort as she crashed and burned...thankful it wasn't us.
Now that the 'money in the bank' people are having at her, I pray she doesn't 'get it' that we thought her appearance laughable.
Seeing her at home and in interviews, I notice that she is intelligent, and quite at the top end of neatness and dress and pleasant mannerisms.
It is we, I believe, who need to clean up our act. We make a great mistake to look down on others...to guffaw at their 'quaintness'.
We miss many geniuses that way...people we sorely need in this confused world.
We have bought the advertised myth, surely.
We owe Susan, and little guys everywhere, a huge appology...and tender treatment.
Can you imagine Susan's devastation if she WASN'T yet ready for the stage?
The fiasco might have stopped her trying, forever.
Now, she must face the fierce industry that controls our 'music'...or likes to think it does.