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  1. Loved it! What a wonderful woman. I hope when I am 80 I have the courage to do something this insane. 😀

  2. 1. Amazing. Thank you neo.

    2. How is it that people with thick speaking accents lose their accents when singing?

    3. British through and through. Why have the Brits diluted and destroyed their culture? Why has Europe? Why have we? For cheap fast food?

  3. No regrets about watching this.

    Janey, you are the epitome of the spirit that made the British Empire and the Anglosphere what it was. May we all be as brave, resonant, and full of life until the end. God luv you and keep you. RIP, Janey.

  4. Piaf’s rendition is supposedly the unofficial anthem of the French Foreign Legion. Great song, if it weren’t for Piaf’s voice.
    This gal nails it.

  5. I love it! Mostly because of the comments of her family members.

    It must have been a thrill to sing on BGT and receive that recognition, but her legacy is her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, who clearly loved her very much.

    No regrets indeed! A life well-lived.

  6. Being talented and part of things like lincoln center, carnegie hall, and all that… i learned somethign others dont usually know..

    it only allows you to sit in a smaller waiting room as your life dribbles away and there is no place to go. so you just wait to die in a room of other talented people.. watching very untalented sales people win the game.

    even less if your not protected class and on one is interested in anything you do… “no matter how hard you work, what you do, or achieve, you will never get a raise or promotion for the rest of your life” – and thats just employment..

    even worse if you dont know how to sell yourself and are not very social.

    waiting to die while not living is the end result..

    and she is news cause she is so old…
    if she was 20, no one would care..

    dont matter
    no one gets out alive anyway

  7. Cornhead Says:
    January 25th, 2016 at 5:50 pm
    1. Amazing. Thank you neo.

    2. How is it that people with thick speaking accents lose their accents when singing?
    * * *
    I hear what you’re saying.

    Accents are distinguished not just by the sound of vowels and pronunciation of consonants, but by rhythm, intonation, stress, etc. — all of which can get displaced by music.

    There are several articles on the web but this is the fullest explanation I found in a quick search.
    http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/08/why-british-singers-lose-their-accent-when-singing/

    This one has vocal examples.
    http://www.buzzfeed.com/jessicamisener/why-dont-british-singers-have-british-accents-when-they-sing#.ehkR4zQ6

    The greatest American example of “losing the accent” is the singing Jim Nabors v. his Gomer Pyle persona.

  8. 2. How is it that people with thick speaking accents lose their accents when singing?

    Because they aren’t using their language cores, they’re thinking in the musical cores.

  9. Wow.

    I had occasion to watch a slew of these talent show YouTube compilations recently, and came away with much the same feeling as ArtfldgrsGhost – if you don’t have an obsessively self promoting personality, you can have all the brains and talent, but no one will ever notice unless you have a pedigree or you’re insanely lucky. Like Artfl, I nave some personal experience with that, not from the performing arts but as a freakin’ corporate CPA.

    For every person who makes it big in entertainment or business, there are ten thousand just as talented who watch from the outside.

    Well, good on her for making it big from nowhere, at least once in her life.

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