Introducing Paul Potts
Alright it's made the rounds all over the place already. But I keep going back to watch, so I may as well post it here. Just amazing.
I don't know what the secret is to what makes this so compelling. But considering the play it's getting far and wide it obviously is.
Maybe it's the way Paul looks like he fully expects to disappoint but he steels himself to give his all, and then lets fly a voice every bit as good as he seems to be sure he isn't. More... seems to think he can't possibly be.
Reality television, for all my love of it, is mostly schlock and aww. But this... this is as close to a sublime moment as I think it has ever captured.
(Hat-tip to Mick Stockinger, and shortly after I saw it there the intertubes as a whole)
I don't know what the secret is to what makes this so compelling. But considering the play it's getting far and wide it obviously is.
Maybe it's the way Paul looks like he fully expects to disappoint but he steels himself to give his all, and then lets fly a voice every bit as good as he seems to be sure he isn't. More... seems to think he can't possibly be.
Reality television, for all my love of it, is mostly schlock and aww. But this... this is as close to a sublime moment as I think it has ever captured.
(Hat-tip to Mick Stockinger, and shortly after I saw it there the intertubes as a whole)
Posted by Doug Williams on
Friday June 15, 2007 at 11:44pm
I swear at first I thought he was lip synching.
My eyes are still wet.
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