MACDONALD: ‘BOYLE HAS BEEN UNFAIRLY EXPLOITED’
Scottish singer AMY MACDONALD has criticised music bosses for thrusting S= USAN BOYLE into the spotlight, insisting the singer is too "fragile" to d= eal with the pressures of fame.
Boyle shot to stardom following an appearance on hit TV show Britain’s = Got Talent last year (09).
She was named runner up in the contest and was subsequently admitted to= a London clinic suffering from exhaustion, while tabloid reports claimed= the stress of the show had led to an emotional break down.
Rumours of another meltdown surfaced in November (09) when she was snap= ped sobbing and sucking her thumb following a New York promotional event = for her debut album I Dreamed A Dream.
And Macdonald is convinced Boyle shouldn’t be put under so much pressur= e by record executives, because she is not prepared to cope with all the = attention.
She says, "I feel really bad for Susan because I think she has been exp= loited and the people behind her don’t care about her. You can tell she i= s really fragile. She has some problems and it is not right for someone l= ike that to have this life thrust upon them." Macdonald has also defended the organisers of the upcoming Brit Awards = for failing to include Boyle in the nominations, insisting the singing se= nsation does not deserve recognition for her music because it is not grou= nd-breaking enough.
She adds, "Susan has sold a phenomenal amount of albums, so you could a= sk ‘Why shouldn’t she be nominated for a Brit?’ But she hasn’t changed an= ything musically or creatively and it wouldn’t be a good advert for Briti= sh music if what we thought deserved awards in the music industry was a w= oman singing covers. Lily Allen would be a much more deserving winner." (=
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