If you haven’t yet watched Susan Boyle on Britain’s Got Talent, you might as well take a peek and see what all the hubbub is about:

Almost every response I see to this video includes the words amazed, cried, or touched. But I’m skeptical. Are we responding to the overwhelming power demonstrated when someone – ANYone – expresses themselves authentically in a public fashion?

Or are we simply amazed that someone who isn’t 5′8′, 25 years old and sexy could sing so beautifully? Would sing so beautifully? Would dare to expose us to such an imperfect, unaltered, everyday kinda picture?