Looks Like Susan Boyle has some competition

It looked staged to me. They had the second song already cued up and ready for him, and seconds into the first song, Simon steps in to say, "stop the music. Wrong song for you!" And then he nails the second song that just happened to be already cued up after Simon decided that he needed to do a different song?

 

The more I think about it, the more that looked staged. They get a really cute kid with a killer voice and they want to manipulate it so people are talking about him. So they stage that. My initial reaction was "What is wrong?" too. It's not like the kid was butchering the first song. The audience was into it and it was too early when they stopped it for anyone to say it was all wrong. And then when Simon asked him if he did any other song, the kid didn't seem thrown enough by being put on the spot like that. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that he was coached.

 

Killick, I didn't take anything away from his performance. To the contrary. He has a killer voice and I enjoyed it. And he's cute and has dimples, too. Which is exactly why they would want to showcase him. I'll personally be turned off if I ever find out it was unnecessarily staged to do that. If it was -- and I don't know, I just get a sense that it might have been -- they couldn't just let the kid go out and do well on his own merits (which he had). They had to try to create faux drama to try to turn it into more than it was.