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Absolutely right.

Paul Potts IS a genuine opera singer and, as a younger man toured with a regional opera company in the UK  Susan Boyle has never sung anything remotely resembling opera in her life.

I think the trouble is that kids are so used to dance pop with its beats and screaming and such, they think anything with melody and intelligent lyrics is opera.