I wonder whether this week's Britain's Got Talent will ever live up to last week's Susan Boyle episode. The imapct that the 47-year-old church singer made has reached global proportions - Demi and Ashton have been tweeting, Oprah wants her on her show and newspapers and blogs have been vomiting forth their opinions in great arcs of multi-coloured. I read a piece in The Guardian t'other day that got me thinking...

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As ever, a TV event is being dissected like a lab specimen. The simple fact of the matter is that one normal woman, who lived in a normal village and had a nice singing voice went on to a talent contest and blew everyone away. There must be hundreds of people like Susan all over the country, but it just so happened that it was Suan Boyle that managed to represent on TV.

Now, The Guardian's article focused in on the idea that so many people were surprised that an 'ugly' woman could do so well. What's society coming to, Tanya Gold asked? If you look back at the footage, you will see the panel's collective jaws drop when Susan started singing, and that Morgan said that this was the biggest surprise since he started the show. We all know Cowell is into his uber-manicured pop stars and he should be kicked in the shins because of this. I think it's fair to say that Sausan Boyle is not a manicured pop star. But the reason why I think they people were surprised was not because she was ugly, but because she was patently off her rocker and they were expecting a performance to match.

What they got was an eccentric woman singing beautifully. A normal, British eccentric singing her heart out and giving the studio audience and viewing audience at home one of the TV moments of the year so far.

Of course they, and we, were shocked. She came on wiggling her arse and being very barmy. I suspect she was picked to go on precisely because we would automatically think that her act would be a strange one.

In some ways I agree with Tanya - that too much emphasis is put on looks and there's a real homogenisation of our TV stars, and that people perhaps like looking at glamorous people on telly because it makes them forget about themselves. But I really don't think people were surprised, in this case, because they thought Susan Boyle was, to use 21st century vernacular, a minger. No, people went crazy for because she was normal and getting credit for something she has never been credit for - on this level - before.

I read in today's Independent a round-up of global opinion provoked by the performance. One paper said: "In a world of nasty pirates, mean internet commentators, and crazy right-wing extremists, we have to stop and embrace Susan Boyle for making us smile."

Fair enough. Another said this:

"People like Susan Boyle are the glue of our society and it's nice when finally something good happens to them."

Couldn't agree more.

So come on people, stop discussing this so faux-intellectually and enjoy it for what it is.