Alright, Barrykaraoke....I always tell my singers there is a $10 fine if they make me cry. I'm sitting here blubbering away - what an amazing talent and so humble. This is VERY inspirational. Makes me feel happy to be a middle-aged woman

Susan is a reminder that it's time we all looked a little deeper. She has lived an obscure but important life. She has been a companionable and caring daughter. It's people like her who are the unseen glue in society; the ones who day in and day out put themselves last. They make this country civilised and they deserve acknowledgement and respect.

Susan has been forgiven her looks and been given respect because of her talent. She should always have received it because of the calibre of her character.

I don't think she looks bad, and didn't like the subtext that older women are somehow not expected to have talent or try out for shows like got talent. But her voice just sounds like a basic good voice to me. Nothing amazing or uncommon. A beautiful voice, certainly, but there are plenty of amateur singers who sound like her.All the same, good luck to her, because she does seem like a lovely person.

One thing that irritates me is the going up and down the scale over a couple of octaves on the final note of a phrase, like when some of these pop tots try and sing the National Anthem at sports events. I just want to cringe.

I have watched the clip about 30 times just because it makes me feel good. One of the invisible people in the world got noticed and good on her for it. I hopes she makes millions of dollars and prince charming rides up on a white horse because that means there is hope for the rest of us.

I have to agree that it's not a great voice but it is better than almost every successful recording artist out there. You didn't really get to hear the whole performance because the crowd went crazy after she held the first bell-like note five seconds into the song. Not a great range, not particularly creative, she used a cheat for her vibrato but!!!!! What she did right.... when the music intro started all the self doubt disappeared. She didn't forget that she was telling a story and sang with the cadence of a story teller. She enunciated!!!! She sang with abandon. She sang because she she sings, with or without a microphone, with or without an audience, with or without a karaoke backing track, she sings. That came through in her performance and I think that's why it is exceptional.