Britain's got brats

YouTube - Hollie Steel 1st Attempt - Semi Final 5 - Britains Got Talent 2009 (HQ)

So to sum it up, this little girl Hollie Steel cries on national TV, on the programme Britain's Got Talent, after forgetting her lyrics, begging for a second chance on the semi-finals of Britain's got Talent.

When the producers said no, she started whining, throwing her bouts of tantrum.

She did get a second chance, after Simon said OK.

Well the end result is, she got through to the finals after the judges picked her over another guy.

While I'm not doubting her talent(no matter how limited), the thing is it makes me uncomfortable, that one could throw tantrums to get an unfair advantage over other contestents. I'm sure everyone of them had dragons in their stomachs, and it would have probably affected their performance someway or another. But they did not ask for a second try, nor did they whine.

As youtube user csbrooks puts it:
Not judging, just observing truth.

When a reality show sheds something in a strange light, you take a closer look. What you'll see here upon closer look is a scared little girl who takes advantage of her cuteness as she obviously has many times in her life, to sob her way out of failure.

Have you ever met anyone like this?
I would term it an emotion-manipulating little brat. Would you?

And how would you convince someone else that the person is geniunely a brat?!! (if you happen to agree with me )

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I was secretly hoping Susan Boyle wouldn't win too.
Simply, in my eyes, her act got boring. Don't get me wrong though, she has enormous talent. I wanted Stavros Flatley to win too. Very entertaining act. It has the power to lift spirits on a dark day!

Ok back to Hollie.
Well, as some of you mentioned, it could be her moms fault too, for indulging in her for her whole life.

Heres why.

Think about it, she goes to ballet/singing classes.
From this, possibly her mom expects her to be a super child, so she sends Hollie to all sorts of classes and such. In the quest of doing so, she gives in to Hollie's (tantrum-kid)demands that, if some of us were to try on our parents, could possibly lead to some serious spanking

While I am not saying it is not normal to have tantrums as a kid, I think, yes as a parent, one should never indulge too much in the kid's (unreasonable) demands.

What would constitute an unreasonable demand? I would say:
A demand that would never be fufilled by other people, like lets say in a workplace/school.

This is how the brat syndrome came in, after a long term indulgence.

She should stop sending subliminal messages to her kid that crying/immature demands solves things by stopping the unhealthy indulgence.
(even if its hard to do as all moms love their children aye)
But no second chances. That is the harsh reality of the world. Especially on talent shows like this.

I guess everyone messes up at some point..
But you come to terms with it and go on.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Just a quick reply, cuz its almost time for work.

Ok, well you mentioned it wouldn't be fair to judge someone in 3mins. Granted your argument has its merits.

However from the book Blink, by Malcolm Gladwell, it mentions the ability of humans to do thin slicing.
Thin slicing is the power to -from wiki- gauge what is really important from a very narrow period of experience. In other words, spontaneous decisions are often as good as—or even better than—carefully planned and considered ones. --- snap judgements

To quickly sum it up, although to do disservice to the thing, it is something like, a subconcious ability, behind a locked door as he terms it, to process everything without yourself even knowing, but you're just able to capture the nuance of the event.


an example --John Gottman is a researcher well known for his work on marital relationships. His work is explored in Blink. After analyzing a normal conversation between a husband and wife, Gottman can predict whether that couple will be married in 15 years with 95% accuracy. If he analyzes them for 15 minutes, his accuracy reduces to 90%. This is one example of when "thin slicing" works.--- from wikipedia

So like in this case of Hollie, what people are doing after watching the video is thin-slicing. Which may not necessarily be disadvantaged when pitted against a longer period of observation as it is very accurate as well

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.