The soloist at the Last Night of the Proms, Jamie Barton, is absolutely outstanding. Amazing voice, and so interesting she's not come the conventional operatic route.Born in the small rural town of Rome, Georgia, Barton was raised on Bluegrass, The Grateful Dead and the Beatles.
After studying vocals at St Louis and Houston, her big breakthrough came at the 2013 Cardiff Singer of the World competition. Barton won both the main and the subsidiary song prize - foreshadowing the versatility she displayed at the Proms, where she was equally at home with opera, Gershwin and, of course, Rule Britannia.
"It's not just queer pride, it's a connective celebration of people being exactly who they are and loving who they are. And I'm honoured to get to lead that."
Wasn’t she great!
Not really...i'm sure there were plenty of other fine performances...
I didn't think 'queer' was PC 🤔
Great, another minority group taking over a national institution. I don’t care if someone’s gay, but why do we have to have it shoved in our faces? Oh, and what the hell were the EU flags doing there?
Honestly bbc wtf . Why
Disappointed with her voice: seemed to lack power and poor diction too.
Didn’t like her singing
Headline... BBC helping ensure their EU grants continue, by helping to promote the EU at a great British tradition. EU flags given away free, Union flags cost £4.
'Queer Girl' what is that
Blocked
I thought we'd stopped this kind if thing: she's very funny - for a woman, he's very fast - for someone who only has one leg, she's a great singer - for someone who's gay. Your BBC setting things back 20 years.
Surely her sexuality is irrelevant?
Hmmm....not so much this time around
Such a shame that a great traditional British event has been overshadowed by the waving of a flag. It’s ironic that she’s done it to ‘unify the audience’ yet it left many not feeling that. Nothing against LGBT; everything against it being plastered everywhere at the moment.
Oooooh so woke.
Nah.
In a hideous dress
Yea and the doppy Remainers were waving their EU flag as they sang along to Jerusalem, Land of Hope & Glory and unbelievable The National Anthem Don’t these dimwits Remainers realise what they voted for!
Her sheer joy & that of the Conductor were what really made the night. Everyone totally entered into the spirit (even Presenting team) and added the 'extra joy'.
More hyper ingratiation to the LGBTQ agenda warping sacred elements of the national life - the proms is a celebration of nationhood and spiritual cultural heritage / Christian foundations - it has become a spectacle of virtue signalling +pro eU flag waving its lost its soul x
Who gives a damn about who she’s shagging? Really weird......
Why bring in her sexuality? PC bullshit from the paedo loving channel
Erm , straight guy who loves shagging women here, if I could sing, I probably rock it too.
Who gives a toss if she’s “queer”.
🤷🏻♂️politics aside, it’s the music people want
As a 70 year old I loved watching the “Last Night of the Proms” however after last nights flag waving, I will never watch or support this again. It/ she has destroyed one of the great British institutions. I hope it is really proud
since when do you ‘build’ a dress? I don’t get what the implication / unconscious bias is here? bbcnews dressbuilding
Another great last night. Marvellous and thank you. Put aside other matters and enjoy
Imagine if it said “straight girl”....The uproar would be ballistic. Double standards again. LGBT
She was Brilliant what a beautiful voice I enjoy the proms for the music but mind I have to say I had a good laugh watching the HoorayHenries getting right into it they are definitely from a different world to me 😂😂😱😱
rule britannia with EU flags just doesnt sound the same, runnish
Very boring last night i thought complete with tedious, ' somewhere over the rainbow'
Why is the fact she’s “queer” got anything to do with her obvious talent
Pretty well sums up the bbc
The whole narrative 'stop making a big deal out to someone's sexuality' is being revived everytime you post a story highlighting someone's sexuality ffs.
'Girl, rocks night at the proms' fixed it for you.
To be honest, I don't think her singing was great.
Queer and nose ring? Well, isn't that special. In other important news, I had a solid bowel movement this morning for the first time in eight days.
She was fan-bloody-tastic!! Great night of music.
Gay girl or strange girl
First year I’ve actually turned LNOTP off. Why the hell does everything have to be politicised now? Noticed you handed EU flags to everyone on the way in too. The irony while they belted out Rule Britannia was almost comical.
'Gay woman can sing' is not news...
Queer used to be offensive not so much nowadays it is what it is
Surprised the headline didn't state that she was an 'Obese, Queer Girl, with a Bull's Nose Ring, Rocks the Last Night of the Proms'. Perhaps that was too insensitive.
Not sure why you’re all getting your knickers in a twist: this is how the artist describes herself. Put your mock offence away and get on with your business.
How homophobic can you get?
Really not sure why sexual preference always needs to be included
And?
Should have gone the whole hog and got a transgender to bring it down .The BBC would have given blanket coverage to that.
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Seriously what has her sexuality got to do with the singing. Absolutely nothing. Absolutely disgrace and disgusting you mentioned that word. Which I will not be going down to your level to say
I’d only be offended if she was wearing a MAGA hat! Those things are nasty.
another box ticked.
Brexit hasn't even happened yet and BBC is back into the good old days. Let's remake Faulty Towers with Basil Faulty calling Manuel a 'Diego twat'. I want it 'Ain't Half Hot Mum' back on there at 7.00pm & 'The Black & White Minstrel Show' at 6.00pm on a Saturday evening.
Honestly who cares if someone is gay or not these days. Why the continuous highlighting of sexuality? Just seems like a virtue contest on how PC you can be.
What does queer mean. Forget it. I'll just classify them as a new species of humans.
Politicising the Proms is the pits! Just listen to the damned music.
Throwing it down our throats again Who gives a shit.
Another very British Institution overrun by Irrelevant Antidemocratic traitorous Corrupt EU remainers. BBCBIAS TVTax BritishIndependance
Can’t she just be a lovely girl sang at prom?
Fantastic journalism from the BBC sarcasm
Is that the same as a lesbian?
A 37 year old woman, not a girl ...
Can we not conserve any traditions the way they were.
Not the best Tag line BBC.... hey ho can always join the Red tops....
Honestly who cares if someone cares is gay or not these days. Why the continuous highlighting.
What a bizzare headline & very poor to attempt cheap click-bait since you clearly weren’t there (& I was and have been at the Proms for many many years). It was a fabulous mezzo who won the hearts of the Hall bbcproms with her incredible voice & authenticity as a person
I'm getting confused here - I thought to call someone Queer was a No-No
I'd rather watch Last of the Summer Wine.
Deal with it bigots!
Breaking: BBC employs twitter troll to run its social media account.
Just think what the audience figures could be if you didn’t do this demented shit.
Great now tell us who the other singers fucked
Are we supposed to be impressed?
Disgrace
That headline is tacky, what about Talented Lady wows the proms... BBC is becoming a parody of itself.
Miss piggy?
Correction ! Opera singer smashes it at bbcproms . Keep up bbc
How PC
So a fat confused pig with lipstick, who was probably abused as a child leading to her current degeneracy, is now making it to BBC? And you wonder why people avoid TV licences...
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