McGee: 'Susan Boyle's music is Lynchian'

Alan McGee has said that Susan Boyle's music evokes the work of cult filmmaker David Lynch.

The former Creation Records boss compared the effect of Boyle's life story on her work to that of diva Maria Callas and said that her cover of 'Wild Horses' was "amazing", "eerie" and "even more despairing than the original Stones version".

McGee told The Guardian: "Boyle's debut album was trashed on release (probably because of the nature of her arrival into music). The only review that truly understood Boyle was in the LA Times.

"In drawing a parallel with her music and that of the filmmaker David Lynch, they got it. It's the Lynch-like shapes within Boyle's music that makes it compelling. Boyle's debut album is eerily detached to an almost tragic degree, and it's this that gives the music Lynchian overtones."

He added: "When I hear her covers, I often think, 'We are living in Susan Boyle's world'. My only fear is that her rollercoaster ride will end as swiftly as it started.

"With recent stories about her breakdowns, we're in danger of Boyle's work being forgotten. That would be a tragedy for music. "

The original LA Times review of I Dreamed A Dream speculated that it would be interesting for Lynch, whose movies "always find the strange underbelly of the seemingly bland", to collaborate with Boyle.

McGee recently suggested that will.i.am is the successor to funk/soul legend Sly Stone.