Scottish singing sensation Susan Boyle enjoyed a mini concert in
Boyle was mobbed as she touched down in the Big Apple on Sunday as her single by crowds as the locals showed their support for the singer.
She then went on make her pitch perfect performance in front of a crowd of hundreds before being interviewed for the Today programme where she told the audience she was a new woman.
Miss Boyle said: “I’ve grown up a bit. I’ve become more of a lady. I don’t swivel my hips as much, you know? It feels very surreal, as if it’s not really happening."
On the inspiration behind the Madonna song which features on her album, she said: “You’ll see; that was a statement I was trying to make, because I was bullied a lot at school - ‘You may have done that to me when I was younger, but you can’t do it to me anymore. I’m grown up now'."
She added: "From no pressure to having all this pressure, I found it a bit suffocating. It was such a short space of time, it felt like a demolition ball really. It really came at me like a demolition ball.
"The things which mattered to me before ‘
“I Dreamed a Dream” sold 150,000 copies on its debut day in the
