Breathtaking mate she’s unreal

Apparently Terry Fator helped her with all her AGT performances.

Yeah, she is amazing, but some are trying to make Darci Lynne out to be without talent because she has had to have so much training to be good. I believe she is extremely talented though.

Brian Hartmetz: Just shows how talented she is.

Brian Hartmetz how was the show lol

What can I say, some people with autism just have talents that the rest of us could only dream us, and could probably not even learn in a lifetime. I’ve got autism myself, so I can see that she’s got autism too, not when she’s performing, but when she’s talking to the judges before and after.

Say it isn't so. UGGGH!!! Not the blonde below!

Watch her breathing throughout this number. She doesn't breathe the same way for each line. Just as any other singer does, she takes measured breaths for the line she's about to sing. That measured breathing is what a singer learns in the course of rehearsing a song many times.

Yes. More Darci is always good...

Take them in order, her audition, then the quarterfinal and the semi-final performances. It's like she was twelve when she first walked out on stage and now she's twenty-five.

Hey, she's still 12 years old Man!! She's not 25? this happened recent.

Her audition aired on May 30, 2017, her finals performance on September 19, 2017. Do the math- that's thirteen years isn't it?

No!! That's 4 months, not years? What? Cmon Now!!

Lucky you!

From what she said in an interview that performance was put together in a week and she only had a few days to rehearse it

Right. And she still performed amazingly well, especially when the singing started, but you could see she was slightly less confident in the intro and her timing was just a bit off. For example, I'm not confident she meant to smack herself in the face with Petunia's ear, and that threw her off for half a second but she recovered very well. She also stumbled on a couple words and just, in general, seemed slightly less confident in the dialogue portion. In some way it's like the singing was the easy part for her. I just think she was still having to think a little too much with all that dialogue and character shifting, which is why I think a couple more rehearsals and she would have done the whole thing perfectly.

Petunia's ear I think was deliberate it fits with the diva theme. Later on when they showed clips of that performance there was no stumbling on Laurel and Hardy so it was probably from the dress rehearsal where she wasn't under so much pressure trying to perform live with an under-rehearsed sketch.

I think Shaun is right about Petunia's ear. If you go frame by frame, she starts closing her eyes and turning her head before it touches her.

Well if that's true, she's a great little physical comedian because her reaction looked pretty authentic. But the fact that it wasn't obviously slapstick is, to me, a sign that the act overall was just unpolished enough to make you wonder if it was just a mistake. And, again, it was still an amazing act overall. She deserved to win AGT because she was the most talented individual there by a wide margin. IMO, of course.

Issy Simpson is an apparatus magician who used expensive equipment belonging to her grandfather. She doesn't do slights because her hands are too small. Simon's 4♦ was an automatic gimmick. She just had to pull off the selection bit without dropping the cards. The box was just a mechanism. Notice, too, that Simon and David failed to try lifting the box in any of the most natural ways. They'd been coached to only try a simple vertical lift or a sliding motion. People will try the straight lift first, usually. But after that fails, they're going to immediately try three or four other approaches without a second thought. Pushing, pulling, or sliding the box would be the sixth or seventh method. I know this from personal experience and from repeated observation. Had the box lift bit failed, nobody in the audience would even be aware of it, of course. There's some alternate script dialog for use should that occur. The book selection was a psychological force. Amanda's book was small. In almost every case, the person making the choice is going to go for something that seems to be more challenging - a larger book. Alesha's book had hundreds of pages. So did David's, but anyone who has watched the show for long could have predicted that there's no way Simon would pick his. So, Alesha's was a near-certainty. And yet the book and page selection were meaningless camouflage. Misdirection. Issy put on a performance to get a word. Then she just had to summarize what had happened so far. Part of this was playing the role of the magician; the rest was just delaying while the chosen word was placed on the board. She advanced when she somehow got votes in spite of repeatedly forgetting where she was in her script. In the final, voters went for her even though she clearly and openly resorted to loud, remotely controlled mechanisms that were clearly visible to everybody seated beyond the 10th row (and carefully kept off camera by the director and producers). That illusion is usually performed with silent equipment. Please appreciate that I have limited myself to somewhat vague pointers. I do some close-up magic myself (not that well anymore - thanks, MS), and vague pointers is where I stop. I am not one of those fargin' cork sucking, ice hole, bastages who think they're clever for posting "revealed" video after skilled magicians perform. In earlier days, if somebody wanted to figure out an illusion, that turned to libraries, magic shops, and bookstores in a hunt for the answer.