Her music is almost as addictive as the crack-cocaine she smokes.
Videos of her smoking crack… maybe marijuana…okay, probably crack, are spreading on the internet like wild fire.
I could clean up that last sentence, but if Amy Winehouse refuses to clean up, so do I.
Her sultry, addled voice — as if Frank Sinatra and Janis Joplin had a British child– combined with her bad girl persona and Motown-esque band, makes Winehouse the queen of English soul.
Currently, the buzz surrounding her has more to do with her personal life than music, but I believe that in the end, the music will shine strongest.
I was recently re-acquainted with Winehouse on a flight from Japan to my home in the States. Listening to “Back to Black” while sitting on a mind-numbing 12-hour flight was an ethereal experience.
Music like that, in that state of mind, cannot be fully explained. It is akin to pulling an all-nighter while skimming highschool yearbooks and listening to Lou Bega. It is unreal.
Her songs are powerful. They have just the right touch of 50s girl group combined with the spunk of the drug, infomercial and internet dependent 21st century.
I love every stage of Winehouse; back when she was plump, singing about her fuck me pumps, now, crack-skinny, slurring that she won’t go to rehab. I am like a true fan who loves both early and late Beatles. Even with the loss of her beehive hair, replaced with a mop-swatch, bleach-blonde dye job; her voice holds me in. It could soothe me to do any of her whims. She could scratch my face into oblivion, as she does to her boyfriend, and I would die of happiness to be an inspiration for one of her biting songs.
The New Statesman magazine called Winehouse “a filthy-mouthed, down-to-earth diva”.
“A perfect storm of sex kitten, raw talent and poor impulse control,” said People Magazine.
Those excerpts are Amy Winehouse in a nutshell.
Her shenanigans are priceless. In 2006 she heckled U2 singer, Bono, during an awards show speech he gave. Any girl who ridicules Bono wins a place in my heart. Remember that ladies.
She can do no wrong except to leave this world. That is the only reason I wish she would slow down on the drugs. But then she wouldn’t be Amy Winehouse, would she?
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