I realized people are more fasinated by her private life than her ability to sing. Everytime I want to say more about her music talent, raw emotions in her work, another 5 people would bring up what the tabloid portraits her as, mind you, her life is her art, all her songs are personal. Everything she is going through, she sings them in her work.
If you really believe in what the tabloids and fashion magazine write and what they considered as cool, yeah you would get sick of their standard. They are not writing from the artistic creation point of view, from music point of view. Perhaps you should read about her in the major music magazines' reviews of her work.
Amy's package looked different than when she started, that could be because she found a look she feels is herself. In the end, it's the quality of her work that would give her staying power, otherwise she would just become another Britney Spears, who knows she doesn't have the singing talents to back it up, and is now just acting out to stay in the headlines.
I think Britney Spears is a victim of her immediate family members' greed, without them taking into account what would it all mean for her spirit and the development of her mental wellbeing in the end....
She HAD to become a star... at any cost, if I understand well the history of how she went from being a Mickey Mouse helper, something like that, to a mega star worldwide, practically overnight !. The whole dynamic stirring the making of 'superstars ' nowadays makes one wonder if we are not rather totally insane in general ... and the whole process that somehow looks ... very artificial.... is in a way a kind of mirror about our thinking, as I see it. But in the end I dare to assume that she is just a victim of ....... greed , The Art Business , and what Art has really become today....... just another business as usual..... in the matters of popular culture ....
'Love is a Losing Game'-the first time I heard it on the cd, it practically shocked me, it's so good-smooth like butter, how could someone of 24-when she wrote the song, she wasn't even 24, got the words to describe being madly in love so right on!? She is just one of those soul singers that is a ball of flame, I think there's no other way for her to live her art but to burn herself out.
REF.:www.fan-lexikon.de/ img/l/amy-winehouse
KaWai you are really truly enjoying her music and voice ... that is indeed the very positive part .... she gives something to people... the rest is just .... semantics :):):...I think !
It's seldom that I buy CDs now because most of the singers aren't doing art, they are just products, and their music don't move me one bit. In her case, her music really moved me, it's a bit disturbing. All her songs are good, and a bit different, and the lyris are not just catchy for catchy sake, she is not afraid to talk about her heart, and she is not interested in trying to be a motivational speaker. She just wants to talk about the anguish of love. She has given a gift to the world by singing about her private pains and anguish. As far as her personal conducts, Amy is no different than Johnny Cash, Piaf, her demons are her own business. We have all got our own lives to live, and our own demons to live out. Half of us would have been trashed by the gossip press if they followed us around day in day out, trying to get the worse pictures of us. The stupid press wants a perfect role model, they pick a single moment and magnify it 10,000 times into the public, that's what they do.
Came upon this on the net
boston.com/ae/music/articles/2007/12/15/of_course_she_should_go_to_rehab/
"Of course she should go to rehab. But like the troubled talents who came before her, Amy Winehouse made her pain part of her artistry"
"...It's classic material, and assuming you believe her, the album alone leaves little doubt that Winehouse was already slipping off the rails before she suddenly became a star. Of course, it's impossible to say; at least on this side of the pond, nobody was watching. But listen to her seasoned, streetwise delivery; check out her naked-lady tattoos and missing teeth; and ponder titles like "You Know I'm No Good" and "Addicted," and it seems fair to assume she had done a fair bit of hard living before the paparazzi arrived on the scene."
"...She's a train wreck. Poor girl needs help. But we also wonder if - like so many before her - Winehouse is one of the rare musical birds whose wounds and frailties are part and parcel of her artistry."
Earlier this year Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson, whose band, the Roots, performed with Winehouse in Europe, was quoted as saying, "Once I heard [her music], part of me felt like: 'Don't rock the boat. Let this take its course 'cause that way you'll get great music.' And part of me wanted to reach out to her. I caught myself saying, 'I'm going to rue the day when Amy gets it together.' "
And therein lies pop's timeless conundrum, replayed this year in the sad story and scintillating music of Amy Winehouse."
"We love our brilliant messes. But channeling personal turmoil into great art requires a certain functionality, and "Back to Black" is a perfect storm of real feel and studio finesse."
amy live-when she can sing this good-live, does it really matter how messed up her personal life is? She has already given a gift to the world.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmV6_oc2lwM&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqSKVv6YO8g&feature=related
