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canuckistan · Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 8:18 am Post subject: Amy Winehouse

Incredibly talented jazz singer, but also an incredible (public) decline due to drugs in a few short years. She used to be beautiful before all the tattoos and rotted teeth. Looks like she's going the same direction as Billie Holiday but might not even last that long.

I hope she manages to snap out of it. Really.

uberscheisse · Joined: 02 Dec 2003 Location: japan is better than korea.

interesting only because the british press and people with brains as small as the british press pay attention to her.

newsflash - she's not aretha franklin. she's a crackhead who can't sing. get over it.

RufusW · Joined: 14 Jun 2008 Location: Busan

The problem is that there can be a certain incentive to keep on pushing it - if only for the publicity (Pete Doherty, esp. Brittany Spears).

Also, there's reason to have less sympathy for her. She's rich and can afford counselling etc; lots of people die from addiction in the UK without the help that she can afford.

No, I don't think her music is good.

SHANE02 · Joined: 04 Jun 2003

She can sing actually, and well. Not for much longer unfotunately.
She was signed to Island at 17yrs old. Her voice in the studio is not drenched with effects a la Miss Spears and alike. She was signed on the stength of her voice.

Winehouse grew up in a North London home where jazz voices such as Dinah Washington and Frank Sinatra were always on the record player. Sam Shaker, the owner of a longtime club in Soho, Jazz After Dark, remembers the night four years ago when Winehouse asked him if she could sing a few sets with the blues band. "She goes on the stage," says Shaker, "and I didn't know what she was doing: Was she drunk, was she stoned? It didn't make any sense. But then I heard her voice. The band had to stop."

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/21471244/up_all_night_with_amy_winehouse/3

uberscheisse · Joined: 02 Dec 2003 Location: japan is better than korea.

so why can she rarely pull it off live?

nothing matters if it's not in concert.

canuckistan · Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 10:51 am Post subject:

Her drug problems aside, if you're a fan of jazz/blues singers a la Sara Vaughn, Billy Holiday, Etta James, Ella, Amy's got everyone's attention. I've never been much of a drooling fan of anyone but she's the real deal. The best vocal talent to come out in years. Writes her own material, doesn't need anything more than a few instruments to wow a crowd. The surprising part is how young she is, with no gospel background. She's channeling something great. We don't quite know what it is but we want to hear more.
Britney, Madonna--not even close.
There are many other artists I would love to see her record with. I truly hope she can get past the overwhelming pressure of being such a huge original talent at such a young age and get clean so she can go on to do more great things for a long time to come.
Some of the best artistic talents (literary, musical etc) have been the most troubled.

While I like her studio recordings she does more interesting vocal zig zags singing live--like a true jazz singer--it's never the same twice. Her Amsterdam & Somerset performances were good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8aHeji4fGA&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weR7XPPv0Lw&feature=related

She would have been a knockout doing the new Bond movie tune but wisely the producers declined saying she had to get her *beep* together first.

peppermint · Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 12:12 pm Post subject:

canuckistan · Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 3:01 pm Post subject:

SarcasmKills · Joined: 07 Apr 2003 Location: Seoul

pootle · Joined: 05 May 2008

Agree she has a decent voice but the novelty of her totally wasted and unpredictable performances is wearing off, even for her most loyal fans.

I've always preferred Duffy's voice. She doesn't need rehab and sounds great live.

http://kr.youtube.com/watch?v=MkkmQNA_aRs

eamo · Joined: 08 Mar 2003 Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.

peppermint · Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 4:58 pm Post subject:

I'd love for someone to do a cover of Mercy. It's a good tune, but I can't freaking stand Duffy's voice.

Stormy · Joined: 10 Jan 2008 Location: Here & there

Hate the rehab song but she def has talent. I like her 2 back-up singers, they look like they enjoy themselves!

canuckistan · Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 5:43 pm Post subject:

Would love to see her do duets with other big-voiced creatures like Annie Lennox, George Michael, Tina Turner.....she kinda reminds me of Tina with the way she shuffles her feet/legs on stage.

BS.Dos. · Joined: 29 Mar 2007

They say that there's only one thing worse than being talked about and that's not being talked about and everyone seems to be talking about Mrs. Winearse.

I think Rehab is, without a doubt, of the finest tracks of the last few years, but I find that my reluctance to take her seriously as an artist is largely formed by her behaviour off the stage rather than on it.