Amy Winehouse

[Airshowgal]

I too enjoy Amy! She has a very different sound & look. I am concerned though that one of these days I will wake up & find out she is no longer with us. Her lifestyle reminds me too much of the way Janis Joplin led her life.

 

[byronic]

i just read that she is slightly peeved at being dropped from recording the new bond theme in favour of jack white and alicia keyes. rumour has it that she will release her intended song on the same day as the official theme, to annoy the bond producers, one assumes - it will be interesting to compare the songs, if this is indeed true.

 

[T.E.W.Clough]

Shame... I think a Winehouse Bond theme would have been a grand idea.

Well if this does ring true I will be very interested in comparing the two. Thanks for the heads up on this one!

 

[cooncatbob]

I too enjoy Amy! She has a very different sound & look. I am concerned though that one of these days I will wake up & find out she is no longer with us. Her lifestyle reminds me too much of the way Janis Joplin led her life.

Back in the late 60s Rock Stars like Janis Joplin didn't make the mega bucks that todays stars bring in.
Also recovery centers for drug addiction were few and far between.
Janis didn't have the opportunities for treatment for her drug addiction that
Amy Winehouse has thrown away.

 

[scotrace]

She has left the stage.

 

[HadleyH]

What an amazing delivery! Among the best of the best! A voice like that only comes once in a while ...:eusa_clap

It's so sad she didn't know how good she was.... Etta James and Amy are up there with the best of them!

I am not judging her... no way...

TY Amy.

 

[J. M. Stovall]

I really had hopes that she was going to clean up and give us some more great music, very sad.

 

[Tomasso]

The age of 27 is not the best year for musicians.....:eusa_doh:

 

[Amy Jeanne]

It has occurred to me that I have never, ever heard an Amy Winehouse song! Not because I am "too vintage" (because I LOVE Lady Gaga and Ke$ha!) -- I just never sought her out.

We have (had) the same name, too. And I LOVE girl singers (way more that guy singers). You'd think I would have investigated by now. lol

 

[RockyHorror]

I've been saying for years I wanted her to get her act together long enough to put another album out before she died. Truly a wonderful talent. It's very sad.

 

[Chas]

I wouldn't call it sad. It's more pathetic than sad.

She had more talent in her toenail clippings than all the current crop put together do in their whole bodies. Instead of taking full advantage and using her time on earth to create timeless art, she chose to flush it all down the toilet in favor of getting high. Her colleagues, friends and family had to endure the misfortune of having to sit back and watch her destroy herself.

She won't have to go to rehab now. No, no, no....

It's such crap that some artists still define themselves by their misery. Ella Fitzgerald and Oscar Peterson never did that (for example). Having a long, successful career of preforming and making music means so much more than having a top ten posthumous album.

 

[Rudie]

Did it ever occur to you that people like Amy Winehouse don't have this kind of self-destructing behaviour because they like it so much but because they received a powerful self-punishing subconscious programming when they were a kid and had no means to block the suggestions that led to this programming?

 

[Guttersnipe]

For the life of me I cannot understand what is wrong with people that they think it's alright to sit in smug, self-righteous judgment about those who suffer from the debilitating disease of addiction.

Would you blame a person for dieing of cancer? Of course not!

 

[Travis Lee Johnston]

Also sometimes a person gets to a point in life where they feel like they have nowhere else to go with their craft. Like they don't care to see themselves get old and become embarrassing. Doing Superbowl halftime shows with Elton John.

And people around you even when they kiss your ass all day and night simply just want something from you. You feel empty inside and alone in the universe. This coupled with having a bad month or year on top of it can make you wanna take the plunge. Just something to think about. I never walked in someone elses shoes.

 

[lolly_loisides]

I've been thinking a lot about Amy Winehouse today & I know one of her musical inspirations was Donny Hathaway. Donny died early too, he was 33. This (I think) was his masterpiece.[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cv1B0ejhFVE&feature=player_embedded[/video]

 

[Woland]

R. I. P...

 

[Woland]

I've been saying for years I wanted her to get her act together long enough to put another album out before she died. Truly a wonderful talent. It's very sad.

I suspect she have been working between the bouts of substance abuse.
There will be another album, I am quite sure...

 

[Edward]

There's a good analysis of the whole thing in The Guardian today:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/jul/24/amy-winehouse-a-losing-game

While it seems to me from limited, second hand experience noone can be fully helped until they want it, I can't help but feel that had so many not simply stood by and watch her decline, maybe something might have changed.

 

[hatophile]

I too enjoy Amy! She has a very different sound & look. I am concerned though that one of these days I will wake up & find out she is no longer with us. Her lifestyle reminds me too much of the way Janis Joplin led her life.

Someone predicted it 3 years ago.

 

[Drappa]

Chilling to hear what her greatest fear was (at that moment anyway)
[video=youtube;4ISw4yuM4io]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ISw4yuM4io&feature=fvst[/video]

I loved both her albums and was rooting for her. But then I also love Janis Joplin and she reminded me of her.