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i cant watch it at work either but "chew on that"?... is she now as thin as a Pepperami? is it one of her mangled veins i've to chew on?
the suspense is killing me... a bit like her i suppose, but replace 'suspense' with 'hard drugs'
either way winehouse does nothing for me. i dont care about her drug thing, nor her music.
i dont know what i was supposed to get out of that but she seemed as bored singing that song as i was watching it.
I was kind of ho-hum on Amy until I saw her at Coachella, she really impressed me. Hell of a voice.
I just want to wash her hair so badly....
And I don't feel right when you're gone away
The publicity has also served to give her credibility above the teen market and the joss stones( think she has a remarkable voice too)& lily allens(fuckin terrible).
speaking of 'chew', she should really think about doing that. you know, like chewing on a pork chop or something. oh, and make sure to swallow it, too.
Who decides what talent is? You might not like her but she has a good voice undeniably.
but I thought valerie sounded good. that was my first time to hear it too.
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good is subjective. just cause she can hit notes doesnt mean she is a 'good' singer. i found her voice annoying, but i like jello biafras voice. so whatever. and if pure vocal talent made good singers we would be listening to charlotte church and celine dion not pj and neil young. i think she is higly overrated and honestly her voice reminds me of the old down south black woman church choirs. just not my cup of tea.
and who ever mention the hype to the drug thing i agree with that. i think its all press to get her name out. i wouldnt be surprised if her agent or the market team on her label pushed this story more than it would have been. she became more famous cause of her drugs than her music. seems like a standard pop music tactic. find an image to sell the record. a few years ago there was this girl named bif naked, i dont think had the drug problem but she had the whole bad girl image. i guess main stream music needed another bad girl cause 'x-tina' is boring now.
The person i quoted seemed to be implying she didnt have talent which i think is blatently not true, whether he likes her voice or not.
However, the hype factor pushing the whole tabloid/addiction/family saga is getting really annoying though, and I feel it detracts from her talent in the end.
Hope she can sort herself out, and doesn't become a victim of addiction.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EGk8nI9fvg&mode=related&search=
I've barely heard anything by her though.... and I have no desire to considering the fact that it seems the only reason people talk about her is because of her drug addictions. My gut instinct is that she's milking it for publicity....
there is no way amy is milking this for publicity. her first album was selling well and received awards, critical acclaim, etc, waaaay b4 drugs and eating disorder were on the scene.
i posted it to talk about her voice, to balance out the crap the media keep throwing out daily.
its a great performance, she can sing beautifully.
and the person who was saying she sounds like an old black woman. yes, ella fitzgerald.
the replacements album tim was well liked by critics in the day and the who never won a grammy. shows how meaningless that stuff is from both ends. critics liked tim and its a great album but no one owns it. the who are popular and made aweseome music and never got awarded for it.
just because she was around before the media paid attention doesnt mean the media didnt have a huge part in her name getting out. and alot of what the media is saying now is junkie not talent.
She might not be milking it personally, but now she's always on the papers for no reasons related to her music whatsoever. Whether it's her record company, her in-laws, her father, her contacting gossip bloggers, etc etc... whatever. The point is that she's become tabloid (and Guardian too, actually) fodder now.
She's not Pete Doherty in terms of talent, but she's definitely reached his level of tabloid/celebrity nonsense, and that's what I believe is detracting to her career as an artist and musician.
which is why i posted the song, coz it shows why people should see past that...
she is dirty looking but in a positive way.
I agree. She's talented. Pete Doherty isn't.
I disagree. They're both talented, although Pete Doherty more so.
If poncing around Shoreditch in a trilby and writing doggerel about Tony Hancock constitutes being talented, then he's a genius. If going to a posh school then becoming a professional mockney signifies talent, then he's almost catching up with Nigel Kennedy. If getting arrested and playing little-rent-boy-lost when up before the beak is an art, then he's the jedi master. Otherwise, he's a croaking, mumbling, gibbering little tosspot who might impress "poets" such as Wolfman with his scribblings, and who provides a few would-be Nick Kent-type hacks with "column inches" (all puns intended). I hate him. Bleuuuurgh.
Hmm, i was actually meaning the songs he writes but carry on.
I mentioned that shit. The doggerel about Tony Hancock.
"Can't stand me now, can't stand me now, awww'm a cock-er-ney sparrah, 'ave a banana, oi shot dah Mitchell bruvvers, chuck in a Kenneff Williams reference 'ere an' a touch a french symbolism, can't stand me now, roll out dah barrahhhhhh, we'll 'ave a barrahhhhhh ov funnnnnnn..."