Amy Winehouse.

garinda · 25-11-2006, 12:20

Amy Winehouse didn't really enter my musical radar when she first achieved success a couple of years ago. Pleasant enough voice. Your typical North London Jewish Princess, who'd been to stage school. A bit mouthy when she slagged off Madonna, but certainly not very unique.

Cut to a few years later. A battle with drink and drugs, and a major restyle, and she's back. Wow.

A three foot high beehive hair do, complete with flowers, little dolls and birds, a major weight loss, and tattooed arms and breasts. Dusty Springfield meets punk Barbie.

As for her bluesy voice, it's amazing. She sounds like she's singing through a broken Bourbon bottle that's been used to give her a tracheotomy.

I think in a world of formular based music, she's a real talent and I love her.

shakermaker · 25-11-2006, 12:24

I think she's completely fake.

Just moulded by the industry to be the female Pete Doherty.

It was embarassing when she was attempting to perform with Paul Weller.

garinda · 25-11-2006, 12:29

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Originally Posted by shakermaker

I think she's completely fake.

Just moulded by the industry to be the female Pete Doherty.

It was embarassing when she was attempting to perform with Paul Weller.

Disagree. Frank her first album was ok, even though it won an Ivor Novello award. Fairly tame and poppy. She's come back with an amazing new album Back to Black, and her voice is geniunely blusey. She could hold her own with the great Bessie Smith in a sing off of the red hot Mommas.

Her new skanky ho image is bang on the nail, and gets 10/10 from me for not being remotely like anybody else.

shakermaker · 25-11-2006, 12:34

For me, her image has been made to fit in with all the new indie kids with the porcelain doll/punk princess look & it doesn't give her music any credit.

That 'Rehab' song made me cringe at first for being so lyrically dodgy but I find myself humming it all the time.

garinda · 25-11-2006, 12:37

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Originally Posted by shakermaker

For me, her image has been made to fit in with all the new indie kids with the porcelain doll/punk princess look & it doesn't give her music any credit.

That 'Rehab' song made me cringe at first for being so lyrically dodgy but I find myself humming it all the time.

Trust me her image is genuine. You don't get your tits tattooed just because some stylist from the record company tells you to change your look. She's dirty.

garinda · 25-11-2006, 12:39

Anybody who is interested can hear her voice on this link.

http://www.amywinehouse.co.uk/

shakermaker · 25-11-2006, 12:40

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Originally Posted by garinda

Trust me her image is genuine. You don't get your tits tattooed just because some stylist from the record company tells you to change your look. She's dirty.

Fair enough, but it all fits in very well at the moment, that's all I'm saying.

Doug · 25-11-2006, 12:41

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Originally Posted by garinda

Trust me her image is genuine. You don't get your tits tattooed just because some stylist from the record company tells you to change your look. She's dirty.

A bit of tat trading on a bag girl image. you know yourself what people will do to stay in the lime light.............

garinda · 25-11-2006, 12:45

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A bit of tat trading on a bag girl image. you know yourself what people will do to stay in the lime light.............

Just because I had to have a spider's web tattooed on my face, to up my game for the next meet, after Chav set himself on fire at his first AW meet, doesn't mean I'm desperate attention.

Give Amy time. This time next year you'll probably come in p*ssed and wax lyrical about her Christmas album.

Sparkologist · 25-11-2006, 12:49

Nah... Not for me. In a word, Manufactured.

She's scary to the eye and not easy on the ear. Her voice sounds like it has been weaned on a diet of whiskey & razor blades.

maxwell silver · 26-11-2006, 06:14

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Originally Posted by garinda

Trust me her image is genuine. You don't get your tits tattooed just because some stylist from the record company tells you to change your look. She's dirty.

Are they real tats or fake?Any woman who gets tits tatooed must be completely off their face to start with.Have her sectioned immediately,she can wail away in her cell

garinda · 26-11-2006, 09:26

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Originally Posted by maxwell silver

Are they real tats or fake?Any woman who gets tits tatooed must be completely off their face to start with.Have her sectioned immediately,she can wail away in her cell

Yes they are real. If they were fake tattoos I'd concede that she was manufactured. Her arms and breasts are covered in what look like prison tattoos from Mexico.

Queen of the wing.

garinda · 28-07-2011, 07:41

(Sorry for reviving an old thread, but the most recent one is closed, and I wanted to add my tuppenceworth.)

It's sad when someone so young dies.

I do think she was very talented, and feel cheated about the loss of future songs, she'll now never write/perform.

She was definitely 'Marmite', having more threads on Accy Web, than any other performer. The number being seven.

A lesson to learn.

If you decide to live on the edge...it's very easy to fall off it.

Margaret Pilkington · 28-07-2011, 07:48

You won't be very popular with Tealeaf(he will be wanting this thread closed down too I guess).......though I don't for one minute think you will be worried about that.

garinda · 28-07-2011, 07:58

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You won't be very popular with Tealeaf(he will be wanting this thread closed down too I guess).......though I don't for one minute think you will be worried about that.

He's a kirby grip short of a beehive.

Just stick some thick Eric Morecambe style glasses on this picture, and she could be his grandaughter.

He's probably grief-stricken, and finds bitchin' easier to do than tears.