[78-L] Amy Winehouse

[Royal Pemberton]

A decent singer and better than a lot that's out there....but she always
seemed to be more notorious for her chronic patterns of screwing up her
life; that's perhaps what she'll mainly be remembered for.

On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 7:51 PM, agp <agp2176 at verizon.net> wrote:

> At 18:25 23/07/2011, CG wrote:
>
> >She'll be exploded into a musical media martyr now, no matter what
> >the quality of her work was (I was not a fan; in fact, I was kind of
> >repelled by her).
>
> On a peer basis she was far better than drivel on the radio today.
> One may argue that this is not saying much. I always felt that her
> voice had a 'blues/soul/ r&b' tint to it and that with the right
> direction could have matured to be part of many genre.
>
> I agree that she was 'repellant' with her tattoos and piercings and
> general presence -- drunkenness and drugged out. To some of 'our
> generation' this is rather disgusting, but apparently not to her
> peers. I have to wonder how many of us would have reacted to, say,
> Billie Holiday, given a similar environment.
>
> To a very big extent, I think that the evil that is the music biz
> today simply chewed her up and spit her out and really didn't give a
> rat's a$$ about her destructive nature or their part in sustaining it.
>
> T
>
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