Amy Winehouse has cancelled the remainder of her tour dates. It was an expected announcement considering her poor performances which led to audience members walking out. She made the decision yesterday afternoon after a tearful meeting with her management, according to The Sun:
In a statement Amy, 24, said: “I can’t give it my all onstage without my Blake. I’m so sorry but I don’t want to do the shows half-heartedly; I love singing. My husband is everything to me and without him it’s just not the same.”
Dammit, and I had tickets. I was hoping to see Amy Winehouse forget the words to her own songs then snort coke out of her beehive. It was going to be a classy evening of a culture and music. I even bought one of those beer-can hats. Except I modified it to hold two bottles of Jack Daniels. I tested it out the other night. Legally, I’m not allowed to say how it went. Though my lawyer says the black box proved the chimp was flying the plane. So that’s who I got to play “Lost” with me. He must’ve been Matthew Fox and I was the mysterious smoke creature that pukes on flight attendants. I’ll admit; the monkey was right. That was the best drinking game I’ve ever played.
Hey D. Richards, thanks for taking what a few people have said on this topic and completely blowing it out of proportion. If you want to be flippant instead of trying to come up with something insightful, go for it. Whatever makes you happy, man. This is thesuperficial, after all, so I’m probably in the wrong to be defending anyone in earnest anyway.
Even so, nobody has said she’s a visionary. The only reason I brought up those other people who are generally regarded as having greater, “more important” merits was to illustrate the point that she’s hardly the first musician/writer/artist/whatever to have a drug habit or lifestyle that many people tend to object to.
Here’s why I think Amy Winehouse is cool:
She writes the bulk of her own music and hires real musicians (not “producers”) to co-arrange it with her.
The production on her last record is really well thought out, and it wouldn’t hurt for other artists around today to bag all the pro tools, canned production and try to do something a little more sophisticated.
She can actually sing, and does so live (when she shows up, anyway) without lip synching or the use of DAT tapes.
And perhaps most importantly, she’s one of only 2 or 3 Soul artists today who can play music and respects all the old Stax and Motown records (when production and talent meant something) without trying to just ape them.
Yes, she has a drug habit, and that’s unfortunate. But she’s not the first, and she’s not likely to be the last.
I saw Amy sing 2 weeks ago in Newcastle and she nailed her 90 min performance. The English press play on her weaknesses and those who pray on her far too much.
Personally, although she looked liked she’d ate a gazzilion spacecakes and had a couple of moments where she got confused between her backing singers and her own lines….she did a decent job and doesnt need to be crucified continuously by the media.
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to me the best part of this item is: “I’ll admit; the monkey was right. That was the best drinking game I’ve ever played.” Amy Winehouse quitting is blah in comparison to the way the final paragraph ends. Wow, great stuff!
These people and their art are not that important to civilization. We have had plenty artists. Fuck art and 2-bit singers and abstract painters and all these second rate drug addicted degenerates. THIS is one of the things wrong with our world.
Read and listen to timeless classics. But then again I would imagine there would not be a way for the unscrupulous capitalist pigs to make dirty money catering to slobbering cravings of the mindless.
Die Amy and take all the rest of Hollywood and Motown with you!
You know what, she’s really ugly. Fat (uh ‘scuse me “curvy”) or skinny, she’s ugly. When she was full, it was more apparent how badly shaped she is. Typical Beulah body; big tits, no hips or ass, long donkey face and teeth to match.
Honestly, some peolpe just need to die, like rilly!
42 Poe used laudanum and the green faerie whose name I forget right now. Get yer fact straight and stop tellingsu how to post. Like we don’t know who used what. Pleas do ME a personal favor and STFU!
Everyone Poops, please get over yourself. You have that quintessential “I’m new to the Fish” syndome. I had it about 4 years ago, I got over it and now I just wish the stupid spammers would stop spamming our site with the millionaire and nudist nonsense.
(mumbles “christ” under breath)
Too bad. I’ll miss it when she sings great lyrics like “Finggla dinkth asd da frendddds seth miggumdum fin”.
And then throws up on stage.
Sigh.
I think Amy’s bonus points for going to rehab cancel out her fail-points for canceling the tour, check it out:
http://www.dailyspecialshow.com
she looks BONKERS
61, it’s like Herbet Marcuse said: “Whatever you throw at capitalism will just be sold right back to you.” Or is that wrong to say?
Shallow Val, I’m not “new to the fish.” I haven’t posted in a lot time simply because I haven’t been inclined to. Get YOUR facts straight. And just because I happen to disagree with the majority of what is being said doesn’t mean I’m “telling people how to post.” That’s the second time I’ve had someone obscure something I’ve said, seemingly for no other reason than to be be defensive. Pretty lame.
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69 – I forgot to tell you to shut up.
Shallow Val, right. By the way, Edgar Allen Poe did use mescaline. Kenneth Silverman and I’m sure many other biographers have said so. He abused many things. Laudenum may have been one of them. I find it humurous how defensive you got about that. I wasn’t trying to be a snob; I was only trying to illustrate a point.
Anyway, you’ve made it clear that you have a limited intellect that makes it difficult for reasonable people to tolerate you. I’ve tried being rational, but you just want to be fatuous, and your little attempts at being clever are just so much vapid bullshit.
So I’ll tell it to you in terms you can understand: you’re a stupid cunt.
shit she’s only 24? Man life’s been rough on her face.
Jailbird husband isn’t in the slammer. He’s hiding in her beehive.
#62 “Honestly, some peolpe just need to die, like rilly!”
I totally agree. u go first.
This girl is an unique singer/songwriter. The negative testimonials towards her looks is just a monument to how putrefied and shallow our collective society has become.
Aretha Franklin. Imagine if she had to live up to the same “hot or not” standards of today.
With most statistics putting obesity at an ALL TIME HIGH in the USA, who the fuck are you to judge. Basically she looks like EVERYBODY ELSE who isn’t a surgically enhanced “look” that most media types are. So when you attack her looks, or lack there off, you’re really jut preaching SELF LOATHING.
As for her apparent drug consumption and nihilistic self destruction?
FUCK YEAH.
Sex DRUGS and ROCK-N-ROLL.
How many of these supposed hard hip-hop/R-B ganstaas have the balls to so interestingly blow up in PUBLIC like this.
Fiddy cent is a pussy…
#65: ROFL
I got a quick visual of Bill the Cat, barfing up a hairball, for some reason.
And it’s Edgar Allan Poe.
Amy Winehouse cancels her career.
Even the best manager can’t save someone from the result of their poor decisions forever…
What is more self apreciating than having your name embeded into your guitars fucking fret board? I bet she bangs herself with the neck of it while she thinks about her fucked up strung out husband getting a reach around in the pen.