Amy Winehouse: Drum Around A Living Corpse
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It would seem that Amy Winehouse’s European tour has hit a rough spot. After a few successful concert dates in Europe, the beehive hit Zurich, and Zurich has hit back. I had to translate the site (don’t be too impressed, I used Google), but even in strange translator jargon you can tell that the concert totally sucked, in any language. (the above photo is not from the tour)
The review had what I assume are nice things to say about her voice:
And a man sings. So nice that he has almost no man can be. The voice of this powerful, unusually black soul voice that seems to be the only institution in the system to Amy Wine House, which still rely on. A body with a life of its own. Drum around a living corpse.
But they had what I think is a very colorful description of how Amy presented herself onstage, and in this I think the English translation sums it up:
And then they arrived, the little person with a big hairdo, is because in a long white Strickpulli, plucks it around, shivering, wipes always with the back of the hand over the nose, drink, drink, drink, it looks alternately like wine and Gin Tonic, weeps incessantly that her facial make-over runs, scrapes, yawns, sits down to the stage, that microphone out repeatedly running away. From the twisted mind of the famous black bars, we usually see only the white. A man toils. This is in large Art-Deco-Lettern her name on a mitternachtsblauen Rüschenvorhang. To the girl at least knows his name yet.
(btw, “man” here seems to be referring to Amy herself, in the “mankind” sense of the word.)
Crying, snotting, drinking, makeup running, yawning, sitting. Yeah, sounds like the kind of event I want to shell out big bucks for. They also say that:
Amy wants to leave, which is away from the first sound clear. Yet seldom has a man so genuine disgust in front of the audience and a so-total ignorance of everything except the drink in his hand experiences.
Britain’s answer to Janis Joplin and Mama Cass is ruining her life. She admits she has a problem, but thus far refuses to do anything about it. I sincerely hope she can get some help (and dump that husband…she’s to blame for her problems, but he sure doesn’t help) before it is too late.
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i hope she lives through this shit, because amy is so supremely talented. she has one of the best voices of this generation, along with leele james, i would hate to see her expire so young! you referred to amy as the british britney or lindsay!!!! omg, if only brit or linds had a talent anyone actually cared about!!! there’s no camparison my friend!!!
Comment by maria — October 28, 2007 @ 1:03 am
You are absolutely right…when I wrote that, I was in a bit of a hurry and pulled a couple of names out of my hat. I was searching for women who were well-known but who were destroying themselves. Lindsay at least seems to be pulling herself together, and I hope Amy can as well.
In the meantime, I’ll change that to someone more fitting, albeit perhaps less well-known to a younger generation of music lovers.
Comment by k — October 28, 2007 @ 1:16 am
That’s a bizarre thing to say - so Amy is more valuable then other fellow drug abusers? Weird. I agree that she is amazing talented but common. She is also a SUPREME waste. Love how people change their tune when they like someone.
Comment by ebayer — October 28, 2007 @ 9:04 am
Well, I don’t necessarily like Amy…either personally or her singing. Her singing is okay, and I like the style, but….personal taste, I guess. I’d rather listen to Janis Joplin.
But I did screw up in comparing her to Lindsay or Britney. The talent is just on two different levels, and on further reflection I do think she’s more like a Mama Cass or Janis.
Comment by k — October 28, 2007 @ 12:22 pm
Yes agreed. Guess it was just the way the original post was worded. I find it irritating when people don’t follow through with their opinions. (That includes me at times:) tons of people support Wino bc she has talent - you see it everywhere. Like her gift makes it ok to be a selfish irresponsible mess. She has canceled gigs left and right leaving disappointed fans everywhere - yet tons of celeb sites wish her well and write songs of praise. A mess, is a mess is a mess I say. She needs help. Again where are her people someone needs to step in.
Comment by ebayer — October 28, 2007 @ 3:33 pm
Sure, she has talent. So did Janis and Mama Cass, but look at what happened to them.
Frankly, she doesn’t have any more talent than people like Diana Krall and Shirley Bassey, and they manage to present themselves in a professional manner.
I think that she thinks she can get a free pass on all this stuff because of her talent. Thus far, it seems to be working, for the most part. However, if she keeps it up, all her talent is going to go right up her nose.
She fascinates me, though. Just the sheer cojones it takes to act this way. Most things British do fascinate me, so don’t be surprised to see me culling stories from the redtops and English papers.
Comment by k — October 28, 2007 @ 9:44 pm