Amy Winehouse Attacks Fan, Calls Kanye West A Name, Generally Acts Stupid
Oh, Amy, Amy, Amy. The hits just keep on a-comin’. *rimshot*Â
Amy Winehouse had an exciting weekend. Not only did she call singer Kanye West a nasty name for which her momma should wash her mouth out with soap for:
Towards the end of the set, the singer’s comments between songs became increasingly bizarre. Firstly she asked: “Are there any black people in the crowd? Where’s Don Letts?” before ‘Love Is A Losing Game’, then launched into a tirade about Jay-Z and Kanye West.
She said: “Let’s hear it for Jay-Z. The man has got bollocks to come here, and play the tunes you don’t even know you remember. Imagine if it was a c**t like Kanye West. ‘C**ts Like Kanye’ - that should be his next album title.”
But she also made an unwise decision to go into the crowd to sing her hit Rehab, and practically incited a riot:
The troubled 24-year-old singer, who has a long history of drug abuse, seemed to rain blows on the man as those surrounding him reeled back in astonishment.
Television cameras captured the incident, which happened after she had descended from the stage to sing her most famous hit, Rehab.
Crowd members claimed the singer lashed out in response to a derogatory comment about her husband Blake Fielder-Civil, after she spent much of the show making slurring references to ‘my Blakey’. [...]
Her publicist said she had reacted instinctively when someone tried to pull her trademark beehive hairdo.
Festival organiser Michael Eavis’s version of events was that the man had made a grab at Miss Winehouse’s breasts.
However, the alleged man in question has a different version of what happened:
James Gostelow, 25, from London, came forward today claiming he was was the fan struck in the head by the singer.
Mr Gostelow claimed she turned on him after someone in the crowd behind him threw a hat at her.
He came forward to clear his name after some reports said she was groped.
Mr Gostelow told the BBC he was that reveller - but he did not think Winehouse was aiming at him. [...]
Mr Gostelow said it was not too sore but ‘more shock than anything else having got up early to see her then being hit by her’.
He said: ‘The crowd was going absolutely crazy, everyone was pushing and shoving but that’s part of it.’
Asked if he would consider contacting the police, Mr Gostelow said: ‘No, I would never want to take anything so far, and at the end of the day it’s all part of being at the front to be honest with you, and being crushed by thousands of people here at Glastonbury.
‘It’s part of the experience I suppose.’
Okay. First, I’m not even a famous person, but I’ve been to enough things involving famous people to know that for someone on Amy’s level of fame to descend into a crowd of people is sheer madness, bordering on lunacy. In short, a very stupid decision. She was practically at the end of her set, she knew the crowd was in a frenzy, yet she chose to climb down amongst them. What did she expect?
Oh wait, I forgot…I’m thinking with a non-drug-addled brain. My bad.
And for her to call Kanye West anything is just silly. Kanye is definitely not one of my favorite people. He’s arrogant, smug, and full of himself. But the word Amy used was highly derogatory and she was out of line. I mean, she shouldn’t be up there insulting her fellow musicians…it will come back to haunt her.
But what was with the comment to start with? She’s basically calling Jay-Z a has-been and making fun of Kanye because he wasn’t there, as well as giving off a decided unfavorable vibe towards black people. It seems that Kanye isn’t the only person arrogant and full of themselves. I think perhaps Amy has let her fame go to her head, and she isn’t quite the common girl from Camden Town that she wants us to believe she is, for all her willingness to brawl in the dirt.
Nothing like shooting yourself in the foot, huh? Maybe she just got tired of shooting up through her foot and decided to try something different.
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amy shudn’t did it just lyke dat she cudda asked den swung but u knw wat dey say once a crackhead allways a crackhead and no offense amy i luv ya but da shit u do is gone leave u wit a fucked up rep.
Comment by tha-1-n=only-Mrz.Boldin — July 1, 2008 @ 12:31 pm
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She has the balls of steel and iron to slag off Kanye. Winehouse basically blacked out her shambolic 2007 concert appearances. Those drugs have turned her into a virtual monster.
Comment by Ennui — July 6, 2008 @ 10:11 pm