Tag: Amy Winehouse discography
Mark Ronson’s Amy-Centric BRIT Awards Performance
While everyone was busy mostly gushing over ROSALÍA and Björk’s epic performance of “Berghain”—and it was undeniably epic—or marveling over Harry Styles’ white boy dance [Read More…]
On Lola Young and Amy Winehouse’s Generational Divide When It Comes to Dealing With Addiction
While Amy Winehouse might have “glamorized” addiction (in a far less deliberate way than Lana Del Rey “glamorizing abuse”), her proverbial predecessor/the person who is [Read More…]
Lola Young Continues to Prove Herself to Be the Musical Lovechild of Amy Winehouse and Lily Allen on I’m Only F**king Myself
In 2016, Lola Young played one of her earliest live gigs at a pub called The Bedford in London. She was sixteen at the time, [Read More…]
RAYE and Mark Ronson’s “Suzanne”: A “Valerie” for the 2020s (Which Means It’s Decidedly Less Gritty and Much More Corporate)
For many, it’s been a long time coming that RAYE should collaborate with Mark Ronson. After all, the parallel between her voice and Amy Winehouse’s [Read More…]
Back to Black Makes Amy Winehouse’s Image Go Back to Shit
When Asif Kapadia’s Amy came out in 2015, the director’s monumental achievement of being able to make audiences truly understand Amy Winehouse’s life and art—the [Read More…]
“Take the Box” is Amy Winehouse’s “Irreplaceable”
Before Beyoncé came along to claim Ne-Yo’s songwriting as her own on 2006’s “Irreplaceable,” Amy Winehouse was making a very similar (even if more “admitting [Read More…]
The Difficulty of Listening to “Rehab” in the Present
With each passing year, when the anniversary of Amy Winehouse’s death or her birthday comes along, as is the case today, September 14th, it grows [Read More…]
“A perfect storm of sex kitten, raw talent and poor impulse control”: Amy Winehouse Was Given the Britney Treatment in the UK
Although L.A. is its own microcosm of paparazzi constantly trolling for the next humiliating candid photo, the UK (which just looks better without periods between [Read More…]
Amy Winehouse: A Final Emblem of a Generation of Women Willing to Justify Cad-ish Male Behavior as True Love
It was the most overt and major stain on her. A scarlet F for Fool. And yet, it was the very thing that propelled her [Read More…]
Amy Winehouse’s “What Is It About Men?” Embraces The Fatalism of Her Tragic Life
They say that only you can control your destiny–every other Calvinist-oriented platitude spouting predestination is bullshit. But Shakespeare, Amy Winehouse’s fellow countryman, would likely beg [Read More…]
