Tag: Amy Winehouse
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…]
Lola Young, Too, Would Like to Say, In Essence, “Please Don’t Try to Find Me Through My ‘D£aler’”
If any chanteuse (still living, at least) can identify with the struggles of addiction, it’s Lana Del Rey. After all, her teenage alcoholism is part [Read More…]
Through Amy Winehouse-Meets-Jessica Simpson Stylings, Renée Rapp Demands, “Why Is She Still Here?”
Continuing to roll out the singles from her upcoming sophomore album, Bite Me, Renée Rapp is offering a slightly different tone than the one she provided [Read More…]
Lola Young Tries to Rein in Some of Her Self-Destructiveness on “Not Like That Anymore”
While Lily Allen and Amy Winehouse might have once been the undisputed British queens of lyrical self-deprecation (and generally self-destructive behavior), there’s a new princess [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…]
Flipping the Script on the Old Adage, “Men Only Want One Thing,” Lola Young Gives a Much-Needed Woman’s Perspective on (and Encouragement of) the “One and Done” Philosophy
As the rise of Lola Young continues to prove that it takes a special kind of British chanteuse to capture the hearts (read: wallets) of [Read More…]
Kali Uchis Goes On an Ethereal Jaunt in “All I Can Say” Video
To commemorate Sincerely, Release Day, Kali Uchis offered another single and video from the album, “All I Can Say” (which does, indeed, bear certain similarities to Mary [Read More…]
Nosferatu Was Made For Lana Del Rey a.k.a. Ellen Hutter
While The Shangri-Las might have been the OGs when it came to perfecting the notion of “he’s good bad, but he’s not evil,” Lana Del [Read More…]
