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BACK TO BLACK, una celebración de la estrella británica más emblemática –y añorada– del siglo XXI, narra la extraordinaria historia de Amy Winehouse.
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12 de jul. de 2022 · 12 Jul 2022. Francesca Shillcock. Senior Features Writer. Share this: Welcome to your Daily Lowdown from HELLO!. In today's episode, we're talking about the Amy Winehouse biopic which has had...
- Addicted
- Our Day Will Come
- Help Yourself
- I Heard Love Is Blind
- Wake Up Alone
- Round Midnight
- Stronger Than Me
- Just Friends
- Fuck Me Pumps
- Body and Soul
After all its emotional strife, the Back to Black album concludes with a jokey paean to weed. You could construct an argument that Addicted is Winehouse once more tapping into a venerable jazz tradition – it’s easy to imagine Fats Waller singing about someone snaffling his stash in the 30s – but perhaps it’s better to just enjoy its mordant wit.
If Winehouse’s posthumous Lioness collection frequently offered the sound of the bottom of the barrel being scraped – she simply didn’t record that much material – it occasionally came up with something great, as on this 2003 outtake that turns the old Ruby & the Romantics hit into charming soft-hued reggae.
For all the breeziness of the music – live-sounding drums and guitar, pretty woodwind – time has lent a grim irony to the lyrics of Help Yourself, which reflects more kindly on the same relationship that inspired Stronger Than Me. “I really empathise, looking through your bloodshot eyes,” she sings. “I can’t help you if you won’t help yourself.”
Winehouse auditioned for her record label, backed only by an acoustic guitar; you can see video footage of it in the 2015 documentary Amy. She’s in the same setting on the demo of Frank’s I Heard Love Is Blind, a striking example of how fully formed her vocal talent was barely out of her teens.
There were plenty of other 00s artists dealing in retro soul, but, aside from her voice, one reason Winehouse stood out was her willingness to dig into the genre’s history. Certainly no one else was releasing songs like Wake Up Alone, audibly inspired by the music of soul’s 50s forefathers.
When Winehouse complained that the songs from Back to Black were too emotionally distressing for her to perform live, her father suggested she sing standards instead. As her SoulII Soul-esque take on Thelonious Monk’s most famous composition proves, she could have done that in considerable style.
The opening track on her debut album, Stronger Than Me won an Ivor Novello award. Were it released today, it would more likely cause a storm over the gender stereotyping in its lyrics, which might obscure what a great song it is: jazzy guitar chords over a stark, sampled backing, Winehouse in particularly strident form.
Winehouse clearly loved reggae, but, on record, she had a tendency to let her enthusiasm get the better of her. For instance, she charges at Andy and Joey’s You’re Wondering Now, for once missing the darkness in the lyrics. Her own Just Friends is far better than her reggae covers, an understated, lilting groove, ungovernable lust in the lyrics.
On arrival, Amy Winehousewas lumped in with the post-Norah Jones wave of MOR female singers, which in hindsight seems extraordinary. There’s certainly nothing middle of the road about Fuck Me Pumps, an excoriating, viciously witty, take-no-prisoners attack on Wag culture set to a deceptively sweet melody.
Video footage shows Winehouse racked with nerves before meeting Tony Bennett to record her father’s favourite song, but you wouldn’t guess it from the finished results. On Winehouse’s last recording, months before her death, she sounds utterly in command and seemingly unbowed by the company she’s keeping, taking risks with her vocal.
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Amy Jade Winehouse (Southgate, Londres, 14 de septiembre de 1983- Camden Town, Londres, 23 de julio de 2011) 5 2 fue una cantante y compositora británica de diversos géneros musicales, principalmente jazz, rhythm and blues, soul y ska. En la década de los 2000 y principios de los 2010.
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