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Amy Winehouse (September 14, 1983 – July 23, 2011) first burst to prominence in October 2003, aged 20, with her universally acclaimed, platinum-selling debut Frank. That record was her grand and suitably blunt-speaking break-up record, sometimes a little bitter, with a maturity in the vocal delivery that was never less than sweet.
Frank won Amy a battalion of fans around the world and marked her out as one of pop's most distinct new songwriters; confessional, elemental and with that rarest of combinations: humour and soul. Amy had cut through to the core of the human condition with her debut, adding her own jazzy witticisms to the legacy of the greats.
Three years later, in October 2006, she followed it up with the astonishing Back To Black, a record which channelled the girl groups of her fancy but placed them slap bang into the middle of modernity, with a little help from producer Mark Ronson. If that album's brazen confessionals charted Amy's progression from girlhood to womanhood, it also propelled her from critics' darling to bona fide global pop phenomenon.
Powered by a stunning array of loosely strung, funk-inflected joints including Rehab, You Know I'm No Good and Back To Black, the album won Amy countless awards, including Brits, Ivor Novellos and an incredible five Grammy Awards. It also made her one of a very select band of UK artists to sell more than 10 million copies of an album.
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Not for a unique sound which I'd argue isn't really original but for finding success with it in an industry where we don't break the mold and churn out song after song with the same voice, melody, and lyrics. I agree with some of the other reviewers that HER voice can get repetitive but her hits will hopefully live on as a beacon of hope in early 21st century pop.
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She is not the type of person anyone should emulate or aspire to be. I'm all for self-expression, but her destructive lifestyle is not something to be glorified. I'm not saying she should be a paragon of virtue, but I am saying that the life she chooses to lead has an influence on people even if it shouldn't. You aren't twelve years old any more, have some self-control for God's sakes.
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Over-the-top vocal technique can sometimes sound impressive at first, but being subjected to excessive amounts of it can lead one to become violent. I like the vintage sound of the recordings, and if I were rating the recording engineer, I would be generous with the stars. But I'm not. I'm reviewing Amy Winehouse. And I do believe I just ripped her a new one.
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Her shows are a crap shoot - maybe she will perform OK?
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I thought Moby threw his Wii remote into a collection of old Billie Holiday recordings, or something.