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Yesterday, Gen Y lost an old style singer reminiscent of Nina Simone, known for her dark love songs, who artfully embodied early 1960s' fashion mashed up with apocalyptic Millennium. A Google search of images of Amy Winehouse produces a catalogue of fame and suffering. She joins the list of famous musicians and entertainers who died at the age of 27 (see here). Addiction is a mortal matter, a love affair with death, one day at a time. The official video of Back to Black is below the jump.
"BACK TO BLACK" (Winehouse/Ronson; 2006)
He left no time to regret
Kept his dick wet
With his same old safe bet
Me and my head high
And my tears dry
Get on without my guy
You went back to what you knew
So far removed from all that we went through
And I tread a troubled track
My odds are stacked
I'll go back to black
We only said good-bye with words
I died a hundred times
You go back to her
And I go back to.....
I go back to us
I love you much
It's not enough
You love blow and I love puff
And life is like a pipe
And I'm a tiny penny rolling up the walls inside
We only said goodbye with words
I died a hundred times
You go back to her
And I go back to
Black, black, black, black, black, black, black,
I go back to
I go back to
We only said good-bye with words
I died a hundred times
You go back to her
And I go back to
We only said good-bye with words
I died a hundred times
You go back to her
And I go back to black
Back to Black (2006) © Winehouse/Ronson/Island Records. Video Source: Youtube.
Music and lyrics remain with their copyright holders and are reproduced here strictly for non-profit discussion and review.
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First of all, RIP Amy Winehouse. I didn't really know her music, but it seems such a sad waste.
ReplyDeleteBut the reason I am commenting is that I never would have clicked through here, I just ended up here because your RSS feed is now crippled to titles only and as a result it's very hard for me to connect with the posts I'm actually interested in that you write anymore, you have taken away my method of deciding whether to click through. Were the scrapers really hurting you that much that it's worth asking your readers to click in the dark?
At least if you are going to have a headlines only feed, I suggest you make the headlines much less cryptic? Just a suggestion.
I was so excited when this video first came out... I ran out and bought the CD and thought, wow, here's a woman with a voice that can revolutionize the blues/R&B genre. I didn't see her as a doomed performer, just an old soul who wanted to get a few more licks in before the apocalypse.
ReplyDelete"Love affair with death" ? Possibly. But I think the members of Club 27 weren't flirting with death as much as life; darkly brilliant tricksters passing through with so much promise... but it's a promise they can't fulfill beyond a certain point. So, it's tragic; but almost in some eerily predetermined way... even when the cause of death is murder, as it was in Brian Jones' case.
But I wouldn't limit the loss to merely one generation... I think we're all - that is, those of us with any semblance of soul - dismayed, heart-broken and confounded.
But then, we always are.
@Dia, you said it a thousand times better than I could have, thank you for your comment. Referring to the recession and professional conditions, one of my friends said something great last week to me that puts much of this in a nutshell, along these lines: "We may never reach the promised land, but striving to get there is still respectable."
ReplyDelete@Laroquod, I'm terribly sorry that the feed is off-putting. Blogger doesn't really support us against scraping at all, so it seemed the only recourse was cutting the feed, although I was under the impression that it included a few lines, not just the title. I would not want you to stop reading! I'll look into a better solution and in the meantime will tweak my titles.
ReplyDeleteOn another note, the attempt to integrate all google services with Google Plus is apparently affecting blogger. I've been getting complaints from readers who can't make comments unless they have a blogger/google account? I noticed that comments are only coming in from other bloggers...