--- In [email protected], turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues" <curtisdeltablues@> > wrote: > > > > We really have to get this drug-synapse connection handled. > > I am sick of losing people to this shit. > > > > At her best: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVBoXtxD0Rs&playnext=1&list=PL2D4F755C610950CA > > I was SO not a fan, Curtis. I don't think I'd ever > listened to a single one of her songs, largely because > I couldn't get past her public image as Out Of Control > Girl.
I had two predispositions to not like her music, the one you mention as well as a style of music that is usually too soft for my primitive tastes. But having been given her CD for a birthday present one year, I gave it a fair listen and once again, as often happens in matters of my taste prejudices, I found I was wrong. The girl had real talent, a distinctive voice, and a sly sense of humor expressed in her personal style and song choices. I'm sorry you didn't get to hear that song because it was in her hands the genuine article. I found this version. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UufMAsvzgs&feature=related Could Beyonce sing this song this believably? Adele? Any other contemporary artist? It took Amy, and the reasons she was believable, in the end, took her down. So having eaten crow once again I started reading a bit about her, a precocious arts school phenom whose teachers loved her for her talent and hated her for her total lack of self discipline. She was just a baby when the fame monster put her on its back. A confused baby. A baby with substance abuse problems. Formula for disaster. Think about the crow she had to eat when she finally DID go to rehab after her famous song. But she did. She had people who loved her and a whole team of families who bet on her horse to support their families. All of whom just got completely screwed with the cancellation of this last tour. So much human tragedy surrounds a falling star. It incinerates many lives in its path. She was just a slip of a thing, tiny, with her improbably tall beehive and big, big voice. But the fury she had incited in her neruo-transmitters could not be managed. I don't believe it was due to lack of loving support around her or even her own desire to live a full life. I blame it on a puritanically influenced medical system whose best answer for a girl with her problem is to go to a 12 step program and pray that she will get delivered from her sin. She deserved better. You wrote an excellent post about stars you met and the lifestyle that took them down. So many people are involved in a big tour that they have to cram it into a shitty schedule. Built-in disaster for the performers. And for big acts these tours go on and on. How can a person give everything in performance when their get up and go, got up and left? Ah, a line or two, few bumps between sets works fantastically for a while. Until the brain grows too many receptor sites for the amount of neruo-transmitters you can generate without the lines...but on to an early morning radio show after falling into bed at 3 am so sniff sniff and sound check at 3 pm... > > I was too late to see the YouTube link you posted (the > poster seems to have closed his/her account), but today > one of my Facebook friends posted a link that got me > over my aversion and forced me to listen to my first > Amy Winehouse song. It's the choice of song that did it. > This song is one of my "guilty favorites" from my own > teenage years. Written by Carole King and then-husband > Gerry Goffin for the Shirelles, I was such a lovesick > sap at 15 that I used to listen to it over and over. > > Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwN806lLKZQ > > The other Shirelles song I used to obsess on, this one > written by Burt Bacharach. To this day, I still love > the cheezy Farfiza organ solo and the breathy vocals > by Shirley: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHvoNmBLhVI >
