Amy WinehouseBack to Black
When I first saw the image of a big-hair woman (think Marge Simpson) with thick lashes, I laughed. This woman looks like a total wreck and joke. What I didn't know was that I would eventually be addicted to Amy Winehouse's Back to Black. Like the last song on the album, she's like a drug herself.
Unabashedly loud and trendy, Amy Winehouse has the sort of smothering voice that absolutely belittles her 23 years of age. Back to Black has the voice and soul sensibilities of a mature veteran. But here, we have a young woman bucking all the current trends in R&B without the need for senseless featued rap guest star and dishing out all the unsavoury aspects of her misaligned life thus far. And that's the richness and diversity of the album.
Amy rocks and she knows it. She sings of love and pain from personal experience, all nothing we have not heard of but she does it so well in that old swinging 60's Motown style that every beat and note eventually gets stuck in that head of yours. Think of Rehab, you can't help but dance to that addictive beat. Think of You Know I'm Not Good and you might also feel that her unfaithfulness is justified. He Can Only Hold Her, Back to Black and the bonus Addictive further consolidates her position as the new star! (A)
When I first saw the image of a big-hair woman (think Marge Simpson) with thick lashes, I laughed. This woman looks like a total wreck and joke. What I didn't know was that I would eventually be addicted to Amy Winehouse's Back to Black. Like the last song on the album, she's like a drug herself.
Unabashedly loud and trendy, Amy Winehouse has the sort of smothering voice that absolutely belittles her 23 years of age. Back to Black has the voice and soul sensibilities of a mature veteran. But here, we have a young woman bucking all the current trends in R&B without the need for senseless featued rap guest star and dishing out all the unsavoury aspects of her misaligned life thus far. And that's the richness and diversity of the album.
Amy rocks and she knows it. She sings of love and pain from personal experience, all nothing we have not heard of but she does it so well in that old swinging 60's Motown style that every beat and note eventually gets stuck in that head of yours. Think of Rehab, you can't help but dance to that addictive beat. Think of You Know I'm Not Good and you might also feel that her unfaithfulness is justified. He Can Only Hold Her, Back to Black and the bonus Addictive further consolidates her position as the new star! (A)
