Again, you make assumptions about her music without actually being familiar with it. The issue about your statement I have problems with is the word "more," as in when you are more notorious for .... Tell me how can you know that without understanding what her music was and why it was important? You don't even acknowledge that you've even listened to her music, so your opinion again isn't coming from an informed opinion.
The fact that people don't know her music is proof enough that she isn't up there with the rest of them.
Her album was number 1 in the US, so plenty of people knew her music, and plenty of people are writing about it now. What it really says it that the board don't respect any popular music, especially music by a female soul singer.
if you would've put this much energy in helping her as you have defending her legacy here on the sexist clutchfans, she may be alive today! and comparing her to nevermind, appetite for destruction or run-dmc is the absolute pinnacle of silliness and calls into question your own opinion. oh, and dusty springfield says "bite me".
If the music is good, wouldn't advertisers and radio stations capitalize on it by playing it? All I'm saying is I don't know what good songs she's got. So what are some good songs she has that DIDN'T make it to the radio?
I don't quite understand the whole dusty springfield "bite me" reference. Maybe you'd like to elaborate?
there were famous female soul singers before amy winehouse came along (including joss stone who became famous well before winehouse). if you're going to compare her to such genre defining, hell even genre-creating albums, then you should at least acknowledge her predecessors.
Most ignorant post ive ever seen on clutchfans, Have you listened to the radio? are you a fan of nickleback lil wayne taylor swift and kesha?? The radio is a close minded media that caters directly to highschool kids
They replayed a wise crack John Lopez from 610am made last night while he was on TV. It was about Amy Winehouse being sober when the NFL lockout started. I cringed a little when I heard him say that. I wasn't outraged because I really know little about her and I guess after every celebrity death those who want a cheap laugh come out of the woodworks so much that you get desensitized to it all. Then when Lopez was put on the spot by a texter who asked if he would like it if someone cracked jokes about a relative of his who passed away. Lopez in his usual arrgoant manner barked out that if my relative was a crack head blah blah blah. That's a horrible thing to say about someone who has an addiction like their life is less valuable than someone who isn't addicted. Humans and life itself are fragile. We all make mistakes, the price for Amy Winehouse's mistakes was her life. I think Lopez should apologize on air for being an ass.
So, I am at fault because I didn't mention Dusty in Memphis? Or are you irked over the fact that albums that you yourself find revolutionary are being compared to a singer you feel is run-of-the-mill. Is that your true complaint? Also, before Colbain, Guns n roses and Run Dmc, there were the pixes, the rolling stones, and Kurtis Blow, but that doesn't make their albums less worthy of the revolutionary tag. What it boils down to is that Amy's music was popular music and that's her crime, I suspect, among those who dismiss her music.
That's why I'm asking questions, sir... so I can become LESS ignorant. WHY YOU MAD, though? YES. No, no, and no. But I at least know that they are booked at the Rodeo for having been playing on the radio or are liked by most teenagers or young peeps... and I know what songs they are known for. Cool. Great to know. I have pre-teen children, so I know some of the music, and if I didn't know some of it, I'd be a bad parent, methinks. Can you help me out in knowing some of her songs, though, instead of giving me your upset opinions?
Here's one for you SwoLy, before the drugs took hold <iframe width="425" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/0KnBVJfXHx8" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
And another of her covering a Gershwin classic <iframe width="425" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Wo5--q2GPNo" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Unfortunately, some people do not want to be helped (or cannot be helped). I am sure she had some people around her who tried.
oh wow Amy Winehouse Cause of Death Not Disclosed After Autopsy But an inquest the coroner orders suggests the singer may have "died a violent or unnatural death." ----A Section 20 postmortem, as Winehouse had, however, implies that the Coroner believes "there is reasonable cause to suspect that a person has died a violent or unnatural death or in any other way which would require an inquest," according to guidelines. It suggests that the authorities are mounting a more lengthy and serious investigation into the circumstances around Winehouse's death, although the Coroner also reported that at the scene had been investigated by police and "determined non-suspicious."
Because sometimes the most profitable stuff isn't the best stuff. If it was, then Paul Blart: Mall Cop would have won some Oscars.
