Who was the real Amy Winehouse?
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on September 9, 2023
How should Amy Winehouse be remembered? The most gifted breakthrough British pop star of the 2000s would have been 40 next week. Instead, she died in 2011 aged 27. Her downfall took place under callously voyeuristic circumstances. The media turned her ruination with drink and drugs into entertainment. She was scrutinised minutely but wrongly, as if in a distorting mirror. Meanwhile, the songs that she wrote about her suffering were not cathartic in that they failed to alleviate it.
She only made two albums, yet her musical legacy is immense. Her songs move like a free spirit . . .
