'You should be stronger than me'

Duane 2022-12-11 06:39:06

The first time I knew the name Amy Winehouse was when she was in high school, when she seemed to have just won the N Grammy Awards, and the newspapers had already called her a "drug queen". After seeing her photo, I thought: Is this person alive now? Why does she look so 70s or decades? It doesn't look like 21st century dressing and makeup anyway. After listening to her song, the first song was "Rehab", the first song of "Back to Black", and I thought: Wow, isn't this person really crossing over?

Again, I didn't really appreciate jazz or reggae when I was a teenager, but I felt an indescribable impact in her music, as if someone was knocking on an iron door in your heart, not you in the door She's outside the door, but you're all inside, and she's knocking for you, as if knocking and you're going to see a completely different, completely authentic self.

They tried to make me go to rehab, I said no, no, no.

Yes I've been black and when I come back, you'll know, know, know.

I ain't got the time

And if my daddy thinks I'm fine.

They tried to make me go to rehab I won't go, go, go.

Probably because of this lyric I thought for a while that Amy had a rich dad, why is he a rich dad, Probably because I was watching gossip girl.. so when you don't really want to get to know a person, especially when the person has everything that everyone defines as success, you won't see her as a person at all .

Amy is fragile and weak, lacks self-control, and has little strength from herself. But you can see how serious she is about being alive, she doesn't waste her talent, her talent as a musician artist is too great to crowd out the talent that everyone has as a mortal living. Most people's shells at the center of the growth process are getting thicker and stronger, and her heart seems to be getting thinner and thinner.

That's why my heart hurts the whole time I watch the AMY documentary.

'Amy, rest in peace.'

When Amy's body was carried out of her house, the dark body bag, it was Amy, with a thin body inside, as if her body and soul had floated out of that stretcher . Someone shouted, 'Amy rest in peace.' How could you say that if you knew her story?

I'm not a big fan of hers, but I don't want her to go. I don't want to say this, I can't say something like RIP.

"slow down, you're too important, life teaches you really how to live it if you can live long enough."

If you were to analyze why, Freud could smile. Childhood experiences have a decisive influence on the formation of character, parental relationship, daddy complex, etc. But this kind of analysis is not necessary, just as you can't make a genius with theory and formula, so you can't save a fatalistic tragedy with therapy and meditation. What matters is that you lived, used yourself to the fullest, and exploded. Life is short, and how short it is, there may be situations where it is not the most important thing.

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  • Yasiin Bey: I became aware of Amy in 2004. I'm a big jazz fan and I really liked what she was doing. I thought it was unique, I thought it was edgy. And sincere. And that's the thing I like most about Amy. She didn't have any airs. She was real... She was just a charming, sweet lady. I had a bit of a crush on her, to be honest. She was raw, she was fast with a blue joke, could drink anybody under the table, wasn't afraid to roll a smoke. Had a big, giant laugh, and was just a sweetheart, you know?

  • Amy Winehouse: Success to me is not success to the record company or whoever. Success to me is having the freedom to work with whoever I want to work with, to always be able to go to the studio when I have to go to the studio... I think the more people see of me, the more they'll realize that all I'm good for is making tunes. So leave me alone and I'll do it. I will do the music. I just need time to do the music.