Amy Winehouse ... Class or Trash ?
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Topic: Amy Winehouse ... Class or Trash ?
Posted By: Yorkie X
Subject: Amy Winehouse ... Class or Trash ?
Date Posted: November 15 2007 at 09:36
This isn't a prog poll its a music poll however , I'm just curious what prog fans think of Amy Winehouse ? heres your chance to voice your opinion. Us prog fans need to sometimes look in other areas to see whats happening Amy seems to be making a big splash at the moment for some reason. 
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Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: November 15 2007 at 10:08
| Musically or as a person? I don't really know her or her music, but my intuition says "trash". |
Posted By: aapatsos
Date Posted: November 16 2007 at 15:39
^ mine too... 
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Posted By: Tuzvihar
Date Posted: November 16 2007 at 18:25
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Trash full of cash?
------------- "Music is much like f**king, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent." Charles Bukowski |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: November 16 2007 at 18:29
| Undeniably a great singer, obviously going through some problems at the moment, in fact she's making Pete Docherty look like a nun. |
Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: November 16 2007 at 22:46
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She's all over the place but who is she? She came out of nowhere to me!
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Posted By: Gamemako
Date Posted: November 16 2007 at 22:49
| I can forgive an artists iniquities, but bad music is unforgivable. |
Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: November 17 2007 at 09:48
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I dont understand what all the fuss about her is, I hate the nasel quality of her voice, and her song writing is rubbish as well.
------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005 
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Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: November 20 2007 at 01:22
I can buy into that. Logically, if I consider things I don't know or have not heard to be "trash", then there is nowhere to go from there than up. It gives them the benefit of never being able to dissapoint me.
 Seriously though, who the heck is Amy Winehouse? Does she own a liquor store? ------------- https://www.last.fm/user/Tapfret" rel="nofollow">  https://bandcamp.com/tapfret" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp |
Vompatti wrote:Posted By: WalterDigsTunes
Date Posted: November 20 2007 at 01:30
| Just a ruckus-causing nobody who nicked and debased certain aspects of 60s soul. Less exciting than a train wreck yet garners more media attention than one. |
Posted By: Teh_Slippermenz
Date Posted: November 27 2007 at 21:02
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TRASH!!! *drowns out memories of her music with Fish music* |
Posted By: Poser
Date Posted: November 27 2007 at 21:13
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She's the one who didn't want to go to rehab and said "No, no, no", right?
I really don't know. ------------- 
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Posted By: aapatsos
Date Posted: November 28 2007 at 07:23
| and now that I read all these press comments she's definitely trash... |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: November 28 2007 at 07:32
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^^ I see she's cancelled all her forthcoming tour dates....
...frankly, even using the world's most powerful microscope, I still wouldn't be able to locate my interest in this woman....  ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: Guzzman
Date Posted: November 28 2007 at 07:34
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^ Those press comments are what really make it ugly! Ok, Amy Winehouse, Pete Doherty and not to forget Britney Spears seem to have severe mental problems, but what they need is help rather than the next article on their behaviour. I'm not at all a fan of those three, but I think that they - as everybody else - deserve to be treated with some dignity, even if they obviously lost their's on several occasions. Musically I don't even know what Winehouse does - I'll have to get an impression of it somehow. ------------- "We've got to get in to get out" |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: November 28 2007 at 07:43
not quite nowhere, she is a graduate of both Sylvia Young Theatre School (which gave us such luminaries as Robbie WIlliams and the Appleton Sisters) and The BRIT School for Performing Arts & Technology (alumni include Kate's Nash and Melua) - i.e. she arrived prefabricated and flat-packed for easy assembly (and as always with such things, a few screws missing
 ).First disapointment was Frank wasn't about Mr Zappa and the second was that Back To Black wasn't a hommage to AC/DC.  ------------- What? |
Posted By: Guzzman
Date Posted: November 28 2007 at 08:26
 ------------- "We've got to get in to get out" |
Posted By: aapatsos
Date Posted: November 28 2007 at 09:25
^^ got your point Dean , pre-fabricated...
I agree that these people need help sometimes, but they come from a 'trashy' system that leads them to this direction. And as 'prefabricated' they don't get the chance to re-assemble themselves... |
Posted By: Yorkie X
Date Posted: November 29 2007 at 20:32
Amy now (tatts and skinny and before she was so well known (kinda sexy and curves in the right places) theres so much more then fame what a waist ! 
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Posted By: Dim
Date Posted: November 29 2007 at 20:34
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Some of her stuff has some cool jazz moments, a bit too poppy though. ------------- 
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Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: November 30 2007 at 17:58
Just heard her for the first time. As if Christmas shopping wasn't bad enough, having her stuff blasted through the unforgiving low-fi Best Buy intercom added new pain to the experience.  ------------- https://www.last.fm/user/Tapfret" rel="nofollow"> https://bandcamp.com/tapfret" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp |
Posted By: Syzygy
Date Posted: November 30 2007 at 18:12
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There's a genuinely talented pop performer in there struggling to get out. Sadly, it looks like the hype is eclipsing the talent at the moment. ------------- 'Like so many of you I've got my doubts about how much to contribute to the already rich among us...' Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: December 11 2007 at 14:28
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A tragic character, who has the potential to be sheer class. She is certainly not trash. I dont like the idea of dismissing someone in that way.
Anyone who has heard her sing live, will know she is actually not a great singer, but certainly a unique one. Her music stands out in the sea of chart mediocrity. I hope she is able to climb out of the pit of self destruction she has fallen into. |
Posted By: Easy Livin
Date Posted: December 11 2007 at 15:06
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I think this is what's known as kicking someone while they are down.
Let's retain our class by not being abusive or needlessly hurtful.
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Posted By: Chicapah
Date Posted: December 11 2007 at 15:34
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Don't know much about her other than what I read here and there. I just hate to see anyone with God-granted talent for making music waste it on being a narcissist. ------------- "Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value" - Mark Twain |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: December 11 2007 at 16:47
Well, not having heard any of her music I'm going to have to say that her mother was a hamster and her father smelt of elderberries. ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted By: Poser
Date Posted: December 11 2007 at 17:02
Um....
...Ni! What are the press comments? What happened to her? Actually nevermind, I don't really care. I just wanted to reply to the Python quote.  -------------
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Posted By: Zwerg Bart
Date Posted: December 11 2007 at 18:44
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I don't see what the big deal is... I've heard a bit of her material and it mostly sounds like she's trying really hard to emphasize parts that don't require emphasis with a voice that lacks the range to do so properly in the first place... there's no substance, and like most pop music it just bores me to death. I see very little talent there.
Her personal life is a whole other issue... I don't even want to touch that. ------------- "Freud's cranium is a snail!" - Dali |
Posted By: Passionist
Date Posted: December 11 2007 at 19:17
| I think what defines hip is what gets all the marketing. Yeah, so you get a tv commercial stating that there's a huge new success and very famous and popular Amy Whitehouse, and ok, then most people go and buy her album because it's there. And they play it on the radio, well, the radio never plays anything people like, they play what they're paid to play, easy as that. Oh, I'm not valling her trash because I haven't heard her music at all. All I know is she's been nominated for most prices in the what'sit grammy something gala. Which obviously stands for nothing. I myself wouldn't care for a musical trophy from something that awards singers such as Whitehouse here and Timberlakes there. Seriously. |
Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: December 11 2007 at 19:26
Passionist, it's Winehouse not Whitehouse.  I don't especially like her (infact, she annoys me), but I find I dislike Kate Nash more. -------------   
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Posted By: Passionist
Date Posted: December 11 2007 at 19:29
| Really? Well I guess that just shows how much I care for her kind :P |
Posted By: zappaholic
Date Posted: December 12 2007 at 19:24
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I call her Amy Crackhouse.
------------- "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." -- H.L. Mencken |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: December 13 2007 at 01:45
| Whinehouse! |