| Author |
Message |
    
Tonya
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Tonya
Post Number: 6929
Registered: 07-2006
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, April 02, 2008 - 06:59 pm: | 
|
Tears Dry on Their Own - Amy Winehouse
http://youtube.com/watch?v=I6LVGcIC1Tc&feature=related
She’s a whole lot of Erykah Badu, a whole lot. They say she’s like Billie Holiday in a lot of ways, probably so. I just listened to Frank & her latest album Back to Black…the girl is unbelievable. Though their content is somewhat different, she possesses the honesty, transparency and sheer rawness of Nina Simone. I could not believe what I was hearing. She is so good that she’s kinda scary.
|
Chrishayden
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 6542
Registered: 03-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, April 03, 2008 - 02:30 pm: |
|
I have to listen to her again. I was not impressed by her. |
Serenasailor
AALBC .com Platinum Poster
Username: Serenasailor
Post Number: 1842
Registered: 01-2006
Rating: 
Votes: 1 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, April 08, 2008 - 11:15 am: |
|
Amy Winehouse is another moderately talented White soul singer who is used to fill Black women's shoes.
Notice how all of these White, Latino and Bi-racial "soul-singers" get all of this free press for barely being able to belt out a tune. When you have really talented soul-singers like India Arie, and Fantasia who barely get noticed.
Amy Winehouse is VERY MODERATELY TALENTED!! BUT SHE IS WHITE!! And she has been paid to "run around in Black women's" shoes. Also her image is whats marketable and sells magazines opposed to Fantasia's and India Arie's. |
Tonya
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Tonya
Post Number: 6953
Registered: 07-2006
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, April 08, 2008 - 02:28 pm: |
|
Oh, god,
...if HER IMAGE is what passes for us now, we are in a world of trouble. We're in trouble if she can just be us and her image is a threat to any one of us. I'm just going by her voice---but I hear your point, I do.
|
Serenasailor
AALBC .com Platinum Poster
Username: Serenasailor
Post Number: 1843
Registered: 01-2006
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, April 08, 2008 - 06:09 pm: |
|
That is true Tonya. But she is WHITE!! And for a White supremacist society that is all it needs. That ugly, camel faced, snaggle toothed bytch couldn't hold a candel to India Arie who is truly beautiful but gets much less accolades. |
Doberman23
AALBC .com Platinum Poster
Username: Doberman23
Post Number: 1224
Registered: 01-2006
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, April 09, 2008 - 04:48 am: |
|
just a question, let's say a young brutha likes bruce lee movies and then goes on to study karate and turns out to be quite exceptional. he then goes from that to acting in action flicks and is given props because he is pretty good and because he brings a little something different than what jet li or jackie chan having been dishing out. is this brutha represent black people in karate, or does he represent asians, or does he represent himself?
believe it or not there are people who appreciate other peoples cultures especially when it comes to music and food. just because you go home and make burrito doesn't mean your trying to be a mexican. amy winehouse appreciates older stylings of r&b soul which to many peoples taste is better than the r&b other people are putting out here. i just bought the best of dionne warrick the other day and in my opinion keisha cole or who ever else is out right now can't touch it.
tonya when you get a chance listen to "take the box" it's on the frank album ... i think you'll dig it... it's her best song to me. 
|
Moonsigns
AALBC .com Platinum Poster
Username: Moonsigns
Post Number: 2055
Registered: 07-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, April 11, 2008 - 02:35 pm: |
|
I like to hear Amy sing - she's talented, but I don't like to watch her sing. It's painful, like she's having drug withdrawl, which I'm sure she is.
|
Doberman23
AALBC .com Platinum Poster
Username: Doberman23
Post Number: 1233
Registered: 01-2006
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, April 12, 2008 - 09:37 pm: |
|
sometimes you have disassociate the person from their works and talents or you won't appreciate their work.... mike jackson, r. kelly, curt cobain, ect. |
Yvettep
AALBC .com Platinum Poster
Username: Yvettep
Post Number: 2822
Registered: 01-2005
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, April 14, 2008 - 10:11 am: |
|
sometimes you have disassociate the person from their works and talents or you won't appreciate their work
I agree. Not to say this is easy, especially in current culture where we hear of these failings concurrently with the release of the art. Supporting/enjoying the music (or other art) gets tied up in knots with hearing about the drama. In some ways, the drama becomes part of the "brand," and keeps the artist's name in the limelight. When that happens, it can seem as if by supporting the art, you are also supporting the bad/alleged bad behavior.
FOr me, the only option is just to draw my own line in the sand, with my own logic, and live with any inconsistencies. So--Cobain's brilliance I can enjoy because I reason that his behavior may have only harmed himself, Michael's because I "gre up with him"...but R. I never liked in the first place as an artist (thanks in large part to the ever present, annoying "I Believe I Can Fly") and so his drama is enough to push me over the edge of not supporting his work.
As for Winehouse, several folks have suggested her to me (including you, FK ). I have so far not partaken of that koolaid, though, but may have to give her a listen. I will be truly ticked off, though, if I am not twice as floored by her as I am of some truly talented African American female artists who I think deserve greater commercial success based on their talent, but who are largely ignored by mainstream outlets. |
Cynique
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Cynique
Post Number: 12084
Registered: 01-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - 12:16 am: |
|
Well, I checked out Amy on YouTube because I've been hearing so much about her, pro and con. She definitely has a mellow voice, just a tad reminiscent of Billie Holiday in her prime, but she doesn't have the phrasing or seductiveness of Lady Day. To me, as today's vocalists go, Amy's a better singer than Janet Jackson or Alicia Keyes and even Mary J. Blige. But that still just makes her good, not great. |
Email This Page