I was sat in the living room at home when my boyfriend ran in from the bedroom to tell me the awful news that Amy Winehouse had died. I didn't say a single word at first, hoping it would be a hoax and so we both went to the Mac to search for news on Google. As the whole world knows now, it was true. Over the last few months, I've downloaded many concert performances and it's been truly wonderful to listen how she changes and adapts the songs, bringing new life and feeling into them.
She was my favourite vocalist of all time. The feelings from her heart and her soul, she enveloped so effortlessly in that voice and sent it out into the world. How she sings those words, the timbre and tones of her voice, she was a true vocalist. The Billie Holiday, the Sarah Vaughn of our generation. And now she is lost. Her music will live on forever though. I know that her music will always be with me as it will for millions of people all over the world.
Sadly, there's a lot of hate out there though. A lot of people either bored, misguided or simply rude and inappropriate. I don't believe in spreading hate. When I look on YouTube or the Last.FM comments boards and I see the amount of hate some people have for her, I have to think about why they feel the need to tell people about their hate, especially in a place where fans will be visiting and paying their respects. I wonder what they are trying to achieve - whether it is simply an outlet for their own anger or whether they just enjoy the attention and reaction their callous comments will receive. Then I wonder if it is really Amy that they're angry at? Or are they angry at themselves for their own addicitions or maybe their parent's?
For someone so open, so honest, so down to earth, who laid their life out word by word for the world to see, how can people be so heartless? I guess it comes down to ignorance and simply not caring what they say or to who they say it, or who they might be hurting. Perhaps they are the only person that matters in their life. I know that is the way of the world, if you tell your truth, you are then open to both praise or criticism. I'm pretty open myself, so you make the choice and you deal with it. Even if you have to make excuses for, and rise above the ignorance of other people.
So I wanted to pay my own musical respects and cover an Amy Winehouse song and I decided to choose one of her singles from the Back To Black album, "You Know I'm No Good".
Thank you Amy. You rocked my world.
She was my favourite vocalist of all time. The feelings from her heart and her soul, she enveloped so effortlessly in that voice and sent it out into the world. How she sings those words, the timbre and tones of her voice, she was a true vocalist. The Billie Holiday, the Sarah Vaughn of our generation. And now she is lost. Her music will live on forever though. I know that her music will always be with me as it will for millions of people all over the world.
Sadly, there's a lot of hate out there though. A lot of people either bored, misguided or simply rude and inappropriate. I don't believe in spreading hate. When I look on YouTube or the Last.FM comments boards and I see the amount of hate some people have for her, I have to think about why they feel the need to tell people about their hate, especially in a place where fans will be visiting and paying their respects. I wonder what they are trying to achieve - whether it is simply an outlet for their own anger or whether they just enjoy the attention and reaction their callous comments will receive. Then I wonder if it is really Amy that they're angry at? Or are they angry at themselves for their own addicitions or maybe their parent's?
For someone so open, so honest, so down to earth, who laid their life out word by word for the world to see, how can people be so heartless? I guess it comes down to ignorance and simply not caring what they say or to who they say it, or who they might be hurting. Perhaps they are the only person that matters in their life. I know that is the way of the world, if you tell your truth, you are then open to both praise or criticism. I'm pretty open myself, so you make the choice and you deal with it. Even if you have to make excuses for, and rise above the ignorance of other people.
So I wanted to pay my own musical respects and cover an Amy Winehouse song and I decided to choose one of her singles from the Back To Black album, "You Know I'm No Good".
Thank you Amy. You rocked my world.
