Back to Black

Amy Winehouse is dead. 

What kind of fuckery is this?!?!

I don't know how to write about this without coming off like some sad fan boy. But I am fan. And I am a boy. And I am very, very sad.

For a week I have been listening to Back To Black constantly. What an amazing album. 


Go watch this. It's the stuff of Edith Piaf...or Billie Holiday....or maybe Judy Garland....well, that one might be kind of gay. Anyway, if I can paraphrase a Sophie Tucker reference, "She's gone, but she won't be forgotten, at least not by me."  Hopefully not by anyone else either.

Everyone keeps bringing up the foreshadowy and sad lyric:

And I tread a troubled track

My odds are stacked

I'll go back to black 

But really, this is my favorite:

I shouldn't play myself again,

I should just be my own best friend,

Not fuck myself in the head with stupid men

Just brilliant.  All of it.  The voice.  The lyrics.  The hair. When I am 80 people will be talking about her still.  I will make sure of it.

RIP Amy Winehouse.  You will be missed.

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