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The writer of this peace seems to believe that Amy is faking it and he has a problem with that. It offends his pure, artistic soul. Pligger Nease! I have a problem with self-righteous people (James Hannaham) who take advantage of the media to make money writing about how OTHER people shouldn't take advantage of the media to make money. She's using her media-created image to make money? Excuse me but what are you doing, exactly? Oh yeah, inflating your own importance and media image by criticizing another so that you can more effectively flog your book to the public like the corporate attention-whore you are!
As to his 'expert' opinion that Amy couldn't write if she were miserable: misery may or may not enhance creativity but then tell me this: why are most writers, poets, musicians (and comedians of all people) a bit less than little Mary Sunshine in their private lives? Clinical depression WOULD affect thinking but we are not talking about that level of dysfunctionality and in any case James Hannaham has no idea what he is talking about anyway. He is no wise sage, he is a hypocrite decrying the crassness of our culture, while at one and the same time using that very crassness to enrich himself. In the very first sentence of his article he says he expects Amy Winehouse to die. A little sensationalist perhaps? He appears to be one with the trash journalists who so dominate the rags mascarading as newspapers in London.
On your Editor's Choice letters, it is with great disappointment that I see that the very first letter in this august collection begins with a most common and ignorant racist statement: "winehouse is simply unconvincing...like nearly every other white person who insisted on singing the blues." Shall we include with this moronic statement, 'White men can't jump.', 'All black people love watermelon and fried chicken!', 'THOSE people just naturally have rythym.', 'Women are lousy at math.', 'The Irish are all drunks.', 'The Scottish are all cheap.', etc.? Of, course the Jews have NEVER suffered and couldn't possibly know anything about the blues!
Clue to the clueless (user name: had enough), Amy has jewish ancestry-I believe it even says that in the original article. And WHY would one race have the market cornered on tragedy, anyway? As to Ella, or Billy, or Aretha, or Bessie Smith, I suspect that when they were 24 or younger that a lot of what they sang about was experience that they had not had yet, either. had enough, you are either simply ignorant (best case scenario) or the most insidious kind of prejudiced scum who plays on old stereotypes, pretending to uplift one group, while actually keeping them down with your nonsense, insulting the intelligence and humanity of the rest of us in the bargain.
