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Despite the reto pastiche and the Ronnie Spector beehive, this girl is a genuine talent. Which makes her tragic missteps all the more frustrating. In a pop culture where music is churned out like Big Macs, driven by the same hand full of hip hop producers and inter-changable gamines of questionable vocal expertise(Britanny Spears)even in her obvious ode to the old school Ms. Winehouse is refreshingly authentic. And a helluva lot more interesting than any American pop star to break since Lauryn Hill went underground. And if her pain fuels her art, so be it. Let's hope that she can survive it and come back with a CD just as good, if not better, than her previous efforts.
