Amy Winehouse: A Bad Girl with a Touch of Genius

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“It’s hard to see that cheap and pull it,” said John Waters, with admiration for Amy Winehouse, days after the English singer was found dead in his bed in London.

He was right. It takes a kind of genius.

And the genius was in possession of something very Amy Winehouse, singer, unhappy, some have suggested, had more gifts than he has been able to use.

There was a song, of course, praised the fact that at the same time, blues, jazz-bent, and somewhat punk. Phrasing was so unique, that Miss Winehouse could extend the note until it threatened to snap and then top it wisely vibrato vibrator. It was songs, including a child, a simple three-note melodies, which are left to their head, and words can easily cuts through the heart surgery mauling and genre conventions.

Is there another woman that could take a straight love song to a girl (”Valerie”) or take a hit from a song in which she refers to her boyfriend that his “lady-boy”?

Like many other things about the character of Ms. Winehouse visual concocted during his brief career melted instinct of cunning. It was an almanac of 5 feet 3 inches from the visual reference, most famous for Ronnie Spector of The Ronettes, but also that the white British soul singer Mari Wilson, less famous for its sound than its hive, the punk god Johnny Thunders (for a full investigation of this legendary rocker / junkie / style god tonsorial history, see the Facebook page dedicated to her hair) that massive hall that gave children an endless source of inspiration for fashion (see tracks Dior and Chanel, 2007 and 2008), rat-combed Mölls biker shot by Swiss photographer Karlheinz Weinberger in 1960, a race of bad girls, stretching from Cleopatra to Lulu Louise Brooks in Salt-N-Pepa, traps man irresistible that always seems to come to the same unfortunate end.

Rock ‘Rock’ n ‘it’s bad girls, “said Waters. Or at least it used to be.

Ms. Winehouse, told the instructor that kind of girl he hung out with in high school, a “hair-hopper.” But she was not born a dry hopper, an outlaw natural or gangsters the photos of his early career to make it clear.

At first, “Frank” when she released her first album, Amy Winehouse turned out to be a beautiful form embarrassed to be convinced of her attraction (”I’m ugly,” she said repeatedly in interviews) A woman whose conservative tastes in clothes gave no indication of the transformation it would be the effect when she published her second and final album, “Back to Black”.