No, No, No
The buzz on Amy Winehouse hit before actually I’d seen or heard anything from her.
Great voice, soul, catchy, retro.
These are words gueranteed to catch my attention and then I began to hear what a train wreck of a person she was, which sort of soured me, still, mind you, without actually hearing her and then “Rehab” became this hit and by the time I finally heard it as background in some coffeeshop somewhere, I was predisposed to disinterest.
Meh. Another overhyped Brit.
But then a friend threw the Jay-Z remix on a playlist for me and it caught. I got some free iTunes songs when I bought Hollywood Bowl tickets (which is still SO not enough to make things straight between us, Ticketmaster!!!) and so I got the original version (’cause, free! didn’t count!).
Which was great. And so were the next three songs that I heard, so, now, well, Viva Amy!!! Get down with your bad self.
