Winehouse album is UK top-seller

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 22 Dec 2007, 01:58

Amy Winehouse's second album Back to Black is set to be the biggest-selling album of the year.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7155568.stm

You're a junkie and a nobody go fuck yourself, you're a junkie and famous, I'll buy your album

p.s - As it happens I like Amy's music but wouldn't buy the album.

saltysam · Post by **saltysam** » 22 Dec 2007, 10:26

i think she's shit,very depressing voice. i like her version of Valerie though.

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 22 Dec 2007, 13:22

Mark is her biggest fan.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 22 Dec 2007, 16:39

I suspect her music is "good single material" whereby the rest of it is rubbish. I'm too wary about buying it.

romerojpg · Post by **romerojpg** » 22 Dec 2007, 16:48

I wont buy it to fuel her crack habit, no matter how good she is. Same goes for the other scum out there, pirates here I come for dicks like that.

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 22 Dec 2007, 16:51

romerojpg wrote: I come for dicks like that.

You are such a fag.

romerojpg · Post by **romerojpg** » 22 Dec 2007, 17:25

Mmmmm dick.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 22 Dec 2007, 17:59

@ Romero:

romerojpg wrote:pirates here I come for dicks like that.

What?

gasteropod · Post by **gasteropod** » 22 Dec 2007, 19:24

The album's all right, 'Back to Black' is the best track.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 22 Dec 2007, 20:13

I like Rehab.

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 22 Dec 2007, 23:17

I find her voice irritating and affected (and I wouldn't touch her fanny with yours...) although like Sam said: her cover of 'Valerie' isn't bad.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 25 Dec 2007, 23:32

I got this for Xmas

. I've not listened to it yet.

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 26 Dec 2007, 00:26

Lucky you.

Hope you got the receipt with it.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 26 Dec 2007, 01:53

bradavon wrote:p.s - As it happens I like Amy's music but wouldn't buy the album.

I'll listen to it first.

Lourdes · Post by **Lourdes** » 26 Dec 2007, 02:05

Drugs and the music business, a new thing.

Shingster · Post by **Shingster** » 28 Dec 2007, 18:44

Indeed Lourdes, I think what's most shocking about Amy Winehouse's success is that she's done so whilst being the first ever musician to be addicted to class-A drugs!

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 29 Dec 2007, 01:22

That was precisely my point

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 29 Dec 2007, 13:30

What about Katie Melua?

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 29 Dec 2007, 14:02

She's considered boring by the self-appointed cultural elite because she doesn't stick needles in her veins or snort half of Colombia up her nose.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 29 Dec 2007, 14:57

No but she does/did smoke weed while writing some of her songs, which explains why the lyrics don't make a lot of sense - "If you were a boat I'd sail you to the shore/If you were a piece of wood I'd nail you to the floor" etc (!)

romerojpg · Post by **romerojpg** » 29 Dec 2007, 15:40

Yeah but Katie makes crap music now, she started ok and turned into a turd. Amy is 10 times the singer she will ever be.

Apparently Amy had sold most the albums before the drugs news came out, so its not down to the drug news. Bet it helped sell a few this Christmas mind you.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 29 Dec 2007, 18:02

grim_tales wrote:What about Katie Melua?

Since when did Katie Melua do drugs?

Markgway wrote:She's considered boring by the self-appointed cultural elite because she doesn't stick needles in her veins or snort half of Colombia up her nose.

Not so. Her single recently went to number 1 and all her albums do well.

She's not tabloid material though and is happier staying well out of it.

grim_tales wrote:No but she does/did smoke weed while writing some of her songs, which explains why the lyrics don't make a lot of sense - "If you were a boat I'd sail you to the shore/If you were a piece of wood I'd nail you to the floor" etc (!)

Really? I never knew that.

It's worth making a distinction from Class A and more weaker drugs. Weed is really no different from Alcohol, both are equally addictive too. I'm not saying it should be legal just that the two are not in the same league.

Some of the best song writing ever produced makes no "initial" sense.

romerojpg wrote:Yeah but Katie makes crap music now, she started ok and turned into a turd. Amy is 10 times the singer she will ever be..

Why do you say that? Her style is very much the same as he new album yet it's suddenly a turd? Her first album is the best, the second a little weaker but still good. Her third is better.

She's also one of the naturally beautiful women over "our" age range around. She comes across as "normal" instead of all up herself.

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 29 Dec 2007, 18:09

I'm not saying I like her songs... just that she's not considered newsworthy or "cool".

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 29 Dec 2007, 18:17

bradavon wrote:
Markgway wrote:She's considered boring by the self-appointed cultural elite because she doesn't stick needles in her veins or snort half of Colombia up her nose.
Not so. Her single recently went to number 1 and all her albums do well.

Um, in what way does that contradict what I said??

Selling records doesn't mean she's considered "cool" by the media, or the cultural elite who slag her off; it just means a lot of middle of the road people still by records.

She's thought of as dull, in a similar way to Cliff Richard. If he confessed to smoking crack as a youngster his street cred would go up a thousand-fold. It's the society we live in.

But that aside -- I do think her songs are pretty dreary.

Whinehouse usually sounds like a Cat being strangled.....

She's also one of the naturally beautiful women over "our" age range around. She comes across as "normal" instead of all up herself.

Yeah, I'd give her one.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 29 Dec 2007, 18:31

Markgway wrote:I'm not saying I like her songs... just that she's not considered newsworthy or "cool".

Oh sorry. It's a weird thing. Melua is not just like Meg Ryan. The truth is most (not all) celebs who appear in the papers are there because deliberately or inadvertently they put themselves there.

Melua isn't interested so doesn't do anything to put herself in the papers and thus isn't.

Markgway wrote:Um, in what way does that contradict what I said??

It doesn't hugely, just that she isn't considered boring is all.

Markgway wrote:it just means a lot of middle of the road people still by records.

Online sales are also considered sales now too, many of which are bought by kids. What do you mean by "middle of the road"? Most people buy their music still.

Markgway wrote:She's thought of as dull, in a similar way to Cliff Richard.

In tabloids yes but not musical press. At least she didn't use to be.

Markgway wrote:But that aside -- I do think her songs are pretty dreary.

To be fair that is the style.

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