Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Judith Fitzgerald ...

... on Amy Winehouse: MuseSplashes - The Globe and Mail. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Deeply distressed, terminally self-destructive and incomprehensibly tormented, the ne-plus-ultra-talented OneOf responsible for tunes the calibre of Stronger Than Me, Take The Box, You Know I'm No Good, Love Is a Losing Game and Back to Black ultimately proved herself incapable of either picking up the kaleidoscopic array of jagged ragged pieces or allowing the precious few around her who truly gave a damn, who did genuinely love and care for her to do something — anything — to help push her towards the kinds of care and unconditional love Winehouse so desperately craved and literally cried out to receive, to pull the emergency brake on her ever-escalating, always accelerating downward descent.

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  1. This is very sad indeed. I keep listening to Back to Black and mourning the passing of such talent.

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