Someone’s Gotta Say It … Amy Winehouse is Famous for Doing an Impersonation of Ronnie Spector
I’ve been letting this go on entirely too long without saying it. And in fact, I would have said it sooner, but I thought there was a possibility that someone with better music credentials would say it. Sure, she’s white, British, has a drugs problem (I love how they pluralize the word “drugs” in this context in the UK) and the songs are updated to include references to the issues of our current social scene, but really, there’s nothing more to her than an acquisition of a certain musical styl
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