Amy Winehouse statue in London

What an absolutely monstrosity.

Meryl Streep ....tic....toc

Princess Margaret

The statue is awful, but I'd say Amy was much more than marginally talented

I think this is worse than that first Lucy statue.

Did her family approve this?

I don't know who this Amy person was, but shit man don't *I* deserve a statue too???

Amy was incredibly talented and is a huge loss. I think she'd find this statue funny and droll.

Peaches Geldof

Oi!! Where's me fuckin' statue, you cunts?

Idolatory!

Amy is one of the all-time greats. That statue is awful.

Walking dead

Isn't it enough that I became anorexic? Do I have to fucken OD?

Good thing it’s not here in the US. It’d be torn down.

Can we get a Naya statue her in the US?

Was her father there still lying and denying Amy was still drinking, like he did right up until the top report said she drank herself to death?

TOX report!

Aw, man. Back in the day, I used to hang out at Dlisted, and loved the Amy Winehouse posts. She was much beloved there. My favorite time is when she went to St. Lucia and enjoyed herself there.

Here’s a nice photo from that time. Mostly she was a shambles, but I like to think this was a nice day for her. Horses are quite intuitive and can be therapeutic. Wish she’d spent more time with them.

She was a white girl who sang black-style.

let's just build a monument to Cardi B and get it over with

R11, thank you, Sarah Ruth Parker.

Fuk you, I wasn’t a fan but she was great

Amy Winehouse was not "marginally talented" she was the real deal.

Exactly R24. Love that picture R19, I hope she had the best day and it gave her comfort. She was incredibly gifted but a complicated person, not uncommon. The statue is fugly but I bet she'd pee herself laughing over it.

I just wish she'd come out of her dark days still with us, but I'll always be grateful for her music.

She was good at imitating the black singing style, but that's all.

She was an excellent singer and songwriter.

Gifted. A terrible loss. E

R3 LMAO

The statue should portray her taking her crackpipe out of her ratty beehive, as she memorably did once in concert.

She had one successful album wherein she just mimicked a 50 year old musical style, released no material at all for the next 5 years, and then OD’d. A real loss.

The worst of it is the smeared pink lipstick and bracelet. You somehow expect to her recorded voice yelling, "Blaaaakkkkke!"

I enjoyed her work, but I can't imagine why anyone thought commemorating her with a statue would be a good idea.

There are some videos of her wasted and trying to perform on stage, really terrible.

I guarantee that in 50 years our society will be sufficiently changed for them to demand that this statue be cut down and thrown in the nearest canal.

I’m sure she said a bad thing once — time to knock it down?

I'm sure the UK Division of Cancel Culture will find some tweet or email from 5 or fifteen years ago in order to tear this thing down.

[quote]She had one successful album wherein she just mimicked a 50 year old musical style, released no material at all for the next 5 years, and then OD’d. A real loss.

She had two successful albums, wrote or co-wrote all of her own material and her vocal style was not a mere imitation, it was unique.

How would one describe her 'vocal style'?

Did she always need microphones?

Amy Winehouse possessed a vocal Range of 3 Octaves and one semitone D3-Eb6. Typically, she was a contralto. She had a unique and so easily recognizable voice. Naturally proficient vocalist with an extraordinary technique and splendidly individual phrasing.

Her talent was like lightning in a bottle. That's why I think something as....stolid (?!) as a sculpture is misguided. A painting, on the other hand....

R40 Well said. She was beautiful, and had a beautiful gift.

I loved her ballet slippers. And wifebeater and beehive and eyeliner. She reminded me of Little Edie, actually. She just did her own thing and didn’t give a fuck what people thought, and was quite eccentric.

While I enjoyed her music, I loved her hot mess-ness. There was no one quite like her.

Was she an idol to Women?

And to the Vulnerable?

She was so unique and special, I still listen to her music. Why do the truly talented ones always seem to have so many problems? A shame she isn't still around.

Both R20 and R26 make me sick.

Does the statue also smell as bad as Amy looked like she smelled in real life?

She was anti black, right? Anti gay? Hated trans? Please, god. PLEASE...

Statue. Must. Be. Taken. Down...now...

R46 Why do R20 and R26 make you sick?

Cultural appropriation?

I say, NO, NO, NO!!

I've always loved this video where Noel Fielding kisses her on the cheek and, even though they both look extremely fucked up, she still has enough wits about her to wipe her face as she walks away.

R49 I suppose [italic] allegations [/italic] of cultural appropriation do, especially in Amy's case. That was her natural voice. It's not as if she sang differently at other times. She never affected a black or urban dialect either. If she sounds black to people, I suggest it's both coincidence and the style of her singing.

She wasn't imitating anything specific to a black person. Such statements are the musical equivalent of a black person saying one of his own "talks too white". It's fundamentally racist to make such rubbish statements in the first place. These comments are typical of some very nasty black posters who have suddenly popped up in each and every thread lately, They're racists, and they're intentionally being very divisive.

Many claim they've all popped on over from LA, but I'm not sure. I'm entirely sure that I'm sick of them however.

Good times

"Her talent was like lightning in a bottle."

Mostly from a bottle.