Run around so I don't have to think about thinking.
That silent sense of content that everyone gets,
Just disappears as soon as the sun sets. Amy Winehouse - Wake Up Alone
If there was ever a soul singer to rewrite music in the 21st century, it would be Amy. You can have your Adeles and your Duffys and any other female singer, but they will never achieve what I like to call "The Winehouse Effect". Listen to any song of hers, and the melancholy is incomparable, the message conveyed in swaying rhythms clear as day - its almost impossible to find emotion like that in music nowadays. So take a moment and listen to her for once for what she wanted you to hear, not judging her for all the drug stories and drunk escapades that were her private life. Its not our business to know what she got up to in her free time - she could have been a mass murderer for all I care - she is a true icon (you can't mistake that beehive and eyeliner combo) with an astounding voice that will not be forgotten.
Plus she had some pretty damn cool tattoos.
I've chosen a live video of Wake Up Alone, because it seems more personal than any other version. This has been haunting my thoughts all day and yesterday, but I'm not sorry.
One of her more upbeat singles, the unmistakable riff in this is amazing. I like her video, aswell.
