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Amy Winehouse - Frank
| Musicomh | Teenage female singers tend to fall into one of two categories: the pneumatic pouting sex bomb à la Britney and Christina Aguilera, or the attitude-laden, self-styled misfit image of Avril Lavigne or Amy Studt. Thankfully, 19-year old Amy Winehouse is as far removed from those two stereotypes as you could imagine.
Winehouse has a voice, and songs to match, of a grizzled undiscovered veteran who's spent 40 years playing smoky jazz clubs in Harlem and New Orleans. She was raised on a diet of Sarah Vaughan and Diana Washington and that certainly shows here. Her vocals are a cross between the grittiness of Macy Gray and the sweetness of Erykah Badu and her lyrics are commendably feisty and, as the album title suggests, frank....full text |
| | Guardian | Winehouse sounds as if she has performed a thousand times in smoky jazz clubs. So it comes as some surprise to learn that she is just 19 and was raised in north London.
Sitting somewhere between Nina Simone and Erykah Badu, Winehouse's sound is at once innocent and sleazy. She claims that she can only write about what she has already learned, but she makes some starkly candid and humorous social observations on the fun-poking Fuck Me Pumps and the brazen single, Stronger Than Me....full text |
| | Allmusic | | If a series of unfortunate comparisons (like the ones to follow) cause listeners to equate British vocalist Amy Winehouse with Macy Gray, it's only natural. Both come on like a hybrid of Billie Holiday and Lauryn Hill who's had a tipple and then attempted one more late-night set at a supper-club than they should have. Despite her boozy persona and loose-limbed delivery, though, Winehouse is an excellent vocalist possessing both power and subtlety, the latter an increasingly rare commodity among contemporary female vocalists (whether jazz or R&B). What lifts her above Macy Gray is the fact that her music and her career haven't been marketed within an inch of their life....full text |
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