We Failed Amy Winehouse
July 25, 2023 at 12:21AMIn this excerpt from Girls, Interrupted: How Pop Culture Is Failing Women, Lisa Whittington-Hill examines the different ways we remember Kurt Cobain and Amy Winehouse. An analysis that raises some uncomfortable gender questions.
Both Winehouse and Cobain had a complicated relationship with fame, resenting their success once the whole machine got too big. The singers didn’t want all the fancy things their hit songs and sold-out shows afforded: they just wanted to play music. “My music is not on that scale. Sometimes I wish it was, but I don’t think I am going to be at all famous. I don’t think I could handle it. I’d probably go mad,” Winehouse says, in the 2015 documentary Amy, of her pre–Back to Black status, describing fame as a “scary thing.”
from Longreads https://longreads.com/2023/07/24/we-failed-amy-winehouse/
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