How should Amy Winehouse be remembered? The most gifted breakthrough British pop star of the 2000s would have been 40 next week. Instead, she died in 2011 aged 27. Her downfall took place under callously voyeuristic circumstances. The media turned her ruination with drink and drugs into entertainment. She was scrutinised minutely but wrongly, as if in a distorting mirror. Meanwhile, the songs that she wrote about her suffering were not cathartic in that they failed to alleviate it.
人們應該如何懷念艾米•懷恩豪斯?下週就是這位21世紀最有天賦、最具突破的英國流行歌手的40歲生日。但她已於2011年去世,存年27歲。她的隕落是在無情的偷窺環境下發生的。媒體把她的酗酒和吸毒變成了娛樂。她被無孔不入而錯誤地審視著,就像在一面扭曲的鏡子裏。與此同時,她寫的關於自己痛苦的歌曲並不是宣洩,因爲它們沒有減輕痛苦。