First Time Hearing Amy Winehouse Back to Black (Reaction!!) 

no dude not first time

I need to know how to send a song in and donate.

@@carygrady4989under the title of the song you’ll see ‘ More’.. click on it and you’ll see another link for requests and donations

Have you had a chance to listen to Duffy? Amy is up there with the great jazz sisters for me and I get goosebumps listening to her. ❤

Amy would be glad to hear your respectful and emotional reaction, comparing her voice to Nina’s 💜

Bought the Frank album at the time - less produced than Ronson, but screams the jazz influences.

Amy was a huge fan of Jazz and blues, she member of the National Youth Jazz Orchestra during her youth and as she got older would frequent jazz and blues clubs around London, I think it had a huge influence on her and the music she enjoyed to listen to as well as play ❤️

I love Amy so much how tragic, please please check out the young and humbling ANGELINA JORDAN, you won’t regret it. 🙏🙏RIP🙏🙏AMY♥️🌺🙏

Also this live performance of the song with The Dap Kings is INCREDIBLE. just electric ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ANIKZVKm1Sg.html

My condolences for the loss of a friend.🌹

Yeah of course you were

Amy went to Sylvia Young's Theatre school, same school as my son. She was expelled from the school, she clearly knew there was not much they could teach her, clearly she was right. Sylvia Young was also Jewish and would often wave the school fee for exceptional talent, Amy was in that category.

@@thomasmain5986 what’s her being a Jew got anything to do with it

She was one of the greatest singer/songwriters of all time. Not decade

Why would you replicate anything or anyone? Make it your own , muchbetter than being a bad Amy .

Nationality and gender do not matter when it comes to talent of this height. She was simply one of the greatest singer/songwriters of all time.

😂😂😂😂😂😂

Definately the best before Thw current queen. Amy was the first.

Ooh, not convinced. Dusty Springfield singing Spooky gives me chills like Amy singing back to black. Both were amazing

@saydvoncripps music is intensely personal. So my opinion is exactly that, my opinion. I can fully understand others having their own favourite. But Amy speaks to my soul in a way no-one else has ever.

I wouldn’t go that far….but yes she is very good.

Well thats subjective, but she was definitely up there .

I’d say she’s about the same as Adele (in terms of how good they are). But I prefer Adele, because it’s more nostalgic for me.

AW, was up there with the best of them. ( Musicians)🤔. Just my opinion..... Thank you for your reactions 🙏

she was........

And that’s the class, honestly. Ella, Billie, Sarah. Tony knows that so it’s major for hm to say so, but I mean you could tell in 15 sec so

I miss her music 😭😭

He said she sounded like Dinah Washington

Many generations 😢

And, a pERSON died, not only an artist. From all accounts she was a loyal, kind, sweet person. She deserved better. RIP

Amy was horribly exploited. She just wanted to make music. Fame destroyed her. And yeah. Bad people in her life. She was a raw open nerve to the world around her. So sad the price paid so often for great art....we cherish what she left behind.

Just an everyday kid with an extraordinary gift.

Oh and Back to black acoustic is gold as well!!! ❤️

Acoustic! Yes. Thats her in her purest rawest... is that a word? Lol best

Came to say the same. It’s one of my favorite covers

Omg, yes please. Valerie the live Version

Shoutout to The Zutons for Valerie.

She nailed Valerie

I concur! The acoustic live version. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6pAz9UpnRKw.html

@@jamesgirard4463 Agreed!

true x

Absolutely true, you summarised her life in one sentence ❤

And the Ronettes.

I just discovered her RN, do you have any recommendations? So far i love this song, and stronger than me.

@@peeoncarl6 oh, sure. Stronger than me is for Frank album, this is her first. Her second album, Back to black is obviously her most famous and emotional album. And the third album, Lioness: hidden treasure. You can find here original Tears dry version.

@@peeoncarl6 this third album was released after her death.

@@peeoncarl6 if you want live performances you should start looking from end of 2006 and beginning of 2007 till August. Later she was still awesome, but not in good shape, so for begging that will be great. From Frank album you can also find some great performances in 2004. She had great gig in church in 2006, this was brilliant

What's your favorite song from her? Yes, this was my first time hearing her voice. I'd heard of her before though.

@@poloreacts27 You Know I'm No Good

@@poloreacts27 idk if I can pick a favorite but check out her singing "Valerie" acoustic. She's just sitting on a couch with a microphone and it's definitely one of my favs. 🔥☺️

@@poloreacts27 VALERIE acoustic is GOLD!

@@poloreacts27 listen to her version of Will you still love me tomorrow. It’s beautiful.

She did have help apparently and rehab…she had bad ongoing bulimia which killed her!

Her family and associates ignored her eating disorder. ED’s are the number one killer of all mental illnesses.

Check out Angelina Jordan. She also has a voice like Nina/Billie/Amy. She covered this song when she was 10 years old, live and had to read the lyrics but still crushed it. Her voice is not quite as deep as Amy's here as she was 10 but she can hit it now ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ICY1uJe15cM.html She also did Valerie at 12 years old ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sqmJLkgk2Ik.html I get chills listening to Angelina just like I do when I hear Amy

Rm Andromeda Does she write her own songs though? That's to me a big part of Amy too, the songs came from her heart, it was her story.

@@teijaflink2226 She has written 5 songs but she is only 16 years old. One of them was about her heartbreak after her grandfather died. She is amazing, as was Amy

Tears dry on their own 😕😕

Tears Dry.

They were also perfect for Sharon.

Really, as they say in Pulp Fiction, “that’s a bold statement…” This will change your mind: “Caught Out in The Rain” (2018, original) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lzdJf7Hqttk.html “Am I The One” (2004, original ): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hZG3MghkX3Q.html “I’d Rather Go Blind” (2013, Etta James cover): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-UEHwO_UEp7A.html “Mama” (2004, original): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-q2DVaSDMRMg.html “A Change is Gonna Come” (2010, Sam Cooke cover): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QnIL8AKWRNQ.html

@@ben-schulman Most of what you sent are covers of songs from the 20th century. Also, name an artist from the 21st century who had better lyricism than Amy.

​@@ilovemusic5558 I think I already did. Listen, everybody likes the artist they like. My point was simply that it is silly to think the one you or me like best is the GOAT. What is true is that, in spite of the many phenomenal artists out there, there are only a handful of truly elite, special artists currently active today. These are artists like Floor Jansen, Lara Fabian, Angela Jordan, and Beth Hart. Would Amy have fit into that group? Probably, but death at an early age means your discography is limited to 2 studio albums, magnified fame, and a lot of unrealized potential. Beth nearly met the exact same fate with rising fame in 1999 and near death from mental illness, drug addiction, and anorexia at age 27. Fortunately, she is such the survivor that she made it through and has produced 13 studio albums and 4 live albums. Now, what I sent you was 5 performances between 2004 and 2018 to demonstrate her phenomenal vocal power, range, tone, skill, stage presence, musicianship, and song writing talent. Only 2 of the 5 were covers (that's not "most"). She writes her own music and lyrics but is also well known for her studio collaborations with guitarist Joe Bonamassa with whom she produced 3 cover blues and soul cover albums in 2011, 2013, & 2018. (This is also the reason the 2 coves are not from the 21st century--they're classic blues & soul standards). Because she died early, Amy's career lasted less than a decade. It would have been the same for Beth , who was more of a rock n roller at the time, if she hadn't survived (although not the same level of fame Amy had achieved). After getting booted from Atlantic Records in 2000 (drugs & mental instability), Beth resurrected herself as a big star in Europe (2003-2011) and then again in the US (2012 to present). She has produced 7 #1 Blues albums after the age of 41. Because she survived, Beth's phenomenal talent has continued to evolve and expand from Rock and Blues-Rock, to Blues, R&B, Jazz, and American Ballads. So, it's hard to claim an artist is the greatest in the "21st century" and that no other "has even scratched the surface of her talent" when they have produced little in the way of a discography and had insufficient time to grow, develop, and realized their full potential. Hopefully, though, apart from AW, you'll see there are a few select living musicians that are simply breath-taking every time they perform. Here's 5 more performances that demonstrate the mind blowing range and talent of BH. Enjoy: “Mechanical Heart” (from ‘Live in Inas Nacht’ in Hamburg, Germany, Sept 2022; original song about her husband): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ovBwnRhOziQ.html "House of Sin” (original from 2005 Pinkpop Festival in Landgraaf, Netherlands): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-yLv0QuW8hHo.html “Sister Heroine” (from the 2018 Royal Albert Hall concert; about losing an older sister to AIDS): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uT7_ZPIAoC4.html “Whole Lotta Love” (killer acoustic version of the Zeppelin song in a tiny French radio studio, 2012): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lUaut2m4YaI.html “Lay Your Hands on Me” (original from the 2004 Paradiso concert; Beth on the keys): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-c68YQrIL4q0.html

You clearly don’t know the difference between the 20th and 21st century.

@@ilovemusic5558 I thought I was eminently clear--although Beth had her 1st major label record in AD 1996 (the 20th century), she forged the vast majority of her work post 2000 (the 21st century). Amy was born in 1983 and Beth in 1972. Amy's first album (Frank) was released in 2003 and second (Back to Black) in 2006--both early 2st century as you so astutely observed. Beth's first two albums with Atlantic Records were released in 1996 & 1999. Her career resurrection--the part Amy never got the chance to do--was also in 2003 (also the 21st century) with Leave The Light On. Now, at 50, she's tackled rock n roll's most hallowed ground with her 'Tribute to Led Zeppelin' album released in February 2022 and is not even close to peaking. Clearly way beyond "scratching the surface of (Amy's) talent"...but everybody has an opinion, but it doesn't necessarily mean the opinion comports with the facts.

Valerie was a cover version.

Her cover version of The Zuton's song Valerie.

Well said

I agree 100%

"Black" is her word for depression, alcohol abuse, etc.

And then she joined him. His was pearl, hers was black.

Yes that song is an amazing song and it has been there to lift me up so many times

This song was co written with Mark Ronson. It says so in the sleeve notes of the album.

@@pobstrelhe helped her refine it for the radio but she wrote the song on her own in an hour. She was a genius.

I agree

Adele would be irrelevant if Amy was still alive

@@Lass1888 This is funny bcz Adele released 21 when Amy was alive n outperformed her albums💀u guys like overrating artist after they've passed away

Man, that is what I just wrote too. I loved it🔥🔥🔥

sit down

So not true! She was an incredible talent but she had some stinkers

@@MySpottyGirlfriendshe really didn’t. The only bad performances were towards the end when she was in the throes of her demons. And those aren’t even performances. It is a troubled soul being exploited on stage, incoherent and therefore incapable of lucidly performing

how was that like ?

@@rad6852 she was on top form the first time and her voice live was something else. The second time she was clearly unwell and it wasn’t so good to see

Thanks for this!!!!!!❤