Blog: Idolator

Perpetually troubled singer Amy Winehouse returned to performing on TV over the weekend on the UK show Strictly Come Dancing , where she was a backup singer for her goddaughter Dionne Bromfield's performance of the Shirelles classic "Mama Said." Bromfield's performance sort of gave me the eerie feeling that I'd get when I watched Winehouse sing live before her well-documented troubles-technically she sounded pretty spot-on, but the 13-year-old singer's performance was somewhat lifeless. (You couldn't really tell if the "days like this" of which she sang were truly dark, or just, like, days when she'd burned her toast.) As [...]