Blog: SFCritic: Music Blog

When "Rehab" made Amy Winehouse American famous (you know as opposed to the rest of the world, which doesn't really count) I wrote her off as bad pop. As a bandwagoneer, I was compelled to listen to her music when she died and joined the "27 club" this July. How pathetic that she had to die to earn real credibility. There really is no one else who makes her unique genre of music. Had she seen a therapist and successfully made it through rehab a clean and sober Amy, would this music even exist? Its hard to say, not to [...]