presumably you're joking, but i don't really see the comparison
Yeah, this is kinda how I felt I think - the songs were always pleasant enough but struck me far more as pastiche than something that I could really fall in love with. Not that that makes her death any less tragic obviously and maybe it's not something that I need to be writing about here."back to blacks 60s ULTRA retroisms always bugged me a bit - it was a bit kitsch"
saw the docu on ch4 last night which altho i knew blake was the inspiration for back to black just made me think a) he was a complete cunt b) she must have been seriously fucked in the head to have fallen that hard and to basically do whatever he told her to do (like take all the drugs he said she should try). really fucking tragic. but also fucking irritating in a way. i wanted someone to have slapped her and told her to fix herself up, not just have her parents on a stupid radio 2 phone in. i do love her however, and think she was an incredible songwriter/singer/personality but back to blacks 60s ULTRA retroisms always bugged me a bit - it was a bit kitsch. also awful to see how her look/body changed after the first album where she looked so much better.
what i wonder is how much of her pain was really there to begin with or did she love billie holiday and that generation of tragic heroines so much she wanted to destroy herself in order to simulate some of that suffering she thought would bring her closer to their greatness, and maybe once she started, she couldnt stop, and ended up living it for real, destroying herself cos she couldnt help it anymore, she became like the hard living figures she idolised to her own detriment. even more tragic if so, but without wanting to sound cruel, also pathetic, sad as that is. impossible to know of course. and i sympathise with addicts (and from personal exp, i know its near fucking impossible to make an alcoholic quit if they dont want to), i dont think we should kick them when theyre down, i suppose im still unsure how she slipped so rapidly, and from the looks of it, so readily. or was she always just that susceptible to someone as manipulative as her husband.
what i wonder is how much of her pain was really there to begin with or did she love billie holiday and that generation of tragic heroines so much she wanted to destroy herself in order to simulate some of that suffering she thought would bring her closer to their greatness
For being a mediocre jazz singer?"This is a lot of effort for someone who deserved death."
For being a mediocre jazz singer?
For being a mediocre jazz singer?