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.
人们应该如何怀念艾米•怀恩豪斯?下周就是这位21世纪最有天赋、最具突破的英国流行歌手的40岁生日。但她已于2011年去世,存年27岁。她的陨落是在无情的偷窥环境下发生的。媒体把她的酗酒和吸毒变成了娱乐。她被无孔不入而错误地审视着,就像在一面扭曲的镜子里。与此同时,她写的关于自己痛苦的歌曲并不是宣泄,因为它们没有减轻痛苦。