Is any musician less pleasant to look at than Amy Winehouse?

what do you play again?

http://www.bossip.com/uploaded_images/amywinehouse1-742882.jpg

Right-hand side only, obv.

She looks pretty awful, I admit. And her make-up is ugly too.

I like looking at her. You stare at her when she's singing in her scowling way that there's so much going on behind those eyes.

Is she eating a rattle-snake in that first picture?

shaun ryder? more going on behind the eyes tho.

Amy Winehouse >>>>>>>> 90% of other female singers.

only sophie ellis bextor can compete in stare-at-ability.

they're like picassos in a gallery full of renaissance artworks.

http://www2.isye.gatech.edu/~sman/mike/ireland/People/shane.jpg

http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/9306/shanemacgowan1pk.jpg

Kiss me, you toothless bastard.

Oh dear christ, that bottom picture I hoped I'd never see again. Toothlessness would be an improvement over the Stonehenge thing he's got going on in his lower jaw.

haha

i like how he's got all those gin and tonics lined up in the first pic.

i saw an article about this in the news of the world this morning

Then = hott
Now = nott.

Why do lady pop stars always do this? Lauren Laverne was a lot finer when she had curves.

yeah even posh looked better when she had some puppy fat

Who really cares? Just listen to her music, looking is not necessary.

Why do lady pop stars always do this?

Yeah, Beth Ditto is just a shadow of her former self.

'pop' 'stars'.

she's been on the front of heat oldboy

Iggy Pop, loads of other men look far worse than Winehouse even now

Winehouse looks great in that 'Then' pic. on a facile note I just wish she'd cut half her hair off and ditch those fake lashes.

"a desperate attempt to clinging onto fame"? if you hadn't noticed her star is kinda on the rise dude.

Who really cares? Just listen to her music, looking is not necessary.

-- Ms Misery, Wednesday, July 18, 2007 2:16 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

thanks but i'll rub along doing neither if i can help it.

Absolutely smoking in the "then" picture. Somebody order her a pizza.

i would hit her "then," but then I have a meaty jewish gal fetish…

"her" = "it"

i would hit her "then," but then I have a meaty jewish gal fetish…

-- Veronica Moser, Wednesday, July 18, 2007 4:06 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link

hi dom

"her" = "it"

glad you changed this, was quite offensive before

Is she a pop singer or a model? I don't give a flying fuck if she's attractive (and she is at least interesting looking, I think), and at the risk of being a predictable p.c. leftist, I DO think there's inherent sexism in the question.

sexi as *all* hell in both those pics yeah i agree completely.

Also, the thread-starter pic looks like a sneak shot taken outside her apartment - "WTF, why aren't you sexy when you go to get your newspaper in the morning?"

(or mail, from the looks of it)

between her head and the wall, propped up like a pillow -- is that an EXTRA SET OF HAIR?

Take the butt-plugs out fellas and stop bitching.

i thought it was the other way around?

she looks fine...and anyway, since when do we want our musicians to look "normal"?

Take the bitches out and stop butt-plugging? You're right, my bad.

SHIT PEOPLE SHE LOOKS FUCKING NORMAL

maybe she got addicted to something

she's actually quite comely, in a back-alley sort of way...

i tried to make her go to rehab, guess what she said?

'mind spa', call it by it's name

http://bedazzled.blogs.com/bedazzled/images/1973__roy_wood0.jpg

http://www.reverseshot.com/system/files/images/El+Topo_2.img_assist_custom.jpg

A diet of snakeskin baguettes (?) will do that to you.

I wouldn't hit it.

she looks kinda fucked up! junkie muscles? hope there's no blow-out or breakdown or anything--i like her music, even though it's getting a little played out. then again maybe a strung-out-sounding winehouse is a good thing. STAY STRONG AMY

O RLY? X-POST

I've never heard any of her tunes.

I'm homosexual.

I'd probably hit both the "then" and "now" Winehouse.

i.e. i think teh gays love her. i hear that shit all the time.

I can't see how anyone'd find the "now" picture attractive... What's wrong with you people, is anorexia sexy?

The anorexia is fine, it's the make up I dont like. Or the music.

i thought this thread was about piling on how she looks now, who said that

she has a pretty awesome trainwreck look going on right now, tuomas for a radical feminist surely you should figure who cares if you or any of the other nerds on this thread would hit it

Ooh, tough guy! What does "awesome trainwreck look" even mean?

I don't think anorexia is sexy. I'm just horny. Plus, she doesn't look that bad. I still think she needs a couple protein shakes to get back to her prime.

this thread is HORRIBLE what is wrong with you people

55 new answers and no markesmith.jpg? You're slipping, people.

i.e. i think teh gays love her. i hear that shit all the time.

-- strgn, Wednesday, July 18, 2007 9:35 PM (47 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

i think you mean british people.

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40465000/jpg/_40465115_smith_203.jpg
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40465000/jpg/_40465115_smith_203.jpg
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40465000/jpg/_40465115_smith_203.jpg

GOOD MAN.

I AM TO PLEASE

I MEAN I AIM TO PLEASE

ARE YOU PLEASING?

FANTASTIC LIFE

RAGGETT, YOU AIM TOO, PLEASE.

Ooh, tough guy! What does "awesome trainwreck look" even mean?

im not a guy

and you know, theatrical hair, half dressed, tattoos of own grandma w/her baps out, weight indicative perhaps of self destructive behavior...she doesn't look so healthy but she looks like a rockstar. her music is ok.

It's never really worth trying to answer a Tuomas "What does X even mean?" question, you know. Pretty soon you're explaining sandwiches or something.

HI DERE WAHT IS PB&J MAED

http://www.superchefblog.com/images/goobergrape_72dpi200x300pxl.png

How do you wrap the bread around the jar?

this shit is just about the most depressing shit in the world. God, get this woman a pizza!

MATT ARMSTRONG HAS WEIGHED IN ON WINEHOUSE'S WEIGHT

SOMEONE BLEND MARK E SMITH A PIZZA.

WHATS A COMPUTA

i just delivered a 14 inch peperoni her way

BAN WHATEVER

i like Mr Que sometimes

ban pizza hut

she needs some jay robb and a fucking bowflex

and extra topping no doubt

iwantgoobergrape

BAN WHATEVER

i am surprised by her success in the States

This just in: Amy Winehouse has signed a deal to star in shemale porn.

I don't fully understand that but I'm just reporting the facts, ma'am.

do ban requests make me more IMPORTANT or just BIGGER?

ryvitapr0n

i don't know what we're talking about now exactly but i think amy winehouse looks like not awful, but her hair looks dirty and she's definitely too skinny, her legs are pretty embarrassing

also her makeup could change it up a bit.

it's her peronsality that irritates me more, not that i know much of it but she seems so self-righteous. it's like what are you being self-righteous about, being a musician with a troubled drug habit? i dunno

the 'shooting her mouth off about other shitty bands' is the best thing about her by mileage

http://www.geocities.com/hollywood/lot/6448/real_mill.jpgThis is not my opinion. Empirical studies and extensive record company market research conclusively determined that Brad Howell and John Davis (faces superimposed over Rob and Fab in photo) were so hideous to the eye that this beautiful record would not sell if their ghastly faces were exposed.

surmounter atypically otm. plus she looks bad in then and now photos, ffs.

I'm jealous of this thread's activity level relative to the cheryl cole vs. lily allen thread.

I feel like I saw her in my neighborhood. But, then I figured those stripper girl tattoos on the arm were just a hip thing to do these days. In any case, the girl I saw was short and skinny and I felt compelled NOT to look at her at all as I sped up to pass her. It was a pain, too, because she was basically almost walking my same pace, so it took a while. >:(

when the fuck did people start reposting PEREZ HILTON PICTURES on ilm. delete humanity

maura otm x infinity

Very depressing thread.

Crack chic is the new heroin chic, where have you been ppl

threads like this seriously make me question whether to delete ilx from my bookmarks. the misogynist scum on here make me want to puke.

I'm not saying it's misogynist by any means because several boys have gotten some on this very thread, but I also think it aint nice.

It's the complete lack of any (admittedly deeply unfashionable and uncool) sentiment like 'concern' that gets me.

ilm: We may spend our days masturbating over the rotting corpse of popular music, but dahling we're sooo witty about it, you just wouldn't believe it.

i must say the bleeding heart morons are more entertaining than the callous 'misogynists'

isn't the general message of the thread that Amy has lost way too much weight and looked better when healthy and voluptuous? What's so misogynistic about that?

Why the fake eyelashes??? And Mark E. Smith pictures should be like that tap dancing guy on Showtime At the Apollo who's sole job is to give unpopular things the hook. When a thread starts heading south Mark will start to make his appearance.

matt otm

I don't know about you, but *I* am shockingly witty.

to the extent to which it's misogynistic it is bc whooooo gives two shits, is there ever a long shitty thread about how x male pop star could no longer get it from loser music critics posting on an internet message board

mark e smith used to be fuckable maybe if he adopted healthier behavior we could go back to enjoying cute mark i'm just concerned

this thread is still not as bad as the thread about pazz & jop results if you only count female critics. that was a long time ago but it's burned into my memory, every time i checked it i turned LUG for 45 minutes afterwards

misogynist is giving this thread way too much meaning, sry. just a thread a bout a girl who looks kinda shitty. no big fuckin deal. people just need crap to talk about, that's like the point of any thread

what i'm saying is ilx sucks

then go away.

silenced by the patriarchy yet again

As a female I would like to say she looks like a skank.

There, that redress the balance?

EAT YERSELF FITTER!

http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r33/butasamb/bloggin/amy.jpg

yes thx trayce

like can't she afford a tooth?

just a thread a bout a girl who looks kinda shitty. no big fuckin deal. people just need crap to talk about, that's like the point of any thread
What a piece of work is a man. How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty.

who are you?

Self-righteous Shakespeare misquoter, by the looks of it.

erganom v stet: the battle for ILX's most valuable contributor

Ooooh I am such a bitch!

I was going to ban this annoying 597 troll but unfortunately he shares an IP address, completely coincidentally, with Acrobat. And we wouldn't want another innocent poster banned so quickly would we?

Well, you were right about Ferg and Marcello being the same person Matt, so you go with your instinct.

Nah, I wouldn't want it to affect Acrobat, who I'm sure has nothing whatsoever to do with any of this at all.

I was just passing by and saw some ugly kids kicking a sick animal. Apologies that the bleeding heart moron in me wanted to make them stop. I'll be on my way, feel free to resume your incisive discussion.

who's worse, people saying she's an idiot or people saying "o she has demons like nina simone etc". they're encouraging her.

I don't know anything about her, but it looks like at one time she used to look happy. The first time I saw her was the Rolling Stone cover with all her tattoos recently and then I seemed to hear about her quite a bit for a while and I was like, "who is this person?" Then, I saw her walking down my block. Now, I'm wondering: does she have a drug problem or something? Not like I care, but you've all made me curious.

and you know, theatrical hair, half dressed, tattoos of own grandma w/her baps out, weight indicative perhaps of self destructive behavior...she doesn't look so healthy but she looks like a rockstar.

Well, that's exactly the thing I don't understand, I don't see how self-destructiveness could ever be "awesome". To me it's just sad. But I've never listened to rock, so maybe I just don't get it.

597 is jekyll to acrobat's jamesy nesbitts

i didnt read this thread but i would bang the shit out of that bitch

Okay, I found this, which I guess explains all I need to know:

" Talking before her recent marriage to husband Blake Fielder-Civil, she ranted about her new found superstardom.

‘I’m not in this to be a fucking role model’ she insisted.

Fielder-Civil, joined her at the interview in the Toad Hall pub, New York, reportedly threatening a drinker, asking the interviewer: ‘Tell the guy who looks like he has leukaemia I’m going to slit his throat.’

According to reports the jazz songstress then cut into her stomach after posing with a shard of mirror for the photo shoot.

She then went to the toilet several times, repeatedly checking her nose with the piece of mirror.

As talented as she is, I’m afraid that what Amy Winehouse doesn’t understand is that after a certain point “antics” are only impressive to dipshits and 13-year-olds, and both of those groups have an attention span of about seven minutes. So long after the rest of us have gone, “Fuck her if she wants to kill herself,” she’s gonna turn to them and they’re gonna go, “We’re so over you!” Then things start getting lonely. She should call Marilyn Manson and ask him what it’s like."

Whatevs. I checked her out on YouTube, though. I'm surprised that she's a jazz singer with a nice voice. What an odd person.

But I've never listened to rock, so maybe I just don't get it.

-- Tuomas, Thursday, July 19, 2007 11:24 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

she doesn't play rock either, smart guy.

I wouldn't call her a "jazz" singer, more like pop-soul. Great voice still.

I wouldn't call her a "jazz" singer, more like pop-soul. Great voice still.

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Yeah, but ABC compared her to rock star.

Whoops, double-post!

Ban Tuomas.

Huh?

I was going to ban this annoying 597 troll but unfortunately he shares an IP address, completely coincidentally, with Acrobat. And we wouldn't want another innocent poster banned so quickly would we?

Fuck it boy, this is war. A war for the soul of ILX. There's gonna be collateral damage. Innocents are going to get hurt. But that's the nature of war. Life is a constant struggle. Ban 'em all/

Well, that's exactly the thing I don't understand, I don't see how self-destructiveness could ever be "awesome". To me it's just sad. But I've never listened to rock, so maybe I just don't get it.

shine on, hon

(Huh?

For double posting! Just lame joshing.)

I blame suicidegirls.com.

i liked the pic at the top of the thread soooo much better before i realized she was holding a big piece of mail and not a hero sandwich

hahaha omg do you realize I thought she was holding a hero sandwich until you just said that?

or bread, anyway

It looks like part of a snake to me.

Somehow a lot of people got the idea that a shitty attitude was a good thing. I wonder if the unspoken message is, "I'm smart enough to be jaded I feel the need to display that nobody can control me because I'm secretly very fragile so don't fuck with me, man, I'm close to the edge." Or, if it's just like, "shitty attitudes are classic like a pair of Levi's."

My take on it is basically:

For a while 'jazz' vocalising was something nice/posh people did fairly successfully (witness Jamie Cullem changing the cocaine line on "I get a kick"), which is contrary to the history of jazz style.

AW being a move in a better direction.

Her "Role Model" comment is OTM!

I don't know anything about her, but it looks like at one time she used to look happy. The first time I saw her was the Rolling Stone cover with all her tattoos recently and then I seemed to hear about her quite a bit for a while and I was like, "who is this person?" Then, I saw her walking down my block. Now, I'm wondering: does she have a drug problem or something? Not like I care, but you've all made me curious.

So basically you can only be happy if you have some meat on your bones? Her look's different - skinny, tats and dishevelled clothes - but that doesn't necessarily mean she's a junkie and/or depressed. Who knows? Who actually cares? NOt I. I like her current look.

Also, Maura, how do you know they stole it from PerezHilton, *he* steals 99 procent of his pics... ;-)

Her "Role Model" comment is OTM!

I agree that this applies and should apply to any profession. Baseball players seem to have a lot of expectation put on them for some reason about being "role models" which is really just so silly.

But, on the other hand, right as she might be, it's her livelihood and her life, so it's kind of stupid to leave a bad impression on people. If she's lucky, people will continue to either think her attitude is cool or not care either way, but if she's unlucky, it might not be the best career move. Fortunately for her, weirdo badasses seem to enjoy a more faithful cult following.

So basically you can only be happy if you have some meat on your bones? Her look's different - skinny, tats and dishevelled clothes - but that doesn't necessarily mean she's a junkie and/or depressed. Who knows? Who actually cares? NOt I. I like her current look.

I was going by the above article I quoted for you and the pictures. Surly people who cut themselves in an interview with the mirror they use to repeatedly check their nose with don't seem too happy to me.

Her husband seems like a real dick. Checking the nose obviously means we're not only talking about booze-and would also explain the extreme weight loss. Although when I've been on those kicks I gain weight because i'm starving the next day.

She was really gorgeous when curvy.

you're a real dick

This thread is embarrassing.

how did the drummer from CCR play the drums while riding a ten speed

[anti-hotlink image removed]

hahaha, nice hotlink image! Jeezuz keerist.

My thought is, well, if she has a drug or psychological problem I wish her well and hope that she works it out and that she's in good health, but otherwise I'm just interested in seeing her perform in a few weeks. Is that too rational?

"you're a real dick"

Thanks

Somehow a lot of people got the idea that a shitty attitude was a good thing. I wonder if the unspoken message is, "I'm smart enough to be jaded I feel the need to display that nobody can control me because I'm secretly very fragile so don't fuck with me, man, I'm close to the edge." Or, if it's just like, "shitty attitudes are classic like a pair of Levi's."

-- dean ge, Thursday, 19 July 2007 11:48 (2 hours ago) Link

this is amazing

yeah sorryi called you that Bill I just can't believe how low ILM has sunk with this thread. this whole thread is kind of sad and mysterious and pervy.

this is amazing

wow, that's not even my best work

this isn't so much a low for ILM as just revisiting old seabed haunts

People are upset that she is being critiqued based on her image and attitude? Isn't that what happens on multitudes of threads? Or is the problem here that some you like this person's music in this particular instance and can't stand to see the artist raked over the usual coals?

this isn't so much a low for ILM as just revisiting old seabed haunts

otm. i mean, the original post was so obviously a trolling one, but...it just keeps going on, unbelievably

it's the judgey/hectoring tone to so many of the responses which grates more than merely commenting that she's a bit thin now

No problem que, I've been called worse.

I will fix the thread now (hope the hotlink works):

http://www.performanceimpressions.com/TreyAnastasio_70VoltParade/photos/Trey1.jpg

i know dean, i'm kind of just surprised people are reacting so strongly to this thread! i thought it was gonna be an innocent shoot the shit thing.

this thread is full of people saying what a babe/talented performer amy winehouse is. what's the problem?

i feel like it's good on the town music, or at least the 2 singles i've heard (are ther 2?)

oh wait we're not supposed to be talking about her music

haha, right, same way we talk about lindsay lohan's acting.

ha

I do like her songs I've heard so far!

me too. the sound just kinda hooks u in

so i guess ronson is the guy who produced this and lily allen?

yep.

he likes his prominent percussion

http://idolator.com/assets/resources/2007/06/snipshot_e4f0pt31xhq.jpg

yep, that is pretty unpleasant.

Can we start a thread about how saggy my boobs are?

The thread should be about what a fucking horrible producer Mark Ronson is. The record sounds like shit.

(I wouldn't care if I didn't like it anyway.)

My only real problem with Miss Winehouse is that Sue Catwoman called and she wants her fuckin' make-up shtick back!

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/0/0d/200px-Sue_Catwoman.jpg

ronson is hot

Lindsay Lohan is a talented actress.

ronson is super hot. i'm undecided on his production style

i don't mind it, it works in a bar.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/totp/wallpaper/640x480/mark_ronson.jpg

looks young for his age.

mm, i hate mark ronson's music and his production sucks - apart from on the winehouse album! and this one random old sean paul track i didn't know he'd done! - but he is super super hott. my type.

ugh i know i like can't look at him

I still like Back to Black a lot but Ronson's production is poor.

ronson is really eyefucking the shit out of somebody in that photo.

Why do people think the production sucks?

no i think that's just his look. i love it

I think it sounds tinny. It doesn't sound like a live band but it doesn't sound like a studio creation, either. A worst of both worlds scenario. I don't think it's intended to be retro in the way some people have accused it of being, but he isn't brave enough in mixing contemporary beats and 60s arrangements. It sounds crap compared to its source influences, but it doesn't sound like a great noughties record either. It just sounds a bit cheap, for me.

I think we should go back to talking about that "then" picture.

(And it overcomes a lot of this, when the songs are strong. And there are nice moments. But I think she's been short-changed by the sound of it, like nothing is competing with her voice for interest or drama.)

horns

well i feel like he's into the paired down thing, u know, voice, drums, some swelling. i always thought it sounded smart in the way like j crew clothing is smart

That'd be fine if it was super sleek, super taut and minimal. I just feel like it falls between three or four stools too often.

right... well i dunno i feel like Rehab is kind of super minimal/taut, no? i know there's a lot of brass but it SOUNDS like that to me

I've just realised I think I want the album to sound like Supreme Clientele.

my problem w/ ronson's production - which is most obvious on his solo stuff - is that it's often just constipated lame 80s whiteboy soul, or a really obvious and self-conscious facsimile of soul. reminds me of jamiroquai in a way. tbh i never noticed winehouse's production that much - i think her best songs really are good enough to make it unimportant.

okay but back to amy's bones

I thought I wrote something similar when the album came out (the weirdness of sampling retro sounds to make retro-sounding music, instead of rap or r&b where the sampling is more obvious and blended with modern sounds), but I can't find it. Anyway it doesn't bother me anymore when I'm out and I hear one of her singles.

on the positive side, I think I actually dig the tattoos.

oh man, the jamiroquai thing is pretty on point

i would still welcome an rise to ubiquity in american pop culture on his part

As much as didn't originally mind the song, isn't anyone else as sick to fuckin' death of hearing "Rehab" by this point?

kindof but see i didn't love it to begin with so now every time i hear it is like another chance for it to keep growing on me

so i guess no i haven't gottne to the sick point yet

i honestly have barely heard it outside of my mom's car and a couple vh1 bumpers. i only heard it on the radio once and it was with a jay-z verse

Is there any musician more pleasant to look at than Pauline Oliveros?:
http://musicmavericks.publicradio.org/features/images/oliveros_young.jpg

bars/restaurants galore

Actually, the only thing more grating that hearing "Rehab" repeatedly (specifically the no no no refrain) is hearing other people mimic it -- it's kinda the new millenial version of hearing people adopt piss-poor British accents and spool out ancient Monty Python bits at parties when they think they're being cutting edge.

People suck.

her being big in america reminds me of bush or something... only a bush who had somehow sold records here too. end times.

xpost

otm

her bra is the colour of custard, is that significant?

i just had the weirdest dream, that ilx existed in 1980 and there was a whole thread of folks going on about how great the new blues brothers record was.

oh wait...

I played "Rehab" on Youtube a couple of times yesterday (it's not on radio here, so I've only heard it sparingly) - but now all the "Daddy says I'm all right" and "no no no" stuff is on permanent repeat in my head and it's driving me nuts. Totally the most effective hooks in ages but good god I think I hate the song already.

I guess this would be the time to repeat that I could've sworn she was saying "They tried to make me Puerto Rican and I said no, no, no" the first time I heard it (live and extra slurry on some talk show).

who's worse, people saying she's an idiot or people saying "o she has demons like nina simone etc". they're encouraging her.

If the pop music press stopped playing the "drug addicts have 'broken through to the other side" angle I think we'd lose about %57 of the current market.

Did I just put the percentage sign at the front of the number? Good night, ILM!

hahahahaaha marmot

MIKA. Like Freddie Mercury but minus the talent and charisma.

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yeah, and then the "yes, I've been black" line right after that really threw me. It took me until the next chorus to figure out what she was actually on about.

I think Amy Winehouse is kinda hot actually. Though perhaps not in super emaciated pics like the ones at the top of the thread.

It's ironic that it's okay saying Pop is mostly about image, on a theoretical level, but then when you actually discuss a particular musician you get ridiculed for doing so. I mean, ILX make up your mind, now will you.

I agree with Ronan, I actually quite like her skinny look. Didn't much care for the curves (to look at).

Also, I'm stupid, didn't realize Ronson was brother of Samantha. *sigh*

amy is very hot...although obviously she could do with packing a few more pounds on. i feel vaguely sad ass for talking about this online though. isn't there something better we could all be doing or at lest discussing. the production on back to black is great in my eyes. wingers the lot of ya. can some-one tell me what the "po" is that she's into while her fella is doing blow

oh -love the tatts

I assume she means Poe, as in the writer.

YIKES!

http://64.111.216.18/ul/2616-amy6.jpg

WTF at my local alt-rock station playing "You Know I'm No Good".

faaaake

she IS kinda hot i just wish she looked a little cleaner and that she had that tooth

http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/images/mjackson.jpg

that is honestly one of the most disgusting things i have ever seen

actually did no one say MJ until now? cuz that's def the answer to this thread

I don't particularly like looking at Till Lindemann...

http://www.metalgermania.it/images/till.jpg

He looks a bit Stephen Baldwin there.

PS yeah Amy may or may not have some stretch marks on her titties, but Michael Jackson's face is fucked forever.

you can re-grow titty-skin, but you can't re-grow a nose, amirite?

excessive plastic surgery is your own damn fault, stretch marks just happen.

MJ needs stem cells.

wise words

http://img514.imageshack.us/my.php?image=jacksonworldmusicgs2.jpg

here:
http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/3429/jacksonworldmusicgs2.jpg

mj is so goth now

I thought that was Jack White for a second.

Are those stretch marks or self-cutting titty marks?

This picture is weird, funny and sad. Apparently, a handful of prick teens are making fun of her:

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/07_02/winehouseLL_468x234.jpg
http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/07_02/winehouseLL_468x234.jpg

The kids deserve a smack, but her reaction is funny, too.

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stretch. look how some look purple and some look white from the angle. that's what stretch marks do.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/columnists/mailonsunday.html?in_article_id=471505&in_page_id=1791

i think i read an article about that in the mail on sunday.

honestly no more pictures of MJ it turns my stomach

My friend saw the Winehouse at a service station in Oxford today. He says she is three feet tall. Which would make that spherical Paul-Jewell looking kid on the right of that photo yet funnier.

does she normally walk like montgomery burns?

Although somebody should probably be reminding her to eat now and again, I think the thing that disturbs people about Amy's appearance is that it doesn't fit in a pop context: she actually looks like she should be making absolutely batshit crazy rockabilly rekkids . . but she isn't.

Although every time I've watched her perform on television she seems incredibly uncomfortable. Maybe absolutely batshit crazy rockabilly is more her element?

She really wouldn't look at all out of place at a Cramps gig, that's for sure

I think the thing that disturbs people about Amy's appearance is that it doesn't fit in a pop context: she actually looks like she should be making absolutely batshit crazy rockabilly rekkids . . but she isn't.

This is actually what I love about her. Plus that when not singing she sounds just like Eliza Doolittle.

How did a little miniature brit jewess become the gangsta-ist thing going?

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/05_01/amySPLASH_468x596.jpg

Blake Fielder-Civil = the new Kim Mathers

saw her albums in the 'urban' section of a provincial hmv yesterday. modern britain.

How did a little miniature brit jewess become the gangsta-ist thing going?

attention to details, it seems

As tiny as she is she could probably kick the shit out of those hecklers. What a bunch of pussies. And the little guy on the end is hilarious.

I think the thing that disturbs people about Amy's appearance is that it doesn't fit in a pop context: she actually looks like she should be making absolutely batshit crazy rockabilly rekkids . . but she isn't.

i think it's far more simple than that. what disturbs me about her appearance is that it's pretentious and dirty.

pretentious?

has a bear had a claw at amy's breasts in that one photo upthread?

pretentious is a silly word i guess, becuz what isn't pretentious.

i guess what i mean is that she looks like she's trying too hard to be something cool. that disturbs me.

I actually think she looks pretty cool, she could stand to gain a few though.

she'd look cooler with a more natural look, IMO.

the little guy on the end is hilarious.

Ha I honestly can't tell if he's standing further back than the others or if he's just tiny

She did look cool back when she started, and weird and distinctive but not gross.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjHQV-SuqNE

yes

She's tiny. This means her husband is probably around 5'8" and scrawny as hell.

Here's another pic of her being her ________ self.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/news/entertainment/galleries/media/pa_amy_winehouse420x300.jpg

her husband's kinda cute? no?

No.

=/

if she keeps up those expressions she's gonna wind up with all sorts of fucked-up wrinkles. keep up the good work, vinmaison!

=) i love how ur concerned about her skin

haha, i should sooner apply that same advice to myself. sometimes i grimace for no reason at all.

HA me too! i hate that

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/showbiz/showbiznews.html?in_article_id=471645&in_page_id=1773

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/07_03/britney2AB2907_468x668.jpg

Oh my....that's ugly...

whoa that last picture

yeah, grimacing = not good :)

at first glance, i thought britney was holding a cat in that photo. then i realised she isn't. so what exactly is she doing? this is something that could rival the mystery and intrigue of the 'snakeskin baguette' way upthread

it's a dog... full story and more gross pictures of britney at the link above.

is that the dog's ear or the collar of her jacket?

The last photo on there's a clear tribute to Vivienne Westwood's pic w/ Jordan and Chrissie Hynde from 1976!

but guys, what if the joke is on you???

http://www.nme.com/news/amy-winehouse/30243

SHOCKAH

At least Tony Wilson's new record label has its first signing.

keep 'em coming

Britney looks a bit Johnette Napolitano in that pic upthread.

LOLLL IT'S LIKE IN THE SONG, SHE WON'T GO TO REHAB!1!!!!11!!

yeah this is really a one note gimmick innit

LOLLL IT'S LIKE IN THE SONG, SHE WON'T GO TO REHAB!1!!!!11!!

Beth Ditto pretty much did that gag, without irony, on an MTV news interview about a month back.

Still, RIP big man. Hope St Peter's prepared to inject adrenalin straight into your heart after you OD on his couch

ironic rehab

so poetic on amy's part, dontcha think?

saw that "then & now" picture on the random livejournal image page.

it was posted in a pro-anorexia community. as "thinspiration."

ew

The answer to questions such as these must always be: Lenny Kravitz.

Are we keeping a dignified silence about this?

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/08_03/Zamy2003DM2208_468x460.jpg

About what?

wow her dad really is an uncaring shitbag.

http://arts.independent.co.uk/music/features/article2606422.ece

I wonder if Ed Caesar still stands by this article from two months ago calling Winehouse and Fielder an example of the perfect modern marriage?

Here's a doozy: http://perezhilton.com/?p=5810

The teeth! The skin! Glorious!

!

mmmhmm

I find the hair kinda scary as well.

Good god

Kids, don't do drugs.

Even if she puts on weight and gets healthy again, she's still going to have those awful tatts.

My eyes!! The goggles.... etc.

this is not going to end well

Billie Holiday might have looked this way if there were video awards shows in the 1950s.

true

She looks like every girl I’ve had drunken sex with.

http://www.b3tards.com/u/28cf8609b9571c3cc88b/partofmyliyed.jpg

she can't die, idolator will have nothing to write about.

...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXDOkr7H6Wk

...

"Her name appears in the tabloids more often than 'asylum seeker' or 'hoodie' and that takes some doing!"

Good ways to help defend your husband against charges of GBH:

"During the show, the 24-year-old told the crowd: 'To them people booing, wait 'til my husband gets out of incarceration. And I mean that.'"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7095157.stm

He'd be a fun, and from the looks of him, pretty easy, guy to "GBH".

i like her and hope she gets well but this is kind of (*_*)

http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=wNxR-WmO6Kw - esp from about 1:30 on.

fwiw perez hilton looks 10x worse than amy winehouse.

as a woman?

Yikes: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/article710911.ece

(it's, er, an article with an embedded home video of Amy Winehouse smoking crack. Prepare for even more massive tabloid onslaught)...

dedicated thread:

The rolling "Pete Doherty arrested for drugs again today" thread.

http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/pages/live/articles/showbiz/showbiznews.html?in_article_id=561401&in_page_id=1773

zomg

The drug addict singer, 24

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/04_04/AmyBulgeGOTCHA_468x650.jpg

What the fuck is this?

lo-slung denim

Mick Whitnall also looking a treat

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/04_04/021winehouse2DM_468x654.jpg

looks like ray wise there

crossed with Lol "lol" Coxhill

he's actually holding up pretty well for a 62 year old man

how depressing : (

Mick Whitnall-what a great name. The guy looks like a "Mick Whitnall".

She's looking pretty good for a 24-year old

"Lets go to the Good Mixer - we can have a nice quiet paparazzi free drink in there can't we?"

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/04_04/021winehouse5DM_468x367.jpg

Drug addicts caught stealing for crack.

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/04_03/2AmyDrinksBIG_468x436.jpg

st1ff bonarz. srsly.

Report: Amy Winehouse arrested on suspicion of assault

By RAPHAEL SATTER – 2 hours ago

LONDON (AP) — Amy Winehouse was arrested on suspicion of assault Friday following reports that she scuffled with two men during a wild night out, Sky News television reported.

The 24-year-old soul diva, who recently entered rehab after years of erratic behavior and canceled concerts, arrived at a central London police station to answer questions relating to the alleged incident, her representatives said.

Police didn't directly confirm that Winehouse was in custody, saying only that a 24-year-old woman was being held on suspicion of assault. British authorities don't usually name suspects until they have been charged.

Winehouse didn't say anything to assembled photographers and cameramen as she walked into the station late Friday afternoon. Sky News said she would spend the night in custody.

A man was quoted in tabloid newspapers as saying he was hit by Winehouse when he got in her way while she was playing pool at a bar in the Camden neighborhood and then head-butted another who was trying to hail her a cab in the early hours of Wednesday morning.

Winehouse and her husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, were arrested in the Norwegian city of Bergen in October and held overnight on charges of drug possession. A video of her allegedly smoking crack hit the Internet shortly before she won five Grammys this year for her critically acclaimed album "Back to Black."

She was arrested in London in December on suspicion of attempting to interfere with a court case involving Fielder-Civil, but earlier this year police said prosecutors were no longer pursuing the affair.

Fielder-Civil faces charges of perverting the course of justice stemming from a case in which he is accused of assaulting a barman.

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http://www.mp3-easy.com/images/Nov_06/amy_winehouse_rehab.jpg

I live about 100 yards from the police station in question and passed by on way to buy a paper this morning while press etc. were awaiting her release. There were a ton of sound/satellite trucks parked nearby and about 20 paparazzi. It looked like she was going to be released soonish as her driver was there, but if she'd come out where they were waiting there would have been a scrum.

Three really nasty female news journalists saw WPCs emerging from station and catcalled up to the police: "Any news about Amy Winehouse - you know, thin, 'troubled', junkie? You might have heard of her, maybe?" and just basically laughing it up and continuing with their shouting in a similar vein (they know damn well police can't comment in that situ, police tend to leak to media in other ways). On my way back from the newsagent I passed by and stopped to chat to one of her security guys (gist of conversation: did you hear those women, the wankers/hope they'd get her out of there w/o interference, good bloody luck).

I do journalism, but not this shaming, evil doorstop shite.

ewww. don't mean to be mean but girl looks like a grandma monster creature.

Haha, comment left on the perezhilton photos upthread a ways.

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/05_02/amyWENN_468x994.jpg

Clive James' take on her. And Snoop Dogg.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7381065.stm

And for once, the 'comments' afterwards are um, germaine. It takes what, seven or eight sets of comments until someone calls for the government to have her sectioned and/or classified D so the media cannot report on her or play her songs...

..

Oh, come the fuck on. It's not like I'm trying to rationalize her stupid behaviour for her, but... "a duty to her gift" ? On what grounds, exactly?

Massively insightful documentary on her on C4 last night, Jacques Peretti's conclusion being, essentially, "Winehouse uses her disruptive personal life to fuel her songs". Quite a lot of "duty to her gift" type talk as well. Like I say, insightful.

heh

Who actually _is_ Jacques Perreti? I assume he was big in the 90s or something, but all I remember him from is that meandering column about clubbing he used to write for the Guide.

Who actually is Clive James these days morelike. When did his insightful funny foreigners TV series finish?

And as for all this "duty to her gift" stuff, since when was pop a Customs Office?

I dunno who Peretti is, but he had a very, very dull voice.

I believe ex-Guardian Guide columnist Peretti produced some TV programmes for Guardian Guide columnist Charlie Brooker.

IIRC Peretti came out of the modern review mk2? He used to be pretty good, vv funny (a long time ago). Haven't read anything by him for years.

I suspect another case where hammering out a weekly column for years will wear down/use up even the best writer pretty quickly.

Blimey, the Modern Review. Didn't Boris write one or two things for that?

I don't recall ever seeing him in it, but I only got the magazine format version of it.

Have the tabloids ever been quite this obsessed with someone quite this fucked-up from the music world prior to Doherty? Like, waiting for them to die? I can't recall anything quite like this before, but that's probably because I'm not thinking hard enough and don't read tabloids. I remember then going gaga for Gallaghers jnr and snr in 1995-1998 or so, but neither Noel or Liam ever looked likely to drop dead of a smack overdose at any moment.

I can't remember anything this squalid and morbid before Doherty either.

He wrote for Dazed and Confused before that. Was Dan Ashcroft based on him a bit? I can't remember.

I used to like his clubbing column but his piss poor new series is the sort of thing he used to take the piss out of.

Pre-Doherty peeps used to try to hide their use. No-one was supposed to know that Brett Anderson was on the skag etc. Docherty/Winehouse don't bother to hide their use (or barely) hence new dynamic.

The Doherty obit is going to present major logistical problems for news programmes; "his hits included...um, and...er, there was that one where...erm..."

I think if Elastica had been ran through the tabloid mill in a similar way BITD, we might have seen a pretty similar scenario - they only really got away w/ it cos no-one cared about them much by the time they properly got their habits going

Cameraphones/vids help a lot as well. "here's a picture of a figure you can barely make out but it's WINEHOUSE smoking CRACK!"

Around 96/97, The Sun actually had a picture of Noel Gallagher eating a curry on page two or something, as if he was, I dunno, Jackie Onassis or someone. I think that was the day the music died.

"Damon Albarn riding a bike"

I forget the punny headline.

One more argument for the "The rolling "Amy Winehouse arrested for drugs again today" thread:

Singer Amy Winehouse has been arrested in connection with drug offences, her spokesman has said.

The 24-year-old is being questioned at a police station in east London, the spokesman added.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7388721.stm

Argh, half of the problem with Winehouse is that people won't leave her alone, and their behaviour in a pack while pursuing her. Elastica story has ended happily for most of the group members, but I can assure you at the time Jus and Damon had pact not to be photographed together purely because paparazzi of the day wanted 'the shot' and they were constantly being hassled. Less media to dodge back then, though.

Elastica story has ended happily for most of the group members

Is Donna still happily born-again? She seemed content enough on that front.

It wasn't that long ago, I saw something to that effect. So, I guess, yeah.

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44855000/jpg/_44855985_wine_mitch.jpg

Oh dear

Wasn't she on a "lol pakis" rant a few weeks ago? Jews need to learn their fucking place imo.

http://i38.tinypic.com/ayr6eh.jpg

"In another, an overweight man in a striped flat cap prepares to chop white cocaine into lines on a book. Again, the bamboo wallpaper is visible in the background".

that article is more obsessed by the wallpaper than the drugs.

Think it was re-published from a piece in Hello.

i would smash amy winehouse. whatever

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/09/14/article-1055641-02A289AD00000578-990_468x707.jpg

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/09/12/article-1054873-02A0070B00000578-840_468x472.jpg

A terrible man for the gurning, so she is.

And for the crack addiction.

Oh, the crack addiction will be the death of her, so it will.

i would smash amy winehouse. whatever

― Surfboard Pre (surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally), Sunday, September 14, 2008 12:04 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^^ deeznuts sock

I really dig druggy tattooed chicks and she'sa fucking rock star get outta here. also no stfu

I guess Jennifer Herrema got clean dint she?

Not alive anymore, but.... :

http://phillipphiles.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/divine22.jpg

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/09/26/article-0-02CD81BC00000578-141_468x603.jpg

I will not mention the gory details of the 'Blake Fielder Techno' discussion I had with a certain poster last week.

Yikes @ some of those recent pics.

We're not really looking at Amy Winehouse in those recent pics, we're looking at the psychological and physical effects of drugs in a human body.

lol

what i really hate about this "dying of crack in public"-thing is that when the bad news hits, my heart will still skip a beat and i'll feel shocked/sad for a couple of minutes..