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There's Good News and Bad News

Filed under: Anglophilia > Amy Winehouse


Amy Winehouse managed to pull it together and show up at the Nelson Mandela tribute concert in London on Friday night.

Unfortunately, her performance was a hot mess!

CLICK HERE to check out Wino doing Rehab.



745 comments to “There's Good News and Bad News”

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  1. Umm says – reply to this
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    first?

  2. Brand says – reply to this
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    SHOCKER! She's a huge fuckup…. Lol

  3. loll says – reply to this
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    first

  4. ella says – reply to this
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    first.

  5. Chair says – reply to this
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    1st!

  6. loll says – reply to this
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    first lo

  7. Susan says – reply to this
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    What a waste.

  8. jagda says – reply to this
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    3rd?! oh yeah :D she sucks… it's sad.

  9. Saoir says – reply to this
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    You should have seen the finale, she sang 'Free Nelson Mandela' and believe it or not she was brilliant. Seriously!

  10. 10

    that was really bad

  11. briti says – reply to this
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    perez i tottaly disagree!!!
    conciderin she been in hospital all week
    and notice how u didnt show her singin at the ed of teh night with every 1 wichc was really good!!
    lay off !!!

  12. Eryme says – reply to this
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    I think she sounds great. She looks like she could break at any moment though, a gust of wind would blow her away.

    I question the choice of song in her current situation, though. Saying firmly no to rehab on worldwide television is not great.

  13. mccau says – reply to this
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    Considering her addiction, this is a great performance. give her a break.

  14. Kuba says – reply to this
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    She is lost, but it could be worse

  15. KATY says – reply to this
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    I didn't think it was that bad actually! But her dancing was crrrazy xD

  16. YUP says – reply to this
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    I don't think it was TOTALLY a hot mess. I mean, her other performance where her voice was fucked up was TERRIBLE! This time her hair & makeup looked good…and at least she wasn't doing drugs on stage! She's not a big fan of ANNUNCIATION but her voice sounded clear enough…and she was breathing!! I HEART AMY!

  17. rachi says – reply to this
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    Let's be fair here. The woman is struggling with an extreme addiction. She's under huge speculation, and her first foray in a long time into a highly pressured performance situation is one where millions will be watching over the world…the same millions who speculate about her severe drug use and resulting health problems. Seems fairly obvious that she must be shitting herself, and that is hardly going to bring about a strongly voiced performance. At least she doesn't look wasted…

  18. 18

    aw

  19. Karid says – reply to this
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    Wow! I really expected her to fall over - her eyes rolled back in her head at least 3 times - eesh

  20. Jason says – reply to this
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    Um… fuck you, maybe? Amy did a great job. Perez, i love how you havn't posted the "Free Nelsen Mandella" performance - she was AMAZING. leave her alone, she did great.

  21. hanna says – reply to this
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    this is how she always performs even when sober
    its one of th best shes ever done
    i love amy !

  22. Lisa says – reply to this
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    What was so bad about Amy's performance??? I LOVE her, she is amazing!!

  23. Ragnh says – reply to this
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    She's fucking amazing on stage, on records or anything like that. But aside from that she is, well, drunk…

  24. Amy says – reply to this
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    shes a mess but I love her backup dancers

  25. Take2 says – reply to this
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    Have you ever seen a performance by her? This is what ALL of them have been like since the start of this album. It's the style and approach that made her famous…not a by product of her rapid fall. This is just what she does. NOTHING NEW HERE. MOVE ON.

  26. i hea says – reply to this
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    even at her worst she is awesome. get better amy, you are so talented.

  27. sjoer says – reply to this
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    it's unfair to only show this one! she preformed two other thracks wish were amazing, she started of slow but she got it to it!

  28. Maddi says – reply to this
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    She shouldnt have bothered!

  29. 29

    Yer i also think she did well considering! not quite what she used to be though , sad times

  30. rebec says – reply to this
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    she should fuck off. im sick of listening about her. who cares. there are much more important things going on in the world than amy winehouse.

  31. 31

    IT LOOKS LIKE SHE MIGHT HAVE BEEN GIVEN JUST A LITTLE BIT OF SOMETHING SO SHE COULD GET THROUGH IT.
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    BUT I THOUGHT CONSIDERING WHAT SHE HAS DONE IN THE PAST YEAR, I THOUGHT SHE DID A GOD JOB!
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    IT IS A GOOD START. I HOPE SHE CONTINUES TO MAKE PROGRESS. SHE HAS A LOT OF TALENT, AND IT WOULD SUCK TO LOSE IT TO SOMETHING AS STUPID AS DRUGS.

  32. Danie says – reply to this
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    Better than i feared. I hope she'll be fine.

  33. k says – reply to this
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    She was actually NOT bad!

  34. k=H=k says – reply to this
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    zzzz♥♥zzzzzzzzzz I luv Amy..shez effen great{♥♥}}

    ¤ She iz the muthereffen ”'Queen””

    ☼¤☼☼☼¤¤☼☼☼…I think she waz fantaztic♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥}}

  35. charm says – reply to this
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    i think for someone that was rushed to hospital last week, amy done well just showing up, i think you like to kick people when theyre down perez, and thats really very sad

  36. g0_f1 says – reply to this
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    i agree with take2, perez if you actually gave a shit this is how she performs, shes sober so good times. like he/she said MOVE ON.

  37. joan says – reply to this
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    Well i dont think she was that bad though i thought she was pretty good actually seeing she has shit goin on with her lungs and all the other shit shes coping with.
    so well done you, Amy! ;o)

  38. silvi says – reply to this
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    Lee esto, reina Perez,
    I saw the concert. SHE was the best, magnificent, unpredictable.
    Hot, sí. Mess, no.
    Be more fair, don't lett your anus talk

  39. trees says – reply to this
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    talking bout hot mess; after 'rehab' she sang 'valerie'
    which was even worse, put that one online!

  40. gab says – reply to this
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    still good though

  41. goats says – reply to this
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  42. chick says – reply to this
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    well… considering what she is going through, i think she deserves a little pat on the back. she showed up, she performed.

    get well amy! xx

  43. giveh says – reply to this
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    come on! you know she wasn't that bad. Could YOU do better in that condition? don't think so!

  44. munch says – reply to this
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    Painful.

    A drug addict who supports the drug industry has no business being there really.

  45. 45

    you hater! I thought she was great and and valerie and free Mandela were very awesome so pffffffffff. I will say this i didnt like the shout outs to Blake Incarcerated in the song though but thats her, eh what are u gonna do?

  46. Me says – reply to this
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    Oh be for real. It's obvious the poor sound quality wasnt her fault listening to the backup singers. Or are they a hot mess too?

    And yeah, what a shock! A performer changing the tempo of a song when singing it live. /sarcasm

  47. Ira says – reply to this
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    I don't think the performance was that bad considering all the shit going on with her….

  48. Amy says – reply to this
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    Someone needs to give me permission to feel happiness without Blake incarcerated and without the meth because I don't know how.

    The performance was good. Something to be proud of. When Blake gets out he will be done with me emotionally in a week but the parasitic part will stay on for ever. How to I break this everything and still stand?

  49. Joe B says – reply to this
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    Aren't there enough talented clean girls you can promote? Why do you have to prop up this junkie?

  50. patti says – reply to this
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    In addition to her well-documented substance abuse problems, I believe Amy might have a good dose of stage fright. She started off a little slowly, but got better and better with every line she sang. "Valerie" was great, and she was super with "Free Nelson Mandela." If the show's organizers had felt she was a "hot mess," they wouldn't have allowed her to be front & centre during the finale. And her skin, clothes, makeup and that crazy hair all looked A-1!!

  51. Frenc says – reply to this
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    Thaz a mess but at least that's one of the best show she done since a while.
    Dontcha think?

    ps: Perez u Rock!!!!

  52. Laura says – reply to this
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    I just think it is wrong for them to have even booked her. This isn't an issue of her talent. It is an issue of life & death. People are enabling her to do drugs to the point where she is going to kill herself - this isn't recreational. Her life is worth more than her career & the money she is making people. When she performs it is like her management just props her up & tells her to go. She looks scared & clueless. Her complete lifestyle is unhealthy from the crack, cutting & her bulimia to the filth she lives in. We are patting her on the back & asking her to perform at huge events like this & the grammys. The message should instead be - take care of yourself & when you get healthy all the accolades that your talent merits will be here but until then we aren't going to promote/condone your path of self destruction. It makes me so sad I can barely watch her.

  53. Astra says – reply to this
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    It wasn't that bad. Just wasn't very good either. I find her pretty uninspiring live anyway.

  54. sam says – reply to this
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    amy
    you are being used for transferance. the one that taped you singing that racist remark is your watcher. he is there purely to set you up. he filmed you right making proof. like k-fed to britney like weasel to anna nicole.
    incase you wondered why you are still alive.
    you are just a body a body that's mind when under attack can be snuck into.
    you can continue this charade yes the cheap hooker look is just tarty, don't you have one friend? aren't you british shouldn't some class be some-where embedded amongst the crack instead of giving your voice to crack you'll just give it away to a waiting identity. it won't be your voice to throw away soon.
    you honestly think you are that special to anybody, that newsworthy you don't do anything. do you to warrant enough attention. so there would have to be another reason to your fame.
    there must be somebody in the spotlight that did drugs that can help, give them a call.
    that whole copy cat thing you've got happening, smacks of sheep not an artistic bone in body. i expected much more.

  55. Julie says – reply to this
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    I think she did well with all things considered. She mumbled a lot, look unsteady on her feet and generally didn't appear like she was feeling well, but the gal is going through a lot. I give her props for showing up.

  56. Renee says – reply to this
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    JESUS. She looks higher then a kite and her weight is now at what, 40 pounds??

    I give her a few months before she's dead…

  57. D says – reply to this
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    She did better than she has in a long time. Perez is a nasty, fat and unhappy person who thrives on other people's misery because he is talentless and mean-spirited. Fuck Perez. I'd like to punch him in his ugly face.

  58. Jules says – reply to this
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    I'm the first one to love a good Wino hot mess.. but I'm also a nurse and she sounds like a person struggling to breathe, she's lucky she was able to do a "well" as she did.

  59. 59

    Perez, I have never commented on your site before, but I do feel that your criticism of Amy's performance is a little unreasonable. As with live performances by many artists, it can often be disappointing for the fans when the performance strays a lot from the studio recording, but that's the nature of live performances, and is what Amy has always done when singing live, even when sober! She was relatively tuneful, had made at least a decent effort with her appearance (tanned instead of pasty, relatively tasteful clothing), didn't mumble incoherently to the crowd, appeared relatively sober and even threw in some questionable dance moves! Regardless, her rendition of 'Free Nelson Mandela' was fantastic. I think celebrities and artists are fair game for criticism if their performance is pathetic, but… what an immense success considering she's just been released from hospital with traces of emphysema! Good for her, a step in the right direction.

  60. k says – reply to this
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    I just don't get the big deal about aw … Jully Black is a much better singer
    does someone have to be strungout and half dead to be famous????

  61. Homel says – reply to this
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    poor Amy,
    she is so pathetic

  62. phil says – reply to this
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    didnt she just appear on a homemade vidoe using the N word and now is performing at Nelson Mandella's party?

  63. trees says – reply to this
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    during the finale she sings 'free blakey my fella' instead of 'free nelson mandela'
    how tasteless!!!

  64. philh says – reply to this
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    what a mess. didnt she just appear on a homemade vidoe using the N word and now is performing at Nelson Mandella's party? mess.

  65. phil says – reply to this
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    Amy did a great show. Why didn't you show the clip of Free Nelson Mandela.
    Go watch it on YouTube. The intro will give you chill bumps it's so good.

  66. Lynda says – reply to this
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    I thought she rocked the house.

  67. purpy says – reply to this
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    Damn she needs to go back to rehab…that was freaken shocking!

  68. trees says – reply to this
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    during the finale you can hear her sing 'FREE BLAKEY MY FELLA' instead of 'FREE NELSON MANDELA'
    how tasteless!!!

  69. anton says – reply to this
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    UNSTOPPABLE? excuse me its not like drugs knocked down her door and forced themselves in and crackpipes were tying her hands behind her back and pete doherty snuck into her apartment and force-fed her barbituates. its not like she's fighting some war, and she's bravely unstoppable in the face of adversity. NO SHES JUST FUCKING UP HER OWN LIFE. its sad really, some people would kill to be as successful, talented and rich as her. shes a terrible human being

  70. WWWW says – reply to this
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    she seriously looks half asleep!

    Poor girl, I ain't a fan but hopefully she'll pull herself together so that when sh grows old she'll be one of the great (living) legends!

  71. lisa says – reply to this
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    Stop making her sing that song. Its not helping!

  72. caz says – reply to this
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    that pisses me off so bad who the fuck let her/made her get up on the stage in the first place she needs to be in hospital where shes taken care of, shes not well, people are taking advantage of her.

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