There's Good News and Bad News

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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!

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Posted: Jun 28, 2008 at 7:59 am / Email this »

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Umm says – reply to this

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first?
Brand says – reply to this

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

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first
ella says – reply to this

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first.
Chair says – reply to this

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1st!
loll says – reply to this

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first lo
Susan says – reply to this

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What a waste.
jagda says – reply to this

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3rd?! oh yeah she sucks… it's sad.
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!
evolutionmelz says – reply to this

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that was really bad
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 !!!
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.
mccau says – reply to this

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

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She is lost, but it could be worse
KATY says – reply to this

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

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aw
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
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.
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 !
Lisa says – reply to this

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

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shes a mess but I love her backup dancers
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.
i hea says – reply to this

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

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She shouldnt have bothered!
KittyKatKaty says – reply to this

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Yer i also think she did well considering! not quite what she used to be though , sad times
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.
KriSsY says – reply to this

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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.
Danie says – reply to this

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

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She was actually NOT bad!
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♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥}}
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
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.
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)
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
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!
gab says – reply to this

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still good though
goats says – reply to this

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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
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!
munch says – reply to this

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Painful.

A drug addict who supports the drug industry has no business being there really.
Miss A85 says – reply to this

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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?
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
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….
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?
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?
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!!
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!!!!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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.
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.
Lil Miz Ireland says – reply to this

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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.
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????
Homel says – reply to this

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poor Amy,
she is so pathetic
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?
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!!!
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.
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.
Lynda says – reply to this

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

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

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

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let me tell you perez that you dont know nothing about good music
i heard you said babyshambles sucks and now this she just came out from hospital due LONGS illness im not sure you understand what i mean and anyways i dont think she cares what do you think about hear she is very talented and what she does with her personal life is her problem you really suck perez it looks like you are a very unhappy person that cant see others doing good
Bridg says – reply to this

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This is truly sad. Why why why would one's manager instruct one to do this gig when it is so blatanly obvious she needs "a lot" of help. We're watching a train wreck and there appears to be one guranteed casuality. God help that gal…..
Lily says – reply to this

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I really didn't think that was all that bad.
Céli says – reply to this

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It was A LOT worse at Rock in Rio Lisboa, so this performance surprised me.
Kitta says – reply to this

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Surprisingly good…I just love her band
tinyl says – reply to this

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She was not so bad at all. Actually she gave a rather powerful vocal performance, she improvised and was not standing still like when she is totally out of this world.
HOT M says – reply to this

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i totally disagree. she's amazing and considering everything you could give her a break. STOP reveling in other people's problems. GIVE HER A FUCKING BREAK. She has more talent in her little finger than you'll ever have.
littlelady45 says – reply to this

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I honestly don't know wtf you're talking about Perez, Amy sounded great… I'm a singer so I'm generally pretty critical of other singer's performances. All things considered (being really sick and stuff) she sounded awesome. The only thing that sounded like a hot mess was her backup singers.
cooco says – reply to this

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shes does nothing for me,, to me she sounds like a whiney old woman so I just dont get the attraction,,there are so many other more talented individuals who are clean, appreciate what they have and are much more deserving then Ms Winehouse, she thumbs her nose at her fans and her talent by her continued low life behavior, there isnt anything glamorous about a drug addict singing a song about how she wont go to rehab,, its just sick our society thinks this is so cool
RAH says – reply to this

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oh god perez u think everything amy does is a mess im sorry i think she did a real good job i can actually hear the syllables and understand her.. look at some other shiteous performances of her where shes so busy grabbing her crotch she doesnt sing into the microphone or say anything just yells so this performance of rehab gets 5 stars from me!
ang says – reply to this

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woow. not sure whether to laugh or cry here. she was so talented.
MatsMoe says – reply to this

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Rehab was "ify" at best.

Valerie made me appreciate the talents of Ronnie

But she ws awesome on the last tune"free……" just awesome!!!!!!!
susan says – reply to this

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is this performance a joke? Horrible.
Mama says – reply to this

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GO-GO-GO AMY !!!!!!!
And the public needs to stop supporting someone who is dying before their eyes!
Lyrer says – reply to this

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It actually was not that bad of a performance. i think she pulled it together
Mrgrt says – reply to this

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She looks a bit detached and out of it, but I'd say this was at least a presentable performance. Unlike other performances, she's actually singing the right lyrics AND the listener can follow & understand them (even if we could have done without the gag-o-rific "I'd rather be at home with my Blake" reference). She moved in her own limited dancey little way without seeming like she was going to topple over, and she looked nice as well: hair done properly, nice dress, looked like she took a shower.
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Frankly, though, while I don't think her performance here should have been labeled a "hot mess", truth is, I also don't think anyone should hire her for ANYTHING until she commits herself to making an effort to sort out her EXTREME drug problem (which generally DOES affect her performances, anyway). Cuz seriously, it's more important that her life be saved than her shows.
Me says – reply to this

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She was way better than the Sugarbabes!!!!
Steph says – reply to this

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The voice was obviously there, but I wish she would just sing the fucking song and not distort it beyond all recognition.
Alexa says – reply to this

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PEREZ U IDIOT
AMY WAS FANTASTIC..SHE DID NOT MESS UP HER SINGING WAS AMAZING I COULD UNDERSTAND SHE LOOKED BEAUTIFUL WTF ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT!! EVERYTHING THIS WOMAN DOES YOU CRITICIZE?? GO GET A LIFE JERK
sarah says – reply to this

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I think she did brilliant. Especially because of her current situation with all the hospital stuff..
labby says – reply to this

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fuck you mario. stay off the bandwagon forever. dont come back. we dont want you. in fact, i just kicked ur fat ass off. see ya!!
Kath says – reply to this

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I thought she was great considering all that has gone on the past couple weeks. Give her a break.
Goldi says – reply to this

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Considering what she is going through and how she hasn't sang in public in quite a while, she wasn't bad. Lay off Perez.
Lilly says – reply to this

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This was painful to watch. The best thing about this performance were the two smokin' hot back up dancers doing their best early '60s choreography.
canad says – reply to this

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okay perez enough already!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Amy has incredible stage fright . Watch even her earliest performances. Maybe Daddy started her on drugs. You know!!!!!!!!! Just a little bit to calm her nerves down. Where did the just a bit get her!!!!!!! After all she is someone's cash cow.
labby says – reply to this

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my bitch is back. attitude and all. amy forever!!
calamari says – reply to this

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tht was actually quite a good performance, not bad at all, considering wut shes been goin thru
slut says – reply to this

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Ugh I don't even know what to say really…it's just sad. I know we make comments about her and jokes and such but it's sad that she is like this. I actually thought the performance was going to be even worse than that. It looks like she had a hard time singing those lyrics for more than just the reason of her being fucked up. Whos idea was this anyway? lol I mean really! Yeah let's have her go out and sing in front of all of those people while she is ill and fucked up and have her sing a song about being fucked up and not going to rehab and then everyone can talk shit about her performance and yeah well that should just totally help her get sober!