Amy Winehouse专辑介绍:在Winehouse于2007年2月赢得全英音乐奖最佳女艺人称号一个月之后,Universal唱片公司在美国发行了《Back to Black》。唱片销量排名高于任何一位之前的英国女艺人的首张唱片销量排名,同时专辑留守销量榜前十有数月之久。专辑最终在那年夏天结束之前达到了一百万张销量。就如在英国一样,她也成为了话题人物,并登上Rolling Stone与Spin杂志的封面。然而,不久之后,Winehouse取消了她的北美巡演。早期报道称她进入了康复中心,戒除酒瘾与毒瘾,但是她的新经纪人否定了这一说法,称由于严重劳累所致。她的古怪行为让她和她的男友Blake Fielder-Civil经常见诸于大西洋两岸小报以及台前幕后。
这张 Back to Black 已经是Amy Winehouse的第二张个人专辑,但却是她首张打入美国Billboard200排行榜的专辑。在美国上市首周,本张 Back to Black 以5万1千张的单周销量名列本周Billboard 200专辑榜的第七位。Winehouse的这张专辑能够得到美国歌迷的关注还要得益于主打单曲 You Know I'm No Good 在MTV,VH1和VH1 Soul等各大电视台中的热播。在新一代的流行女歌手当中,Amy Winehouse的嗓音算是独一无二的。
的确,听到Amy Winehouse的歌声,歌迷们自然就会想到Ella Fitzgerald,Billie Holiday等老牌爵士女伶和上世纪60年代像The Supremes那样的老牌灵魂乐组合,而她的声音中还综合有劳伦·希尔(Lauryn Hill)和梅西·格雷(Macy Gray)的味道。在这张 Back to Black 中,Amy不仅再度与制作人Salaam Remi合作,而且还得到了曾成功包装克里斯蒂娜·阿奎莱拉(Christina Aguilera)和罗比·威廉姆斯(Robbie Williams)的Mark Ronson的协助。从音乐方面来看,这张 Back to Black 依然延续了首张专辑《Frank》的路线,但Amy Winehouse在 Back to Black 中明显更加成熟老练一些。一个刚刚23岁的女孩能够把 You Know I'm No Good, Back to Black 和 Love Is A Losing Game 这几首怀旧色彩颇浓的歌曲唱出这种味道实在是相当难得。
更为难能可贵的是,除了最后一首 He Can Only Hold Her 以外,本张专辑中的九首歌曲都由Amy Winehouse参与创作,而这其中的六首都由她一人独立完成。虽然刚刚发行了两张个人专辑,但Amy Winehouse不仅在家乡英国大获好评,而且已经开始打开了美国市场。相比另一位来自英国的年轻女歌手Joss Stone,Amy Winehouse的底气明显更足。 在2008年第50届格莱美大奖上,独自一人将包括最佳流行女歌手、最佳新人收入囊中,同时她的"Rehab”也获得了年度最佳歌曲。
北京时间2011年8月1日消息,据国外媒体报道,在今天刚刚揭晓的英国流行音乐排行榜中,一周前刚去世的英国流行女歌手艾米-怀恩豪斯(Amy Winehouse)的专辑《Back to Black》重新上榜,在本周的专辑榜中获得冠军。
7月23日,怀恩豪斯被发现死在自己伦敦的寓所,在她去世的消息传出之后,她的唱片就开始重新成为了唱片市场的主角。上周,怀恩豪斯的《Back to Black》就曾在英国流行专辑榜中重新上榜,当时由于她刚刚去世一天,因此,专辑销量回升的还不够多,仅排在上周英国专辑榜的第59位。《Back to Black》发行于2006年,在艾米-怀恩豪斯获得格莱美五项大奖之后,这张专辑曾获得英国流行音乐专辑榜的冠军。
这张《Back to Black》中有几首令乐迷们印象深刻的歌,其中最有名的三首是《You Know I'm No Good》、《Love Is a Losing Game》和《Rehab》,在《Rehab》这首歌中,怀恩豪斯唱到:“他们想把我送到戒毒所,我说,不,不,不。”怀恩豪斯的音乐生涯受到她毒瘾和酒瘾很大的影响,在她去世后,乐迷们再次听到这首歌的感觉十分复杂。
随着艾米-怀恩豪斯本周的夺冠,上周冠军、阿黛尔(Adele)的专辑《21》下滑到了本周榜单亚军位置。与此同时,上周英国专辑榜亚军、碧昂斯(Beyonce)的新碟《4》本周也下滑了一位,排在本周季军位置。在本周榜单前十名中,除了夺冠的专辑《Back to Black》之外,艾米-怀恩豪斯还有两张唱片打入本周前十名,其中,她的首张个人大碟《Frank》名列第五位,而她两张专辑的套装《Frank/Back to Black》排在本周的第十位。在此之前,怀恩豪斯这张《Frank》在英国专辑榜中的最好成绩是第13位。
除了专辑榜重夺冠军之外,怀恩豪斯的去世还刺激了她的作品在单曲榜中的成绩。在本周的英国流行音乐单曲榜中,怀恩豪斯一共有五首歌曲进入榜单前40名,其中,成绩最好的《Back to Black》排在本周第八位。本周英国单曲榜冠军来自英国男孩团体JLS的新上榜单曲《She Makes Me Wanna》。
The story of Back to Black is one in which celebrity and the potential of commercial success threaten to ruin Amy Winehouse, since the same insouciance and playfulness that made her sound so special when she debuted could easily have been whitewashed right out of existence for this breakout record. (That fact may help to explain why fans were so scared by press allegations that Winehouse had deliberately lost weight in order to present a slimmer appearance.) Although Back to Black does see her deserting jazz and wholly embracing contemporary R&B, all the best parts of her musical character emerge intact, and actually, are all the better for the transformation from jazz vocalist to soul siren. With producer Salaam Remi returning from Frank, plus the welcome addition of Mark Ronson (fresh off successes producing for Christina Aguilera and Robbie Williams), Back to Black has a similar sound to Frank but much more flair and spark to it. Winehouse was inspired by girl group soul of the '60s, and fortunately Ronson and Remi are two of the most facile and organic R&B producers active. (They certainly know how to evoke the era too; Remi's "Tears Dry on Their Own" is a sparkling homage to the Motown chestnut "Ain't No Mountain High Enough," and Ronson summons a host of Brill Building touchstones on his tracks.) As before, Winehouse writes all of the songs from her experiences, most of which involve the occasionally riotous and often bittersweet vagaries of love. Also in similar fashion to Frank, her eye for details and her way of relating them are delightful. She states her case against "Rehab" on the knockout first single with some great lines: "They tried to make me go to rehab I won't go go go, I'd rather be at home with Ray" (Charles, that is). As often as not, though, the songs on Back to Black are universal, songs that anyone, even Joss Stone, could take to the top of the charts, such as "Love Is a Losing Game" or the title song ("We only said good bye with words, I died a hundred times/You go back to her, and I go back to black").