In 2006, an album called "Back to Black Returns to Darkness" broke the sky and left a deep mark on pop music.
Breaking the history of British music sales, winning the album of the year award, five Grammy Awards, Amy Winehouse Amy Winehouse, who created this album, not only became the most representative musician of the 00s, but also influenced many musicians after her.
Jazz, soul, rhythm and blues, reggae, Amy is talented, can write and sing, and uses her life to make music.
However, due to her rapid popularity and problems such as alcoholism and drug abuse, her state has taken a sharp turn for the worse, and she has always been the focus of the media and the public.
Some media have given her the nickname "Poison Queen", frequently following her ugly appearance and peeping at her unbearable.
On July 23, 2011, Amy unfortunately became a member of the rumored "Curse Club for the Untimely Death of 27" in the European and American music scenes, and died of alcohol poisoning.
Now, ten years later, for many of Amy's fans, her music and image are still alive. And Amy's family and friends, in the past ten years, have also repeatedly voiced their nostalgia.
On 23 July this year, amy's parents and the BBC documentary "Reclaiming Amy" was screened, recounting Amy's short and tragic life in the tone of her parents.
However, once the documentary was broadcast, some viewers were dissatisfied with the interview with Amy's parents, especially father Mickey Mitch.
The reason for this is related to Mickey's former daughter's agent, dereliction of duty, improper supervision, wrong choices, and suspected mercenary intentions.
This year's documentary is also compared with "Amy Amy", which won the Academy Award for Best Documentary after its broadcast in 2015.
The same Amy, under different words, the people closest to her are different looks.
2015 documentary Amy
Amy was born in London on September 14, 1983, to Jewish parents, and she has an older brother.
Her father, Mickey, was a taxi driver and her mother was a pharmacist, and she divorced when Amy was 9 years old. After her parents divorced, Amy followed her mother, and her grandmother, who lived nearby, became her spiritual pillar.
The 2015 documentary retraces Amy's childhood and recreates a sensitive and talented little girl who has loved music since childhood.
She is humorous and cute, enrolled in a famous drama school in London, and has many friends.
Her father's cheating and divorce caused a very big blow to her, so she used music to express her feelings, and later she also used her outstanding musical achievements to get her father's recognition and praise.
The image of the mother who has been living with Amy in the 2015 documentary is also somewhat negative.
She loves her daughter, but she is unaware of her many vulnerable moments, and does not intervene in the problems she experienced when she was a teenager, such as drinking alcohol from an early age.
Later, Amy's grandmother, who loves to sing, dies, coupled with the fame and fortune brought by the explosion and the drugs at hand in the chaotic circle, and her ex-husband Blake Fielder-Civil, who uses drugs and loves and kills each other, Amy's explosion and sinking, fatalistically happen.
Ironically, Amy's hit "Back to Black" was written quickly after a big argument with her ex-husband.
In the 2015 documentary, Amy's parents can be called irresponsible, and her ex-husband is not a good stubble.
The two married in 2007, and he suggested to Amy, who was already an alcoholic, to take drugs together, and the two later went from alcohol addiction to poison worms, domestic violence against each other, and the ex-husband was also imprisoned for serious bodily injury between July 2008 and February 2009.
During the prison visit, he was chased by the media to intercept the angry Amy
Alcoholics, addicted to drugs, emotional and physical violence, after winning five Grammy Awards, Amy has gone on the road to collapse.
But the people around her still did not restrain themselves from the cliff and made some effective interventions.
In addition to not interfering with the use of alcohol and drugs, in 2009, when Amy was recuperating in St. Lucia and chose to quit drinking and drugs to save herself, her father actually took his film crew to follow his daughter, saying that he was making a documentary, and Amy was very upset about it.
Prior to this, Amy, who was in a very poor state, was also semi-forced on stage by her father to perform according to the contract, and as a result, she was scolded loudly by the audience, and she hugged herself uncomfortably, almost collapsing.
If the 2015 documentary "Amy" is the story of Amy told by the director with the eyes of a stranger third party. That 2021, this week's broadcast of "Rediscover Amy", can be said to be her parents in the form of memoirs to witness the speech.
Amy's mother, she told the reason why she wanted to make this documentary:
"I think that 2015 was unfair to Amy, and then the ex-husband was accused of not helping Amy quit all kinds of addictions.
What hurt me the most was the film, because Amy's unhappiness in childhood led to the subsequent tragedy.
But Amy comes from a loving family, and we're all there, always with her. ”
Faced with the missing position when she experienced problems in her daughter's life, she also explained that she had suffered from multiple sclerosis for many years, and she had experienced many pains both physically and mentally:
"When my daughter's condition got worse, my health also became very poor, I couldn't help her, and I knew exactly where my limits were.
That's really bad, watching your child slowly disappear and head to death.
I could only watch, watch, and wait. ”
While her mother was absent at a critical moment, Amy's father said that he had been trying to take care of his daughter's affairs after she became popular, and had always insisted that she go to a drug rehabilitation center:
"The 2015 documentary destroyed me, and people now say I killed my daughter."
"But people save themselves, and sometimes we take her to a drug rehab center the night before, and the next day she runs out on her own.
She was an adult at the time and there wasn't much we could do. ”
"We don't want to wash away our own and Amy's black history, but we want to tell everyone that Amy's drug addiction is a problem, and her family is helpless, and we can't remember how many times we sent her to a drug rehabilitation center."
Talking about the 2015 documentary presentation, when he took the camera crew to find Amy on vacation to shoot the documentary, Amy's father said that it was a demon clip, and Amy had already agreed to his request that year, and after filming, the father and daughter had been singing and chatting, but they were not cut into the main film.
The new documentary also interviews Amy's childhood friends, work partners, and more.
In their dictations, Amy goes to the end and is also responsible for many of her own decisions, a friend said:
"After getting five Grammys, Amy said, 'None of this would be fun if I didn't take drugs.'"
However, the day before the documentary aired, the British media released a preview and news, announcing a recording of Amy's life.
In the recording, Amy, who was making her debut album at the age of 20 at the time, said:
"I love Jack Daniel (whiskey), super loving, super nice.
I drank it every day, drank it for eight years, and everyone knew it. ”
Faced with a daughter who began drinking at the age of 12 and called everyone known, Amy's mother Janice explained:
"Amy was ashamed of that, so she never drank in front of me."
Such an explanation, of course, can not satisfy everyone, and the comment area is one-sided.
Some sympathize with Amy's parents and feel that they are really not easy.
But others still feel that this is a series of tragedies caused by the negligence of parental guardianship, and the fact that he drank heavily at the age of 12 is simply unforgivable and difficult to blame.
And then directly let Amy's father, Mickey, and Britney's dad Jamie and Lindsay Rohan's dad Mike go for a drink together...
The fathers of the three actresses are all responsible for their daughter's brokerage work...
So many years after Amy's death, her parents inherited all her copyright inheritance, founded a foundation in her name, each produced a memoir, both appeared on the top selling list, and repeatedly interviewed by the media to recall her daughter's past.
No amount of memories, no amount of documentaries, no amount of interviews and memories, nothing can make Amy reborn.
This genius who died young can only live forever in music, in people's hearts.