Post by Molly on Aug 19, 2004 10:26:33 GMT 1
This is in the Mirror today:
ONE'S sold nearly 150 million records, the other's a gawky girl just out of her teens with one minor hit of an album.
So no contest over whether Madonna or brash newcomer Amy Winehouse is the bigger music phenomenon.
Only no one seems to have told Amy, who seems convinced Madonna, 46, is not so much Material Girl as immaterial has-been.
The 20-year-old, fast becoming pop's biggest loudmouth, sneered: "She's an old lady. She can't shock any more. She should get a nice band, just stand in front of them and f*****g sing."
The North Londoner has shifted a mere 200,000 copies of debut jazz CD Frank.
But it hasn't stopped her dismissing some of music's biggest names with four-letter putdowns.
Chris Martin, whose band Coldplay has sold five million albums? She spits: "I bet if he heard his stuff he'd be like, 'Who is that w****r'?'"
Dido, with 18 million albums? "Kids listening to her and thinking, 'I want to be like Didomakes me want to vomit."
Britney Spears' 40million albums don't get her off the hook either. Amy's verdict? "I wish her luck with her marriage as I hope it stops her going into the studio."
She says of Rachel Stevens, four No1s with S Club and a No2 on her own: "I watch her singing and think, 'F*****g hell, but at least she didn't write that piece of s**t.'"
Jazz rival Katie Melua, whose album Call Off The Search has sold a million, gets even shorter shrift: "She's s**t."
Perhaps Amy's most honest remark comes when she admits: "I'm slightly bitter because I haven't sold as many albums as them." Like her album, at least she's frank.
So no contest over whether Madonna or brash newcomer Amy Winehouse is the bigger music phenomenon.
Only no one seems to have told Amy, who seems convinced Madonna, 46, is not so much Material Girl as immaterial has-been.
The 20-year-old, fast becoming pop's biggest loudmouth, sneered: "She's an old lady. She can't shock any more. She should get a nice band, just stand in front of them and f*****g sing."
The North Londoner has shifted a mere 200,000 copies of debut jazz CD Frank.
But it hasn't stopped her dismissing some of music's biggest names with four-letter putdowns.
Chris Martin, whose band Coldplay has sold five million albums? She spits: "I bet if he heard his stuff he'd be like, 'Who is that w****r'?'"
Dido, with 18 million albums? "Kids listening to her and thinking, 'I want to be like Didomakes me want to vomit."
Britney Spears' 40million albums don't get her off the hook either. Amy's verdict? "I wish her luck with her marriage as I hope it stops her going into the studio."
She says of Rachel Stevens, four No1s with S Club and a No2 on her own: "I watch her singing and think, 'F*****g hell, but at least she didn't write that piece of s**t.'"
Jazz rival Katie Melua, whose album Call Off The Search has sold a million, gets even shorter shrift: "She's s**t."
Perhaps Amy's most honest remark comes when she admits: "I'm slightly bitter because I haven't sold as many albums as them." Like her album, at least she's frank.