Amy Winehouse is back from the Carribean where she apparently found time to work on some new music while she wasn’t parading around in weird looking bikinis.   She was “very productive [and] wrote a lot of songs,” but her record label doesn’t like them one bit.

“She seems to have ditched her trademark vintage soul sound and is now heavily influenced by reggae. Her bosses don’t think it’s a wise move to change her style so sharply and have told her that.”

Writing reggae songs while you’re in the Carribean- how original.  But not only has she gone rasta, she’s gotten all dark and gloomy too.

“The lyrics are very dark indeed. While she’s known for her conversational style and has been very successful with it, many of the tracks are near the knuckle.  In the past, she’s written frequently about broken hearts and boyfriends, but this time round she’s delving into harrowing terrain.”

Amy has had plenty of reasons lately to write darker songs.  Most of them self-wrought, of course.   But of course her label wants her music to sell, sell, sell!   And I still can’t get over the reggae thing.

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