YOU KNOW I’M NO GOOD - AMY WINEHOUSE
If such a tactic exists in today’s problematic music biz, Universal is taking the easy way out launching U.K. sensation Amy Winehouse, whose relaxed old-soul vocals — think
Shirley Bassey chilling on a Quaalude — serve as an adventurous-but-fluent fit for lesser-regimented airwaves at home. Here, she’s been incompatibly aligned with Ghostface Killah, who assaults an otherwise cool, bumpy, horn-ridden, trampy track with a ferocious discordant sputter at the midsection, in a blatant attempt to lend rhythmic radio cred before selling the story to top 40. Billboard
