REHAB - AMY WINEHOUSE
Brit bad girl Amy Winehouse is one of the mainstream print media breakouts of the year — and consumers are responding, with debut “Back to Black” in the top five on the Top Digital and Top Internet charts and top 10 on the Billboard 200. “Rehab,” the follow-up to alluring first single “You Know That I’m No Good,” is all the more raucous, as she spouts, “They tried to make me go to rehab but I said ‘no, no, no’/Yes I’ve been black but when I come back you’ll know know know/I ain’t got the time” — based on a true story of management trying to send her away, her defiance and subsequent firing of those detractors. Again, a jazzy blues backdrop, complete with bleating baritone sax, supports Winehouse’s old-soul Shirley Bassey-meets-Ella Fitzgerald vocals. A better buzz than a double-gin martini. Billboard
