This singer/rapper/sometime actor who has used multiple names in his career, is in the news a bit today trying to make a few bucks exploiting a well seen image.

Maybe someone should ask him what he gave the now dead foreign A list singer shortly before she died.

Mos Def (Yasiin Bey)

White Lives Matter shirt

Amy Winehouse

Why the new Amy Winehouse biopic could be a step too far

Last week, it was announced that a new Amy Winehouse biopic was in the works, with acclaimed director Kirsten Sheridan writing, directing an overseeing the entire project. This comes only a few months after Asif Kapadia’s heart-breaking (and controversial) portrayal Amy, and both come just four years after she passed away from alcohol poisoning at the age of 27.

However, unlike Amy, a documentary made up of startlingly intimate raw footage of the singer, with verbal accounts from her friends and family, the film will be a scripted Hollywood production of re-enacted events, and an actress who has probably never met the singer will be playing her. And while these kinds of portrayals have been done many times with grace in the past (Ian Curtis in Control, Kurt Cobain in Last Days, Johnny Cash in Walk The Line), something about a big budget Amy Winehouse production leaves a particularly bitter taste in the mouth.

It has become a cliché to say so, but Winehouse was an astoundingly unique kind of singer; the kind that only comes around once every few decades. With her Marlboro and cognac voice, original jazz predications and sharp-witted charisma, the singer appeared magnetic even when she wasn’t on top form, and her quick-fire rise to fame seemed inevitable. Yasiin Bey (formerly known as Mos Def) who was a close friend of Winehouse, described her beautifully when he said, “She was fast with a blue joke, could drink anyone under the table and she sure could roll a smoke. She had a giant big laugh. She was a sweetheart.” Arguably, a film would be a way of celebrating such a talent. So why does it feel so utterly wrong? – Source


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