CLUB . . . You're wrong and you don't even know it !

I remember reading somewhere a defence of the Winehouse - saying that drugs and atti-tood is essential to great music/art. I think it sort of misses the point. Billie Holiday, for example, was a heavy drug user, was jailed and married a mobster; however her recordings and performances always retained a respect for the music and the audience. I understand that The Winehouse is a little bit post-modern (her songs aren't emotional, are a little detached and she even says "fuck" on a jazz ballad - oooh!!) and that it isn't cool to display too much musical talent nowadays but her contempt for her own material, the band supporting her and her audience means she is now a "celeb" and not a "musician". A shame, because there is something there...Somewhere.