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Amy Winehouse – What Is It About Men
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“What is It About Men” is a personal, gut-spilling song about Amy’s feelings towards her own father. She feels she’s bound to end up becoming a mistress to a married man in the
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Amy Winehouse – What Is It About Men Samples
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See all of “What Is It About Men” by Amy Winehouse’s samples, covers, remixes, interpolations and live versions
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Amy Winehouse – He Can Only Hold Her
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“He Can Only Hold Her” by Amy Winehouse is a song about a time when she was in a relationship that she wasn’t completely invested in because she missed her last lover.
This song
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Amy Winehouse – You Know I'm No Good
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In the quintessential Winehouse track “You Know I’m No Good,” Amy uses her drug and alcohol use to justify her infidelity in a relationship. The track is quite telling of Amy’s
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Amy Winehouse – Rehab
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“Rehab,” the leading single off of Back To Black, arguably put Winehouse on the international map. The song is a hauntingly ironic, upbeat tune where Winehouse refuses to go to a
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Amy Winehouse – Fuck Me Pumps
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“Fuck Me Pumps,” also known simply as “Pumps,” was the fourth and final single taken from Frank. The song satirically discusses the idea of money-hungry, one-night stand-having
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Amy Winehouse – Tears Dry on Their Own
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Written in Miami with producer Salaam Remi, “Tears Dry On Their Own” has grown to become one of the most recognisable songs in Winehouse’s discography. During an undated interview
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Amy Winehouse – I Heard Love Is Blind
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“I Heard Love Is Blind” unapologetically tackles the themes of infidelity and whimsically cheating on one’s partner.
Winehouse, who has stated that the song does not reenact a
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Amy Winehouse – Intro / Stronger Than Me
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“Stronger Than Me” tackles Winehouse’s back-and-forth experience with her early partner Chris Taylor. The two dated on and off before Winehouse came to the decision that Taylor
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Amy Winehouse – What Is It About Men (Live At North Sea Jazz Festival)
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[Intro: Spoken] / And, um, this is a tune called "What Is It About Men" / I wrote this about my daddy...um, yeah / No, it's not in our situation, you know / Oh, it's cool now, at
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Amy Winehouse – Monkey Man
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Ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, ay / Hugging up the big monkey man / Ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, ay / Hugging up the big monkey man / Never saw you, I only heard of you / Hugging up the big monkey man
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Amy Winehouse – Love Is a Losing Game
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In the haunting ballad “Love Is a Losing Game,” Winehouse reflects over her painful moments of loneliness and confusion, as well as her inability to rewrite history and change how
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Amy Winehouse – Addicted
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In the playful “Addicted,” Winehouse narrates her eternal love for marijuana and the anger she felt towards her best friend’s boyfriend who kept stealing her weed. The protagonist
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Amy Winehouse – Mr Magic (Through the Smoke)
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“Mr Magic (Through The Smoke)” is the first of Winehouse’s weed anthems, preceding 2006’s “Addicted”. While other songs throughout her discography allude to the psychoactive drug
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Amy Winehouse – You Sent Me Flying
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“You Sent Me Flying,” the second track off Winehouse’s debut album Frank, narrates Winehouse’s inadequate and vulnerable affection for a man much older than her. The more she
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Nas (Ft. Amy Winehouse) – Cherry Wine
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Produced by Salaam Remi, who introduced Nas to Amy and is a frequent collaborator with both, this is one of the LP’s standout tracks. Nasir takes this time to describe what he
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Amy Winehouse – Back to Black
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Ranked as the #98 best song of the 2000’s, “Back to Black” details the harsh reality Winehouse faced after her then-boyfriend, Blake Fielder-Civil, ended their relationship to
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Amy Winehouse – Some Unholy War (Live At Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London / 2007)
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[Verse 1] / If my man was fightin' some unholy war / I would be behind him / Straight shook up beside him / With strength he didn't know / It's you I'm fightin' for / He can't lose
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Amy Winehouse – October Song
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The nostalgic “October Song” recalls the death of Winehouse’s pet canary named Ava. The title of the song presumably recalls the month that Ava died, although Winehouse has been
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Amy Winehouse – Take the Box
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“Take the Box” details the tremendously specific encounter that Amy had with her ex-boyfriend, Chris Taylor, following their breakup. In an effort to cleanse herself of Taylor and
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