No, No, No!

Not sure if you watched the Grammy’s on Sunday. Yes, I’m a day late and a dollar short but I wasn’t feeling well yesterday. Anyway, the train wreck that is Amy Winehouse wasn’t as bad as I thought. The shout out to her incarcerated husband was odd, but so was the performance by Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard. Yikes. Amy is so intriguing to me. Despite the crazy bee-hive, cat like eye liner and dirty ballet slippers, I am very interested. I don’t know why. I think it’s the concept that I want her to want to get better. Unlike Ms. Spears, Amy Winehouse has talent. She is not over produced. I have her album and have watched her do some acoustic performances. They are really different but in a good way.

Having said that, I have a problem with something I read / heard yesterday. Amy won 5 Grammy awards on Sunday and evidently Natalie Cole had this to say:

“I don't think she should have won. I think it sends a bad message to our young people who are trying to get into this business, the ones who are trying to do it right and really trying to keep themselves together". "We have to stop rewarding bad behavior." "I mean, she could die. This isn't something that's cute and fun just to throw around in the press. The girl really has a problem, and I think for those of us who have been in the business long enough, we know the sacrifice it takes. This is about discipline and hard work, and you don't get to just do your drugs and go onstage and get rewarded."

WOAH!!!! I have a new nickname for you, Natalie Cole and it is “Hatealie Cole”. Girlfriend, you are HATING on Amy Winehouse. Last time I checked, the Grammy is not an award for what an artist accomplishes in their personal life. I could maybe…possibly understand where Natalie is coming from if Amy recorded the album while on drugs. However, that is not a proven fact. I think Hatealie is jealous because Amy came onto the scene within this past year and won 5 awards. It took Hatealie a few years. I don’t know but I really disagree with her. Nobody was saying “You did a great job on drugs” by giving Amy an award. No!! In fact, it is defined as “A service mark used for any of the statuettes awarded by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences for excellence in the recording industry.” Hey, Hatealie, you might want to read that over and over again. It drives me CRAZY when celebrities get on a soap box about something that they have no business talking about. Why does she even care? Another fact that I checked is that she is not God and has no right to judge. So step off!!

My friend Amy’s (no, not Winehouse) husband, Adam, has a great saying. Whenever someone is hating on another person, he will hold his hand up in their face and say something to the effect of “This is a mirror and this is the face of hate”. I have seen the mirror plenty of times. In my humble opinion, Hatalie needs to see the mirror.