Today on Salon, novelist James Hannaham attacks Amy Winehouse, but not for the reasons you'd suspect (squandering her career on drugs, marrying a deadbeat, hanging out with Pete Doherty, too much eye makeup). Hannaham instead accuses the troubled R&B diva of something potentially much more damning: He thinks she's full of shit:
"She may be a tragic talent," writes Hannaham, "but she's also playing the part of the tragic talent." Hannaham reasons that Amy is attempting to become a legend by not only singing the blues, but living them -- and that her entire persona has been self-constructed with "legend" status in mind."
If that's true (and dude, it's not) then she is one hell of an actress.
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