Feb 12 2008Amy Winehouse criticized by Natalie Cole

Multiple Grammy winner Natalie Cole made a stink yesterday to People about Amy Winehouse's wins at the Grammys:

"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," said Cole, 58. "We have to stop rewarding bad behavior."

This would be all well and good if Natalie Cole didn't have a long history of crack use according to her Wikipedia bio:

Cole continued to spiral out of control - including one incident where she refused to evacuate a burning building, and another where her young son Robert nearly drowned in the family swimming pool while she and her first husband, the late Reverend Marvin Yancy, were on a drug binge.

Natalie Cole won a bunch of Grammys and was a crackhead, so I think it's only fair that Amy Winehouse gets to win a bunch and also be a crackhead. People in the music biz do drugs. Just like all of us in the blogging business make our own moonshine and love strippers. Or maybe that's just me. I dunno. I'm not invited to the Bloggers Guild meetings* anymore. Not after I showed up blitzed on bathtub gin with a one-armed stripper that turned out to be a dude. Which explained the moustache.

*There is no such thing as a Bloggers Guild. Such an organization would require us to convene in public and actually wear pants. I'll die first.

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You mean Natalie King Kong. Seriously, she's one soulful ape.

dang it - I was first and I forgot to add "you miserable stinking cunts" at the end of my comment

The Grammys will ask Fish posters what they think long before they will take into account what Natalie "dead music" Cole has to say.

What the fuck is Natalie on about? Isn't the the whole point for a woman that wants to be a R&B/soul singer to become a junkie? Billie Holiday didn't fuck around. She shone brightly then spiraled into drug abuse. Man, that's what your supposed to do. Be a bright but brief light, then grow old and sing at smoky old piano bars. A camel in one hand and a glass a scotch in the other. It's like cool man. Ya dig? Conk ca chonk conk conk a chonk.

You know...fuck Natalie Cole. Way to be a hypocrite. Good job, dumb bitch. Amy Winehouse has an enormous amount of talent. She has some problems. You know, i've had problems in my past...but hope that no one decides to make assumptions as to who I am based on the shady things I've done in my past.

I'm happy as hell Amy won those Grammys....she deserved them...fame gives people the means to keep habits alive. And hopefully she can get past that.

her boobies arent that big.

The real question isn't why Amy won Grammy's and is a crackhead, the question is why she won at all???

Pot, meet Kettle. Commence firing.

Her drug habit was unforgettable.

Billie Holiday and Natalie Cole both have talent. Whinyhouse sucks! But death becomes her!

@1 and @2 - nice dipshit.


and because you can totally believe EVERYTHING you read on wikipedia.

I hate apes.

hey Nat Eat shit and die

Can I have it back?

but at least she looks really nice with it there.

Since when do the awards reflect behavior? It isn't like there is a grammy for most well mannered musician Natalie, you silly hag, quit mugging and stup up already. Oh and make your career without raping your fathers in the process... oops too late.

That crap on wiki is from her autobiography.

It's not about her drug problems or if she's a sailor travesti, the amazing thing is how can Amy 'Whiner'house won not just 1, but 5 Grammys.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not a Amy-hater, it's just she doesn't seem that wonderful to me.

All this crap just proves that like the Oscars, the Grammys are a stinky big fraud.

winehouse is totally overrated ... just yet another bitch with soul-voice

I never thought I'd ever defend Amy Winehouse, but who the fuck judges music by whether or not you're a druggie?! Some of the best music has come from people in a drugged state. Grammy's are NOT meant to pick fucking role models!

Natalie is pissed because a White Jew from London can out sing her old wrinkly ass. Let me guess, only Barak Osama Obama is allowed to sing soulfull, jazzy, blues type music now, because he's an authentic negro.

I don't think she should have won any grammys either. Not because she's a druggie, but because she sucks ass..

Whatever. Is she 27 yet? She'll be dead by then

Amy looks good to an industry trying to find something new and edgy that has nothing to do with rap.

lmao@all the anon internet music critics! Amy Winehouse is a fairly standard "new traditionalist" in music. She's got her own story in her lyrics, but when she sings (when sober) it's instantly identifiable with some famous dead jazz singers. Critics love that shit, at least at first, but then they always question whether the singer is an original after all. They'll do that with Amy on her next album. Good to see she's cashing in now.

That's like trashing Pink Floyd because most of their songs were written when they were on crack. So?
Oh wait...did I just compare Amy Winehouse to Pink Floyd? I mean, she's pretty talented but... oh no. Oh. My. God. *jumps out of a building*

Fish is that "one-armed stripper that turned out to be a dude. (Which explained the moustache)" the same person as the one hanging out with Lindsay in the post below? Because that would explain a lot.

You should upgrade, I hear Oompa colored, freckled crack addict actess/ stripers are a real bargain right now.

It's funny -- I like Winehouse for being a crazy rock star. Her suffering gives her work its poignancy and strength. And she looks really fit and healthy for a crack head.

What the hell!
Stop misconstruing what celebrities say.

Had any of you done some research on what Natalie said, you would have realized that she admitted to her past drug use, and warns Amy of letting that habit consumer her. This is what she said:

“I'm going on record as an artist who is able to critique [Amy Winehouse]. I think she has a great talent, but I don't agree with the Grammys giving her those nods. I think it sends the wrong message, that even in the midst of her stupor of drugs she can get nominated for all these awards. It's a slap in the face to musicians and artists who work very hard that they turn around and give it to someone who really obviously doesn't have a grasp of what she has. I've been in this business over 25 years and I sacrificed five years of my own life on drugs and almost lost my life because of it. So I take great offence to almost see someone getting glory out of being in the position that they're in – she needs to get her life together and embrace her craft, she will lose it if she doesn't get it together.”

I think Amy is not that bad in studio. I've heard her live 5 times now and have yet to hear her sound anything but shitty. Some voices need the post production that a studio offers. Amy Crackhead is one of them.

She's not an overdubbed pop "singer" or a fucking rap monkey, so without hearing any of her music, I think she's great. Everybody who's trashing her music should chill out, put the earplugs back in, and tune your ipod to your fav Justin Timberlake or Kanye West song. Both of them are true princesses.

Re: #25 HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH

They're both ugly ass junkies.....who gives a fuck?

.

Well if that aint a nig*er calling the pot a kettle

#28 - She's still wrong. If the Grammy voters thought her work was the best this year, it should get awards. If they don't give them because of some type of moral judgment about her, then they're lying to her and to whatever "first-runner-up" sap they give the awards to. Natalie's deeply pissed about what she lost in life because she was a degenerate druggie, and she's taking that out on Amy. With such a weak grip on all that resentment, it doesn't really seem like she's cured.

Racism! Racism!

Natalie Cole is just irritated that some Jewish girl beat out Kanye West for a couple of awards. 'Kanye momma' dies and the whole world wants to give him the key. I honestly think that Kans masterminded his rot-tooth-faced, ugly mother's demise to coincide with The Grammies; just to win a couple of awards.

Natalie Cole, what a hypocritical bitch. Her father would be ashamed.

Hey #33, I think what you meant to say is "If that aint the pot calling the nig*ger a kettle".

Btw, catch my new show on Hawaii local cable access channel 89 saturday nights at 2A.M.

That blows..

I'd fuck Amy. Don't get me wrong, it would have to be a one-time thing when I'm in a perfect storm of mixed drugs, extreme horniness, and much more than the usual self-loathing. But...she's pungent, hairy, wired, desperate, needy, and unaware of a single inhibition. It'd be the most horribly wonderful awful intense traumatizing are-we-even-human sex of your life. How can you pass that up?

I hope winning a Grammy inspires Amy to get help and stop her drug problem. I tried crack once and the high is not a big deal and it does not last very long. I wanted to find out why all my friends were turning into crack heads back in the 80s. It is too bad people cannot enjoy life or getting a simple buzz from two glasses of wine or pot.

Damn it, if I knew they'd fight among themselves, I wouldn't have bothered to buy all those gas ovens.

Lisa- Now that I have read the whole quote I can honestly say that Natalie should shut the fuck up. She just sounds like an out of touch oldster carping about "those damn kids!" Her criticism only makes her look foolish.
Oh and #9 Ted, subtle and perfect.

The only reason anyone knows Natalie Cole exists is because she made a name for herself capitalizing on her dead father. All the way up to and including making a video where they appear to sing together. Sick. Natalie has no vocal range at all and no ability to create or buy decent song material {oh, except for the built-in hits of her dead dad}. Yeah, they are both crack-heads...but one's got talent. Can you guess who?

A nig accusing a jew of unjustly corning the market on bling. Oh that's original.

(by the way, "corning the market" refers to when you leave a steaming cornholio in the toilet at the 7-11)

And if Natalie Cole was not the privileged daughter of a well-loved singer, she would be a total nobody. At least Amy got where she is because of her own work, and not riding on the coattails of her dead dad like Natalie did. And one more thing, the Grammy's don't give awards for Crackhead of the Year. If they did, Natalie would have gotten the very first one.

The Grammy's are about music and talent, not lifestyle. And no one can deny that Amy is talented.

Nice new boobs, Amy!

the Zionists love here! If she were Goy (scum sub-human) she would be an unknown and would only be singing karioke. She has a horrible one dimensional voice and her lyrics are primitive. She is a dirty drug addled filthy nasty whore and nothing more. I hope she ODs.

#46? 'Talent', yeah, right...

May I remind you, Britney Spears's won a couple of Grammies. Right.

Amy's an anomaly.

What's the rag-on against Natalie Cole? She's lived through precisely what Amy Winehouse is going through right now, and lived to tell the tale. Maybe Amy won't survive her addictions, she wouldn't be the first. Natalie Cole has the right to say these things, or nobody does. She's basically saying the industry rewards bad-behavior, and who can deny it? Amy's been clean long enough to perform for the Grammys. Now let's see what she does next week and next month before we say Natalie is so wrong.

#38: Just think -- she could work your cock between those gaps in her teef! *high five!!!!

her tits are all water bra. both she and paris could run straight into a five inch breast level pike and not feel a thing. except their waters breaking.

#46
I feel so sorry to burst your bubble, but Grammy's ain't about music and talent.
It's all about the music industry and who sold more albums. To tell you the truth, Grammy's are just a classy version of the Billboard awards.

Amy Winehouse MIGHT have some talent, but that biatch needs more than one sticky song, drug problems and sailor tattoos to be a real musician and a real artist.

As "they" say, it's called her "schtik"

It's true. Musicians do drugs. I can attest to that.

But hey, you know who else does drugs???? People!!! There is plenty out there to get into, you just have to be strong enough to keep yourself away. Musicians tend to be more susceptible because they are more emotional to begin with. But yeah, everyone is looking for something to make themselves feel better.

PS = Natalie Cole's statement is a common knee jerk reaction of a post rehabber. Classic.

Nat, girl, I know you hate your past. But let your fucking struggle be your own.

#47 If your going to write a ridiculous racist diatribe at least learn how to spell you inbred goat fucker. What the fuck is " karioke"? Now be a good little hitler and go stick your head in the oven, we need you out of the gene pool stat.

She probably was high when she said that.

"...a good little hitler..."
:)
That was funny.

I'm pretty sure Natalie Cole sucked off my doberman for a 20 piece once. So yeah her opinion is a little suspect.

Hey #50. misery bunny - February 12, 2008 2:16 PM

Her boobs are real. She just happens to be like me. Amy is 5'3" and I'm 5'2". Breast tissue is mostly fat for most women, but Amy and I have more tissue than fat on our boobs, so no matter how much weight we lose, we will always have our boobs. When I was a stressed out Software Engineer and weighed 100 pounds; I was a small 34C and now that I am 108 pounds; I am a full 34C. When Amy quits drugs and puts on weight, she will have a nice shapely bum like me as well. I hope Amy gets well soon. Amy has a beautiful soulful voice.

Uh, dumbass cumbucket apologist. What the fuck is your problem? You are sorry enough to be entertained by this bucket 'o mung. OK. I cannot forgive that. Apparantly the classics are out for you. Or any true displays of true music.
But how can you defend this untalented hag by saying that "people do drugs"? HOW? So we are all strung out on drugs like walking skeletons? Covered in disgusting tatoos as well?
Well I never thought much of you but now at least I fell justified in my assholery towards you?
Damn sure would hate to be one of your therapists. You would bored me to bladder failure.

HEY JACKASS...how about if you put the WHOLE quote in the article. I think Natalie Cole is speaking from a former junkie perspective. Here's the rest of the quote for all of you illiterate monkeys.

"I've been in this business over 25 years and I sacrificed five years of my own life on drugs and almost lost my life because of it. So I take great offence to almost see someone getting glory out of being in the position that they're in – she needs to get her life together and embrace her craft, she will lose it if she doesn't get it together"

HEY JACKASS...how about if you put the WHOLE quote in the article. I think Natalie Cole is speaking from a former junkie perspective. Here's the rest of the quote for all of you illiterate DUMBASSES.

"I've been in this business over 25 years and I sacrificed five years of my own life on drugs and almost lost my life because of it. So I take great offence to almost see someone getting glory out of being in the position that they're in – she needs to get her life together and embrace her craft, she will lose it if she doesn't get it together"

The Grammys do not reward behavior --- whether it is bad or good --- they reward talent. And that's quite different.

SUPERFISH HAS A MAJOR CRUSH ON AMY WINEHOUSE (OR IS JEWISH HIMSELF) :

Despite the fact that she's far more unsightly than Britney, Paris, Kirsten Dunst, or other celebs he rags on, he consistently cuts her more slack. This is typical of males who have some emotional or sexual affinity for someone. It is also typical of jews to promote the success of their own people. Which one is it Fish? I'd prefer to hear you just have a crush on her, rather than you being another cell in the filthy earth destroying jew organism performing auto analingus.

SUPERFISH HAS A MAJOR CRUSH ON AMY WINEHOUSE (OR IS JEWISH HIMSELF) :

Despite the fact that she's far more unsightly than Britney, Paris, Kirsten Dunst, or other celebs he rags on, he consistently cuts her more slack. This is typical of males who have some emotional or sexual affinity for someone. It is also typical of jews to promote the success of their own people. Which one is it Fish? I'd prefer to hear you just have a crush on her, rather than you being another cell in the filthy earth destroying jew organism performing auto analingus.

I think one think Ms Cole needs to remember, and she should no better, is that Amy is being awarded for her talent and her music and her album. She is not getting awards for being a fucking junkie, which by the way is no body's fucking business anyways. The media makes it their business and that is what it is, but we give accolades to the art not the artist. The persons personal life has nothing to do with any of it , nor should it. And to the dood above me, get a life and quit hating people.

Sorry I misspelled it. Yes I am a racist. I hate ugly nasty jewish people forcing their morally bankrupt racist religion and mores onto the values of my own (caucasion) peoples. Everyone likes to brag about how many jews there are in Hollywood, as though we Goy are incapable of reaching such filthily lofty postions. THEY (and perhaps you little hebe) are the racists. And I take exception. Fuck them and you, fucker.
I do not hate jewish people or any other people per se. I have had many jewish friends. It would be the same as the persistence of referring to Germans as Nazis. Bullshit.
Deny this faggot and bring it on.

...for a cadaver. Easily one of the most overrated, hideous pieces of shit to come out of the bullshit factory that is the entertainment industty. I find it amazing how anyone can consider her talented. What is the talent? She sings in a fake voice. Her songs are topically primitive and morally lacking. Her voice has no range at all. None. She sings every song with the exact same approach. One dimensional.
And that lower body. Genetically repulsive. Bird legs. I get her pussy stinks. Thick bush of subhuman black hair. Gads! That middle eastern face. Ugh!
A drug addict. Let's all pull for her! She a modern hero! (sing of the end of an epic and the start of a new one)

Either way, whether or not you agree with their choice of Amy, the awards are supposed to be for music, they aren't the "most well rounded" person awards.

And to those of you who think that Amy's album only sounded good because of post production I suggest you go to youtube and search "amy winehouse the dl" because she can really sing. I've also seen the horrible performances of her on youtube, wasted out of her mind. But I believe that when sober, she is an amazing singer.

#45 LMFAO

In all reality...if they were to take back all the Grammy's that have been awarded over the years from the winners who have abused drugs....THEY WOULD HAVE TO TAKE BACK 97% OF THEM!! It is the culture of the industry!

Fuck...all we would have to listen to is "white noise"...!!!

I got a bigger kick out of Keith Richards giving her advice to straighten out!

Fuck...Richards has consumed every known drug on the planet and has lived to tell the tale!

Um, the Grammy's are a music award .... not an award for clean-free, citizen (or not)-of-the-year awards. The reward should be for music, and that's it. I suppose that will bekon Hollywood to create, yet anot award show so they can honor themselves. ho hum. ...Barbra Peapod

Sorry, but why do people keep accusing others who say bad things about Jews of being racist...it may not be nice, but it's not racism!!! "Jew" is NOT a race...it's a religion...a religion that allows converts...only children of Jewish mothers are considered Jewish at birth; if your father is a Jew and your mother is not, you are NOT a Jew. Clearly, that is not a race, or an ethnicity. It's just a religion!!! (yes, a rather skanky one at that)

Sorry, but why do people keep accusing others who say bad things about Jews of being racist...it may not be nice, but it's not racism!!! "Jew" is NOT a race...it's a religion...a religion that allows converts...only children of Jewish mothers are considered Jewish at birth; if your father is a Jew and your mother is not, you are NOT a Jew. Clearly, that is not a race, or an ethnicity. It's just a religion!!! (yes, a rather skanky one at that)

All those who are defending Natalie's remarks about Amy Winehouse: does this mean that Natalie should give back the three Grammys she won in 1975 and 1976, around the same time she was busted in Canada for possessing heroin? Just asking ...

NATALIE! (People who lived in crackhouses should not Throw Rocks, Because they smoke them!)

Nat is awful, she is just another person recommended by daddy!!!!

what the fuck, how can americans be so moralistic? Poor Amy was denied the VISA and now she is considered as a bad example. Can't US people just look at themselves once in while?

Is Amy feeling lonely?I saw her profile on a celebrity and millionaire dating site called "Searching Millionaire Dot com".Her profile is nice with several recent pics there. Many men winked at her. What relationship is she looking for?

I'm surprised Whitney "Two Hits" Houston didn't weigh in... "aawwwww HELL to the NO!!!"

MORE MASCARA!
MORE HAIRSPRAY!
MORE ELECTYROLYSIS!

Amy is the supreme musician of the ages. Her songs tap the wellspring of the mind of God. May He keep her and hers for all time. She is truly gifted beyond what commom folk like you guys can even begin to understand.

Amy IS God!

Amy won because of her talent and her amazin voice not for her behavior!!!!! Natalie cole sucks

i love amy!!

when she does that thing, holding a cigarette between her teeth like she's about to eat it, i feel sick

Let he who is without sin cast the first stone, Ms. Cole, as I recall your an x user yourself. She is talented and well deserved her Grammy's. Way to go! Bravo Amy!!!!

Blogger's Guild is a Clan, how could you miss that?

LOOK WHO'S CALLING THE CRADDLE BLACK! Natalie how soon do we forget when you were on crack, heroin and cocaine AND was also getting rewards? Just like at that time you received yours for your music, so did Amy! Maybe you should give all of your rewards back and call it even! Your NOW ex-fan! Denise..San Antonio, Tx.

I love Amy Natalie needs to get a life or a hit record. She should also remember a lot of us from Harlem, NY are still around and Amy Winehouse has nothing on the shit Natalie was putting down.
When the Top Club on w.125th street was opened (across from the Apollo) Natalie Cole, Fonda Rae and Chaka Khan were regulars to come and copp and she says 5 years of addiction??? It took 5 years to show and no one gave a shit. Now the bitch who tried to sell her fathers estate and her mother Maria Cole had to run to the judge to get POA over her affairs wishes to hate? Bitch go smoke a wooler and pretened to be Lady Day your so fuckin yesterday its pathetic don't hate u dint say that crap about Whitney Houston your a predjudiced played out singer who know one really carres about anymore

I love Amy Natalie needs to get a life or a hit record. She should also remember a lot of us from Harlem, NY are still around and Amy Winehouse has nothing on the shit Natalie was putting down.
When the Top Club on w.125th street was opened (across from the Apollo) Natalie Cole, Fonda Rae and Chaka Khan were regulars to come and copp and she says 5 years of addiction??? It took 5 years to show and no one gave a shit. Now the bitch who tried to sell her fathers estate and her mother Maria Cole had to run to the judge to get POA over her affairs wishes to hate? Bitch go smoke a wooler and pretened to be Lady Day your so fuckin yesterday its pathetic don't hate u dint say that crap about Whitney Houston your a predjudiced played out singer who know one really carres about anymore

I love Amy Natalie needs to get a life or a hit record. She should also remember a lot of us from Harlem, NY are still around and Amy Winehouse has nothing on the shit Natalie was putting down.
When the Top Club on w.125th street was opened (across from the Apollo) Natalie Cole, Fonda Rae and Chaka Khan were regulars to come and copp and she says 5 years of addiction??? It took 5 years to show and no one gave a shit. Now the bitch who tried to sell her fathers estate and her mother Maria Cole had to run to the judge to get POA over her affairs wishes to hate? Bitch go smoke a wooler and pretened to be Lady Day your so fuckin yesterday its pathetic don't hate u dint say that crap about Whitney Houston your a predjudiced played out singer who know one really carres about anymore

I love Amy Natalie needs to get a life or a hit record. She should also remember a lot of us from Harlem, NY are still around and Amy Winehouse has nothing on the shit Natalie was putting down.
When the Top Club on w.125th street was opened (across from the Apollo) Natalie Cole, Fonda Rae and Chaka Khan were regulars to come and copp and she says 5 years of addiction??? It took 5 years to show and no one gave a shit. Now the bitch who tried to sell her fathers estate and her mother Maria Cole had to run to the judge to get POA over her affairs wishes to hate? Bitch go smoke a wooler and pretened to be Lady Day your so fuckin yesterday its pathetic don't hate u dint say that crap about Whitney Houston your a predjudiced played out singer who know one really carres about anymore

I love Amy Natalie needs to get a life or a hit record. She should also remember a lot of us from Harlem, NY are still around and Amy Winehouse has nothing on the shit Natalie was putting down.
When the Top Club on w.125th street was opened (across from the Apollo) Natalie Cole, Fonda Rae and Chaka Khan were regulars to come and copp and she says 5 years of addiction??? It took 5 years to show and no one gave a shit. Now the bitch who tried to sell her fathers estate and her mother Maria Cole had to run to the judge to get POA over her affairs wishes to hate? Bitch go smoke a wooler and pretened to be Lady Day your so fuckin yesterday its pathetic don't hate u dint say that crap about Whitney Houston your a predjudiced played out singer who know one really carres about anymore

I love Amy Natalie needs to get a life or a hit record. She should also remember a lot of us from Harlem, NY are still around and Amy Winehouse has nothing on the shit Natalie was putting down.
When the Top Club on w.125th street was opened (across from the Apollo) Natalie Cole, Fonda Rae and Chaka Khan were regulars to come and copp and she says 5 years of addiction??? It took 5 years to show and no one gave a shit. Now the bitch who tried to sell her fathers estate and her mother Maria Cole had to run to the judge to get POA over her affairs wishes to hate? Bitch go smoke a wooler and pretened to be Lady Day your so fuckin yesterday its pathetic don't hate u dint say that crap about Whitney Houston your a predjudiced played out singer who know one really carres about anymore

Natalie has some damn nerve. She was a Grammy award winner and was on drugs as well. She is a damn hypocrite. I think she said that because she was white and won the most awards. She did crake, heroine, LCD. She should be ashamed criticizing her when she did the same thing. If that is the case, she needs to get her Grammys taken away.

LIFE IS A FUCKING DRUG!
GET OVER IT.
GET A LIFE!
MIND YOUR BUSINESS!
YOU'LL LIVE LONGER!

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