Amy Pic Posting for Fun! #2

Tried my best, but I can't read some bits and English is not my first language, so I'm not so good at guessing what words there might be...

It’s a Monday afternoon in All Saints Road, and Amy lets out a huge gasp. She ____ her _____ and darts straight over to a shop window, starring at something that’s caught her eye. “Wow,” she gushes “Look at that…”
Is it a £300 pair of __Lo style Man__ boots, perhaps? A Mu__ Mu__ dress, even? No, Amy Winehouse, a down-to-earth 19 year old, around-the way Jewish girl from north London is having a fit over a tacky, but very retro looking 80s-style Casio keyboard that she’s spotted in a second-hand musical instrument store. “I’ve got to go back there after the photo shoot! I’ve got to!”, she putts excitedly.
In many ways, Amy is not your average teenager. For starters, she lives for music, a quality rare in girls of her age. Aged eight, her and her mate were already mimicking Salt’n’Pepper records, ("__, imagine, two little Jewish girls rapping!” she laughs. Every lunchtime at Secondary School was spent camped in the music room, teaching herself piano. In one breath she talks about US rap duo Gangsta__ latest LP: “Sounding like it could have been made 10 years ago". The next, she’s _____ that listening to Ella Fitzgerald has “been very good for my (tuning) and helping me sustain a note”. The fact that her nan ("a ______stone version of Joan Collins“) was once engaged to Ronnie Scott - he of jazz club fame - is also a big deal in Amy’s world.
Then, of course, there’s the small matter of the record contract this singer _____ with Island Records last November, that sees her bouncing on the precipice of what many in the music biz recon is a (glittering) career. At a recent industry-only showcase at London’s Cobden Club, she left ________ observers gobsmacked with her vocal range, depth and all round quality. Music Week are already saying she’l l be bigger than Ms Dynamite. Special, yet, but in other ways Amy is just like any other streetwise kid from the Capital. Nas and B(usta) CD’s live on her Walkman, she’s a rabid clothes shopper (“Red lipstick, tacky nails and off key shit”), and she likes to wander around Carnival every year (nursing) a 2 litre bottle filled with JD and coke. Despite being eloquent, she swears loads - both in her everyday speech, and in her music. Just watch if her song ‘Fuck Me Pumps’ - an hilarious yet razor sharp swipe at sluts - makes it past the internal record company censors. It’s these contradictions (old jazz with new hip hop, intelligent but foul-mouthed, lyrically witty but musically serious, unique but uncannily familiar) that makes Amy’s (as) yet untitled debut album so en_____ing, so vital. Imagine a cross between the smoky jazzi___ of Jill Scott and (healthy) street grit of Ms. Dynamite and you’re almost there. One minute she’s writing about shagging behind her boyfriend’s back on “Love is Blind”, (the only song, by the way, she reckons isn’t written from personal experience), the next she’s (penning) ‘October Song’, an ode to her dead pet canary. Somehow, though, it all fits. “When my LP comes out, people might come up to me and say I’m amazing, but I don’t care about that. I feed of hate,” she says, momentarily coming over (all) So Solid. “I know there’s haters out there who knew me from a little kid who’ll say “Who does she think she is!”. But that’s what I thrive on. If my management nag about me giving a good performance, I go on stage and give’em a fucking good show just to shut them up.”
Just the other week, Amy was proving a point at the Big Chill festival. Next up is Nothing Hill Carnival itself, with a P_ planned at the Mastermind soundsystem. For the past few years, she’s spent Carnival “getting drunk, getting lost and talking to men”. This time, the big bottle of JD and coke might have to be but on ice… at least until her performance is over, she says. “If I ever heard any of my songs at Carnival, I’d probably run and hide. But I’ll get used to it, I guess. It’s gonna happen.”

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