Just in case Amy Winehouse’s career wasn’t screwed enough from her inability to perform, her crack-smoking video, her multiple arrests including an assault charge after she head-butted a guy, her general drugged-out behavior, and her curious friendship with perhaps the only current musician with a worse reputation than she has, there’s now a new video that’s been released by The News of The World that has shows Amy singing an obnoxious idiotic racist song that insults seven different groups at once. The News of The World also claims to have seen a video of Amy giving her husband a BJ, and a photo of her giving him a listless hand job. It doesn’t sound like Amy is shown doing drugs in the video, although she’s shown holding a home made crack pike and there is certainly plenty of paraphernalia strewn around. There is also a photo of Amy and Blake with white tablets in both of their mouths.
The News of The World describes the entire video, which was taken a little over a year ago by Amy’s incarcerated husband, Blake Fielder Civil. The say that the video was given to them by “a former friend determined to show the world just what power Blake wields in manipulating the vulnerable young star,” but Blake is likely the one who released the video and accompanying photos. There have been stories about how he’s been selling topless photos of Amy to his fellow inmates, and how he has a new girlfriend and they’re trying to extort money from the troubled star.
Fielder-Civil is now on trial for assault and “perverting the course of justice,” or witness tampering, and things seem to be better between the two. Amy has been showing up to blow kisses at her husband, speaking out inappropriately in the courtroom, and telling the press how f’ing handsome and great he is. That doesn’t mean he’s beyond releasing this video and photos, especially considering how much he lies to her on tape and swears up and down he’s not recording:
In a sequence shot around May 2007—weeks after the couple eloped to wed in Miami—they are in a dingy crack den with Delboy-style bamboo patterned wallpaper.
Amy, 24, and a pal called Sarah giggle as they sing a string of racist lines set to the tune of kiddies’ favourite ‘Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes’.
Blake pretends NOT to record the unfolding events and eggs them on, saying: “Can we have a singsong of it?”
Sarah is at first reluctant but soon warms to the action as Amy enthusiastically sings:
“Blacks, Pakis, Gooks and Nips, Gooks and Nips!
“And deaf and dumb and blind and gay!”
She repeats the first line over again and on the word “Nips” Amy pulls her eyes into slits then pushes her boobs up in a gesture to her nipples.
The girls’ efforts are greeted warmly by Blake, who pledges: “Well done. I promise I wasn’t recording it.” Amy Winehouse’s shock show-off pose
He then adds to Sarah: “I swear on your life. I swear on your life.”
As the camera pans back we see a coffee table in front of Amy. On it are SIX cigarette lighters and what appears to be HEROIN on a foil—a typical druggie scene set for “chasing the dragon” by heating the drug from below then inhaling the smoke through a tube.
[From News of the World]
Amy seemed to clean up briefly right before the Grammys in early February. She gave a great performance and seemed genuinely touched to have received five awards, including best new artist. Her troubles go beyond her choice of companions, though, and she looks worse and is acting out in public more than she did last year when this video was taken.
It’s pretty disgusting how racist and stupid she is, and she doesn’t need to have the public know that she’s an ignorant bigot as well as a drug addict. That’s not something you joke about and I wonder if she’ll apologize. Her back up band is made up of black guys and she has fans all over the world. But Paris used the “n” word and that was caught on tape and she didn’t suffer much fall out unfortunately. This is a much worse offense in that she insults four groups with incredibly derogatory names and dismisses them by saying they’re “deaf, dumb, blind and gay,” as if that’s the most negative thing she can come up with. She’s managed to dismiss and insult seven groups in one sing-song rant and there will be many more people who are unwilling to work with her or buy her music now that this is out.
After everything that this 24 year-old woman has gone through you hope she’ll clean up and that someone will step in and help her. It seems like less of a possibility the more time passes, and one of the sad things about these photos is that she looks much healthier than she does now. The more photos and videos that come out of her doing drugs and acting like a fool the less I care what happens to her though. I don’t wish her any harm, but she’s dug herself a deep hole and she seems more than content to wallow in it, singing about how happy she is to roll around in the mud.
Photos are from News of The World, where there are many more, including some of her husband’s tattoo tributes to her.
Ah God. Initially, I was going to say I think she’s an ignorant bigot BECAUSE she’s a f*d up drug addict and doesn’t know what she’s saying or doing, but that’s still a really pathetic defense for this.
I’m sure an apology will follow. Maybe this finally is the real wake-up call she needs.
She’s a disgrace. And her talent is almost meaningless at this point.
Her husband, on the other hand, seems like every girl’s dream: A drug addict with a taste for extortion. Where can I get one?
There is no wake up call that will help that woman. She will not be around long which is horrible to even write.
Words fail me as to how much of a bastard her husband is. She may not really feel that way about other races, but to clown around in private is one thing, to have it for public consumption is quite another. He is truly a despicable human being.
In a perfect world, she’d be DONE at this point.
But people seem to enjoy watching the train careen down the tracks, screeching and smoking the rails…a good trainwreck = entertainment nowadays.
She’s a one trick pony. I would pay more attention if she showered, dressed well and went to bed before 6 a.m.
Definition of irony? A person who’s success is entirely based on imitating American Blues and Jazz singers ripping on blacks.
hate their decor……….beige beige beige
@orangejulius – I feel that way too. It’s no excuse but it’s still 100% relevant to how far she’s fallen.
Scott F – your comment confirms that you haven’t the first clue about her music.
Geronimo – Seriously, what about this chick makes her shit transmute to golden nuggets in your mind?
You defend her all the damn time, and here it’s especially ironic. How many times have you railed against me or others on here for being intolerant bigoted assholes? Had this been any one of 100 other people you would have written a fucking dissertation about what a fucktard they were being, but she gets a pass?
Everyone wants to blame her husband for filming it and lying to her? If anything this is MORE likely to be how she really is in her private life, given the fact she apparently didn’t think she was being recorded.
No, I obviously haven’t poured over her albums the way you have, but I’ve heard enough of her stuff to know what style music she plays. You’re full of shit if you don’t think she’s piggybacking on generations of black blues and soul singers.
She doesn’t get a pass, as you’d know if you read my first post on this. But her music does. As you’d understand if you knew anything at all about it. Which you clearly don’t.
Definition of irony- people with no grasp of the intricacies of music trying to make an overly broad judgment call for the rest of us based on the artist’s personal life.
She’s no class act, that’s for sure but her music is wonderful. Born of genuine pain.
I really, really try to stay out of the fist fights around here, but I have to say that Scott F. makes an excellent point about how Amy’s style is clearly rooted in jazz and blues, both of which are dominated by black musicians.
Geronimo: It’s not about dissing her music, it’s about illuminating the fact that the people she’s mocking helped lay the groundwork for her success as an artist.
@ Codzilla
Absolutely,Amy herself said she only listen to girls groups from the 60’s, Sarah Vaughn, motown etc… and her last album recreated the Motown/60’s girl group sound. Her music is considered retro soul.
The more people pretend to care the worse she gets. Maybe if we stop paying attention she’ll just OD and that’s that. Too bad, she’s actually talented.
I don’t think she is any more racist than anyone else. This strikes me as someone singing an inappropriate children’s ditty to be “funny”. Before the days of political correctness (read: back in the 80’s and before), I remember that kids would always come up with songs that were obviously inappropriate, to the tune of a more acceptable song. So, the real lyrics would be replaced with ones that had sexual content, or some mildly racist overtones. I think this was Amy being stupid, singing one of those stupid childhood songs that we would never sing as adults. She’s a junkie. They aren’t exactly models of maturity or straight thinking.
racist bitch. oh well. she’ll OD soon and everyone will forget her.
Why can’t it be with someone hot instead of this fugly creature?
Oh please, she’s no more racist than anyone else here. See :/: comments above.
vdantev…….who’s your avatar? he looks interesting
Using racial slurs is never appropriate, but she isn’t going on a “racist rant.” She’s cracked out and doesn’t know she’s being filmed. Amy seems like a sweet girl — she’s Jewish, many of her friends are black, blah blah blah.
Chalk this up to being a cracked out mess. Clean her up before she dies, please!
Paris Hilton calling some black man a “stupid n*gger” was TEN times worse than this! I don’t think Amy would ever purposely hurt someone’s feelings.
Mel Gibson went on a racist rant — this is just ill-advised ignorance amongst friends. She will apologize, I’m sure, and is probably horrified to see it go public.
Codzilla – I know what Amy’s influences are, I think most people who love her music do. What I don’t agree with is the word ‘imitating’. She’s pays homage. There’s a huge difference.
I hate to say that in these trashy, unflattering photos, she looks quite a bit better than photos taken this month …
She actually looks kind of cute without the freakshow makeup (if she would drop the awful face twisting).
I wish she’d just go away, and then reemerge a year from now, stable.
wat a waste of talent!! she reminds me of gia marie carangi, the first supermodel in America, (died ‘coz of aids, drug-addict).. it seems that, fame can also destroys someones life..
i really admire those celebrities who can manage and not screwing-up in spite of all the “pressures”-(negative issues) that they are having at the moment… 🙄
Scott F. and Codzilla, keep posting intelligence, brevity and logic. As for some of the Winehouse Kool-Aid drinkers, they are as codependent to Amy as she is to Blake. The more they protest, slam and flame, the larger the eggs on their faces.
Oh, and that beehive and eye makeup? Courtesy of most R&B singers of the 1960s, most notably Ronnie Spector. 8)
From digitalspy:
Winehouse hits back over ‘racist’ video
Monday, June 9 2008, 16:22 BST
By Beth Hilton, Entertainment Reporter
Amy Winehouse has defended herself after being caught on camera singing racist chants.
A video emerged yesterday showing the singer and a friend using racial slurs in a version of nursery rhyme ‘Heads, Shoulders, Knees And Toes’.
Images published in the News Of The World also saw her surrounded by apparent drug paraphernalia and carrying what appears to be a crack pipe.
Winehouse told reporters outside her house: “I don’t want to play anything down, but I’m the least racist person going.”
She branded the newspaper “irresponsible” for printing the chant in full, saying: “I think they should have starred out certain words.”
The video is believed to have been taken by the star’s husband Blake Fielder-Civil, who is heard asking her to perform a sex act on him in a hotel stairwell.
Winehouse said the images were taken during “really, really happy times”, adding: “At least the photos that have been leaked out… I’ve got them on my computer.”
Let’s hope this is reason enough for the people managing Nelson Mandela’s 90th birthday party to cancel her appearance. I’ve said it before and I’m saying it again: this woman should not be allowed to perform for such a great man (who is, after all, celebrating a birthday and has better things to do) in the state that she is in and with the messages she is, consciously or subconsciously, sending out. And if there’s one thing that doesn’t agree it’s Nelson Mandela’s 90th birthday and a racist Amy Winehouse.
This post has erased what little pity I had left for her. She’s a skank who gets a lot more than she deserves at this point.
Winehouse told reporters outside her Winehouse: “I don’t want to play anything down, but I’m the least racist person going.” Queen of Denial, much?
She branded the newspaper “irresponsible” for printing the chant in full, saying: “I think they should have starred out certain words.”
Pot, meet kettle black. No racial pun intended.
“Lessee, “Bl**ks”….. did she mean ‘blocks’????”
@Anna – agree here. I can’t understand why her management continue to get her these gigs (disasterous at Lisboa Rock) when she’s clearly incapable of performing and is a huge liability?
Maybe it’s something to with her band and their need to earn a living as well. No Amy, no band. I think a lot of her band are successful session musicians but I doubt their earnings from this come anywhere near what they make as her backing band. I feel really sorry for them.
amys still amazing she just needs to get herself sorted out and shell be back on top she get lov ya girl 8) 😀
There is an expression “A drunk man, speaks sober thoughts” and it applies here — instead make it a drunk crackhead.
Just because you thought you were not going to get caught – does not make it okay.
Yes, people may make the occasional, stereotypical joke and so on — but it is NOT normal to anyone BUT a racist to sing such an ugly song — made even more ridiculous, since her music stems from 50’s and 60’s jazz and blues (mainly Black artists) and her band is Black — AND — she has listed several Black artists as her idols!!!
This “women” is a great representation of someone walking dead and I am glad that her husband screwed her good.
After all, ugly fucking hearted people deserve to be screwed by other ugly fucking hearted people.
So fuck her, fuck her life, fuck her music {her stolen style} and fuck her misery and, eventually, her death. I am tired of people taking from others and then shitting on them in return!!!!!!!
Amy your membership to the KKK and Neo Nazi’s has been approved.
It’s funny how people were on here after the Grammys slamming Natalie Cole about her comments in regards to Amy Winehouse. In which she acknowledged her enormous talent but forewarned that she needed some serious help and should not continously be awarded for damaging behavior.
You see the things she do not only effect her, but they are effecting other people as well. Bar room brawls anyone??
I really think all the vile things said on this site about Natalie proves a point, that so many were quick to jump on the bandwagon of denial and where is Mrs. Winehouse now?
Whatever, you should see what Blacks, Pakis, Gooks (Koreans), and Nips (Japanese) really think of other races themselves.
she is doing a great music and looks very fashionable at times.. for the rest the girl is totally crazy I suppose…
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