Video: Amy Winehouse: "Love Is a Losing Game" (Live at the Mercury Music Awards)
You might be aware that Amy Winehouse, the 23-year-old UK singer behind catchy retro-soul singles like "Rehab", recently went to rehab herself following reports of, get this, drug use. After canceling a string of shows, Winehouse made her first post-rehab appearance at last night's Mercury Music Awards. Winehouse lost the top prize to Klaxons, but she won a standing ovation from the crowd for her performance of "Love Is a Losing Game", from her album Back to Black. It's an anticlimactic rendition of a relatively forgettable acoustic-guitar ballad, notable mostly for Winehouse's throaty vibrato and her sultry looks at the camera as it makes creepy elevator eyes at that pastel-colored dress. BBC TV show host Jools Holland, for one, certainly seems impressed-- he gushes more than once over Winehouse's "amazing" voice.
[original track from Back to Black; out now on Universal]