Hardly a day passes without hearing about Amy Winehouse inching towards an inevitable premature death – but finally help is at hand.
Has Amy Winehouse finally realised that her drug addiction is serious and that she has to get urgent help? No. Have Amy's friends and family staged a dramatic life-altering intervention to finally see sense and show how the damage that she's doing to herself?
No. But Bryan Adams has written a song that might vaguely make the occasional reference to Amy Winehouse. Amy, consider yourself cured.
Despite her recent Grammy wins, Amy Winehouse's life is still just as tattered and depressing as it's ever been. Amy's husband Blake is still in prison for an alleged vicious attack on a pub barman and subsequent justice-perverting, the video of Amy Winehouse smoking crack has proved that she's still ravaged with a serious drug problem and she's also been blamed for the single-handed destruction of Africa.
Don't worry, though, because Bryan Adams has written a song about Amy Winehouse so everything's going to be OK. Hello reports:
Lyrics for the new track, which include the words "Nobody saw the tears in your silk and lace, the scarred little kid behind your face", show just how much the 48-year-old has taken Amy under his wing. Titled Flower Grown Wild, it appears on Bryan's recently released disc 11. It seems that Bryan's song has hit a chord with Amy who, the Daily Mirror reports, has agreed to sing it on stage with the Canadian star when he begins his tour later this year.
Now we know what you're thinking, because we're thinking the exact same thing as well. If Bryan Adams wrote a song about you, you'd probably start upping your crack intake until the sound of blood thumping through your veins drowned out whatever lazily-rhymed croaky-voiced dollop of MOR dirge he'd cobbled together.
And the timing of this news is slightly uncomfortable, too. Bryan Adams' album only came out on Monday and – since nobody's really cared about Bryan Adams since 1992 – you can't help feeling that he's only started spouting off about this Amy Winehouse song because she sells a lot of records and she's in the news all the time and he needs all the publicity he can get.
If it works, though, fair play to Bryan Adams. Maybe he's summed up Amy Winehouse's plight so perfectly that millions of people will buy the album just to listen to Flower Grown Wild so they can sit around all teary-eyed wailing "It's true! Nobody did see the tears in your silk and lace, or the scarred little kid behind your face! It's true! We're the monsters!"
And if that happens, we'll just have to applaud Bryan Adams on a job well done. Maybe he'll start dedicating a song on all his subsequent albums to other celebrities with addiction problems. We're especially looking forward to hearing The Ballad Of Keith Chegwin, if that's the case.
However, perhaps we're being too cynical. Perhaps Bryan Adams really did write this new song to help Amy Winehouse. And perhaps it'll work. After all, Bryan Adams did take Lindsay Lohan under his wing in 2006. And, as we all know, nothing she did after that was ever a problem again.
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Bryan Adams writes new song about friend Amy Winehouse – Hello
JohnBr says
This song was written years ago, and is NOT about Amy Winehouse. Please get your facts straight before you write nonsense like “he’s only started spouting off about this Amy Winehouse song because she sells a lot of records and she’s in the news all the time and he needs all the publicity he can get”.
jimmy says
Gimme a F$%king break!!!! Adams writing a song about Winehouse to get publicity and sell more records? That is funny. First off (as someone else already mentioned) he never wrote it about her, and secondly , I don’t think this Rock legend who has sold over 65 million records and counting needs to cling to Amy Winehouse to sell records. Why don’t you tell us all something like “how did Bryan Adams sell over 65 milion records” it would be so much more interesting to the reader.
IronEddie says
I’m seriously sick and tired of Amy Whinehouse. Would she do the world a favor and overdose ASAP?