Image Credit: Mark Allan/WireImage.comHe tried to take the praise for “Rehab,” she said no, no, no. Amy Winehouse is apparently none too pleased with producer Mark Ronson’s claim to U.K. late-show host Jools Holland that he “created” the finished songs on her Grammy-winning Back to Black from Winehouse’s own demos.
Wino took to her personal—not official and record-company sanctioned—Twitter page @amyjademermaid to vent her displeasure, posting: “One album i write an[d] you take half the credit. Make a career out of it? don’t think so BRUV.”
YouTube has footage of Ronson’s musical performance (with guests Boy George and Miike Snow’s Andrew Wyatt) on the show, which aired Friday night in England, but nothing of the interview. So it’s difficult to say for sure exactly how the songwriter and producer—there to promote his own new album—represented his part in Black‘s creation.
Suffice it to say, Winehouse’s tweet does not bode especially well for the pair’s ongoing professional relationship, though she did claim in July that her upcoming followup, which she described as “very much the same as my second album, where there’s a lot of jukebox stuff and songs that are… just jukebox,” as being ready “in six months at most.”
Winehouse and Ronson last worked together on a cover of Lesley Gore’s 1963 weepie “It’s My Party” for an upcoming Quincy Jones tribute album, to be released in November.
UPDATE: The Guardian now has the complete (and frankly, pretty reasonable-sounding) quote that so riled Wino: When asked to describe what he does as a music producer, Ronson replied, “Working with someone like Amy Winehouse, she would come to me with just a song on an acoustic guitar and then you’d kind of dream up the rhythm arrangements and the track around it, all sorts of things. It’s really different, artist to artist.”
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@ AMY WINEHOUSE: “One album you write and make a career out of it? don’t think so”
Hey Amy, less time tweaking and b*tching, more time singing NEW songs please.
hey, less time complaining and more time proofreading your comments. It’s tweeting. I’d rather she stop singing all together anyway…horrible horrible
“tweaking” is drug slang for a methamphamine use, usually crank
I don’t care about her personal life. She’s an amazing singer. As for Ronson…an arrogant, yet, amazing producer. I hearken back to the days when the producer was silent on the tracks and just….produced.
This is definitely a disappointment to me. They worked so well together. Back to Black is a fantastic album and I was hoping the two of them would be collaborating for years to come. I hope they can settle their differences.
Oh god I’m crying. I’m just losing hope we’ll ever hear anything new again.
I think that Amy Winehouse really wants to get just as much credit for creating her Back to Black album rather than Mark Ronson boasting about his involvement too much in interviews. Must have been some creative disaggreements when they recorded the album that we don’t know about and some of it must anger her now.
I think it’s obvious to everyone that what’s great about Winehouse is her vocal interpretation, and that has *nothing* to do with Ronson.
I think that’s wildly oversimplified.
(In all seriousness) Amy Winehouse is still alive?!
Mark Ronson is hideously overrated and his latest, appalling solo effort is testament to that. He created the sound on Back to Black but it would be nothing without Amy’s vocals.
Well, drugs does make you say and do wacky things…
The Dap Kings gave Back to Black part of it’s unique sound and they have been playing behind Sharon Jones for years. Amy and Mark just recognized a good thing when they saw it, but neither is as good without them, just look at their earlier and later efforts without them.
Getting to be like people waiting for the next Guns N Roses its taking so long…
Sadly but truthfully, there are hundreds upon hundreds of singers with fabulous voices who are not complete train wrecks, so try listening to non drug addicted people who are more interested in their career and fans than where they are go9ing to find their next drug fix, crapping on anyone and everyone in the meantime …Whinehouse is not that gifted nor special to excuse her being a complete moron who severely over estimates her talent for sure…please woman, you certainly are a small fish in the sea of people with talent , respect and non crack lifestyles…She may be big in the UK , but frankly UK’s offerings in the last few decades have been pretty dismall to the rest of the world.
Amy who ?
I read his interview in Vanity Fair. It was excellent and he was very clear that he did not take credit for her songs or her sound.Sounds like a lot of folks are trying to make this guy look like a d*** when he is already giving it to us straight. Check it.
She’s a hot mess, but I think she’s one of the most important female artist today. She actually sings(no auto tone or electro garbage) and she’s not always nude in her music videos and magazines. She’s like a cracked out Lauryn Hill.
It’s hard to call what she does “singing”. She emits a particular noise that is occasionally interesting within the context of a soundtrack, but the most intriguing thing about her is the continuous circus atmosphere of her life.