Title of Feature: Winehouse Blazes Trail for U.K Female Singers
Who produced the Feature: Rob Gifford
Length of the Feature: 6 min, 34 sec
Describe Feature:
Amy Winehouse the 24 year old English singer did not attend the Grammy awards in Los Angeles as her Visa got rejected by the U.S embassy. Instead Amy spent her weekend in rehab in London for her alcohol and drug addiction. That did not stop Amy from working on her art as she launched a new song called rehab which was a very successful one. It was very contradicting of her to sing such a song with lyrics that said that she will not go to rehab and afterwards she actually did.
Amy was sent to rehab after being photographed in her underwear walking in the streets and doing hardcore drugs. Despite the tragedy in Amy Winehouse’s life it has been said by many music critics that “she has changed the whole landscape of British music and paved the way for a whole new generation of young female singers”. In addition to Amy Winehouse a generation of female singers has emerged including in London Adele, Duffy, Lilly Allen, Amy Macdonald, and many more. It is remarkable that most of these English female singers sing different genres of music like Jazz, blues, and folk. As stated in the article, English music is diverse in comparison to the American music. The radio of both is a measurement for that, as in the English radio you can listen to the kind of music Amy Winehouse sings and nothing would be wrong with it in contrast to America and the music that plays in their radio. At the end, it was mentioned in the article that Amy Winehouse’s fans are hoping that she surpasses the crisis she is going through. However, some say that living on the edge with such major life crises may be the reason behind Amy’s wonderful work.Was the feature interesting?
The feature to me was more than interesting as I am a big fan of Amy Winehouse. In addition, there were many point of views in the story one of which I really found influential and credible was interviewing the music critics and how they described Amy’s music as a breakthrough. Not only that, the flow of the story was very cohesive starting with Amy going to rehab and ending with how people appreciate her music and want her out of what she has put herself into.
Quality of Sound/ Nat Sound:
The sound was one of high quality and the NAT sound was very compatible to what was being said in the story. For example, playing songs that the anchor person was talking about such as Back to Black and rehab was very influential to the story and as a listener I was curious to know more about the story and keep on listening as well.
Quality of the Announcer’s voice:
The announcer’s pace was not constant throughout the story but there were times when that change of pace was needed and suitable. Not only that, some of the words were unclear and I had to listen more than 3 times to be able to hear those words.
Was the Feature too long/ short?
The time was neither long or short as all the points that were needed to be covered were all said. Even though there was many information stated, the story was not boring and the wording of it was simple and to the point. That was clear when the announcer was giving hints about the new English singers and a simple yet influential hint about each one of them in no longer than 10 sec. all in all.
Link for the Back to Black track by Amy Winehouse:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciV34UXODP0
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