I have not only been a big fan of Amy Winehouse (check out my favorite song: Valerie) but also of her as a person. She has always intrigued me and that is why when I saw her interview in Harper’s Bazaar, I decided to read it. Journalist Polly Vernon was hoping to get the usual stuff out from her, the kind they are used to getting from celebs in the hope of making some advertisers happy or to give her a scoop so that they could sell magazines. On the contrary, it was just a very weird conversation from Vernon’s viewpoint. Actually, I concluded that she was more like Meursault, the main character in the two books written by Albert Camus: A Happy Death and The Stranger, books that I have been reading as part of my France Discovery Project.
Here is how the conversation went:
Amy, are you happy?
She squints suspiciously at me.
“About what?”
About life.
“I’m happy about this salad.” [Winehouse was eating her lunch during a photo shoot.]
Do you wake up and feel happy?
“I don’t know what you mean.” A pause. “I’ve got a ve’y nice boyfriend. He’s ve’y good to me.”
Are you in love?
“I hardly know … yet. We’ve only been together three and a half months.”
And do you have any unfulfilled ambitions?
“Nope!” she says. “If I died tomorrow, I would be a happy girl.”
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