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You Know I "m No Good - Amy Winehouse

Meet you downstairs in the bar and hurt,
Your rolled-up sleeves in your skull t-shirt,
You say, "What did you do with him today?"
And sniffed me out like I was Tanqueray,

"Cause you" re my fella, my guy,
Hand me your Stella and fly
By the time I "m out the door,
You tear me down like Roger Moore

I cheated myself
Like I knew I would,
I told you I was in trouble
You know that I "m no good,

Upstairs in bed with my ex-boy
He "s in a place, but I can" t get joy,
Thinking on you in the final throes
This is when my buzzer goes,

Run out to meet you, chips and pitta
You say, "When we're married,"
"Cause you" re not bitter,
"There'll be none of him no more,"
I cried for you on the kitchen floor

I cheated myself
Like I knew I would,
I told you I was in trouble
You know that I "m no good,

Sweet reunion, Jamaica and Spain,
We "re like how we were again,
I "m in the tub, you on the seat,
Lick your lips as I soak my feet
Then you notice little carpet burn,
My stomach drop and my guts churn
You shrug and it's the worst,
Who truly stuck the knife in the first place

I cheated myself
Like I knew I would
I told you I was in trouble
You know that I "m no good,

I cheated myself
Like I knew I would
I told you I was in trouble
Yeah, you know that I'm no good.

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Amy Winehouse (1983 - 2011)
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In an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, the singer frankly told what became her source of inspiration while working on the album "Back to Black":

"The songs literally wrote themselves. They're all about the state of my relationship with Blake at the time. I've never felt for anyone the way I felt for him."

If you haven't followed Winehouse's personal life, you may not know that Blake Fielder-Civil was Amy's husband. Although the yellow press and the ubiquitous paparazzi tried to make the whole world aware of the betrayals, quarrels and fights of Amy and her husband.
Taking into account the singer's explanations and the peculiarities of her marriage, there is hardly any doubt that in the song "You Know I" m No Good "Amy refers to Blake. She admits to infidelity, talks about the assault and seems to be sincerely sorry for causing him and pain to itself.
The song refers to episodes that Winehouse talked about in various interviews: how she sobbed, lying on the kitchen floor, or how she thought that after the wedding she would finally break up with her ex.

Source:
http://song-story.ru/you-know-im-no-good-amy-winehouse/

In one of the pubs, Amy meets the love of her life and future husband, Blake Fielder-Civil. Their sadomasochistic relationship would be tabloid fodder, he would introduce her to crack and heroin. They will hurt each other - both physical and moral. At the same time, almost all the songs from the second and last lifetime album Back to Black, for which Amy was nominated for six Grammys and gained worldwide fame, are about him.
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"You know that I'm no good", one of the best songs from the second album, talks about the pain and some fatalistic drive of Winehouse's self-destruction in much better way than several documentaries. "I cheated myself like I knew I would" could have been written on her tombstone.

This song (1st verse) sounds at the beginning of the film "Life as We Know It" (Life as We Know It, 2010).
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1. Tanqueray - brand of gin, 47.3%

2. stella - dream girl, fairy, queen among the stars, cool playful girl (Urban Dictionary)

3. Roger Moore is mentioned in the song. Most likely, we are talking about the famous British actor who played James Bond. He himself said that he had no idea why Amy chose him, and suggested that the name simply rhymed well. It is possible that this is not a movie star, but a music critic who harshly criticized Winehouse's first album.

4. little carpet burn - "burn from the carpet", a mark on the skin (abrasions) from having sex on the carpet in the knee-elbow position (Urban Dictionary)
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You Know I'm No Good (docking the mad dog translation)

We ran into you at the bar, damn!
You roll up your sleeves and go.
Said, "Were you with him today? Hey?!"
Sniffed me like a Tanqueray genie.

"Well, what are you, my dear, my only one,
keep your star and go home.
It takes me a couple of steps from the door,
you're like Roger Moore, tearing me to pieces!"

I lied to myself
and me again
I'll change and lie again...
I told you
from me only problems
I am no better than other skins.

I was upstairs in bed with my ex.
He was really good, but the buzz didn't work out.
About you my thoughts, and that I'm a bitch.
And the call worked. What anguish!

Everything, run, meet you - chips and pita.
You say: "There will be a wedding,
no bitter drink...
So that I don’t hear about your ex anymore.”
I sobbed in the kitchen. So it happened, so it happened...

I lied to myself
and me again
I'll change and lie again...
I told you
from me only problems
I am no better than other skins.

Spain again friends with Jamaica
You are next to me, I am next to you.
I climbed into the bath, you sat on a chair,
licked your lips, you wanted me ...
And that's where you noticed "carpet burn"
I have "everything fell", and it ached in the intestines.
You shrugged your shoulders a little, that's the worst part.
Who will stick the knife in first? Who will be cut?

I lied to myself
and me again
I'll change and lie again...
I told you
from me only problems
I am no better than other skins.

31.03.2016
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"Interlinear" (for those who want to try their own version of literary translation). There is no attempt to keep the rhyme, the approximate size of the lines.

Met you downstairs at the bar, it was painful.
You rolled up the sleeves of your skull T-shirt
You said, "What did you do with him today?"
sniffed me like I was Tanqueray.

"You are my best friend, my boyfriend,
so grab your "star" and fly.
I have to walk out the door
you tear me to pieces like Roger Moore." (stormy scene of jealousy)

I changed myself
and I know it will happen again.

Upstairs in bed with my ex-boyfriend.
He feels fine, but I can't enjoy it.
Even during the final convulsions I think of you
and at this time a "bell" (buzzer) works in me.

Run away to see you. Chips and pita.
You say: "When we are married,
your ex should not be at all.
Because you are not a "burning condiment" (for inciting jealousy).
On the kitchen floor I was crying because of you.

I changed myself
and I know it will happen again.
Told you I'm in trouble.
You knew I'm not a "good girl".

Great reunion, Jamaica and Spain
We (behave) again the way we used to be.
I'm in the bathroom, you sat down
lick your lips while I soak in the water.
Then you notice a "carpet burn" mark.
Everything in my stomach sank, spasms began in the intestines.
Your shoulder twitched, that's the worst sign.
I wonder who will be the first to plunge a knife into another?

I changed myself
and I know it will happen again.
Told you I'm in trouble.
You knew I'm not a "good girl".

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2 options from Maria Sa and Jay Sky on the Amalgam website
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Amy Winehouse - You Know I "m No Good (Alexey Sidortsev 2)

Amy Jade Winehouse (born 14 September 1983) is an English soul pop singer with jazz influences. twice winner of the Ivor Novello Award. The first album Frank (2003) was nominated for the Mercury Prize. On February 14, 2007, the singer received the Brit Award for Best British Female Artist. Her second album, Back to Black, brought her 6 Grammy nominations and a win in 5 categories, including Record of the Year. Winehouse, who suffers from manic depression aggravated by alcohol and drug addiction, has recently been constantly at the center of scandals and litigation.

Biography

Amy Winehouse was born on September 14, 1983 in Southgate (Enfield, London), the son of taxi driver Michael Winehouse and pharmacist Janice. At Ashmole School, her classmates were Dan Gillespie Sells, frontman of The Feeling, and Rachel Stevens (S Club 7). At the age of ten, Amy and her friend Juliette Ashby formed the rap group Sweet "n" Sour, and at the age of 12 she entered the Sylvia Young Theater School, from where she was expelled two years later for lack of diligence and bad behavior. Together with other students of the school, Amy managed to star in an episode of The Fast Show (1997).

At the age of 14, Amy wrote her first songs, was expelled from school and tried drugs for the first time. A year later, she joined the World Entertainment News Network and a jazz band at the same time. With the aftermath of her then-boyfriend, soul singer Tyler James, she signed her first contract with EMI, and after receiving a check, she invited The Dap-Kings to the studio, accompanying the New York singer Sharon Knight, after which she went on tour with him.

On October 20, 2003, the debut album Frank was released, recorded by producer Salaam Remy. With the exception of two covers, all the compositions here were written by herself or in collaboration. The album, well received by critics (reviewers noted interesting lyrics; comparisons with Sarah Vaughan, Macy Gray and even Billie Holiday appeared in the press) received two Brit nominations (British Female Solo Artist, British Urban Act), entered the list of Mercury Prize finalists and became platinum. Meanwhile, Amy herself was not satisfied with the result, noting that she only "considers the album 80% of hers" and hinting that the label included several songs that she herself did not like. In the same year, the singer performed at the Glastonbury Festival (on the Jazzworld stage).

The second album Back to Black, unlike the first, did not contain many jazz motifs: the singer was inspired by the music of female pop groups of the 50s-60s. The record was recorded by the production duo Sallam Remy - Mark Ronson. The latter also helped with promotion by playing several key tracks on his New York radio show on East Village Radio.

Back to Black was released in the UK on October 30, 2006 and peaked at #1. On the Billboard chart, it climbed to number 7, setting a record (highest spot for a debut album by a British artist) that was broken by Joss Stone two weeks later.

By October 25, the album became five times platinum in its homeland, and a month later it was declared the best-selling album of 2007, as well as the first most popular among iTunes users. The first single from the album Rehab (#7, UK) in May 2007 won the Ivor Novello Award for Best Contemporary Song. On June 21, a week after Amy performed the song at the 2007 MTV Movie Awards, the single climbed to number 9 in the US.

The second single, You Know I'm No Good (with a bonus remix featuring rapper Ghostface Killah), peaked at number 18. In the US, the album was released in March 2007, followed by the first single You Know I'm No Good. Meanwhile in the UK, the third single, Back to Black, climbed to No. 25 in April (it was re-released in November in a deluxe version with live bonuses). On May 18, 2007, Amy Winehouse married longtime boyfriend Blake Fielder-Sibyl in Miami.

In August, the singer canceled concerts in Britain and the United States due to poor health, and soon she and her husband went to a rehabilitation clinic, from which she left after five days. Scandalous photographs began to appear in the press (from which it was clear that Amy was openly using hard drugs). In September, the episode when Amy and Blake were caught on the street at the moment of a fight received wide publicity: this (according to the singer) happened after her husband caught her using drugs with a “call girl”. Father Mitch Winehouse expressed concern about the condition of his daughter, suggesting that now it is not far from the tragic denouement. The husband's mother expressed the opinion that the couple is ready for a joint suicide. The representative of Winehouse, however, blamed the paparazzi for everything, who, pursuing the singer, make her life unbearable. In November 2007, Amy's relatives (on her husband's side) issued a statement urging fans to boycott Winehouse's work until the couple broke up with "bad habits".

November saw the release of the DVD I Told You I Was Trouble: Live in London (live at London's Shepherds Bush Empire Hall plus a 50-minute documentary). On December 10, 2007, Love Is a Losing Game, the last single from the second album, was released simultaneously in England and the United States. Two weeks earlier, the debut Frank was finally released in the US: it debuted at number 61 on the Billboard and received positive reviews in the press.

In parallel, Amy Weinhus recorded vocals for "Valerie": songs from Mark Ronson's solo album Version. The single reached number 2 in the UK in October 2007 and was later nominated for "Best British Single" at the Brit Awards. Winehouse also recorded a duet with Mutya Buena, a former member of the Sugababes: their single B Boy Baby (from Buena's solo album Real Girl) was released as a single on 17 December. At the end of December, Amy came in second on Richard Blackwell's 48th annual Worst Dressed Women list, behind only Victoria Beckham. In early January, she began a new rehab program in a special program: at the Caribbean villa of Canadian singer Bryan Adams. A spokesman for Island Records hinted that the company was ready to terminate Winehouse's contract, but label president Nick Gatfield effectively denied the report, stating that she should just "give her time to sort out her problems," adding, "America is at her feet."

These words were directly confirmed when it became known that the album Back to Black brought Winehouse 6 Grammy nominations. Amy herself was nominated in the Best New Artist category, and producer Ronson was nominated in the Producer of the Year (Non-Classical) category.

On February 10, 2008, the 50th anniversary Grammy Awards ceremony took place in Los Angeles: Amy Winehouse became the winner in 5 categories (Record of the Year, Best New Artist, Song of the Year, Pop Vocal Album, Female Pop Vocal Performance). Winehouse, who was denied a visa, gave a screened acceptance speech (broadcast via satellite from a small London club) and performed You Know I'm No Good and Rehab.

In April 2008, the singer, together with her producer Mark Ronson, decided to record the main theme song for the new James Bond film Quantum of Solace. But later, after the recording of the demo, Ronson said that work on the song was stopped, as Winehouse had other plans.

Pete Doherty (they are working on the song "You Hurt The Ones You Love"), Prince (the singer exchanged compliments with him) and George Michael, who specially wrote the song for their future duet, have already announced their intentions to record with Amy. In addition, there have been reports that the singer is collaborating with Missy Eliot and Timbaland, and is also planning a trip to Jamaica to record with Damien Marley, son of the legendary Bob Marley.

Alcohol and drugs are present to some extent in the lives of most popular musicians. They literally drive some stars to the grave, not allowing them to live to adulthood. If not for such excesses, it is unlikely that we would ever have known about the infamous list, which is commonly called the “27 Club”. Amy Winehouse was one of the last to join. In July 2011, the brilliant British singer died of a heart attack due to alcohol poisoning.

Friends and even the management of the record company urged Amy to go to a rehabilitation center, but she categorically rejected their proposals. All dependent people find excuses for their addictions. Winehouse also did not consider herself an alcoholic or drug addict and claimed that she was drinking because of problems on the personal front. In addition, the father, whose opinion she listened to, was not persistent in this matter.

Once the producers managed to get her to visit the clinic, but she stayed there for fifteen minutes. Shortly thereafter, the singer moved to another label, where she began collaborating with Mark Ronson. He was present at the birth of the composition "Rehab" ("Rehabilitation"), which can be considered autobiographical.

First, an excerpt from an interview with Amy, in which she talked about the history of the song:

In the case of Rehab, I was walking down the street with Mark Ronson, the producer of my latest album. And I just hummed the hook out loud. Actually, it was pretty stupid... I sang the whole line exactly as it appeared on the recording! Mark laughed and asked who wrote it because he liked it. I replied that I had just thought of everything ... He convinced me to make a song out of this, which took about five minutes. It wasn't difficult at all! It is about what my former management company wanted from me.

The Daily Mail, 2007

And now a word to Mark Ronson:

I was walking down the street with Amy. We were in New York, working together for about a week and heading to some store. She wanted to buy a gift for her boyfriend and told me about a special period in her life that was… I don’t like to talk about my friend like that, but it seems that I have told this story many times… She, one might say, went down, and her dad came to try and reason with her. And she said something like: “He tried to get me to go to rehab, and I told him:“ Pfft, no, no, no. And I immediately heard a bell in my head: "Ding-ding, ding-ding-ding." Like, I probably should have asked, "How did you feel about that?" but I just said, "We're going back to the studio."

BBC Radio 1, 2011

Approximately the same story is told by the father in the book “Amy, My Daughter”. True, according to his version, the singer composed the key line in a few years of that walk with Ronson and was waiting for an opportunity to use it in the composition.

In October 2006 "Rehab" was released as the first single from the album "Back to Black". She climbed high on the charts in many countries. The song peaked at number nine on the US Billboard Hot 100 and peaked at number seven on the UK Singles Chart.

Subsequently, the song was awarded three Grammys and several other prestigious awards. It has also been included in various top songs rankings, including the Top 500 by Rolling Stone.

The music video for "Rehab" was directed by Phil Griffin. The video was nominated for the MTV Video Music Awards in 2007, but lost out in the Video of the Year nomination to the video for the track "Umbrella" by Rihanna.

• The "no-no-no" line is reminiscent of "go-go-go" from Slim Gaillard's "Thunderbird".
• While performing "Rehab" on The David Letterman Show, Amy changed the name "Ray" to "Blake" in reference to her ex-husband.

1. American musician Ray Charles
2. American musician Donny Hathaway
3. Apparently, this refers to Amy's ex-lover

Song quote

It took a long time for everyone to realize just how serious Rehab was. She said no and died five years later.

Nick Szymanski, Independent

Amy Winehouse is an outstanding British soul-jazz-R&B singer-songwriter. She was born in 1983 to a Jewish family in London. Amy was surrounded by music since childhood - her grandmother was closely acquainted with the famous jazz performer Ronnie Scott, her maternal uncles were jazz artists, and her father liked to hum jazz compositions to her. Therefore, Amy, while still at school, became a living expression of this musical genre - she disrupted the lessons with her singing. Already at 10, the girl organized her first rap group, and at 12 she went to study at a theater school, from which she was expelled for unimportant studies and behavior. At 14, Amy begins to write her own compositions, and a year later she starts working for the World Entertainment News Network and in a jazz band.

Soon, the girl, under the patronage of her young man (Tyler James - a soul singer) of that period, concludes the first contract - with EMI. And in 2003 he released his debut album. Most of the songs on it were created by Amy herself. The album is critically acclaimed, a Mercury Prize finalist and certified platinum. However, the performer herself was not satisfied with such a result, since she personally did not like him entirely. Amy's next album, Back to Black, was released at the end of 2006, and it contained more or less jazz elements. It peaked at number one in the UK and number seven on Billboard, breaking the record for previous debut albums by a British female artist. In the homeland of the singer, the album was recognized as the best in 2007. It also includes the composition "You Know I'm No Good", which is one of the main hits of Amy Winehouse, expressing her individual style in music as much as possible.

In the same year, the singer becomes the wife of Blake Fielder-Sibyl, marriage with whom, however, negatively affects her musical career and not only - the singer has to cancel performances in Britain and the United States of America in order to urgently go to a rehabilitation clinic with her husband but treatment was not completed. During this period, Amy's drug problems become apparent to the public. Relatives of the singer and her husband are concerned about the danger of their situation, which could lead to soon sad consequences for both. But, nevertheless, Amy's work continued to gain popularity, and the president of the Island Records label opposed breaking the contract with the singer, even though she had to start rehab for drug abuse for the second time. He offered to wait out the difficult period of the singer, because in his vision America was delighted with Amy's work.

And he turned out to be right - Amy Winehouse's album Back to Black received six Grammy nominations, and in 2008 the singer won in 5 categories at the awards ceremony. But, due to the fact that she was denied an American visa, her thanks and the main hits from this album, fans and viewers had to be content through the screen. In the same year, the singer was admitted to the clinic due to problems with her lungs. In June 2011, Amy had to cancel a tour of Europe due to the disruption of a performance in Belgrade, where she could not start singing due to being intoxicated. And on July 23, 2011, the singer was found dead in her apartment in London. In the fall of 2011, it turned out that death was the result of a heart attack due to alcohol intoxication. Buried Amy Winehouse on the outskirts of London. Upon learning of the death of the singer, many famous performers dedicated their performances to her memory, and some wrote songs about her.

Also, Amy Winehouse joined the ranks of the infamous Club 27, which includes musicians who had a significant impact on the development of modern music and who passed away at the age of 27, sometimes under unclear circumstances. In December 2011, the singer's posthumous album was released. By the 28th birthday of the singer, the single "Body and soul" from him was released, created together with Tony Bennett - a video was shot for it when Amy was still alive. And in 2012, at the Grammy Awards, this song won as "Best Duet". In September 2014, a monument to Amy Winehouse was unveiled in London, which was timed to coincide with her 31st birthday. Its peculiarity is that it copies in detail the image of Amy, including her legendary hairstyle.