Nothing has been revealed over the years to alter that perception. Everybody was so hard on her, and everything that I knew about her was she was the most lovely and nice and kind woman." I felt that the lesson was for the world to be kinder to the super-star.
You know who."Ībout a week after Winehouse died on July 23, 2011, a "devastated" Gaga said on The View, "I just think the most unfortunate thing about it all is the way that the media spins things, like, 'Oh, here, we can learn from Amy's death.' I don't feel that Amy needed to learn any lessons. "So you know what? If I'm gonna be sexy on the VMAs, and sing about the paparazzi, I'm going to do it while I'm bleeding to death and reminding you of what fame did to Marilyn Monroe, the original Norma Jean, and what it did to Anna Nicole Smith, and what it did to…." She paused. "The methodology behind what I've done is that, when they wanted me to be sexy, or they wanted me to be pop, I always f-kin' put some absurd spin on it that made me feel like I was still in control," Lady Gagasays in her 2017 documentary Gaga: Five Foot Two.
"And so I owe 90 percent of my career to her." "The songs I got signed on were the songs that I wrote completely on my own, and if it wasn't for her, that wouldn't have happened," Adele said while performing in Boston on Winehouse's birthday in 2016.