1. AMY WHINEHOUSE
1.1. 1. KEYWORDS - translate into Danish
1.1.1. award - pris turbulent - turbulent eclipse - formørkelse tabloids - formiddagsavis doomed - dødsdømt infusion - tilførsel defiant - udfordrende bouncy - livlig turmoil - oprør vocal performance - Vokal/stemme præstation appearance - fremtoning indifference - ligegyldighed
1.2. 2. Read the text. Use the keywords you have looked up to understand the text.
1.2.1. Amy Winehouse, the Grammy Award-winning pop singer-songwriter whose compositions reflected — and ultimately were overshadowed by — a turbulent personal life and struggles with alcoholism and drug addiction, was found dead July 23, 2011 at her apartment in London. She was 27. Amy Winehouse's hit songs included "Rehab," "Valerie," "Tears Dry on Their Own" and "Back to Black." The British-born performer’s train-wreck-style public behavior often threatened to eclipse her talent. Although she received high-profile engagements, such as Nelson Mandela’s 90th-birthday concert at London’s Hyde Park in 2008, she routinely canceled or missed appearances, whether because of bad health or bad manners. In June 2011, Ms. Winehouse canceled a tour after she shouted “Hello, Athens!” to an audience of 20,000 in the Serbian capital of Belgrade. Backup singers had to sing her songs and she was ultimately booed off the stage. Ms. Winehouse said living dangerously generated her creativity, and she was often photographed half-dressed and wild-eyed. The English tabloids reported she had suffered brain damage from excessive use of drugs and alcohol. “It sounds like such a wank thing to say,” Ms. Winehouse once commented, “but I need to get some headaches going to write about.” Her reckless life often called to mind the doomed pop stars of earlier generations, including Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison and Kurt Cobain — all of whom also died at the age of 27. She had a fondness for jazz vocals and 1960s pop, but she roughed up the style to include hip-hop slang and an infusion of profanity. Her music often focused on drinking, drug-taking and chronic infidelity. Her song “Rehab” mirrored her life through its defiant lyrics: “They tried to make me go to rehab / I said no, no, no.” The bouncy song, styled after the early Motown sound and 1960s girl groups, became a hit in 2007. Amid the chaos and turmoil of her personal life, Ms. Winehouse won five Grammy Awards in 2008, including best new artist. She also won for song of the year and best female pop vocal performance for “Rehab,” as well as for record of the year and best pop vocal album for “Back to Black.” She was supported by a first-rate production team in her recordings, but she did not always appear first-rate in live performance. A New York Times music reviewer wrote of her May 2007 appearance at Manhattan’s Highline Ballroom, “Her voice glints with possibility: tart, smoky, ready to flirt or sob, and capable of jazzy timing. “What she doesn’t have, and may not want, is the kind of focus older singers brought to their songs,” he wrote, adding that her performance “switched between confession and indiference.”
1.3. YOUR RESEARCH
1.3.1. 1. Who is Amy Winehouse?
1.3.1.1. Amy Winehous, was a famous singer. She is dead now, but she was famous in her living time.
1.3.2. 2. Research how Amy Winehouse’s life style affected her health and career.
1.3.2.1. 1. What do you know about Amy Winehouse and her lifestyle? Amy W. were an alcoholic, and she took drugs, so she didn't have a healthy life style. 2. What was her relation to alcohol and drugs? She were an alcoholic and she took drugs. 3. What were her problems? 4. What were her solutions to the problems?
1.3.2.1.1. 1. Amy W. were an alcoholic, and she took drugs, so she didn't have a healthy life style. 2. She were an alcoholic and she took drugs. 3. That she took drugs, and drunk a lot of alcohol 4. She didn't have a solution, and then she died.
1.3.3. 3. Watch the video and listen to the song. Where does the video take place?
1.3.3.1. In her house with a lot of black men.
1.3.4. 4. Rehab
1.3.4.1. REHAB LYRICS
1.3.4.1.1. Rehab Songwriter: Amy Jade Winehouse They tried to make me go to rehab but I said 'no, no, no' Yes I've been black but when I come back you'll know, know, know I ain't got the time and if my daddy thinks I'm fine He's tried to make me go to rehab but I won't go, go, go I'd rather be at home with Ray I ain't got seventy days Cause there's nothing There's nothing you can teach me That I can't learn from Mr Hathaway I didn't get a lot in class But I know it don't come in a shot glass They tried to make me go to rehab but I said 'no, no, no' Yes I've been black but when I come back you'll know, know, know I ain't got the time and if my daddy thinks I'm fine He's tried to make me go to rehab but I won't go, go, go The man said 'why do you think you here' I said 'I got no idea I'm gonna, I'm gonna lose my baby so I always keep a bottle near' He said 'I just think you're depressed, this me, yeah baby, and the rest' They tried to make me go to rehab but I said 'no, no, no' Yes I've been black but when I come back you'll know, know, know I don't ever wanna drink again I just ooh I just need a friend I'm not gonna spend ten weeks have everyone think I'm on the mend It's not just my pride It's just 'til these tears have dried They tried to make me go to rehab but I said 'no, no, no' Yes I've been black but when I come back you'll know, know, know I ain't got the time and if my daddy thinks I'm fine He's tried to make me go to rehab but I won't go, go, go
1.3.5. 1. What is the message of the song?
1.3.5.1. The song tell os that she don't want help, and don't want to go on the rehap
1.3.6. 2. How does the video match the lyrics?
1.3.6.1. with all her alcohol and drug problems
1.3.7. 3. What is rehab all about?
1.3.7.1. It's to people who has a hardt time, and need help to come on the ride way.
1.3.8. 4. Why does she say no?
1.3.8.1. Beacuse she don't meen that she have time.
1.3.9. 5. What does she mean when she says “black”?
1.3.9.1. Maybe that have something to do with a black out
1.3.10. 6. Who wants her to go into rehab?
1.3.10.1. Her father and friends
1.3.11. 7. How long does the treatment take?
1.3.11.1. ten weeks
1.3.12. 8. How did she do in school?
1.3.12.1. She didn't get a lot in class
1.3.13. 9. What does not come in a shot glass?
1.3.13.1. She, knows that, she not come in a shot glass
1.3.14. 10. What does she think will happen if she commits herself to ten weeks of rehab?
1.3.14.1. She is scared of everyone knowing that she is on the mend.
1.3.15. 11. What is it to be “on the mend”?
1.3.15.1. They help her to feel better and get her on the right way. They mend her.
1.3.16. 12. Does the doctor think she is depressed?
1.3.16.1. Yes, he think she is depressed
1.3.17. 13. Does she think she is depressed?
1.3.17.1. No she doesn't think she's depressed
2. KURT COBAIN
2.1. Who is, Kurt Cobain?
2.1.1. He is a singer
2.1.1.1. What
2.2. When was he born?
2.2.1. He were borned the 20th february 1967
2.3. Who is his parents
2.3.1. Mom: Wendy Cubain Dad: Donald Cubain
2.4. Wehn did he died?
2.4.1. He died about 5th april 1994
2.5. How old was he?
2.5.1. He was 27 when he died
2.6. How was Kurt's life?
2.6.1. Kurt Cobain's life didn't go well. Kurt was a good singer, yes, but he took also drugs and couldn't take care of his wife and child. In 1994 tried Kurt to commit suicide, for the first time, and it was not the last time.
2.7. How did he died?
2.7.1. Second time in 1994 tried Kurt to commit suicide, but this time it succed. Kurt Cobain died of shooting himself with a shotgun.
2.8. Who found him, after he died?
2.8.1. 8 April, three days after he died, an electrician found him in his garage.
2.9. Did he had succes?
2.9.1. yes, Kurt cobain was very succesful, but he took drugs and commitet suicide so it didn't really mater.
2.10. What did Kurt achieve?
2.10.1. Kurt was a very succesful singer, he was frontfigure in Nirvana as a singer and guitarist. A band that had very succes.
2.11. A bit more of Kurt Cobain
2.11.1. Many people mean that Kurt Cobain was the music saviour in 1990. People had difficult to accept his suicide, but they stil love him.