Ane Zebitz

1. AMY WHINEHOUSE

1.1. 1. KEYWORDS - translate into Danish

1.1.1. award - pris - a prize you can win for doing a special thing. turbulent - turbolent eclipse - tilbagegang tabloids - tabloid (se&hør) doomed - dødsdømt infusion - tilføreslse defiant - udfordrene bouncy - livlig turmoil - uro vocal performance - vokal præstation appearance - udsene 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 Winehouse was a singer that had problems with drugs and alcohol.

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 did drugs ang drank a lot. She was very famous and died in 2011. 2. What was her relation to alcohol and drugs? not good, that was the reason she died. 3. What were her problems? adiction to durgs and alcohol. 4. What were her solutions to the problems? durgs and alcohol.

1.3.2.1.1. 1. Amy did drugs ang drank a lot. She was very famous and died in 2011. 2. not good, that was the reason she died. 3. adiction to durgs and alcohol. 4. durgs and alcohol.

1.3.3. 3. Watch the video and listen to the song. Where does the video take place?

1.3.3.1. Write down your notes here...

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. 2. How does the video match the lyrics?

1.3.5.1. She wants to stay in her house

1.3.6. 3. What is rehab all about?

1.3.6.1. It is about some people that want to send her to rehab and she doesn't want to go.

1.3.7. 4. Why does she say no?

1.3.7.1. Cause she doesn't want to go.

1.3.8. 5. What does she mean when she says “black”?

1.3.8.1. I think black means that she has been a long way out "black out".

1.3.9. 6. Who wants her to go into rehab?

1.3.9.1. Her dad and "they".

1.3.10. 7. How long does the treatment take?

1.3.10.1. The treatment takes seventy days

1.3.11. 8. How did she do in school?

1.3.11.1. She didn't do well in school.

1.3.12. 9. What does not come in a shot glass?

1.3.12.1. Cleverness doesn't come in a shot glass.

1.3.13. 10. What does she think will happen if she commits herself to ten weeks of rehab?

1.3.13.1. That people will think she is on the mend

1.3.14. 11. What is it to be “on the mend”?

1.3.14.1. It means "ved at komme sig".

1.3.15. 12. Does the doctor think she is depressed?

1.3.15.1. Yes he does.

1.3.16. 13. Does she think she is depressed?

1.3.16.1. No she doesn't.

1.3.17. 1. What is the message of the song?

1.3.17.1. That people think she should go to rehab but doesn't want to go.

2. KURT COBAIN

3. Demi Lovato

3.1. Demi Lovato Demetria Devonne Lovato also known as Demi Lovato, is an American singer, songwriter and actress. She is 25 years old and have had a very successful career, with acting and singing, and is still going strong. Demi went through a rough time in 2010 where she was only 18 years old. Demi suffered from depression, an eating disorder, self-harm, and was being bullied before she went in to rehab at 18 years old. After punching a female dancer, she got help for physical and emotional issues. After a lot of treatment for a year Demi realized that she had bulimia (eating disorder), had done self-harm and had been "self-medicating" with drugs and alcohol. In her treatment she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. At one-point Demi was so addicted to cocaine that she used it several times a day and had smuggled it on to several airplanes. In 2012 she had a documentary on MTV called “Demi Lovato: stay strong”. She totally stopped with alcohol and had her 5th anniversary on March 15, 2017. In the interviews she said that her cocaine addiction was stopped to, but in an interview in 2017 she told that while the show was on tv she still used cocaine and had it with her almost everywhere, she stated: "I wasn't working my program. I wasn't ready to get sober. I was sneaking it on planes, sneaking it in bathrooms, sneaking it throughout the night. Nobody knew.". Lovato also stated that her struggles with addictions not only caused her to nearly overdose several times, but later began to impact her ability to perform and promote her third studio album Unbroken. After a incident in 2012 were she was hungover on stage performing on the eleventh season on American idol, she went in to treatment again and that was successful.