{"id":650,"date":"2007-12-11T17:24:11","date_gmt":"2007-12-12T01:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/godammit.com\/2007\/12\/11\/amy-winehouse-vs-kanye-west\/"},"modified":"2007-12-11T17:24:11","modified_gmt":"2007-12-12T01:24:11","slug":"amy-winehouse-vs-kanye-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/amy-winehouse-vs-kanye-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Amy Winehouse vs Kanye West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"amy-winehouse-2007-brit-awards.jpg\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/amy-winehouse-2007-brit-awards.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image652\" height=\"96\" alt=\"amy-winehouse-2007-brit-awards.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/amy-winehouse-2007-brit-awards.jpg?fit=640%2C96\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"kanye_west_shades.jpg\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/kanye_west_shades.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image651\" height=\"96\" alt=\"kanye_west_shades.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/kanye_west_shades.jpg?fit=640%2C96\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My first thought upon hearing that Amy Winehouse was nominated for several key Grammy awards was \u201cYay!\u201d My second thought was \u201cOh no, Kanye West will win, because of his Mama!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No one could be more upset than I was about Kanye\u2019s poor Mama. What a terrible tragedy! That <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accesshollywood.com\/news\/ah7736.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">bastard<\/a> who botched her surgery should be sent to prison for allowing this to happen. Oprah should apologize to the world for featuring the doctor on one of her shows. She can deny all responsibility but she knows that she screwed up. She\u2019s probably too busy apologizing&nbsp;\u00a0 for her poorly run school in South Africa, or campaigning for Obama.<\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t begin to imagine how Kanye feels, losing his Mama. He is obviously devastated. But still, it\u2019s not fair to Amy if people take this into account when giving out Grammys. Amy herself is a good candidate for the sympathy vote, but since she\u2019s viewed as a parody of self-destructive behavior, people seem increasingly hostile toward her. Personally, I just want her to go on living. As I\u2019ve said many times,&nbsp;\u00a0 she is a goddess and I love her more than words can say.<\/p>\n<p>I think the best way to conduct a fair Grammy situation is to give an award for Best Dead Mama. It would be a wonderful tribute to Donda West, and there could be a montage of her and Kanye through the years. Kanye could accept the award and join the audience in a cathartic fit of weeping, leading right into the commercial break.<\/p>\n<p>Then and only then, there would be a fair contest for record of the year and album of the year. Nothing has or will come close to Amy Winehouse as a compelling and distinctive new force in pop music. Amy Amy Amy, may the world enfold you in its loving arms and lift you up and away from that awful little&nbsp;\u00a0scumbag you married!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first thought upon hearing that Amy Winehouse was nominated for several key Grammy awards was \u201cYay!\u201d My second thought was \u201cOh no, Kanye West will win, because of his Mama!\u201d No one could be more upset than I was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/godammit.com\/amy-winehouse-vs-kanye-west\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[12,4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t44M-au","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}