Can you think of a more attention-grabbing start to a song than “They tried to make me go to rehab..“?

Amy Winehouse is one of those tabloid phenomenons that you automatically assume must be a waste of space a la Pete Doherty. She’s sort of the female equivalent of Russell Brand. Anyway, it took me a long time to get into her music. Though I’m having a three-way love affair with her and Lily Allen in my car at the moment…(their albums that is!)

Rehab as a song is impossible to dislike. Here we have Winehouse taking a staid old musical genre and injecting it with her 21st Century vices. And if the tabloids are to be believed, the song has an autobiographical slant too.

Still, the combination of old-school music and modern day attitude is excellently executed and Winehouse carries a wonderfully authentic vocal throughout. The effect is actually quite funny, even though the subject potentially isn’t. I wonder if that was intentional?

Has anyone else bought the Back To Black album? What do you think of it?