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?

The best bit about Stop Me (If You Think You’ve Heard This One Before) is that the ‘one’ I’ve heard before is by The Supremes, not The Smiths.

Smiths fans internet-wide are totally hating on this track. Well, pipe down purists, even Morrisey likes it.

Having never heard the original, I don’t have any inconvenient bias. When I first heard it, I thought it has a bit of that Gnarls Barkley-type of new old-school soul about it. That would be courtesy of Daniel Merriweather’s authentically soulful vocals.

Despite the obscure pairing of The Supremes with The Smiths, the song works. Mostly, I would say because Ronson doesn’t mess around with the formula and sticks with classic soul sounds all the way – strong bassline and tasteful use of strings that compliment the genre he’s mimicking here. It gets a thumbs up from me.