Alma, muito alma... que se traduz em estilo, muito estilo... O inconfundível estilo que parece casar na perfeição com aquela voz, a ponto de, negligentemente, teimarmos em falar apenas do produto das cordas vocais. Unique, she was.
"It's My Party" é daqueles temas que tem mais versões do que os dedos da mão conseguem contar, mas este é diferente e especial. Os motivos são evidentes, só pela audição. Voz fora do compasso, acelerações e pausas... Juro que me parece que há ali uma pastilha elástica na boca, juro que consigo ver a cara com a expressão: what the fuck do I care (ainda por cima é o que a música pede). Frágil na vida e a falar com o público no intervalo das músicas, basta começar a cantar e a leoa revela-se.
A música deve ter sido gravada nos finais de 2008 ou inícios de 2009 para o último disco de Quincy Jones que revisita sucessos escritos e produzidos por si, este é um deles. A este propósito encontrei a história de como conseguiu ter Amy neste disco.
«The new version was "one of the last songs" to make the new album, according to Jones. "We were doing a concert for Mandela's 90th birthday two years ago in London," Jones recalls of the genesis of the collaboration on the new version. "I was backstage and a man came over and said, 'would you mind meeting my daughter?' No problem. I had no idea who it was. She got on her knees and she kissed my hand and she says, 'I've known your music ever since you were my age, 24 years old, when you did 'The Swinging Miss D' with Dinah Washington.'I was absolutely shocked. It was Amy Winehouse! "I had no idea that she was that astute; she was amazing. Reminded me of Naomi a little bit, my baby. Sweet as she could be. I told her, 'why are you treating your life like this?' I've got six daughters so I can't help but being Poppy. We bonded. Everybody back here said, 'there's no way you'll get Amy Winehouse on this record.' And we just let it go. Amy did it herself. At first she was going to do 'You Don't Own Me.' Then she changed her mind and wanted to do 'It's My Party,' which I did with Leslie Gore in 1963. That was a long time ago. Stuff just happened and I'm glad it happened to me. [laughs] It touched me very much."»
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