--- title: Amy Winehouse: How We Talked About Her at the Height of Her Fame description: A new documentary takes a look at the singer's rise and fall canonical: https://time.com/3919098/amy-winehouse-2008/ author: Lily Rothman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-07-09T11:00:11.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:58:56.079Z article:section: History og:title: Amy Winehouse: How We Talked About Her at the Height of Her Fame og:description: A new documentary takes a look at the singer's rise and fall og:url: https://time.com/3919098/amy-winehouse-2008/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb0f81d9d07a49c35/698854423c1639856445856f/winehouse.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Amy WINEHOUSE og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Amy Winehouse: How We Talked About Her at the Height of Her Fame twitter:description: A new documentary takes a look at the singer's rise and fall twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb0f81d9d07a49c35/698854423c1639856445856f/winehouse.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Why Amy Winehouse Was in Control Even as She Crashed > Sponsored content. 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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Amy | Official Trailer [Watch (HLS stream): Amy | Official Trailer](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/FlPKVOUu.m3u8) (1:29)  _Published 2015-04-03. First look at AMY, Asif Kapadia's new documentary about the life and career of Amy Winehouse. – Summer 2015_  by [Lily Rothman](https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/)  ## Lily Rothman Rothman is managing editor at TIME. Jul 9, 2015 11:00 AM UTC  Amy Winehouse on May 28, 2007 Amy Winehouse on May 28, 2007 Chris Christoforou—Redferns/Getty Images  by [Lily Rothman](https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/)  ## Lily Rothman Rothman is managing editor at TIME. Jul 9, 2015 11:00 AM UTC The [controversial](http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/may/01/mitch-winehouse-interview-amy-documentary-film) new Amy Winehouse documentary _Amy—_which [opens in the U.S.](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/05/13/amy-winehouse-documentary-gets-us-release-date) on Friday, after a U.K. opening the previous week—takes a look at the singer’s rise to fame and subsequent addiction, which eventually led to her death. Seen with the benefit of hindsight, knowing what happened to her only a few short years later, it can be hard to think about Winehouse’s talent without a “but.” The irony of her biggest hit, “Rehab,” now overshadows the song itself. But in 2008, at the height of her success, TIME’s Josh Tyrangiel [described](http://time.com/vault/issue/2008-02-04/page/62/) why it was important not to let her personal problems detract from the way her music was discussed: --- > “” --- That control, of course, only took her so far. After her 2011 death, her friend and collaborator Mark Ronson [remembered her in TIME](http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2101745%5F2102136%5F2102274,00.html), and in doing so offered one potential source of command: “She … had an innate ability to come up with the insta-classic — a lyric or song title that you’ve never heard before but is so perfect and timeless that it feels as though it must have been around since the birth of pop music. She wasn’t trying to sound classic. She just was. 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