If you went to a restraunt and learned that the chef was homosexual, would you not eat the food that he prepares?
No, but I'd avoid ordering anything with Alfredo sauce.
Anyways...
I enjoyed Amy's
Heart in Motion album for the fulffy collection of classic (and not-so-classic) love songs that it was (a few songs broached other topics, but didn't get as much attention), and before that album, I don't know much of her stuff. I respect that she has a lot of classic pop songs under her belt, but something about her voice turns me off when she's trying to be more serious... at least usually. She just seems like she's trying too hard. I don't know if I would've handled the divorce the way she did, but I'm not her, and my view on that whole thing, knowing how Gary proposed to her in the first place, is that she probably rushed into it and had felt trapped in a marriage she didn't want to be in for quite a while. Did that make it right to divorce him and not work it out? I don't know. Did she cheat on him? Maybe. Is she proud of everything she did? Probably not. Either way, I refuse to use her personal life as a reason to boycott her music.
I really like the song "Eye to Eye" on her new CD. It could apply to lots of different situations, but it seems to me to sum up her feelings towards Gary at the moment, that they have to get along and not backbite each other, for the sake of their children. Which is probably something a lot of divorced parents could relate to.
I do find it difficult to listen to a lot of the love songs that she wrote, though. The fluffy wish-I-could-be-yours stuff ("Will You Be Mine?") and the vague love-is-powerful stuff ("That's What Love Is For"), I can handle, but it's tough to get through a song like "Whatever It Takes" or "How Can We See That Far" in light of what happened. It's just eerie.
Anyway, I was never a huge fan, but for those who are avoid her music for moral reasons, I say it's time to forgive and let go.
NP: "Homecoming (Walter's Song)", Vienna Teng
