Mitch Winehouse hates Beyoncé and André 3000's terrible "Back to Black" cover

by Tyler Munro

April 29, 2013

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Of all the tracks on the loaded Great Gatsby soundtrack, this cover of Amy Winehouse’s “Back to Black” was easily our most anticipated. Unfortunately the combined star power of André 3000 and Beyoncé can’t fix a cover that otherwise sounds like someone sat on an MPC while they recorded it. At first this radio rip will irritate you with its incessant tagging (EastVillageRadio.com!) but by Beyoncé’s bizarre, breathy introduction you’ll realize not even a clean cut can save this disaster.

Of all the tracks on the loaded Great Gatsby soundtrack, this cover of Amy Winehouse’s “Back to Black” was easily our most anticipated. Unfortunately the combined star power of André 3000 and Beyoncé can’t fix a cover that otherwise sounds like someone sat on an MPC while they recorded it. At first this radio rip will irritate you with its incessant tagging (EastVillageRadio.com!) but by Beyoncé’s bizarre, breathy introduction you’ll realize not even a clean cut can save this disaster.

Producer Mark Ronson, who also worked on the original, calls this a chopped and screwed version of the track. He’s not far off, but maybe something more faithful would’ve been better. How this will fit into a movie set in the 1920s we can’t be sure.

Oh, and the Winehouse estate? They hate it.

He also says that while he gave permission for the cover, they had to pay for the privelege. “I can’t tell you how much it is but it’s a lot of money,” he said to the Daily Mail.

Listen to the song below. If you couldn’t tell, it was premiered on EastVillageRadio.com [via EastVillageRadio.com c/o EastVillageRadio.com]

Tags: Music, News, Amy Winehouse, Andre 3000, Beyonce, Destiny's Child, Mark Ronson, Outkast

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