Sean
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Amy's cover-up spares America's blushes
And so to our beloved Amy Winehouse's satellite-linked appearance at the Grammy awards, while the world held its breath and prayed that a precarious equilibrium would not be upset by the swirling evils that beset so many of the greats.
We speak, of course, of America's ongoing recovery from the sight of Janet Jackson's breast at the Super Bowl four years ago - an event which precipitated that fragile nation's downward spiral into destructive behaviour, record fines, and the continued failure to recognise the absurdity of getting freaked out by a "wardrobe malfunction", and not the wall-to-wall violence that supports the TV schedules.
Yes, for a while back there, it felt like America might simply burn too brightly for this world. So which of us could fail to be moved when, on Sunday, Amy understood the need to tread infinitely carefully around the country's emotional issues as she performed two songs. Realising that seeing the sketched outline of a female breast might prove the only trigger needed to plunge the United States back into this brain-deadening pathology, Amy - or more likely, her people - drew a temporary bikini on to the tattoo of the topless woman that graces her upper left arm.
The result: an amazing night for everyone concerned, and the rest of the world's dewy-eyed admiration for Amy's refusal to play the role of that troubled country's enabler. Come on, ambassador: give her a visa. America needs more people like Amy around her.
And so to our beloved Amy Winehouse's satellite-linked appearance at the Grammy awards, while the world held its breath and prayed that a precarious equilibrium would not be upset by the swirling evils that beset so many of the greats.
We speak, of course, of America's ongoing recovery from the sight of Janet Jackson's breast at the Super Bowl four years ago - an event which precipitated that fragile nation's downward spiral into destructive behaviour, record fines, and the continued failure to recognise the absurdity of getting freaked out by a "wardrobe malfunction", and not the wall-to-wall violence that supports the TV schedules.
Yes, for a while back there, it felt like America might simply burn too brightly for this world. So which of us could fail to be moved when, on Sunday, Amy understood the need to tread infinitely carefully around the country's emotional issues as she performed two songs. Realising that seeing the sketched outline of a female breast might prove the only trigger needed to plunge the United States back into this brain-deadening pathology, Amy - or more likely, her people - drew a temporary bikini on to the tattoo of the topless woman that graces her upper left arm.
The result: an amazing night for everyone concerned, and the rest of the world's dewy-eyed admiration for Amy's refusal to play the role of that troubled country's enabler. Come on, ambassador: give her a visa. America needs more people like Amy around her.
