In the second verse the singer apparently references different drugs (i.e. Verily as the chorus notes, whereas he was able to effectively put the relationship behind him, she was not. his reliable ex-girlfriend.īy contrast, the singer herself was cast into loneliness, which made her more vulnerable in terms of ‘going back to black’. Meanwhile what Blake himself went back to was his ex. This reality is alluded to from the onset, where Winehouse points out that he never paused from engaging in sexual activity even after the two of them broke up. Indeed he resorted to his “same old safe bet”, i.e. So simply put, the conclusion is that at this particular juncture in her life, the singer parting ways with the man she loves resulted in a considerable degree of depression on her part. And as a sort of remedy, she began abusing drugs. And the further implication, considering the title and all, is that she was doing so or something similarly-destructive at some point prior in her personal history, since once again these are activities that she went “back” to.
Those drugs, in particular, are said to be her**n and c*ack – the selfsame her**n which the aforementioned “dark times” alludes, as well as a good portion of the “black” in the song’s title. And as far as the boozing goes, whereas Winehouse admitted that she “was drinking a lot” as a result of the breakup though “not anything terrible”, of course at the end of it was alcohol poisoning which took her life. Moreover, despite the two of them at one point being spouses, the overall conclusion is that his presence had a negative overall impact on her life or in the very least didn’t really help any. In fact by his own admittance, he was the one that introduced certain hard intoxicants into her life. That is because Winehouse verily loved this man very much (even marrying him once they got back together after this song was released). But by virtually all accounts, he is a self-destructive individual, even in the years after Amy’s passing. The Relationship behind “Back to Black”īut before we get to that, there is of course the said relationship which has recently been terminated. The union referred to was romantic in nature. More specifically it was between Amy Winehouse and one Blake Fielder-Civil – a name which causes sneers amongst those who are familiar with her personal history. But furthermore, it’s a bit more specific than that. For she is in fact going “back to black”, with the last word in that phrase connoting something negative. And for Winehouse in particular, once again resorting to her own explanation, that would be “drinking and dark times”. However, the lyrics are given a general applicability in that those substances for the most part are never mentioned directly.
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