Both pay tribute to their influences, with Winehouse's lyrics featuring shout-outs to Ray Charles, Donny Hathaway, and Slick Rick, and the two even share a producer: Mark Ronson, who's also worked with everyone from Sean Paul and Macy Gray to Ghostface and Rhymefest.īut Winehouse is anything but a Lily Allen doppelgänger. In Allen's case, it's a cocktail of pop, reggae, and hip-hop, with a cigarette in hand for Winehouse, it's soul, jazz, and blues with a bottle of booze. Both are larger-than-life singers who've found perfect vehicles for their outsized personalities.
If this makes Winehouse read a little like Lily Allen, that's not far off the mark.
