We're all expecting Amy Winehouse to die. It seems inevitable, given the ferocious soul singer's combination of youth, chutzpah, talent, substance abuse and bad taste in men. The diminutive vocalist has just received six Grammy nominations for her second album, "Back to Black," a set of Motown-influenced ballads of codependency, but her real-life struggles with drug abuse have almost become more newsworthy than her music.

In recent weeks, with the object of her codependency, husband Blake Fielder-Civil, imprisoned on an assault charge, the 24-year-old Winehouse's self-destructive behavior has made her a paparazzo's wet dream.

-James Hannaham writing for Salon on the appeal of Amy Winehouse's offstage antics.

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