Beyonce's "Back to Black" cover, which features Andre 3000 and debuts in "The Great Gatsby," seems to have hit one snag. Amy Winehouse's father isn't all that impressed with the idea of his daughter's song being covered by the "Single Ladies" singer.
Mitch Winehouse took to Twitter to express his befuddlement with the song's inclusion in the soundtrack and suggesting that Beyonce should make a sizable donation to the Amy Winehouse Foundation (£100,000 is about $152,000):
I don't see anywhere on the tweets that he wasn't impressed by Bey's version.
Anyway, it's not as if he'd be in the know about an artist doing a cover of his daughter's song unless he was in cahoots with whomever owned the rights to the masters of the original track, which is probably with Amy's label.
He didn't say he wasn't impressed but regardless, people cover songs all the time. What makes him think someone can't cover his daughter's song? He doesn't get a say. It's a song. She doesn't need to make a donation to anything. The fact that people be all up in Bey's money and what she does with it is laughable at best. No one else makes donations to cover a song, so he can have a seat.
mitch winehouse @mitchwinehouse 8h
It's on the Gatsby trailer. I will be honest...it's much different to Amy. No comparison but It's not bad at all. Mitch
