I understand why someone might want to take something like an award ceremony for talent and confuse it with rewarding the personal achievments of a person. I also agree with not rewarding bad “personal behavior” but what the awards stands for is the musical accomplishment of the person. I have seen situations where a completely over-rated and non-talented person is awarded because she is simply mistaken to be talented because she or he is popular. It is time to end the mediocre reign of morons with no talent but popularity and or contributions and start awarding the talented for purely their talents within the true of the award and or contributions. No more Ashley Simpson or Britney’s who hapen to have some niche and or gimmick. Don’t get me wrong award Britney for being yummy physsically but not for being some overwhelmingly talented singer. As far as Ashley I (or anyone else) can’t figure out what she is good at because even her pose look like a poster child for Holloween witch sales except for the nose job. Thank god her and Jay Leno don’t marry because the kid would all chin and only half talented.

Natalie Cole’s comment about rewarding bad behavior re Amy Winehouse’s Grammy win really irked me. Yes, I agree with the concept of not rewarding bad behavior in general; however, the Grammy was awarded (and IMO deserved) in recognition of musical artistry, not for behavior, and the fact that Winehouse has substance issues does not take away her talent.

Substance abuse is a disease that can cause the nicest person in the world to behave badly. It’s not an issue of whether someone is “bad” or “good”, “moral” or “immoral”, etc. It’s about being sick.

As such, Amy is a very talented, sick person who derserves our empathy and concern, not snide self-righteous comments, especially from Natalie Cole, who has had her own struggles with substance abuse.

Sounds like Cole is miffed that Amy won a Grammy and won recognition in her own right much sooner in her career than Cole managed to. And Cole, though talented in her own right, did not get Grammy recognition until she tapped into her father’s legend.

Really sour grapes.

Natalie Cole just lost me as a fan. She shouldn’t be knocking Amy Winehouse at all. No class on her part!