Amy Winehouse’s ‘Back To Black’ Music Video Reaches 1 Billion YouTube Views
etcanada.comAmy Winehouse is now part of a noble group of musicians to surpass a billion views on YouTube. The late singer’s music video for her 2007 hit song “Back to Black” has reached 1 billion views on the platform, 16 years after its release.
The black-and-white video — directed by Phil Griffin — sees Winehouse mourning a failed romance, to which she joins a funeral procession and attends the burial, where a gravestone reads, “R.I.P.
the Heart of Amy Winehouse.” However, the gravestone imagery was removed from the music video after the musician died at age 27 from alcohol poisoning. READ MORE: Amy Winehouse Biopic: Marisa Abela Channels The Late Singer In First On-Set Pics Winehouse wrote the song with Mark Ronson — the music producer who created one of the biggest albums of the year for the “Barbie” movie.
The lyrics were inspired by her troubled relationship with ex-husband Blake Fielder-Civil, though they find her missing the relationship. “We only said goodbye with words / I died a hundred times / You go back to her / And I go back to black,” Winehouse sings.
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