Perpetually troubled singer Amy Winehouse returned to performing on TV over the weekend on the UK show Strictly Come Dancing, where she was a backup singer for her goddaughter Dionne Bromfield’s performance of the Shirelles classic “Mama Said.” Bromfield’s performance sort of gave me the eerie feeling that I’d get when I watched Winehouse sing live before her well-documented troubles—technically she sounded pretty spot-on, but the 13-year-old singer’s performance was somewhat lifeless. (You couldn’t really tell if the “days like this” of which she sang were truly dark, or just, like, days when she’d burned her toast.) As for Amy, well, she started off strong but then faltered, flailing out of sync with the two backup singers flanking her; there were many points during the performance when I was wondering if her microphone had even been turned on. Clip after the jump.





Sorry if that catsuit is slightly NSFW! Somewhere, Shakira is getting an idea…


Dionne Bromfield and Amy Winehouse LIVE Strictly Come Dancing 2009 [YouTube]