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Amy Winehouse's forthcoming posthumous LP Lioness: Hidden Treasures is due out Dec. 5, but we've been lucky enough to get sneak peeks of several of the album's tracks. We've seen the moving video for "Our Day Will Come," and we've heard "Like Smoke," Amy's gritty collaboration with Nas. Today we've got a hauntingly simple and completely gorgeous ballad, "Halftime."
Produced by Amy's longtime friend and collaborator Salaam Remi, Amy's voice lilts its way through the jazzy track while whimsical flutes add floral flourishes. But the main event is (and will always be) Amy's incredible vocals. As one of Amy's more lighthearted songs, "Halftime" speaks about music and its ability to shift one's perspective: "Humbled by the bass/So when the beat kicks in/Everything falls into place/And it devours me/I can't help but dance/You can try to stop me now/But you won't get the chance/Halftime, time to think it through.../See it from a different view."
As the official release date for Lioness: Hidden Treasures draws closer, we're not only excited to hear new music from Amy Winehouse, but we're also reminded that her voice was truly one of a kind.
+ Listen to Amy Winehouse's "Halftime."