Re: Amy Winehouse Is Dead
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Oh no no no TPM, I'm astonished nobody mentioned the fact that Amy was sober in her last days and seems to have died of, sadly, natural causes as a result of her years of hard partying. There were no drugs found in her home, and she had just gotten out of rehab. All the mud slinging about her at this point is mud slinging for the sake of doing it.
I know this response comes a little late, but my internet died Saturday night when our sugar glider flew into the router, got freaked out when it fell over, and peed all over it... during our Amy Winehouse "wake" aka "let's drink sangria and listen to Amy and watch intervention lulz" night.
As an actual long-term fan of Amy Winehouse, I found her music to be so deeply inspired, going places where other artists with similar issues seemed to be afraid to tastefully address. Yes, Amy was an addict, and her songs dealt with her struggles of addiction and her enabling ex-husband. What is missing from this discussion are the facts that:
-She wrote all of her own music. Yes, Amy wrote Rehab, not a machine in a record label office. She wrote two full-length albums and was working on a third.
-She won numerous awards but was unable to attend her most important ones due to actually being in Rehab.
-She struggled and tried to break her addictions, but was not going to mask the truth. How many celebrities actually own up to their own pitfalls? Amy did drugs, but so do a lot of celebrities who don't admit it and just show up looking all ragged and shit.
Amy's disease led to her deterioration, downfall and death. I am sad that we will never hear her third album. If you cannot reflect upon her as a woman who was ill, sought help, tried to straighten her life out and ultimately lost everything, then you are not reflecting on the true Amy Winehouse, but a media caricature of her, and you lack some serious maturity. I'm really floored that our youngest members seem to be the most mature about her passing on.
Whether or not you are a fan, if you cannot recognize addiction as a serious disease and cannot recognize Amy as a fighter who struggled to overcome it, then you hold no ground to critique Amy's lifestyle at the end of her life, and should not be throwing stones.
RIP Amy. You were beautiful.
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Finally, I am so sick and tired of people saying "WTF Barry, Norway is so much more important than Amy Winehouse!" Do you think I don't know that? Does that really not give me ground to be upset that one of my favorite artists passed away? Yes, I was extraordinarily upset about what happened in Norway and still am, but I chose to put RIP Amy as my Facebook status and got a ton of shit for it because apparently "I care about Amy Winehouse" translates to "I don't care about terrorist attacks in Norway" to some people. The events are UNRELATED and should be treated as such. Anyone who says otherwise can suck it. Amy was one of THREE celebrities out of any sort of stardom whether TV or any kind of media that I routinely followed because I loved her music, because I was so eagerly anticipating the day when she would announce a U.S. tour and I could watch her stagger around on stage.
....The other two are JK Rowling and Conor Oberst
SPEAKING OF, I'm going to see Bright Eyes on August 30th and can't waaaaiiiit <333333
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Originally Posted by Magmar
I'll admit I really don't know a whole lot about her, like I said I only even heard her name mentioned after she was already dead >.>