Amy Winehouse found dead

[Rouetheday]

Usually the managers and other folk around the artist are to blame for this stuff. They want to milk them dry and put them on the road even when they should be staying away from all that crap until they can rehabilitate.

I don't know that it's fair to blame her handlers for this, ummm, 'inevitability' (anyone who uses the word 'tragedy' for this after the events in Norway should be ashamed), because I got the impression that Amy herself had nothing but contempt for the concept of 'Rehab'. I can't really explain why I think this, it's just one of those feelings you get....

 

[auscyclefan94]

Ugh... I felt terrible when I heard this news. Unfortunately her bad choices and lack of guidance has cost her dearly. Shame.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

I don't know that it's fair to blame her handlers for this, ummm, 'inevitability' (anyone who uses the word 'tragedy' for this after the events in Norway should be ashamed), because I got the impression that Amy herself had nothing but contempt for the concept of 'Rehab'. I can't really explain why I think this, it's just one of those feelings you get....

A person who dies far too young because they could never get onto the rails, a wasted talent, who falls from grace so spectacularly sordidly... it is tragic, on a personal level. She cuts a tragic figure, somebody whose success pointed pride in refusing to seek the help she so desperately needed.

In comparison to what we've just seen in Oslo and Utøya it's a very minor one, but it's unfair to suggest that it isn't bad, just because we've seen something far worse.

 

[craig1985]

Not a fan of her music, although she did have music talent, and I thought she looked quite good before she started taking drugs.

 

[Moondance]

Tragic. Had been a fan for a long time. At least she's got some peace in the big rehab clinic in the sky now. Someone so dependent on drugs cannot have had anything approaching decent life here.

 

[Swabian Lass]

Tragic - she was so talented and so young. Sadly, I can't say I'm surprised though. This story was never going to have a happy ending.

 

[Thomsena]

Couldn't be arsed about it when I heard it tbh - especially when the real tragedies are happening in Norway at the moment. She was a sad drug addict who signed her own death sentence - 80+ kids didn't.

Nevertheless - RIP, Amy.

 

[Black-Balled]

Couldn't be arsed about it when I heard it tbh - especially when the real tragedies are happening in Norway at the moment. She was a sad drug addict who signed her own death sentence - 80+ kids didn't.

Nevertheless - RIP, Amy.

Agreed: death is rarely welcomed.

Her's though, should be kept in perspective...while not suicide per-se, it was likely the result of her own choices.

 

[UpTheRoad]

If it is any consolation to those taking this death hard, know that she died doing what she loved.

 

[sublimit]

Its sad, I never really got into her music but its clear she had an enormous amount of talent. It wasn't just about dressing up and being outrageous like some of the other rubbish that's going around days these - she could perform and back it up.

 

[krebs303]

Fitting really, that the last song she performed live was this one.

Is everybody happy?
knock, knock, knock, knock
You can't come in
knock, knock, knock
You can't come in

You're wondering now, what to do, now you know this is the end
You're wondering how, you will pay, for the way you did behave

Curtain has fallen, now you're on your own
I won't return, forever you will wait

You're wondering now, what to do, now you know this is the end

Curtain has fallen, now you're on your own
I won't return, forever you will wait

You're wondering now, what to do, now you know this is the end
You're wondering how, you will pay, for the way you did behave

You're wondering now, what to do, now you know this is the end
You're wondering now, what to do, now you know this is the end

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buLr1akDD-Y&feature=channel_video_title

That video really shows how out of it she had become.

 

[TERMINATOR]

An incredibly talented singer, and I loved her music. Sadly, this fate was all to obvious.

Susan

Should be too obvious, Suzie-Q.

 

[TERMINATOR]

Such a troubled soul.

Amy Winehouse found dead
Troubled singer Amy Winehouse has been found dead at her flat in north London, police said. She was 27 years old.

The soul singer struggled with drink and drug addictions. Her death is being treated as unexplained.

Her music sucked and she looks like a crack *** edited by mod ***

 

[Hugh Januss]

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[Escarabajo]

RIP Amy.

I am a little shock about the club 27. I did not know all those deaths happened at that age.

I thought Jim Morrison asphyxiated on his own vomit also. But Wiki says no autopsy performed.

 

[oldcrank]

To the poster that said "Her music sucked" all I can say is
many, many great musicians disagree with you including
Tony Bennett. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ7J_KQDUUg

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Music is subjective.

I think she was a very talented singer, but I had little time for the music she chose to perform. No, actually, that's a lie. There is a lot of soul music that I absolutely love, but just none of it was the stuff she performed. But she was a talented singer, most definitely.

I do kind of feel that it's a bit ridiculous and rose-tinted to conflate her with the likes of Hendrix, Morrison, Johnson, Joplin, Cobain et al, though her story may share some parallels.

 

[lancaster]

she had a good voice, a very good voice.
I don't think she's really changed music. at all.

the road to a life lost to substance abuse is always sad. I do however think that a celebrity who has had significant time money and effort invested into their rehabilitation, deserves less sympathy than the thousands of addicts who have been abandoned and marginalized by society. she had it all, she gave it away, she had second chances, she didn't take them. it's sad, but has been inevitable for a while.

 

[boomcie]

Who died?
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