RIP Amy Winehouse

Having read this thread:

1.) Dick, I HATED Amy Winehouse's music. Of that "genre" that kleeda brought up, white english girls with black affectations, I'll take Adele or Duffy or Joss Stone WELL ahead of Amy. Her songs were just clunky to me. Couldn't stand her voice...no melody to them. And I'm as mainstream-music as they come.

2.) Yes, she was an addict. It's been well documented that she started, or at least increased, with her relationship with her ex-husband. Being in an addictive relationship, which is obviously co-dependent, can drive people to pick up dangerous habits just to share something in common with that person. It's pretty common, really. You don't see a lot of methheads married to Wall Streeters.

3.) She looked healthier this week (in the pics in the Daily Mail link) than I'd seen her in a while. I think (MY OPINION) this is more likely one of those "falling off the wagons, got a bad batch, did one hit too many" things than the continued degradation of the human body. Yes, I understand she degraded it for years. But it's not like someone who has been constantly high for years and just kind of slips away.

 

And my point is there is no limited capacity for empathy in the world. It's possible to feel sad about both, or more sad about Norway, but still sad about someone who drank and snorted themselves to death in a fairly obvious attempt to blot out much of the sadness in her world. Other than the fact they happened within 24 hours of one another, there isn't a connection between the two. The human mind is not the cover of a tabloid, where we must choose which story to give the appropriate play. One does not detract from the other, which is why it's a false equivalency.

 

Only if your average person were completely ignorant.

 

Good point.

Juvenile post by me withdrawn.

High road taken. A new day dawning.

 

Fair enough. Looks like you've put some thought into it. I was under the impression that she was pretty universally liked. Maybe I need to step away from the critics sometimes. Tom Chiarella called "You Know I'm No Good" a perfect pop song, and I was and am inclined to agree.

It will be interesting to see what legacy her music takes on. Even if you don't think she's as good as someone like Adele, seemingly Winehouse's mainstream success paved the way for Adele's. That's my impression from a distance. I'm open to someone more informed explaining whether I'm wrong.

 

See, I'm fine with that...

 

No, I definitely agree with that, Dick. But I just think Adele's better for my personal tastes. I like her voice better.

Amy looked like a drag queen singing in her male voice.

 

Norway vs. Amy Winehouse reminds me a little bit of a sports talk radio or an ESPN "First Take" manufactured debate that nobody is actually having.

I guess since this is a media Web site, there is certainly that debate to have - the relative news value of each. Both A1 of the NYT. Norway above the fold. Amy Winehouse below. Seems about right.

 

Wouldn't get control. Could, but wouldn't.

Maybe a small distinction, but important to me.

And her "disease" was like someone drinking poison, and then having the disease of a poisoned body. Well, duh. Just not the same as waking up one morning and having one of the cells in your pancreas turn cancerous, which you will not know about until it's too late.

 

No matter how incorrect?

 

Any facts or just theory?

 

No more nor fewer facts than were present in the post to which I responded.