Amy Winehouse dead

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by jumpy

It's my experience that drug and alcohol use/addiction (I say use and addiction separately for a reason) are just one symptom of something more serious; if you will, they are a crutch used to support the weight of a greater, underlying problem. What starts in all innocence, rapidly takes on a life of its own.

As far as helping those people who suffer psychological problems... well, quite simply, some people don't want to be helped. Not even with all the money and time and compassion in the world. That's part of what makes them mad.

Pity though, seeing her when she was first on 'later with jools holland' and watching what she became more recently. Not a pretty sight - and one reason why I tuned her career commentary out, because what has happened is of no real surprise.
However, generally it does no good speaking ill of the dead, whoever they may have been in life.

It also does no damage to the dead to speak realistical (or bad) of them. And if it is the living you are worried about, then these people surviving AW must ask themselves why they did not give better support and cared better for her while she was still alive.

And all this does not touch upon the question at all whether her accoustic contribution to the world of music was valuable or not. I say she has been massively overestimated, and I say we have a problem with our sick media and our sick mass "art" consummation enobling standards that simply do nót deserve that, but get cleverly marketed and sold to make the big money.

The music business, classical and non-classical, is a snake pit, and the taste of the mass market, the artistic competence of the statistically normal standard consumer, is lousy. And so the radios play BS from midnight till midnight, and those being raised with that from childhood on do never learn it any better and thus think that noise to be "art". Ha...!

My taste of music is very diverse and widespread, it goes from classic to swing, from jazz to pop and rock, from Gregorian chant to 80s synthesizer. But taste ion AW's case is njot the issue. It is quality and musical competence - or the lack of. And lack of quality cannot always be relativised by claiming it all to be a question of taste.