Amy Winehouse dies

Can't say I'm the least bit surprised, but I can say that I did like her music.

I found out this morning from a charming Facebook post that could be summed up as "I am so happy she is dead, I thought she was a waste of space and I never liked her music. I am happy the twenty seven curse got her". Of course, it was a lot more gleeful and poorly set out than that.


The amount of bile some people have for public figures they don't like is getting to be frightening. It goes beyond simply disagreeing or having different tastes and into being vicious just because they can, or because they think it earns them 'cool' points.


Poor woman.

TheHedonist wrote:

she released two pretty awesome records before she reached the 'too stoned to perform or write' level of her career, and if she hadn't reached it she probably would have released another few.

I'll take your word for it as I've never heard a song by her. I fail to name a single English band that I absolutely cannot listen to; must be some nation-wide style thing.

Lady Anne wrote:

Penguin wrote:

Didn't someone here have a story about seeing a performance where Eric Clapton was too drunk to do anything but sit off to one side of the stage and puke?

I read somewhere that Fergie of the Black-eyed Peas once had too much to drink before going onstage and peed in her pants in front of everyone.

There's a reason why you can't find a recording of Janis Joplin's performance at Woodstock.
Jim Morrison showed up at band sessions and concerts at whatever time he felt convenient - usually drunk - and had a tour cancelled after he got himself arrested for trying to pull out Mr.Mojo on stage. Heck, even Mozart managed to piss off the audience - and the lack of injectable drug is probably the reason he made it to the ripe age of 33. The kid would have done it up if there had been any, mature as he was.

Mikey Go WOOGA wrote:

I don't have any more sympathy for her than I do every other irrelevant retard who kills themselves through SO MANY DRUGS.

Someone on my facebook made that same point, except he called her a shitty slut in the process. Well done, Mikey, for being classier than my RL friends.

I never heard her music, but seriously, the human body can only take so much abuse. Such a waste.
And don't bad mouth Janis. Janis was cool. She managed to get off the island.

grmblfjx wrote:

Mikey Go WOOGA wrote:

I don't have any more sympathy for her than I do every other irrelevant retard who kills themselves through SO MANY DRUGS.

Someone on my facebook made that same point, except he called her a shitty slut in the process. Well done, Mikey, for being classier than my RL friends.

That might say more about your RL friends than it does about Mikey, unfortunately.

To make this post somewhat on topic, I guess I don't really have any strong feelings about this? I mean, condolences to her family and friends and all, but I don't see how this is more tragic than any other drug addict's death. I liked her songs, but she was hardly in the same category as Joplin or Kobain. Drugs fuck shit up, man...

Owlish wrote:

grmblfjx wrote:

Mikey Go WOOGA wrote:

I don't have any more sympathy for her than I do every other irrelevant retard who kills themselves through SO MANY DRUGS.

Someone on my facebook made that same point, except he called her a shitty slut in the process. Well done, Mikey, for being classier than my RL friends.

That might say more about your RL friends than it does about Mikey, unfortunately.

To make this post somewhat on topic, I guess I don't really have any strong feelings about this? I mean, condolences to her family and friends and all, but I don't see how this is more tragic than any other drug addict's death. I liked her songs, but she was hardly in the same category as Joplin or Kobain. Drugs fuck shit up, man...

It's true; you take drugs, you take a risk. She's been in rehab; it's not like she didn't have the money to get good rehab places.

And I feel sad that she brought her own life to an end but in the end... it was a choice she made. Poor girl, poor family and friends, but all in all, this was a serious problem that she tried to overcome, and failed.

Owlish wrote:

That might say more about your RL friends than it does about Mikey, unfortunately.

I know. I've known this guy for fifteen years or so, and I like him a lot, but some of the things he says make me wish there's a RL Cyberwulf in store for him somewhere down the line.

Harley Quinn hyenaholic wrote:

Owlish wrote:

grmblfjx wrote:

Mikey Go WOOGA wrote:

I don't have any more sympathy for her than I do every other irrelevant retard who kills themselves through SO MANY DRUGS.

Someone on my facebook made that same point, except he called her a shitty slut in the process. Well done, Mikey, for being classier than my RL friends.

That might say more about your RL friends than it does about Mikey, unfortunately.

To make this post somewhat on topic, I guess I don't really have any strong feelings about this? I mean, condolences to her family and friends and all, but I don't see how this is more tragic than any other drug addict's death. I liked her songs, but she was hardly in the same category as Joplin or Kobain. Drugs fuck shit up, man...

It's true; you take drugs, you take a risk. She's been in rehab; it's not like she didn't have the money to get good rehab places.

And I feel sad that she brought her own life to an end but in the end... it was a choice she made. Poor girl, poor family and friends, but all in all, this was a serious problem that she tried to overcome, and failed.

her death is still yet to be explained, everyone is assuming it's drug-related and it's a fair assumption but it's still that- an assumption

It's like how everyone expected the crocodile hunter to get his head bitten off but no, a stingray did it

grmblfjx wrote:

Owlish wrote:

That might say more about your RL friends than it does about Mikey, unfortunately.

I know. I've known this guy for fifteen years or so, and I like him a lot, but some of the things he says make me wish there's a RL Cyberwulf in store for him somewhere down the line.

Be the hammer Cyberwulf.

Drugs R Bad, M'Kay!

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Nihilist wrote:

Harley Quinn hyenaholic wrote:

Owlish wrote:

grmblfjx wrote:

Mikey Go WOOGA wrote:

I don't have any more sympathy for her than I do every other irrelevant retard who kills themselves through SO MANY DRUGS.

Someone on my facebook made that same point, except he called her a shitty slut in the process. Well done, Mikey, for being classier than my RL friends.

That might say more about your RL friends than it does about Mikey, unfortunately.

To make this post somewhat on topic, I guess I don't really have any strong feelings about this? I mean, condolences to her family and friends and all, but I don't see how this is more tragic than any other drug addict's death. I liked her songs, but she was hardly in the same category as Joplin or Kobain. Drugs fuck shit up, man...

It's true; you take drugs, you take a risk. She's been in rehab; it's not like she didn't have the money to get good rehab places.

And I feel sad that she brought her own life to an end but in the end... it was a choice she made. Poor girl, poor family and friends, but all in all, this was a serious problem that she tried to overcome, and failed.

her death is still yet to be explained, everyone is assuming it's drug-related and it's a fair assumption but it's still that- an assumption

It's like how everyone expected the crocodile hunter to get his head bitten off but no, a stingray did it

...Being that she was found in her own apartment, if it wasn't suicide or homicide, it's like 99% sure it's the drugs--if not the drugs themselves then a result/complication of them.

Hm, but he was still done in by trying to manhandle a wild animal in it's natural environment, so isn't the species kind of splitting hairs? lol


Edit: And it looks like we may never know.

Quote :

Retro-soul songstress Amy Winehouse didn't die under suspicious circumstances, a coroner's official said Monday.

Police confirmed later in the day that it's not yet known what killed Winehouse because her autopsy was inconclusive.

While it's never good that someone dies so young...

I've only ever heard one of her songs - "Rehab" - and was not impressed. So I can't join in with the chorus of "major talent, wasted".
Neither can I summon up much sympathy for someone who was apparently so hell-bent on self-destruction.

RIP, Amy.

Dixie wrote:

I've only ever heard one of her songs - "Rehab" - and was not impressed.

If that's the only thing you're going on, I might agree. Not too fond of that one, myself.

Try these:

Owlish wrote:

Hm, but he was still done in by trying to manhandle a wild animal in it's natural environment, so isn't the species kind of splitting hairs?

The footage hasn't been released, but he probably wasn't doing anything with the stingray. They're pretty mellow animals most of the time and don't have a reputation, so why bother?

That recording of You Know I'm No Good issogood. Shit, and now I can't see her live :/

She sounds like the adults in the old Peanuts cartoons to me.

So, um... why did she die? And who cares? Yes, yes, friends and family obviously but apart from that...

Her voice is great but you can't understand a word she says. I dunno, it's sad she died, but she was a drug addict. I honestly just can't feel bad when you do it to yourself. Not to be heartless, but I just can't/ I hope her friends and family are doing ok.

The last time I was this surprised was when I found out that Ricky Martin was a homosexual, and the last time I was this upset was when I got a paper-cut.

Well, this just got worse.

Quote :

Marcella Wright, 17, said outside the London home where Amy, 27, died: "She was my idol."

The star's dad sadly doled out her belongings to mourners and insisted: "It's what she'd have wanted."

Cabbie Mitch, 60, stunned crowds holding a vigil at the pop diva's home by emerging with clothes, jewellery and trinkets.

Is it just me or is this really, really not right? And probably not legal?

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John Gallagher, 16 - whose dad got a pair of Amy's sunglasses - said of the T-shirts: "They were very small in size and skinny, like her figure."

Amy Winehouse was not a naturally skinny woman.

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This before-and-after shot illustrates it well enough, I think. When she was in decent health she was a curvy lady. I just...ugh.

Owlish wrote:

Hm, but he was still done in by trying to manhandle a wild animal in it's natural environment, so isn't the species kind of splitting hairs? lol

Usually, I'd simply state the facts here. But referring to someone's death with a "lol" revokes any rights to civility.

That being said you ignorant twit, by all accounts, Steve Irwin didn't even know the stingray was there. And nine times out of ten, the stingray would've run rather than attack. AND the stingray hit him with a one-in-a-million shot. AND if Irwin had left the stinger in, rather than instinctively yanking it out, he would've - at a minimum - lived to reach a hospital and probably would've survived.

So if you're going to be a jackass about someone's death, at a bare minimum, get your facts straight. And maybe leave off the "lol." (Classy, BTW.)