Ok, normally I don't like to really express what I'm really thinking in case I come across as mean. In my head and with my friends I say what I want I and I can be mean and bitchy about everything but on here...I dunno, I don't feel like my opinions and thoughts are good enough/smart enough for me to voice them here. Also, some bloggers come across as mean just for the sake of being mean, y'know? And I don't want to do that. But anyway, it's my blog, I need to start saying what I really think. But I'm just too nice y'know?! I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings!
But today, I have to say something because the splurge of grief and sadness that has spewed up on Facebook in the, ooh, five or whatever hours since Amy Winehouse has died is totally fucking ridiculous.
A 27 year old junkie who quite obviously didn't give a flying fuck about herself and certainly didn't deign to think about how her habits were affecting those around her, died. Most likely from the absolutely disgusting abuse she put her body through. She had what? One album? A few hits? And everyone is going on about how such a great talent has been lost, blah. blah blah. Wtf?! 27 year old junkies die on the streets of Dublin, London, New York, every city in the world every day and we walk by with disgust because we don't want their addiction and issues to contaminate us. But just because this one could just about hold a note when she was sober enough to stand up straight and sing, you all fall over yourselves with grief? Was it Stalin who said one death is a tragedy but one million is just a statistic? In this case he was wrong. 92 people were killed by a psycho in Norway. THAT is a tragedy. Young people who were active in their community, interested in the world around them were shot by someone who was as equally uninterested in bettering themselves or society as Amy Winehouse.
I know that when a celebrity dies we all kinda get a shock because they're famous and they're in your face all the time and when they die it's just odd because you almost feel like theyore invincible. But did any of you even think about Amy this week? Did you put on your status "Oh gee, I hope Amy Winehouse gets herself together soon."? Probably not. In fact the last time I saw her on the news was a couple of weeks ago when she was filmed on stage totally off her face and falling all over the place. You know what I thought? Dead by the end of the year. And you probably did too.
Yes, it is terrible for Amy's family that they lost a daughter/sister/niece/cousin but is she gave a shit about them she would have stopped. But she didn't and she died and the only person who is responsible is dead. All you people who think it's awful should spare more thoughts for those people who had to scramble for their lives on Friday. Who ran into the water to get away from someone who was shooting at them. They are still fishing bodies out of the water.
This is just my opionion and you know what they say about opinions...
totally agree, amy you out of your misery now rest in peace and all that. but come on she was a dead woman walking. when my freind said ' have you heard about Amy how sad what a waste how shocking'. I reminded her of the junkies and alchies who hang out by the tube station every day and night. the woman who trawls her broken arse up and down the high road in a God awful state. The one who people openly tell to f off on a daily basis. i asked her when was the last time we had sympathy for her, my friend said that is tue but. Huh but nothing amy had a said life she couldn't pull it together or handle her life. She made her choices and didn't use what she had to really fight her addictions. I feel more for the junkies who live a feckless life who can't jet of here and there and have to really fight to get rehab or the services that are now cut to shreads.
ReplyDeleteSeeya Amy you had a short(ish) life you live partied and fucked up hard. You werent stupid you made your choices. People will miss you but to me you were a junkie who shone but couldn't live sober like so many of your kind.
That's what's bugging me so much about the whole situation. People are leaving bottles of vodka and wine glasses as a "tribute" to her and then they argue how she wasn't just a junkie "she was an artist, man." They why don't they leave out her albums? Or a microphone? Or a guitar? The reason they don't is because all they saw was the junkie and everytime they saw "Amy Wino" headlines on the paper they joined in the slagging match. And NOW they remember her music and they're all repentant. They're glorifying her addiction, it makes me sick because they'd walk past a junkie on the street and wouldn't throw him a penny in case he'd spend it on booze.
ReplyDeleteI do feel bad for amy, I really do but I'm not going to put her on a pedestal for fucking up her life.