Edit: July 23, 2011
Amy’s died of a drug overdose. I really wanted her to kick her addictions and come out with another beautiful record. It’s hard to mourn celebrities you never knew, but she put so much of herself into her music– a beautiful gift to the world. Thanks, Amy. Please find the peace you deserve.
Amy Winehouse recently put on a show in Belgrade. It wasn’t a performance as much as a spectacle. The Britney Spears of England had recently emerged from rehab.
Clearly, someone is close enough to Amy Winehouse to make money off of her, but not close enough to care that she’s completely bombed out of reality.
Before she was a hit in the states, I’d found her Back to Black record, randomly, and fell in love with it. Seeing a talent you adore become searingly popular creates a kind of pride– unless you’re the worst kind of hipster, in which case you revoke all affection. But I’m not that douche. I was proud of Amy, excited to see her in magazines, dressed up as her for Halloween (me and a million other idiots.)
When she started sliding into Blake-fueled madness, smoking crack, talking to baby mice, and falling all over the streets of London, I started saving her images from gossip rags.
Each day, the picture was worse. The eyes were sadder. The hair was snarlier. The face was scabbier.
Fame and money gave her ultimate access to oblivion… and in her oblivion, stumbling, muttering perfomances seem to bring in more fame and more money. She managed to dissolve into full-force crackhead status before the public’s obssessed and hungry eyes.
She’s not really my friend. Amy could be a raging bitch that I’d never want to speak to. But I feel a sympathetic sadness watching her, years later, still clearly struggling with drugs.
Amy’s rough, but her new fake tits, model-scrawny body and oversized, oversexed hair keep her popular and photographed. But the future’s never been kind to druggy hot chicks. Physical age is only acceptable for druggy rock dudes. There is no female Keith Richards.
I’d love to see Amy get her world together before her talents and intelligence are irretrievable. After the fame and money have passed, Amy will still be faced with her problems, and her oblivion.
