| Is it time too let Amy Winehouse go?
Posted: 5/7/2008 12:40:37 PM | Not sure if this is against the rules, but was reading that Amy Winehouse has been arrested AGAIN in relation to drugs.
Now I am the first to admit that she has one hell of a talent with that voice, and I have always wished she would get some help cause it would be a shame to lose her from the music scene, but is it time now to just let her go.
She obviosuly doesn't want to kick the habit, enough people have tried now...and it is obvious the lady will be dead within a couple of years if she doesn't, and as much as I hate to lose such a bright talent, if someone doesn't want help should she repeatly be offered it, I am sick of hearing how she is doing all this to herself now.....Let's all just remember what a stunning cd back to black is and forget about her.....time for the public to let go i think | |
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| Is it time too let Amy Winehouse go?
Posted: 5/7/2008 12:48:26 PM | .....time for the public to let go i think
So posting a thread for people to discuss it further would just be ironic then?
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| Is it time too let Amy Winehouse go?
Posted: 5/7/2008 12:54:13 PM | I understand that you may be sick of hearing that she has done this to herself but what other explanation is there?.
I am sure the lady didnt just decide to take drugs when she became famous or because of media pressure, she has more than likely had a drug problem for a lot longer than we presume.
The only person that can help her is herself.The same as the only person who decided to get herself in the situation in the first place was herself.
She may be a very talented musician but she obviously doesnt hold herself in high regard or value her life very much.
What is it the public have to let go of? people will always judge others by what they see and the lady is a mess she is in the public eye and should certainly not be made out to be some kind of role model. | |
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| Is it time too let Amy Winehouse go?
Posted: 5/7/2008 2:32:16 PM | There have been many many people lost to drugs and alcohol in bands over the years.
The Sweet lost their lead singer to alcohol, apparently his heart stopped 6 times and he still survived after a serious drinking session. I think he eventually died around 1997 but what a serious loss of talent. | |
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| Is it time too let Amy Winehouse go?
Posted: 5/7/2008 2:47:54 PM | | Amy this Amy that Amy even had the Amy show on TV last night...I caught the last bit...Poor girl...She will see the light when she is good and ready...The media just spotlight her. Well we all know that anyway.....I'm no that taken with Amy's music. Yes it's good.....There's lots of talent out there....She's not doing anything new really is she....I don't buy newspapers because of all the tripe within....So if I catch the news and see another 'Amy' story I just tut and walk out the room.... | |
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| Is it time too let Amy Winehouse go?
Posted: 5/7/2008 4:56:22 PM | Amy Winhouse let herself go a long time ago... along with that Pete Doherty.... They are a pair smack heads & they don't want to clean up.
People like this are the top role models to people in their mid 20's in the UK. No wonder the country is in such a state.
Yeh, they've got talent as musician, but hey. I grew up listening to Motley Crue & Aerosmith, they were TERRIBLE for drug use in their time. They had the courage & determination to clean themselves up, & ended up making better music afterwards. | |
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| Is it time too let Amy Winehouse go?
Posted: 5/7/2008 5:03:37 PM | It's a typical British press scenario again in my eyes. Build the person up and up, then take the greatest pleasure in knocking them right back down again.
Look at the pictures of Amy before all the drugs etc, then look at her now. Jeez, what a bl**dy mess. Now guys tell me would you date a girl like that on here if you saw a profile picture like that?????
I think it is all about PR as well. Any publicity is good publicity and all that crap. Doesn't matter if it is ruining a life, or countless lives of young girls who idolise her. The record company want to sell albums, and her agent(s) want to make money. | |
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| Is it time too let Amy Winehouse go?
Posted: 5/7/2008 11:20:53 PM | I wasn't ever holding onto her, so difficult to let her go.
Why are you so interested in someone elses personal life? | |
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| Is it time too let Amy Winehouse go?
Posted: 5/8/2008 2:48:20 AM | message to .........Z........Mexico
Amy is in the public eye and has a recognised she talent with a unique voice,
and most people don't want her to self distruct......she has her fortune and limelight thrust on her ,and it seems she cannot handle it...........she needs rehab ,without the Richard Head who helped her get there.
She has become a pathetic role model.........and her performances will deteriate so much that her no longer go to hear her......lets hope the youngsters steer away from the drugs scene.......
She maybe sowing the seeds of her own destruction........if she cannot make the decision for good health.........her parents must make it for her !!
I take it that you have no concern for others.......... .or it sounded that way | |
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| Is it time too let Amy Winehouse go?
Posted: 5/8/2008 2:58:26 AM | her music is not my thing but I can see that she is talented and I don't expect even she would want to or has ever seen herself as a role model to others. It is only the press that bleet on about such crap (as already stated by another poster)
Listen to her music if you like it, let her do with her life as she wants and I am sure the people that really care about her will support and help her.
Will people please stop reading the bloody daily mail.... grrrr I hate that fickin paper | |
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| Is it time too let Amy Winehouse go?
Posted: 5/8/2008 3:05:29 AM |
Amy is in the public eye
Only because people such as yourself choose to view her as a spectacle, if you don't buy the papers and magazines printing stories about her, I assure you, they won't sell them.
and has a recognised she talent with a unique voice
Which is her job and career, so enjoy her for these skills. not for the train wreck that is her life.
Lastly, that's quite an assumption you're making when you say 'I obviously don't care about others'
I have never met the woman, and I'm unlikely to, so there is no way I can affect the outcome of her life. Do I care about her? not in any particular way no, though it's a shame when anyone self destructs.
Unlike you though, I don't rubberneck on her life, whilst I know she's in some papers, that's the limit of what I know about her, I couldn't recite a single story about her. | |
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| Is it time too let Amy Winehouse go?
Posted: 5/8/2008 3:20:22 AM |
.....time for the public to let go i think
So posting a thread for people to discuss it further would just be ironic then?
It seems to me that people with commercial tallent seem to get trapped between seeking the spotlight while hating it at the same time.
What makes you breaks you.
From listening to her on tv she sounds like a child trapped in an emaciated adults body.
Her advisers should let her go go go away for a very long time to get her head together. | |
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| Is it time too let Amy Winehouse go?
Posted: 5/8/2008 4:23:47 AM | I saw Amy Winehouse at Brixton about 5 yrs ago when she had the album Frank out.. she was a lot fatter about a size 14 and didnt have the tattoos and didnt do that awful stumbly sort of dance she does now, she was a kicking rock arse woman, very strong and healthy looking and sure of herself on stage, none of this looking like an emanciapated little scared bird.
A few weeks later i think it was the brits or something they tore her apart in the press for her dress sense and not being reed thin. Now they tear her apart for being reed thin. Im pretty sure she turned to drugs because she couldnt cope, who knows if she would have turned sooner maybe she just couldnt afford them before? :)
Its a crying shame and an indication of what too many yes poeple around you and too much money can do to someone. | |
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| Is it time too let Amy Winehouse go?
Posted: 5/8/2008 4:33:52 AM | I say lock her in a room with Pete Doherty and maybe they'll knock some sense into each other.
Also not sure I want "celebs" being role models, but then I doubt Hello magazine or the "yoof of today" are interested in people who genuinely set a good example. | |
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| Is it time too let Amy Winehouse go?
Posted: 5/8/2008 5:29:00 AM | I've never really been interested in her, funny how she supposedly made the 'beehive' haircut 'cool', yet if someone had got a beehive haircut before she was known people would've probably laughed at them.
I'm sure I remember hearing her voice though once and it sounded really good, just not really interested in the music.
Anyway, hope she get's better, it can't be good for anyone. | |
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| Is it time too let Amy Winehouse go?
Posted: 5/8/2008 5:43:48 AM | So its ok to be a drug addict, break the law and snub all the posh rehab treatment you are offered/can afford if you can screech out a few tracks?? Its ok to be a druggie if you are talented.
I am sick of hearing about her, and how the media glamorise drug taking. How on earth are kids supposed to really grasp the idea that drugs can completely ruin your life, and those of you around if it is so popular with celebs??
Imagine another peron, a woman, taking the same drugs but with a lifestyle that meant she had to finance her habit by prostitution? How would everyone feel about that? Or imagine another woman aimilar in talent to Amy... living in a squat... unable to pull her life together because of this addiction that controls her. Unable to get decent professional help because of the cuts in financing such help.
I wonder what opinion people would have of her? | |
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| Is it time too let Amy Winehouse go?
Posted: 5/8/2008 5:44:03 AM | Erm, aren't we being a bit hypo-critical with the 'yoof of today' comments.
This isn't exactly new, as RN posted on another thread, we had Keith Moon to look up to! An earlier poster commented on Motley Crue and Aerosmith.
As long as there has been rock there has been the opportunity to do drugs (sex 'n' drugs 'n' rock 'n' roll - cliches have to come from somewhere).
Amy is in a mess, there's no doubt about it. She can't get clean until she really wants it though and to want it enough, you have to hit rock bottom first. Even then, there is no guarantee of success. | |
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| Is it time too let Amy Winehouse go?
Posted: 5/8/2008 6:00:10 AM |
I am sick of hearing about her
Same here. I don't have anything against her, but whenever I see another news report on her or see another article in the newspaper I just roll my eyes. | |
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| Is it time too let Amy Winehouse go?
Posted: 5/8/2008 7:03:49 AM | She's a recording artist. It's what they are supposed to do. I wouldn't want all of the music available to be recorded by people like Steps FFS.
As a great man once said.........
"When did mediocrity and banality become a good image for your children? I want my children to listen to people who fvcking ROCKED! I don't care if they died in puddles of their own vomit! I want someone who plays from his fvcking HEART!" | |
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| Is it time too let Amy Winehouse go?
Posted: 5/8/2008 7:11:29 AM |
She's a recording artist. It's what they are supposed to do. I wouldn't want all of the music available to be recorded by people like Steps FFS.
As a great man once said.........
"When did mediocrity and banality become a good image for your children? I want my children to listen to people who fvcking ROCKED! I don't care if they died in puddles of their own vomit! I want someone who plays from his fvcking HEART!"
Few points:
*You don't have to use drugs to be a totally amazing artist. There are plenty who don't.
*Not using drugs does not means you are mediocre or banal.
*Saying that is what she is 'supposed' to do is just wrong. It goes with the media image of glamorizing drugs.
*There is no difference essentially between druggie Amy and the druggie in the squathouse. The one difference is that one can afford the drugs, and regulalry lets the media broadcast her situation to get publicity. (hmmm Kate Moss tactics?) and one cannot affor the drugs but doesnt have the financial means to pay for expensive rehab. | |
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| Is it time too let Amy Winehouse go?
Posted: 5/8/2008 7:15:26 AM | I can't put it better myself so I'll let the same great man say it for me.......
"If you don't believe drugs have done good things for us, then go home and burn all your records, all your tapes, and all your CDs because every one of those artists who have made brilliant music and enhanced your lives? RrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrEAL fvcking high on drugs. The Beatles were so fvcking high they let Ringo sing a few songs." | |
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| Is it time too let Amy Winehouse go?
Posted: 5/8/2008 7:25:09 AM |
I can't put it better myself so I'll let the same great man say it for me.......
"If you don't believe drugs have done good things for us, then go home and burn all your records, all your tapes, and all your CDs because every one of those artists who have made brilliant music and enhanced your lives? RrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrEAL fvcking high on drugs. The Beatles were so fvcking high they let Ringo sing a few songs."
Trust me, not every great tune was written while someone was high on drugs. I've thought of great tunes myself and I've not taken drugs since around 1999. | |
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