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2011-07-23 -Obits-

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Posted by Frank G 2011-07-23 12:41|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Rehab

Posted by Frank G 2011-07-23 12:47|| 2011-07-23 12:47|| Front Page Top

#2 As some wit once wrote:

(S)he burned the candle at both ends,
And in the middle, too.
And oh my friends, and oh, my dears,
(S)he left a puddle of goo.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-07-23 13:10|| 2011-07-23 13:10|| Front Page Top

#3 (S)he left a puddle of goo.

Amy Winehouse leaving puddles? Oh, dear, indeed. Hand me that bottle of mental bleach from behind the bar. No, the *big* one.

Posted by SteveS 2011-07-23 13:18|| 2011-07-23 13:18|| Front Page Top

#4 Looks like she finally got to where she was heading.
Brace for "Troubled Genius Artist" stories...

Posted by tu3031 2011-07-23 13:23|| 2011-07-23 13:23|| Front Page Top

#5 They tried to make me go to rehab but I said 'no, no, no'

Posted by Zhang Fei 2011-07-23 13:23|| 2011-07-23 13:23|| Front Page Top

#6 Good career move for whomever has the estate.
Not so good for her though...

Posted by tu3031 2011-07-23 13:25|| 2011-07-23 13:25|| Front Page Top

"If I am backed up against the wall, I'll kick the sh*t out of it," she said. "If you can't sort something out for yourself, no one can help you."

It's really a shame she went down that path. She was an exceptionally gifted musician, who understood and used idioms and influences dating to the early 20th century. Buy her albums and enjoy.

From her Wikipedia article:

She's only 24 with six Grammy nods, crashing headfirst into success and despair, with a codependent husband in jail, exhibitionist parents with questionable judgement, and the paparazzi documenting her emotional and physical distress.

Posted by KBK 2011-07-23 15:33|| 2011-07-23 15:33|| Front Page Top

#8 From the article:

She was hospitalized in 2007 for a reported overdose of a cocktail of heroin, ecstasy, cocaine, ketamine, whiskey and vodka.

Posted by Frozen Al 2011-07-23 17:37|| 2011-07-23 17:37|| Front Page Top

#9 Amateur! When you're doing a long night of heroin, ecstasy, cocaine, ketamine, whiskey and vodka, you've gotta mellow it out with Mescal and a glass of ice water. Everybody knows that

Posted by Frank G 2011-07-23 17:44|| 2011-07-23 17:44|| Front Page Top

#10 Someone needed to explain to her Keith Richards spent his whole life working up to that look...

Posted by Capsu78 2011-07-23 17:48|| 2011-07-23 17:48|| Front Page Top

#11 I know she did this to herself, but I find it sad that she and so many others think of so little other than to numb themselves to death.

Posted by lotp 2011-07-23 18:31|| 2011-07-23 18:31|| Front Page Top

#12 From another perspective, I have always been a big fan of exploring how "artists make art"... and my Ipod library is pretty eclectic but listenable.
From sculptors to painters to architects, I get just as much enjoyment hearing them explain "What comes first- music or lyrics, chunk of marble or "El Gigante" (the David)...
With this artist, I never saw the artistry, even though I talked to a number of fans, mostly 20 somethings who thought she was great, I never "got" AW's music, but think I recognized the role drugs/whatever played in her creative process... Hard to imagine her being much more than a bar tendress/ bad hairdresser had she not been artistically "organized" by her vices.
RIP

Posted by Capsu78 2011-07-23 20:31|| 2011-07-23 20:31|| Front Page Top

#13 she was a minor event. For real talent in British sampling of R&B - see Adele, who's a lot younger without the drugs-n-drama

Posted by Frank G 2011-07-23 20:44|| 2011-07-23 20:44|| Front Page Top

#14 Her spokesman says everyone associated with her is shocked by this.
They obviously weren't paying attention.

Posted by tu3031 2011-07-23 21:52|| 2011-07-23 21:52|| Front Page Top

#15 They we paying attention, alright. They are just worried about how "Amy Winehouse Handler" will look on a resume.

Posted by badanov 2011-07-23 22:05|| http://www.freefirezone.org 2011-07-23 22:05|| Front Page Top

#16 Yeah, it must suck losing your gravy train...

Posted by tu3031 2011-07-23 22:09|| 2011-07-23 22:09|| Front Page Top

#17 Frank G said:
she was a minor event. For real talent in British sampling of R&B - see Adele, who's a lot younger without the drugs-n-drama

Good call Frank... She just made my Ipod about a month ago, and I am clearly not in her demographic. I thought it was AW when I first heard her.

Posted by Capsu78 2011-07-23 23:16|| 2011-07-23 23:16|| Front Page Top

#18 better range and healthier life. Agreed, Capsu78

Posted by Frank G 2011-07-23 23:23|| 2011-07-23 23:23|| Front Page Top

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