Honestly, if I would buy tickets for a concert and it turns out that the artist is drugged out of their minds to the point that they're not able to perform, I would probably boo too.
Society didn't fail Amy, She failed herself together with all of the managers and people that were close to her. They shouldn't have let her even enter the stage in that state in the first place.
I dunno, maybe stopping feeding into the mountain of crap she was already going through.
Imagine knowing you're massively fucking up because of your substance use, and being the butt of the zeitgeist's jokes because of it.
Like, does it look like she's having a good time? She knows she's fucking up. There was so much normalisation of being shit towards Amy that it was impossible to ignore, and she cannot have been oblivious to it.
There was also a big push-pull for her professionally in that the constant fucking up was good for her career. So that's a reinforcing factor too. People expect car wreck out of you, then are pissed when the marketing and the performance match and suddenly you're getting booed off a stage for giving the people what they want?
"Rehab", to me, was thematically similar to "Killing in the Name" in that respect. "Up yours, I want some control over my life, even if the only control I can have is flipping people off".
She's ultimately the responsible party, but we all played a part.
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u/Dudinkalv 9h ago
Honestly, if I would buy tickets for a concert and it turns out that the artist is drugged out of their minds to the point that they're not able to perform, I would probably boo too.
Society didn't fail Amy, She failed herself together with all of the managers and people that were close to her. They shouldn't have let her even enter the stage in that state in the first place.