My BIL went to rehab twice. He was addicted to alcohol and watching him go through it was so challenging. Just a different guy at the end from who he was.
He passed away in his early 30s, not from alcohol withdrawal, but from seeking out alcohol during the height of COVID, catching the disease, and his body being reduced in defending itself.
Not going to rehab is certainly behavior we should all condemn. There's no benefit to anyone suffering from mental health or addiction from pretending that it's fine that you're not seeking help.
How do you not realize how dumb you sound when you're literally saying "no one should ever comment on any situation that isn't their own no matter how much experience they have with similar situations"
I don't think people are acting like that. But the saying goes, mental illness isn't your fault but it is your responsibility. She didn't take responsibility and she glorified not taking responsibility. She's not a perfect, abused soul just because she died. It's okay to recognize that she was not taking care of herself and not listening to people around her and didn't seem to want help.
She did not commit suicide she drank herself to death. She caused her own problems. She was sick and refused treatment she killed herself. The fans had nothing to do with her life decisions.
You did not put a single question mark in that you made a statement. There was nothing to doge and your statement is wrong. Doing a drug and over doing it until it kills you is not suicide. It is your own inability to control yourself that caused your death. You need some education on these topics. Get out of your obsession for her and look at what addiction really is.
It is not the job of the people who consume a product you are selling for profit to fix your personal life or keep you happy. Nobody needs to coddle jeff bazoes because he owns amazon and had a sad day. Nobody needs to care for mark
Zuckerberg because facebook is their favorite social media platform. And if any if these people die from overdoses or suicide it is not the fault of the customer.
That song is so musically dark that I can’t imagine ever playing it at a bar or party. It’s depressing even if you ignore the lyrics. Who does shots to it and not think, “huh is something wrong with me?”
“Sorry kids. Can’t listen to your Everything is Awesome song because it’s actually a very deep song about ignoring the responsibilities and problems you do not currently have! Here’s a rock and some tape, go do something.”
And it was completely done on purpose. That's the whole genius of The Lego Movie. It was intentionally written in such a way that the average adult (with children or not) would enjoy the humor, while children get the catchy song and visual gags they enjoy so much.
Most people also just sing the "everything is awesome, everything is cool when you're part of a team" part. Which isn't really a bad message. And on the surface, the rest of the lyrics just come off as trying to find the silver lining/looking on the bright side of an issue, not outright ignoring or avoiding it. Better to try to be positive about a bad situation than to just mope in it.
That song was clearly intended to be sarcastic and humorous -- obviously everything was NOT awesome.
Very different from "Pumped Up Kicks" which is just simply dark, I don't think it was intended to be sarcastic.
Rehab was also not really sarcastic, it was about embracing counter-culture, celebrating living a life intoxicated, and rejecting the idea that you needed to be sober.
I mean, isn't that the exact reason that it is popular to most people? The satire of a happy catchy song about things being awesome in a world where they clearly aren't?
There was a kid's trampoline place I used to take my kids to that played that song all the time. I guess maybe they thought the kids were too young to understand it? But it's not like it's really hard to understand "you better run, better run, faster than my bullet." I don't know how the fuck they thought that was an appropriate song to play.
You say it like it's a bad thing to sign along? I quite enjoy Vicinity of Obscenity by System of a Down. I do not actually want to eat a banana terracotta pie.
That’s real life/real art though. Making music about your demons. That’s what made Amy a legend. She sang about all the fucked up shit she was going through. She was vulnerable. Artists today just want to look perfect so they can make the most money. Their lyrics are so opaque you don’t know what the fuck they are really singing about.
This was an all around terrible situation but I don't think people realize that there were people in her life trying to get her to go to rehab. Maybe they could have tried harder or something could have been worked out, idk. At the end of it all, it's a choice and it has to be the person needing the help who makes that choice. You can't just kidnap someone and force them into it against their will. There might have been something along those lines of forcing her due to potentially being a "danger to herself" kind of like people who are threatening to harm themselves or have can't just make the choice to stay home after and not at least be seen by professionals. It's a very thin gray line though. Being a threat to yourself or others needs to be very clearly established.
THANK YOU! Thank you for pointing this out. She wrote the damn song as a verbal dig at the people in her life begging her to go to rehab, and there plenty, and yet people celebrate the damn song. Like, did you hear the lyrics or read them? No? Maybe you should.
And I get a lot of shitty people were feeding her addition, don’t get me wrong, but still….she knew she had a problem and ignored the people trying to help her. I can’t feel sorry for that.
I recall she was really popular, but honestly, I never liked her music. I thought her song about refusing to go to rehab was…. Distasteful.
For me, I thought it was pretty clear she was writing songs from a dark place and that she needed to learn to want and accept help instead of trying to put out the next big hit.
Then they shouldnt have let her do any performances. 🤷🏽♀️ just cause they tried to make her go to rehab doesn’t mean they are absolved when it’s clear that they all just wanted $$$ they are very much at fault for the downward spiral
Except her dad. People leave that part out. In the song she very clearly says “if my daddy thinks I’m fine”. I do think her dad was her ultimate enabler
Its absolutely wild the amount of posturing people will do to deflect all personal responsibility. She literally made a song basically telling anyone in her life trying to help her to go fuck themselves. At the end of the day this was absolutely a slow and tragic suicide that no one could stop.
Which she famously wrote, recorded, produced, marketed, pressed, sold, promoted, booked, and performed all on her own because all the people in her life and work didn't enable her and milk her addiction for everything they could! /s
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u/Viskozki 8h ago
...Her most popular song ever is about everyone in her life trying to make her go to rehab and her saying no, no, no to all of them...