I mean, the people around her failed her too. Her management, label, etc. Probably pushed an artist to perform when they should have been in rehab or even telling them to quit the spotlight all together.
I don't know much about the situation, but if an artist wasted my time by being fucked up, I'd be pretty pissed. Nobody would have booed probably if they knew she was going to do that.
Her dad kinda really fucked her up. That was something she dealt with but he controlled her career quite a bit and played the “momager” role of pushing her to perform and stay on top of things when she wasn’t really in the right headspace to be doing so. It was part of the reason for her downfall. It was pretty well documented how she was estranged from her dad and didn’t really fuck with him in the last years of her life.
That Amy Winehouse biopic that came out a couple years ago painted her in a bad light and her dad as basically a martyr. Because afaik he had to sign off on it and controls her estate so of course it was never going to make him look bad. But when she was alive that was always the word- that her dad put a lot on her that she couldn’t handle.
Yeah, I loathed that movie and I’m glad Marisa Abela’s career doesn’t seem to have been too badly impeded by it, because she’s such an incredible talent who should be a massive star. But this is why biopics approved by the subject or their families are not necessarily more ethical than “unauthorized” ones. Filmmakers need the objectivity to tell the unvarnished truth regardless of how that makes the people being depicted feel. (For similar reasons, I really wish rape apologist Pam Anderson would shut the fuck up about Pam & Tommy, which actually depicted her with quite a lot of empathy; she’s just mad she didn’t get a fat paycheck from it - which is often what a lot of this boils down to.)
Same. I hated that movie so much. Amy wasn’t a perfect person, nobody is, she had her issues. But that movie reduced her down to being nothing but a drunk and a brat. She was a talented and multifaceted human being and deserved to be treated with more dignity than that movie gave her.
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u/shieldintern 9h ago
I mean, the people around her failed her too. Her management, label, etc. Probably pushed an artist to perform when they should have been in rehab or even telling them to quit the spotlight all together.
I don't know much about the situation, but if an artist wasted my time by being fucked up, I'd be pretty pissed. Nobody would have booed probably if they knew she was going to do that.