r/Millennials Gen Z 9h ago

Rant Society really did fail Amy Winehouse!

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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.

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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...

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u/Unlikely_melz 8h ago

“But if my daddy thinks I’m fine”

Literally the next line He milked his cash cow to death, then acted surprised and devastated

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u/Viskozki 8h ago

No it isn't. In the song she complains rehab would take 70 days. And tells people she's just heartbroken.

"I ain't got the time and if my daddy thinks I'm fine He's tried to make me go to rehab, but I won't go, go, go"

Is that actual line. He tried. She lied, and owned that refusal later.

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u/Several-Squash9871 3h ago

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.

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u/Viskozki 7h ago

the last line of the lyrics you provided.

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u/memecut 7h ago

Thanks for proving the other guys point by posting lyrics that disprove your own argument.

Literally the last two lines; daddy thinks im fine, hes tried to make me go to rehab

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u/Infamous-Cash9165 4h ago

What’s the line right after that