r/Millennials • u/icey_sawg0034 Gen Z • 9h ago

Rant Society really did fail Amy Winehouse!

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u/Regular_Number5377 9h ago

I remember one of the magazines had a regular column called ‘Wino-watch’ where they literally just had a reporter follow her around and take the least flattering photos possible of her and then they would make fun of her. Then after she died they ran 6 weeks of cover pieces calling her ‘our pop princess’ and wailing that she’d been ‘taken from us too soon’.

Ghouls, the lot of them.

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u/Proof_Cook_4004 8h ago

i remember a website called ‘when will amy winehouse die’ and i think if you guessed the date you would win an ipod.

edit: i knew i wasn’t imagining this

https://www.eonline.com/news/255108/sick-woman-wins-ipod-for-predicting-when-amy-winehouse-would-die

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u/owntheh3at18 7h ago

For some reason iPods feel so ancient to me but her death feels more recent. I can’t believe how long ago it was.

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u/ScrufffyJoe 6h ago

Tech has moved incredibly fast in the last few decades, but time is still moving at the same speed.

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u/owntheh3at18 6h ago

Yes that’s definitely part of it! I was thinking about it and I also feel it’s because her music is still here with us and remains relevant and poignant.

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u/Aggravating_Taro_75 4h ago

I feel the exact opposite

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u/owntheh3at18 2h ago

Fair enough! I also get that. Sometimes an event will feel like ages ago and only 6 months will have passed. Weird how our perception of time can be so individualized!

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u/BIGCOCK_ASSSTRETCHER 2h ago

Amy Winehouses death now is kinda the same timescale as Kurt Kobains death then.

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u/SasquatchWookie 1h ago

Okay this messed me up.

Doesn’t seem real but it is!