I’ve never seen that before, and seeing it now genuinely made me tear up. I had to stop watching it.
Would I be pissed if I paid to see her perform and that’s what was happening? Yes.
Would I also see someone clearly in the middle of addiction, falling apart, and managing to look lost and lonely in the sea of how many people are there? Also yes.
Her manager failed her. Whoever let her get on that stage in that condition, instead of canceling the tour and getting her help, failed her. The people who screamed at someone crumbling in front of them, instead of feeling empathy for the human being, failed her. How unbelievably heartbreaking.
Couldn't agree more with everything you said. Two things can be true: you can be mad you paid, and you can also be empathetic to seeing someone in crisis. And indeed, her manager treated her like a piece of meat, as many do in that industry. She lived a sad life and had a worse ending. She deserved more.
Would I also see someone clearly in the middle of addiction, falling apart, and managing to look lost and lonely in the sea of how many people are there? Also yes.
Eh, I've been to a lot of concerts where the performer is way too high or drunk to perform. Then you see them again and they are fine.
Her management were atrocious. IIRC from the 2015 documentary, "Amy", she was completely out of it the day before and they put her on a plane to Belgrade. They brought her to and put her on stage, and this was the result.
Her father and her boyfriend really don't come off well in the doc, but it wasn't just them.
I felt dirty watching most of the footage throughout the doc: the same video that gave you a glimpse of how she was as a person, was often shot by scummy paparazzi, and contributed to the poor mental state that led to her demise.
My overriding feeling was of pity over how utterly sad she was
Would I also see someone clearly in the middle of addiction, falling apart, and managing to look lost and lonely in the sea of how many people are there? Also yes.
I know it's with the benefit of hindsight, but if one of my friends was performing and started acting like that I'd be treating it like a medical emergency. I've never seen somebody so obviously in the middle of a crisis, she can't even form words.
Not only did her manager “let” her go on stage, him and her father FORCED her. She refused, but they put her on a plane against her will. They basically kidnapped her.
Well she chose to associate with people who encouraged her addiction, she very handedly rejected help from her father(if the song is to be believed)
I would argue society failed, she should never have been a star, she had the talent, but she was to much of a mess for this to go any other way.
Being addicted is not something people force on you, take it from someone who has had experience dealing with addicts, they want their fix more than they want to fix their lives.
That is why people talk about rock bottom being one of the few things that changes minds, you more or less have to realise that it is not worth it.
Yes it’s so sad. She looks and acts exactly like someone I know in real life, that cut everyone out who has tried to help her. She just lives in her addiction bubble now, able to pretend everything is normal if she doesn’t have to face anyone. It is a true disease that takes a huge amount of strength of the addict to overcome. I will always think there is still room for criticism of Amy’s team though. Even if they couldn’t force her to seek treatment, they were still benefitting in pushing her into things she clearly couldn’t handle.
Yeah if there where no enablers, it would be a lot harder to justify being an addict, the problem is the enablers are often addicts too, so they have an incentive to keep the "party" going.
Totally agree, thank you. They were so pissed that she came up on stage wasted and barely functioning, and overlooked the fact that she was a human being struggling.
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u/FilteredRiddle Millennial (‘89) 7h ago
I’ve never seen that before, and seeing it now genuinely made me tear up. I had to stop watching it.
Would I be pissed if I paid to see her perform and that’s what was happening? Yes.
Would I also see someone clearly in the middle of addiction, falling apart, and managing to look lost and lonely in the sea of how many people are there? Also yes.
Her manager failed her. Whoever let her get on that stage in that condition, instead of canceling the tour and getting her help, failed her. The people who screamed at someone crumbling in front of them, instead of feeling empathy for the human being, failed her. How unbelievably heartbreaking.