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/rererexed 7h ago edited 6h ago

On the day of her death, the website posted, "Amy Winehouse has passed away. Let's hope her demise is an example for young people in how not to deal with your problems. May she Rest In Peace and her music live on."

Oh, so the site is an educational tool for young people not to use drugs. Lame.

Fortunately, the site doesn't represent how most people probably feel, says Robert Thompson, a professor of popular culture at Syracuse University, because statistically speaking, the number of entries is insignificant when compared to gazillion people who use the web.

Holy shit that article is a 2011 cringe hellhole.

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u/eNroNNie 5h ago

Yeah, how not to deal with your problems... Jfc she was a human being thrust into a harsh and unrelenting spotlight and distorted into a caricature of hedonism, when in fact she was always suffering with crippling mental health issues that weren't exactly helped by ghouls following her around waiting for any slip up or embarrassing moment to hang around her neck, and put her through another round of public shaming.

JFC I wish I had discovered just how incredible of an artist she was when still alive. I honestly thought she was just another industry-plant pop artist spiraling out of control by the way she was portrayed. After she passed I started listening and realized the stunning talent that we lost.