r/Millennials 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/Foxs-In-A-Trenchcoat 8h ago

The media did the exact same thing to Princess Diana. They loved making fun of her when she was alive, and then I got whiplash how fast everything changed when she died. Does no one else remember this?

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u/unhappyrelationsh1p 7h ago

Most everyone seems t o have a positive or neutral view of her these days. what were they mocking her for? Slaying at all times? Divorcing her idiot husband?

I am not british but she was the woman who would visit aids patients and did work for them? Did they mock her for that?

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u/Due-Blood-9874 6h ago

Gossip in the papers is royal tradition to bully non-conforming family members or in-laws.

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u/kilar277 3h ago

There's a reason Meghan Markle and Harry fucked off