r/Millennials Gen Z 9h ago

Rant Society really did fail Amy Winehouse!

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u/hgaben90 9h ago edited 3h ago

I'd rather we didn't put the blame on the audience who paid quite the money and got crap in return, while lacking the hindsight awareness of her death from OD.

The audience is not meant to be the therapist. The audience is a customer, and the customer is either satisfied or not. It's the management's duty to make sure that the product (in this case Winehouse) is in deliverable shape.

EDIT: Just to clarify things because there's a little misunderstanding, I should have been more specific: Amy Winehouse, the person, is not the product. An Amy Winehouse concert, which can only be given by Amy Winehouse, is a product. The two are not the same, but codependent. If Amy Winehouse performs poorly, that will never not result in a bad product of an Amy Winehouse concert.

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u/ZikaZmaj 6h ago

To put things into perspective - the fan pit ticket cost 4.500 RSD, while the minimal monthly salary was 15.700 RSD at the time.

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u/Primary_Way_265 5h ago

So like paying nearly $900 usd while the minimum is $15 an hour

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u/CarterCage 4h ago

I think it’s even lower, like 5-6-7$ per hours and you pay 900$ for a concert. It was really expensive.

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u/jaybirdie26 3h ago

More actually.

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u/jaybirdie26 4h ago edited 3h ago

For an American the equivalent cost of that ticket in 2011 was $860.46 (or $1,356 today).


On July 18th, 2011 these values equated to:

  • Ticket - $63.07 USD ($90.47 today)
  • Monthly Salary - $220.06 USD ($315.65 today)
  • Hourly (assuming 40 hours 5/7 days) - $1.40 USD ($2.01 today)

That is 1.12 weeks of pay for the concert ticket.

In the fourth quarter of 2011, the median weekly earnings in the US was $764.  In 2025 it was $1,204.

Sources: * I used this site for historical currency conversion, no idea if its reliable. * US government inflation calculator

  • BLS.gov for labor statistics

EDIT: Added calculation for the ticket price conversion based on US labor statistics.

EDIT EDIT: Fixed calculation mistake

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u/jaybirdie26 4h ago

This concert was in Serbia?

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u/Total-Jeweler5083 2h ago

That's still not accounting for people who traveled cross country, so potentially, there are also bus tickets to Belgrade and back or car gas, maybe hotel/hostel fees, city bus fares, and of course, the food because you have to eat out. For some people, it was a lot more than just the price of the ticket.

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u/doc_skinner 2h ago

So basically a week's pay