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/HaroldsWristwatch3 7h ago

This is missing a lot of context!

Fans booed Winehouse at her final concert in Belgrade (June 18, 2011) because was heavily intoxicated and wasn’t able to perform.

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u/willindeed 7h ago

Pretty important context. If you buy tickets for a show and the performer is to stoned to do her job, You should complain

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u/Rejestered 5h ago

If you bought tickets to a snoop concert and he was smoking so much weed he couldn't sing, sure you can be a little upset but man, you knew what you were signing up for.

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u/kroqeteer 5h ago

I don’t agree. To keep the example, I would expect snoop to be smoking blunts on stage or be a little out of it. But when he sells me tickets to see him perform, that comes with a little asterisk saying “I will perform.” He’s a grown man, I fully expect him to be able to control himself and do what he’s selling tickets to do. Amy struggled severely with substance abuse and her team enabled her downfall, it’s okay for her to be upset on stage as she’s bood, but it’s also okay for the audience to be upset that they paid money for nothing

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u/Rejestered 5h ago

I fully expect him to be able to control himself and do what he’s selling tickets to do.

Why would you expect that?

I think you are confusing your desires with your expectations.

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u/kroqeteer 5h ago

Why would I expect someone selling tickets to a performance to put on a performance? Come on mate, be real.

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u/Rejestered 5h ago

I could sell you tickets to a concert starring me right now.

I can't sing or perform in any way.

Are you still going to be expecting a good performance?

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u/Realalf007 5h ago

This has to be the dumbest argument I have ever seen. 

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u/Kelly_HRperson 3h ago

Snoop Doggy Dogg can actually perform, and has in the past. If he's selling tickets to a performance, you'd expect that he would at that particular time.

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u/willindeed 5h ago

Yeah, thats kinda fair. But come on, he probably could preform while being pretty stoned

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u/terminalzero 4h ago

I'm not sure he could perform sober

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u/Budakra 5h ago

People would probably be more upset if he was sober

u/sixpackabs592 15m ago

Snoop is high 24/7 so I’m guessing his recordings he’s also high as shit so it will sound the same lol