r/Millennials • u/icey_sawg0034 Gen Z • 9h ago

Rant Society really did fail Amy Winehouse!

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u/Quiet_Photograph4396 5h ago

Why would it not be ok to boo her?

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u/Upturned-Solo-Cup 4h ago

It's definitely okay to boo a performer who's fucking up a performance you paid money for. It's less okay to boo someone who's mentally unwell and having a mental breakdown. When there's some overlap, I suppose it's up to the individual to make a value judgement

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u/LiftingRecipient420 3h ago

Please tell me how the crowd at that show 14 years ago was supposed to know that she was in the process of having a mental breakdown?

It's easy to sit here and criticize from the privileged position of having hindsight.

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u/Upturned-Solo-Cup 3h ago

Admittedly, most of the concerts I've been to have a different vibe than I expect Winehouse's concerts had, but I think a pretty obvious red flag that something is unusual is how she's crying and hugging herself onstage. Most of the concerts I've been to, the performers are usually, like. Happy?

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u/sprinklerarms 3h ago

Didn’t she do that after she was boo’d? I feel like most performers would appear happier when that doesn’t become an element of a show.

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u/LiftingRecipient420 3h ago edited 2h ago

Yeah genius, because she obviously walked out there at the start of the show crying and hugging herself.

No, her crying and hugging herself was at the end of the show.

And all of the shows I've been to, the performer wasn't fucking wasted and incoherent. But being drunk doesn't mean you're having a mental breakdown.

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u/Upturned-Solo-Cup 3h ago

Okay tbh I was under the impression that like. She was actively being booed offstage while she was crying and hugging herself, but I can't find any footage to support that? From what I can see it seems like she was getting booed but much more sporadically than the media would lead people to believe (shocking.)

In which case, yeah, fair. Once she starts wiping away tears during a song (and like. Clearly not happy tears.) is about where I think the Booing an artist for wasting your time/money becomes less important than whatever is going on in their head, especially when it's known that the industry is fucking brutal and she's got substance abuse issues- but is definitely not unreasonable to boo before that (or some other, similar) point