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07-26-2011, 08:25 AM
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07-26-2011, 11:10 PM
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Re: Singer Amy Winehouse found dead in London home, Sky News reports
I'm not sure I'd classify Amy Winehouse as a "pop singer."
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07-27-2011, 08:49 AM
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Re: Singer Amy Winehouse found dead in London home, Sky News reports
russell brand may be a bit superfluous in his description of her talent, but her voice certainly had, ala ella and billie, "a sit up and take notice, who the beep is that, i want to hear more" quality about it.
whole thing is sad, especially for her folks.
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07-27-2011, 02:48 PM
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Re: Singer Amy Winehouse found dead in London home, Sky News reports
Maybe she SHOULDA gone to rehab!
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07-29-2011, 09:35 AM
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Re: Singer Amy Winehouse found dead in London home, Sky News reports
I'm not an insensitive person. I've been through enough to not be an insensitive person. I DJ at an alternative rock station and when i read about this, my first thought was if the year was 1850, Amy Winehouse would have been eaten by bears.
Some people are simply not equipped to deal with life. And they do dumb, drastic things. I know this first hand. But when you are offered help, repeatedly, and refuse to accept it, then it should shock no one when they remove themselves from the gene pool. I got requests for her music that night, didn't play a single one. The last thing i want to do is build her up to be more than she was: a drug addicted singer whose 15 minutes were coming to a close. I really don't mean to be insensitive, but Richie Valens dying in a plane crash is sad. An OD is more pathetic than sad.
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07-30-2011, 12:52 AM
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Re: Singer Amy Winehouse found dead in London home, Sky News reports
I respect that, TRF, but I still feel bad for her and her family. Not like I feel for the victims of the Norway shooting or those who starve to death in Africa or others who die without any choice at all. But it's still sad.
I consider myself blessed to not be an addict. Sure addicts have a choice, but it's not as easy as it seems to many.
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07-30-2011, 01:31 AM
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Re: Singer Amy Winehouse found dead in London home, Sky News reports
I have a perspective on throwing your life away. Without accepting the help offered to me, someone might have been writing a moving obituary about me.
As I said... Some people are offered help, and they refuse to accept it. It is sad for her family. But what is really sad is there is some kid that views her as a role model. And that kid might do something stupid because of her.
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07-30-2011, 07:51 AM
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07-30-2011, 01:39 PM
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No. I'm thinking. There is a kid or kids out there thinking their hero couldn't do it so how can I? My sister od'd after Randy Rhodes died.
Too many times the media builds up these broken people and every time we read moving testimonials of how talented they were.
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07-31-2011, 11:31 AM
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Re: Singer Amy Winehouse found dead in London home, Sky News reports
Apparently the family believes the cause of death was alcohol withdrawal. The idea being that she tried to give up alcohol completely, her body couldn't take the adjustment, then she had a seizure which killed her.
http://music-mix.ew.com/2011/07/28/a...ol-withdrawal/ Toxicology results probably won't be for another month.
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07-31-2011, 01:41 PM
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Re: Singer Amy Winehouse found dead in London home, Sky News reports
Incredible article by Russell Brand.
It's a disease. You don't get mad at someone who has a broken leg and can't run a hundred yard dash.
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