Not heartless. Just honest

I am a little mystified why she did it more than anything else. I mean, you know you're about to do a concert...... Dutch courage, fair enough but thats not Dutch courage

Exactly

Everyones meant to feel sorry for the poor little girl. When its her own damn fault. Of course they made her go on...people had paid to see her, and she will have known about the concert ages in advance too...not like they just told her that morning.

Actually, the more I think about it.... why didn't any of those backing singers/band stop her? Why did nobody at all stop her going on? Who on earth let her actually walk on that stage in the first place? Surely her fans would have rather had her cancel than humiliate herself? You can't tell me NOBODY saw she was in a state before she actually got onstage

Hasn't she only had one good album? Like I know she's done a few but wasn't it only one that got big? One could argue she was a flash in the pan anyway...

I've never liked her stuff or her really. Don't like seeing people crash though

I have a feeling her management etc. like her being a mess.

Keeps her in the limelight doesnt it. Not like she really has the talent to last without some kind of controversy :/

Just had a similar thought actually

To be fair she had the first critically acclaimed, high selling album and then the second ... critically acclaimed, high selling album. The debut and the breakthrough.

I'd hardly call her recording career inconsistent. It obviously stopped dead though.

I don't feel sorry for her except in that these people always have the wrong people around them when they need to have the right people there and because she knows them she feels safe with them despite all evidence to the contrary .

The people who let her go on despite her state, (and of course she herself is more to blame for even attempting this while she is still in the state she is),those people make money from her, they know Amy had stage presence to her strong fans at any rate, that normally would mean she could do almost anything and get away with it,they will have thought she would just be accepted despite the mess she was in and that would be that,it backfired heavily and I'm pleased it has.

Whether that will make her really throw all the bad influences out of her life and really get herself sorted I doubt that completely,however it will be the only way she has any hope though of getting anywhere near sorting herself out at all.

She has the talent but her own fault things have ended up this way, a shame really:(.

I've already said all that.

That's my opinion on her too. She's not really my cup of tea but I do like Back to Black, I just think it's ridiculous that people are still harping on about her being a trainwreck when she's been a trainwreck for the past, what, four years? She's barely done anything new musically in the past four years to my knowledge and it's just sad to see someone become more notorious for their problems than for their talent, when she is a very talented woman. But as others have said, some people don't want help and some people can't be helped, I'm not sure which of those two she is but I disagree with Eoin (I think it was) who said he hopes the press leave her alone - I think that might send her into an even worse frame of mind if she thinks everyone's forgotten all about her, depends on her perception of her own image I guess. She's tragic and I think she needs to be forced to go away for a very, very long time.

Amy Winehouse's ex-husband jailed over domestic burglary
 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-13880593

I guess that won't please Amy .....

I feel bad about my rather harsh comments on this thread. But I do stand by what I said at the time - people were getting bored of the constant reports about her recovery/decline/recovery/decline. I blame the media.

I'm sure eveyone feels justified in what they've said; smug, even. You know... how she chose to be like that, how she could have helped herself but didn't... It's very easy to set yourself up as judge and jury when you know nothing about her, her history or her habit. It's also easy to make assumptions from the security of the moral high ground. Of course, no one here has ever moved in her circles or has any conception of what it must be like to be young and famous. How many talented, creative people over the years have died through drink and drugs? Addiction isn't a new thing. If it was so easy for everyone to steer clear, why is there still a problem? Unless it goes deeper than that; unless the answer isn't as simple as "just say no", because if it was, there would be no addicts, no lives destroyed by drink and drugs.

The Arts is littered with addicts, many of which have given us some of the best art, literature, music etc. that we have. But they did it to themselves, right? No sympathy.

ooh

Haha, awkward. I didn't mean to the point of death, aah!

:shocked:

This thread is how most people felt prior to her death and now its "omg she was a leg end"

death is a great healer