Keira WitherKay wrote:
I don't know why posts mention she wasted her life , cos she achieved so much and as a wild child she lived her life to the max , i'm sure a good time was had by all . Anyway getting old is way over rated ? and she never had to live long enough to become a has been act . So yes she chose the wild life and i'm sure she knew and accepted the risk of it . So her life was an awesome roller coaster ride of stardom and she will be immortalised, same as hendrix and the rest of the 27 club .
I'm uncomfortable with this kind of romanticisation of sad and squalid situations. Amy Winehouse was a wreck. I'm not passing judgement on her, it seems likely to me that she may well have been caught up in something she couldn't control and, and as I previously posted, surrounded by people who didn't have her best interests at heart. But she was a wreck and her life was not glamorous in the end and had not been for some time. Her last gigs were shambolic affairs that did nothing to enhance her reputation - quite the opposite in fact.
I'm not sure anybody conciously signs up for that situation. You don't accept the risks - they're not stated up front, they sneak through the back door whilst you're not looking. I've had friends who were, as we say these days, "substance abusers". I've seen them lying on the floor incontinent and incapable of walking. I've seen their personalities change. One of them I eventually would not allow through the front door because I knew that the moment I wasn't looking he was going to steal something, make a run for it and fence whatever he'd stolen so that he could buy more mandrax.
Amy Winehouse had talent and died tragically young, but there wasn't anything romantic about it.
