Amy Winehouse found dead.
Singer Amy Winehouse found dead at her London home.
http://news.yahoo.com/singer-amy-winehouse-found-dead-164948160.html
RIP Amy Winehouse 
I was fortunate enough to see her live at the Virgin Festival a couple years back and she was completely stunning and incredible, one of the best blues/r&b voices in pop music. "Back to Black" has always been one of my favorite songs. She was 27....same as Robert Johnson, Cobain, Morrison, Hendrix, Brian Jones, Joplin...something eerie about that age. Such a waste.
"For most of this century, scientists have worshiped the hardware of the brain and the software of the mind; the messy powers of the heart were left to the poets."
It's very sad. As someone who has struggled with substance abuse issues my entire life, this hit me a bit hard...sadly people who don't share the issue don't understand in most instances...
Dead is dead. There's nothing else to understand.
Sad story, she was very good.
27 is a pretty harsh age.
I'd only recently discovered her. I'm sad.
Very sad about this one - she was my age, and I've always loved her music. Actually, it was The Cult's own Mr Brown that first introduced me to her music around the time that her first album, Frank, had come out. I think she was incredibly talented as both a songwriter and a singer, and it's just such a shame that she couldn't keep herself together. I don't think we'd seen her best.
Sadly predictable, but still a shock.
While lots of recent Motor City wannabes just mimicked the voice and put on the clothes like digging into mummy's wardrobe, with Winehouse it seemed to come from the inside out.
Still, at least immortality is assured, in the saddest possible way.
One of the sadder aspects of her story is that her public persona was regularly mocked up until her death, where she's finally given more public sympathy.
It's true that it's important to have respect for the dead, but this sort of thing seems to be a trend. Just look at Michael Jackson.
It's true that it's important to have respect for the dead, but this sort of thing seems to be a trend. Just look at Michael Jackson.
It's true of just about any celebrity, though. When they die, they're either subjected to some kind of hagiographic overpraise or their career is pissed on by people who were silent up till then. I never cared about Winehouse and my thoughts haven't changed just because she's dead. It's sad that she died so young but it doesn't affect my mood in any more significant a way than that.
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i'd still bang her. i mean, she hasn't been dead that long. if they embalmed her it is a done deal.
(i won't remember i wrote this)
I dunno, do people really have any more respect for Michael Jackson now that he's dead? I haven't really noticed that any of the speculation, accusations or jokes have stopped. There were people that still liked him and his music despite what he may or may not have been and done, so naturally those people were saddened, but on a more general scale I don't think anyone really cared beyond perhaps being shocked that he died.
Michael Jackson's death was a good opportunity to reevaluate his contribution to music. Before he died I don't think many people found him relevant anymore, and no one really listened to his older work. His later years, marked by an increasing detachment from reality, a very sad personal life and artistic sterility tended to make him an object of ridicule.
The surging sales following his death and the countless TV shows about him allowed the audience to rediscover what he did and how important he was to music : his Motown years and his first solo albums are now considered classics.
One can expect that for Amy Winehouse things will be different : her body of work is extremely small, even if we count a probable posthumous album and the release of countless official or pirate live recordings. She was not as groundbreaking as Jimi Hendrix or iconic as Janis Joplin. She did not have eough time to establish herself like Kurt Cobain did. I think that in ten years she will be remembered as a footnote of 2000s music, the way Heath Ledger might be remembered in the history of cinema.
I will not acknowledge this and there's nothing anyone can do about it.
/runs away crying