Cynovolans
Not in my dimension.
She's why pop music is so female dominated, and why female british singers have been able to make it in the US. She's also made unconventional a standard now for any woman who wants to make it in the pop industry.
Amy Winehouse found dead
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She's why pop music is so female dominated, and why female british singers have been able to make it in the US. She's also made unconventional a standard now for any woman who wants to make it in the pop industry.
LucyDuke
staring at the clock
Should've gone to rehab, but better dead than dragging on the way she was.
RedRalph
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Unlike the rest, Cobain was suicide. Bad news, RIP.
madviking
north american scum
Amy? Perhaps not.
Narz
keeping it real
Cobain was extremely talented though. Also, IIRC, he had some serious intestinal problems which caused him a lot of physical distress. Not that that's an excuse to do hard drugs but it makes it somewhat more understandable.
I'm sure Amy had her issues but, well, I just don't think singing about addiction & glorifying it to some degree is a good thing.
I don't mean any disrespect for Amy Winehouse -poor woman- but none of those killed in Oslo yesterday have won Grammys apparently, but even if only one had died it's still be more newsworthy than this.
Hygro
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I don't think if just one person got murdered in Oslo it would have been more newsworthy than Amy Winehouse dying...
Narz
keeping it real
Newsworthy doesn't necessarily correlate with actual tragedy. Tens of thousands are dying of drought right now in Africa (perhaps linked to climate change) which obviously is more tragic than this situation.
The environmental rape we have & are continuing to commit is more tragic than this. Nevertheless, it's easier to relate to a tragedy like this. It's less abstract, when you hear someone's voice you're naturally going to be more affected by their death.
The environmental rape we have & are continuing to commit is more tragic than this. Nevertheless, it's easier to relate to a tragedy like this. It's less abstract, when you hear someone's voice you're naturally going to be more affected by their death.
aelf
Ashen One
I don't think there's much that is 'natural' about this. It's a small part the macro effect of marketing and incessant pushing of pop culture, which is part of what is academically known as hegemonic discourses.
Smellincoffee
Trekkie At Large
Winehouse was my favorite female vocalist -- seeing someone randomly talking about it on Facebook was a rude and unpleasant surprise.
So what? Facebook isn't a news aggregation website, it's for connecting with friends. There should be no reason only talk about "important", or even current things on FB. Whats there to talk about with Norway, besides "oh my god that's awful" on FB, unless you want to get caught into a public discussion on the nature of terrorism? If I want to talk about that, I'd come here, not throw it on FB.
Nobody is saying this is more newsworthy. God forbid we talk about more than one thing, right?
I mean, whats the point of even having a sports section in the paper then? How we can kick a soccer ball when people are dying in Africa???
jtb1127
Deity
Good comparison. But the "legend" of Amy Winehouse will grow greatly now that she has died. It always happens.
Amy? Perhaps not.
She also brought this retro-soul sensibility back into popular musical consciousness. I don't think we have Grace Potter or Adele without Winehouse.
Whiskey_Lord
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Man, the revenue stream of some South American countries just took a big hit. RIP.
aelf
Ashen One
Say what you want, but so far I haven't seen anyone deny rather than admit that Amy Winehouse feels somehow closer to them. It's the whole Elvis-died-in-my-living-room kind of thing. You can crap on it and come up with your 'common sense' answer to explain it away, but I didn't just make this up. Besides, it's not like anyone is actually debating Amy Winehouse on facebook
The comments about her have been exactly what you describe as "oh my god that's awful" or at most "she should have stayed in rehab".snakeseare
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Say what you want, but so far I haven't seen anyone deny rather than admit that Amy Winehouse feels somehow closer to them. It's the whole Elvis-died-in-my-living-room kind of thing. You can crap on it and come up with your 'common sense' answer to explain it away, but I didn't just make this up. Besides, it's not like anyone is actually debating Amy Winehouse on facebook
Amy Winehouse dying certainly feels a lot closer to me than what happened in Norway. I own her records, have seen many acts that follow in her musical school, etc. I don't know anybody in Norway, and that entire situation is fairly alien to me. Why shouldn't it?
