Tortured Amy Winehouse Is No Troubled Britney
AMY Winehouse is “Troubled” in the Mirror. In the Star, she is “Tortured”. Says Winehouse:
“I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life, brought me to hospital.” Winehouse was on a composite blend of heroin, ketamine, cocaine and ecstasy.
“Often I don’t know what I do. Then the next day the memory returns. Blake told me later what had happened. And then I am engulfed in shame.” For shame.
But the real issue is at hand. A problem has been solved. Winehouse cannot be “Troubled” for that is the lot of Britney Spears, who is performing under the headline billing “Troubled Britney”. Winehouse should be Tortured.
And for “Tortured Amy Winehouse” we thank the Star…
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October 27th, 2007 at 1:04 am
To say she’s acting as we all did at her age is wrong. I’ve never even remotedly considered doing heroin, even though it was offered. I did do LSD, mescaline, and cocaine a very few times, but not like Amy by any means!
I have to agree wholeheartedly though, about marijuana enhancing creativity. I can speak from extensive first had experience about that!!!! Makes you look at everything so much more creatively!
And, I’m currently abstaining while I job search. I can tell you, I’m suffering from extreme attention deficit disorder right now!!!!!
October 26th, 2007 at 8:52 pm
i am always dubious of the ‘what a wasted talent’ theory. best to measure her talent by what she manages. i.e. rather moderate, hyped up by a media that always knocks back down again at first available opportunity. she has a voice, but it is derivative, she ain;t pushing the creative standard at all except to wear her neuroses on her sleeve like a fucking badge of honour. because we LOVE to watch a train wreck.
lots more than her have been publicly fucked on drugs and still managed to get a few performances in! iggy pop anyone?
amy is what she is and we should judge her talent by understanding that if she can barely manage 20 minutes of withering self pity of an evening, then just how talented is that? is it wasted? no, because that is all she can manage and she does it splendidly.
we may want to think that she is capable of more, but that is perhpas the consumer in us. she gives us what it says on the tin… a hopped up bint who might do something crazy, or simply fall over and dribble.
October 26th, 2007 at 7:55 pm
Good old Perez Hilton, her number one fan, tells us she so so smacked out onstage last night half the audience walked out disgusted ,after 20 mins., as she was incoherent and slurring and kept bursting into drug/booze filled tears.
What a waste of good talent.
October 26th, 2007 at 7:54 pm
No, and you didn’t make them smoke it either. Smoke pot instead kids.
October 26th, 2007 at 6:53 pm
well, andrew, the drug dodn;t pick it self up, jam it’self into a hypodermic needle and chuck itself at the person, did it?
October 26th, 2007 at 6:45 pm
Herion is neutral you say… ok mr.Pharmacist we believe you. Opiates aren’t neutral, everyone know that
October 26th, 2007 at 4:00 pm
iron dog, really… the drug didn;t kill them, they did. you pays your money, you makes your choices.
no-one is bigger than heroin. if you use it regularly, you will succumb.
i am a fool only because i credit other readers with the intelligence to make the difference between the drug and the choices people make.
if you want to conduct a conversation in the style of The Sun, then go post on their forum.
October 26th, 2007 at 3:49 pm
7 craig. Tell that to the 12 Lads I was in School with. Too late, they are dead.
What a fool you are
October 26th, 2007 at 2:20 pm
erm, i accept your point of view, but it is obviously a point of view from outside drug use, looking in.
people don;t use drugs through boredom. people use them cause they are fun.
they may get into difficulties using them (oif course) but they don;t turn to them out of desperation in the first place to cure some ill they feel.
lots of reasons for it. not all negative.
drugs don;t invent creativity, but they can enhance one’s viewpoint, experience, etc and they can also change someone’s perspective over time in a wholly negative fashion- withdrawing from a daily habit after a long long time will always alter that person and if they were entrenched within a habit that dominates their life then their creative output will be reflected.
i would take syd barrett’s life- as i would van gogh’s. no question. both their creative output was fuelled by their choice of drugs and of the effect of drugs on their particular creative minds. they were also boith rather menthol. which leads into a discussion of ‘just how mental do you have to be to be truly creative?’
in the end, our view of amy and her ‘problem’ is distorted by our own expereince of such things. she probably isn;t doin much more drugs than the next celebrity- just that she is the flavour of the month after the tabloids getting bored with pete docherty. (if he din;t use so much smack he might make a song that doesn;t just dribble.)
October 26th, 2007 at 2:02 pm
Craig
I have had my lunch and considered your last point. I think you are wrong.
My view of the cycle is
struggle- try to interest others in your music/performance
develop - create more and more interesting stuff
recognition - generate a fan base and receive critical acclaim
earnings - begin to generate income and new circle of “friends”
boredom - try drugs, alcohol, sex to get by in your new lifestyle
creativity - probably goes at this stage
Final option is to get stuck with lifestyle and die or recover and maybe
recapture your past talents.
My point is that the creativity existed before the drugs and stopping drugs
need not necessarily lead to loss of creativity, except in your mind.
Consider Syd Barrett or Peter Green who never recovered from drugs against
Clapton or Richards who possibly did. All a matter of taste.
Anyway, I still like Amy and wish her well.
October 26th, 2007 at 12:59 pm
clive, your comment about clapton and townshend coming through the other side of drug use is accurate but it reminds me of the film PI. i won’t kill the ending of a good film… but enough to suggest that while clapton and townshend (and others) survived, their creativity didn;t.
of course i am being lighthearted about it, but it seems relevent. in no way am i saying that heroin use is a creative force, but when you have touched the extremes of expereince and go through a cure- you tend to leave things behind that made you the person you are/were.
loosely speaking, of course. there are so many factors and so few of us ever dare to go there, even briefly.
October 26th, 2007 at 12:52 pm
heroin doesn;t make you creative OR die. it is a neutral drug.
you might as well insert the word ‘anvil’ into andrew’s message instead of heroin.
but then, he wouldn;t sound like a tabloid….
let’s face it, the blanket demonisation of a drug might be the best way to teach kids about the dangers, but we are talking as adults, aren’t we?
October 26th, 2007 at 12:28 pm
OK- maybe I came across as a bit sanctimonious or something.
I did say she was behaving just as we all had done at that age
but was trying to make the point that certain people can believe
the drugs are the muse and her talent will vanish if she went straight.
I must admit I did hesitate about using Elton John as an example, but the other two, who may be past it musically and creatively have been through the drug thing
and survived.
My fear is that Amy may not.
Clive
October 26th, 2007 at 12:27 pm
Drugs don’t make someone interesting. I’ve met many a musician that seems to think being as smackhead makes you a groovy guitarist. Smackheads/Dickheads, same thing. Heroin doesnt make you creative, it makes you die
October 26th, 2007 at 12:20 pm
Neigh, neigh and thrice neigh
October 26th, 2007 at 12:07 pm
oh i am jus bitter about her having a pile of drugs on tap.
she is a moderate talent, perhaps enhanced by the will to excess.
i think, clive, that you are mistaking the reasons for drug use. she might not be using them to find relief of any kind. she might well be using them as most people do- to get fucked and have fun.
coupla cheesey quotes to broaden my argument.
‘one must make a beast of oneself to ease the pain of being a man’ (well, she is a bit on the tranny side, right?) - Voltaire? mibbe , mibbe not, i forgets.
‘taking drugs to make music to take drugs to’ -spacemen 3.
getting a few has-beens like clapton, townshend and john (really clive? elton john?) to sit on her shoulder would just aggravate an already fragile mind state. arf.
October 26th, 2007 at 11:47 am
I am a big fan of Amy Winehouse as a performer. Her talent is exceptional particularly
when compared to her contemporaries. She is only 22 and possibly immature but
really behaving as we all did at her age. She has never set herself up to be a role model.
However, I do fear for her as she clearly finds it difficult to cope with all the things
going on in her life. We know drugs are not the answer but for creative, talented guys,
this may be, at least in their own minds, what gives them their edge.
We have seen this so often with other major talents - Piaff, Joplin, Monroe, Holliday, etc.
I would love to see someone who understands where she is at who could take her under their wing and get her on track. People such as Pete Townshend, Eric Clapton or even
Elton John, spring to mind.
Good luck Amy
A Fan.
October 26th, 2007 at 11:03 am
nothing worse than a whingin drug user. the bugger has a ton of fun stuff in her and still moans.
oh btw, is ’shame’ the hangover cure of choice for celebs?