amy winehouse is brown bread........

Cuddles said:Sorry mate, I mean societies' do.

If we didn't consume it with largely unabated enthusiasm, it wouldn't be produced. We cant then moan about the quality. The easiest way to send a message that you don't like a product is to stop buying it.

Martin1956 said:
No, I know it's not. I just don't understand what motivates people to come onto the internet and rip (no pun intended) people who have just died. Yes, there are far more important deaths the last few days, but it would be unrealistic to expect the media not to cover the death of a highly talented singer and composer with a very high media profile.
She was sucked into the music business and media circus when she was still a kid, probably made the bad choices most of us have made at that age, but which we have been able to move past without constant media scrutiny.
Assuming her death is drug related (she could have been murdered for all we know pre-autopsy) she went the same way as Morrison, Jones, Hendrix, Joplin, Presley and many of the most feted and fondly remembered musicians of all time. If we're going to slag her off, let's have a go at all the others as well... And add to that people like James Taylor, Keith Richards, Ozzie Osbourne who did make it but in all honesty probably shouldn't...
As for getting clean, I had an ex partner many years ago now who was drinking herself to death in spite of all the efforts to help her. She knew she was doing it, she wanted to stop, but in addition to her addiction she had deep-seated depression issues and the drinking, initially, was self medication that descended in alcoholism. Stopping is far, far more difficult than being mentally strong enough, and I think suggestions that she could and should have stopped if she wanted to are glib, simplistic and not properly thought out.
We would willingly have done (and in fact we tried, metaphorically) the tied to the bed stuff. In simple terms, it's against the law.
At the end of the day, a talented singer/songwriter has died an untimely death after a battle with addiction and mental illness. Maybe if we went along with one of Jesus' better lines - 'Let him without sin cast the first stone' - this thread would make better reading.