Amy Winehouse dead

[Ginaz]

Never cared for her music but its still sad that someone with so much talent has passed so soon.  I don't know what killed her yet but I wouldn't be surprised if it was drug related.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/story/2011/07/23/winehouse-dead.html

[01101010]

Holy shit...

I was a fan of the voice and not much else... but jesus.

[Abagadro]

Eh, she's been at the top of most people's Dead Pool for the last two years.

[Numtini]

I really love her music, but it's just a tragic life with an inevitable end.

[ghost]

Shocking, I know.

This is sad, because she had a fuckload of talent.  I don't normally like her kind of music, but she was good. 

Police confirmed that a 27-year-old female was pronounced dead at the home in Camden Square northern London; the cause of death was not immediately known. London Ambulance Services said Winehouse had died before the two ambulance crews it sent arrived at the scene.

I suspect choking on vomit or OD.  Or both.

[MuffinMan]

You were beat by 20 minutes. Although, your board choice is more appropriate.

[Paelos]

There was no saving her. She didn't want to be saved.

[Ginaz]

Didn't realize she was only 27.  She looked much older.  It looks like she now joins the list of singers/musicians who died at the same age (Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison and more).

[ghost]

Why would it go anywhere else?   

[01101010]

Didn't realize she was only 27.  She looked much older.  It looks like she now joins the list of singers/musicians who died at the same age (Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison and more).

How to do it right... just talk to this man.

[Surlyboi]

I guess she'll go back to black...

[Sky]

That sucks. So much talent.

[Sir T]

I'm surprised it took this long to be honest.

[Azazel]

Don't think I ever heard her music. I was really only aware of her due to other people making fun of her being such a train wreck. Guess those jokes will stop now. For a couple of months.

[Samprimary]

Eh, she's been at the top of most people's Dead Pool for the last two years.

depression, cutting, anorexia, every kind of drug under the fucking sun, binge drinking, smoking crack until she permanently dicks up her heart muscles and has a permanent arrhythmia, fucking her lungs entirely, continuing to smoke pretty much everything despite doctors telling her that her lung capacity was getting critically and terminally impaired.

Saw video of her on her comeback tour. She was heavily chemically impaired, slurring, unable to get through songs. I think that was about a month ago.

Her dead pool status was well deserved. even if this hadn't killed her, it would have bought her only another year at most before she overdosed more fatally. She just seemed to be incapable of not killing herself.

[IainC]

Her dead pool status was well deserved. even if this hadn't killed her, it would have bought her only another year at most before she overdosed more fatally.

How can an overdose be somehow more fatal than one which has already been fatal?

[K9]

Didn't realize she was only 27.  She looked much older.  It looks like she now joins the list of singers/musicians who died at the same age (Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison and more).

She's not even in the same league.

[Merusk]

I don't think he was commenting on the talent so much as the oddity of so many known musicians dying at that age.

Wiki page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/27_Club#Other_musicians_who_died_at_27

[Minvaren]

Quite interesting about the 27 Club...

It reminded me of the 28-ish year Saturn return theory from astrology, but a website about The 27 Club says that a couple other factors could explain it better.

[Tebonas]

From all those people dying some of them dying at the same age is basis for some mystical bullshit? Wow, people really love their patterns, even when they make no sense at all!

Also, not in the least surprised about her death. Sad on a personal level as everybody dying is, but frankly to be expected.

[Le0]

I wasn't a big fan of her music but she had a fucking voice.
I wasn't aware that she used so many different fucking things, always thought she was more of an alcoholic type of person.

When is Peter Doherty joining her?

[Ingmar]

Didn't realize she was only 27.  She looked much older.  It looks like she now joins the list of singers/musicians who died at the same age (Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison and more).

She's not even in the same league.

She's awfully damn similar to Janis Joplin talent-wise, actually, both of them had a kind of voice that only comes along very rarely (albeit very different from each other.)

[Sir T]

Saw on TV today that her fans were leaving bottles of booze outside her house as tributes. 

Seems pretty weird to be leaving as a tribute the thing that helped kill your idol

[Selby]

Seems pretty weird to be leaving as a tribute the thing that helped kill your idol

In my experience when someone who partied hard goes out via those partying ways, all of their friends will party extra hard just to "give one up for Johnny" or whatever.  Basically pour out a bottle of booze (or just drink extra hard), etc.  I don't get it personally.

[Sjofn]

Saw on TV today that her fans were leaving bottles of booze outside her house as tributes. 

Seems pretty weird to be leaving as a tribute the thing that helped kill your idol

Eh, you can look at it as "this is something she would've liked to receive." And ... well ... it is, destructive as it was.

I am sad, as I really, really loved her voice.

[angry.bob]

Eh, you can look at it as "this is something she would've liked to receive." And ... well ... it is, destructive as it was.

Considering she had resorted to running up to outside restaraunt tables, grabbing diner's drinks, and running away while she tried to guzzle them down she probably would have loved a bottle of booze. Don't know any of her music aside from the Rehab song. She probably should have gone. I suspect a lot of her audience towards the end were there to see if she'd smoke crack on stage and keel over dead or drunkenly masterbate until she passed out more than they were for her music.

[Setanta]

They've just announced that Amy Winehouse isn't dead after all.

Apparently, when the police drew a line around her body, she got up and snorted it.

[SurfD]

They've just announced that Amy Winehouse isn't dead after all.

Apparently, when the police drew a line around her body, she got up and snorted it.

I'm probably going to hell for it, but I got a good belly laugh out of that.

[Sky]

She's awfully damn similar to Janis Joplin talent-wise, actually, both of them had a kind of voice that only comes along very rarely (albeit very different from each other.)

I didn't want to get into it because that wasn't the point of the original post, but I agree. Wish she had recorded a bit more, but she had a great natural talent and influenced a generation of singers (Duffy, Adele, a jillion American Idol wannabes).

My fiancee is wondering where her two backup singers are going to end up, they were great. We've traced her backing band (The Dap Kings) to some great music already. Love that whole 'real' r&b genre.

[NowhereMan]

Her backing singers are apparently putting together some tribute stuff to her. Saw them being interviewed and they're pretty broken up over her death, she was apparently far nicer and more willing to share the spotlight than most performers and it seems they just really liked her.

[Ingmar]

She's awfully damn similar to Janis Joplin talent-wise, actually, both of them had a kind of voice that only comes along very rarely (albeit very different from each other.)

I didn't want to get into it because that wasn't the point of the original post, but I agree. Wish she had recorded a bit more, but she had a great natural talent and influenced a generation of singers (Duffy, Adele, a jillion American Idol wannabes).

My fiancee is wondering where her two backup singers are going to end up, they were great. We've traced her backing band (The Dap Kings) to some great music already. Love that whole 'real' r&b genre.

I don't know if I would describe the Dap Kings as "her" backing band, they're just the house band at Daptone Records; I mostly know them as Sharon Jones's backup band (I am guessing you have already heard her but if you haven't she's fantastic.) The Budos Band on the same label are also pretty awesome.

[El Gallo]

Obviously not a surprise, but I'd hoped she would get it together enough to put out some more music. 

Didn't realize she was only 27.  She looked much older.  It looks like she now joins the list of singers/musicians who died at the same age (Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison and more).

She's not even in the same league.

On the Internet, my band is always > your band!  I'll take either of her albums over Joplin's or the Doors' entire body or work all day, every day.  Back to Black is probably my favorite album since In Utero (30-something-white-guy-who-isn't-that-into-Radiohead reporting for duty!). 

[K9]

*shrug* I don't have any particular beef with Amy Winehouse, I just think that her level of creative output was far lower than other people on that list, and I don't see her having the cultural or artistic impact that any of those guys did. If kids are still putting up Amy Winehouse posters on their walls in 2025 then you can call me wrong, but somehow I do not see it happening.

[HaemishM]

She was a fantastic talent who couldn't get her head out of her own ass, and now joins the long list of idiots who died too soon. /sadf

[Sky]

*shrug* I don't have any particular beef with Amy Winehouse, I just think that her level of creative output was far lower than other people on that list, and I don't see her having the cultural or artistic impact that any of those guys did. If kids are still putting up Amy Winehouse posters on their walls in 2025 then you can call me wrong, but somehow I do not see it happening.

A lot of kids have Janis Joplin posters.