This afternoon, I got word that Amy Winehouse had died. As I'm writing this right now, I'm still crying a little bit. Amy Winehouse had so much talent and was such a tragically beautiful soul. To hear the pain and raw emotion and realness behind all of her music is an experience that is rare to find in a lot of today's music. Truth be told, I can't say that I'm shocked about her death. But I think that's what makes it hurt that much worse. A lot of people always knew that her time would come sooner than it should have. But at the same time, I, for one, had a lot of faith in Amy. I always hoped that one day she would decide to really get herself together and come back with another album, and keep doing what she does best. But she didn't.
I'm not taking this very well. Amy Winehouse inspires the hell out of me, and I loved everything about her, drugs and all. She was human, she was imperfect, and she knew it. She never pretended that she was otherwise. She was aware of what was going on in her life and how she felt about it. In addition to her unwavering realness, she was so talented. She combined the two to make some of the best music I've ever heard. And that's really saying something. I've heard a lot of music lol. Amy's music always touches me in a special way. It's so good and it's so real, and I can't help but try to follow the story behind every song. And I want to do that. I want to be that talented, and I want to be able to share my stories with the same realness that she did. It really hurt me to hear that it finally happened.
She was so young. Like a couple of my other personal favorites, Amy was only 27 when she died. The whole "27 Club" thing kinda scares me.
Looking at the bigger picture, Amy was pretty messed up. It hasn't been publicly confirmed that it was drugs, but everyone's making that assumption given her track record. Whether it was or not, she was going through a lot, and I was really hoping she would turn it all around. And for people to be so insensitive as to talk shit about her and how she POSSIBLY died really rubs me the wrong way. If drugs were the cause, who is anyone to judge her for how she lived her life? No one knows what all she went through, no one knows anything but what the media let them see. And then there are the people who are all butt hurt because people are sad that she died instead of being all in a slump because of the tragedy in Norway. It's not like we're completely ignoring the issue. People probably connect more with the loss of Amy Winehouse than the loss of 90-something people that the majority of the world didn't even know, and it's not because our priorities aren't in order.
To sum it up, fuck the shit talkers and the people who only have negative things to say about Amy Winehouse and the people hurt about her death.
But mostly, RIP Amy Jade Winehouse. Hopefully you're at peace now that you've left this cold world behind. You will always be one of the greats of this generation.
1983-2011
♥
P.S. In honor of Amy's memory, I vow to pick up my guitar and try to pick up some of that talent she left behind.
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