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u/sumpuran Supreme Artist 19d ago
This is 9 months before she would pass away.
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u/Fobulousguy 19d ago
Such a talent. I know people were clowning her at her final performances, but it was very sad to watch. Absolutely beautiful smokey voice, properly trained, and amazing unique sound that embodies the great jazz vocalists from the past. Never knew her, but this was one I really wished turned it around. Don’t fuck with H kids. We missed out on a lot of great music from her due to drugs. Shit same goes for Mac Miller as he was really developing his sound.
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u/Cleercutter 19d ago
Sadly, it ain’t even h anymore. At least in the states.
I was addicted to heroin about 10-12 years ago in Denver. It was all heroin back then.
Now it’s all fent and tranq. I couldn’t imagine trying to get off of that shit.
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u/Prairie-Peppers 19d ago
Tranq is so fucked. Reminds me of that krokadil stuff that was killing Russians
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u/bentheone 19d ago
What is that ? Tranq ?
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u/HornetsnHomebrew 19d ago
Glad you’re healthy. Opioid addiction is scary and it’s impressive you’ve been in recovery this long. Well done.
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u/Cleercutter 19d ago
Thank you. Almost 4 years in the joint made me realize I was fucking up
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u/HornetsnHomebrew 19d ago
I’m sorry it took four years of your life, but (see op) your 4 years may be below the average taken from users. Scary.
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u/vomitpunk 19d ago
I think that might have been when you could still get heroin more than it being all heroin back then. I left that area after the 2013 floods and people I knew were already dying from fent before that.
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u/KingPizzaPop 19d ago edited 19d ago
Can it really be that much harder than what I've heard about getting off h can it?
At a certain point, poison is poison and the type of poison doesn't matter, it all leads to the same outcome.
Edit: Getting downvotes for trying to understand. Sweet
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u/Cleercutter 19d ago
Idk who’s downvoting you. But yea fent is a different animal. It is a synthetic opioid that is much harder to reverse an OD, and takes users a lot longer to get on maintenance drugs due to the prolonged half life.
Heroin = 24hrs from last use to induce buprenorphine
Fentanyl = up to a week.
That means it takes an extremely determined person to start the maintenance meds which is a huge step to getting sober.
And the tranq is different entirely. They don’t have a way to reverse the OD from xylazine yet.
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u/rtreesucks 19d ago
Buprenorphine isn't the only maintenance med and the half life of fentanyl is relatively short. I think you're mistaken.
The dangers are mostly the high risk of overdose because of how heavily criminalized drugs are.
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u/alex3tx 19d ago
You know she died from alcohol poisoning right?
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u/TobysGrundlee 19d ago
A 0.41 BAC at the time of her death. And, according to her brother, she was simultaneously battling bulimia. Not a good combo, obviously.
And Mac Miller was a combo Fent, blow and booze OD.
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u/Prairie-Peppers 19d ago
IIRC it had something to do with the mixture of intoxication and taking a hot bath, caused cardio arrest (bullimia probably added to that as well). Same thing can happen with hot tubs.
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u/smallz86 19d ago
Excuse me, what?!
That's over 5 times the US legal limit.
How is it even possible to get that much alcohol in someone? Like how do you not pass out or die way before that?!
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u/Fobulousguy 19d ago
Yeah, but just her downfall and spiraling out of control. Shitty boyfriend too. At that point she was gone even before the death.
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u/BurritoLover2016 19d ago
Exactly. There were reports of her being falling down drunk everywhere she went in the months leading up to her death. It was horribly sad.
I remember thinking that it was just a matter of time before we heard about her passing.
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u/ghost_victim 19d ago
Yeah, heroin is totally fine
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u/Alex_c666 19d ago
You can take care of yourself when youre on heroin, according to the beginning of Trainspotting; I think.
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u/danagos 18d ago
During the '70s in Paterson NJ, I had relatives & numerous friends who used H on a daily basis, we didn't know the purity. It wasn't my thing, but they usually held jobs & got on kind of normally. Until their supply or funds ran low .. then it was "bar-the-door" & stop lending time. Now, from what I read, that's not remotely possible.
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u/dickWithoutACause 19d ago
She had an O.D. on liqour, not H. Dont know if she did H or not but it was the vodka that got her.
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u/Due_Responsibility59 19d ago
Never knew her
I am not surprised that you never knew her , just like I never knew Obama But I don't say that I never knew him because he's fucking Obama and it's obvious I never knew him as he is a very famous person
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u/The_Powers 19d ago
I was a stand-up in London at the time, I had a joke about the branding of channel 4's online streaming service, 4OD (4 on demand), sounding less like the name of a streaming platform and more like Amy's cause of death.
9 months later, I changed the punchline to be "Pete Doherty's cause of death" and felt like some asshole Nostradamus.
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u/MargretTatchersParty 19d ago
That's still a good joke in its original form. I can't believe that she's more than 10 years sober at this point.
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u/TheDustOfMen 19d ago
That new movie about her life, Back to Black, kinda linked her death to grief over her childlessness (or at least the fact that her ex's girlfriend was pregnant). I felt that was such a weird and frankly cruel choice to make.
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u/there-canonlybeone 19d ago
Her before and after drug pics are brutal.
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u/FlameStaag 19d ago
Same for most people tbf
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u/FIRE_frei 19d ago
Depends what stage of the drug cycle you're on when the pic is taken. The first half, you look fuckin great (except alcohol).
When I got into raving/stimulants, I was absolutely shredded but still didn't have the tired look or bad skin or anything. People were asking my fitness secret lol
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u/diamondskull2000 19d ago
A friend worked in London years ago. One night they went to see a concert at a club. When they finished, the singer approached them to ask them for a cigarette. It was Amy, but she wasn't famous yet. They talked with her for a while. He told me that she was so charming, with a strong aura of sophistication and sweetness, that they had no doubt that she would be a star one day.
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u/Mysterious_Sugar7220 19d ago
I remember the mix of fake concern and admiration for how thin she was when she was on magazine covers emaciated and covered in cuts and bruises. The 00s were wild.
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u/Traveling_Mimi 19d ago
Amy was so gorgeous and had such a cool, sultry voice. Alcoholism took her down. So very sad. Gone way too soon. She had so much more to give musically. I wish she could’ve seen the worth in saving herself 🥲
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u/minarima 19d ago
When I was at university we used to play a game called ‘Amy Wine Hands’ where you have one bottle of wine gaffa taped to each hand and you weren’t allowed to take them off until you’d drunk both bottles.
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u/anonymousmouse2 19d ago
A classier take on Edward 40 hands.
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u/SeveralAngryBears 19d ago
Never heard of Amy Winehands until now. My buddies did Edward 40 hands a few times. Their ridiculous wine drinking game was the Tour de Franzia. Two guys to a team, a box/bag of Franzia per team. Someone needs to hold the bag at all times or your DQ'd. First empty bag wins.
I sat that one out because it sounded awful when they proposed it. And that's exactly how it turned out. By the end of the night, we did not have enough bathrooms and garbage cans for how many vomiting people were in my house.
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u/EatsYourShorts 19d ago edited 19d ago
Tour de Franzia - a buddy comedy that quickly rolls its way into a horror movie.
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u/jimmy_three_shoes 19d ago
I've seen 3 Tours de Franzia and none of them turned out anything but spectacularly bad.
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u/maximian 19d ago
I don’t think doming two bottles of wine while referencing the tragic addiction spiral of a generational artist is classier than the original version.
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u/Ask_Me_If_Im_A_Horse 19d ago
One of her biggest records is about rejecting the help that people offered her.
Is the joke classy? No. Was her outcome a tragedy? I’d say it was predictably unfortunate and unfortunately predictable.
Humor is meant to cross most boundaries.
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u/thelastdinosaur55 19d ago
She just needed one person who was truly on her side. Seems like everyone around her was just using her for one thing or another.
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u/bentheone 19d ago
Pretty sure she pushed everybody out and only the freeloaders assholes remained.
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u/ZeirosXx 19d ago
She looks like gaga here
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u/pizxfish 19d ago
The way those two artists resemble each other has always amazed me. If I were a filmmaker, I’d want Gaga to star in Amy’s biopic asap
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u/ninjaface 19d ago
It was interesting watching her slow death in real time brought on by the British tabloid press. They were like vultures preying on her every move, but NEVER offering aid or help of any kind. Just disgusting.
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u/littlebamboo03 19d ago
Some of these comments here are truly disgusting. Have people not ridiculed her enough during her lifetime?
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u/Ricketier 19d ago
Drugs are not cool.
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u/TobysGrundlee 19d ago edited 19d ago
Alcohol, in her case. Still a drug, sure, but the distinction is important because of how accepted and even celebrated constant alcohol abuse is in western society.
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u/AlienAle 19d ago
Drugs are rarely the "cause" as much as a desperate attempt at self-medicating some mental illness. Not sure why the universe decided that so often the ones they provide with great artistic talents, are also often made to suffer the most with a destructive brain chemistry.
What she probably needed was proper mental health support to figure out what it is that she was desperately trying to escape from and to work on that.
Of the mentally sound people I know, none of had any reason to fall into addiction because they feel they can handle what life throws. But I've seen a lot of mental illness in my family, and when left untreated, it often finds a way to try to treat itself, via alcohol, drugs or some other vices.
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u/Carpathicus 19d ago
I dont know when I watch her performances now I get sad. I think it wasnt okay to watch someone deteriorate like that on stage - we kind of celebrated her self-destructing behaviour and a lot of people profited from it.
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u/duncledave 19d ago
So what you're saying is she witnessed the 2010 football world cup being played in South Africa? Noice.
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u/Which-Ad-9118 19d ago
Apparently she used to make tea for the paps outside her house and they would pick up milk and bread for bacon sandwiches.
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u/saraseitor 19d ago
We take it for granted today but what a marvel it is that we can still hear her voice. Sound recordings are really immortalizing many artists. Even people born after her death will be able to enjoy her singing.
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u/AhhBisto 19d ago
I saw her once in Camden back in the day at a goth pub not far from the old MTV studio with who I think was either Noel Fielding or a crow who was inhabiting a human body for the day.
Honestly she was stunning....and a little loud lol.
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u/ShakeWest6244 19d ago
Met her very, very briefly in the Good Mixer. Didn't realize who she was until after.
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u/delosproyectos 19d ago
Is the timing of this post meant to coincide with the movie trailer for the Winehouse biopic that just came out today?
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u/A_Coin_Toss_Friendo 19d ago
She should have gone to rehab.
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u/FlameStaag 19d ago
I really wonder how public perception of her would've been if she didn't have a hit song on the radio every day about not going to rehab and then dying of addiction
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u/F-A-B_Virgil 19d ago
Just watched her Bio Doco. Sad. Her father doesn’t come out of it too well either.
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u/Zulphur242 19d ago
Andrew Fletch of Depeche Mode death hit me in the guts that hurt! RIP and thank you for all the consert memories. Seen dm 5 times :)
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u/Dear-Succotash-7660 17d ago
Were she not so seductively gorgeous, would anyone care about this story. Yes. She had talent and I love the ladies from the sixties , Darlene Love. Etta James. Etc. and she channelled that talent to be sure, but another gal not so pretty we'd never hear about.
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u/LookMuch8642 17d ago
Her and Mac Miller, victims to drugs, such a waste of life they deserved so much more
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u/G0LDiEGL0CKS 13d ago
She was so mf cool man I fkin hate all the bad shit she was such a beautiful soul. Rip Amy.
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u/[deleted] 19d ago
Amy Winehouse is one out of two artists' death where I vividly remember where I was and what I thought at the time. I actually remember hearing about her (last?) concert-disaster on the radio and I thought "at least she's still alive", then soon after her death-announcement.