The 27 Club just got a new member

Impact wrote:A tragic end, but I won't pretend to be surprised by this news. The music world has been anticipating Winehouse's death for as long as she's been famous.

Chris wrote:

Impact wrote:A tragic end, but I won't pretend to be surprised by this news. The music world has been anticipating Winehouse's death for as long as she's been famous.

True. I think I'm more thrown by the whole '27' irony than her death itself.

Nhaiyel wrote:So sad but, unfortunately, not a surprise…but even though it is not a surprise, considering her lifestyle, death should always incite feelings of sadness or shock; especially when it takes someone at such a young age. Too often it's the soulful, organic entertainers, who - despite their true performances - aren't comfortable enough in their own skins to allow their talent to motivate them more than their demons. Rest in peace Amy.

Supernova wrote:Exactly, what IS it about 27 being a common age when music stars drop like flies?

Alan Smithee wrote:Current members:
Robert Johnson (Blues legend)
Brian Jones (Co-founder of the Rolling Stones)
Jimi Hendrix
Janis Joplin
Jim Morrison
Kurt Cobain
Pete Ham (Badfinger)
Ron "Pigpen" McKernan (Original Grateful Dead keyboard player too. Double whammy)
Mia Zapata (The Gits
Gary Thain (Uriah Heep)
Pete de Freitas (Echo and the Bunnymen)

(Oh!) Rob Petrie wrote:Giving my post a negative vote doesn't make me feel bad about a woman whose death was essentially a drawn-out suicide. Especially when the woman is somebody I did not know personally. Cold, maybe. But honest.

I don't care what you feel. I didn't like it. I gave it a negative rep.

Every CD purchased or single downloaded... that was more drug money. It's a bit weird to praise this woman and feel bad for her when people had a helping hand in her "tragic" end.

Bull.

Nystyle709 wrote:

(Oh!) Rob Petrie wrote:Giving my post a negative vote doesn't make me feel bad about a woman whose death was essentially a drawn-out suicide. Especially when the woman is somebody I did not know personally. Cold, maybe. But honest.

I don't care what you feel. I didn't like it. I gave it a negative rep.

Every CD purchased or single downloaded... that was more drug money. It's a bit weird to praise this woman and feel bad for her when people had a helping hand in her "tragic" end.

Bull.

Nobody is 'praising' her for using drugs. The only praise that was bestowed upon her is her talent, which she DID have and which she DID waste. After all is said and done, this is a 27 yr old woman who is dead. Anybody dying at that young of age when they have their whole life ahead of them is tragic. I don't care if they're drug addicts or not.

(Oh!) Rob Petrie wrote:This is not sad.

This is not tragic.

She did it to herself, used her drug addiction to get rich ("Rehab") and repeatedly refused treatment.

Let's move on.