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[MDPA]

I will always be saddened by her death. But i really like, instead of being sad over her death, thinking about the amazing life she led. Celebrating her life really makes me feel good, because i mean, wow, what a life to celebrate, right? She was just out of this world. I love her so much.

I always have sad moments, though. Today on google when i typed in Amy Winehouse the suggested searches were "Amy Winehouse Death, Amy Winehouse Dead" etc. and it really struck me as strange. Its so hard to believe someone i followed so closely for so many years is now dead. But i watched the video of Me and Mr Jones afterwards and that really cheers me up every time. Such a beautiful girl.

[Nigel Jam]

I was totally high as i get the message from her death .. i was on LSD, Coke, Amphi and MDMA also other stuff ..
i listen to this song
NOW its my AMY Song Forever and ever .. i hope she would like it !

Everytime i hear it i have to cry !

Bet you thought you were hallucinating if you was on all that stuff!

I don't fully undestand why I feel so strongly about Amy Winehouse. May be I'm just sucker for a tragic story? Maybe it's because we don't know what killed her for sure and that keeps her in our minds. Also the power of the Internet and all the clips on You Tube that keep looking at!

Also she was a great talent and much different in many ways to other artists - though she dressed up with the bee-hive and so on - her songs and singing are genuine from her heart - I suppose her dying sort of underlines the emotions in her songs and makes them all the more real which keeps it in our minds stronger. Also I feel she could have done much more! She seemed very down to earth and somehow much more real than your Kylies and Madonnas. I think Amy says more in one song than Madonna does in one whole LP. All these are reasons why!

On the other hand there are many other people dying around the world and they don't effect us in the same way!

Edited by Nigel Jam, 28 September 2011 - 03:29 PM.

[SteveV]

Also she was a great talent and much different in many ways to other artists - though she dressed up with the bee-hive and so on - her songs and singing are genuine from her heart - I suppose her dying sort of underlines the emotions in her songs and makes them all the more real which keeps it in our minds stronger. Also I feel she could have done much more! She seemed very down to earth and somehow much more real than your Kylies and Madonnas. I think Amy says more in one song than Madonna does in one whole LP. All these are reasons why!

On the other hand there are many other people dying around the world and they don't effect us in the same way!

Can you love someone you've never met and feel genuine grief if they pass on? Yes you can. Amy, unlike any other singer I've ever heard, (and I go back a way) transmits herself though her music. I don't mean that in any supernatural way. I mean she can communicate through her lyrics, intonations and phrasing. Add all the visual material we have, and its not hard to understand why she connects with so many people. I feel I know Amy even though I've never met her because she communicates to me better than many people I know and meet every day. She reveals her soul to those who are receptive to her more than many married people reveal to each other in their lifetimes together. I don't think she was really aware of her power to connect so strongly with so many people. If she did, I think she would have taken better care of herself. She wasn't just an entertainer. She was our soul mate

[Mutterkorn1]

Can you love someone you've never met and feel genuine grief if they pass on? Yes you can

[Winehouse Winette.x]

I'm so glad that there is a place that we can come to and discuss this. :')

I've been in love with this woman and her music since i was 13 years old and i'm now nearly 21 so it really, really hurt. My dad was the one that told me about her passing away and i just looked at him as if he had 2 heads and said SHUT UP, i just couldn't believe nor comprehend that fact at all.
I have my dad to thank for my love of Amy and her music, he bought me her album Frank for my 13th birthday when it was released back in 2003, he was a huge fan to so we shared the album between us. <3

When Amy was a young teenager Salt n Pepa were there for her, when i was a young teenager Amy was there for me, i latched onto her and i haven't ever let go.

I think what upsets me the most is that she had so much more experiences in life to come. A healthy marriage to Reg, starting a family, make more extraordinary music.
She was just this unique, sassy, wonderfully talented, down to earth once in a lifetime person. She had a genuine love for music, both writing it and making it, it was her passion, it's what made her being whole. Everything she wrote was so brutally honest and witty. They'll never be another Amy Jade Winehouse but she'll always be with us, living through the music she left behind and that is what comforts me and mends my heart slightly.

I totally agree with what SteveV said...she was our soulmate. <3

[Nigel Jam]

Can you love someone you've never met and feel genuine grief if they pass on? Yes you can. Amy, unlike any other singer I've ever heard, (and I go back a way) transmits herself though her music. I don't mean that in any supernatural way. I mean she can communicate through her lyrics, intonations and phrasing. Add all the visual material we have, and its not hard to understand why she connects with so many people. I feel I know Amy even though I've never met her because she communicates to me better than many people I know and meet every day. She reveals her soul to those who are receptive to her more than many married people reveal to each other in their lifetimes together. I don't think she was really aware of her power to connect so strongly with so many people. If she did, I think she would have taken better care of herself. She wasn't just an entertainer. She was our soul mate

Men don't show their feelings? Well I did feel love for Amy after she died - very profound really - I felt her prescence. Last night I picked up the guitar and I saw a picture of Amy in my mind then I just started playing some Jazz Chords (chords I'd not played before) and thinking about her like she was talking to me. Then I had a dream in which I made a demo and when I played it I was singing like Amy! Men don't talk about their feelings :-S Yes I think she did connect at a soul mate level that's the bit I don't fully understand - sorry she wasn't strong enough - to get through it all.

[ladyamy]

She wasn't just an entertainer. She was our soul mate[/QUOTE]
I couldn't have said it better.

[Nigel Jam]

I see Amy a bit like a beautiful flower that grows up withers and dies before your eyes - and you wonder why? Another metaphor is like a shooting star that shoots passed you and amazes you to crash into the earth before you...leaving a big hole in the world!

[Chloë]

I can still be very bitter about her death. I always imaged that everything was going to be fine and she would give us a music career of twenty-thirty years, have some children. And I honestly believed that one day, she could have the same status that Bob Dylan has now. If she had come through her addictions and had made a third album, everyone would've hailed her as a goddess..Well, she is to us and that's all that matters anyway.

[what'sinsideher]

I can still be very bitter about her death. I always imaged that everything was going to be fine and she would give us a music career of twenty-thirty years, have some children. And I honestly believed that one day, she could have the same status that Bob Dylan has now. If she had come through her addictions and had made a third album, everyone would've hailed her as a goddess..Well, she is to us and that's all that matters anyway.

I agree completely. I think "bitter" describes it well. I know we've all said it a hundred times but it just doesn't seem fair for her to live through so much and then die suddenly when she seems so much healthier.

I know it's pointless but I think about "what could have been" all the time. I can just see her releasing another album or two then settling down and having a little family. Maybe she'd live a quieter life as she got older and start playing small venues again. I like to imagine her in her 40's or 50's, a little rounder and wiser but still just killing it on some little stage somewhere. But who knows what would have happened? She was such a complicated person.

[SteveV]

I can still be very bitter about her death. I always imaged that everything was going to be fine and she would give us a music career of twenty-thirty years, have some children. And I honestly believed that one day, she could have the same status that Bob Dylan has now. If she had come through her addictions and had made a third album, everyone would've hailed her as a goddess..Well, she is to us and that's all that matters anyway.

There's a short YT clip showing Amy answering questions from US college students. I can't locate it right now and can't post it anyway because I don't have enough posts yet. Some others here may know it. She's wearing a black dress and talking directly into the camera reading questions if I recall correctly.

One student asked what she expects to be doing in 2027. Her first comment was "What a depressing question." Then she answered that she saw herself with a fat Jewish husband, 10 kids and lots of stretch marks.

Another asked her if she missed anything in her present life. After thinking a moment she said "My liver. I miss my liver."

She was quite aware of her problems. She apparently got off hard drugs, but continued to drink heavily. In a CNN interview her father Mitch confirmed she was in and out of detox and was prone to seizures. A documentary posted here said that she had gone a "bender" with friends the Friday night before she died. No illegal drugs were found in her body or in her home. But alcohol was found.

Substance abuse is widespread in the music business. As I said in my previous post here, I don't think Amy knew how much she was loved. She wasted her affection on someone who was in no way worth it IMO. If she really appreciated the impact she had, she might have found a better man, and taken the hard steps needed to get healthy again.

[prettymaryk]

Another asked her if she missed anything in her present life. After thinking a moment she said "My liver. I miss my liver."

She was quite aware of her problems.

That just sent me off again. :tissue:

[Ma_Jo]

joining this forum!
I search for news about her and watching youtube videos every day, the first days after Amy's death I avoided listen "love is a losing game" cause it made cry but now i can do it, that's my favorite song of her

[AmyInBlood]

Miss you so much Amy. Why did it have to end this way...

Love you so much! <3

[SteveV]

Miss you so much Amy. Why did it have to end this way...

Love you so much! <3

Listen to her song "Long Day" and understand that this was written a bit before her 18th birthday. These lyrics are not those of a typical girl that age. Amy was very special. These lyrics already tell us about the burden that a creative mind and immense talent places on an individual. If she could have just written and recorded her music in the studio, at her own pace, she might not have sought relief in drugs and alcohol. But the music business is not like that. You must be out there in public, on stage. Amy said she was just a musician. But she was more than that and it was simply too much for her. She gave us a lot, enough I think to hold her place in history.

I miss her too. I'm a bit younger than Mick Jagger and Paul McCartney, but not much younger. I'm glad I lived long enough to hear her wonderful voice.

Edited by SteveV, 30 September 2011 - 10:44 PM.