Winehouse denied visa for Grammys

[porcy62]

You can agree or (obviously) disagree, but jazzshrink is drawing a distinction about someone being wilfully defiant, even celebratory about their drug use (compared to jazz musicians who were drug addicts but tried to keep it on the down low), and thus not wanting to support that kind of art. FWIW, Amy's parents have asked the public to stop buying her records and giving her awards until she truly cleans up her act, so they do see there is some connection.

I wrote it in Winehouse's thread, but I write it down here again.

I think her parents are naive and wrong, and trapped in mediatic circus. I bet that nobody here, and nobody with some common sense in general, with a drug addicted son, though famous, would go to the newspapers in search of help with such idiotic request of help. Maybe they are poor and ignorant people, but, man, do you really think this is the best way to help your daughter? Maybe you're THE problem of your daughter.

About arts and drugs, it would be a long discussion, like art and artist. Picasso was a hell of painter and a great SOB as man, Louis Ferdinand Celine was a great writer and a racist, so what?

I am not St. Peter who decide who's going to hell and who's going to Paradise. I like Picasso's art, I don't have to like the man.

More in general, like everybody here who worked in show business at every level know that the public image of an actor or musician or an artist is a mediatic construction. I meet nice people that I thought they were bastard only because of their public imagine and the gossips, and viceversa. So it's hard to say who Amy Winehouse really is. A waste of talent? A victim of success? A abused child growned too fast? A helpless and oversensitive soul? A spoiled child with some talent?

I am not her psychiatrist.

For sure you have to be a thought guy to survive in this business and you need some luck.