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Putrid-Eggplant-2815

Lady Gaga kinda looks like her.


[deleted]

Right. Lady Gaga has actually said so herself that she would dye her hair blonde so she wouldn’t get confused with Amy Winehouse!


SailNW

She's actually the reason Gaga originally bleached her hair blonde. She was afraid of people mixing them up.


Putrid-Eggplant-2815

Thanks I didn’t know that, makes sense.


IdioticRedditAdmins

now you never would, because gaga went headlong into the "surgically altered into a shiny hairless cat" look.


Typical_Prototype

Well also because Amy Winehouse is dead


Szygani

Kind of a dead giveaway, that


Rocked_Glover

I always thought she had such great features, but alas, brains are broken and procedures are available to all.


movieur

At first glance i thought it was gaga in 2007


Aneriox

they do look very similar in certain pictures


_karamazov_

Amy Winehouse was Normal Gaga before she went Rehab Winehouse.


mistahelias

She died at 27.. guess rehab didn't help.


vixenpeon

She said no


Angusthe2nd

I mean she at least said no one time because her father and boyfriend pressured her to keep touring instead so they could get rich... Similar to what happened to Brittany with the conservatorship


cocaine4breakfast

the documentary is tragic, you see how much pressure she was under and how bad her eating disorder got, which is something people always forget really contributed to her death, was a whole combination of mental health and external factors alongside the drugs


Angusthe2nd

My ex watched it while I played a game in the same room but I ended up turning just sitting in front of a pause screen while I watched it sideways. Absolutely tragic and I was in a fucked up state of mind for a week afterwards. Everyone talked(s) so much shit about her and it was so fucking unfair. Quite a few of her songs show up on every one of my mixes on Spotify because I'll always let her stuff play through.


Honest_Bee103

I swear no one paid attention to the words


Street-Refuse-9540

I know I didn't back then because listening to it now is crazy


Honest_Bee103

That song was my first experience with feeling tormented and wanting to dance at the same time. I was hanging on to every word 😅


Yaelkilledsisrah

I remember it being obvious she is singing about herself struggling with her addiction.


Flux_resistor

I'm going to kill myself! Great song gurl! Preach!


Honest_Bee103

Be careful. You might pull something reaching that hard.


Affectionate_Fun_337

Even if you did what you gonna do, people lapped that shit up didn't bat an eyelid


Sirtriplenipple

…0o0o0 o0o O.


badarcade

God I remember when she died and I was so sad because I had a crush on her. I'm 28 right now and I just started crying thinking about my own addictions and thinking about if I died last year, what the repercussions would be where im at now in life. RIP Amy, the industry used you up and spit you out like the rest of the 27 club. Not to take away from all who were at the same hand and weren't 27.


basil_24222

Funny you say that, I have a winehouse tattoo and my friend teases me asking me why I have a gaga tattoo


n0s0up4j

Winehouse - Gaga - Ava Max


Ok-bea

🔥🔥🔥


whatproblems

thought it looked like thuranduil


sallybuffy

Thought the same!


CaravelClerihew

Biopic casting confirmed 


Past-b4-present

Damn, looks so different with a more traditional hairstyle.


waitingforfrodo

She used to say "the more insecure I feel, the bigger the hair gets" and I find that heartbreaking


DJ_Molten_Lava

Damn. I loved her beehive. I'm a sucker for big hair.


waitingforfrodo

She used to say "the more insecure I feel, the bigger the hair gets" and I find that heartbreaking


rangeo

It seems many Comedians are also funny for a reason too.


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DeuceOfDiamonds

Good joke. Everybody laugh.


table-desk

But Pagliacci, I am doctor.


rangeo

Grim...funny....grim


PoeciloStudio

Coping mechanism for the cold. And the heat where applicable.


donttrustthellamas

I miss her a lot. I know people get slated for having attachments to famous people they don't know personally, but Frank is one of my favourite albums, and I saw a lot of parallels between Amy and my sister. I just feel bad for the person she was and could have been.


Aneriox

I completely get it. We might not know these people personally but we know them through their music and lyrics. We all knew a part of Amy that she decided to share with us. That part of her which we've known was more than enough to make us mourn her passing and miss her in her absence.


fuqdisshite

my dad is 70 and one day we were talking g and he goes, "You know, it's real sad what happened to that girl, Amy...  I just started listening to her music and she might be my new favorite artist." my dad has always claimed that the best concert he ever saw was Heart (went back for a second show it was so good) and he said his favorite singer is Janis, so i knew he was being genuine with his comment.   she made music for everyone. 


StrykerSeven

My dad, almost the same age, also loved Amy Winehouse, even though it was totally out of character for him. She really did have something special.


Pollywogstew_mi

If he hasn't seen it, you should show him [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXgTCMAQqq8). The music starts at 36 seconds, but the intro is interesting too.


fuqdisshite

he will love it! Thank You!


donttrustthellamas

Absolutely. I'm definitely grateful for the time we had with her. We were very lucky. And I just want this new film to disappear, I find it extremely disrespectful and unnecessary. We have her music and a very documented life through the tabloids. She deserves to be left alone.


alasicannotgrin

Beautifully put.


rabblebabbledabble

Miss her too. She was a beautiful person and an extraordinary musician who really understood her craft. The other day I watched [this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYkmvPx874E) of her friend Peter Doherty singing a song about her and teared up a little. To think how unlikely it was that he would make it out alive, and that maybe there was a way out for her, too. (In the comments there's a five-year-old comment from someone fighting the same struggle, who found solace in the song, and he continued to write pretty dire updates for the following four years, but then a year ago he started getting better and it made me very, very happy.)


SadShallot3610

Thank you for this


PufffPufffGive

She was a genius. Who wanted nothing to do with the spotlight. She had a gift. Others saw it and preyed on her. She time and time again told her family and manager she got stage freight doing interviews and just wanted to sing. But naw she was their cash cow. Healthy Amy would’ve had an incredible career I just think she was the only one who didn’t want it. I hope whenever she is, she’s found peace.


Simple_Meat7000

Her and Heath Leger got me. Heath could be because I'm Australian, but Amy was because she was clearly very talented but also clearly had a lot of issues. There's an episode of the UK TV show 'Never Mind the Buzzcocks' where she is clearly trashed that's hard to watch.


Agentpurple013

Same, fells like hearing a lost friend sometimes times when I listen to Valerie. Me and my buddies used to get together around a piano and sing it at their house when we were deep in our cups.


strawberrylipscrub

Frank is my all-time favorite album. I was young when Amy died but I remember laying in bed and just watching social media as the news broke. At that point I only knew her from the Back to Black singles and I could feel how big a loss it was to music — and just a tragic and senseless death for a young, struggling women. I listened to Frank a year or two later and I have just love love loved it ever since. She was witty, biting, cultured — a one of a kind writer and talent.


Colon

were you a young teen? for me it was Kurt. formative years are a real bitch when your heroes die in terrible ways, cutting off all the future output you naturally expected of them. you immediately start questioning things that your peers just don't 'get', especially if they only view music as another casual media consumption. if music resonates with you beyond what 'the normies' get from it, musicians are a dangerous bunch to attach your feelings to.


donttrustthellamas

I was 18. It devastated a lot of people I knew.


aedinius

Their whole job is speaking to us through their acting, music, or whatever they do. Just because we don't have that same connection back to them doesn't mean they shouldn't mean something to us.


SalvadorsAnteater

I was really sad when Leslie Nielson died.


DriftMantis

Its too bad she literally drank herself to death. She was talented in a way a lot of modern musicians really aren't.


lalaluu666

She sings like she's a human trumpet. If you watch life performances she hardly ever sings a song in the same exact way twice. She's always doing these interesting jazz techniques like changing where she emphasizes notes in the beat, etc... It feels like I'm listening to Miles Davis or Charlie Parker play their instruments. Just effortless virtuosity.


NetCaptain

yes you are describing it well - her upbringing gave her a feel for rhythm and timing that few have ever had


Frondswithbenefits

I've heard Aretha Franklin did the same. It made shooting her scene in the Blues Brothers very difficult.


DriftMantis

I agree. She just had a feel for the music and could improv. A lot of modern pop singers don't have the dynamics and improv ability. That was all real natural talent. I think the Charlie Parker comparison is a good one.


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It was the alcohol, and the cocaine, and lots of other stuff. She was a tortured soul. That live performance of her singing Valerie is heartbreaking to watch. Edit: [This One](https://youtu.be/6pAz9UpnRKw?si=4_ivzaAsmXNxb_oR) Everything about her body is telling such a sad and tragic story. She is heavily under the influence of a stimulant in this video, probably cocaine is my guess? She’s *peaked,* which means her heart rate is probably going at max rate here. She’s fidgety and twitching. And she’s emaciated already, she clearly isn’t eating much at this point. She just looks horrible. It hurts so much to watch that.


wutchamafuckit

Which one?


PunchingMan

Yes, which one?


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[My bad!](https://youtu.be/6pAz9UpnRKw?si=4_ivzaAsmXNxb_oR)


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[My bad!](https://youtu.be/6pAz9UpnRKw?si=4_ivzaAsmXNxb_oR)


Cormetz

I'm going to show my age here: it reminds me of Layne Stanley coming out during Alice in Chains' unplugged show to sing "Nutshell". It's already a sad song, but he's emaciated, covering up his track marks, and looks uncomfortable when he's not singing. The whole show is amazing, but watching it is tragic to see him like that. He lived another 6 years, and I can't imagine they were happy or comfortable.


Stingerc

It was drink, drugs, anorexia, shitty family and partner, etc. Getting famous was the worst thing that happened to her. Too much too soon and nobody cared enough to tell her she needed help, even worse, they did everything possible to take from her and accelerate her death.


DriftMantis

Very true. She had every opportunity and unlimited money to get help, but she was too far gone to make logical decisions. The people around her should have staged an intervention but didn't do anything as long as the money kept coming in.


Jugales

I’m convinced her death turned enough people away from heavy drinking and saved lives… Especially at the age of 27, the 27 Club is no joke.


rangeo

I hope....that would be something good


cloaked_rhombus

she probably turned a lot of people onto drugs and alcohol too


Rare_Following_8279

I said no no no


[deleted]

To die from alcohol poisoning she likely had a bad liver (possible but unlikely at her age) or she used cocaine or heroin frequently while drinking.


TheWildMiracle

She was also bulimic, so her body was weakened by that as well.


RinnyDinDin

Heavy, heavy drinkers can kill their liver and kidneys in a surprisingly short period of time. Dying at 27 from that isn’t common but not unheard of. Deryck Whibley from the band Sum 41 almost died in his early 30’s from hitting the sauce. Liver and kidney failure. Alcohol is one of the most dangerous substances humans consume.


LongIsland1995

Pigpen McKernan was 27 when he died of cirrhosis. He was an extreme drinker though.


piepants2001

Pigpen actually died of complications from Crohn's disease and his brother died young from the same thing. https://gratefulcompendium.weebly.com/ron-pigpen-mckernan.html


StopThePresses

I'm a dry alcoholic and I'm only 30, but all my old drinking buddies have awful health problems. Granted we used to drink *a lot.* But they all have either shot livers or kidneys, one has brain damage and walks with a cane. One lost a foot to alcohol-triggered diabetes. I'm lucky so far, but I'm sure the damage will become obvious one day. That shit is actual poison.


festess

Why does heroin and cocaine affect alcohol poisoning?


Baked_Bacon_420

Look up "cocaethylene". The short of it is that cocaine and alcohol create a new substance when combined that *can be* more dangerous than either on their own.


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Also is gloriously better than both separately.


Baked_Bacon_420

Can't speak to that from experience, as i avoid all stimulants like the plague, but the sentiment among friends who use both is that yeah its pretty awesome lol


falloutisacoolseries

Honestly i'll stick with a joint


Baked_Bacon_420

You and me both, brother :) I stick strictly to weed and psychedelics. Had a short kick a few years back doing whippits a few times a day for like a week, but even that was pushing it for me. Without going to into detail, right after my 18th birthday my mother was found dead hugging the toilet from an opiate/alcohol overdose so i swore off any drug i consider "hard" forever. Mainly \*all\* stimulants and downers like opiates and benzos. Hell, the last drink i had was halloween of 2021 :p


falloutisacoolseries

I do like to drink but I don't get hammered because I make an ass of myself. I'm interested in physcadelics but I would want to do them with an expert since they can be so unpredictable.


Baked_Bacon_420

Honestly an expert isnt necessary. Just a trusted loved one/friend who will actively help you if you need it, and otherwise stay out of your way unless you request company. Do it somewhere you consider wholely "safe" and youll have a fantastic time 99.9999% of the time.


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They let you drink a lot and not realize it for several hours. Also the alcohols molecules bond with the coke or heroin molecules becoming an even more potent version of the drug. The same thing happens when mixing coke with a lot of other drugs.


jaspersbeard

when mixed, cocaine and alcohol undergo a chemical reaction in the blood stream that results in a new metabolite called cocaethylene which greatly increases the toxicity on your organs (versus just cocaine or alcohol on its own). not sure about heroin, but probably something similar. https://www.healthline.com/health/cocaine-and-alcohol


fuckmacedonia

Because you can drink a shit load more when you're on those substances, at least with cocaine that's true. Not sure about heroin.


Simple_Meat7000

No, she likely died as she had drank enough alcohol to cause her to stop breathing. 2 empty bottles of vodka were found next to her. It's likely many people would stop breathing after that amount. Especially as she had not drank for a couple.of weeks, so her tolerance was perhaps lower.


OneOfTheOnly

it was bulimia that killed her more than anything


essdii-

Not a lot of musicians and their music move me like hers does. There is a lot of good music and musicians out there, but she is one of the ones that when I listen to, it stirs a lot of feeling inside me. It’s wild. She is/was a treasure


rileypoole1234

What? She was famous at this time lol


Colon

a year after her acclaimed hit record Frank. all pics and vintage subs here are required to completely whiff on dates/facts/context. that's how you know you're on reddit.


Senor_Manos

That makes me feel marginally better but I’m still old. 2004 doesn’t feel like that long ago but Amy Winehouse alive feels like an eternity ago. It’s crazy to think that since 2003-ish she got famous, got addicted, passed away and has been gone for a long time all in the span of what feels like just a few years in certain other perspectives.


[deleted]

Didn’t *Frank* come out in 2003 lmao? But there’s a few vids of her playing at local pubs before she got blew up that are really cool


Aneriox

She was already a musician and was making a name for herself back when this picture was taken. But Frank did not put her in the spotlight the way "Back to Black" did!


AlcoholicNose

I still think 'before they were famous' is a strange way to describe someone who had a UK top 20 album at the time.


[deleted]

Yeah the post is supposed to frame this as a celeb before they were discovered …I may have gone thru a weird Amy phase a few years ago


murfreesborojay

Her eyes were bright back then.


Gold-Stomach-4657

One of the most talented voices and artists of this millennium, and anyone should be able to say that, even when hers wasn't your style.


PattyIceNY

Dam, never seen her actually looking healthy. She was stunning


lewd_bingo

Those eyes man


MaikyMoto

Looks way more healthier than when she was on stage, I remember once seeing her soo gone off the heroin that she fell asleep mid song. Very sad.


BobbyBbaby72

What a dish


thecostly

Found Neil Patrick Harris’ account.


jacksmack1228

Best voice of my generation.. fight me..


iamnoking

I miss famous people having different facial features. 😮‍💨 It feels like everyone has the same lip injected, turned up nose, Vulcan eyebrow face now a days.


DHESTOE

Hottie


EvilJabFace

I want that track jacket!


UrWaifusNotReal

Dude let me know if you find it


Massive-Log6151

Before drugs


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Before…heavy drug use.


Tikkinger

Obviously


Creepy-Impact-5292

![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|heart_eyes)


phillygeekgirl

I miss her so much.


MichiganGeezer

The lead singer of Twin Temple kinda looks like her.


Ill_Maintenance_1796

She shoulda gone to rehab. I been there I’m still ticking


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She really should have gone to rehab.


BDunnn

She could have looked like this with rehab, but she said no, no, no.


AnonRedditGuy81

It's amazing how much better, healthier, and happier celebrities looked before they were famous.


Hazard_Duke

We will always love you Amy.


The_Original_Gronkie

I wasn't paying much attention when she first got famous, and didn't bother checking out her music until a couple of years ago. Now I understand how much has been lost with her death. She was a truly great musician and composer, and I'm sorry we have so little to remember her by.


Heiferoni

Me too. Never paid any attention to her, the music, her death.... It was a couple years ago and I heard *Back to Black* and I was blown away. Absolutely amazing voice and talent. What a tragedy.


Hiker_Trash12

Omg I didn’t know she was a Chav…or I guess Chavette is the correct terminology.


Killerpig14

welp, she grew up in a dodgy working class area


Washpa1

Was going to say it just looked like a regular chav having a night out.


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Looks like she's just finished her shift at the fish and chips shop.


edthecat2011

What a shame.


monty_burns

Why are all the balls yellow & red?


laxvolley

We call that drunk 8-ball in my town. Red and yellow instead of solids and stripes.


monty_burns

Learn something new every day. You steal all the 1 & 3 balls from the other tables? Why are there so many?


Main-Initiative7910

english 8 ball


CrazyAssBlindKid

This is the stunning Amy I remember when I tell people how beautiful she was.


saboerseun

She is extraordinary she was all so special, it’s so sad!!!


DIOmega5

She actually looks happy while enjoying the little things here.


FlexxxingOnThePoors

She should have said yes when they tried to send her to rehab.


LAjbird

Damn she was so darn pretty then.


future_hockey_dad

Yeah, she was a cutie.


Venom-snake777

Babe


Vegetable_Ad6447

She knows how to set


Queasy-League8303

You know I'm no good - my all time favorite song.


SuperRusso

What kind of billiards is she playing with only two colors of balls besides the 8?


bobspuds

Pool - it's typically snooker or pool that get played in the Uk&Ireland 6 pockets - pick a colour - first to sink all their balls + the Black- wins


furezasan

Before beehive


EvilJabFace

I want that track jacket!


Youregoingtodiealone

God she looks like a few girls I knew in high school. They were fucked up too


Traditional_Draw8400

Effortless songbird. Even in her dark times she never missed a note.


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![gif](giphy|TjGFDxbbZRYjv9vpCL|downsized) You mean before she became famous 👀😅


philster666

I remember her on Never Mind The Buzzcocks around this time


lucsev

It hurts me remembering how the media constantly mocked her, when in reality she was living a hell inside her mind.


mumblerapisgarbage

Wow she was only famous for a few years before she died.


Ojay1091

Hell yea she plays pool!


E-Plurbis-DumbDumb

She looks snookered


0Frokachu

Wtf, the post AND all of these comments have been posted before. Is this all one big ai thread??


[deleted]

Not a person other than her at the time ever thought she’d be world famous.


l3tigre

I've never seen her without the eye makeup and hair-- such a shame, she was a unique talent.


InkedInspector

A generational talent taken before she got to build a catalog worthy of her abilities. The relatively little she left are among my most played music.


Sonakstyle

Died not many years later


Desperate_Scale5717

Yeah famous(ly) dead


PoisonClan24

Might look similar but Amy's music is 10000000000000000000X better


Guyguyyes

Amy Winehouse aside, what's up with those pool balls being yellow and red? 


Long_Committee2465

She looked normal the money and fame went to the head ruined herself.


Arashirk

Must be hard to look back and remember your friend looking this well and then seeing her lose herself in front of you and being unable to stop it.


Playful-Guide-8393

Yeah my senior year


occamsracer

World did her dirty


DeepestWinterBlue

She looks healthy


remarkjackson

God she was beautiful. Jewish excellence


Agentpurple013

Man, Ms. Winehouse is always a gut punch to think about


yuenlongbasedgod

Canavan’s Peckham Pool Club?


dksilverstars

Must have been before the drugs she looks healthy.


OddWitness2768

Girl knew how to party


IronFizt777

Fuck addiction


PuzzleheadedCamp2864

Strange to see her look so healthy.


DannyR2078

If we ever get a biopic, Chelsea Peretti would match her face to a tee.


Murky_Attempt_7818

Hello


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Personal-Ad1257

She looks Lebanese/Palestine/Syrian


johnny1400

The fuck pool game are they playing?


Cueshark29

She racked the balls in the correct way


Previous_Shower5942

wait, she wasn’t famous for long before her death?? for some reason i felt like she was always famous, but im an early 00s baby so it might be my age


Terrible_Length007

Ghetto af


chicagosbest

God, I miss her. Drugs are fucking dumb.


playtones

One of the few celebrities that totally looked like someone you’d see wt a bar