Rehab
By the time British singer Amy Winehouse received five Grammy Awards for “Rehab”—her autobiographical ode to dodging detox—the song had become Hollywood’s newest soundtrack.
In the week before Rehab was named record of the year and song of the year, news reports noted that the actresses Eva Mendes, Kirsten Dunst, and Sean Young had all entered rehab, and that Pat O’Brien—host of a tabloid TV show that routinely reports on the rehab struggles of others— was suddenly in rehab himself.
All of which prompted one culture-chronicling website to ask: Is rehab the new black?
Amy Winehouse’s own very public road to rehab has included a heroin and cocaine overdose, an arrest in Norway for drug possession, and various instances of disturbing behavior, such as wandering the streets outside her London home at dawn in her underwear, confused and with her signature beehive hairdo acutely askew.
The reality behind her wittily defiant lyrics—“They tried to make me go to rehab/ I said ‘No, no, no’”—finally provoked Winehouse’s father-in-law to make an unusual plea for fans: force the 24 year old into accepting responsibility for her sobriety by boycotting her records. “Perhaps it’s time to stop buying them,” he said. “It might send her a message.”
After Winehouse’s whopping win, former Grammy winner Natalie Cole said what some had been thinking: “I don’t think she should have won.” Cole, who admits her own past battles with substance issues, said, “I think it sends a bad message to our young people who are trying to get into this business, the ones who are trying to do it right and really trying to keep themselves together. We have to stop rewarding bad behavior.”
Tell us what you think: Are we irresponsibly rewarding celebrities’ bad behavior by buying their music and paying to see their movies? Would boycotting Amy Winehouse help her? How responsible are we as fans and consumers when celebs unravel?
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True to thine self:I second that emotion
I strongley agree with you.
Its terribly sad the way others can be so condensending and judgemental. Sounds like real jealousy.
L Jones | 2 years ago
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It's about MUSIC
“Mind your own business and you’ll be busy all the time!’ …
Amy Winehouse has a ‘sound’ that no one has EVER HAD! No matter if she’s stoned or not its none of your concern. No one is going to stop buying her records and who knows what her destiny is. Natalie Cole is just pissed off cause Amy sounds better than her, she’s got a sound that no ones heard before and she’s got soul. She’s young and she does drugs and I hope she gets off of them too but no one is going to ‘make’ her do it and dumb asses saying ‘their sending the wrong message by awarding her 5 Grammy’s are JEALOUS….PERIOD. Hellooo???? It’s about MUSIC…..PERIOD.
So you hang in there Amy and if you ‘make it’ then you do and if you don’t then maybe you were only destined for this world for a short time but ‘baby’ your music is unlike any other/s and I hope you keep on singing and staying alive!
Ciao Ciao Bella,
Cecila & Enrico Santana
p.s. hey email us we’ve got about a 200 songs that you might like to sing and put ‘your’ music too, really really great and unusual lyrics too!
Cecilia Santana | 2 years ago
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guess what?
too bad if she’s a cokehead. sure, that’s a terrible thing., and she needs to change. but it’s the grammys. it’s not “lets see who the best role model is”. it’s based on talent and who sounds original. her addictions have nothing to do with that. sure, she’s not a good role model, but she deserved all five of those awards.
tessa white | 2 years ago
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amy winehouse
natlie cole, is wrong
amy winehouse won the grammy for her talent
its not based on good or
bad behavior. this girl
has talent and not afraid
to be different, she may
need help . but natalie
is maybe a litte jeolous
new blood coming in to
hollywood. amy winehouse
is talented iam sure thats
what the grammy is all
about.
shar allen | 2 years ago
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I'm a recovering druggie and alcie
If every alcoholic, drug addicted artist were thrown out of existance, we wouldn’t have much artwork, music, or movies to look at. I would LOVE to have a sober world, but everyone has to go through their trials to hit their bottoms. I can’t be the police for the world. This is one of the most gifted musicians I have seen in my life. I pray for Amy. But, the movies and music world are places where it is easy to be in this world. It is also a place where there is tons of recovery. Tons. I would not take the awards away from Amy. When she finds recovery, she’ll be making songs that are stroner than ever about rehab…..look at Eric Clapton, how he uses…can’t think of the song’s name, starts with an “L” for recovery…
I love Amy…..I do not know her dharma….let her sing, reward her God given gifts, and let her Higher Power do the rest…I pray for her and pray that she is with us long enough to give us more of her INCREDIBLE talent….
Natalie Cole had a dad who helped her into the music business, I imagine…Amy has GENIUS…..GENIUS…Natalie has her chance and she had it when she was in her substance abuse…how can she judge others when she comes from the world of music and knows it….let’s take paul mccartney’s awards away, he loves his substances…let’s take…….oh, I won’t start….it is not my decision as to how people live their lives…it MAY be the fact that I am a fan that GETS a person sober…who knows??….But, to stop a person from getting a justifiable WIN in the music world, to me, is not reasonable…not when it is a person with Amy’s talent…the rest if up to our Creator…
Debs | 2 years ago
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rewarding amy
AMY WAS NOT BEING REWARDED FOR HER BEHAVIOR, SHE WAS BEING REWARDED FOR HER WORK AND TALENT. I THINK SHE SHOULD BE FULLY SUPPORTED IN BOTH ASPECTS OF HER LIFE BECAUSE IF SHE IS STRUGGLING THAT IS THE TIME EVERYONE SHOULD PULL TOGETHER AND BUILD HER UP NOT DRAG HER DOWN. WHO EVER WAS FEELING LOVED AND SUPPORTED WHEN THEY WERE BEING BEAT UP ON? I DONT KNOW ANYONE!! KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK AMY AND KEEP ON TRYING YOU ARE GREAT! A WONDERFUL PERSON!! AND WHO KNOWS, MAYBE GOD SENT YOU AS AN ANGEL OF STRENGHTH FOR OTHER PEOPLE WHO ARE STRUGGLING WITH PROBLEMS. YOU MAY BE THE PERSON WHO SAVES MANY, IF THEY SEE YOU SUCCEED THEN IT JUST MAY GIVE THEM THE STRENGTHTO PULL THEMSELVES TOGETHER.
DOROTHY B. | 2 years ago
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HATERS!!!
Ok… This Is In Responce To Little Ms. Dorothy Who In My Book Is A HATER!…. Ok… FIRST Of All Dorothy.. Amy Winning Those Grammys Had NOTHING… And I Repeat NOTHING To Do With Her Bad Behavior!!!.. She Won Based ONLY On Her Talent, Album Sales, And Radio Play!… And Yes It Is A Shame That She Is An Addict And Drunk, But DON’T Sit There And Say That She Was Rewarded For Her Bad behavior!… Because That Is NOT True!. You Haters Make Me SICK!.. You Are The Type Of Person Who In My Opinion Doesn’t Listen To REAL Music! And You Know What Dorothy?… I Think That You Are JEALOUS!!!!!!! Jealous That You Are Not The One On That Stage Wininng Those 5 Out of 6 Grammys That You Were Nominated For. You’re JEALOUS That You Don’t Get To Work With Mark Ronson Making a KILLER Album. Amy Won 90% Of Her Grammys FOR A REASON! So GET OVER IT!!!!!! I Would Like To See YOU Try And Make A Song Like “Rehab” And WIN A Grammy For Both Song AND Record Of The Year! So STOP HATING!… And LISTEN TO REAL MUSIC!!!!!!!
Monica Martinez | 2 years ago
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Amy will be just fine
This is one really talented singer with what appears to have a post-adolence obsession with self-destruction. Let’s not forget she’s about 24. This is no (no-talent Brit Spears who I’m convinced is bipolar and will never make a comeback. Give this girl a break!!!!!!!!! Genuine talent is so rare; don’t cast out aspersions so quickly and without any knowledge of this girl. Self-destructive? Uh, hello, think so. Fixable? absolutely.
hpe2bme | 2 years ago
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Amy could be very sardonic
Who knows if this girl has actually ever taken drugs?? I assume she has, but since rehab has become so in (is it a vacation in Figi or a rehab?) that we might be missing the subtle message
hpe2bme | 2 years ago
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MORALITY SCHMORALITY.
Keep your ‘morality’ for it has no bearing on Amy Winehouse’s 5 well deserved Grammy awards.The awards are for her bravely expressed music and highly creative spirit and she owes us nothing more.
WE who love her art (for our own selfish reasons) would prefer to see her taking ‘better’ care of her life but that, in iteself is a highly presumptuous idea . Her life is her life.
Put what you are suggesting in another context entirely to see how ludicrous the idea that she ought to be something else than what she is.
What if she had a serious cancer ? Would she not be a ‘suitable’ recipient because she had a disease. Of course not. Alcoholism, dependancy on drugs and bad relationship choices are all symptomatic of inner turmoil, just as cancer is..they are dis-eases.
My guess is that Amy’s witnessing of her parent’s breakup at an early age had a devastating effect on her psyche…hence the self abuse, the out of control struggle for ‘love’, a commodity she doesn’t truly understand yet.
She can gradually work out these inner turmoil with the help of others and a lot of life experience and inner searching.
When I heard her ‘Rehab’ song I’m reminded of a similar artist reaction, that being Joni Mitchell’s attempt at getting psychiatric help..which she rapidly ended with her song “My analyst told me I was right out of my head…” (NB: NO analyst should make such observations).
We happy recipients of all Amy’s pain expressed as art must realize that it is precisely this pain from which she draws her creative endeavors. Only she should determine what deals she wants to make with that.
DYLAN RIVIS | 2 years ago
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