Comments on Emeralds and Ash: Drugs don't suck. People do.

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2008-07-01T01:48:00.000+10:00

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Hideous.

Yeah, it's a pity that the role models that kids a...

2008-06-30T09:52:00.000+10:00

Yeah, it's a pity that the role models that kids aspire to are often these lost causes. Any blame to be apportioned would have to lie with the music and the fashion industry, with the advertising and marketing executives pulling the strings of image and influence.

Amy Winehouse may well end up dead from an OD or something. Then she will be immortalised as a cultural hero and icon to aspire to. How many lives were all fucked up by emulating a Hendrix or a Joplin when the sad souls doing the emulation and aspiring in this way never realised that it was precisely because the great cultural heroes were not copying anyone that they were so great.

Something could be said for religious heroes here too, and I would, but it is a dangerous ocean to navigate at the best of times and these, unfortunately, are not the best of times...

I think the before and after pics hit the point ho...

2008-06-30T09:39:00.000+10:00

I think the before and after pics hit the point home. Sad.

And yet, despite all this, she is all over the med...

2008-06-30T01:55:00.000+10:00

And yet, despite all this, she is all over the media here in the UK.
That sort of image is heavily promoted in the press as well as on TV, and she has effectively become an unfortunate role model for unfortunate teenagers with an unfortunate present and possibly an even more unfortunate future.
You are right, it's not drugs but people and likewise people's tendency to emulate other people's bad habits, all too effortlessly.
In fact, it's all part of this social emphysema that has been plaguing young people for some time now.