Hah. You should try living in a third world country Brent. The pressures you described are utterly trivial in comparison. Lots of my family is in India, and they are under constant pressure just to survive, not come out with a hit single so they can be on top of the music world. One mediocre album doesn’t wipe out the millions they already have made; fact is ONE hit single and ONE decent album is more than enough to become financially stable and secure, and that automatically alleviates these musicians from one of life’s greatest pressures. They are under pressure from their record label, they are not under pressure to survive.
And oh yeah, none of my relatives (nor the majority of third-world citizens) are succumbing to drug addiction to deal with the infinitely higher pressure of their daily lives.
kegz perhaps you should be living in a third world country too ? rather than mine ? after all the drug free incessantly breeding populational mass the third world is generating, is so much in the earths and humanitys interest ! not ! And perhaps people who are civilised enough ? not to think purely of the pressures of their own “survival” ? allowed you to live in theirs ? its called “ammicability” and “generosity”, and neither of those two qualitys are needed when we just want to “survive”. If foreign people are so fucking far superior in their ability to handle stress and real issues in their country > wtf are you doing here ? surely your country would have dealt with its real “pressures” of “just surviving” by now ? if you were so fucking great at it ? and would be able to get to the fripperous frosting on top of real existence as you like to think it ? where it can afford the arts ? obviously you were enough of a failure in your own country to need to come and plead to live in this country ? and its soft reality ? as you perceive it, man up … stop sucking on the teat of materialism and progress, and living in my country whilst critiquing it and persons like amy winehouse that it generates, return to make your own country great, after all population growth and breeding is something many global populations create theyre own suffering with, india included, ask your grandparents how many brothers and sisters they had ? & as evidenced by you, can export people to my country in unwarranted and unnecessary quantity, this doesnt enhance humanitys cause we dont need “more” people plainly “surviving” we just need more people that make a difference to humanitys cause, before mouthing of about a weak artist … think … of course … artists are … weak from certain perspectives ie “your survival measure of it” they have to be, but by my measure she had the balls to live and create two great albums, regardless of her weakness for reprobate boyfriends and a poisonous london drug scene, and some of this inspired the music ? thats because Artists are certainly not purely obsessed with materialism and breeding lots of children for “survival” as you put it, like people in some of the poorer countrys i’ve visited, your obsession with survival … is just your genes talking, survival isnt enough my friend, all that does is defer the act doing something with your life to the next generation ! humanity hasnt progressed just on the backs of people who were interested purely in their own survival its progressed on those who see beyond it, please evolve, for I predict perhaps if were lucky that once you have several generations of turgid offspring in my country under your belt, we might be lucky if perhaps ‘just one of them’ … might exceed amy’s good couple of albums as a life acheivement. rather than being just a selfish shitting, fucking and eating machine taking up space and resources, which sadly at its base level is just what base human survival you talk about is so sadly all about. We are always Hoping and often especially in our own children, that a flower of worthy difference will one day bloom from the indifferent mud of human existence.
Which do you think it would have been more difficult for Amy to have become
1: a knocked up single mum “surviving” as you put it, lets say on the state ?
or
2: a person capable of making two great albums ? and winning 5 grammys before she died ?
To be honest point one is being accomplished by millions of women “surviving” in britain today, point two very few women have actually achieved !
My point about your survival argument being pointless except from a purely selfish genetic perspective is clearly made I think ! Like allot of small minded indian people in my country such as yourself, perceive materialism, class climbing and large familys and children and furthering the privilege of those children to be “winning” in life, and you misunderstand this to be what british people and culture is all about ? whereas people who conduct such selfish activitys are not aiding my culture specifically or offering anything worthwhile to me as an individual. Britain is not like India, nor ever, should we be status and wealth obsessives descendant from a fascist birth caste/class dogma, it seems you do not see the greater contribution an artist can make by sacrificing and say not having children or “plainly surviving” ? Truly British people are practically born understanding the cultural perspective that pure survival and breeding and furthering the benefits to ones children, is not enough of a contribution to culture, and this can bear heavily upon them and these people are often artists Like Amy who die young ?