Amy, Amy, Amy, Will We Have You Around For Long?

As Phill Jupitus aptly summed it up: "Is there anyone on whom Amy hasn't thrown up yet?"

So what's wrong with Ms. Wino, the North London Jewish blues goddess who sounds like Nina Simone, Billie Holiday and Erykah Badu rolled in a ball - with an übercool 21st-century twist on top of that?

Amy displays a typical inner conflict of a divorced parents’ child. She is trying to find the emotional stability she missed out in her split family by sticking with one guy through thick and thin. While this single-minded determination is highly plausible, Amy, being what she is – a very young lady with little life experience – was unfortunate enough to make a not so highly plausible choice. Blake’s bad guy vibe may be very sexy but he is definitely not the kind of guy a good girl should stick with. In Jungian terms, he’s Thumbelina’s jolly Beetle – the kind of guy that is only good until the fun of incessant partying and substance abuse wears off.

But here once again unfortunately, Ms. Winehouse shows signs of an addictive personality. Many of us are to a certain degree, which is determined by the way our brain’s glands produce various hormones. In the worst, yet very possible scenario she herself may wear off quicker than the fun of easily obtainable chemical bliss. The choice substance to abuse of the yesteryear, alcohol, that took away from us Billie Holiday and Edith Piaf, is no match to latter-day designer drugs. Amy may not hang around with us for much too long.

I can only guess from a distance which I am pretty good at, but on top of intervention Amy may need some intensive counselling. Most of time, drug abuse is symptomatic of a deep-lying unhappiness. Removing symptoms (weaning of drugs) will leave the cause of her erratic behaviour intact and hence the person herself open for more relapses.

People closest to Amy may not be willing or able to realize the real cause of Amy’s suffering. All I can do is to think of her during m daily metta-bhavana. I sincerely pray that she gets over her demons and keep giving us joy with her music.

You can forgive her ANYTHING for this:



and this: