The Amy Winehouse Tabloid Fiasco

You’d have to be blind lately to have missed the tabloid coverage over Amy Winehouse and her self-destructive behaviour.

I’m not sure what to make of it all: is Winehouse simply tabloid target of the month, of is there something deeper going on here? Part of the attraction of Amy Winehouse - both as a tabloid ‘character’ and a singer/songwriter - is her emotional turmoil. The heavy makeup and towering beehive seem to accentuate her bizarre persona.

However, the tabloids seem to take exceptional glee in watching Winehouse self-destruct - look at the cutting incident during an interview with Spin magazine. But if you look at the video of that footage, both Amy and her husband Blake seem to be laughing off the whole thing. So is the whole thing being blown out of all proportion? I think maybe so.

Maybe it’s that Amy’s style conjures up memories of an era where pop stars regularly became overwhelmed by fame and it was commonplace to find overdosed celebrities dead in their beds the next morning. But we’re living in a far more media-savvy generation. Is Amy:

• immune to the tabloid coverage
• more likely to act up to get more of this type of attention, or
• is she in serious danger of hurting herself (or someone else)?

I’m not pretending to know what the answers are in this case, but I do worry about this constant hounding of and artist by the same press that frequently decry the death of their “Princess Of Hearts” at the hands of the paparazzi. What do you think?

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