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I'm not sure if the blame should be placed on Winehouse or the press that follow her, but my beef with her behavior is that she attempts to link her musical talent with her drug use. If you want to be a junkie, fine. If you want to be a junkie in public, fine. But when you tell your adoring fans that using drugs is the key to your artistic success, screw you. The romanticization of drug abuse in western culture is shameful. How would we react to models tell their fans that being dangeriously underweight is good for their careers? Or atheletes telling their fans that blowing off school work or using steroids was good for their careers? Even if these statements were true, it's dispicable to tell it to the millions of young, impressionable people that (stupidly) beleive that they can one day be the next big hit, beautiful face, or star player. It ends up killing quite a few of them, needlessly.
