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She is not doing any more drugs than, say, David Bowie did in the mid-seventies. She unfortunately is in the grip of life-threatening addiction and is not sitting around calculating how much longer she needs to get high to establish her street cred.
Her drug use will not make her a music legend - only music can do that.
If she dies, so what? One cd ... showing promise ... a gift never fully developed ...
We've read this story before. It is boring.
Real artists live, and, as Steve Jobs said, ship. They deliver art, not gutter drama. The media fascination with the snaggle-tooth wannabe Winehouse is just another facet of the celebrity porn noise machine in action.
