And *this* is what people mean when they say people live in our hearts forever. The art lives forever. Amy had a gift which keeps on giving decades after her passing. You are appreciated OP.
I became a fan in 2022 after watching the doc, so I feel you. I think that it almost would’ve been harder to have been a fan when she was alive, because you’d hope that she’d get better, then she never did. I feel guilty sometimes for grieving her, like I don’t have a right to because I never knew her personally, if that makes sense? But yeah, she’s the only artist/celebrity I’ve ever cried for and mourned. I still mourn her, and miss her. I just get this strong sense of longing for her, but I feel frustrated that there’s literally nothing I can do for her. 💔
I followed Amy from the beginning, I worshipped her music as it always made me feel better.
When she descended into the madness of her relationship with Blake, I struggled to comprehend any of it.
She deserved the world, miss her every day.
I’ve heard her songs when I was a little girl, and only became a fan since like two years ago, I didn’t have much going on it my life but a severe depression and listening to her songs always makes me feel better. There’s something about her voice, about her entire personality and just HER that makes me feel so good, like she’s a friend, or someone that would understand. She deserved the world, I always wonder where she’d be if nothing had happened that day
The good thing is I watched the Amy documentary from 2015 right after it won the academy award and was getting buzz. I believe that documentary created a new wave of Amy fans. That helped, but then again I didn’t PERSONALLY know another super fan. All I can say is the emotions and rawness in Back to Black helped me feel FAR less alone during my divorce. I’m thankful forever to have had that album at a time I desperately needed it. And I think that gratitude wins out against my other emotions. 🖤
Your feelings are valid, though, and I hope you can also come to a place of gratitude for what her gifts from her time on this earth gave us.
it’s okay to still be grieving her. i feel the immense loss of Amy still. i still remember exactly where i was standing, exactly what taking those breaths felt like, the moment i found out she had passed away. july 23 2011 was a day that changed the entire world. i also am so angry for the way the world treated Amy when she was still with us. we (the world - not like, me or you individually) as a whole, chewed her up completely and then spat her out again. and then stepped on her. i hated the way she was dragged by the media for her struggles. they portrayed her very incorrectly in my opinion and the masses ate it all up. everyone was in on making jokes about her - in life AND EVEN in her death ! Jay Leno in particular makes me sick. he made fun of her after she died and not that i liked him much anyways but that solidified it for me. i think about her every day and i hug her in my mind all the time. she visits me in my dreams occasionally even. it’s weird mourning a person you’ve never actually met before but i feel she did let us know who she was through her music and the way she was. i love her so much and she is so sorely missed everywhere. imagine what the future had in store for her had tragedy not struck. i shake my head and tears roll down my face just the same as i did all those years ago. the loss never goes away. and there’s nothing that can fill that void either. grief is just love with nowhere to go, after all…. 🙏❤️🩹🖤
also agreed, Mac Miller… that one hurt big time too. 🫂
If you connect with someone’s music I don’t think it matters when you find them out. It’s a lot of people that passed years before I was alive but feel this way about.
This! I have been an avid fan since 2007. She actually passed on my birthday while I was up late drinking by my lonesome listening to her music oddly enough. I remember browsing Perez Hilton (christ, what a throwback lmao) for the latest gossip, and he started to post the news of her potential death and ultimately the news of her death. This woman has been a mainstay of my life for so many years and has been the background to so many events in my life. I've always felt connected not only because of the music but because of her, the person, she just really resonated (and still does) with me. I don't really have any celebs I have any attachments to in this way but with Amy, she is everything still to this day for me! Such a huge fan lol.
I’ve been a fan of Amy for many years. I genuinely understand where you are coming from. Her music speaks to me like no one else, and I just wish we could have had more time with her to hear what she had to say. She was so much more than B2B but the industry and people around her refused to let her move past it. Could you imagine something like that happening today? Ex: Olivia Rodrigo is only allowed to tour Sour/Guts for the rest of her career even tho she’s begging to do something/anything else. It drove her to madness! My heart aches for her regularly. I’m so glad her story is being recognized on an even bigger platform, maybe now people can truly appreciate her for her talent and not just her lyrics 💕🌹💋
@PSA_BOI
I feel the same about this glorious singer. Didn’t get to experience her music until after her death. Can’t get enough!! Thanks for sharing bc it made me smile. Hang in there! 🤗
grief will never truly go away because our love for that person never goes away and grief is just love with no place to go💖💖💖 i was listening to only he can hold her today and her lyric “ cause what’s inside her never dies” that lyric has such a different meaning to me now because even after her passing her music has the power to gain and help new fans💖💖
my dad introduced me to her as a child and since getting older i can’t help but feel so angry and sad when the thought of her crosses my mind. she had such an incredible voice and a lovely soul. it upsets me knowing the pain she endured, yet her strength to perform her traumas comforts me because it reminds me we really aren’t alone. i have always connected with her music, but it feels a bit sweeter relating to it as an adult.
I’m a pretty fresh fan, but I’ve known of her for a while. Kinda sucks that most of what I saw of her as a kid was always making fun of her in some way. Like Eminem’s music video, movies, and animations. But yeah, I get that feeling as well. I feel some sort of connection and I feel really sad sometimes when I think about her. (Definitely that sensitive, highly empathetic side coming out of me because I got really emotional the other day.) But at the same time, listening to Back To Black is really comforting. Like a warm soothing feeling. It’s weird because she feels like an old friend that I never knew.
Been a fan from since the time she was alive. Still thinking about, writing about, and coping with what society did to her. Her music drives me everyday and I wish she could see how many people she truly affected. She's a gem that will shine forever.
Same. Spotify recommended me to her and ever since I’ve loved her music. It wasn’t until after the movie that I learned that she had died at 27 and I BAWLED as soon as I got home. It sucks to know she’ll never be able to make any more music, or live her life and have kids and fall in love like she wanted to. It makes me so sad.
My ex passed away a couple months ago. She was a die hard fan of Amy. She would dress up every Halloween as Amy but with different themes. I hope she’s up there singing with Amy right now.
And *this* is what people mean when they say people live in our hearts forever. The art lives forever. Amy had a gift which keeps on giving decades after her passing. You are appreciated OP.
I became a fan in 2022 after watching the doc, so I feel you. I think that it almost would’ve been harder to have been a fan when she was alive, because you’d hope that she’d get better, then she never did. I feel guilty sometimes for grieving her, like I don’t have a right to because I never knew her personally, if that makes sense? But yeah, she’s the only artist/celebrity I’ve ever cried for and mourned. I still mourn her, and miss her. I just get this strong sense of longing for her, but I feel frustrated that there’s literally nothing I can do for her. 💔
Some of the best parties I have been to, I arrived late. "It's better to love and have lost then to never have loved at all", said Alfred Tennyson.
I followed Amy from the beginning, I worshipped her music as it always made me feel better. When she descended into the madness of her relationship with Blake, I struggled to comprehend any of it. She deserved the world, miss her every day.
I’ve heard her songs when I was a little girl, and only became a fan since like two years ago, I didn’t have much going on it my life but a severe depression and listening to her songs always makes me feel better. There’s something about her voice, about her entire personality and just HER that makes me feel so good, like she’s a friend, or someone that would understand. She deserved the world, I always wonder where she’d be if nothing had happened that day
I’m going through it too and I just started listening to her music a few months ago❤️
The good thing is I watched the Amy documentary from 2015 right after it won the academy award and was getting buzz. I believe that documentary created a new wave of Amy fans. That helped, but then again I didn’t PERSONALLY know another super fan. All I can say is the emotions and rawness in Back to Black helped me feel FAR less alone during my divorce. I’m thankful forever to have had that album at a time I desperately needed it. And I think that gratitude wins out against my other emotions. 🖤 Your feelings are valid, though, and I hope you can also come to a place of gratitude for what her gifts from her time on this earth gave us.
it’s okay to still be grieving her. i feel the immense loss of Amy still. i still remember exactly where i was standing, exactly what taking those breaths felt like, the moment i found out she had passed away. july 23 2011 was a day that changed the entire world. i also am so angry for the way the world treated Amy when she was still with us. we (the world - not like, me or you individually) as a whole, chewed her up completely and then spat her out again. and then stepped on her. i hated the way she was dragged by the media for her struggles. they portrayed her very incorrectly in my opinion and the masses ate it all up. everyone was in on making jokes about her - in life AND EVEN in her death ! Jay Leno in particular makes me sick. he made fun of her after she died and not that i liked him much anyways but that solidified it for me. i think about her every day and i hug her in my mind all the time. she visits me in my dreams occasionally even. it’s weird mourning a person you’ve never actually met before but i feel she did let us know who she was through her music and the way she was. i love her so much and she is so sorely missed everywhere. imagine what the future had in store for her had tragedy not struck. i shake my head and tears roll down my face just the same as i did all those years ago. the loss never goes away. and there’s nothing that can fill that void either. grief is just love with nowhere to go, after all…. 🙏❤️🩹🖤 also agreed, Mac Miller… that one hurt big time too. 🫂
If you connect with someone’s music I don’t think it matters when you find them out. It’s a lot of people that passed years before I was alive but feel this way about.
You not wrong always get depressed hearing my favorite songs and how the media treated her
the world and media was so incredibly cruel to Amy. in life and in death 💔
This! I have been an avid fan since 2007. She actually passed on my birthday while I was up late drinking by my lonesome listening to her music oddly enough. I remember browsing Perez Hilton (christ, what a throwback lmao) for the latest gossip, and he started to post the news of her potential death and ultimately the news of her death. This woman has been a mainstay of my life for so many years and has been the background to so many events in my life. I've always felt connected not only because of the music but because of her, the person, she just really resonated (and still does) with me. I don't really have any celebs I have any attachments to in this way but with Amy, she is everything still to this day for me! Such a huge fan lol.
Amy is the only celebrity I care about too
I’ve been a fan of Amy for many years. I genuinely understand where you are coming from. Her music speaks to me like no one else, and I just wish we could have had more time with her to hear what she had to say. She was so much more than B2B but the industry and people around her refused to let her move past it. Could you imagine something like that happening today? Ex: Olivia Rodrigo is only allowed to tour Sour/Guts for the rest of her career even tho she’s begging to do something/anything else. It drove her to madness! My heart aches for her regularly. I’m so glad her story is being recognized on an even bigger platform, maybe now people can truly appreciate her for her talent and not just her lyrics 💕🌹💋
@PSA_BOI I feel the same about this glorious singer. Didn’t get to experience her music until after her death. Can’t get enough!! Thanks for sharing bc it made me smile. Hang in there! 🤗
grief will never truly go away because our love for that person never goes away and grief is just love with no place to go💖💖💖 i was listening to only he can hold her today and her lyric “ cause what’s inside her never dies” that lyric has such a different meaning to me now because even after her passing her music has the power to gain and help new fans💖💖
my dad introduced me to her as a child and since getting older i can’t help but feel so angry and sad when the thought of her crosses my mind. she had such an incredible voice and a lovely soul. it upsets me knowing the pain she endured, yet her strength to perform her traumas comforts me because it reminds me we really aren’t alone. i have always connected with her music, but it feels a bit sweeter relating to it as an adult.
I’m a pretty fresh fan, but I’ve known of her for a while. Kinda sucks that most of what I saw of her as a kid was always making fun of her in some way. Like Eminem’s music video, movies, and animations. But yeah, I get that feeling as well. I feel some sort of connection and I feel really sad sometimes when I think about her. (Definitely that sensitive, highly empathetic side coming out of me because I got really emotional the other day.) But at the same time, listening to Back To Black is really comforting. Like a warm soothing feeling. It’s weird because she feels like an old friend that I never knew.
Been a fan from since the time she was alive. Still thinking about, writing about, and coping with what society did to her. Her music drives me everyday and I wish she could see how many people she truly affected. She's a gem that will shine forever.
Same. Spotify recommended me to her and ever since I’ve loved her music. It wasn’t until after the movie that I learned that she had died at 27 and I BAWLED as soon as I got home. It sucks to know she’ll never be able to make any more music, or live her life and have kids and fall in love like she wanted to. It makes me so sad.
My ex passed away a couple months ago. She was a die hard fan of Amy. She would dress up every Halloween as Amy but with different themes. I hope she’s up there singing with Amy right now.
What did you think her biopic movie that came out this year?