Popstars and Hard Drugs (Popstars and Drugs - What's your opinion?)

Member Name: Joe1976

Product:	Popstars and Drugs - What's your opinion?
Date:	01/07/08 (34 review reads)
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Advantages: Shows the Real Side of the Music Industry

Disadvantages: They Will End Up Dead

*This forum hasn't been written on since 2001, I'm quite surprised as today's pop stars can't live without drugs*


---->Drugs and Music<----

The music of today and the general view on on taking drugs is one that is far more tolerant than when the Beatles or Stones were popping Acid and smoking/growing cannabis or enjoying N.Y's coke scene.
There has always been an affiliation between the music industry and the drug industry, whether it's rappers singing about snorting coke smoking weed or Pete Doherty sitting "as per", with a needle hanging from his arm, the connection between the two has always been evident.

Just before I go on, I often wonder to myself, "What the hell do the music executives and producers do about illegal drugs use in their studios?", Jim Morrison used in the studio, the Stones, infact i wonder what band, doesn't use in their recording time?, be it alcohol to acid, these are places of work, try going in and telling your boss you're just away for a line of coke, see where that gets you!

----<Amy Winehouse>----

Amy's father has just announced that Amy has the chronic lung disease Emphysema due to a heavy regimen of crack smoking and cigarettes, her photo has been splashed over both, the internet, and most daily papers with her smoking from a crack pipe and close ups of needle marks "tracks" (whether there is crack in the pipe or not, I'll leave up too you)

She has been photographed with needle marks on her legs, a sure fire sign of someone having a"dig" (street terminology for injecting).

The girl can sing, no doubt, but what example is she serving to her audience, on one show, she was clearly seen too take a "bump" of cocaine live on stage, in clear view of the audience (this is available, as ever, on Youtube) should we leave a public figure to there own demise and only concern ourselves with what they do in the studio or on stage? my own opinion is "live and let live".

Some folk believe if the public pay there wages for them then we should know what on earth they are doing as public figures.

---->Pete Doherty<----

Pete has a fanbase consisting of Pre-Twenty teens and early Twenties, fans.
This is a guy who couldn't care less what the public thinks of him, the public blame him for Kate Moss's short downward spiral with her time spent with him, the pic of her at a studio running a rolled up note running along a powder filled mirror, got Kate dropped from labels such as H&M, Agent Provocateur, Rimmel, Burberry and a whole conundrum of TV adverts, yet some companies cashed in, knowing that this "image", could just as easily sell more of their product,
But I don't believe for a second she done this because of Doherty

Doherty has been captured a number of times on mobile phone cameras, hidden cameras and even friends snapping pictures when he is AWARE, Doherty injecting a heroin filled syringe into his arm, smoking crack from an improvised pipe on video doesn't seem to bother this baby faced addict.

Anytime I have seen Doherty on TV in the papers or in private, he looks awful, unkempt greasy hair and dirty fingernails, a greasy pale and sweaty face is the picture I see in my minds eye of this guy. He has escaped jail so many times I often wonder if he has gave the judicial system a bung to stop him from getting it, the sentence he did receive, was absolutely farcical, had it been anyone else, you'd still be in till you had served half the sentence (with time off for good behaviour).

---->Opinion<----

I think, until both these characters, and others like them, have kept their private life's and public life's from entangling, should stay away and get themselves sorted out.
They aren't cool and don't serve as good role models for today's youngsters, I really cannot imagine what this pair would be doing if they hadn't made the big time, rotting away in a jail cell? maybe, on the dole and looking to score? definitely.

It's high time the music industry did something about these Prima donnas, and handed them their jotters, let them find real work and then see how long their drugged up swaggers would last.

Summary: Shocking