So I've got an example of a star that's died and I've listened to one little video about it.
I'm not that familiar with this person; didn't know her name- but familiar with perhaps 5 songs on which she sang lead vocals. I knew the name of her band and recognized her voice. And I know one friend who really identifies with these songs.
So it's not as if this story would have a great effect on me except I note a young age of death and mysterious- well, not mysterious- but not yet revealed circumstances of her death. By not telling me what killed her I guess I want to know- but only slightly.
The thing I notice now; that I would not have thought much about before my YouTube immersion into conspiracy theories- is what the media chose to say about her- while also saying they have no idea about what caused her death.
She was sexually abused.
She found fame young- I don't think so- not by pop music standards; but that's what the smiling reporter said.
She had four children.
She moved to Ontario and liked the woods to escape from a hectic life of being a well-known performer. She wanted to get off "the machine;" which in this case wasn't intense fame but presumably fame and business and making music as a business.
So how could the media use this story?
I doubt if it's going to be used for gun control.
It's not sponsored by any corporate sponsor and it doesn't involve multiple deaths.
(Pulse was sponsored by Dunkin' Donuts and that police shooting in maybe Texas was Bank of America)
I think on this one they're going to go for euthanasia. She led a troubled life; she led a good life, she overcame "demons from her past" and found great success; she got a diagnosis and then in the full knowledge of her loving family- maybe out in the woods- she wrote beautiful notes to everyone she ever knew, gave daisies to each person she ever loved (violets to each man she ever slept with and also one to one beautiful semi-famous lesbian lover from her college days- 'cause that doesn't really count- and slipped off into eternity in some water river/lake ceremony- which was either filmed or not filmed- that's the only question I have at the moment.
I don't think they're going to push the lesbian or transgender thing but throw a bone to it. I was surprised that in the interview she didn't say something like "love is love no matter who it's with" or something like that. They didn't even say "Remember to find love where you can." They didn't push sex at all so I think the story is about something else.
I don't see how the story can be used to make tighter censorship or surveillance laws but hey- I'm not as well-connected as the people that want those.
I don't have those resources.
It would be interesting to know if she had just recorded something to be released posthumously or if another member of the band has a project in the works or if they're going to take someone with a great voice but no success and have a Cranberries tour with a new singer. But I don't think that's the way it's going to go since I haven't heard about a cranberry in a decade.
I do think cranberries are good for ya- and they have been downgraded in the press for not helping uterine tract infections but they probably won't make a resurgence in the "health" movement quite yet. That will have to wait for a prodigious and somehow newsworthy cranberry harvest sometime in the future. Probably someone's found a new purpose for what used to be cranberry bogs and thinks they can make more from them- (restoring wetlands, maybe?) than growing cranberries.
I don't even see a connection between this singer and the name of the group- but I bet if I followed the story I might find one.
I don't think I'll follow the story.
I'm sure someone is adding up and multiplying and combining numbers in her life statistics to come to some conclusion; but as long as 33 and 9 and 7 and 6 and 9 with 11 continue to be searched for- come on people- of course you can find some of those in any story about any one or anyone.
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