Friend 'sobbing in the kitchen' over Ozzy Osborne

[lronWoman]

I'm not generally a mean spirited person but I just can't take this seriously!

My friend has never been a Black Sabbath fan and I've never heard her mention Ozzy once in the 20 years I've known her. However, her and her sister are apparently 'beside themselves with grief' over his death.

I just don't understand this type of performative grief over A list celebrities that people have never met. It's sad and I get that it kind of marks the end of an era, but the guy lived to a ripe old age in the lap of luxury and was one of the most celebrated rock stars the world has ever known. It's not like a present day star has suddenly been cut down in their prime and will no longer be releasing new albums. They'd already released all their famous stuff before we were born.

She wasn't sobbing in the kitchen when an old mutual workmate died unexpectedly in his late 30s a fortnight ago. Guy wasn't a close friend of ours but we were friendly. Used to go to the pub as a group and he helped us move house, refusing to accept a penny for it. Really nice bloke! We hadn't seen him in close to a decade but both felt sad about it for a few days. But no sobbing in the kitchen!

Latest comment is "he's up there at the bar with gramps". I'm finding it hard not to make an inappropriate joke tbh!

Exactly what I was going to say! Its often a link to younger days, nostalgia, times when things werent as crap as they are now. Some celebs represent those times, whether a loved one now gone was in to them or similar it sparks a reminder. I think thats why so many people seemed really emotional when the queen died, it was the end of an era, people would have memories of watching her Christmas speech with loved ones now departed or just representing a time which again, wasnt as crap as now. There are a lot more cringe things than OPs friend, especially here on mumsnet lol but seriously, I get it, I really do, especially in todays Britain.

My friends and I are a little sad because we all love Black Sabbath. But beside ourselves sobbing? We didn't know him.

Are they doing this?

I sobbed in the kitchen when my mum told me Kurt Cobain was dead…. I was 14 though!

Maybe she was a secret fan? Or had some sentimental association with his music e.g her first love was a fan and that’s why they split up.
Or could be an age thing (I mean hers).
Don’t be too mean and give her some space - be non contact able for a few days. It’s the best approach.

Well........duh.........yeah...........🙄

Old ill ex druggie dies shocker...........

https://www.mojo4music.com/time-machine/1980s/mojo-time-machine-ozzy-osbourne-bites-the-head-off-a-dove/

I didn’t see anyone sobbing in the streets in the north of England! Very south centric methinks.

I don’t think it’s over the person, I think it’s the memories of eg childhood things that happened to that music, or maybe she watched the reality show with an old friend or flame. When Whitney Houston died I was brought back to simpler times of dancing about as a kid and while I didn’t cry, I was definitely impacted

It's often about what the celebrity represents for them. Memories, youth, etc.
Even if Ozzy's most famous stuff, and his back sabbath days, are far behind us now, and as you say we're from a time before most of us were born, The Osbournes was massive on TV in the 00s, a time I'm definitely nostalgic for. Lots of people fell in love with Ozzy's quirky personality from that show, so maybe it's that era she misses.

Music can stir emotions. I wasn't in the least a fan but if they played a clip of him singing that song he did with Kelly I'd probably cry for a minute or two.

Once again, mourning the loss of the 'laugh' emoji.

George Michele passing got to.me .Big Time .I think it's the end of an era kind of thing

Maybe she's drunk.

I found myself crying when the Queen died, I'm not particularly a royalist but something about her death hit me. I wasn't sobbing uncontrollably but I was quite surprised that I reacted that way.

Give her a slap

Why can't she be sad about the death of a complete stranger without posting about it on SM? If you don't post on FB that you are sad then are you actually sad?

Because her singing was that bad?

Fuck me that was bad. I was abroad and kept getting people coming up saying how sorry they were. I literally didnt care beyond a normal response to someone you had heard of but never met dying.
I had worked in a children's hospital and the death of a child I knew was something to be sad.
The embarrassing outpouring of "grief" for a person who the press (and the people pretending to care so much) literally the day before was spectacularly hypocritical.

There's only two celebrity deaths that have ever gotten a tear out of me.
Peaches Geldif, purely because of how young she was, with two young kids
And The Queen. She was just always there, so constant, so steady, most people in the UK had never known life without her, and there was something about someone so ever present no longer being present that just hit me. But I don't like change much.
I think I will be very sad when David Attenborough goes too

I love black sabbath but I don't cry over celebrities dying.

However, I cry over enough other random shit to not judge others.

Good point. EM Forster wrote a book about this.

I was very upset when Prince died and also Terry Wogan. It is the end of an era and not your business how people react to a death of an icon

True

I was sad yesterday when Malcolm Jamal Warner died. I grew up watching him. I wasn't sobbing, but I felt really sad.