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[Edit: He has now passed away] - Smash Mouth singer Steve Harwell in hospice for liver failure (ew.com)

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[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 24 points 11 months ago

Alcoholism is a fucked way to go.

[-] SatyrSack@lemmy.one 8 points 11 months ago

Well, the beers start comin' and they don't stop comin'.

[-] TheBroodian@hexbear.net 1 points 11 months ago

and they don't stop comin'

[-] You_are_dust@lemm.ee 23 points 11 months ago

Really sucks. It was only recently that I heard he's been in such rough shape with addiction. Smash Mouth was such a big thing back in my teen years. It's tough basically watching your childhood die a little more every day. Such a shame addiction got him like this.

[-] Willie@kbin.social 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Damn, I guess the years stopped coming.

[-] MeDuViNoX@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

The world rolled him.

[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 13 points 11 months ago

That video of him passing out in the middle of all star in front of three dozen people was rough.

[-] glimse@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

Smash Mouth gets made fun of a lot but I've always had respect for the incessant positivity in their music

[-] theragu40@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

I'm not even sure why they get clowned. I guess because they sorta sold out doing covers for movies and after that their albums fell off a cliff. More recently obviously because the singer was very publicly self destructing.

But like...Fush Yu Mang and Astrolounge are both seriously good albums.

[-] citrusface@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

I guess you can't deny liver failure as easily as you can deny COVID. Hey now.

[-] UsernameIsTooLon@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

Dude hasn't been well for a while. He hates All Star so much that he has to get very drunk in order to perform it at all. I believe he kept getting into drunk verbal fights with the crowd until the band ultimately stopped touring.

[-] bakachu@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

I've seen a video or two of that. I had also heard that people would attend his concerts to see him go off the rails. It's so unfortunate he hated the song that brought him so much success. I know a lot of people think its been overplayed, but It's just a fun, catchy, light-hearted song.

[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

What a rough way to go. I remember seeing a video years ago where he didn't look very healthy. Poor guy.

[-] reflex@kbin.social 6 points 11 months ago

Didn't make sense not to live for fun ♫

[-] ChillPenguin@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

That show in New York kinda reminded me of blades of glory when Will Ferrell is just getting plastered in his suit, ice skating in costume. Except the smash mouth version. Kinda not surprised.

[-] crazybuppie@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

https://www.10tv.com/mobile/article/news/nation-world/former-smash-mouth-singer-in-hospice/507-aa1b7e9b-3391-4896-a17b-4f7fac41e697?fbclid=IwAR0RSCW_g2kWwBfLibagVA4qKwWpaRY6YCkldJMl8BE1jRR9K2P8qs-heLk

RIP

[-] Aryuproudomenowdaddy@hexbear.net 3 points 11 months ago

shrek-pixel-despair

[+] wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works -14 points 11 months ago

So he got got by one of the few diseases you can just choose to not get.

It takes willful ignorance in the beginning to get addicted. I've your home, then you can no longer help it. But no one forced anyone to just start drinking too much too often.

[-] ArtVandelay@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago

This might be the dumbest comment I've read in a long time

[-] bakachu@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

Not sure if this is your intent but your comment might be coming off the same as, "Why don't you just stop being sad?" To people suffering from depression. Mental disorders and addictions are legitimate diseases and can be extremely complex to diagnose and treat. It's really unfortunate that Steve Harwell died under those circumstances. His music brought joy to a lot of people.

[-] wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works -1 points 11 months ago

Addiction doesn't start right away. You have to keep choosing to consume while seeing it's a bad idea. You become dependant later.

Depression is not just being chronically sad, and you don't choose to be sad in the first place even if it was.

[-] stillwater@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

Your idea of addiction goes against the most rudimentary science about addiction.

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