What her mother also said was that it was routine for Ms. Harris to drive 12 hours at a time for work.
This is sad; it's also no guarantee that the local investigation is going to be impartial:
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https://www.syracuse.com/entertainment/2019/09/police-country-singer-kylie-rae-harris-caused-crash-that-killed-her-and-teen.html
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There's a 3rd driver involved, isn't there, who was uninjured? Has there been an exhaustive investigation to get statements from anyone and everyone else who could have been an eye witness?
Did the police run a background check at the scene of the accident, find Ms. Harris's previous DWI conviction and allow that to influence their investigation and their immediate statements to the media?
No matter what, I think it's safe to say that the music industry needs to change its culture. Nobody should have to drive 12 hours at a time to make a living. How is it that someone who was this talented was still driving those hours 5 years after winning that award? What about being a woman in that industry? What about the industry's attitude toward alcohol?
I had never heard of her before she died. I have now listened to some of her songs at YouTube; they are consistently thoughtful and melodically intact. She was a good musician.
How many others like her are creating music that has lasting value with no job security and under bad working conditions, in or at the fringes of a star-oriented system that reserves obscene quantities of wealth for a few people?
Her Instagram has been disabled. I scrolled through some of it a few days ago, when the first reports of her death were online. My recollection is that she was thinner and blonder in every picture. It's also my impression that at some point over the last few years she paid however much the going rate is for a nose job.
People have the right to try to look the way that they want to look, but is that what she felt she had to do to make a living? She was looking more and more like every other pretty, blonde girl who ever tried to work in the entertainment industry. If she had eventually achieved "perfect" beauty, what the hell would it have gotten her? Would she have ended up like me?
I'm glad that I took this screenshot of one of her pictures at Instagram before the account was disabled:
