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Reply #810 posted 02/12/12 9:45am

Timmy84

lazycrockett said:

Timmy84 said:

Wow. sad

This is what boogles my mind. Everyone knows that mixing meds and alcohol is a disaster waiting to happen and should be done under controlled situations, even for a high. Throw in taking a bath and its just WTF are you thinking. confused

It's insane really. I'm still trying to put two and two together. Like wow, you mixed that?

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Reply #811 posted 02/12/12 9:47am

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Timmy84 said:

Remember when Rolling Stone used to say that Janis Joplin was the "Judy Garland of rock"? I'm thinking Whitney Houston, in terms of her success and downfall, was the modern-day Judy Garland to me.

That's pretty astute.

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Reply #812 posted 02/12/12 9:49am

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BobGeorge909 said:


It's sad she died ad all that. There's a million other beautiful women on this plant with wonderful voices...who DIDN'T throw away their life to addiction. Despite all of her oppritunities and support, she still knowingly took the wrong road and effects take when given cause. I've had my addiction problems and they're knocking on my forehead everyday...still. Many other people who don't have the resources, support, and the love of a million+ fans still manage to surmount these issues. Call me callous and crude, I just don't have much sympathy for someone who dies from complications of drug addiction. I don't expect anyone to have sympathy for me and my addictions. Despite chemical motivations, addiction is ultimately a choice. I respect Jimmi's, Janice's, Kurt's, srv's, and all the other dead, addicted musicians contributions to the arts...but I don't have much(if any) sympathy for them. There's a lovely woman who sings weekly at a bar by my house...plainly sings better than crack-head Whitney. Her death won't make headline news, despite her ability to avoid a multitude of stupid decisions.


If you've had your own addiction issues, how can you not have compassion for someone else who is going through the same trial?



Bcuz I know how many stupid choices I made that got me to the point where I was blue and breathless on my sofa. Stupid choices
, nothing I was forced into...coaxed maybe, but I'm a human being with a brain I can choose to use or follow. Whitney Houston had waaaay to many chances to make the right choice....so did I to end up being blue.
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Reply #813 posted 02/12/12 9:51am

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Timmy84 said:

Remember when Rolling Stone used to say that Janis Joplin was the "Judy Garland of rock"? I'm thinking Whitney Houston, in terms of her success and downfall, was the modern-day Judy Garland to me.

Right down to the butt ugly daughter who will become a gay fashion icon. lol

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Reply #814 posted 02/12/12 9:51am

Timmy84

Whitney Houston
Took Xanax Before Big Shows

People close to Whitney Houston were aware she was taking Xanax -- and according to our sources, she told them she always took it before big performances ... like the pre-Grammy party she was scheduled to perform at last night.

We're told Whitney believed the Xanax helped calm her nerves before going out in front of people. According to our sources, Whitney claimed to have anxiety and panic attacks and the pills helped her relax before taking the stage.

Our sources say the people inside of Whitney's hotel room when she died were aware Whitney would take Xanax before shows. We're told those people never saw Whitney take any pills, she would just tell them she did. They are unaware how many she would take or if she took any other drugs.

According to our sources, Whitney did not mention taking Xanax yesterday.

Our sources say Whitney had been in a good mood all day and was excited to be performing that evening.

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Reply #815 posted 02/12/12 9:57am

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Rest in peace Whitney. sad You life should have ended a lot better than this. disbelief

And damn you Clive Davis! mad It's you fault for convincing Whitney to make a comeback attempt too soon when even Wnitney told you that it was NOT necessary for her to return to the music industry straight away. And to make matters worse, her ill-fated & FAILED last career tour will be THE last thing music critics and long time Whitney-fans are going to remember her for. disbelief

I hate THIS f***ing music industry more than ever. Enough said.

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Reply #816 posted 02/12/12 9:59am

Timmy84

I do remember cursing Clive's old ass out for what he said... Whitney didn't even wanna go on tour. SMH

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Reply #817 posted 02/12/12 10:15am

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Identity said:

sosgemini said:

I swear if they put B'Weave up on that Grammy stage to sing one of Nippy's songs, I am done with society!!! mad

Hearing her ass butcher a Whitney tune would only add to the tragedy--and anger the hell out of me. confused

Both of you will recant these statements when/if you hear Beyonce cover Whitney.

People used to say the same garbage about Whitney herself......Stupid.

"You put water into a cup, it becomes the cup...Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend." - Bruce Lee
"Water can nourish me, but water can also carry me. Water has magic laws." - JCVD
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Reply #818 posted 02/12/12 10:22am

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Annie Lennox

It's almost unbearable to think of yet another OUTSTANDING artist being prematurely snuffed out like a light…far too soon. I'm torn between the profound awe I have for the incredible voices of Whitney and Amy, and the horror I feel over the destructive natures of their respective demise. So many phenomenal performers have fallen between the cracks like this. It makes me feel so sad. I've been looking at YouTube clips of Whitney today, and reflecting on her tremendous rise to massive fame as a young woman. She had it all…Beauty..exceptional talent.. fame..wealth..But when the life/work/fame balance gets out of kilter, and you start putting drugs into the mix, it's completely toxic. What a terrible tragic waste. So sad.

That is so very true. I remember Paul Mooney said that live years ago. It may have sounded like a joke, but he was serious. Whitney had EVERYTHING a female celebrity could want, and seemingly didn't even realize it. sad

"You put water into a cup, it becomes the cup...Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend." - Bruce Lee
"Water can nourish me, but water can also carry me. Water has magic laws." - JCVD
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Reply #819 posted 02/12/12 10:22am

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TonyVanDam said:

Rest in peace Whitney. sad You life should have ended a lot better than this. disbelief

And damn you Clive Davis! mad It's you fault for convincing Whitney to make a comeback attempt too soon when even Wnitney told you that it was NOT necessary for her to return to the music industry straight away. And to make matters worse, her ill-fated & FAILED last career tour will be THE last thing music critics and long time Whitney-fans are going to remember her for. disbelief

I hate THIS f***ing music industry more than ever. Enough said.

Yeah, it's all about the money. They should have taken her away, like many other celebs, to a quit and peacefull place and leave her alone.

Same with Michael, Britney etc. When they see a celeb doing a little better again, the big machine starts rolling again. Very sad.

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Reply #820 posted 02/12/12 10:24am

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"The fact that it happened on this day, this event is where Clive Davis introduced Whitney to the world. We said hello to Whitney at the Clive Davis (gala), it may be appropriate we're saying our first goodbyes to Whitney at a Clive Davis event," Jam said. "In a weird way it's appropriate, the show must go on. I think Whitney would have wanted that to happen. ... Tonight I think we begin to celebrate and remember." - Jimmy Jam (The Associated Press writers Caitlin King and Ryan Pearson)

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Reply #821 posted 02/12/12 10:30am

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Bet has a real tribute on now.
[Edited 2/12/12 10:35am]
PRINCE: Always and Forever
MICHAEL JACKSON: Always and Forever
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Live Your Life How U Wanna Live It
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Reply #822 posted 02/12/12 10:39am

V10LETBLUES

It's nobody's fault she passed away too soon. We all have our own demons we fight with. She brought a lot of joy into this world, and that is all we can all hope for. She succeed, and a day comes for all of us to leave this world. We should celebrate her and life instead of being sad or angry.

May we all succeed in bringing joy into people's lives before we go.

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Reply #823 posted 02/12/12 10:42am

Timmy84

Whitney's Death: An Earlier Incident?

LOS ANGELES — Whitney Houston’s death made for a long day’s journey into night at the Beverly Hilton. While the Clive Davis Grammy dinner had to proceed downstairs in the ballroom–with 800 guests already filing in as the news was breaking–Whitney remained in state, so to speak, in her fourth floor suite. She was not removed until just moments before the party ended–a little after midnight. She’d been in the suite, discovered in her bathtub. But there were many people in the suite when this happened at 3:50pm including her daughter Bobbi Kristina, her brother Gary, sister in law Pat Houston, and another player in this story — a nightlife friend who’d been guiding her around town the last few days as she was photographed in states of duress.

What you don’t know is that around 11pm, paramedics were called back to the fourth floor. Security and police raced back to the 4th floor. A medical wheelchair with restraints was brought in through the back entrance to the hotel. Bobbi Kristina “freaked out”–well, she’d been upstairs for hours with her mother’s dead body in the next room. It was understandable. The paramedics thought they were going to to have to take her to the hospital. But calm was restored. For ten minutes, though, security cleared the entire lobby of the hotel while the concert was going on inside the ballroom. I was out there at that moment, and it was one of the strangest scenes ever.

Then there’s the mysterious story of a leak that occurred the night before from Whitney’s group of suites. A man on the third floor right underneath Houston’s suite suddenly experienced water cascading into his bathroom from above at 2:30am. It wasn’t just a trickle. The man called security, then went upstairs to the fourth floor to see what was going on. He swears to me that it was Whitney’s bathtub that was overflowing. He also says that a flat screen television had been been broken–the screen was smashed. My sources at the hotel say there was a “leak” but that it wasn’t from Whitney’s room. “They [her group] have a lot of rooms up there,” says the hotel source. My source, this man, insists that he was told it was Whitney Houston’s room. It does seem to have been part of her group of rooms.

There are many mysteries here. None of them have been reported or solved by TMZ or thoe the other muckracking tabloids. I know the man who had to pull Whitney out of the bathtub yesterday and attempt to give her CPR. He told me, “She was already dead. There was nothing I could do.”

More on Whitney’s death and the Grammy party follows in the next post. And believe me, dear readers, this isn’t easy. I’ve known Whitney Houston and her family for over 25 years. She was a beautiful girl with a big heart. She was full of optimism. Her mother is one of the finest people. The people who worked for and with her were devoted to her. When the shock turns to anger there will be a lot of finger pointing. But in the end, Whitney ruled her own world.

Follow us also at www.showbiz411.com for an exclusive interview with Whitney’s musical director, Rickey Minor.

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Reply #824 posted 02/12/12 10:49am

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I just saw the video of Whitney and El Debarge from a couple of days ago. They look rather emotional, do they have some history or friendship?

http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2012/02/whitney_houston_tearfully_reun.html

And since folks are remembering their favorite Whitney songs I have to say that I was quite partial to the My love is your love album. We played the heck out of it in college.

Of the big songs, my fave was probably Miracle or Just the Lonely Talking.

The classics from her early career, it goes without saying will remain so...


[Edited 2/12/12 11:07am]

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Reply #825 posted 02/12/12 10:50am

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sosgemini said:

I swear if they put B'Weave up on that Grammy stage to sing one of Nippy's songs, I am done with society!!! mad

i hear it's gonna be jennifer hudson

man, he has such an amazing body of music that it's sad to see him constrict it down to the basics. he's too talented for the lineup he's doing. estelle 81
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Reply #826 posted 02/12/12 10:55am

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lazycrockett said:

Timmy84 said:

Wow. sad

This is what boogles my mind. Everyone knows that mixing meds and alcohol is a disaster waiting to happen and should be done under controlled situations, even for a high. Throw in taking a bath and its just WTF are you thinking. confused

It is mind boggling but there's always people who think "it won't happen to me".

Prince, in you I found a kindred spirit...Rest In Paradise.
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Reply #827 posted 02/12/12 10:56am

Timmy84

Bobby Brown 'Deeply Saddened' By Whitney Houston's Death

By Debra Lewis-Boothman

Sunday February 12, 2012 01:35 PM EST

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Bobby Brown is speaking out.

In his first official comments about the tragic death of his ex-wife, Whitney Houston, the R&B star released a statement to PEOPLE saying, "I am deeply saddened at the passing of my ex-wife, Whitney Houston."

He adds, "At this time, we ask for privacy, especially for my daughter, Bobbi Kristina. I appreciate all of the condolences that have been directed towards my family and I at this most difficult time."

On the day Houston, 48, was found dead in a Beverly Hills hotel, a tearful Brown performed in Mississippi with his band New Edition. "I love you, Whitney," he said from the stage.

A relative of Brown's says that he is "beside himself" with grief.

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Reply #828 posted 02/12/12 10:58am

Timmy84

Whitney Houston's Final Days Marked by Erratic Behavior

By Mike Fleeman and Carlos Greer

Sunday February 12, 2012 01:25 PM EST

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It was 9:30 a.m. last Wednesday at the Beverly Hilton and Whitney Houston appeared "out of it," a source tells PEOPLE.

"She seemed like she was on something," says the source.

Three days later, after several episodes of reportedly erratic and bizarre behavior, Houston would be dead in her hotel room at age 48, just hours before she was to appear at music mogul Clive Davis's annual pre-Grammy party.

Coming off another round of rehab last May, she appeared poised for a glittering comeback – she stars in this summer's film Sparkle – and a triumphant return to the music industry's biggest week, the six-time Grammy winner serving as mentor to young divas.

But after checking into the Hilton, her odd behavior on Wednesday morning was just the start.

The next day, as Houston turned up for rehearsals for Davis's gala, she "appeared disheveled in mismatched clothes," the Los Angeles Times reports, her hair wet with water or sweat.

"The singer smelled of alcohol and cigarettes," the Times reports, adding she "displayed erratic behavior" by "flailing her hands" while speaking to singers Brandy and Monica, then went "wandering aimlessly" around the lobby.

A source tells PEOPLE that Houston was "twitching her nose constantly" and ranting to Monica about what she was apparently supposed to wear to the Davis event.

"I don't wear no blue," she said, according to the source. "I don't want no goddamn blue."

Later, at a pre-Grammy event at TRU Hollywood, Houston joined Kelly Price for a duet of hymns, but her vocals were shaky.

Then, Houston tangled with singer Stacy Francis. After first not recognizing her, Houston "got belligerent" with Francis, The Hollywood Reporter reports.

Francis later didn't deny the episode, saying only to THR, "I have the utmost respect for Whitney Houston and her talent."

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Reply #829 posted 02/12/12 11:06am

mjscarousal

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BobGeorge909 said:

It's sad she died ad all that. There's a million other beautiful women on this plant with wonderful voices...who DIDN'T throw away their life to addiction. Despite all of her oppritunities and support, she still knowingly took the wrong road and effects take when given cause. I've had my addiction problems and they're knocking on my forehead everyday...still. Many other people who don't have the resources, support, and the love of a million+ fans still manage to surmount these issues. Call me callous and crude, I just don't have much sympathy for someone who dies from complications of drug addiction. I don't expect anyone to have sympathy for me and my addictions. Despite chemical motivations, addiction is ultimately a choice. I respect Jimmi's, Janice's, Kurt's, srv's, and all the other dead, addicted musicians contributions to the arts...but I don't have much(if any) sympathy for them. There's a lovely woman who sings weekly at a bar by my house...plainly sings better than crack-head Whitney. Her death won't make headline news, despite her ability to avoid a multitude of stupid decisions.

Oh please. Sure, there are many pretty women with nice voices, but we don't know these women. Great for the Woman who sings weekly at the bar by your house, but we don't know her and frankly, I couldn't care less.

I didn't grow up listening to these other unknown's music you speak of or grew up constantly seeing them on tv like many of us did with Whitney so you bringing up these nobody's is POINTLESS.

Whitney was a staple in many of our childhoods. She was one of a kind. Period. NO ONE had a voice like Whitney. No one had that tone she did or her perfect diction or hit those high notes so effortlessly. She had a wonderful voice and her own unique style. There's no one like her.

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Whitney accomplished a lot in her life period and NO ONE can ever take that away from her.

I find your comments about Whitney to be very tasteless. For you to sit here and call Whitney a crackhead at a time like this, wow, it says a lot about you and not in a good way. The woman hasn't even been dead 24 hours yet and some people are already talking shit when we don't even KNOW what killed her!

Ugh, just pathetic. Have some respect or don't say anything at all.

I agree... I could see someone making this comment if the person was someone like Monica, Beyonce etc who have ordinary voices that you could easily find again or better.

But Whitneys voice was ONE OF A KIND... nobody touches her vocals except Aretha.... No ordinary attractive girl who sings is not going to have the voice whitney had... People are not giving Whitney the credit she deserves at all.... Her voice was a knock out hands down...Her powerhouse vocals will be missed and will never be matched.. I dont care what nobody says

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Reply #830 posted 02/12/12 11:07am

Timmy84

RIP Whitney Houston

Her sad, untimely death is a reminder of how hard it is to find happiness in the spotlight of fame. But that voice is for the ages


Kevin Powell
guardian.co.uk, Sunday 12 February 2012 13.40 EST

Slow suicide is the term I've used for years to describe those individuals who are incredibly unhappy in their own lives, in their own skin, and do things to destroy that life, to destroy that skin. Whatever the race or culture of that person is immaterial; it doesn't matter if they are famous and wealthy, or unknown and poor. What matters is the source of their pain, and the ways they've chosen to deal with that pain. Or not.

I have often wondered if Whitney Houston was ever happy – as a world-class singer, as a daughter, as a wife, as a mother. She is gone now, her death a sad and jolting concluding scene to a long-running drama that we witnessed – at times, with tremendous pride and at times, with alarming discomfort – because she was by far the most gifted and the most visible singer of her generation, of the past 25 years. And because she battled various forms of drug addiction on an Olympian stage, and was in a wild and notoriously dysfunctional and abusive marriage with R&B singer Bobby Brown for 15 years.

My heart aches for Whitney Houston, even if many of us, through the years, could see such a moment coming. There was too much photographic evidence of her fluctuating weight, of her caramel-brown face drenched in sweat when not performing. But when you die in a Beverly Hills hotel room, at age 48, alone, on the eve of the Grammy Awards, discovered by your bodyguard, after 170m records sold, too-many-to-count Grammy, Billboard, and Emmy awards, and the biggest US single of all time ("I Will Always Love You"), we have to wonder, if we are sincere with ourselves: did we collectively participate in the slow and catastrophic plunge of Whitney Houston?

For sure, the social media networks are abuzz with genuine tributes to her, from celebrities, from those who actually knew her, from profoundly heart-broken fans. But I also think about how Whitney Houston had declined from American musical royalty to the oft-ridiculed and washed-up singer and drug fiend. There were interventions by her mother, the gospel singer Cissy Houston, and others. But there were also shameful, high-voltage spotlights, like her awkward interview with Diane Sawyer where she declared, when asked about her alleged drug use, "crack is wack." We also cannot forget Bobby Brown's car crash of a TV show, "Being Bobby Brown", which felt like we were watching a buffoonish caricature of love and marriage.

Yet, we absorbed these moments anyhow, because in this age of reality television, celebrity confessionals, YouTube and TMZ, the tribulations of mega-stars like Whitney Houston not only provide raw amusement for us, but allow us to mask in cowardly fashion our own sins and failings while mocking these clearly flawed human beings. That, indeed, is the great conundrum of the entertainment industry. On the one hand, it affords opportunities to be whatever we want to be, and more. On the flip side, the industry is a space where far too many individuals never fully grow up or evolve, never fully find out who they really are beneath the hype and hysteria.

For example, Houston was dogged for years by rumors of lesbianism because of her extremely close relationship with then-best friend Robyn Crawford (after Houston's marriage to Brown, Crawford mysteriously faded from view, and I do wonder what she has to say about Whitney's death), and even of an alleged affair with Tom Cruise's "Top Gun" co-star Kelly McGillis. Who knows what is legit and what is fairy tale, but what if part of Houston's drug dependency and acting out had to do with her living a make-believe existence crafted by others, simply to protect her image and superstardom? What if some of those nearest to her participated in a kind of collusion because they knew that homophobia in America would derail their breadwinner named Whitney Houston? Or because they were homophobic themselves?

And what if Houston was never the flawless pop princess we fancied her to be, that she really was just a girl from the tough streets of urban America with a big dream and a big voice? What if the post-Bodyguard Whitney was much closer to her real persona than the Whitney we came to adore in the 1980s and early 1990s?

In due time, I am sure the Whitney Houston storytellers will emerge. But, for now, I would much prefer to remember Whitney Houston for the angelic and genius singer she was. I will not lie and say I was a huge fan of Houston's when she burst on the scene in 1985, with her self-titled debut album. Yes, I knew she was the daughter of Cissy Houston, the cousin of Dionne Warwick, and the goddaughter of Aretha Franklin. If there was ever a black soul lineage to hail from, this was it.

Legendary music mogul Clive Davis's very conscious decision to take this gospel-steeped black child of Newark and East Orange, New Jersey and transform her into a top-40 diva may have made Houston an international star, but it left some African Americans initially scratching our heads about her bubbly pop leanings. With hindsight, Davis did the right thing because he understood America, and the world, was ready to embrace a vocalist like Whitney Houston.

That is because Whitney Houston had it all. She was tall, lean, and so jaw-droppingly gorgeous that she had a modeling career before her vocation as a singer exploded (including as one of the first women of color ever on the cover of Seventeen). She possessed a grace and class on stage that belied the fact she was only 22 when her first album appeared. She had the extraordinary ability to bring folks from all walks of life together just by belting a song. (Think of her singing America's national anthem at the 1991 Super Bowl, days after the first Gulf war began.) And as others have remarked, she had the kind of voice for which one quickly runs out of superlatives, that comes along but a few times in every generation. Ask those she has influenced, like Grammy and Oscar-winner Jennifer Hudson or multiple Grammy-winner Mariah Carey.

And you felt Whitney Houston's voice: esteemed by black church fans; connected with the traditions of a people who used music as an escape from their blues; in the mold of Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Chaka Khan, and, yes, Aretha Franklin; and boundless in the way life, all of our lives, should be boundless. Houston's interpretation of "The Greatest Love of All" (originally recorded by George Benson in the 1970s) on that first album caught my attention for these very reasons.

But it was when The Bodyguard (1992) became a monster film hit and the theme song "I Will Always Love You" was so ubiquitous, that I decided to see Houston perform in person. It was at Radio City Hall, New York in 1992 or 1993. She had a band, and she had a stool. There were no dancers, no gimmicks, just that voice. When Houston hit the climax of "I Will Always Love You", there was not a dry eye in the building, mine included. I remember coming away from that concert thoroughly miffed that I had not been an avid supporter of hers until the point. But for the rest of her short career, I certainly was, following every song or CD release, every appearance and hiccup in the twisting pulp fiction that was her real life.

There has been much talk of parallels between the demise of Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston. I actually feel that Whitney Houston's spiritual twin is Judy Garland. Like Houston, Garland grew up in a musical family, and performed from her childhood on. Like Houston, there were bottomless expectations for Garland's career, stunning successes as both singer and actress, and a long bout with substance abuse. Like Houston, there were bad relationships, public humiliations, multiple comebacks, and a voice and body that, near the end, had been destroyed by years of neglect and decay. And like Houston, Judy Garland died in her late 40s, the promise of what could have been gone forever.

Like Marilyn Monroe. Like Dorothy Dandridge. Like Janis Joplin. Like Amy Winehouse. Alas, Whitney Houston is no more in flesh, but her voice, a beacon of what is possible and the best in us, will remain long after the final tears and eulogies are said, long after the final renderings of her life by media and those who knew her, or thought they did. May Whitney Houston rest in the peace she never could achieve in her lifetime. Finally.

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Reply #831 posted 02/12/12 11:08am

Identity

WaterInYourBath said:

Identity said:

Hearing her ass butcher a Whitney tune would only add to the tragedy--and anger the hell out of me. confused

Both of you will recant these statements when/if you hear Beyonce cover Whitney.

People used to say the same garbage about Whitney herself......Stupid.

Actually, I won't be recanting anything. And I've never been critical of Whitney's vocal abilities.

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Reply #832 posted 02/12/12 11:10am

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Timmy84 said:

Wow. I know that was a scary moment:

Whitney Houston
Found Underwater

Whitney Houston was found in the bathtub of a Beverly Hills hotel yesterday ... with her face underwater ... people close to Whitney tell TMZ.

According to our sources, her stylist, hairdresser and two bodyguards were among the people in the room at the time. We're told they became worried about Whitney because she had been in the bathroom for over an hour and it was time to start getting ready for the Clive Davis party.

Our sources say they began to knock on the door and there was no answer. We're told the hairdresser, who is female, went in to check on Whitney. She immediately screamed and, according to our sources, one of the bodyguards came running in and pulled her out of the tub.

We're told Whitney's face was below the water and her legs were up ... like she had slid down the back of the tub.

According to our sources, her body was very cold and the bodyguard attempted CPR. That's when hotel security was called.

Paramedics arrived shortly thereafter, but Whitney was pronounced dead at 3:55 PM.

If she'd been drinking and got into a hot bath it may have resulted in a drop in blood pressure. It was probably too early for xanax for her performance.

It sounds accidental. Sounds like she was dead or close to it when she slid under the water.

Doesn't sound like she struggled to breath.

I don't want you to think like me. I just want you to think.
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Reply #833 posted 02/12/12 11:11am

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Timmy84 said:

RIP Whitney Houston


Yet, we absorbed these moments anyhow, because in this age of reality television, celebrity confessionals, YouTube and TMZ, the tribulations of mega-stars like Whitney Houston not only provide raw amusement for us, but allow us to mask in cowardly fashion our own sins and failings while mocking these clearly flawed human beings. That, indeed, is the great conundrum of the entertainment industry. On the one hand, it affords opportunities to be whatever we want to be, and more. On the flip side, the industry is a space where far too many individuals never fully grow up or evolve, never fully find out who they really are beneath the hype and hysteria.

This.

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Reply #834 posted 02/12/12 11:12am

mjscarousal

WaterInYourBath said:

Identity said:

Hearing her ass butcher a Whitney tune would only add to the tragedy--and anger the hell out of me. confused

Both of you will recant these statements when/if you hear Beyonce cover Whitney.

People used to say the same garbage about Whitney herself......Stupid.

Oh please.. Beyonce could never hit Whitneys vocals and plus anyway their are PLENTY of BETTER singers they could pick... Im tired of them running to her for tributes when all she does is use it as an excuse to show boat and ends up butchering a classic... no I rather J-Hud.

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Reply #835 posted 02/12/12 11:14am

Timmy84

SUPRMAN said:

Timmy84 said:

Wow. I know that was a scary moment:

Whitney Houston
Found Underwater

Whitney Houston was found in the bathtub of a Beverly Hills hotel yesterday ... with her face underwater ... people close to Whitney tell TMZ.

According to our sources, her stylist, hairdresser and two bodyguards were among the people in the room at the time. We're told they became worried about Whitney because she had been in the bathroom for over an hour and it was time to start getting ready for the Clive Davis party.

Our sources say they began to knock on the door and there was no answer. We're told the hairdresser, who is female, went in to check on Whitney. She immediately screamed and, according to our sources, one of the bodyguards came running in and pulled her out of the tub.

We're told Whitney's face was below the water and her legs were up ... like she had slid down the back of the tub.

According to our sources, her body was very cold and the bodyguard attempted CPR. That's when hotel security was called.

Paramedics arrived shortly thereafter, but Whitney was pronounced dead at 3:55 PM.

If she'd been drinking and got into a hot bath it may have resulted in a drop in blood pressure. It was probably too early for xanax for her performance.

It sounds accidental. Sounds like she was dead or close to it when she slid under the water.

Doesn't sound like she struggled to breath.

That's why I believe she was probably suffocated and this led to her drowning.

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Reply #836 posted 02/12/12 11:16am

Timmy84

By the way, I did see some footage of her leaving the nightclub just two days ago. She did appear to be under the influence of something, like she had taken prescription drugs on this night. And her people tried to get her into the car. Just bizarre. Poor Whitney.

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Reply #837 posted 02/12/12 11:16am

Identity

Timmy84 said:

I do remember cursing Clive's old ass out for what he said... Whitney didn't even wanna go on tour. SMH

But for Clive Davis she released one last album of new material.

[Edited 2/12/12 11:17am]

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Reply #838 posted 02/12/12 11:16am

JasonWill1980

On the real though... FUCK YOU BOBBY BROWN! THIS WOULD HAVE NEVER HAPPENED IF YOU WEREN'T WITH MY WHITNEY... YOU ARE THE ONE WHO INTRODUCED HER TO DRUGS. WHITNEY WAS A GOOD WHOLESOME CHURCH GIRL..AND BECAUSE YOUR GHETTO ASS GREW UP WITH DRUGS, CRIME, AND OTHER NEGATIVE INFLUENCES, YOU HAD TO FORCE THAT ON HER TOO.... BURN IN HELL, BOBBY. HOPE YOU DIE WITH MAGGOTS FEASTING ON YOUR ASSHOLE

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Reply #839 posted 02/12/12 11:19am

mjscarousal

Nick715 said:

Nice pic sad I always liked that hair cut on her...

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