missfee said:

I don't want to be negative, I really don't, but I'd rather Alicia just sing rather than talk. She annoys me when she talks. Sorry.

lol I'm the opposite. I'd rather just hear her talk. I highly believe she's on a mission to destroy her voice.

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diamondpearl1 said:

119 said:

I don't know her family or friends, and I am assuming you don't either.

It's a bit presumptious for you to conjecture that she did not receive support/kind words and love from those in that church. You have no idea, and I would conjecture that you are probably wrong. I seriously doubt that those who loved her made jokes or punchlines of her issues. The public knows nothing about her or her family and friends. There is a reason they are in the church, and the public is not. So I think your comments are misguided.

I was just wonderin why we wait till the end 2 say I love you that's all....I wasn't referrin 2 all her family and friends but shit how we figure they ain't cryin over guilt too? I was just wonderin why we people always make a spectacle when it's 2 late...It's like we oughta show each other love daily but we never do till a day like this....fuck...

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Who is making a spectacle?

SeventeenDayze said:

missfee said:

I don't want to be negative, I really don't, but I'd rather Alicia just sing rather than talk. She annoys me when she talks. Sorry.

It was a bit weird seeing her adjust her clothes like that while up there....awkward....

I think she's very nervous. She also has this little laugh after she said something....

ScarletScandal said:

missfee said:

I don't want to be negative, I really don't, but I'd rather Alicia just sing rather than talk. She annoys me when she talks. Sorry.

lol I'm the opposite. I'd rather just hear her talk. I highly believe she's on a mission to destroy her voice.

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She just sang like it . . . .

Kevin made me cry. Excellent speech. Dionne-I am not trying to be mean, but her voice-every time I hear it today it is jarring-it like she is announcing a blue plate special or a lounge act. Alicia, please shut it and sing. She rubs me wrong

Clive is talking now...

If I were Clive I would've declined to speak.

Clive is up....still not sure how I feel about this dude having the party while she was dead just a few floors up....just weird

SUPRMAN said:

ScarletScandal said:

lol I'm the opposite. I'd rather just hear her talk. I highly believe she's on a mission to destroy her voice.

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She just sang like it . . . .

All I can do is hope Clive will be brief.

Kevis's speech was fantastic!

Now Clive "Silver Balls" Davis (thanks Vainandy for that nickname!) is on. He makes me want to vomit on my computer screen.

SUPRMAN said:

If I were Clive I would've declined to speak.

Yeah, did you notice how light his applause was when he was being called up?

Oh Clive . . .

He's not personal at all.

He's discussing a business partner.

The silence of the congregation is deafening.....hoping he ends his talk soon....

Clive, massive fail. i wonder if him speaking there is some sort of bargain to save him from hell.

Secondly, a lot of people on the net have gone in on Alicia-negative comments re her being there at Whitney's funeral were deleted off Centric's FB page

He's trying to connect and failing.

He can't talk about anything but their working relationship.

if he says "hotel bungalow" one more time....

Look how the guy in the Bishop's robe is looking at him...no appause from him either.

at that phone book comment

AWW SNAP. AUNTIE ReRe!!

Why is it that each time that Dionne Warwick gets up to talk the darn camera pans back, no close up

They should shovel up pieces of this damn hotel bungalow up his old tired butt, for sure...

Dang they still announced Aretha even though she isn't there? Maybe they didn't know.

Dionne got me all excited.

missfee said:

Dang they still announced Aretha even though she isn't there? Maybe they didn't know.

Probably just to acknowledge her in some way, but yeah it was a bit weird.

I'm still reeling a bit from Clive Davis though, he just seems so *gag* I dunno, seems like he just has no soul or something.

musicjunky318 said:

Dionne got me all excited.

I know, for a split second I thought maybe she changed her mind and showed up anyway.

Clive seems so cold I see how he didn't let her demise interfere with his little gala.

She was always there when "I" needed her...well I guess that was good...for him anyway.

I don't know, maybe I'm the odd ball, but I didn't really expect anything no different from Clive than what he delivered. She was his employee. So for him to give more personal stories than business would had seemed fake to me. He's a business man and about HIS money.

STEVIE!

Stevie Wonder

Clive is just as shady as the rest of them. Him, Mottola, Reid...

Whatever.