would not want to be in a karaoke bar tonight.
― pplains, Sunday, 12 February 2012 01:29 (twelve years ago) link
gotta get my thoughts together, but RIP to a terrific talent who I loved, warts & all
― Euler, Sunday, 12 February 2012 01:37 (twelve years ago) link
Wow.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 12 February 2012 01:38 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah. Blindsided. Blasting 'It's Not Right, But It's Okay' in her honour.
― Somewhere between Fergie and Jesus (Alex in Montreal), Sunday, 12 February 2012 01:39 (twelve years ago) link
Sometimes I think the cover of "Memories" she sang with Material (at least 2 years before her first album came out) was the best thing she ever did. RIP.
― Steamtable Willie (WmC), Sunday, 12 February 2012 01:41 (twelve years ago) link
what?! RIP
― jed_, Sunday, 12 February 2012 01:43 (twelve years ago) link
WmC otm. Archie Shepp is on that too. It's really great.
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Sunday, 12 February 2012 01:43 (twelve years ago) link
Playing this and "You Give Good Love." She sounded so sweet.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 12 February 2012 01:43 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_rId-X64hg
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Sunday, 12 February 2012 01:45 (twelve years ago) link
did she do the grammy's last night?
― D-40, Sunday, 12 February 2012 01:45 (twelve years ago) link
ABC walking it back
― mark s, Sunday, 12 February 2012 01:53 (twelve years ago) link
thats from sept 13
― D-40, Sunday, 12 February 2012 01:54 (twelve years ago) link
Yes sorry I just realised that :(
― mark s, Sunday, 12 February 2012 01:55 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=z_yiCIow6fI
― rawr, Sunday, 12 February 2012 01:55 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-iLG8UmSes
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 12 February 2012 01:55 (twelve years ago) link
Anyway, self-destructive drug addict diva dies shockah. The tragedy preceded the death by at least a decade. Lookout, Lindsay.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 12 February 2012 01:57 (twelve years ago) link
when was her last hit?
― mookieproof, Sunday, 12 February 2012 01:58 (twelve years ago) link
The I Look To You singles didn't go top 40, though two went R&B top 20. Her last pop hit was actually the re-issue of "Star Spangled Banner" after 9/11.
― da croupier, Sunday, 12 February 2012 02:01 (twelve years ago) link
with itunes and amazonmp3 she will get a good few hits now
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Sunday, 12 February 2012 02:02 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMdXi6f5KRg
oh, serge
― mookieproof, Sunday, 12 February 2012 02:03 (twelve years ago) link
trying to find the best live version of My Name Is Not Susan
rip
― seriously, THIS GUY (daria-g), Sunday, 12 February 2012 02:06 (twelve years ago) link
neve campbell at the leafs game = the only non-whitney twitter trend lol
― mookieproof, Sunday, 12 February 2012 02:06 (twelve years ago) link
at the time I thought "What an odd, awesome name for a Top 40 single."
xpost
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 12 February 2012 02:07 (twelve years ago) link
oh no....rip
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 12 February 2012 02:11 (twelve years ago) link
Holy shit. She was performing last night.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Sunday, 12 February 2012 02:12 (twelve years ago) link
Holy hell
RIP
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Sunday, 12 February 2012 02:13 (twelve years ago) link
― Summer Slam! (Ste), Sunday, 12 February 2012 02:17 (twelve years ago) link
Gotta agree with this:
https://twitter.com/#!/joncaramanica/status/168515061055369216
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 12 February 2012 02:17 (twelve years ago) link
mmmmm.
― little clouds of citrus spritz as i peel (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 12 February 2012 02:19 (twelve years ago) link
damn shame. not really a fan of hers but i remember liking her in a couple of films (the preacher's wife, i'm thinking?). she seemed, at the time, to be pretty charming and classy and chill( kinda like lindsay used to be : / ) none of which makes her drug issues and fucked up personal life any more tragic in a way but still...
― omar little, Sunday, 12 February 2012 02:24 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxZD0VQvfqU
― seriously, THIS GUY (daria-g), Sunday, 12 February 2012 02:29 (twelve years ago) link
The fact that her first record was a Soft Machine cover featuring Archie Shepp completely blows my mind.
xp
― Let A Man Come In And Do The Cop Porn (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 12 February 2012 02:30 (twelve years ago) link
was just singing the bridge to 'how will I know' in the shower last week
― calstars, Sunday, 12 February 2012 02:31 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdCDLQew0LI
imo this was the best of 80s pop whitney
― seriously, THIS GUY (daria-g), Sunday, 12 February 2012 02:37 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, I'd heard she sang fairly well Friday night, seemed like she was continuing uphill--so this is fairly startling, disheartening if not a shockah. Whether she was sober, and something like a long-damaged metabolism finally running all the way down, or toasting Friday night's recent little victory, with one last rock too many: "Memories, they hang you up and hold you."
― dow, Sunday, 12 February 2012 02:38 (twelve years ago) link
ts: anita baker whitney ("you give good love") vs. teenpop whitney ("how will i know") vs. new jack whitney (the '90s)
― textile in thighville (get bent), Sunday, 12 February 2012 02:40 (twelve years ago) link
crazy this happened the night of Clive Davis' pre-grammy gala
― da croupier, Sunday, 12 February 2012 02:40 (twelve years ago) link
wonder how much of this is still going to happen
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501368_162-57375894/clive-davis-gala-is-white-hot-kinks-to-perform/
― da croupier, Sunday, 12 February 2012 02:41 (twelve years ago) link
clive cancelled the event btw.
― textile in thighville (get bent), Sunday, 12 February 2012 02:41 (twelve years ago) link
love this so muchhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdoamCoYTs0
― prolego, Sunday, 12 February 2012 02:41 (twelve years ago) link
xpost makes sense
At the Beverly Hilton on Friday, Alicia Keys was getting ready to rehearse. Monica and Brandy will also hit the stage. Vintage clips of the annual event played on the big screen, showing performances from Houston, Lou Reed, Rod Stewart, Aretha Franklin and Usher.
Houston isn't on the performance list, but that could change.
"It's her favorite night of the year ... (so) who knows by the end of the evening," said Davis, who founded Arista Records and is now the chief creative officer of Sony Music Entertainment.
http://justjared.buzznet.com/2012/02/11/clive-davis-grammy-party-canceled-after-whitney-houstons-death/
― textile in thighville (get bent), Sunday, 12 February 2012 02:43 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDzdqranbUc
:(
― Peace (peaceful) (The Brainwasher), Sunday, 12 February 2012 02:44 (twelve years ago) link
90s whitney was the best
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J538b-OLRU
― seriously, THIS GUY (daria-g), Sunday, 12 February 2012 02:44 (twelve years ago) link
i forgot how good love will save the day is; total winner.
― little clouds of citrus spritz as i peel (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 12 February 2012 02:44 (twelve years ago) link
I am truly shocked, still hard to even process this.
apparently this sparkle remake was first going to happen around 2001, and was pushed aside after aaliyah (who was supposed to co-star) died
― da croupier, Sunday, 12 February 2012 02:45 (twelve years ago) link
"It's Not Right..." is the last time I remember her as a Billboard/cultural force. That Thunderpuss remix was everywhere in '99.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 12 February 2012 02:46 (twelve years ago) link
so sad...r.i.p. whitney.
― scott seward, Sunday, 12 February 2012 02:46 (twelve years ago) link
Holy shit Whitney what the fucking fuck
― the late great, Sunday, 12 February 2012 02:48 (twelve years ago) link
idk i think that many years of addiction what constitutes friends gets twisted through a particular refractory index. everything gets modulated by addiction. everything gets swept into that particular economy. we all saw it in this case, how marriage and drugs were sortof a package deal. this always extends into everything. this is why its sad but i guess i'm glad for her sake it isn't crack that showed up on the toxicology report. crack is cheap. crack is wack.
― judith, Saturday, 24 March 2012 00:39 (twelve years ago) link
this is classy as fuck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kt9GeWbofrM
― The Reverend, Friday, 1 June 2012 04:53 (eleven years ago) link
that's nice
― fapper don (J0rdan S.), Friday, 1 June 2012 04:58 (eleven years ago) link
thicke is so absurd
ha yes, but that's rather beside the point
― The Reverend, Friday, 1 June 2012 05:00 (eleven years ago) link
he's having GROWING PAINS do you get it because he is getting older
― jump them into a gang - into the absurd (forksclovetofu), Friday, 1 June 2012 05:18 (eleven years ago) link
holy crap was the bet awards tribute discussed elsewhere on ilm? i don't feel like i can finish watching it, but cissy houston sings, or wails, really, a version of "bridge over troubled water" where she changes the lyrics to past tense, viz. "your time had come to shine / all your dreams have gone away." i couldn't finish watching her performance tbh. before that, monica did an amazing version of "i love the lord."
― horseshoe, Monday, 9 July 2012 01:34 (eleven years ago) link
there that new movie 'sparkle' which i see ads for on youtube all the time now, and the trailer has a line from whitney's character saying something like "don't live the life i did!" or something akin to that.
― omar little, Thursday, 26 July 2012 19:49 (eleven years ago) link
oooh...meta!
― to welcome jer.fairall, pie is served. (jer.fairall), Thursday, 26 July 2012 19:51 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.huntautobody.com/RIPPED_FROM_THE_HEADLINES_copy.jpg
― omar little, Thursday, 26 July 2012 19:59 (eleven years ago) link
"I do cocaine suppositories nitch"
― The Cheerfull Turtle (Latham Green), Thursday, 26 July 2012 20:02 (eleven years ago) link
http://aiyatheydidnt.livejournal.com/879708.html
― _Rudipherous_, Wednesday, 1 August 2012 04:44 (eleven years ago) link
(That's: China’s stars react to Whitney’s tragic death)
― _Rudipherous_, Wednesday, 1 August 2012 04:45 (eleven years ago) link
lost in translation“Whitney Houston has boarded Noah’s Ark. You guys! She’s only in her 40s. She must have boarded the ark. How could it be possible that she has died?” – Little C Xian Sen (小C先森)
― I dont even know that I think this sucks per se (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 1 August 2012 13:34 (eleven years ago) link
Well fuck
http://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/celebrity/whitney-houstons-daughter-bobbi-kristina-brown-found-unresponsive-bathtub-n297596
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 31 January 2015 18:34 (nine years ago) link
oh no
― example (crüt), Saturday, 31 January 2015 18:35 (nine years ago) link
― lex pretend, Saturday, 31 January 2015 18:38 (nine years ago) link
wowwww sad.
― aybaybayfan (The Reverend), Saturday, 31 January 2015 23:38 (nine years ago) link
Omg I just heardSo unbearably sad
― groundless round (La Lechera), Sunday, 1 February 2015 01:03 (nine years ago) link
(I'm not sad personally but I find the situation really really tragically sad)
― groundless round (La Lechera), Sunday, 1 February 2015 01:04 (nine years ago) link
:((((((((
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jul/27/bobbi-kristina-brown-daughter-of-whitney-houston-dies-aged-22
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Monday, 27 July 2015 07:21 (eight years ago) link
jesus. nothing about this story that isn't tragic.
― Credit: howtokeepapositiveattitudedotcom (stevie), Monday, 27 July 2015 08:31 (eight years ago) link
Has anyone else watched WHITNEY, the 2018 doc? I watched it last night and it dragged me through the wringer all over again. Usually I don't like talking head interviews in documentaries but these were very direct and it was illuminating to hear from her closest friends and family (except Robyn)
I want to look up this performance because it sounds extremely emotional and that is how I feel after watching this movie. RIP Nippy & Chrissy.
― horseshoe, Sunday, July 8, 2012 8:34 PM (six years ago) Bookmark
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 17:52 (five years ago) link
here it is :(
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tGzCBzGEts
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 17:56 (five years ago) link
I saw can I be me by nick broomfield and its pretty sad viewing.
― candyman, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 22:01 (three years ago) link
This looks terrible:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx8p_quBV3I
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 27 November 2022 15:30 (one year ago) link
No surprise. It was produced and written by a guy who's done some of the hackiest biopics ever, and Clive was also a producer. Kasi Lemmons is a great director though - if this helps her finance her own projects, so be it.
― birdistheword, Sunday, 27 November 2022 15:54 (one year ago) link
Wow, Kasi Lemmons in the director!? I don't think I've seen anything of hers since "The Caveman's Valentine."
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 27 November 2022 16:47 (one year ago) link
Saw the trailer for this while taking my kid to see Matilda on Friday (which is superb). This movie looks like dreck - cheap, tacky, melodramatic and appallingly overacted.
― his cartoon heart expands, then he relaxes by smoking crack (stevie), Sunday, 27 November 2022 16:49 (one year ago) link
snake is skipping the tail and starting on the midsection these days, no point to finding historical truth when there's money to be made on the backs of people who can't complain
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 6 December 2022 01:24 (one year ago) link