Whitney Houston R.I.P.

thats from sept 13

Yes sorry I just realised that :(

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=z_yiCIow6fI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-iLG8UmSes

Anyway, self-destructive drug addict diva dies shockah. The tragedy preceded the death by at least a decade. Lookout, Lindsay.

when was her last hit?

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.

with itunes and amazonmp3 she will get a good few hits now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMdXi6f5KRg

oh, serge

trying to find the best live version of My Name Is Not Susan

rip

neve campbell at the leafs game = the only non-whitney twitter trend lol

at the time I thought "What an odd, awesome name for a Top 40 single."

xpost

oh no....rip

Holy shit. She was performing last night.

Holy hell

RIP

rip

Gotta agree with this:

https://twitter.com/#!/joncaramanica/status/168515061055369216

mmmmm.

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...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxZD0VQvfqU

The fact that her first record was a Soft Machine cover featuring Archie Shepp completely blows my mind.

xp

was just singing the bridge to 'how will I know' in the shower last week

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdCDLQew0LI

imo this was the best of 80s pop whitney

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."

ts: anita baker whitney ("you give good love") vs. teenpop whitney ("how will i know") vs. new jack whitney (the '90s)

crazy this happened the night of Clive Davis' pre-grammy gala

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/

clive cancelled the event btw.

love this so much
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdoamCoYTs0

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/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDzdqranbUc

:(

90s whitney was the best

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J538b-OLRU

i forgot how good love will save the day is; total winner.

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

"It's Not Right..." is the last time I remember her as a Billboard/cultural force. That Thunderpuss remix was everywhere in '99.

so sad...r.i.p. whitney.

Holy shit Whitney what the fucking fuck

yeah that moment of "it's not right but it's okay" being released was sort of a revelation--i fucking love that song.

my sister somehow didn't know about her drug problems and she was sort of shocked that whitney houston had extensive enough drug problems that they might conceivably have caused her to die at 48. she was like, "courtney love's still alive!" and i considered whether the only difference between the two in terms of their demons was that whitney houston had powerful handlers for the early portion of her career.

"Whether she was sober, and something like a long-damaged metabolism finally running all the way down"

judging from the pictures of her the night before, she definitely wasn't sober...

shit, 48. RIP

or earlier this week. not last night.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=4wsCdxdRIL4

dammit let's try that again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wsCdxdRIL4

that thunderpuss remix was the stone cold shit for real

I remember Elvis Costello doing a Guest VJ hour on MTV when Blood & Chocolate came out. He played one of her videos, "How Will I Know" I think, and came on afterwards saying "please please please please Whitney, please can I write some songs for you? omg what a voice"

i have the first album on and was just reminded of a great album track called "someone for me":

http://open.spotify.com/track/57gkU8WvqF62FTRDIIHqjH

When she was on, she was ON

she is a great example of taalent elevating horrible source material, because so many of her singles were schlocky nonsense that she imbued with so much depth and feeling

yeah that Thunderpuss remix is 10/10 classic.

"you give good love" will always be my favorite song of hers, though. this performance is absolutely perfect:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM3rM1DTJ9Y
the last minute or so in particular... just staggering. what a voice, for real.

http://aiyatheydidnt.livejournal.com/879708.html

(That's: China’s stars react to Whitney’s tragic death)

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)

Well fuck

http://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/celebrity/whitney-houstons-daughter-bobbi-kristina-brown-found-unresponsive-bathtub-n297596

oh no

:(

wowwww sad.

Omg I just heard
So unbearably sad

(I'm not sad personally but I find the situation really really tragically sad)

:((((((((

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jul/27/bobbi-kristina-brown-daughter-of-whitney-houston-dies-aged-22

jesus. nothing about this story that isn't tragic.

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.

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, Sunday, July 8, 2012 8:34 PM (six years ago) Bookmark

here it is :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tGzCBzGEts

I saw can I be me by nick broomfield and its pretty sad viewing.

This looks terrible:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx8p_quBV3I

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.

Wow, Kasi Lemmons in the director!? I don't think I've seen anything of hers since "The Caveman's Valentine."

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.

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