My 5th grade class lip-synced and danced to "How Will I Know" at our school concert
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 13 February 2012 16:42 (twelve years ago) link
Damn--da croupier beat me to the Uriah Heep joke.
― clemenza, Monday, 13 February 2012 16:44 (twelve years ago) link
nuns pushed "Top of the World" and "Let It Be" on us
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Monday, 13 February 2012 17:00 (twelve years ago) link
Was "That's What Friends Are For" a consensus elementary school graduation song? Is it still. My grade 8 class did it too, but that was 1993, at which point I figured even then that the song was pretty musty.
― I Fucked Up (jer.fairall), Monday, 13 February 2012 17:05 (twelve years ago) link
tried to find the clip from say anything where joe sings 'the greatest love of all' at their graduation. youtube could not help me...
― and the answer is: Opinions differ. (stevie), Monday, 13 February 2012 17:08 (twelve years ago) link
i was wondering when someone was going to mention that!
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Monday, 13 February 2012 17:09 (twelve years ago) link
Lech that pic is awesome!!
― plee help i am lookin for (crüt), Monday, February 13, 2012 11:21 AM (48 minutes ago)
― tl;dr skl;dr (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 13 February 2012 17:12 (twelve years ago) link
office break room filled with lunchers listening to CNN guest clinically describe drowning- and drug-related autopsies.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Monday, 13 February 2012 18:17 (twelve years ago) link
i thought everyone had to sing "the greatest love of all" at some point in school.
Yup, in high-school choir.
― jaymc, Monday, 13 February 2012 18:24 (twelve years ago) link
Also, one of my favorite Whitney moments was when three girls did a choregraphed routine to "I Wanna Dance with Somebody" at our 4th-grade class talent show.
― jaymc, Monday, 13 February 2012 18:25 (twelve years ago) link
Was "That's What Friends Are For" a consensus elementary school graduation song?
"Don't Worry Be Happy" for me.
― jaymc, Monday, 13 February 2012 18:26 (twelve years ago) link
Indie-dom enters the tribute game:
http://pitchfork.com/news/45407-watch-girls-pay-tribute-to-whitney-houston/
No big suprise that Girls are fans though, and I don't think I mean that in bad way..
― Mule, Monday, 13 February 2012 18:37 (twelve years ago) link
Owens is apparently crying by the way
― Mule, Monday, 13 February 2012 18:40 (twelve years ago) link
watch-girls-pay-tribute-to-whitney-houston/
no fucking thanks
― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Monday, 13 February 2012 18:40 (twelve years ago) link
haha been holding my tongue on snarking about the tunnel vision hilarity of that headline or at least a couple hours
― some dude, Monday, 13 February 2012 18:41 (twelve years ago) link
Morbius that's happening at my job today too
― Raymond Cummings, Monday, 13 February 2012 19:12 (twelve years ago) link
This thread = slowly making progression for mournful to awesome
― Raymond Cummings, Monday, 13 February 2012 19:13 (twelve years ago) link
For = from
― Raymond Cummings, Monday, 13 February 2012 19:14 (twelve years ago) link
Mostly I just recall being bombarded with Whitney singles during elementary school carpools and then singing the songs to myself later when I was alone
― Raymond Cummings, Monday, 13 February 2012 19:15 (twelve years ago) link
join us here homie! Whitney Houston singles poll
― some dude, Monday, 13 February 2012 19:17 (twelve years ago) link
Ha ok
― Raymond Cummings, Monday, 13 February 2012 19:27 (twelve years ago) link
Oh, of course:
http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/13/10394035-sony-hikes-whitney-houston-album-prices-online?chromedomain=digitallife
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 13 February 2012 19:27 (twelve years ago) link
"He's dead? Why didn't you say so!"http://images.wikia.com/simpsons/images/6/6e/159.jpg
― Let A Man Come In And Do The Cop Porn (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 13 February 2012 19:36 (twelve years ago) link
Sales of Whitney Houston albums have soared on both sides of the Atlantic following her death in Los Angeles.Whitney - The Greatest Hits is at two on the US iTunes chart, while Whitney Houston - The Ultimate Collection is second in the UK iTunes chart.Some fans reacted angrily on Twitter after The Ultimate Collection's price was temporarily raised on iTunes UK.The price was increased from £4.99 to £7.99 but has since reverted to its former cost.Several fans on Twitter described the alleged price hike as "greedy" and "shameful".iTunes and Sony Music, Houston's record label, declined to comment on the matter.
Whitney - The Greatest Hits is at two on the US iTunes chart, while Whitney Houston - The Ultimate Collection is second in the UK iTunes chart.
Some fans reacted angrily on Twitter after The Ultimate Collection's price was temporarily raised on iTunes UK.
The price was increased from £4.99 to £7.99 but has since reverted to its former cost.
Several fans on Twitter described the alleged price hike as "greedy" and "shameful".
iTunes and Sony Music, Houston's record label, declined to comment on the matter.
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 13 February 2012 21:08 (twelve years ago) link
sealed bodyguard for 150 bucks is about as frenetic as things got on the ebay front.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/REMEMBERING-WHITNEY-HOUSTON-The-Bodyguard-Original-Soundtrack-LP-New-Sealed-/180818106575?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item2a199958cf
― scott seward, Monday, 13 February 2012 21:11 (twelve years ago) link
nowhere near MJ numbers the weekend of his death, but, you know, that's to be expected.
telling that the bodyguard ost was the one people really wanted. more so than the studio albums. though the first two did okay for a minute there.
― scott seward, Monday, 13 February 2012 21:13 (twelve years ago) link
its not oop is it?
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 13 February 2012 21:14 (twelve years ago) link
well its more a case of there being less vinyl copies than the actual studio albums too. i'm sure the cd is still in print. it must be.
― scott seward, Monday, 13 February 2012 21:15 (twelve years ago) link
Love in Any Language!!! We had to sing that, too.
The Whitney song we sang was "One Moment in Time."
― tokyo rosemary, Monday, 13 February 2012 21:19 (twelve years ago) link
Oh I love "One Moment"
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 13 February 2012 21:27 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.juancole.com/2012/02/arab-world-mourns-whitney-houston.html
― curmudgeon, Monday, 13 February 2012 21:30 (twelve years ago) link
went to a bar in soma last night to see optimo - there was a whitney houston shrine (complete with several candles burning) in the front entryway. lots of drag queens in full-on sequined whitney evening gowns. stirmonster played 'i wanna dance with somebody' twice - first time acapella, the second time with bonkers EQing - the crowd went wild obviously
― geeta, Monday, 13 February 2012 21:32 (twelve years ago) link
nice
― scott seward, Monday, 13 February 2012 21:34 (twelve years ago) link
"How did the Arab world react to Joey Strummer’s death? That guy spoke more truth in one song than some people sing, say or write in a lifetime."
You know, that was a question I hadn't asked myself yet.
― pplains, Monday, 13 February 2012 21:43 (twelve years ago) link
gotta love the comments section on any blog
― curmudgeon, Monday, 13 February 2012 21:45 (twelve years ago) link
Also, I never thought about it until this weekend, but had she taken her husband's surname, she would have been a Whitney Brown.
― pplains, Monday, 13 February 2012 21:45 (twelve years ago) link
and that my friends, is the big picture.
― pplains, Monday, 13 February 2012 21:46 (twelve years ago) link
joe strummer once said he cared, but he never really gave a fuck :(
― scott seward, Monday, 13 February 2012 21:46 (twelve years ago) link
Meanwhile, over on Fox News comments thread, racist spewing:
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/39912_Fox_News_Commenters_Respond_to_Whitney_Houstons_Death_With_Deluge_of_Hatred_and_Racism
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 13 February 2012 21:51 (twelve years ago) link
She couldn’t face life without the “bling bling”, she knew she would never have any more “kaching kaching”
didn't know Jessie J was a racist Fox News commenter but it all makes sense now
― some dude, Monday, 13 February 2012 21:52 (twelve years ago) link
racism in the comments section you say?
― lol u watched the grammys (buzza), Monday, 13 February 2012 21:53 (twelve years ago) link
aw - strummer seemed like a nice guy. i randomly ran into him and jah wobble (?!) at a poetry reading in london 12 or 13 years ago. we convinced him to play songs for me and my friends on his acoustic guitar - 'white riot', etc - and he happily obliged. he certainly didn't need to be as nice as he was to us.
― geeta, Monday, 13 February 2012 21:54 (twelve years ago) link
talk to rudimentary peni, not me!
― scott seward, Monday, 13 February 2012 21:55 (twelve years ago) link
they're the ones with the problem with him. me, i just like the hits.
― scott seward, Monday, 13 February 2012 21:56 (twelve years ago) link
xxpost geeta I love that story <3
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 13 February 2012 22:17 (twelve years ago) link
― scott seward, Monday, February 13, 2012 4:46 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark
i loled
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 00:01 (twelve years ago) link
Was anyone else forced to hear her Star Spangled Banner every morning in public school? It's one of those rare songs I've easily heard over 1000 times, and I'm pretty sure I have every last nuance of that performance memorized.
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 08:25 (twelve years ago) link
Pop music hadn't had time to digest The Terminator (1984) and Donna Haraway's "A Cyborg Manifesto" (1985) when Whitney Houston released her 1980s albums. Thus, they were still in robot, not cyborg, mode. Fine robot music, for sure, esp. the robodisco of "So Emotional" and "I Wanna Dance With Somebody" (as well as its proper homecoming in "I Wanna Dance With Numbers"). But she didn't realize her cyborgian potential until "Exhale (Shoop Shoop)," her greatest single.
In his essay “An Anthropologist Underwater: Immersive Soundscapes, Submarine Cyborgs, and Transductive Ethnography,” Stefan Helmreich provides an excellent definition of cyborgs that helps get at the distinction between RoboWhitney and CyborgWhitney: "Cyborgs need not be material compounds of flesh and machine; anything that can be described in terms of information dynamics can be considered a cyborg. The boundaries of cyborgs are subject to shifting and expanding as they are networked to other feedback dynamics across scales and contexts" (627-8). RoboWhitney hasn't networked to other feedback dynamics. That's what "I Wanna Dance With Somebody" and "So Emotional" are about. She isn't dancing with somebody but she wants to. She remembers the way that we touched but we're not touching right now (and note how the lyrics appeal to the distancing sense of vision to heighten the sense of disconnection; even the production tends towards discrete sound-images as much as a Wall of DX7). More importantly, the thwarted desire implies the self-presence that identifies all robots from Phil Oakey to the love duo in the underrated Heartbeeps to David in the equally underrated A.I.: Artificial Intelligence. Like the aforementioned, she can't help but broadcast her thereness because she's perpetually letting us know how frustrated she is in her casing (which is how many critics have described her post-"Memories" work in general).
CyborgWhitney makes herself available for networking. Crucially, "Exhale (Shoop Shoop)" is the rare diva song where "I" is never mentioned. She has significantly lessened what Mark Sinker calls "the sense of regality, of dreadful awful majesty of style and skill as a weapon, the sense of renunciation, the sense that her role leaves her the loneliest person of all." She sings it down and invites us commoners in, not eradicating loneliness but finding a temporary prison for it. Nothing is forever in this network save for the infinite play of information dynamics. The song traces not a line from Whitney to a lover but a skein of flickering vectors, a series of points where for every win, someone must fail, where falling in love is sometimes wrong, sometimes right. There's a point where we exhale but a point back to where we're gasping for air. Even our identities are only momentarily whole when networking with another and looking inside ourselves only gets us halfway there. But, and herein is the song's genius, this holds true as much for Whitney here, in this modest moment (it's her shortest #1 single too), as it does for us which means at long last we can interface with her. We say shoop shoop as if to vault over language in an attempt to express the peace in this point of contact but even that is connected to other points back to The Sweet Inspirations and Salt-n-Pepa. It's Whitney Houston's cyborg manifesto and it holds out Haraway's world-changing vision. As Helmreich puts it, "Haraway found an unexpected, ironic, utopian promise in the figures of cyborgs initially created to automate warfare or de-skill workers; cybernetics opened up possibilities for recoding our human bodies and selves, for short-circuiting the idea that a durable 'nature' dictated our destinies. Somewhere in cyborg bodies might whir a liberatory consciousness."
― Kevin John Bozelka, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 09:40 (twelve years ago) link
what the
― plee help i am lookin for (crüt), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 09:42 (twelve years ago) link