aaliyah

R.I.P. Baby Girl.

:(

it's almost been 7 years in a few years can you believe it

few days**

god, what a sad day. i remember secretly crying in the bathroom after i found out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgF0jJMpKuU

and static major..

never forget

RIP babygirl :(

:-(

recently i read some random last.fm user claiming that the baby sample on "are you that somebody" was from a home video of aaliyah herself at 18 months. i hope that's true!

Pulled out the final s/t album the other day and daaaaaaaamn it's fantastic, still.

fairly safe to say this is the first time I've been moved by a trending topic on twitter

o rly the Iran election riots didn't do it for you?

haha, indeed, I think I got on twitter just after those

the earliest two deaths that i can remember where i was as a kid are princess diana & aaliyah

At least once a day, ILX reminds me I'm old.

Aaliyah's death seems like last week to me.

i remember exactly where i was when i found out - hmv oxford, in the dvd aisle. on the phone to a friend who also loved aaliyah. had to take a moment in a quiet corner of the shop.

HAWK-HANDLING

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xio1v_FBDAE

her wink halfway thru <3

:(

Life is so precious.

rip bbg.

recently i read some random last.fm user claiming that the baby sample on "are you that somebody" was from a home video of aaliyah herself at 18 months. i hope that's true!

― lex pretend, Tuesday, August 25, 2009 4:35 PM (4 hours ago)

read this somewhere too, maybe wikipedia?

http://twitpic.com/show/thumb/f859l.gif

I was in Germany, getting ready to leave Luebbeck to head for Luzern, Switzerland on tour with the BSO; the only people in the choir who even knew who she was were me, my wife, and a friend we'd made before joining the chorus who encouraged us to audition.

As we watch this vision of an angel that touched our hearts
we will remember her spirit flying free along with the stars
she'll soar high above us with our eternal love
and one day we all will fly along

Aaliyah
1979-2001

The 2004 expanded edition of Aaliyah will make my top ten of the decade. Super album.

We need her now, more than ever. 8 years and I still can't listen to "Let Me Know (At Your Best)" without tears.

She was one of my favorites too. R.I.P.

The 2004 expanded edition of Aaliyah will make my top ten of the decade. Super album.

― post-contrarian meta-challop 2009 (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, August 25, 2009 4:24 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

OK, I'd never heard "Don't Know What To Tell Ya" before and this is pretty awesome, but it's still pretty weird to rep for a random German edition of the album with a few bonus tracks when the original LP is great as is

We need her now, more than ever. 8 years and I still can't listen to "Let Me Know (At Your Best)" without tears.

― Spinspin Sugah, Wednesday, August 26, 2009 5:04 PM Bookmark

somehow I never heard this until a year or two ago and was totally bowled over by what an amazing talent we'd lost when I heard it

that track is gorgeous, i played it at my wedding.

I came here with the intention of posting the Are You That Somebody video, but lex beat me :) What an amazing song.

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_leeonxdH5D1qc2yc7o1_500.png

chandelier earrings <3 <3

such a beautiful photo

gorgeous - i love her signature swoop-bang over one eye too

this chopped & screwed aaliyah album is incredibly bizarre, interesting, beautiful & heartbreaking -- i still listen to it from time to time

http://realniggatumblr.tumblr.com/post/1244206719/dj-d-the-best-of-aaliyah-the-final-flight-chopped

by album i mean mix

As I said on the thread over there -- my one fervent wish, beyond sympathy for all the bereaved, is that there be no horribly maudlin tribute records. "I'll Be Missing You" or "Candle in The Wind '97" were more than enough.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, August 26, 2001 12:00 AM (9 years ago) Bookmark

yeah the jay z remix of "i miss you" and the video w/ all her friends and the DMX speech at the start kinda bucked this trend. beautiful song and a sweet tribute

did aaliyah have like a lazy eye r smthng

if she did she'd be rolling it at you right now

idk the hair sweep, the sunglasses

it was a mystique thing iirc

to think that lazy eye could have been used to promote HIV awareness

o_O

o_\ morelike

ha

speaking of o_O & o_\, the contrast between this thread & the "lol lisa lopez died" one is striking

did aaliyah have an alex chilton collab or

did aaliyah have like a lazy eye r smthng

that was gabrielle

i'm sure if she were still alive the illuminati puppet police would be after her for that hair sweep

idk lex, google aaliyah and lazy eye

"come over" came on on the radio today ^_^

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SJFYFNZrMyc/S1F1FhetGII/AAAAAAAAA8A/13XBXYe_iuM/s400/aaliyah-airbrush.jpg

She would've been 32yo today. Damn, I miss that face.