Whitney Houston R.I.P.

would not want to be in a karaoke bar tonight.

gotta get my thoughts together, but RIP to a terrific talent who I loved, warts & all

Wow.

Yeah. Blindsided. Blasting 'It's Not Right, But It's Okay' in her honour.

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.

what?! RIP

WmC otm. Archie Shepp is on that too. It's really great.

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.

Playing this and "You Give Good Love." She sounded so sweet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_rId-X64hg

did she do the grammy's last night?

ABC walking it back

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

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.

this is classy as fuck

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kt9GeWbofrM

that's nice

thicke is so absurd

ha yes, but that's rather beside the point

he's having GROWING PAINS do you get it because he is getting older

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."

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.

oooh...meta!

http://www.huntautobody.com/RIPPED_FROM_THE_HEADLINES_copy.jpg

"I do cocaine suppositories nitch"

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