Whitney Houston R.I.P.

Reported on the bbc that her publicist has confirmed it

https://twitter.com/#!/AP/status/168498854671556608

waiting to see if its mentioned on sky news

dead pool thread on ile got bumped before the ilm threads btw

on sky news now

waht

daaamn

she was 48

Not really a surprise tbh, but rip

fucking hell this is pretty horrible.

its really weird when pop stars from when i was a kid are dying. 48 ffs

http://news.sky.com/home/showbiz-news/article/16168012

honestly, the crack stuff still surprises me to this day compared against the Whitney of my 80s childhood

(not that I was a fan then but the image she had)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-17001548

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waht

I can't believe this. She was just out preforming last night..

i still stand behind my whitney vote on that 1987 adult-contemporary pop thread. RIP.

:(

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."

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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...

well yeah she's got hits but like, the biggest pop hit she wrote AND performed, "9 to 5," you know that wasn't a cash cow like IWALY

diamanda is always otm

she was not OTM here as much as she was just mad and racist

http://diamandagalas.com/images/letters/diamanda_vs_timbaland_thetakedown-1.gif

shades of marisa tbh

this would be a good one to let go

this would be a good one to let go

― little clouds of citrus spritz as i peel (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, February 15, 2012 10:40 PM (Yesterday)

^^^^^

Just heard the last of a radio special on Whitney's actual music, with good tracks from her last album. No acrobatics, but steadfast and melodious: "Though I don't know if I'll make it through/I look to you." Anybody familiar with the whole album?

I Look to You is a very good album, it's quite understated in many ways - and her voice didn't just lose a lot in her "later" years (sounds so sad), it also gained something, as did her performance, in its roughness and grit. "I Look to You" is good, and "I Didn't Know My Own Strength" and "Nothin' But Love" are great songs, the latter produced by Danja, but nothing desperately-trying-to-be-modern about it (only "Million Dollar Bill" comes a bit close to that, perhaps). And there's more good tracks, and nothing that's out of place.

some impressive gospel performances at the funeral

Bunny does candelit tribute to "Didn't We Almost Have it All"

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I was out to lunch with my family yesterday, and the TV was playing in the background. It looked like a press conference, but I couldn't figure out the context. Why is this white dude addressing an all-black audience? Is that white dude Kevin Costner? Nah, can't be. Why would Kevin Costner be addressing an all-black audience?

Of course, it was Kevin Costner, whose presence made sense once I later learned the context.

"I wish I was her real bodyguard." WTF. I barfed.

holy shit @ insane racist diamanda galas

"shades of marisa" otm

The singer suffered from cardiac disease and could have had a heart attack before drowning, officials say. Cocaine is listed as a contributing factor in the death.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-03-23-whitney-houston-20120323,0,919750.story

:(

i guess she was just doing coke every day, a little weed and alcohol to take the edge off.. jesus. she must have been living like this for years. sort of amazing she lasted as long as she did if so.

idk that doesnt sound so bad

live while you're young

i'm sure her family and friends would agree

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