RIP Whitney Houston

What was in the story: They found ABOUT a half dozen bottles of pills INCLUDING Xanax, not six bottles of Xanax. The Sheriff's office isn't "going" with anything. They haven't even done the autopsy yet.

 

nitpicking on the dosage a little?....everything else looks totally plausible to me it happens all the time in Hollyweird! The autopsy on the body of Whitney Houston will be performed today, but we're told any results will be deferred pending a toxicology report.

Although the cause of death is unknown, it is increasingly looking like Whitney may have fallen asleep or lapsed into unconsciousness in the bathtub and drowned.

Law enforcement sources tell us, Beverly Hills cops retrieved approximately a half dozen pill bottles from Whitney's room ... including Xanax. No illicit drugs were found.

Whitney had been drinking the night before and authorities believe a combination of Xanax and alcohol could have fatally sedated her.
http://www.tmz.com/2012/02/12/whitney-houston-autopsy/#.TzdTnoDEot0

 

I would not be surprised if members of her entourage hid any illegal substances that may have been near her body.

I guess the toxicology tests would still pick up things like cocaine at this point?

 

I have to largely concur with this. She had a string of No. 1 singles, but they were all essentially disposable bubble gum pop or ballads. I even read an obit last night that mentioned that she was booed at one time at the "Soul Train" awards for essentially excising some of the "blackness" from her vocal stylings to water it down for a white audience.

She was a talented singer who caught lighting in a bottle for a short period of time on the pop charts, but this was not Michael Jackson or Madonna or Bob Dylan. Not by a long shot.

It feels bad to say it, because she was certainly talented and more successful at what she did than I'll ever be at what I do. But she's Michael Bay and those others are Steven Spielberg. Usually when a big pop music star dies, I'm compelled to rush to iTunes and listen to their catalog that night for hours on end. Sometimes for days. John Denver. Wilson Pickett. George Harrison. Layne Staley. Some of it is a matter of taste, but I was not inspired to do that last night. Didn't even think about it.

 

I'm not nitpicking on the dosage. Jesus Christ.

Her mom talked to her 30 minutes before she died. If someone "overdoses" as a death, they're not chipper and up 30 minutes before death.

What that link SAYS is that she drank a lot, took Xanax, and probably passed out/fell asleep in the bathtub. If she was on a bed, she'd have been fine. She went under and drowned, most likely. So it's not an "overdose" and it's not a "suicide."

 

And Dick: Layne Staley inspired you, but Whitney Houston was Michael Bay? Really?

 

Bobbi Kristina is set for life now, this may end up being a huge pot of gold for her . Jacko's estate ended up grossing something like $400 million the year after he died. And under California law she will probably have the money managed in a trust better than her crackhead mom and dad ever could...

 

Artistically, Alice in Chains is light years ahead of Whitney Houston. Plus, like I said, some of it is a matter of taste. Disposable pop doesn't do a whole lot for me, and that's what she was. I mean, I like Katy Perry and Ke$ha and some of the others enough, I do. It's pleasant. But it's disposable. The Seattle sound, on the other hand, was something that dug deep with me. So much more authentic, at least in the moment. Obviously some if it sounds sooooooo self-serious in retrospect.

 

You are a raging asshole.

Did you HONEST TO GOD just mention Whitney in with Ke$ha and Katy Perry? Seriously?

 

And for the record, she is Michael Bay to Jackson, Dylan, and Madonna's Spielberg. Those other, lesser artists I named are somewhere in between.

 

I never met the woman, hadn't thought about her honestly in probably 10 years.

But Jesus Christ. You can NOT compare her voice, or her songs (aside from VERY early pop stuff) to those two fakes and consider it a level playing field.