RIP Whitney Houston

Look, if you're going to bring up the songs as an example of why Whitney's so much better, which you did, I think it's worth noting that she had fuck-all to do with the songs, whereas Perry wrote hers. They may suck, but at least they're hers.

 

Sounds to me like Whitney just plain gave up the ghost in the end and wanted to pull a Jacko to get her estate in order. Bobbi Kristina is a legal adult, and she's got a broke crackhead for a mother with no voice left begging for $100 on the streets. So her family will end up have a much better life instead, everyone wins. People just cannot wrap their heads around the simple fact that greatest music superstars/athletes/politicans in the world have the same personal foibles and weaknesses as everyone else

 

Whitney's songs were still recorded by her. I meant that her style of song, aside from the "How Will I Knows" of the world, were not the dreck put out by Ke$ha and Katy Perry. Period.

 

One of those things is not like the others. Cee-Lo has talent and lyrical skills - listen to some Goodie Mob sometime. The other two are dreck.

 

I've never felt the urge to sing any of that hokey junk into a hairbrush or any other inanimate object.

Again, great talent. But I don't want to dance with her, feel the heat and it wasn't the greatest love of anything. It was a great voice, but songs a tad better than Rick Astley. Actually, lots of similiarities between "Never Gonna Give You Up" and typical Whitney drivel.

Sorry. Hate to see her go. Wish she could have produced something memorable with her talent. But she didn't.

 

A crackhead possibly /probably kills herself of an OD in a LA hotel bathtub, and all world news instantly stops. The money always runs out close to the time of death, just like a real junkie!

 

Amen.

And the Perry and Ke$sha reference wasn't a direct comparison. Just me stating that I can appreciate a well-crafted pop song, while also recognizing it for what it is worth. Not much.

And I think we're going a little overboard with the superlatives for Houston's voice. She wasn't Pavarotti. Or even Aretha. Good range with the rough edges sanded off for a white, lowest-common-denominator audience. Sounds about right.

 

And make whatever points necessary about Whitney, but what Perry's putting out is not "dreck." It may be more heavily engineered, but it is tuneful, it is catchy and it is not garbage.

 

I honestly think Perry's songs are way more ambitious and better-crafted than anything Houston ever put out.

 

Whitney's Death: An Earlier Incident?

EXCLUSIVE — Whitney Houston’s death made for a long day’s journey into night at the Beverly Hilton. While the Clive Davis Grammy dinner had to proceed downstairs in the ballroom–with 800 guests already filing in as the news was breaking–Whitney remained in state, so to speak, in her fourth floor suite. She was not removed until just moments before the party ended–a little after midnight. She’d been in the suite, discovered in her bathtub. But there were many people in the suite when this happened at 3:50pm including her daughter Bobbi Kristina, her brother Gary, sister in law Pat Houston, and another player in this story — a nightlife friend who’d been guiding her around town the last few days as she was photographed in states of duress.

What you don't know there’s the mysterious story of a leak that occurred the night before from Whitney’s group of suites. A man on the third floor right underneath Houston’s suite suddenly experienced water cascading into his bathroom from above at 2:30am. It wasn’t just a trickle. The man called security, then went upstairs to the fourth floor to see what was going on. He swears to me that it was Whitney’s bathtub that was overflowing. He also says that a flat screen television had been been broken–the screen was smashed. My sources at the hotel say there was a “leak” but that it wasn’t from Whitney’s room. “They [her group] have a lot of rooms up there,” says the hotel source. My source, this man, insists that he was told it was Whitney Houston’s room. It does seem to have been part of her group of rooms.

There are many mysteries here. None of them have been reported or solved by TMZ or one of the other muckracking tabloids. I know the man who had to pull Whitney out of the bathtub yesterday and attempt to give her CPR. He told me, “She was already dead. There was nothing I could do.”

More on Whitney’s death and the Grammy party follows in the next post. And believe me, dear readers, this isn’t easy. I’ve known Whitney Houston and her family for over 25 years. She was a beautiful girl with a big heart. She was full of optimism. Her mother is one of the finest people. The people who worked for and with her were devoted to her. When the shock turns to anger there will be a lot of finger pointing. But in the end, Whitney ruled her own world. http://www.forbes.com/sites/rogerfriedman/2012/02/12/whitneys-death-an-earlier-incident/

 

Yeah, but you lost me with the Alice in Chains parallel.

 

Ha. I don't want people to get too hung up on that or take it for something other than it was intended to me - i.e. a list of people whose deaths had meant something to me, enough to drive me to iTunes. Hers didn't.