Whitney Houston dead?

[Evil Chris]

Breaking right now

[Evil Chris]

The Associated Press: Publicist Kristen Foster says singer Whitney Houston has died at age 48.

[Mr Pheer]

dont ya wanna dance... dont ya wanna dance...

[Scott McD]

[TheSquealer]

Junkies tend to die young.

[NaughtyVisions]

Wow, I just saw a headline a few hours ago that she might take over as a judge on X-Factor.


Edit: Jesus Christ, her Wikipedia page already says she's dead. Who the fuck hears a report and the first thing they think to do is run to Wikipedia and update their page?

[Evil Chris]

It's on www.tmz.com too. Looks like its true.

[porno jew]

The Associated Press @AP Reply Retweet Favorite · Open
BREAKING: Publicist Kristen Foster says singer Whitney Houston has died at age 48

[shimmy2]

who needs the Ap when you have the webmaster coconut drum. i get all my news here

[XD2]

Originally Posted by shimmy2

who needs the Ap when you have the webmaster coconut drum. i get all my news here

I was just thinking the same thing, this place updates faster than my news app.

[nickey1952]

What did you expect, crack is whack

[LiveDose]

Surprised she lasted this long... rip

[jimmycooper]

Did you know that Whitney Houston's debut LP, called simply Whitney Houston had 4 number one singles on it?

It's hard to choose a favorite among so many great tracks, but "The Greatest Love of All" is one of the best, most powerful songs ever written about self-preservation, dignity. Its universal message crosses all boundaries and instills one with the hope that it's not too late to better ourselves. Since it's impossible in this world we live in to empathize with others, we can always empathize with ourselves. It's an important message, crucial really. And it's beautifully stated on the album.

[EroTechnology]

Wow...big news. I remember seeing her perform at Wembley Arena when I was in my teens. Her voice was amazing.

[GetSCORECash]

Chris you are quick.

Sad news, she was a great singer.

[NaughtyVisions]

Originally Posted by jimmycooper

Did you know that Whitney Houston's debut LP, called simply Whitney Houston had 4 number one singles on it?

It's hard to choose a favorite among so many great tracks, but "The Greatest Love of All" is one of the best, most powerful songs ever written about self-preservation, dignity. Its universal message crosses all boundaries and instills one with the hope that it's not too late to better ourselves. Since it's impossible in this world we live in to empathize with others, we can always empathize with ourselves. It's an important message, crucial really. And it's beautifully stated on the album.

[Evil Chris]

Originally Posted by XD2

I was just thinking the same thing, this place updates faster than my news app.

Twitter gets me all my news.

[L-Pink]

She sang the best National Anthem ever ..... to bad.

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[BlackCrayon]

wonder what the official cause would be. you don't hear of people dying from just smoking crack.

[beerptrol]

I thought Bobby would go before she did

[Evil Chris]

Originally Posted by BlackCrayon

wonder what the official cause would be. you don't hear of people dying from just smoking crack.

I'd say her heart likely just gave out from years of abuse.

Too young to die.

[rogueteens]

Its on BBC news now, I’m devastated, that bloody bodyguard song will be played incessantly from now on.

[DVTimes]

What did she die of?

I am guessing drugs.

[DVTimes]

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

American singer and actress Whitney Houston has died at the age of 48, her publicist Kristen Foster has said.

The cause and the location of her death were unclear, Ms Foster told the Associated Press news agency.

Regarded as one of the most celebrated female acts of all time, she also enjoyed success acting in films such as The Bodyguard and Waiting to Exhale.

Her career was at times overshadowed by drug use and her turbulent marriage to singer Bobby Brown.

[LAJ]

Originally Posted by NaughtyVisions

Wow, I just saw a headline a few hours ago that she might take over as a judge on X-Factor.


Edit: Jesus Christ, her Wikipedia page already says she's dead. Who the fuck hears a report and the first thing they think to do is run to Wikipedia and update their page?

Maybe they were really good at predicting the future?

[DVTimes]

http://calgary.ctv.ca/servlet/an/loc...ub=CalgaryHome


The Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — Whitney Houston, who reigned as pop music's queen until her majestic voice and regal image were ravaged by drug use, erratic behaviour and a tumultuous marriage to singer Bobby Brown, has died. She was 48.

Publicist Kristen Foster said Saturday that the singer had died, but the cause and the location of her death were unknown.

At her peak, Houston the golden girl of the music industry. From the middle 1980s to the late 1990s, she was one of the world's bestselling artists. She wowed audiences with effortless, powerful, and peerless vocals that were rooted in the black church but made palatable to the masses with a pop sheen.

Her success carried her beyond music to movies, where she starred in hits like "The Bodyguard" and "Waiting to Exhale."

She had the he perfect voice, and the perfect image: a gorgeous singer who had sex appeal but was never overtly sexual, who maintained perfect poise.

She influenced a generation of younger singers, from Christina Aguilera to Mariah Carey, who when she first came out sounded so much like Houston that many thought it was Houston.

But by the end of her career, Houston became a stunning cautionary tale of the toll of drug use. Her album sales plummeted and the hits stopped coming; her once serene image was shattered by a wild demeanour and bizarre public appearances. She confessed to abusing cocaine, marijuana and pills, and her once pristine voice became raspy and hoarse, unable to hit the high notes as she had during her prime.

"The biggest devil is me. I'm either my best friend or my worst enemy," Houston told ABC's Diane Sawyer in an infamous 2002 interview with then-husband Brown by her side.

It was a tragic fall for a superstar who was one of the top-selling artists in pop music history, with more than 55 million records sold in the United States alone.

She seemed to be born into greatness. She was the daughter of gospel singer Cissy Houston, the cousin of 1960s pop diva Dionne Warwick and the goddaughter of Aretha Franklin.

Houston first started singing in the church as a child. In her teens, she sang backup for Chaka Khan, Jermaine Jackson and others, in addition to modeling. It was around that time when music mogul Clive Davis first heard Houston perform.

"The time that I first saw her singing in her mother's act in a club ... it was such a stunning impact," Davis told "Good Morning America."

"To hear this young girl breathe such fire into this song. I mean, it really sent the proverbial tingles up my spine," he added.

Before long, the rest of the country would feel it, too. Houston made her album debut in 1985 with "Whitney Houston," which sold millions and spawned hit after hit. "Saving All My Love for You" brought her her first Grammy, for best female pop vocal. "How Will I Know," "You Give Good Love" and "The Greatest Love of All" also became hit singles.

Another multiplatinum album, "Whitney," came out in 1987 and included hits like "Where Do Broken Hearts Go" and "I Wanna Dance With Somebody."

The New York Times wrote that Houston "possesses one of her generation's most powerful gospel-trained voices, but she eschews many of the churchier mannerisms of her forerunners. She uses ornamental gospel phrasing only sparingly, and instead of projecting an earthy, tearful vulnerability, communicates cool self-assurance and strength, building pop ballads to majestic, sustained peaks of intensity."

Her decision not to follow the more soulful inflections of singers like Franklin drew criticism by some who saw her as playing down her black roots to go pop and reach white audiences. The criticism would become a constant refrain through much of her career. She was even booed during the "Soul Train Awards" in 1989.

"Sometimes it gets down to that, you know?" she told Katie Couric in 1996. "You're not black enough for them. I don't know. You're not R&B enough. You're very pop. The white audience has taken you away from them."

Some saw her 1992 marriage to former New Edition member and soul crooner Bobby Brown as an attempt to refute those critics. It seemed to be an odd union; she was seen as pop's pure princess while he had a bad-boy image, and already had children of his own. (The couple had a daughter, Bobbi Kristina, in 1993.) Over the years, he would be arrested several times, on charges ranging from DUI to failure to pay child support.

But Houston said their true personalities were not as far apart as people may have believed.

"When you love, you love. I mean, do you stop loving somebody because you have different images? You know, Bobby and I basically come from the same place," she told Rolling Stone in 1993. "You see somebody, and you deal with their image, that's their image. It's part of them, it's not the whole picture. I am not always in a sequined gown. I am nobody's angel. I can get down and dirty. I can get raunchy."

It would take several years, however, for the public to see that side of Houston. Her moving 1991 rendition of "The Star Spangled Banner" at the Super Bowl, amid the first Gulf War, set a new standard and once again reaffirmed her as America's sweetheart.

In 1992, she became a star in the acting world with "The Bodyguard." Despite mixed reviews, the story of a singer (Houston) guarded by a former Secret Service agent (Kevin Costner) was an international success.

It also gave her perhaps her most memorable hit: a searing, stunning rendition of Dolly Parton's "I Will Always Love You," which sat atop the charts for weeks. It was Grammy's record of the year and best female pop vocal, and the "Bodyguard" soundtrack was named album of the year.

She returned to the big screen in 1995-96 with "Waiting to Exhale" and "The Preacher's Wife." Both spawned soundtrack albums, and another hit studio album, "My Love Is Your Love," in 1998, brought her a Grammy for best female R&B vocal for the cut "It's Not Right But It's Okay."

But during these career and personal highs, Houston was using drugs. In an interview with Oprah Winfrey in 2010, she said by the time "The Preacher's Wife" was released, "(doing drugs) was an everyday thing. ... I would do my work, but after I did my work, for a whole year or two, it was every day. ... I wasn't happy by that point in time. I was losing myself."

In the interview, Houston blamed her rocky marriage to Brown, which included a charge of domestic abuse against Brown in 1993. They divorced in 2007.

Houston would go to rehab twice before she would declare herself drug-free to Winfrey in 2010. But in the interim, there were missed concert dates, a stop at an airport due to drugs, and public meltdowns.

She was so startlingly thin during a 2001 Michael Jackson tribute concert that rumours spread she had died the next day. Her crude behaviour and jittery appearance on Brown's reality show, "Being Bobby Brown," was an example of her sad decline. Her Sawyer interview, where she declared "crack is whack," was often parodied. She dropped out of the spotlight for a few years.

Houston staged what seemed to be a successful comeback with the 2009 album "I Look To You." The album debuted on the top of the charts, and would eventually go platinum.

Things soon fell apart. A concert to promote the album on "Good Morning America" went awry as Houston's voice sounded ragged and off-key. She blamed an interview with Winfrey for straining her voice.

A world tour launched overseas, however, only confirmed suspicions that Houston had lost her treasured gift, as she failed to hit notes and left many fans unimpressed; some walked out. Cancelled concert dates raised speculation that she may have been abusing drugs, but she denied those claims and said she was in great shape, blaming illness for cancellations.

[L-Pink]

Originally Posted by beerptrol

I thought Bobby would go before she did

Bobby Brown lol, ever hear Frank Zappa sing Bobby Brown? pretty funny ... https://youtube.com/watch?v=VyeMNCWgDHA


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[NaughtyRob]

What of the greatest voices ever. So sad what drugs can do.

[DVTimes]

Originally Posted by rogueteens

Its on BBC news now, I?m devastated, that bloody bodyguard song will be played incessantly from now on.

[jimmycooper]

Originally Posted by BlackCrayon

wonder what the official cause would be. you don't hear of people dying from just smoking crack.

Prescription drugs.

[NaughtyVisions]

[JFK]

on CNN
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/02/11...-48/?hpt=hp_t1

[DVTimes]

[Evil Chris]

I admit, I wasn't much of a fan. Not my kind of music at all, but I can def appreciate the talent she once possessed.

[RyuLion]

RIP
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-207_162-...on-dies-at-48/

[porno jew]

[Tom_PM]

Damn, that's really young. RIP

[lucas131]

oh, she have some good music, rest in peace whitney!

[porno jew]

rip.

[DarkJedi]

Let that be a lesson you Lindsay Lohan

[Spunky]

Too young ,RIP Whitney

[DVTimes]

I wonder if Bobby Brown will be next?

[LeRoy]

Damn too young to go

R.I.P

[brassmonkey]

R. I . P .

[Evil Chris]

I'd expect an appropriate homage at the Grammys tomorrow night.

[rogueteens]

Originally Posted by Evil Chris

I'd expect an appropriate homage at the Grammys tomorrow night.

I expect a load of waffle about how she was the greatest singer ever, life will never be the same and loads of crocodile tears. A bit like "I like kids" Jackson's death.

[chaze]

I thought this was BS, wow surprised. I thought she cleaned up. Sad she was very talented maybe one of the best.

[nikki99]

R.I.P. Withey

[GAMEFINEST]

rip ...bobby brown fucked her up good

[DateDoc]

Originally Posted by BlackCrayon

wonder what the official cause would be. you don't hear of people dying from just smoking crack.

it will probably say heart failure