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Whitney Houston has died

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Dishwalla said:
Unfortunately. Such a bleh band with a bleh singer/songwriter that got way more attention than deserved.
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Nonsense you are spouting.

You still have young people discovering and flocking to their music in huge numbers to this day and the guy is dead nearly twenty years.
 
speculawyer said:
Morgan Freeman has his grandkid to keep him going.
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Was too young to appreciate her 80's songs aka biggest time but my love is your love in '98 is the song that stood out for me, one of my all time favourite songs, that made me check out Whitney Houston and appreciate her, amazing voice, RIP
 
Patrick Bateman: Did you know that Whitney Houston's debut LP, called simply Whitney Houston had 4 number one singles on it? Did you know that, Christie?

Elizabeth: [laughing] You actually listen to Whitney Houston? You own a Whitney Houston CD? More than one?

Patrick Bateman: 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, Elizabeth, 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.
 
So they haven't released the cause of death yet? Can we get a lottery going?

My bet is cocaine induced Prinzmetal's angina > myocardial infarction. This will be released by the press as "an acute coronary syndrome."
 
Jburton said:
Nonsense you are spouting.

You still have young people discovering and flocking to their music in huge numbers to this day and the guy is dead nearly twenty years.
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This

Didn't discover Nirvana till around 2007, and they're one of my top 10 favourite bands now. They pretty much introduced me to rock
 
So everyone who is in disbelief about this confuses me...

It's a good guess that since she was a drug addict, it probably affected her life expectancy.
 
God. She was amazing. I was watching a lot of her performances recently because I was working on something, and so a lot of these are fairly fresh in my mind:

All The Man That I Need (Arsenio Hall 1992)
I Have Nothing (1993 Billboard Music Awards
La Donna e Mobile w/ Sting, Elton John and Pavarotti (Rainforest Benefit Concert)
Jesus Loves Me (Radio City 1993)
A Song for You (Welcome Home Heroes 1991)
Hold Up the Light w/ BeBe & CeCe Winans (Soul Train Awards 1989)
I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Welcome Home Heroes 1991)
Greatest Love Of All (Welcome Home Heroes 1991)
One Moment in Time (1989 Grammys)
I Will Always Love You (World Music Awards 1994)
Guide Me, O Great Thou Jehovah Live Acapella
Lover Man, My Man, All The Man That I Need Medley (Billboards 1991)
Porgy & Bess, And I'm Telling You, I Have Nothing Medley (American Music Awards 1994)
All At Once (American Music Awards 1987)
Do You Hear What I Hear? (Jay Leno 1990)
Bridge Over Troubled Water w/ CeCe Winans (Live)
You Give Good Love / That's What Friends Are For
You Give Good Love (Tonight Show 1985)
This Day (VH1 1996 Honors)


The Voice

It's been around twenty years since she passed her peak and I think people have forgotten how good she really was.
 
Jive Turkey said:
The combination of your statement and user name made me lol pretty hard.
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Yeah well, just because I'm ironically named doesn't mean me or anyone else has ever thought Dishwalla was really any good.

Jburton said:
Nonsense you are spouting.

You still have young people discovering and flocking to their music in huge numbers to this day and the guy is dead nearly twenty years.
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Yeah, I'm sure because they've influenced Nickleback or Puddle of Mudd or whatever means that "Smells Like Teen Spirit" had any artistic merit. He was a shoddy songwriter, something that it seems Cobain himself thought. Hence why he didn't agree with most of the attention that the band received.
 
Dishwalla said:
Yeah well, just because I'm ironically named doesn't mean me or anyone else has ever thought Dishwalla was really any good.


Yeah, I'm sure because they've influenced Nickleback or Puddle of Mudd or whatever means that "Smells Like Teen Spirit" had any artistic merit. He was a shoddy songwriter, something that it seems Cobain himself thought. Hence why he didn't agree with most of the attention that the band received.
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You're just dumb. I get it now.
 
Cuban Legend said:
So everyone who is in disbelief about this confuses me...

It's a good guess that since she was a drug addict, it probably affected her life expectancy.
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Even then, you still don't know when someone is gonna die. There are people that abuse drugs and live long, and people that don't abuse drugs and live a terribly short life.

The only thing we know is that everyone dies, not when, and not how they die. Of course Whitney was gonna die eventually, we all are, but the hard to believe part is that someone who used to be here is no longer here.
 
Good Job Bob said:
I think Adele could do a better job.
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I would prefer Adele simply because the fact that she doesn't have the right voice type (alto vs mezzo) and range means that she won't be trying to simply copy Whitney, but will have to change the song a little bit.

I'd prefer that over seeing someone trying to play it straight and butchering it (and her larynx) the way I expect Jennifer Hudson to.
 
krypt0nian said:
I just don't get it. It's not a matter of opinion how they changed music. It's fairly well documented. You can not like them, but you can't say they were overrated. It's factually incorrect.
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But that's the thing, they didn't change anything. Bands like Sonic Youth and R.E.M. and Dinosaur Jr. were all doing the same thing they were doing, except better, it's just that Nirvana got to the major labels first. Seriously, this is like saying Green Day's Dookie changed everything, even though punk and more specifically pop-punk had been around and doing well for years.

Sorry for derailing a RIP Whitney Houston thread, but when being called dumb by some Nirvana apologist who himself doesn't quite know his music history...
 
Dishwalla said:
But that's the thing, they didn't change anything. Bands like Sonic Youth and R.E.M. and Dinosaur Jr. were all doing the same thing they were doing, except better, it's just that Nirvana got to the major labels first. Seriously, this is like saying Green Day's Dookie changed everything, even though punk and more specifically pop-punk had been around and doing well for years.

Sorry for derailing a RIP Whitney Houston thread, but when being called dumb by some Nirvana apologist who himself doesn't quite know his music history...
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O the irony.
 
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