The Official WHITNEY HOUSTON Mega-thread!!!

[SexyKev]

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CONGRATS WHIT!!




That was a great read! I really enjoyed this interview and i love how humble whitney has been during this era.

btw she arrived in Australia today......

http://www.skynews.com.au/showbiz/article.aspx?id=431174&articleID=1239347

Whitney touches down in Brisbane
Updated: 20:51, Saturday February 20, 2010

One of the biggest voices in entertainment has landed in Brisbane for the Australian leg of her world tour.

Whitney Houston will also perform in the Hunter Valley, Sydney and Melbourne, as part of a major comeback following her long battle with drugs.

The pop diva's arrival comes amid rumours she'll be the star act at next week's Mardi Gras celebrations

Yes, I love her new humble attitude as well.

And that dude walking with her is a cutie. I believe that's her nephew.

 

[SexyKev]

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"Worth It" is doing real well on the Urban AC chart thus far. Right out the gate. Hope that momentum keeps up.

(And it's already #77 on Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop and still moving! YEAH!)

Published (U.S.) -- Rolling Chart -- Currents Only

lw: Feb 6 - Feb 12 TW: Feb 13 - Feb 19

2 1 Up this week SADE Soldier Of Love 2300 2186 114 15.252
1 2 MELANIE FIONA It Kills Me 2233 2283 -50 15.531
3 3 Up this week JAHEIM Ain't Leavin Without... 1930 1923 7 15.942
4 4 Up this week ALICIA KEYS Try Sleeping With A ... 1927 1780 147 14.143
5 5 Up this week MARY J. BLIGE I Am 1804 1676 128 15.769
6 6 USHER Papers 1237 1385 -148 8.286
7 7 MAXWELL Bad Habits 1233 1301 -68 8.71
8 8 Up this week MAXWELL Fistful Of Tears 1193 1099 94 8.951
9 9 BEBE & CECE WINANS Close To You 1057 1070 -13 7.432
10 10 WHITNEY HOUSTON Million Dollar Bill 922 1012 -90 5.979
17 11 Up this week MONICA Everything To Me 900 639 261 6.437
11 12 MARY MARY God In Me f/Kierra S... 883 975 -92 7.105
12 13 ROBIN THICKE Sex Therapy 854 854 0 5.997
15 14 Up this week USHER There Goes My Baby 824 710 114 6.347
16 15 Up this week RUBEN STUDDARD Don't Make 'Em Like ... 755 683 72 5.464
13 16 CHARLIE WILSON Can't Live Without Y... 742 799 -57 6.91
14 17 MAXWELL Pretty Wings 648 715 -67 6.217
20 18 Up this week CORINNE BAILEY RAE Closer 538 478 60 4.046
22 19 Up this week RAHEEM DEVAUGHN I Don't Care 501 454 47 3.512
19 20 JOE Worst Case Scenario 475 534 -59 2.728
23 21 TONI BRAXTON & TREY SONGZ Yesterday 420 452 -32 1.514
25 22 Up this week JAHEIM Finding My Way Back 418 329 89 3.309
21 23 ANGIE STONE I Ain't Hearin U 405 456 -51 2.868
26 24 Up this week LEDISI Higher Than This 322 293 29 2.263
38 25 Up this week WHITNEY HOUSTON Worth It 315 167 148 1.708

 

[SexyKev]

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Whitney Houston and co. are now in Australia where she is to give her next shows for the Australian leg of the tour. The Australia media did an excellent news segment on Whitney's arrival and her upcoming shows. Watch it at: http://au.tv.yahoo.com/sunrise/video/?autoplay_id=15738652
(Click on the icon with Whitney's pic on it that says "Whitney is Back" under the media player to watch)


A really great & positive segment promoting the tour. It underscored Whitney at her peak and just how great she is, but also clearly stated - without an agenda - that she may not be the same as she was in the 80s or 90s but she's still Whitney Houston.

Love it.

 

[EvilTwinTwo]

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Yes, I love her new humble attitude as well. .

questions still swirling about her drug use.
a less than stellar "comeback" struggling to reach double platinum.
two singles, soon to be three, that failed on the pop charts.
concerts far away from the US media spotlight.
drug ravaged voice.

how can she be anything less than humble???

how are those petitions coming along?

 

[SexyKev]

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Whitney Houston and co. are now in Australia where she is to give her next shows for the Australian leg of the tour. The Australia media did an excellent news segment on Whitney's arrival and her upcoming shows. Watch it at: http://au.tv.yahoo.com/sunrise/video/?autoplay_id=15738652
(Click on the icon with Whitney's pic on it that says "Whitney is Back" under the media player to watch)


A really great & positive segment promoting the tour. It underscored Whitney at her peak and just how great she is, but also clearly stated - without an agenda - that she may not be the same as she was in the 80s or 90s but she's still Whitney Houston.

Love it.

^ And that man got it right. It just doesn't get any bigger or better than Whitney Houston of the 80s and 90s.

And LOL @ the news reporter guy singing "I Wanna Dance With Somebody" at the end. Haha. Cute.

 

[SexyKev]

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21 Feb 2010 - admin



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[Taurean79]

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lol funny lady. I entered the contest!

 

[Taurean79]

Re: New Whitney Album/Song/Performance/Nominations [Mega-Merged Thread]

"Worth It" is doing real well on the Urban AC chart thus far. Right out the gate. Hope that momentum keeps up.

(And it's already #77 on Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop and still moving! YEAH!)

Published (U.S.) -- Rolling Chart -- Currents Only

lw: Feb 6 - Feb 12 TW: Feb 13 - Feb 19

2 1 Up this week SADE Soldier Of Love 2300 2186 114 15.252
1 2 MELANIE FIONA It Kills Me 2233 2283 -50 15.531
3 3 Up this week JAHEIM Ain't Leavin Without... 1930 1923 7 15.942
4 4 Up this week ALICIA KEYS Try Sleeping With A ... 1927 1780 147 14.143
5 5 Up this week MARY J. BLIGE I Am 1804 1676 128 15.769
6 6 USHER Papers 1237 1385 -148 8.286
7 7 MAXWELL Bad Habits 1233 1301 -68 8.71
8 8 Up this week MAXWELL Fistful Of Tears 1193 1099 94 8.951
9 9 BEBE & CECE WINANS Close To You 1057 1070 -13 7.432
10 10 WHITNEY HOUSTON Million Dollar Bill 922 1012 -90 5.979
17 11 Up this week MONICA Everything To Me 900 639 261 6.437
11 12 MARY MARY God In Me f/Kierra S... 883 975 -92 7.105
12 13 ROBIN THICKE Sex Therapy 854 854 0 5.997
15 14 Up this week USHER There Goes My Baby 824 710 114 6.347
16 15 Up this week RUBEN STUDDARD Don't Make 'Em Like ... 755 683 72 5.464
13 16 CHARLIE WILSON Can't Live Without Y... 742 799 -57 6.91
14 17 MAXWELL Pretty Wings 648 715 -67 6.217
20 18 Up this week CORINNE BAILEY RAE Closer 538 478 60 4.046
22 19 Up this week RAHEEM DEVAUGHN I Don't Care 501 454 47 3.512
19 20 JOE Worst Case Scenario 475 534 -59 2.728
23 21 TONI BRAXTON & TREY SONGZ Yesterday 420 452 -32 1.514
25 22 Up this week JAHEIM Finding My Way Back 418 329 89 3.309
21 23 ANGIE STONE I Ain't Hearin U 405 456 -51 2.868
26 24 Up this week LEDISI Higher Than This 322 293 29 2.263
38 25 Up this week WHITNEY HOUSTON Worth It 315 167 148 1.708

Go WORTH IT!!

Whitney Houston and co. are now in Australia where she is to give her next shows for the Australian leg of the tour. The Australia media did an excellent news segment on Whitney's arrival and her upcoming shows. Watch it at: http://au.tv.yahoo.com/sunrise/video/?autoplay_id=15738652
(Click on the icon with Whitney's pic on it that says "Whitney is Back" under the media player to watch)


A really great & positive segment promoting the tour. It underscored Whitney at her peak and just how great she is, but also clearly stated - without an agenda - that she may not be the same as she was in the 80s or 90s but she's still Whitney Houston.

Love it.

Wow that was a great news segment!! Very nice press for Whit out of Australia. And I don't think Ive ever seen that performance of "I Wanna dance with Somebody" that they showed near the end.

 

[Anton98]

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^ She sounded fine. I don't know what those Australians talking about. But They were reading her walking out her concert.

 

[pixie77]

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She was sounding so washed up here in AU, even Garland never died on stage.

 

[pixie77]

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watch video at bottom of page - sad.

http://nz.movies.yahoo.com/news/article/-/6840083/promoter-defends-whitneys-performance/

 

[Taurean79]

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It just goes to show how high the bar is that Whitney set. Its both a blessing and a curse for her. She can never live up to how great she used to be, and everyone always expects her "Bodyguard" voice to be on display. She made some wrong decisions in life and now she has cleaned up her act and is trying again. I just hope the criticism makes her work alot harder! Whitney loves to prove her doubters wrong. This was a nice video out of Australia.....

 

[asadoyayunta]

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This is tragic...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8530471.stm

the woman is a mess!

 

[SexyKev]

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It just goes to show how high the bar is that Whitney set. Its both a blessing and a curse for her. She can never live up to how great she used to be, and everyone always expects her "Bodyguard" voice to be on display. She made some wrong decisions in life and now she has cleaned up her act and is trying again. I just hope the criticism makes her work alot harder! Whitney loves to prove her doubters wrong. This was a nice video out of Australia.....

Completely agree.

The Aussies really are quite disrespectful. No offense to any Aussies on here, but damn. Getting up and leaving...they seem to be NOTORIOUS for that, no matter WHO you are. There's NO WAY I would leave after paying that much money. They did the same to Britney Spears. It's crazy.

I have to admit after watching the video ^^ and seeing a few of her other performances in Brisbane, Korea and Japan that her voice has changed and she should have spent a lot more time honing her vocals before she toured.

Her voice is definitely getting stronger with each performance, I think the IWALY video above is proof of this, but by letting her fans in Korea, Japan and Australia endure these 'test-run' perforances she is losing fans as opposed to gaining them...

I just hope the tour continues to get better

Agreed.

 

[SexyKev]

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New pics from the Sydney concert last night (2/24/10)......













Time for Whitney to change that wig (lol) but damn she looks hot. Them heels and them legggggggsssss.

 

[SexyKev]

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.

A review from the Sydney Morning Herald, of the Sydney show last night (2/24/10)......


Diva hits highs - then takes a breather

Review by George Palathingal
February 25, 2010


IF Whitney Houston wanted to dance with somebody who loves her, she came to the right place.

Despite the terrible reviews following Houston's Brisbane show - we saw the clips and there was no pretending they weren't anything but excruciating - there may have been more goodwill in the room than even she imagined.

Most people here were supporters hoping to see (at least) glimpses of their diva in full flight, rather than voyeurs itching to watch the indignity of her crumbling before their eyes.

Perhaps surprisingly, it was not the car crash one expected. But the first half was not completely great, either.

It started explosively, more because of a crisp and classy band than Houston herself, but she gamely aimed at, and hit, more high notes than expected. Her voice is coarser than it once was but she can still belt a tune.

Reports from Brisbane said she was breathless after two songs; here it took four before the panting - and then the stalling - began. Let's just say there was a lot of banter and the backing singers earned their money.

She continued, strutting glamorously to and fro across the stage, but starting a set strongly with new songs that few care about and perhaps leaving little in the tank for the songs they do, may not be such a good idea.

At the time of filing this review, an hour into the show, the only walk-outs were to the bar while a backing singer let Houston have a breather. You can bet everyone was praying she had saved something special for her return.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/entertai...akes-a-breather/2010/02/24/1266687102068.html

 

[asadoyayunta]

Re: Whitney Houston or George Michael

I bought tickets to Whitney.

Oh dear!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8530471.stm

 

[SexyKev]

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A whole lot of love for Whitney Houston

* By Diana Plater
* From: AAP
* February 25, 2010 1:37AM


POP diva Whitney Houston redeemed herself at her Sydney concert overnight.

It was as if her audience at Acer Arena really wanted her to succeed in the wake of bad reviews from her Brisbane show earlier this week.

During the first half she rocked the audience, who were on their feet even before the first song.

The second half was not so successful.

She returned in unflattering black sparkling pants and woolly vest and during her acoustic and gospel songs she couldn't reach some of the higher notes.

Some in the audience described the concert as "bizarre and weird'', with Houston stopping and starting in the middle of songs.

But the show stopper was I will Always Love You.

There was big break in the middle of the song as she went to the back of the stage, returning to lift the roof.

Despite her patchy performance, the audience warmed to her.

The tour is scheduled to continue to the Hunter Valley, Melbourne and Adelaide.


http://www.news.com.au/breaking-new...-whitney-houston/story-e6frfku0-1225834100900




lol @ the Australian media. They cannot compliment without giving a negative... "she redeemed herself", yet some say it was "was bizarre & weird". Talk about inconsistency. But at least she "redeemed" herself....

 

[ozguy]

Poor Whitney ...

The start of her concert tour here has not gone down well at all. From the Sydney Morning Herald .....

Whitney Houston struggles through first night of Australia tour
February 23, 2010

Pop diva Whitney Houston has struggled through the opening night of her first Australian tour since 1988, raising questions about the remainder of the concert series.

The 46-year-old actress and singer got through two songs at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre on Monday night before appearing breathless and exhausted, taking a break and then carrying a towel with her for the next few songs.

After half a dozen songs, during some of which she coughed, she left the stage to take a break, bringing on her brother, Gary Houston, to sing.

The band and backing singers then performed an energetic version of Queen of the Night, from The Bodyguard soundtrack.

When she returned to the stage in a white pants suit, she settled down into a chair for a gravelly voiced acoustic version of some of her hits from the 1980s and 90s.

But the multi-award winning singer appeared disoriented and failed to properly name some of her backing band as she introduced them to the audience.

She paid tribute to a couple in the front of the audience who told her they had been married 39 years, and went to the side of the stage, where she serenaded her teenage daughter Bobbi.

Houston had the audience on its feet with an impromptu gospel-infused tribute to the late Michael Jackson, two of whose cancelled This is It tour dancers are in her entourage, singing The Way You Make Me Feel and Wanna Be Starting Something.

But the final act, a string of groove-laden dance numbers and ballads, faltered at the finale when she croaked her way through I Will Always Love You, pausing to get a drink and towel off just as she was about to hit the song's epic high note, which she turned into a soft coo.

Houston has sold more than 170 million albums, singles and videos, with her career soaring through the 1990s, but took a sharp dive as the shadow of an abusive relationship and drug addiction enveloped her life.

Her latest album is I Look To You.

The tour is scheduled to continue in Sydney, the Hunter Valley, Melbourne and Adelaide.

 

[asadoyayunta]

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There was big break in the middle of the song as she went to the back of the stage, returning to lift the roof.....

Now what could she possibly have been doing during that break.....?.....oh no, of course she is clean now isn't she.