The Official WHITNEY HOUSTON Mega-thread!!!

[lambdaboy]

Re: Cocaine Kills Whitney Houston

Before she married Brown it was said she was a lesbian. She married him as a beard. He helped her get into drugs. Proof the closet kills!

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

Re: Cocaine Kills Whitney Houston

Before she married Brown it was said she was a lesbian. She married him as a beard. He helped her get into drugs. Proof the closet kills!

Maybe she had a thing for white girls and got confused on the way?

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

Re: I Will Always Love You, as good as Whitney

Crack is whack, isn't it, Telstra?

 

[Telstra]

Re: I Will Always Love You, as good as Whitney

I'm not denying the fact that Dolly owns that song. When I say bitch please it's to point out nobody does that song better than Whitney.

Whitney, Mariah, and Celine. Nobody sings songs they've sung and do it better than them

Mariah = too much voice gymnastic = no good
Celine = too much voice gymnastic = no good

Anyone who make too much voice gymnastic i'll slap them.

 

[Telstra]

Re: I Will Always Love You, as good as Whitney

Crack is whack, isn't it, Telstra?

No, i like husky sound as well.
Depends who sings it.

No body sings "you are so beautiful" like Joe Cocker.

 

[medic1]

Re: Cocaine Kills Whitney Houston

For god`s sake , just let it rest ,you may not have a great of time coming to
terms with her Death.

AS Quasar so succintly posted "wheels within wheels"

Time for the Vultures to fuck-off . GHouls.

 

[G-Lexington]

Re: Cocaine Kills Whitney Houston

Fame has no on/off switch. If you've lived as a celebrity, and done the publicity tours and junkets, you can't then pull the "we request privacy in this difficult time" game when things aren't going well. You can demand that people notice you - that's pretty much what fame is - but you can't demand they only say nice things about you. That's the nature of celebrity. Some people decide the game isn't worth the cost, and (as I like to call it) they pull a Bobbie Gentry and walk away. Go back to being "regular folk". It IS possible. But it means the paychecks get a lot smaller, the sycophants go home, and you're stuck trying to figure out what to do with your days...and how to pay for it, quite often. Whitney never really got off. She released an album last year (which was surprisingly passable), she was supposed to start remaking Sparkle, she tried going back on tour. The fame machine kept chugging along, although at a lesser pace than before. And, as always, nothing kicks the fame machine into overdrive quite like dying. And that just multiplies all the talk by a power of a hundred. Both the positive - voice of a legend, best singer ever, flags at half-mast for a national treasure - and the negative.

Lex

 

[legend145]

Re: Cocaine Kills Whitney Houston

I wonder what role Ray J played in this? I always found it strange she was hanging out with him. Anyway the thing that shocked me is she had a heart condition. No wonder she couldn't sing she could barely breathe. Didn't she have to take medical test before she toured in 2010? Why didn't they find this heart condition? I remember there were rumors that she was suffering from emphysema and was going to die. Those reports weren't far off. Another thing, Whitney was heavy smoker. Smoking cigarettes can definitely lead to closing of heart arteries.

 

[80KGold]

Re: I Will Always Love You, as good as Whitney

Hell to the naw.

 

[ravenstar]

Re: I Will Always Love You, as good as Whitney

I like Amber Riley's version of the song, and Whitney's is probably the best known to popular culture, but Dolly's version is and always has been my favourite.

 

[medic1]

Re: Cocaine Kills Whitney Houston

I don't know so much that people are feeding off Ms. Houston's death.

Her life was writ large as a celebrity.

In times past, it was the emperor or the general that lingered in the popular imagination.

Today, celebrities build up their cult followings, and when they pass, the fame lingers, even in infamy.

That her life was marred by drug abuse was every bit as public as her performances.

Although I can honestly stay I had never seen her perform an entire song at any point, and I have no feelings about her one way or the other, her publicity is a story unto itself.

That fans and followers are still talking isn't a case of kicking a corpse, rather a sort of tabloid way of closure with something that disturbed a lot of people, and disturbed them a lot earlier than when she died.

Why does it appear a ghoulish to you?

Jason.
Rather a tabloidway of closure ,how many Tabloids in print at any one time ?
Yes , she had her Demoms but then who does not .
I dont know ,perhaps there have been so many Celebritey Death`s in what
seems such a short , i can almost close my eye`s and it brings to mind "the death
scene from A Christmas Carol , wher you have the old cackling nag`s ,fighting
over Scrooge`s bed-clothes .
As i said Ghoulish .

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

Re: Cocaine Kills Whitney Houston

Why didn't they find this heart condition? I remember there were rumors that she was suffering from emphysema and was going to die. Those reports weren't far off. Another thing, Whitney was heavy smoker. Smoking cigarettes can definitely lead to closing of heart arteries.

Coke isn't very good for your heart either, I imagine.

 

[quasar]

Re: Cocaine Kills Whitney Houston

...Why didn't they find this heart condition? I remember there were rumors that she was suffering from emphysema and was going to die. Those reports weren't far off. Another thing, Whitney was heavy smoker. Smoking cigarettes can definitely lead to closing of heart arteries.

She possibly WAS aware of it - half the population have atherosclerotic heart disease but most probably aren't aware of it. If you're an addict - alcohol, nicotine or hard drugs - it's incredibly hard to stop, even you're aware of the risks to your health.

I'll say it again, with all of these drug-related celebrity deaths - whether it's Elvis, Whitney, Jackson, Cobain etc - some of the blame HAS to fall on their friends, family and managements. Unfortunately, most of them are so busy living off the gravy train, they don't seem to care that the driver has fallen asleep at the wheel.

 

[Spiff]

Re: Cocaine Kills Whitney Houston

Uh.

DROWNING killed Whitney Houston.

COCAINE(and the other drugs in her system) exacerbated the death.

I know you like stirring the pot in Whitney threads, but the very least you could do is read the articles you link to. Her official cause of death is by drowning.

Uh. Are you really that naive and oblivious to reality?

Saying the true cause was drowning accident only conjures up this. . .



strangely enough, her getting killed by a shark attack in the tub sounds more believable than just a basic drowning accident.

 

[Ninja108]

Re: Cocaine Kills Whitney Houston

She possibly WAS aware of it - half the population have atherosclerotic heart disease but most probably aren't aware of it. If you're an addict - alcohol, nicotine or hard drugs - it's incredibly hard to stop, even you're aware of the risks to your health.

I'll say it again, with all of these drug-related celebrity deaths - whether it's Elvis, Whitney, Jackson, Cobain etc - some of the blame HAS to fall on their friends, family and managements. Unfortunately, most of them are so busy living off the gravy train, they don't seem to care that the driver has fallen asleep at the wheel.

Some of the blame DOES have to fall to them. They were either too busy leeching off her or too scared to say no to try and help her.
In the same breath though,there have been reports of people who wanted to help Whitney and get her on the sober path,she chose not to respond to them and hung out with the ones who enabled her instead.

 

[EvilTwinTwo]

Re: I Will Always Love You, as good as Whitney

^what a fail. not sure if trolling or serious

The TRUTH is never trolling.

 

[EvilTwinTwo]

Re: Cocaine Kills Whitney Houston

NEWS

DEPARTMENT OF CORONER

County of Los Angeles
Anthony T. Hernandez, Director Lakshmanan Sathyavagiswaran, M.D. Chief Medical Examiner-Coroner 1104 North Mission Road Los Angeles, CA 90033

Contact: Craig Harvey, F-ABMDI Chief, Operations/PIO (323) 343-0783/0788 Ed Winter, Assistant Chief, Operations/PIO (323) 343-0783/0788 LOS ANGELES, CA - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

RE: Coroner Case Number 2012-01022 - HOUSTON, Whitney Elisebeth

The Los Angeles County Department of Coroner conducted an autopsy on the body of Whitney Elisebeth Houston, age 48, on February 12th, 2012.

The final cause of death has been determined to be:

DROWNING EFFECTS OF ATHEROSCLEROTIC HEART DISEASE AND COCAINE USE

HOW INJURY OCCURRED: FOUND SUBMERGED IN BATHTUB FILLED WITH WATER; COCAINE INTAKE

OTHER SIGNIFICANT CONDITIONS: NONE

MANNER OF DEATH: ACCIDENT

TOXICOLOGY: COCAINE AND METABOLITES WERE IDENTIFIED AND WERE CONTRIBUTORY TO THE DEATH.

MARIJUANA, ALPRAZOLAM (XANAX), CYCLOBENZAPRINE (FLEXERIL) AND DIPHENHYDRAMINE (BENADRYL) WERE IDENTIFIED BUT DID NOT CONTRIBUTE TO THE DEATH

No trauma or foul play is suspected. It is anticipated that the final Coroner report will be available for release within two weeks.
crh03/22/2012

http://documents.latimes.com/coroner-releases-whitney-houstons-cause-death/

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

Re: Cocaine Kills Whitney Houston

What if we're wrong, and Whitney was actually m u r d e r e d ?

 

[Ninja108]

Re: Cocaine Kills Whitney Houston

Whitney died due to her drug abuse. I know some people can't accept that but I learned long ago whitewashing the truth means squat.

 

[medic1]

Re: Cocaine Kills Whitney Houston

But, friend, is that not the whole life of megacelebrity, even into death?

Every iota of a life is gleaned, and shared, as a sort of whored intimacy that is at first encouraged by the famous, but then found to be sold at dear price.

And, I would disagree that we all have demons of like nature. Demons are the fears that haunt us, that tell us we are not good enough, that whisper that no one likes us. Our skeletons are a different matter. Some have actually murdered, abused, stolen, beaten, cheated, terrified, and hated.

In my experience, I've found that many more people have not performed that latter list, they HAVE been decent to their neighbors and loved ones. That's sort of the basis of our laws, punishing the transgressions that are MUCH more damaging than gossip at the fence. And, to the former list, most of us KNOW that our families and friends love us, and no demon can tell us otherwise, not even with the added stress of homosexual tensions living in a straight world.

Adam, YOU know you are loved. YOU know also that Ms. Houston clearly understood her millions of fans loved her. Whether she should have been arrested and punished for trafficking in hard drugs is a real policy question, but it is clear that society has a huge double standard. When it comes to insobriety, the very rich and worshipped are simply making foolish decisions, wasting their status, but the poor are threats to public safety, an underclass, and a blight on society as they steal and take in order to get the next high, rarely contributing to community or society, just taking and taking.

Not to ennoble the discussion here too much, but I do believe that is why there is a polarizing view of the tragedy. One faction sees the obligation of all of us to contribute to the whole, while another defends the rights of an individual to live just for self, and have no accountability to the herd. Maybe that is too simplistic, but it seems to have resonance to me. And, I do see real content in the debate, much more so that fame-worshippers clamoring for a souvenir at an estate sale.

Don't hate me because I'm obdurate. There are one or two others on here who already have that job.

Could never hate you , Jason
Your post as expected was well-written and almost "estoric" , all i am waiting for are the book`s and made for TV movies.
One last thing every time i heard her sing (before the bsd times) the hair on my neck stood-up ,