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steel driving hammer
I take 1 lorazepam 3 times a day.

It goes great w/ Stones.

So how many are left in the bottle?....maybe it was three one day or ...exactly what day was it when you started keeping count?

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TheDailyBuzzherd
Drug-free here, but thanks ...

Alcohol is a drug...

Then I'll be drug-free 'til 8pm ...

Cissy Houston
Whitney Houston's mother, gospel singer Cissy Houston, issued the following
statement: "We are devastated by the loss of our beloved Whitney. This is an
unimaginable tragedy and we will miss her terribly. We appreciate the outpouring
of love and support from her fans and friends."

Barbra Streisand
"She had everything, beauty, a magnificent voice. How sad her gifts could not
bring her the same happiness they brought us."

Dolly Parton
"Mine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney
Houston," Parton said in a statement obtained by Reuters. "I will always be
grateful and in awe of the wonderful performance she did on my song, and I can
truly say from the bottom of my heart, 'Whitney, I will always love you. You
will be missed.'"

Mariah Carey
Heartbroken and in tears over the shocking death of my friend, the incomparable Ms. Whitney Houston.

Aretha Franklin
Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin told CNN in a statement, "I just can't talk about
it now. It's so stunning and unbelievable. I couldn't believe what I was reading
coming across the TV screen. My heart goes out to Cissy, her daughter Bobbi
Kris, her family and Bobby."

Lionel Richie
"I am devastated by the loss of Whitney. We have lost a true angel. My prayers,
my heart goes out to her family. We have lost an extraordinary voice to the
world."

Bobby Brown
"First of all, I want to tell you that I love you all. Second, I would like to
say, I love you Whitney. The hardest thing for me to do is to come on this
stage." — Houston's ex-husband Bobby Brown, performing a show in Southaven,
Miss., hours after her death.

Elton John
"This is a sad day today, all I want to talk about is her music. She was the
most beautiful woman I think I ever saw .... Thank you for giving us your
talent, and one of the most beautiful voices I've ever heard." — Elton John,
from the stage at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, before dedicating the song "Don't
Let the Sun Go Down on Me" to Houston.

Michelle Williams
"I truly, truly adored Whitney Houston. Her album `I'm Your Baby Tonight' was
the very first album I ever bought." — Michelle Williams of Destiny's Child

Pink
"Whitney was the reason many of us do what we do."

Smokey Robinson:
I've known Whitney since she was a little girl and I have always loved her. She
was like family to me....

Queen Latifah
Oh Dear Lord! Huritng so Bad!!! MY Sister Whitney!!!!!!! Newark please Pray!!!
World Please Pray

Wyclef Jean
"The voice of an Angel, the Heart of a Lamb, the spirit of a Lioness, the
presence of a Goddess, love you R.I.P Whitney Houston."

In my opinion, she had the best female voice in the last 50 years, easily, in her hey day, that it. In the last few years, she'd lost her edge and her voice was husky and rough...yes, it is tragic but I just can't understand it when someone has the world at their feet, more adoration than most folks ever experience, ( to the extreme extent, I'm sure) and they are Hell bent to destroy themselves and that gift. If you get into the really serious drugs, don't you know that there are facilities that can help you?? Especially if you have the kind of $$ these super stars have....it may sound naive but to basically kill yourself seems more than foolish...everything to live for!!

Rest in peace, Whitney.

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superrevvy
"i will always love you" at the moment #2 on USA itunes.

one great thing about itunes. the record stores can't be sold out of it,
so you always know exactly what people are buying, up to the minute.

16 of the top 100. that's what i call a tribute. kids you rule.

"i will always love you" now #1

now 26 of the top 100 are whitney.

amazing.

Xanax slows the heart rate and when you are in between doses it raises it up.

Been there with Ativan its the same poison

Michael Jackson , Brittany Murphy and ledger
All had Ativan in them when they died
I tapered off the shit and it was hell

I am freeeeeeeeee

Thank god I got that monkey off my back
Its harder to quit than heroin.



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Technically she had the power but lacked soul, I found her music overbearing along with Celine Dion and Mariah Carey, now give me Etta James anyday.

RIP: Whitney.

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superrevvy
Cissy Houston
Whitney Houston's mother, gospel singer Cissy Houston, issued the following
statement: "We are devastated by the loss of our beloved Whitney. This is an
unimaginable tragedy and we will miss her terribly. We appreciate the outpouring
of love and support from her fans and friends."

Barbra Streisand
"She had everything, beauty, a magnificent voice. How sad her gifts could not
bring her the same happiness they brought us."

Dolly Parton
"Mine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney
Houston," Parton said in a statement obtained by Reuters. "I will always be
grateful and in awe of the wonderful performance she did on my song, and I can
truly say from the bottom of my heart, 'Whitney, I will always love you. You
will be missed.'"

Mariah Carey
Heartbroken and in tears over the shocking death of my friend, the incomparable Ms. Whitney Houston.

Aretha Franklin
Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin told CNN in a statement, "I just can't talk about
it now. It's so stunning and unbelievable. I couldn't believe what I was reading
coming across the TV screen. My heart goes out to Cissy, her daughter Bobbi
Kris, her family and Bobby."

Lionel Richie
"I am devastated by the loss of Whitney. We have lost a true angel. My prayers,
my heart goes out to her family. We have lost an extraordinary voice to the
world."

Bobby Brown
"First of all, I want to tell you that I love you all. Second, I would like to
say, I love you Whitney. The hardest thing for me to do is to come on this
stage." — Houston's ex-husband Bobby Brown, performing a show in Southaven,
Miss., hours after her death.

Elton John
"This is a sad day today, all I want to talk about is her music. She was the
most beautiful woman I think I ever saw .... Thank you for giving us your
talent, and one of the most beautiful voices I've ever heard." — Elton John,
from the stage at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, before dedicating the song "Don't
Let the Sun Go Down on Me" to Houston.

Michelle Williams
"I truly, truly adored Whitney Houston. Her album `I'm Your Baby Tonight' was
the very first album I ever bought." — Michelle Williams of Destiny's Child

Pink
"Whitney was the reason many of us do what we do."

Smokey Robinson:
I've known Whitney since she was a little girl and I have always loved her. She
was like family to me....

Queen Latifah
Oh Dear Lord! Huritng so Bad!!! MY Sister Whitney!!!!!!! Newark please Pray!!!
World Please Pray

Wyclef Jean
"The voice of an Angel, the Heart of a Lamb, the spirit of a Lioness, the
presence of a Goddess, love you R.I.P Whitney Houston."

l don't want sound uncaring,or rain on anyone's parade,but please,l have had enough of the Whitney Houston,hypocritical tributes ,lets face it ,her time had passed,she was a drug addict,had lost her voice,and most of the people around her were enablers,that would give her anything. Bobby Brown was probably the worse,and now he is all over crying crocodile tears,and the newscasters,are over the top with their B.S.
Bottom line if you are a junkie and after your time has passed continue to do drugs as if you were a 20 years old,it will kill you,and it did her in,and it was her choice.....A great talent wasted..

"No dope smoking no beer sold after 12 o'clock"



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Waiting for someone to tweet: "I never met Whitney. I didn't care about her music. She's just one of thousands of people around the world who died today."

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Floorbird
Technically she had the power but lacked soul, I found her music overbearing along with Celine Dion and Mariah Carey, now give me Etta James anyday.

RIP: Whitney.

very much agree.....Etta and Aretha too.

RIP Whitney

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TheDailyBuzzherd
Drug-free here, but thanks ...

Alcohol is a drug...

Love is a drug.

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superrevvy
Cissy Houston
Whitney Houston's mother, gospel singer Cissy Houston, issued the following
statement: "We are devastated by the loss of our beloved Whitney. This is an
unimaginable tragedy and we will miss her terribly. We appreciate the outpouring
of love and support from her fans and friends."

Barbra Streisand
"She had everything, beauty, a magnificent voice. How sad her gifts could not
bring her the same happiness they brought us."

Dolly Parton
"Mine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney
Houston," Parton said in a statement obtained by Reuters. "I will always be
grateful and in awe of the wonderful performance she did on my song, and I can
truly say from the bottom of my heart, 'Whitney, I will always love you. You
will be missed.'"

Mariah Carey
Heartbroken and in tears over the shocking death of my friend, the incomparable Ms. Whitney Houston.

Aretha Franklin
Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin told CNN in a statement, "I just can't talk about
it now. It's so stunning and unbelievable. I couldn't believe what I was reading
coming across the TV screen. My heart goes out to Cissy, her daughter Bobbi
Kris, her family and Bobby."

Lionel Richie
"I am devastated by the loss of Whitney. We have lost a true angel. My prayers,
my heart goes out to her family. We have lost an extraordinary voice to the
world."

Bobby Brown
"First of all, I want to tell you that I love you all. Second, I would like to
say, I love you Whitney. The hardest thing for me to do is to come on this
stage." — Houston's ex-husband Bobby Brown, performing a show in Southaven,
Miss., hours after her death.

Elton John
"This is a sad day today, all I want to talk about is her music. She was the
most beautiful woman I think I ever saw .... Thank you for giving us your
talent, and one of the most beautiful voices I've ever heard." — Elton John,
from the stage at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, before dedicating the song "Don't
Let the Sun Go Down on Me" to Houston.

Michelle Williams
"I truly, truly adored Whitney Houston. Her album `I'm Your Baby Tonight' was
the very first album I ever bought." — Michelle Williams of Destiny's Child

Pink
"Whitney was the reason many of us do what we do."

Smokey Robinson:
I've known Whitney since she was a little girl and I have always loved her. She
was like family to me....

Queen Latifah
Oh Dear Lord! Huritng so Bad!!! MY Sister Whitney!!!!!!! Newark please Pray!!!
World Please Pray

Wyclef Jean
"The voice of an Angel, the Heart of a Lamb, the spirit of a Lioness, the
presence of a Goddess, love you R.I.P Whitney Houston."

l don't want sound uncaring,or rain on anyone's parade,but please,l have had enough of the Whitney Houston,hypocritical tributes ,lets face it ,her time had passed,she was a drug addict,had lost her voice,and most of the people around her were enablers,that would give her anything. Bobby Brown was probably the worse,and now he is all over crying crocodile tears,and the newscasters,are over the top with their B.S.
Bottom line if you are a junkie and after your time has passed continue to do drugs as if you were a 20 years old,it will kill you,and it did her in,and it was her choice.....A great talent wasted..

And here come the cynics....
happens every time.

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Floorbird
Technically she had the power but lacked soul, I found her music overbearing along with Celine Dion and Mariah Carey, now give me Etta James anyday.

RIP: Whitney.

She was very much a product of her time. I call it the Clive Davis effect - he even made Aretha sound 'soulless' to an extent in the 80s.
Give her gospel songs a listen - that's where she was sublime.
Her last single, "I Look To Thee" was Whitney after years of struggle, and though you can hear the strain in her voice - the heart was there,

Blaming drugs is just too simple. Trying to ban drugs and/or make them illegal is not possible. Humans are going to find a way to do what humans want to do, it has been like that since the beginning of time. Probably right before the first human entered into the first deal with the world oldest profesion, they probably got high.

People get high, drink booze, do drugs for many reasons.... and to simply blame drugs on this tragedy is too simple... if it wasnt drugs it might have been something else.... Who knows what happened?

I read an article today that said maybe Whitney had spent all of her money, and her voice could not earn her more. It said she was borrowing small amounts, if true, that must have made her feel bad. I dont know if the rumors of running out of money are true..... who knows what is true.... except that in 100 years (if the Earth survives) everyone reading this will probably be dead.

a board to eulogize Whitney. Oh boy.Pass me a drink.

I find it interesting that her career had gone away due to her own decisions yet...it's very similar to Whacko minus all the horror aside from the usual about/of her life, the drugs, her idiot boyfriend, etc. She wasn't anything spectacular in terms of being an artist - in my eyes. She never got past what made her the big artist she was that she never lived up to.

The front part of her career was spectactular in regard to what she did. The end part of her career was highly forgetabble. She had things handed to her and couldn't even make that work. Her own decisions didn't care because she didn't care. She'd done it. What was she gonna do? Of course record sales will go through the roof for a week, maybe two, and then it'll be back to how it was - totally forgotten.

She had a hell of a voice. Her decisions obviously were way heavier than what her voice was worth to and for her.

(real nice obit)

How Whitney Houston Ruined Music

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My favorite vocal on a Rolling Stones record comes not from Mick Jagger or
Keith Richards, but from Merry Clayton on the apocalyptic classic "Gimme
Shelter." Go listen to that record some time and listen not to the great
guitar interplay or the very fine performance from Jagger, but instead to
Clayton's counter vocal. She sounds like her skin is about rupture, like her
spleen is about to launch itself into orbit. She's singing as if the fate of the
world depends on it. What's more amazing is that as she spins out of control,
she never sounds like she's playing a role; she's purely and perfectly in the
moment and it's extraordinary.

Whitney Houston did that routinely throughout her extraordinary early career.
Etta James is still the greatest of all time, but Whitney was no slouch. She
made mediocre songs memorable, good songs great, and great songs timeless. She
could access a place from within few can and when she summoned it, magic
happened.

She took a pleasant country song by Dolly Parton and made it iconic, legendary.
Nobody knows all the words to "I Will Always Love You" and you don't need to.
Whitney didn't need poetry. She needed five words and one of the greatest vocal
instruments God ever installed inside a human body. The rest of the language is
ornamental. Five words. She told you everything you need to know about love,
passion, devotion, and yearning in five words. Put your pencils down. Lesson is
over. Class dismissed.

She spoiled us by taking ownership of our ears and ruining them for those who'd
dare to follow in her footsteps, by being so damn much better than everyone else
they resorted to parlor tricks, parody, and melisma. She taunted the
competition because she didn't have to do anything special to embarrass them.
She didn't rely on tricks or gadgets; she opened her mouth, sang, and sent
everybody else's ass packing. Damn the masses for trying to hang with her, they
never stood a chance.

I can just imagine her showing up on one of Simon Cowell's 200 shows and doing a
short 20 seconds, a cappella, and him looking out at the other contestants,
asking, "Can any of you do that? Because if you can't, go sit down."

She took a difficult song to sing about a battle from The War of 1812, known
only for being The War of 1812, and made it something beyond patriotism. How
many people have sung "The Star Spangled Banner" over the years? How many
versions are as stirring? How many are as iconic? How many are perfect? One.
Hers. Okay, fine, I'll give you Hendrix from Woodstock as iconic and maybe
stirring, albeit it in a completely different way. It was a great, signature
moment for Jimi and a brilliant deconstruction, but I'll still take Whitney for
pure, clear emotional power and force of will.

I suppose it's only fitting she was called home on a Saturday; it meant she be
on time to lead Sunday morning services. She led the choir of the heavenly hosts
and sanctification sounded better than ever.

I'm a little grumpy with the Big Man above for recalling her but what else was
she supposed to do? Her talent transcends time and place. We held onto her
tightly and in less than a decade -- not even enough to be an entire grain of
sand in the expanse of infinity -- she ruined music. Earth conquered, she moved
on. She slew the pretenders and bathed us in the glory of her gift; not bad for
a life's work.

Maybe she was ready to go home.

By Josh Hathaway

(personally i suspect whitney's death at the grammys marks the final triumph
of the (counter)revolution she and michael jackson and madonna started.
The victory of pop over rock. oh well, it was fun while it lasted. at least
pop is world pop now, and not just some sickly sweet american thing)



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Saddened but not shocked to hear of her passing. She had most likely destroyed her body with years of alcohol and drug abuse. None of which interests me. She was a mother and daughter so I feel sorry for her family. However I can't say I held her in much regard as an artist. Some of the early bubblegum pop songs were fun and she was attractive but for me her voice was too technical. Not really soulful like Aretha's or Etta's. Even Amy Winehouse's voice was more touching and honest. I can't believe somebody posted that the Stones should have replaced Lisa with Whitney. So much bad taste on here of late.

I never could stand her singing, and still can't. Just as I can't stand Mariah Careys singing, and can't stand the entire generation it spawned, like Beyonce.

I just hate this technical acrobatry of 'I can sing 16 octaves, and I am going to show it in every two words, preferably with lots of empty air in between'. It's just as I can't stand all the technical guitar wizzards of the 80's, playing a million notes in every bar.

Sorry.

Mathijs

I think that Whitney stood above the likes of Carey, Beyonce, Rihanna and others. She wasn't just a wailer like Carey and she didn't stroll around almost naked in videos or on stage like Beyonce and others. She had class and she had soul. Listen to songs like "I look to you", "I will always love you" and "My love is your love" and tell me differently!

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Mathijs
I never could stand her singing, and still can't. Just as I can't stand Mariah Careys singing, and can't stand the entire generation it spawned, like Beyonce.

I just hate this technical acrobatry of 'I can sing 16 octaves, and I am going to show it in every two words, preferably with lots of empty air in between'. It's just as I can't stand all the technical guitar wizzards of the 80's, playing a million notes in every bar.

Sorry.

Mathijs

I can see your point. But I think one should needs to separate orignality and being a pioneer from that of the whole genre following one's steps and example. I hate the whole damn idea of "guitar hero" and whatever forms it takes (for example, the worts occured during the posering 80's.) But I simply adore Jimi Hendrix and whatever he did with the guitar. And he is the one most to be 'blamed' for the whole egoist guitar @#$%& (=masturbation) genre. I sense something similar with Whitney Houston. She was able to use her incredible voice for 'pure' artistic expression, and not just showing technical acrobatism that seems to the value of its own since her.

- Doxa



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In all honesty I just feel like here we go again - Wacko, Winehouse and now Whitney. All years past any creativity they once had, all washed up addicts, illegal, alcoholic or prescription, same difference. And all destined to be number one for the next month or two while celebs queue up to say how much they loved them and will miss them. (Not having had any contact with them for years.)

Sure it's gonna be reported but let's just report these things, acknowledge they are a sad reflection on human frailty and move on without the eulogies. But it sells I suppose - expect the Sun to front page it for a good week.

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Mathijs
I never could stand her singing, and still can't. Just as I can't stand Mariah Careys singing, and can't stand the entire generation it spawned, like Beyonce.
Mathijs

I have similar feeligs. The thing is that I know like 5 songs of WH and that's it, so I absolutely don't want to judge her as an artist.

I remeber that I first saw her on TV in I Will Always Love You and Run To You videos an I was just sick of it. I didn't like the songs, but that was okay, what I found unberable weres the videos, all the close-ups of WH with closed eyes, showing how much she could open her mouth and how white her teeth were. Wow, those feelings are comming back as I write it. The whole Bodybuard movie was crap and I was 15, which is the age, that when you are an over-sensitive girl, you wathch it every night and cry, if you are not, you just hate it. So that was my first impression of WH and it prevented me from listening to anything that she recorded. Maybe I am missing a lot, but I think that my view is logical.

Anyway, her death is a sad and tragical thing, just like a premature death of any other human being. R.I.P.



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Whitney-houston-died-prescription-drug-alcohol-combination..TMZ

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"No dope smoking no beer sold after 12 o'clock"

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ROPENI
lets face it ,her time had passed,she was a drug addict,had lost her voice,and most of the people around her were enablers,that would give her anything.

So you're done with the Stones too?

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lets face it ,her time had passed,she was a drug addict,had lost her voice,and most of the people around her were enablers,that would give her anything.

So you're done with the Stones too?

Koen,at no time lam judging her choices,l got no problem with people doing drugs,have done quite a few in my time, my point is that it was her choice do them,and she died from that choice, but somehow people now are trying to make her to be a saint,as someone else said here before"thousands of people also died last Saturday"and to me she was just one more,that's all. And as far as your question no lam not done with The Stones.

"No dope smoking no beer sold after 12 o'clock"

I don't understand this logic that we are supposed to keep quiet about this because a thousand other addicts died the same day. Don't you think there is a difference between a world known megastar who has sold millions of records and Mr N N. If the President of the USA drowned in his bath sleepy on pills: Don't you think that that would be of greater interest to the world than Mrs Anonymous doing the same in her apartment? Ever heard the term news value?

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lets face it ,her time had passed,she was a drug addict,had lost her voice,and most of the people around her were enablers,that would give her anything.

So you're done with the Stones too?

And as far as your question no lam not done with The Stones.

That's great news

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Stoneage
I don't understand this logic that we are supposed to keep quiet about this because a thousand other addicts died the same day. Don't you think there is a difference between a world known megastar who has sold millions of records and Mr N N. If the President of the USA drowned in his bath sleepy on pills: Don't you think that that would be of greater interest to the world than Mrs Anonymous doing the same in her apartment? Ever heard the term news value?

Stoneage,l guess u r referring to my post,where did l say we should keep quiet about her death?, and when l pointed out that thousands of other people had also died that Saturday, l wasn't referring to only addicts,but people in general(BTW someone else said that line and l made it perfectly clear in my post),but FOR ME and only me,she was just another casualty of her excesses,but if you feel different about her death,well that's your prerogative...I got no problem with that,have a nice day.

"No dope smoking no beer sold after 12 o'clock"