R.I.P. Whitney Houston

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   J-Mo
   Posted February 12, 2012 at 12:23 am

   Ah, I’m devastated like many, but the REALLY disheartening thing I’m seeing is SO many people being cruel and nasty and posting shit on FB like “Nasty crack whores die every day, why do we care about this bitch?”… and stuff like that. I had to defriend a few people, cuz I just can’t handle it, which sounds ridiculous, and I suppose it is, but that’s how I’m feeling about it. I mean yeah, Whitney was messed up and she destroyed her voice, nobody can argue that, the proof is on the last CD, but people seem to have lost any and all empathy for the disease of addiction, and that is just sad. And UNLIKE nasty crack whores, Whitney left a legacy of beautiful music with that angelic voice that we can all enjoy until WE die, so in MY opinion THAT’S why she deserves to be mourned and blessed and revered… because if there IS a God, then a piece of His art went back home with her today.

   love, J-Mo

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   Nads
   Posted February 12, 2012 at 12:32 am

   Amen, J-Mo! It’s just plain sad and tragic. She will always be one of the greats.

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   J-Mo
   Posted February 12, 2012 at 12:35 am

   Also, on the other hand, I can’t deny, I’ve used the “dootie-bubble” joke more than once, I can’t help it, it just made me laugh, and probably always will….

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   sarcasatire
   Posted February 12, 2012 at 12:54 am

   Well said, J-Mo! I was very sad to hear of her passing and I immediately started playing her greatest hits on my itunes. I even sang along…off-key but my heart was in the right place. My daughter, however, left the room.

   Growing up in Brooklyn in the 80′s there wasn’t a Brown child alive that didn’t sing a Whitney song at graduation. Namely, “I Believe The Children Are Our Future.” I smile to think about all 150 of us kids belting out the high notes.

   R.I.P Whitney..

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   Buffy
   Posted February 12, 2012 at 1:44 am

   Well, the last i heard was the cause of death was unknown. When Amy Winehouse passed away every comment or report i heard was saying it was an overdose and then they did the autopsy and her system was clean.
   Either way I am always sad when a child loses a mother, so my thoughts are with Bobbi Kristina and the family more than on the cause of death. I am already bracing myself for all the loving praise from the hypocritical masses and media and industries, that thrived on knocking her down in her darkest hours as they are sure to be changing their tune tonight.

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   Fan-Ann
   Posted February 12, 2012 at 2:20 am

   I never watched that reality show because I loved her music, her voice, her talent and beauty, and had no wish to change my image of her. I saw her in concert years ago from incredible third row seats that were my birthday present from my husband. I feel privileged to have seen her at her best. That is how I choose to remember her.

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   jarthon
   Posted February 12, 2012 at 3:14 am

   If you need a way to deal with anybody saying anything nasty about Whitney, I just send them here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40Gi28pNruA

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   Alejandra
   Posted February 12, 2012 at 3:24 am

   I think assholes out there for whom “crackwhore” was the first word on their lipids upon news of this woman’s death need to remember that Lindsay Lohan didn’t die. Britney Spears didn’t die. Kim RICHARDS didn’t die. Whitney FUCKING Houston died. She had a voice that is unmatched and will remain so, and if every crackwhore out there in a gutter had a voice like that and gave that much to the unforgiving public, I’d mourn and respect them, too. And if those women were famous and had a daughter who also lived in the public eye (not by choice), I’d watch my damn mouth for the kid’s sake.

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   Buffy
   Posted February 12, 2012 at 3:36 am

   @Alejandra – Are you saying that if it was Britney Spears, Kim Richards or Lindsey Lohan that died you would be one of the assholes calling them crackwhores?

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    snowshoecat
    Posted February 12, 2012 at 4:09 am

    It is just so great to read all the love pouring out from the Gasmii upon hearing the sad, sad news of Witney Houston’s death. Flip, your tribute was lovely. J-Mo, as a fellow weeper, I cried every time I heard “I will Always Love You” and Hubbycat and I consider it our special song. Love, SSC

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    cattyfan
    Posted February 12, 2012 at 4:38 am

    I feel sorry for all the people who go down the path of drug addiction. I know people would be reacting more harshly if it had been Courtney Love, but she (to me) is a tragic figure. Yes, she did drugs before, but imagine how much it would screw you up to have a husband who says he loves your daughter and adores you…and blows his head off in your house anyway.

    Winehouse’s death investigation has been reopened, by the way.

    May Whitney find the peace in death that she was unable to find in this life.

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    hot cawfee
    Posted February 12, 2012 at 4:54 am

    This is one of two comments–to Mister Serena Williams– you tweeted it best “Wow. Just wow…This ruins my whole day” Thank you Mister Williams— I had no idea just who to offer my condolences to. I thought it was the family esp her young daughter. But wow-thank you for teaching me the ever tricky ways of celebrity.

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    hot cawfee
    Posted February 12, 2012 at 5:01 am

    And Comment second— This is truly sad. I remember as young Cawfee reading my Seventeen Magazine and seeing a photo of “young model and aspiring singer Whitney Houston” She was lovely–she had headphones on and such a look of joy on her face. She radiaited off the page– it was oh these many years ago but I remember so clearly how she looked and what she woare and her hair.
    This is sad—-s much talent. Maybe this will save a life. As much as I joked about Demi Moore and her folks rec room in the 70′s, perhaps someone famous or otherwise will get needed treatment.

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    Buffy
    Posted February 12, 2012 at 5:12 am

    @cattyfan -i absolutely believe if it were Courtney Love (or Lindsey , Britney, Kim, etc) that the news would be received differently for a large percentage of the population (like Allejandra), and that is sad.I’ve experienced the disease of addiction from every angle and it is a horrific disease that has catastrophically devastating effects on the addict and everyone that loves them.
    I don’t know whether or not drugs or alcohol caused Whitney’s death, but i do know that for many of us death provides the only relief and peace we will know.

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    Viane Slice
    Posted February 12, 2012 at 7:41 am

    Oh Whitney. When I heard her latest CD I almost cried. I reminded me of Judy Garland – how she too ruined her glorious voice with drugs. At her worst, Whitney sounded better than most of the so-called singers today but still when you heard her at her best – it was a tragic thing. So now like Judy Garland, she died way too young. I too see how some have taken the anonymity of the web and said the foulest things the commenters wouldn’t say in public. But unfortunately the web has been that way since its inception.

    I do hope Bobby Christina will be able to rise above the chaos. I know she will be tracked down by leeches, so-called well-wishers, and a host of other unwanteds and I hope her family will be there to help her through it.

    I will always remember Whitney Houston’s music- it was the sountrack of my adolescence.

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    chaosbutterfly
    Posted February 12, 2012 at 11:00 am

    I’m so sad that it ended this way for her. She was such a great singer and so beautiful…she could even act. Even before she died, when her songs would come on itunes or pandora, I would feel like crying because she had so much and lost it. It really hurts to think about what her life could have been, had it not been for the drugs, but at least she has peace now.

    I hope her family and loved ones are able to cope.

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    Alejandra
    Posted February 12, 2012 at 1:15 pm

    Buffy, I never have and never will nastily commented on someone who’s passed due to an addiction, having also experienced it myself, so (and I say this with respect and not anger) please don’t lump me into a certain percentage of the population. I was truly saddened by Amy Winehouse’s death, and kept my thoughts about what caused it to myself. However, Whitney Houston gave the world a 30 year career before any of this happened, and to have her public persona reduced to such a nasty, insensitive, hateful word denies the richness of her life. Lindsay Lohan, Britney Spears, Kim Richards and Courtney Love haven’t contributed a tenth of what Whitney did to the entertainment industry. While that certainly doesn’t mean that any of them should be treated with such disrespect if they are unlucky enough to suffer the same fate, none of them will leave the legacy Whitney Houston did unless they get their shit together right quick. And I hope they do, because I, for one, am sick to death of seeing talent wasted.

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    Buffy
    Posted February 12, 2012 at 4:01 pm

    @Allejandra -sorry to “lump you in”, but you said “if every crackwhore in a gutter had a voice like that and gave that much to the unforgiving public I’d mourn and respect them too”. And I don’t know where else to put that statement.

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    Robinez
    Posted February 12, 2012 at 5:23 pm

    They just showed a clip of her singing “I will Always Love You” on the Grammy show. She was perfect. Like an angel singing. I am the same age as her and when I look back each of her songs remind me of a period of time in my life.

    I saw Kathy Griffin arriving on the red carpet earlier today..She looked kind of uncomfortable. Took guts to show up..

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    considerthis
    Posted February 12, 2012 at 6:13 pm

    Just putting this out there…
    I guess I’m just sad and feeling ripped off that a great talent was taken too soon and maybe I am looking to place blame.
    BUT
    Does anybody feel (like I do) that Bobby Brown was the beginning of the end for Whitney? I am the first to admit I know VERY little about addiction but was Whitney an addict or did Bobby and his bad boy ways get her hooked to the point where in became an addiction?

    I understand she was an adult and capable of making her own choices but I think Bobby was jealous and wanted to bring her down to his level so he wasn’t Mr. Whitney Houston and in my opinion he succeeded.

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    cattyfan
    Posted February 12, 2012 at 6:34 pm

    Bobby and Whitney fed each other’s worst attributes and habits. Their egos…their addictions…they were awful for each other.

    And you know he’ll try to stake a comeback and make money on this.

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    Buffy
    Posted February 12, 2012 at 6:48 pm

    @considerthis -I have no idea who was using first, but there’s a good chance they both were. Birds of a feather and all. Whitney was bigger than Bobby when they got together though, and I doubt he was so jealous that he made a calculated decision to marry her and ruin get career and her life.

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    Robinez
    Posted February 12, 2012 at 7:08 pm

    To blame Bobby Brown for what she chose to continue to do many years after they were no longer together isn’t fair. She was a grown ass adult and a Mother.

    I also think that she was a treasure that was lost too soon. She never had any scandal, she didn’t have any sleepovers, and as a football fan, I will never forget the chills that I got when I heard her National Anthem. I am from St. Pete and went to Tampa Stadium for the SB that year. Didn’t have tickets, but you could buy tailgaiting space in advance and watch on a jumbotron in the parking lot. The folks in the parking lot all shut up when she sang, we had just gone to war the week before and it was a moment in my life that I will never forget.

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    tvdiva
    Posted February 12, 2012 at 7:35 pm

    Whitney herself interviewed something to the effect that her attraction to Bobby, before they married, was because they were more alike than people knew. While she started in the church, in her own words, she was “no angel”. That being said, I am still in shock. I wasn’t following her recent career; but will always remember the wonderful songs of my young adulthood. I hope her daughter, her mom and yes, her ex, can all get through this tough time.

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    BellicoseBaby
    Posted February 12, 2012 at 8:14 pm

    @hot cawfee – I, too remember as a tween, I guess, reading in whatever that other “Seventeen”-like magazine was called (Teen?), about this beautiful 16 yr old, modeling pastel Dickies overalls, working with her mother to become a singer.

    ::sigh::

    RIP, Ms. Houston

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    Buffy
    Posted February 12, 2012 at 8:27 pm

    @Bellicosebaby -Teen Beat.
    The first 45 I ever bought was “I wanna dance with Somebody”, can’t remember the B side, but I know I still have it somewhere.

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    mm
    Posted February 13, 2012 at 4:07 am

    @buffy- maybe we find something better to do with our time than memorize comment posts on an article about the death of someone you’ve never met? A job, or even crack use, seems like a more efficient use of time.

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    Pikey
    Posted February 13, 2012 at 6:22 am

    Whitney had the voice of an angel and blessed us with her gift. Her cause of death should not really matter to the general public but we all know that many people love a scandal. My heart goes out to her daughter, family and close friends.

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    PlathAddict
    Posted February 13, 2012 at 6:28 am

    @Buffy, I think you misunderstood the comment that you quoted. It sounds like the exact opposite of what you are accusing Allejandra of doing. Sounds like she was saying that regardless of Whitney’s addictions, she deserves to be mourned and respected based solely on her talent and how much she gave to a public that refused to forgive her. And that if there are crackwhores in the gutter with her type of talent and who gave as much as she did to an unforgiving public, they deserve to be mourned and respected as well.

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    snowshoecat
    Posted February 13, 2012 at 7:22 am

    Robinez–When I read about her death, the Superbowl immediately came to mind. How lucky for you to have been there! I burst into tears during the fly-over, and I know I was not alone. It must have been beyond breathtaking. Luv, SSC

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    Hlesczyn
    Posted February 13, 2012 at 12:31 pm

    I remember being seven or eight and going to the mall with my parents and buying her tape (yes tape) with my allowance. Rewinding (yes rewinding) How Will I Know in my purple boombox while roller skating on my patio. Such found memories tempered by such waste and sadness.

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    Buffy
    Posted February 13, 2012 at 1:26 pm

    @mm – I have a job, actually I work at a long term residential substance abuse treatment center for women. it’s a great job!!!
    Thanks for assuming I have such a great memory. Actually after 20 years of abusing drugs and alcohol my memory is shot. Also my brain is still fuzzy, so it’s a definite possibility that I misinterpreted the comment. so, I’ll just apologize now and keep moving on.
    @Alejandra -Sorry about that

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    hutchlover
    Posted February 13, 2012 at 3:38 pm

    I’d like to say, RIP Peter Breck and Jill Kinmont Booth (the RL skier from ‘The Other Side of the Mountain’), who both also died Saturday deserve tributes over Whitney’s waste-of-space.

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    classy drunk
    Posted February 14, 2012 at 8:55 am

    Sigh….I can’t stop singing The Greatest Love of All.

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    Flo
    Posted February 17, 2012 at 6:09 pm

    Go to hell hutchlover. You’re the waste of space.

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    Constantin
    Posted February 23, 2012 at 6:17 pm

    kj Posted on good try but i am not sure why these tinhgs are popular now anyway, as the edges of zippers catch threads on every fabric and shred em like Olympic snowboaders!!