View Full Version : Whitney Houston = OMG!
I was a big fan during her early career and saw her 3 times and she was incredible - absolutely fantastic
I didnt get any tickets for her "comeback" tour :thumbs:
Not sure if you have seen some of the clips on Youtube;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQY8UB7v9po&feature=related
I know this is failry low res with camera phones and the like
But OMG - what a disaster :eek::eek:
She is a complete wreck with no voice :( and sweating like a pig after only a couple of songs, completely breathless :gag:
Drugs and alcohol have obviously taken their toll, I just didnt realise how much till I watched some of the clips on there
Surely her career is over, based on the reviews she is getting and the massive public criticism?
A pity, cause in her day she was incredible and should have gone on for decades :(
LouBarlow
14-04-2010, 16:55
Shoulda just put that Chinese kid in a wig.
:lol::lol:
Would have been better value for money
LouBarlow
14-04-2010, 17:11
That was quite a while ago as well. By all accounts her more recent shows have been even more of a disaster. A shame really, as although I was never a fan, it was a pretty devestating voice.
Yep - heard a clip on the radio today of someone who had recorded her at ..........Birmingham????? this week and it was a shocker
Forgetting the words, breathless, coughing, etc, etc during songs
Pretty much washed up really :eek:
Just saw this on the news, I don't know what is funnier, her singing or some woman afterwards stating that she was great. Apparently her record company has released a video or her performing at Birmingham but it stops just before that song :suspect:
SIMON ADEBISI
14-04-2010, 18:33
Crack is most definitely wack.
rustybin
14-04-2010, 18:37
Can't find a better quality version
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Her appearance on the X-Factor was nothing short of appalling, and this confirms to me that she's definitely still using...
Agreed :(
She was a wreck.
I have tickets for the O2. Hoping it gets cancelled.
RomerojpgX
15-04-2010, 02:24
I'd Hit it :lol:
But just to make it shut up.
Space Duck
15-04-2010, 07:50
Did no one in rehearsals think to say "Whitney, you were great once but you know.... I really think this tour is a bad idea" :P
Whitney, you were great once but you know.... I really think this tour is a bad idea
Not when people are still prepared to buy tickets and no doubt rake in millions for her - though reckon this is the "last stand"
Surely her career ends now, unless there is a massive improvement, but listening to her, sounds as though her voice is simply gone :shrug:
LouBarlow
16-04-2010, 04:13
It's more likely to be booze that destroyed her voice, and once gone, that's it. See Harry Nilsson for a similar sad story.
splobber
16-04-2010, 06:34
http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/5450/whitneyhouston.jpg
mr starface
16-04-2010, 10:03
No fan myself but surely it wouldnt take an enormous effort on her part to get in shape and tone the old voice up a bit?
Especially given the amount of cash she is getting for the concerts.
LouBarlow
16-04-2010, 11:01
There's no tuning up to be done. If you smoke crack for a decade it's done. No coming back.
akira9000
16-04-2010, 11:24
At first I thought she was being clever with some minor key kind of rework ,
but no, she's leathered.
Never been a fan but I took my (then) GF to see her a few times in 80s/early 90s and had to concede she had an amazing voice live. Shame to see someone end up like this - especially for a megabucks "comeback". Real shame.
thescrounger
17-04-2010, 11:28
She is a complete wreck with no voice :( and sweating like a pig after only a couple of songs, completely breathless :gag:
Didn't she have a chest infection?
RomerojpgX
17-04-2010, 13:41
Didn't she have a chest infection?
Caused by too much crack which destroys the imune system :D
Didn't she have a chest infection?
I thought she almost had it all?
It's so incredibly sad to hear such a pure voice irreparably destroyed.
Bet Jacko's looking down thinking "Phew - that could have been me" ;)
the_daddy
17-04-2010, 15:58
http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/5450/whitneyhouston.jpg
:notworthy :lol:
I'm out, **** wrong thread.
gjkendall
17-04-2010, 16:40
^^^^^genuinely lol
SIMON ADEBISI
25-04-2010, 13:27
?
SIMON ADEBISI
25-04-2010, 14:00
Thats like paying to watch a traffic accident.
The Bear
25-04-2010, 16:10
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She sounds like Tina Turner :doh::doh:
Agent_Cooper
25-04-2010, 16:13
Looks like her too :eek:
RomerojpgX
25-04-2010, 16:23
She was in a trendy bar place before the gig in Newcastle, people said she looked a bit out of it even then. Some peeps went down to stare, I couldnt be bothered haha
She sounds like Tina Turner :doh::doh:
You're doing TT a mighty injustice there :lol:
Her voice sounds totally shot to pieces in that clip. Surprised people havent tried getting their money back
From her voice here, seems like she should be singing the blues in a small dive bar in the corner of Nowheresville at 2am on a Tuesday morning; a warm beer and a whiskey chaser her only audience, the local cats providing backup harmonies.
RomerojpgX
25-04-2010, 16:41
I couldnt quite tell from that clip if the audeince was chuckling or cheering, or a bit of both.
LouBarlow
25-04-2010, 17:07
From her voice here, seems like she should be singing the blues in a small dive bar in the corner of Nowheresville at 2am on a Tuesday morning; a warm beer and a whiskey chaser her only audience, the local cats providing backup harmonies.
That's beautiful man. Poetic.
I just put this on with my 6 year old son here, his words were; "she sounds like a man!":clap:
The photo of her on the front page of the local paper after the Newcastle show did not look good.
RomerojpgX
25-04-2010, 20:33
The photo of her on the front page of the local paper after the Newcastle show did not look good.
Was she sweating like a horse after a 2 mile summer run? :D
So I went last night at the O2 in London. I really feared the worst and tbh it was pretty good in parts. She was on for quite a while and did a lot of 80's stuff which was great. She sounded a but flat at first bit managed to get a lot of high notes. I now don't regret getting tickets.
The bad points were seeing how the crack has totally ****** her brain. She chatted a fair bit and that was the time to go to the bar or toilet. She started singing randomly 'I love you' to the audience. I'm not a fan of wacko jacko but she spent sometime going on about their special time alone :gag: she should just leave out IWALY as she tried about 5 times to hit the high note and it was sad to see. She had her brother fill some time while she got changed.
She's got to be at about 75% of what she has been before and it was sad to see but I had a great time even if a pint is now £4.30 there :(
She sounds like Tina Turner :doh::doh:
This is Tina Turner - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VN_Aq2W2Yi0&a - utterly astonishing... That was drunk Auntie Linda at a wedding on the Karaoke.
Still looking and sounding murder!
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She looks pregnant as well.
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