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Merged Whitney Houston dead

OnlyTellsTruths said:
That's so sad coming from John Lennon. I always thought he was smarter than that. He even resorts to the old "why aren't monkeys changing into men now" line. So sad.
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That would be the same dude who sang about 'Imagine no possessions' and rolled up in a white Rolls Royce, dressed in white silk in the accompanying video clip.

At least Busta Rhymes is consistent and doesn't show up dressed in a cardboard box, living under a viaduct when rapping about bitches and bling.
 
Matthew Best said:
Well, let's face it, she was 48. That's pretty ancient - at least as old as most of our audience's parents.
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True, but Michael Jackson was a couple of years older when he passed away.

I also see that Whitney related news is rated as among the most viewed at the MTV news site, so your audience may be interested.

I haven't kept up with her lately, but I still recall her from the 1980s. IMHO, she had a really great voice. Too bad she ended up being yet another poster child for the message that drugs are bad, even for the wildly rich and famous.
 
I don't think it's age so much as it being so long since she's done anything of relevance to most people, or at least most people who watch music channels.
 
People mentioned Whitney Houston's death at work today and proceeded to talk about it like they knew her personally. My response was, "How concerned should I be over someone who was given a golden life on a silver platter but still managed to **** it up?"
 
I wasn't into her music at all, but she'd still make my list of maybe half a dozen truly talented people in entertainment...... Her, mariah carey, paul stanley, mike patton, nuno bettencourt...... Shame she turned into a crack ho....
 
Sledge said:
I don't think it's age so much as it being so long since she's done anything of relevance to most people, or at least most people who watch music channels.
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Perhaps. I think it also has to do with charisma like Redtail mentioned earlier.

Part of the reason I mentioned Michael Jackson was because, IIRC, they both died about 10, 12 years after they had each produced an album that consisted of mostly new songs.

That didn't prevent MJ's death from getting a huge response from the public.

Some of it probably had to do with the fact that while like WH he also had a fantastic voice, unlike her he was also an extremely talented dancer. And he had grown up in public so to speak, since he had started out as a child performer. But I won't pretend that I can understand what makes up charisma. If that were understood -- everyone would be extremely charismatic. :)
 
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Matthew Best said:
Well, that's the American MTV, maybe she's more popular over there. At MTV.co.uk the top news story appears to be "Cher Lloyd: It's a Blessing I Didn't Win X-Factor". :eek:
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:eek: indeed!

Good point. It's to be expected that WH would be more popular here in the US, yet I just popped over to the UK MTV web site and see that the story is getting plenty of play on your side of the pond also -- but the stories are ranked lower down.

I didn't know who Cher Lloyd was (does that make me old? Probably. :( ). So I played one of her videos on youtube. She looks like a very bad caricature of some of the New Jersey crowd her age. :p

Or perhaps the NJ crowd looks like a very bad caricature of where ever Cher Lloyd lives in the UK. Either way the world seems to keep getting smaller and smaller.

Cheerio. :)
 
qayak said:
People mentioned Whitney Houston's death at work today and proceeded to talk about it like they knew her personally.
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Isn't it strange how people do that? Most celebraties probably want to be shielded from the public as much as possible -- but people will still talk like they know them personally. I didn't go to work today, but I'm sure if it will still be the topic of conversation at my client's tomorrow.

My response was, "How concerned should I be over someone who was given a golden life on a silver platter but still managed to **** it up?"
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It's hard for me to feel sympathetic also.

I happen to be reading Sissela Bok's book on Exploring Happiness. Nothing really changes, people appear to be concerned about the same issues 2500 years ago that they are now.

Plato believed that wealth, beauty and family position (e.g. connections) had the potential to be instruments of happiness -- but didn't neccesarily make you happy.

It was interesting to happen to read that idea at about the same time that someone who had a surplus of all three passed away probably because of a drug overdose.
 
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Kaylee said:
Perhaps. I think it also has to do with charisma like Redtail mentioned earlier.

Part of the reason I mentioned Michael Jackson was because, IIRC, they both died about 10, 12 years after they had each produced an album that consisted of mostly new songs.

That didn't prevent MJ's death from getting a huge response from the public.

Some of it probably had to do with the fact that while like WH he also had a fantastic voice, unlike her he was also an extremely talented dancer. And he had grown up in public so to speak, since he had started out as a child performer. But I won't pretend that I can understand what makes up charisma. If that were understood -- everyone would be extremely charismatic. :)
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Michael Jackson was a much bigger star, for much longer, than Whitney Houston, even if they hadn't produced anything new for the same length of time.
 
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