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Post by Active Aggressive on Feb 24, 2012 11:21:20 GMT -5
Those pics are just...wow...Whitney is so beautiful - inside and out. I will continue listening to her music and never forget how she touched my soul when she was alive. Was jamming to the I Look To You album the other day. Nuttin' but love, nuttin' but love!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2012 12:05:07 GMT -5
That's from the private viewing, not the funeral, which means that someone in her family or a close friend took the photo and sold it. Even in death, Whitney has disgusting people a little too close to her. It could have been taken by some1 that worked at the funeral home. They have now ruled that out. They're investigating family and friends now.
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Post by Bojangles on Feb 24, 2012 12:11:17 GMT -5
More footage of Whitney on the set of Sparkle, and more of her beautiful singing :'(
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2012 12:15:28 GMT -5
I miss that voice! :'(
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Post by Bojangles on Feb 24, 2012 13:24:08 GMT -5
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Post by Bojangles on Feb 24, 2012 13:24:55 GMT -5
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Post by So Pure on Feb 24, 2012 15:21:55 GMT -5
I've been kicking myself since she passed. I think I posted this when it happened but I saw Whitney outside Disney's Grand Californian Hotel last fall. She was all alone...Bobbi Kris was a few feet away. I wanted so bad to go up & tell her how amazing she is but I didn't want to invade her privacy. Some people who recognized her shouted "Hi Whitney" & she said something like "Have a Dinsey Day"...LOL...she was crazy! My boyfriend works for the hotel so I was afraid I'd get him into trouble if I disturbed her. Anyways, had I known what was to be I would have told her how she effected me and so many of us & how we loved her & were in her corner. I guess life is short. Gotta take our shots when we get them.
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Post by Bojangles on Feb 24, 2012 15:37:40 GMT -5
I've been kicking myself since she passed. I think I posted this when it happened but I saw Whitney outside Disney's Grand Californian Hotel last fall. She was all alone...Bobbi Kris was a few feet away. I wanted so bad to go up & tell her how amazing she is but I didn't want to invade her privacy. Some people who recognized her shouted "Hi Whitney" & she said something like "Have a Dinsey Day"...LOL...she was crazy! My boyfriend works for the hotel so I was afraid I'd get him into trouble if I disturbed her. Anyways, had I known what was to be I would have told her how she effected me and so many of us & how we loved her & were in her corner. I guess life is short. Gotta take our shots when we get them. Last Fall as in a few months ago? I remember someone on here saying they met her at Disneyland about a year ago and then they tweeted Bobbi Kris about it and she tweeted back like "Ohh yeah we remember you!!" that wasn't you? I'm going to miss hearing these stories of people seeing her around and meeting her..... :'( :'( :'(
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Post by grouper6 on Feb 24, 2012 17:53:51 GMT -5
I still can't believe she is gone. We were looking forward to new pics of her looking glammed up at the Pre Grammy party and then the horrible news.
I'm starting to make peace with it because all the signs of her getting more into her faith from 2009 to now, to her finally getting to do Sparkle, to her singing 'Yes Jesus Loves Me' as her last public performance unsolicited, to her leaving a message for Kim Burrell on her voice machine with John P Kee gospel playing in the background, to her bodyguard saying that day she was listening to Fred Hammond to her insisting that she sing 'His EYe is on the Sparrow' in 'Sparkle' to the letter Cissy wrote saying that she was warned Whitney wouldn't be here long and the eerie ringing of her doorbell,
I'm coming to believing that after she wrapped up Sparkle, God wanted her more, her work was done. It's all so bittersweet hearing about all the plans she had in action, ofher wanting to please her fans, to working on her fitness to getting her voice back **tears**
Love you Whitney, and you will always be known as 'The Voice' and missed. A great human being who touched and left an impression on everyone she met. NOt one bad story about her.
p.s she is a beautiful, beautiful, natural woman.
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Post by Tea-why on Feb 24, 2012 18:33:19 GMT -5
Yeah, I noticed that too when I first heard this song lol Ironically the writers of "So Emotional" said that the demo sounded like a Prince song. This version sounds even more MJ-ish with it's bassline and all: Wow, it really does. The funny thing I read on Wikipedia about "I Wanna Dance With Somebody" is that the original arrangement of the song was more of a country song, but they turned it into a pop-dance song. I can't imagine what that song would song like as a country song, but I'd be interested to hear it lol. Here it is:
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2012 18:49:15 GMT -5
I just found this unofficial remix of "Fine" on YouTube. They changed the whole mood of the song. Love it!
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Post by The Black Bird on Feb 24, 2012 20:09:13 GMT -5
I just found this unofficial remix of "Fine" on YouTube. They changed the whole mood of the song. Love it! Much better! Love it!
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Post by Bojangles on Feb 24, 2012 23:40:28 GMT -5
Jordin Sparks talked about a funny moment while filming Sparkle with Whitney, she said she was playing her ipod and "Teach Me How To Dougie" came on and Whitney was like "You listen to that???" Jordin said "Yeah!" so Jordin said next thing she knew Whitney was doing the Dougie dance when the song came on again. and she did it well too! I miss you so much Whitney :'( there will never be another like you.
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Post by Bojangles on Feb 24, 2012 23:46:15 GMT -5
OH! Here's the article
Jordin Sparks: I Taught Whitney Houston How To Dougie
LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- On Thursday, Jordin Sparks hit the red carpet at the 5th Annual ESSENCE Black Women in Hollywood Luncheon, speaking publicly for the first time about her late “Sparkle” co-star Whitney Houston. But, in an exclusive, sit down interview with Access Hollywood’s Shaun Robinson, the “American Idol” shared some of her most memorable off-camera moments with the late superstar.
“One thing folks didn’t realize about her was her sense of humor, that she was really funny."
"Tell me one of the funniest things that you remember about her or something she said to you,” Shaun asked.
“We did. There was a moment where…. she was blasting gospel [on her iPod] and then for me, sometimes I would put it on and [she said], ‘Teach me how to Dougie!’” Jordin said of Whitney’s request that the former “Idol” winner show her some dance moves.
“[There was] one night where we were all just waiting for the camera change and we’re all upstairs and I put it on and we start moving and we’re getting up and Whitney’s like, ‘OK,’ and she starts Dougie-ing and we’re all Dougie-ing. It was this crazy moment and it was just so funny,” Jordin recounted.
“Was she good at it?” Shaun asked.
“She was, she was very good… It was just so funny and it was it was a kind of crazy, out of body experience because I’m looking at her going, ‘This is Whitney Houston,’ you know, regal, Whitney, and here she is just getting down and it was awesome,” Jordin said. “It was amazing.”
Jordin said she was “awestruck” often on the “Sparkle” set.
“Even after filming for a couple of weeks I was still just in that awestruck stage at moments. Like it would hit me, ‘I’m standing across from her right now.’ And she was always just so sweet,” Jordin said.
“Sparkle” will hit theaters on August 17, 2012.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2012 23:46:44 GMT -5
More footage of Whitney on the set of Sparkle, and more of her beautiful singing :'( I had always hoped that her voice would get better if she returned to music. :o :'(
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Post by Bojangles on Feb 24, 2012 23:50:34 GMT -5
Jordin Sparks Pays Tribute to Her Idol Whitney Houston By Jessica Herndon Friday February 24, 2012 08:45 AM EST Jordin Sparks (left) and Whitney Houston, as Sparkle and Emma, in Sparkle The moment she was told her idol Whitney Houston had died, Jordin Sparks broke down, locked herself in her hotel room and "cried non-stop," a source tells PEOPLE. (We all did!!) But the American Idol winner, 22, kept her tears to a minimum on Thursday afternoon while paying tribute to the late singer at the Essence Black Women in Hollywood luncheon at the Beverly Hills Hotel. Speaking briefly about shooting the upcoming film Sparkle with Houston, Sparks grinned and told the room, which was packed with Oscar contenders and others who included Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, Emma Stone, Paula Patton, Pam Grier and Kerry Washington: "The first day she got [to the set] she's scolding me, and I'm thinking this is the best day ever. She went from being this unreachable supernova pop star to my costar, friend and someone who was like a mentor to me. It was a gift and an honor to play opposite Whitney Houston in the film." Besides her brief speech, Sparks also performed "Look into Your Heart," a song from Sparkle. "When you see Sparkle, you will be so happy to see the joy that is on her face," Sparks said about Houston. "Everyday started with Whitney saying, 'How are my babies doing? Are you guys good? God is good.' It translates on the screen."
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Post by Bojangles on Feb 25, 2012 0:21:07 GMT -5
A recent pic with Whitney, Krissy, and fan Quencie who met Whitney on MTV's Fanatic. No matter how many years went by, Whitney always remembered her.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2012 1:05:24 GMT -5
Sorry for the double post.. But.. I hope people take notice to how important these singers are in the world today.. The ONLY artist to come close vocally is Adele.. And Jhud. But They WILL NEVER be WHITNEY OR MARIAH! Adele??? I really like Adele, but vocally she is closer to an Alicia Keys than she is to Whitney. I agree, she has such a different kind of voice. I wouldn't really compare her to Whitney because she's not really in the same category. I think out of modern singers, people who could come close to being in that category are people like Kelly Clarkson and Jennifer Hudson.
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Post by mikeshere on Feb 25, 2012 11:03:09 GMT -5
I only said Adele.. because of the Depth in her voice... and how she somehow someway brought the ballad back to top 40.. Alicia keys>> and Jhud.. YES I agree Completely.. I LOVE KELLY CLARKSON... But dont you dare lol
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Post by Sir Benji on Feb 25, 2012 18:11:06 GMT -5
Whitney's voice sounded amazing in that ET clip I got sad all over again when I heard it.
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Post by Tea-why on Feb 25, 2012 18:22:52 GMT -5
A recent pic with Whitney, Krissy, and fan Quencie who met Whitney on MTV's Fanatic. No matter how many years went by, Whitney always remembered her. I LOVE that Fanatic interview. I used to watch it all the time because Quencie is so funny in it.
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Post by d.t.m on Feb 25, 2012 21:03:48 GMT -5
ET's really sitting on a goldmine with those final Sparkle interviews. I'm so glad she at least got to finish Sparkle so that America could see she did regain The Voice.
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Post by KeepDeanWeird on Feb 26, 2012 2:33:10 GMT -5
Speaking of IWDWS (and HWIK), I still think Clive Davis was wrong to reject Waiting for a Star to Fall - Whitney's voice would have been perfectly suited for the song. However, I think it had more to do with the title - when Whitney was a rising star. BUT, considering that Shannon Rubicam wrote the song because she saw a shooting star at one of Whitney's concerts - that would have been an amazing story to sell the song. Talk about inspiration. Anyway, perhaps there is a secret demo that Whitney recorded....
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Post by Linnethia Monique on Feb 26, 2012 3:25:48 GMT -5
A recent pic with Whitney, Krissy, and fan Quencie who met Whitney on MTV's Fanatic. No matter how many years went by, Whitney always remembered her. I LOVE that Fanatic interview. I used to watch it all the time because Quencie is so funny in it. Me too! Oh and gotta love Youtube for moments like this:
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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2012 10:29:02 GMT -5
Are they using all new songs in Sparkle or are they using some of the songs from the original?
I love Whitney's version of "Look Into Your Heart" from 1994.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2012 11:03:21 GMT -5
random and rare pictures of her are coming out left and right now! Who is this? Just random fans? They look familiar for some reason but I'm not sure why haha.
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Post by mikeshere on Feb 26, 2012 13:06:49 GMT -5
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Post by bryce on Feb 26, 2012 20:49:11 GMT -5
WHITNEY WHY DID YOU HAVE TO BE SO BEAUTIFUL????
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Post by d.t.m on Feb 26, 2012 23:09:04 GMT -5
They could've showed a little bit more of Whitney at the Oscars, but at least they included her.
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Post by Rican@ on Feb 27, 2012 12:08:32 GMT -5
Surprised they included her and also curious if they would too. What did they do for her? Anything special?
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