RIP Whitney

2/12/2012 8:18:24 PM

Weirdly enough, Maya Rudolph is hosting SNL next week. She's played Whitney numerous times in weekend update and the aforementioned Miley Cyrus sketch.

2/12/2012 8:39:55 PM

Whitney Houston Found Submerged in Bathtub

2/12/2012 10:33:16 PM

Water in her lungs


also, fear daughter is suicidal

2/12/2012 10:34:30 PM

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"ll cool j is annoying me too much energy"

o my god i mean god forbid someone show up on stage not stoned and excited to be there

2/12/2012 10:42:28 PM

Nate dogg got ripped off.

2/13/2012 7:59:29 AM

http://deadspin.com/5884566/

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"The Stages Of Internet Grief, As Applied To Whitney Houston’s Death 0. Basic Twitter Check "Ho hum. ... Let's see how Jeremy Lin played last night." 1. Shock "Holy shit! WHITNEY HOUSTON IS DEAD?" 2. Denial. "Wait a second. This could be a hoax. I better check a real news feed to make sure this is legit, and that Zodiac Motherfucker isn't pulling my leg." 3. Verification. "Oh man, she IS dead." 4. Denial, Part 2 "I can't believe I learned about it from Zodiac Motherfucker." (NOTE: This really was who I learned it from.) 5. Speculation "So it was drugs, right? Had to be drugs." 6. Consideration of Tasteless Joke on Twitter "If I write, 'I get so emotional baby, every time I think of youuuuu ... lying face down in a bathtub,' people may get mad." 7. Notice of Outrage at Someone Else Making Similar Tasteless Joke on Twitter "That's a lot of 'TOO SOON's. Better hold that zinger I had until Monday." 8. Commemoration "RIP Whitney. Here's a (picture of her back when she was clean/video of her singing the anthem at the Super bowl/clip from the raw vocal from 'How Will I Know'). WHAT A TALENT." 9. Announcement of Personal Connection "I remember in eighth grade when we drank peach schnapps and would listen to 'I Wanna Dance with Somebody.' And even though I didn't really like the song, I KNEW that woman was talented." 10. Blame "Fucking Bobby Brown." 11. Discovery "Oh wow. Xanax? I guess that makes sense." 12. Speculation, Part 2 "These things always happen in threes. Who's next?!" 13. Meta-Commentary "Isn't it so weird how we, like, mourn people on Twitter now, y'all?" 14. Live Tweeting of the Funeral/Awards Show Tribute "Wait, why is Al Michaels at this funeral? Did he have an affair with her or something?" 15. It's OK to Make Tasteless Jokes Now "It's been two days! GOOD TASTE MORATORIUM OVER, YOU GUYS." 16. Link to #longread That Tells You the Real Story "Here's the full Esquire piece on Whitney's death. BRUTAL." 17. Next Internet Death "OH SHIT! BOB DOLE, YOU GUYS!" "

2/13/2012 9:48:28 AM

that's pretty on point

if bob dole dies next we need to burn that guy at the stake as a witch

2/13/2012 9:50:44 AM

i just found out about 12 hours ago that she died.

anyway, i guess that's what happens when you never mature (even at nearly 50) and keep on partying hard and abusing chemicals till the end.

but, if she died happy, more power to her!

2/13/2012 9:52:10 AM

i just found out about 12 hours ago

2/13/2012 9:53:39 AM

listening to her double Greatest Hits album this morning at work. fuck yeah, Whitney, fuck yeah.

will probably watch The Bodyguard this week too.

2/13/2012 10:42:56 AM

People who legitimately do that suck.

2/13/2012 10:48:51 AM

Jeepin was probably in the shower this morning like "AAAANDDD IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII WILL ALWAYS LOVE YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU"

2/13/2012 10:54:03 AM

nah, it was more like

I'mmmmmmmm every womannnnnnnnn. it's allllll in meeeeeeeeeeeeee

2/13/2012 10:56:52 AM

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"Weirdly enough, Maya Rudolph is hosting SNL next week. She's played Whitney numerous times in weekend update and the aforementioned Miley Cyrus sketch."

So would it be "too soon" next weekend for Maya to riff on Whitney?

2/13/2012 11:00:28 AM

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"i just found out about 12 hours ago that she died. anyway, i guess that's what happens when you never mature (even at nearly 50) and keep on partying hard and abusing chemicals till the end."

I read this like you were blaming a bender you went on this weekend for not finding out sooner.

2/13/2012 1:18:46 PM

she was removed from the bathtub by a bodyguard!

2/13/2012 2:03:35 PM

http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/13/10394035-sony-hikes-whitney-houston-album-prices-online?chromedomain=digitallife

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"Sony hikes Whitney Houston album prices online It's easy to get so emotional about a singer after they've passed prematurely, as Whitney Houston did Saturday at the age of 48. But fans seeking to buy her digital albums in remembrance weren't too happy at sudden price hikes so soon after her death. The Brits picked up on it quickly, with London-based Next Web writer Matt Brian and The Guardian's Josh Halliday both finding the price increases, which raised Houston's "The Ultimate Collection" 2007 album from £5 (about $7.89) to £8 (about $12.63). In the United States, the cost is even steeper: $15 for the "Greatest Hits" collection at both Amazon (mp3 store) and iTunes. Halliday found out that Sony Music increased the price of "The Ultimate Collection" at about 4 a.m. Sunday, not even 12 hours after news broke of Houston's death. Fans were quick to point fingers at Apple for the anti-sale, but it turned out that when Sony bumped up the wholesale price of "The Ultimate Collection," iTunes and other retailers automatically upped their pricing. We've reached out to Sony for comment and will update if/when we hear from them. Digital Spy found consumers who said the price change happened even more quickly: 30 minutes for it to jump from $4.74 to $12.62, which prompted one buyer to fume, "The album itself is great so please don't be put off purchasing it, just [realize] that you will merely be lining some fatcat's pocket before Whitney's lifeless body is cold." Houston's "iTunes Essentials" album is even more expensive at $18.45 for 15 songs (vs. 36 songs for $14.99 on the "Greatest Hits" album, which was originally released in 2000). Over at Google Music, you can't find those albums, but there are a smattering of free singles, including "Greatest Love of All" and "So Emotional." Meanwhile, at Walmart, things are just plain fishy. Though the retail giant has exited the music download business, it is still a massive CD retailer. While the pricing of Whitney's CDs hasn't changed, every single one is listed as 'out of stock online.' Could that really be because of a surge in buying? Or is there a price change afoot? As of this morning, three of Houston's singles were in the top 10 singles chart at iTunes, including the No. 1 "I Will Always Love You," which was also sung in tribute by Jennifer Hudson at last night's Grammy awards. Houston's "Greatest Hits" album was No. 2 on the iTunes albums chart, runner-up to only Adele, who swept the Grammy awards with hits from her "21" album. By the end of the week, Houston's sales could even surpass her. "

2/13/2012 4:05:04 PM

I saw the little makeshift memorial on tv and someone had put up a big "WHITNEY WE WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU" sign and I felt bad because I'm sure that a ton of other people made the same banner and then got there later and felt bad that they'd been beaten to it.

2/13/2012 4:18:50 PM

I never thought I'd see the day where a record company puts profit ahead of the art of music.

2/13/2012 4:22:22 PM

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"Whitney Houston IS Dead!"

2/13/2012 4:32:25 PM

Seal Team Six strikes again.

2/13/2012 7:51:59 PM

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"I read this like you were blaming a bender you went on this weekend for not finding out sooner."

bahahah it does really read like that

2/15/2012 5:17:23 AM

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"Seal Team Six strikes again."

2/15/2012 5:27:24 AM

Random, but this was an awesome tribute at her "homegoing".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvS9JFbRHqg

2/21/2012 8:06:38 PM

this is the best one i have read

http://www.thelocal.se/39206/20120220/

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"Whitney Houston 'chose death': Swedish politician Whitney Houston was an “awful mother” who “chose drugs and death” and thus doesn’t deserve all the media attention being devoted to her death, a local Swedish politician has argued. “Stop extolling Whitney Houston,” Lennart Holmlund, a Social Democrat member of the local council in Umeå in northern Sweden, wrote in a blog post published on Saturday. The post came shortly after the start of live coverage of Houston’s funeral by broadcasters in Sweden, the culmination of a week of intense media coverage about the late pop diva, who was found dead in her Beverly Hills hotel bathtub on February 11th, aged 48. While Holmlund admitted Houston was a “good singer” and that he even owned a few of her albums, he felt that the media had gone too far in exalting Houston and her apparently fatal drug addiction. “Now the media is glorifying someone who couldn’t take care of her daughter, but instead drew her child into drug addiction,” wrote Holmlund. “What an awful mother who didn’t see to it that her daughter didn’t follow in her footsteps.” The politician argued that addicts can’t “blame anyone but themselves” for their problems. “Because Whitney had so much money there was money to help her get away from drugs but she chose instead both drugs and death,” he wrote. “The media should take responsibility and not be marketers for a life of drugs that resulted in fame and a fast track to death.”"

Damn right.

A couple of days ago, all three international news channels I receive were giving full coverage to the funeral live. I understand CNNI doing it, but BBC and Sky, WTF?

2/21/2012 10:20:49 PM

I mean princess diana's funeral was broadcast on American channels, and she wasn't even talented.

[Edited on February 21, 2012 at 10:28 PM. Reason : ]

2/21/2012 10:28:39 PM