Really? I've just read she's being offered a judges spot on the x factor?

No sympathy from me. She made her bed, now she can lay in it. If someone wants to self abuse then they get what they deserve. I don't care who they are or what the circumstances were that led to it.

So she's on the X factor?

Sympathy for her loved ones but not for her. What a waste. I care less about Whitney Houston dying than starving children across the world. Sad for her family but there are people more deserving of our attention.

She’s left a fantastic legacy of songs and that is all that matters in the end. Her vocals are possible the best that ever graced this earth and many a time I’ve enjoyed dancing to her tunes in a nightclub.

R.I.P Whitney

Terrible addiction that has claimed another victim..

Danced to many of her tunes in my younger days which have evoked some fantastic memories.

RIP Whitney

I do hope that some people here would be able to assure the rest of us that they do not own or have never enjoyed any cultural work by any artist (of any era) who took any form of drug?

After all, they wouldn't want be called hypocrites, would they?

Not a fan but what a sad waste.

That'll mean the bloody Bodyguard will be shown again soon then

It's not right, but it's OK.

If people want to drink too much, smoke too much and take drugs, that's up to them. But when they die because of it, they deserve no sympathy what so ever.

Why is that hypocritical? liking somebody's music/writing/film has nothing to do with a lack of sympathy for a self inflicted death? These are two separate issues that should be treated as such.

It must be tough sitting in your pool crying about how bad your lot is and why you not getting the attention you think you should!! bit like an abused child crying in their bedroom - let's get some perspective here?

I agree, but perhaps its the drinking too much, smoking too much and the drugs too much that produces the artistic output that the rest of us admire and pay money for ?

She's not the first, hell she's at the back of a very long line of musicians who abused their bodies and brains in a lifestyle choice (which then leads to addiction) in order to produce something that the rest of us cannot replicate but instead are willing to purchase and promote and elevate the musician in question to that of hero, then when we've killed them off elevate them further to sainthood, we stand back and admire the "rock and roll lifestyle" and wait until they burn out heroically before condemning them.


On a slightly different tack, 48 years of age is going to be regarded as a good innings for some of the current teen/20 year olds if they continue to believe that alcohol abuse is harmless while an industry who milk them of their cash are oblivious of the dangers and continue to deny them.

See McLaren's very good explanation.

Whitney Houston will love you always, which turns out to be 2012. Maybe the Mayans were right. 

My feelings too. She peaked with her first few hits to my mind, but it's still incredibly sad when addiction claims another life.

She had a fantastic voice at her peak. Her rendition of the Murrcan anthem at the Superbowl is incredible.

I don't normally buy into the "lets all mourn a celebrity" e, but this has made me truly sad Anyone girl up in the 80's cannot fail to have been touched by her awesome talent. From "How will I know" through The Bodyguard and Waiting To Exhale to "Its not right (but its ok)" there has been a Whitney track for every occasion/heartache. She is the one artist (aside from MJ) that I truly grew up with. I followed her career and life (used to adore Bobby Brown) quite closely and its so sad that she succumbed so young. And if news reports in recent years are to be trusted, her daughter is going down the same road. Let's hope this wakes her up. www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1Y5Ln9PzVw RIP Whitney

I don't normally buy into the "lets all mourn a celebrity" e, but this has made me truly sad Anyone girl up in the 80's cannot fail to have been touched by her awesome talent. From "How will I know" through The Bodyguard and Waiting To Exhale to "Its not right (but its ok)" there has been a Whitney track for every occasion/heartache. She is the one artist (aside from MJ) that I truly grew up with. I followed her career and life (used to adore Bobby Brown) quite closely and its so sad that she succumbed so young. And if news reports in recent years are to be trusted, her daughter is going down the same road. Let's hope this wakes her up. www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1Y5Ln9PzVw RIP Whitney

Normally I'd agree but this is Whitney Houston we're talking about not Nina Simone. This is someone who's most popular work was produced when she was a teatotle virgin. She then went on to marry Bobby Brown (best known for being one of a child boy band), surely every marketing man's wet dream? Musical output while she was on the pop and dope was the equivalent of listening to Jimmy Nail farting in the bath. Much like Jane Seymour in Live and Let Die her "gift" vanished the first time she did the nasty.

Houston we have a problem.








Sorry, erm, I meant RIP Whitney. I remember dancing with a girl for the first time to 'Wanna Dance With Somebody'. And she did lots of nice songs. Should have stayed off the crack though.

Her 1998 album was incredibly successful globally. 6 years after she married Bobby.

Nobody will ever agree in music as its such personal taste but I thought she was a phenomenal talent and like I said earlier I grew up with her.

Every Whitney song takes me back to the time I first heard it.

No denying she was a mess in the past few yrs (ironically after divorcing Bobby). Nobody ever gets addicted to drugs because they are really happy.

A truly irritating pop song and I"ve never attempted the film, thankfully.

Responsible for introducing the nauseating vocal gymnastics that people seem to think constitutes 'soul'....



A sad loss for her family and fans, but musically hardly a tremor on the musical richter scale.

Oh, I thought she got that from Auntie Ree. Or possibly her mother. Both used it during their careers.
Both of who were always much more talented and, more importantly, didn't need drugs or booze to help them.

By comparison with Mozart, Beethoven and Wagner, few have been.

He was cr4p on the X-Factor though