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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Whitney Houston, who reigned as pop music's queen until her majestic voice and regal image were ravaged by drug use, erratic behavior and a tumultuous marriage to singer Bobby Brown, has died. She was 48. Publicist Kristen Foster said Saturday that the singer had died, but the cause and the location of her death were unknown. |
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Location: East Tennessee | Sad news. She had a great voice. |
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Location: NJ | sad but not real surprised
tragic person |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | IMHO, she did the best rendition of the national anthem ever. |
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Location: NJ | crack is whack |
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Location: Triangle area, NC | Yeah. Sucks to see another talent dead prematurely. Whitney, Anna Nicole, Heath et al. All had their demons that eventually caught up with them. As said earilier, not surprising given her public battle with addiction. |
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | She had one of the best female voices I've ever heard. Despite some of her bad choices, I still respect her for her many accomplishments in the music industry. It is tragic to watch someone with so much talent and such a great personality be dragged down to the levels she arrived at. Tragic. |
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Location: Seacoast NH | Definitely tragic. Growing up a sheltered country boy in the 80s, she was the first instance when I realized black girls could be cool and smoking hot! Absolutely gourgeous body and voice back in the day. And I agree with the Professor -- best National Anthem ever. |
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Location: Colorado | boltonb - 2012-02-12 11:02 AMIMHO, she did the best rendition of the national anthem ever. Best I've ever heard, too. |
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Location: Tennessee | mbedard1 - 2012-02-13 9:38 AM... she was the first instance when I realized black girls could be cool and smoking hot! Absolutely gourgeous body and voice ... I sincerely hope you've got your racism and sexism under control these days ... there's still too much of this ugliness in the world. |
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Location: Seacoast NH | stonebobbo - 2012-02-13 2:49 PM
I sincerely hope you've got your racism and sexism under control these days ... there's still too much of this ugliness in the world.
Are you serious with this? What exactly is racist and sexist about it? I believe I correctly got across the point that I grew up in a region very lacking in diversity, and Whitney Houston helped open my eyes to the wider world, and that people are talented and beautiful no matter what their skin color. Its just I was never exposed to much as a kid...
Wow! You made me out to be a racist and sexist because of that? Give me a break!
And for the record, I have friends and relatives of just about every nationality, religion, sexual orientation, and I am only against people that have meanness in their souls, I could care less about anything else.
Geez! |
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Location: San Antonio, TX | Glad I was not the first to chime in on that mbedard1.... I almost had to comment on my beautiful Mexican wife as well..
I was hoping the knee jerk reactions were used up last week....
Well I guess I will go softly rub the nice brown neck and fondle the beautiful cruvacious lines of my Adamas.
Peace! |
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Location: Flahdaw | Apparently drugs and alcohol killed her. You'd think that talent, fame, wealth, and beauty would be enough for anyone. It just shows how fragile we humans are... |
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Location: Texas | "You'd think that talent, fame, wealth, and beauty would be enough for anyone. It just shows how fragile we humans are..."
The Elvis Syndrome. Unbridled fame and success affords you years of misery and then kills you.
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| Alcohol and pills
It's a crying shame
You'd think they might have been happy
With the glory and the fame
But fame don't take away the pain Lord
It just pays the bills
And you wind up on alcohol and pills
Fred Eaglesmith |
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RIP Whitney Houston