day 4.72 - 4.73

this

adele meets whitney meets bruno mars meets florence and the machine.

day 4.60

r.i.p. whitney

1963-2012.

day 3.342

divas on divas on divas

this is insane.

day 2.252

happy birthday, whitney

crack is whack.

day 2.97

i think i'm a prophet

when whitney houston announced her "comeback" i knew nothing good could come from it. the problem isn't whitney releasing new music ("million dollar bill" is a guilty pleasure for me). it's the fact that when an album is released, a tour is expected. on tour, your voice can't be autotuned and fixed the way it sounds on the record. so, for a former crack addict like whitney, nothing good could come. houston kicked off her comeback tour in australia this week and things aren't going well, much like i predicted they wouldn't. yes, her album can sell millions. but, when people go to a concert, they expect to hear the whitney they know. her high notes of the "i will always love you days" are long gone and she just doesn't have the stamina to perform anymore. when she was "tired" after oprah, i said ok. but, being "tired" or "over worked" has been her excuse for ever major performance since the comeback. check out the painful performance of "i will always love you" that caused concert goers to leave the show early above. the fact that her concert promoter's excuse was that "if you want to hear whitney from the 90s, buy a cd." no, sir. people's talent shouldn't be contingent on the decade. they should stand the test of time. 1990s celine dion sounds just like today's celine. way to ruin a good thing, whitney.

day 227

what radio station is going to play this?

whitney houston's comeback single has made it's way to the internet and, well, it's pretty weak. the song, in the video above, is a ballad (obvi), but there's no kick to it or whitney-izing (think "i will always love you"). it sounds like a mary j blige reject, really. i'm all for an r&b style career for whitney - the day of the 90s crazy singing chops diva has gone far, far away - but the song needs to be catchy at least. this isn't an "official" release, so maybe this is just something they were playing around with in the studio...and hopefully so. if whitney's coming back, she needs to comeback in a big - and i mean big - way. songs like "i wanna dance with somebody" could be played today, with a little updating, so why not do something like that? the 80s are back, right? i know whitney isn't a fresh-faced 20something anymore, but that's what people remember her for. that and this crazy being bobby brown moment. if her singing career fails to take off again, i wouldn't mind seeing batshit crazy whitney again.