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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Flipside on February 11, 2012, 07:32:53 pm
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-17001548
Ok... that's weird. Can't say I was a particular fan, but didn't dislike her stuff either, just a bit of left-field news, wasn't expecting that one at all...
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Shame. Only 48.
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Hello kids. This happens if you do drugs. RIP Ms. Houston.
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now i get to read all about how amazing and what a hero she was, and how she impacted oh so many lives of people that never listened to her music all over facebook.
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Hello kids. This happens if you do drugs. RIP Ms. Houston.
Pretty much. It sucks when someone with an incredible talent winds up self-destructing like that. Apparently her voice over the past couple of years was nowhere close to her prime.
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Hello kids. This happens if you do drugs. RIP Ms. Houston.
lies! drugs are good for you.
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I can't remember a single song she did.
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I can't remember a single song she did.
Then maybe you should try getting out from under that rock you live under once in a while. :p
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mybe you should stop driving that modified Delorean, she hasn't been relevant for at least a decade.
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I can't remember a single song she did.
Then maybe you should try getting out from under that rock you live under once in a while. :p
she did songs?
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mybe you should stop driving that modified Delorean, she hasn't been relevant for at least a decade.
No one said she was relevant now, but her music is kind of inescapable in general.
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not really. i might have heard a song or two of hers in passing, but i wouldn't recognize any of them. i hate pop music and avoid it at all costs.
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Since you're not around for me,
To tell you baby face to face,
I'm writing you this letter,
And this is what I have to say...
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Well, you're all just babies, I remember her entire career.
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Then maybe you should try getting out from under that rock you live under once in a while. :p
Maybe you need to get out from under Whitney Houston instead.
I remember her and her career, sure, but I don't remember any of her music. Apparently it was imminently forgettable.
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Michael Jackson did it better.
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That was before he decided to change his skin color to a sickly white. Am I right?
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I'll preface this by pointing out I'm not invested in the issue.
She was a very talented vocalist in her prime, fact of the matter is there are precious few people with her level of ability. Even if I'm not a particular fan of a genre I still appreciate skill when I see or hear it and she had it in spades. It's apparent from her history she couldn't handle fame and fortune and squandered her life on drugs and a marriage to a twit. Not many people are naturally gifted with such ability or the opportunities she had.
"The saddest thing in life is wasted talent"
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Heard the news
Didn't know who she was
Went on bursting raffle tickets for the telethon draw
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That was before he decided to change his skin color to a sickly white. Am I right?
He had a skin-disease! It wasn't because of is lack of self-confidence off stage! Liar! Liar! :( :(
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I suppose, for my generation, we grew up with songs like 'I Wanna Dance with Somebody' being common at parties and things, and 'The Bodyguard' was a chick-flick that practically every boyfriend in the country got dragged to. Chances are that anyone in their early 20's only became aware of Whitney Houston after she married Bobby Brown and began the long slide, so were never really aware of her at the top of her game.
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Yeah, I'm sure there are some people out there who only liked her modern stuff but most of us who are old enough to remember the 80's well are going to remember her for that and The Bodyguard.
Maybe you need to get out from under Whitney Houston instead.
:rolleyes: Is that sentence meant to have a meaning or did you just paraphrase mine and trust your luck?
I remember her and her career, sure, but I don't remember any of her music. Apparently it was imminently forgettable.
As Starslayer pointed out quite eloquently, like her or not she was a very talented vocalist, so I don't know why you're persisting in this exercise in digging a deeper hole for yourself. If you didn't know who she was that simply meant you'd be ignorant of pop culture to a certain degree, but to claim you don't remember a single song by someone who topped the charts in your country for 14 weeks when you were at an age you should have remembered it, but do know all about her and her career, suggests a memory problem.
And that's before we get to the rather ridiculousness of your claiming that someone who was primarily famous as a singer with a reputation based almost entirely on her 80's and 90's hits sang songs that are forgettable.
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I didn't like her or think she was so great, but I remember her, because everyone else did.
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:rolleyes: Is that sentence meant to have a meaning or did you just paraphrase mine and trust your luck?
Several, actually. First, that you should stop licking her boots or other bodyparts where you could be construed as under, since it's been over a decade since she was doing anything memorable. Second, that perhaps she's still important in the circles you move in and it would behoove you to come forward into the modern era. Third, she's dead, and judging by your reaction to general "so what" you're going to be a pallbearer at her funeral. (Nice work reinforcing that impression with this post, by the way.)
As Starslayer pointed out quite eloquently, like her or not she was a very talented vocalist, so I don't know why you're persisting in this exercise in digging a deeper hole for yourself. If you didn't know who she was that simply meant you'd be ignorant of pop culture to a certain degree, but to claim you don't remember a single song by someone who topped the charts in your country for 14 weeks when you were at an age you should have remembered it, but do know all about her and her career, suggests a memory problem.
I know about her career because there's this thing called a newspaper and I have a good memory for things I've read. I don't know about her singing because...
Actually I daresay because I simply didn't give a **** when I heard it. I was born in '85, at my age for most of her career interest in love songs is pretty minimal. By the time I was old enough to care about her music she was in the midst of breakdown, so learning about her was easy, but her music wasn't played very much.
Also, you have this weird conception that people will even necessarily hear music that tops the charts for 14 weeks. (Which charts?) It's actually quite untrue, as I've discovered via the fact one of my radio station presets for the car plays the American Top 40 on Sundays. Charts track sales, not what is played on the radio or in public spaces. There is in fact a disconnect between the two that's quite noticeable.
And that's before we get to the rather ridiculousness of your claiming that someone who was primarily famous as a singer with a reputation based almost entirely on her 80's and 90's hits sang songs that are forgettable.
Sing Elvis. No, go on, do it. I could ask you to do the same for a half-dozen other singers or bands that have been famous, if you like. (What, you don't remember Tina Turner? YOU JACKASS! Charlotte Church! UNCULTURED BARBARIAN!) Whitney was a genre singer about love and heartbreak and the one-woman-wail. That makes her entirely forgettable to numerous segments of the population who just don't give a **** for her themes, her messages, her voice, her style of music, and about twenty-five other things. (I would probably hit at least two of those, for extra-not-giving-a-****.)
EDIT: I just find it amusing that Karaj is getting so amazingly :mad: about this to make such stupid pronouncements as he has.
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I'm not angry. In fact it seems to be you who is getting rather angry at a rather simple comment. Especially as you've had to resort to rather ridiculous comments about how I must really like Whitney Houston when in fact I really can't stand I will always love you.
Sing Elvis. No, go on, do it.
I ****ing ROCK at singing Elvis so you picked the wrong artist there! :p
I could ask you to do the same for a half-dozen other singers or bands that have been famous, if you like. (What, you don't remember Tina Turner? YOU JACKASS! Charlotte Church! UNCULTURED BARBARIAN!)
And I could name and sing bits of songs by all of them. Even if I don't like their music. I've heard their music because they are famous for it. It's pretty hard not to unless as I initially stated you live under a rock. If you can come up with someone about as famous as her who's music I don't know, I'd simply admit that was a lack of pop cultural awareness on my part.
So again your inability to remember music by such artists merely says something about you. Something which apparently you can't handle without having to resort to a long diatribe about it.
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Well, I haven't heard of Whitney Houston. Guess that Poland officially counts as "under the rock" now. Now get me out of there. :)
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I'm not angry. In fact it seems to be you who is getting rather angry at a rather simple comment. Especially as you've had to resort to rather ridiculous comments about how I must really like Whitney Houston when in fact I really can't stand I will always love you.
Sing Elvis. No, go on, do it.
I ****ing ROCK at singing Elvis so you picked the wrong artist there! :p
I could ask you to do the same for a half-dozen other singers or bands that have been famous, if you like. (What, you don't remember Tina Turner? YOU JACKASS! Charlotte Church! UNCULTURED BARBARIAN!)
And I could name and sing bits of songs by all of them. Even if I don't like their music. I've heard their music because they are famous for it. It's pretty hard not to unless as I initially stated you live under a rock. If you can come up with someone about as famous as her who's music I don't know, I'd simply admit that was a lack of pop cultural awareness on my part.
So again your inability to remember music by such artists merely says something about you. Something which apparently you can't handle without having to resort to a long diatribe about it.
dude, what's the deal here? WHAT does his 'inability to remember music by such artists' say about him? that he doesn't like their music and therefore doesn't pay attention to it in the slightest? he's certainly not alone in that. and it does NOT equal "living under a rock."
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So where do you draw the line then? Michael Jackson? Elvis? At what stage are you living under a rock?
Well, I haven't heard of Whitney Houston. Guess that Poland officially counts as "under the rock" now. Now get me out of there. :)
I feel similarly about living in China. I'm not going to hear modern music unless I go looking for it here. :p
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Kara does have a good point here. Hell, The Simpsons spoofed Whitney Houston's Bodyguard role in a classic episode, where Homer has to protect Mark Hamill at a sci-fi convention. :p
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So where do you draw the line then? Michael Jackson? Elvis? At what stage are you living under a rock?
At what stage is your idea this person famous and therefore you should know their work relevant? (Here's a hint, it's not.)
Like I said, I don't remember any of it. This doesn't mean I haven't heard any of it. So even in the end, your argument about rocks falls apart, because it requires ignorance as opposed to failure to care enough to remember. You're just getting :mad: for some inscrutable reason.
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NGTM-1R, we already get it that you don't care about her. That probably goes for vast majority of people registered here at HLP, including me. But why is it YOU have to be such a huge immature dick about it? Would you stop it already, thank you.
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NGTM-1R, we already get it that you don't care about her. That probably goes for vast majority of people registered here at HLP, including me. But why is it YOU have to be such a huge immature dick about it? Would you stop it already, thank you.
Karaj calls me out on supposed...actually I'm not sure what it was, to be honest. Regardless, he introduces factual wrongnesses and bad assumptions, so I will respond.
Honestly the immature dick behavior here has belonged to others. Deciding you are the arbiter of pop culture knowledge is pretty goddamn immature and dickish. (From whence this grand authority to judge?) Going on to say that it "says something about you" without specifying what is incredibly passive-aggressive.
And you think I'm the dick.
Dick.
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Now you can all go sit on the naughty step :P
Edit: Just like to add, getting a bit pissed off that I started two threads that I felt would be of some interest to the community and both of them had to be locked because people cannot behave themselves. That's pretty depressing.