Falling stars -remembering Whitney Houston

News shock the Music world on the morning of Grammy's 2012.

Whitney Houston died in her  hotel room at the Beverly Hills Hilton on Feb 11.2012


One of our beloved Divas and one of the last from her generation had a rocky marriage, battle with addiction, drugs and alcohol...and most recently her fight to get back on top. Did the media frenzy and poor review of her last World tour affected this once Queen of pop. I still like to remember her always as the ....

The Voice

	"I Will Always Love You" (1992) One of Houston's best selling singles worldwide and recognized songs, "I Will Always Love You" prominently usesmelismas.
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Houston was a mezzo-soprano, and was commonly referred to as "The Voice" in reference to her exceptional vocal talent..Her vocal range extended from G below middle C (G₃) to high B-flat (B♭₅); she could belt out to treble F (F₅).She was third in MTV's list of 22 Greatest Voices, and sixth on Online Magazine COVE's list of the 100 Best Pop Vocalists with a score of 48.5/50.^] In 2008, Rolling Stone listed Houston as the thirty-fourth of the 100 greatest singers of all time, stating, "Her voice is a mammoth, coruscating cry: Few vocalists could get away with opening a song with 45 unaccompanied seconds of singing, but Houston's powerhouse version of Dolly Parton's "I Will Always Love You" is a tour de force.

long time Musician Tony Bennet spoke of her... spoke of Houston's death before performing at Davis' party. He said, "First, it was Michael Jackson, then Amy Winehouse, now, the magnificent Whitney Houston", tying it into his public stance in favor of legalizing drugs. Bennett sang "How Do You Keep the Music Playing?" and said of Houston, "When I first heard her, I called Clive Davis and said, 'You finally found the greatest singer I've ever heard in my life

Houston's substance abuse problems came into public view after a 2002 interview with ABC News reporter Diane Sawyer. After a recent arrest at a Hawaiian airport, Houston went into detail about her drugs of choice. However, she said that she drew the line at crack cocaine saying, "Crack is cheap. I make too much money to ever smoke crack. Let's get that straight. OK? We don't do crack. We don't do that. Crack is wack.
clip below 


http://youtu.be/zWeSf9Xrl38

On the Thursday before her death, February 9, 2012, Houston visited singers Brandy and Monica, together with Clive Davis, at their rehearsals for Davis' pre-Grammy Awards party.^] That same day, she made her last public performance, when she joined Kelly Price on stage at the party and sang "Jesus Loves Me".




Whitney Elizabeth Houston (August 9, 1963 – February 11, 2012) was an American recording artist, actress, producer, and model. In 2009, the Guinness World Records cited her as the most-awarded female act of all time. Her awards include two Emmy Awards, six Grammy Awards, 30 Billboard Music Awards, and 22 American Music Awards, among a total of 415 career awards in her lifetime. Houston was also one of the world's best-selling music artists, having sold over 170 million albums, singles and videos worldwide

Falling stars -remembering Whitney Houston

News shock the Music world on the morning of Grammy's 2012.

Whitney Houston died in her  hotel room at the Beverly Hills Hilton on Feb 11.2012


One of our beloved Divas and one of the last from her generation had a rocky marriage, battle with addiction, drugs and alcohol...and most recently her fight to get back on top. Did the media frenzy and poor review of her last World tour affected this once Queen of pop. I still like to remember her always as the ....

The Voice

	"I Will Always Love You" (1992) One of Houston's best selling singles worldwide and recognized songs, "I Will Always Love You" prominently usesmelismas.
Problems listening to this file? See media help.

Houston was a mezzo-soprano, and was commonly referred to as "The Voice" in reference to her exceptional vocal talent..Her vocal range extended from G below middle C (G₃) to high B-flat (B♭₅); she could belt out to treble F (F₅).She was third in MTV's list of 22 Greatest Voices, and sixth on Online Magazine COVE's list of the 100 Best Pop Vocalists with a score of 48.5/50.^] In 2008, Rolling Stone listed Houston as the thirty-fourth of the 100 greatest singers of all time, stating, "Her voice is a mammoth, coruscating cry: Few vocalists could get away with opening a song with 45 unaccompanied seconds of singing, but Houston's powerhouse version of Dolly Parton's "I Will Always Love You" is a tour de force.

long time Musician Tony Bennet spoke of her... spoke of Houston's death before performing at Davis' party. He said, "First, it was Michael Jackson, then Amy Winehouse, now, the magnificent Whitney Houston", tying it into his public stance in favor of legalizing drugs. Bennett sang "How Do You Keep the Music Playing?" and said of Houston, "When I first heard her, I called Clive Davis and said, 'You finally found the greatest singer I've ever heard in my life

Houston's substance abuse problems came into public view after a 2002 interview with ABC News reporter Diane Sawyer. After a recent arrest at a Hawaiian airport, Houston went into detail about her drugs of choice. However, she said that she drew the line at crack cocaine saying, "Crack is cheap. I make too much money to ever smoke crack. Let's get that straight. OK? We don't do crack. We don't do that. Crack is wack.
clip below 


http://youtu.be/zWeSf9Xrl38

On the Thursday before her death, February 9, 2012, Houston visited singers Brandy and Monica, together with Clive Davis, at their rehearsals for Davis' pre-Grammy Awards party.^] That same day, she made her last public performance, when she joined Kelly Price on stage at the party and sang "Jesus Loves Me".




Whitney Elizabeth Houston (August 9, 1963 – February 11, 2012) was an American recording artist, actress, producer, and model. In 2009, the Guinness World Records cited her as the most-awarded female act of all time. Her awards include two Emmy Awards, six Grammy Awards, 30 Billboard Music Awards, and 22 American Music Awards, among a total of 415 career awards in her lifetime. Houston was also one of the world's best-selling music artists, having sold over 170 million albums, singles and videos worldwide

MODE : Madonna conquers 2012..last attack 1990

Looks like Gaga can go on a Holiday this year 

and her Little Monsters can hibernate...

 

In a tale that was last spun in 1990 where Madonna Mania covered the globe was when 

She released the "SEX"Book , Erotica -the album, and tat Movie- Body df Evidence.

with imagery of SEX, Sexuals innuendos bursting at the seams...leather and lace 

and lotsa of skin of other Celebrities too. Has the Queen of pop gone too far than?

the Sex Book sold wthin hours of being on the market, the frenzy of the metallic covered book 

dulled the Album -Erotica altho any Madonna Fan will never agree. 

 

Nevertheless has she become smarter this time around ? So What is in the Cards this time ?

W.E -her much acclaimed Directorial debut...the story of Royalty, Love and Scandal that rocked a Nation.

 

Give me all your Love -lead song for her upcoming album.

MDNA-new album with the likes of collobaration with Nicki Minaj..among others

 

 

 

 

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Friday, January 27, 2012

MADONNA: WAL STREET JOURNAL INTERVIEW

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Madonna is in heavy promotion mode.

Madonna has been seen everywhere promoting her film W.E. Madonna has premiere the movie in the UK and New York City. Madonna has been on the Nortan Graham show, Anderson Cooper and much more.

Well Madonna has an interview with the Wall Street Journal. Madonna talks about her movie her new album and much more. Here is what Madonna had to say:

You have a movie coming out, a fragrance, a new album and a tour—and now the Super Bowl. Was this a master plan?
Madonna: No, everything kind of converged in a bottleneck. I was always planning on making a record when I finished my film but I ended up finishing my film much later than I had expected so, because I had already scheduled time with all the producers and writers for my record, I had to multitask and work on my record at the same time I was finishing my film. And then somehow it worked out that the record was being finished right around the time the movie was coming out. Then I got talked into doing the Super Bowl.
That sounds like a lot of obligations.
I want to do everything really well. I kept saying to my manager, “I don’t want to do the Super Bowl unless I can really give it my all, and really focus all my attention on it.” And he said, “Don’t worry! There won’t be any problems. You’ll be able to concentrate just on the Super Bowl.” Now of course my movie is coming out during the Super Bowl so it’s a little bit nerve-racking.
How’s the rehearsing going?
It’s not an easy show to do because you have such a short period of time to set the stage up. And you’re performing in the round so you can’t direct anything that walks off anybody’s sight line. You have eight minutes to put your stage together, 12 minutes to do the show and seven minutes to take it down.
What did you find so fascinating about the Duke and Duchess of Windsor?
What intrigued me about their story was how polarized people felt about her and him, and the abdication [of King Edward VIII], and that period of history and what they were: Did they love each other? Were they Nazis? Was he gay? Was she vicious and a social climber? They were a very controversial couple. I am very interested in that period of history, prewar England, and in deconstructing the cult of celebrity, which is another layer of the film, the way we peg and sort of diminish a lot of people who we don’t understand and who we are afraid of.
What convinced you that they were not Nazi sympathizers?
Research. And not being able to find any empirical evidence whatsoever that they were. People came to me and said they were, and I said, “OK, show me. Prove it to me. What is the evidence? That [Edward] had a meeting with Hitler in 1936? Give me the reason.” It would always go back to “This is what I heard.”
Did you identify with Wallis Simpson on a personal level, in the way she was judged all the time?
Yes, to a certain extent. I think that she didn’t have the ability to defend herself the way I do now, or we do now. It was a different time. The media was different, and women didn’t have the choices that they do now. Even so, there were moments, there were lines in her letters that I thought, “I could have written that.”
Anything in particular that resonated?
Just the experience of being treated unfairly in the press, not having a nice word said about you. There was a time where I actually read what people wrote about me, and that’s a slippery slide to get on. So, if you do that, and you’re doing something controversial or unpopular, then you’re just going to be reading a bunch of stuff that isn’t nice about you. I certainly know that feeling of devastation, like “Oh, my God, the whole world’s turned against me.”
So, you really don’t read any press about yourself?
No. I haven’t even read any reviews of my film yet, and I don’t want to.
When did you decide to ignore all that?
When I adopted my son from Africa and I was accused of kidnapping him. I was so devastated by what people wrote about me, that people basically accused me of doing something criminal. That was my turning point.

Masterpiece-Madonna Wins another Golden globe

From The moment i first saw you , all the darkness turn to light .

Honestly it can be fun to always be the chosen one..

and I cant tell you why when i first heard..you

YOU WERE MY MASTER PIECE...

She deserves it ...a simple laid back strings, chords and simply beautiful vocals..

Make Believe its your fisrt time & I make beleive its mine

Make Believe It's Your First Time We've tried our hand at love before We've been around the game enough to know the score But then is then, and now is now And now is all that matters anyhow Make believe it's your first time leave your sadness behind Make believe it's your first time And I'll make believe it's mine The door is closed It's you and me We'll take our time with love the way it ought to be This moment's ours tonight's the night And if we fall in love Well, that's all right Make believe it's your first time leave your sadness behind Make believe it's your first time And I'll make believe it's mine Make believe it's your first time And I'll make belive it's mine

All that I am - Brokeback Mountain - Jack' / Ennis

Another night

Another smoke-filled bar

I played my song

I played on my guitar

Reaching out to touch somebody's heart

There you were

You understood

The need inside of me

You believed

And set my spirit free

Beacause of you

I will never be afraid

You made me strong

All that I am

All that I do

All of my heart

You know it's all for you

For the times we cried

After all we've been through

For the dreams we shared

You know it's all for you

So here I am

I've wrote this song for you

To say a thank you

For everything you do

I'm gonna take this chance

Cause there's no looking back

From now on

All the love that I can give

All the joy that this could bring

All our dreams are coming true

In the film's heart-wrenching final scene, 

as Gustavo Santaolalla's strings play one of

 the saddest slow crescendos on record, 

Ennis is by himself in his trailer, with the

 life he chose not to live represented by

 two blood-stained shirts and a faded 

picture of Brokeback Mountain hanging 

on his closet door. Outside, out of his reach, 

lies a patch of green grass.

The uninvolving Ennis & Jack romance may

 form the core of Brokeback Mountain, but what gives

 the film its emotional resonance is the underlying tragedy

 of a self-imposed unrealized life. Through Ennis'

 self-imprisonment,Brokeback Mountain reminds us all 

— regardless of sexual orientation — of the 

opportunities we have chosen to miss in our lives in

 order to conform. 

And of how our existence has

                         been diminished as a result.Baby it's all for you

Baby it's all for you

MADONNA Remembers DONNA - This Time I Know It's For Real

this time i know its for real...

by Ian Anis on Monday, December

What would I have to do

to get you to notice me too

do I

stand in line

one of a million

admiring eyes

Walk a tightrope way up high

write your name across the sky

I'm going crazy just to let you know

you'd be amazed how much I love you so baby

when I get my hands on you I won't let go

this time I know it's for real

Should I write or call your home

shout it out with a megaphone

radio, TV news

got to find a way

to get my message to you

To say I love you with a neon sign

anything to make you mine

I'm going crazy just to let you know

if I waited too long for you I might explode baby

I've been around the block enough to know

that this time I know it's for real

Oh baby

this time, this time, this time, this time

oh baby

this time, this time

Walk a tightrope way up high

write your name across the sky

I'm going crazy just to let you know

you'd be amazed how much I love you so baby

when I get my hands on you I won't let go

this time I know it's for real

I'm going crazy just to let you know

if I waited too long for you I might explode baby

I've been around the block enough to know

that this time I know it's for real