Whitney CANON

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Crazy crack-addled warbler Whitney Houston! You get nine ticks to determine which of her UK singles are to be considered part of the DIVA CANON!

[Poll #767545]

Comments

I cannot imagine how anyone could disapprove of Whitney

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

My favourites are 'I Will Always Love You' (AMAZING weepy powerballad - much better than original) and 'It's Not Right' which is SUFFUSED with hammy diva-isms beneath the cold-as-ice production.

Mariah more mental than Whitney because Whitney's mentalism is almost entirely due to DRUGZ whereas Mariah is just crayzee.

Re: I cannot imagine how anyone could disapprove of Whitney

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I think a large portion of Mariah's mentalism can also be attributed to the druqks...

Re: I cannot imagine how anyone could disapprove of Whitney

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

yeh but Lex has convinced me somehow. Carey has come out with all kinds of crazy comments whilst being apparently 'straight'. Most of these just amounted to Hilton-esque un-PC/just plain naive comments like 'oh I wish I could be as skinny as those Ethiopians' and what have you.

Compare and contrast

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Mariah (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mariah_Carey)
Whitney (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Whitney_Houston)

Oh dear...

Re: I cannot imagine how anyone could disapprove of Whitney

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

mariah never said the "thin kids" thing (as wikipedia points out)

when she came onstage at live 8 i thought she had with her a entire choir of PYGMIES to say fvck you to those who believe she did say it! but they were ordinary-sized kids sadly

she is as mad as cake and twice as good you

this is the best one

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

"I may believe in Santa, but I'm not delusional."

Re: I cannot imagine how anyone could disapprove of Whitney

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Also Carey has the best riders.

Re: I cannot imagine how anyone could disapprove of Whitney

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Though obviously her rival in this field is not Houston but LOPEZ.

Re: I cannot imagine how anyone could disapprove of Whitney

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

Are we talking about the perks she demands to perform or is this some newfangled term for body parts that you KIDZ are using?

Re: this is the best one

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

Lex's logic is powerful but Whitney has just shown us too much on that reality show of Bobby's. She's just too far gone, even if Mariah is jumping motorcycles over flaming Pepsi signs nowadays.

Ooo yeah, ooo yeah, ooo YEAAAAAAAH!

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I really like Queen Of The Night. It was one of the first CD singles I bought and I had to play it downstairs in on my parents' cd player in the living room. It had some ace piano-house mixes on the B-side!

"I got the stuff that you want, I got the thing that you need, I got more than enough to make you drop to your knees..."

Re: Ooo yeah, ooo yeah, ooo YEAAAAAAAH!

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

I keep trying to play 'Queen Of The Night' in my head but it turns almost instantly into En Vogue's 'Free Your Mind'.

I'm Every Womang

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Not much love for her Chaka Khan cover yet! I thought her version was pretty good.

Re: I'm Every Womang

[celentari.livejournal.com]

Yes, I have tickyboxed it and I don't even like Whitters.

Re: I'm Every Womang

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

it was good but carbon copy of original so a sense of 'why bother' pervades tickage.

Re: I'm Every Womang

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

I loved it! Although stevem is right about the 'carbon copy' thing, it's one of those cases where the slightly 'better' (ie., newer) production values mean I enjoy it more.

[anthonyeaston.livejournal.com]

alex

what the fuck are you on, girl. dollys solid, haunting, beutiful, and genuoinely powerful version, versus the hellmouth fury of whitney at full blast...you dont know what yr t alking about.

[jel-bugle.livejournal.com]

Mariah strikes me as pretty normal.