Love me some old school Whitney

she sounds good and looks good

I think america is Deaf. why hasn’t someone pulled Whitney to the side and said…”look we are glad ur off drugs, we love you, your an american gem”. HOWEVER. Please get vocal training and stop making performances when your voice is not ready.

Listening to I Want To Dance With Someone was a trainwreck. She sounded hoarse, strained and weak. I felt bad for old girl. I can still here that beautiful tone (like in Greatest Love, Didn’t we almost have it all, For the Love of you, just the lonely talking again).

It’s still there, she just needs to work on it

Honestly, I agree with ty2phine. It’s like her flailing voice is the big white elephant in the room that no one wants to acknowledge. She’s not the same, period. I haven’t purchased her new album because I will forever remember how she used to sound and it will be nothing but a reminder of how she doesn’t sound like that anymore. *sigh*

uhuh…STOP Whitney!!!

she looks like the old TINA TURN IN THIS PIC.

She did pretty good! She looks great! LOVE YOU WHITNEY!!
; )

Praise God that she looks truly drug free, she has a healthy weight on her and she truly seems happy. I’ll take it.
After hearing her at the AMAS and in Europe last month, she still has it in her. She just needs now to work with a vocal coach to expand that range and get some cardio work for breath support.

She is a work in progress and I believe that the more she sings the better her voice will continue to improve. I for one b elieve that Whitney may have been near death and to come back from that is a miracle.

I’m not going to slag her but encourage her on her path to healing and the voice will get better.

She was AMazing at the AMAs, had me in tears.

She did look good, but she sounded awful. She will never have old voice back, and I don’t even think she can come close. Awful.

her voice is just a SHADOW of what it was a dozen years ago….

not hatin’ just stating the obvious.

It says in the Bible if He takes something He can restore what you lost if you do right. I hope for her and her family’s sake she has truly stopped using. She’s almost 50 and I don’t think her health will continue to hold up if she continues to use.

love it. Thank God, she is getting there.

After every thing she has been through she still gives the GLORY to God. You have people who ain’t been through nothing. Ran into millions and will not thank the Lord. So Whitney is OK in my book.

Wow! I was happy for her after her performance of Million Dollar Bill, but she was sweating for it! After I Want to Dance With Somebody, you know she still has work to do. I hope her instrument hasn’t been permanently damaged. She was struggling by the middle of the song. Her backup singers were carrying her.

Clive, get her some help. Don’t put her out there to fail. I’m glad Dionne was there to support her. She’s going to need it.

agreed ty2phine

No matter how hard she tries, two words will forever win – now everyone together say – it’s over!. What you don’t know is that Clive Davis put out $17 million in stacks during her drug-out of control stages and like any pimp, he wants his money!

I think even a hoarse, rusty, Whitney sounds better than most of the young divas-in-training on the radio today.

It seems that most of us (with decent hearing) can acknowledge the fact that Whitney’s voice is not good. The performance at the AMA’s was better than her GMA and X Factor performances, however she is no where near where she was prior to her drug use.

She speaks her lyrics, shortens the phases within the verses and appears to rely on the background singers much more. It appears she has not only damaged her vocal chords but perhaps she damaged her lungs as well because she does not appear to be able to sustain her notes.

I hate that she allowed this to happen to her gift and hope that she will continue to do well.

She looks great and it was good to see her… and she still sings well enough to sell out any arena. Whitney is International Superstar!

she really ruined her voice.

It was so velvety and smooth before all the whack stuff.

I find it hard to believe that she wasn’t smoking that stuff with her voice sounding the way it does.

All I can say is I give her credit for trying. But if Whitney wants to retain her former glory its going to take a lot more work than just wanting to come back cause you can.

People expect a certian amount of vocal quality from a Legend like Whitney. I think Whitney dosent realize she choosing to sing some of her most vocally challenging songs. And with her voice not being all the way back. It sounds harsh.

DONE!!!

I LOVE Whitney. Unfortunately, I think all the years of singing and smoking has caused irrepairable damage to her vocal cords..I wish her the best on her sobriety. I love her!

All you haters need to fall back. Whitney can out sing any of ya’ll on her worst day. I think she did great on both songs taken into consideration what she’s been through and her age. Any one in any genre of professionalism age and looses their peak. Whitney is no exception. I know her voice was so extrodinary at one time but she is human and is affected by what age does to us all. Stop the crab mentality and give our sista some respect!!!

Whitney’s voice is forever gone. There is no amont of vocal training she can get that will help her. I’m glad she is off drugs but it doesn’t change the fact that she sounded awful. My husband begged me to change the channel after 1 min. He asked how can you listen to that without feeling pitty.

Cwill………honey, age has nothing to do with that damaged voice and u know that. Stephanie, Aretha, Patti, Tina and Barbara Streisand all still have their pipes.

Everytime they say Whitney’s name I cringe. She has the same ole runs, breathing hard, the voice is just gone. But hey, at least she’s not talking her way through the songs as she did when she first began. Talking and holding the mic out to the audience to sing equaled I can’t sing anymore. She’s getting stronger it seems, however, she’s still arrogant. I thought she was arrogant during the Oprah interview. What’s up with the way she speaks? her and Tina Turner? Ones from TN and the other from NJ, what’s with the uppity way of speaking? almost have an accent. We need someone new, fresh, who can sing, and has talent. Tired of Bey, tired of Rhi, tired of Whit, tired of Janet…….Bring on the new pleeeeeeeze! Ladies, go take your money an sit down somewhere!

I hope that with continued vocal training she can recover her former singing voice. She TRULY WAS one of the BEST pop singers EVER. (IMO, only Mariah Carey comes CLOSE in the singing skills area.) I will ALWAYS love Whitney. But, the drugs etc. really did “a number” on her beautiful instrument.

I think Whit may be tired of performing. She doesn’t seem to be willing to put in the work to really come back. Like her aunt Dionne, those cigarettes have ruined her voice. Maybe if she were to quit she’d have a chance. For now she is out of breath and barely able to hold it together.

@ Get Real

I think of all those u mention, aretha doesn’t still have it.

I have all of her works and 1 can clearly hear the transitions thruout her career. Don’t get me wrong, I luv me some aretha; but Patti, Stephanie Mills, Tina, and Babara; so far, appear to have been vocally consistent throughout their careers.

I love me some Whitney Houston. Her fall from the top is why a lot of female R&B artists have careers today(imo). Whitney’s best days are long gone. She will never be what she used to be vocally.

I tink she just needs some trainning on her Voice and needs to be realy,realy fit for this big tour,she sold out 3 nites in the 02 Dublin with in minuets,cant wait for it.
The new album is brilliant !!
Whitney rules !!!

I love Whitney Houston. It pains me to see her struggle.
I blame Bobby Brown for Whitney’s downfall! Shame on him for abusing his ex-wife and introducing her to hard drugs.

People keep talking about voice lessons, and whatnot. The sad thing is, vocal chords are super sensitive, and once you lose the ability to sing, it can never be fully restored. Once the chords are damaged, no training would help.

Whitney must know that. She almost damaged her chords when she was a little girl-so she must be doing this to prove to herself she can. She knows what she sounds like,but I guess doing this is better than feeling depressed that she can’t perform and fall off the wagon.

you’ll do fine baby.

And another thing:
Do you know how heartbreaking it must be to be named Whitney Houston, and hear yourself, and not be able to perform to the standards of your past? It must be devasting to know that no matter how hard you try, you’ll never be able to get back what made you who you are.

And to know that it was self inflicted must be so hard to deal with. But at least she looked beautiful on stage. You can see the change. But it still feels sad to know she can’t bring it like she used to.

I wanna dace with somebody, all @ once, I will always love you, Greatest love of all, saving all my love for you, heart break hotel, I will surely miss the Old Whitney My opinion is that she needs to go back where it all began. Church for one I personally know singers who can sing hip hop and sound like nothing ..But if given the chance to sing a church song they sound so much better. Remember He will never leave you nor forsake you. Just trust in him

I agree Whitney has lost her flava. I love some old skool Whitney Houston. She’s tryna reinvent herself but it’s not working at least not with this album. She should go back to acting and working on her singing voice again…she can do it and leave Ray J alone.

I love Whitney! I think like a previous poster stated the more she sings the more her voice will improve…

I’m sure that Whitney is well aware that her voice is not what it used to be. Hopefully, she is focusing on her sobriety first and foremost and has a positive support group surrounding her. With the help of vocal coaching and practice I think that she will regain strength in her voice. Let’s all wish her the very best.

It is a sad day when people are talking during a Whitney Concert. She really needs to stop singing and I will always love you. She cannot sing anymore. I agree Rhianna, Britney and the rest of them can’t sing either but its tolerable. Hearing Whitney sing is just SAD! PLEASE SOME BODY TELL HER TO SIT IT ON DOWN. She is embarrassing herself I wonder does she ever look at her old performances. Folks stop its a wrap for her.