Amy Winehouse Vs Whitney Houston

Which death saddened you more and why? For me it was Amy. I loved her and I could relate to her more. She was so young too and I imagine what she could have done given the chance.

• Whitney Houston's death was more shocking. We all new Amy Winehouse could go at any time.

• [quote]Which death saddened you more As if there is any competition!

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• I am never "saddened" by any celebrity death. Honestly, it's not like either one of these people were Diana.

• Two drug-addled morons. I never cared for either of them but Whitney's life was sadder in that she was unable or unwilling to come out of the closet and live openly as a lesbian.

• "She was so young too and I imagine what she could have done given the chance" Given the chance? She was given the chance. She blew it.

• Amy. I don't know why - I am not a huge fan, and I don't think she was a particularly nice person. I think it was her relative youth, and the fact that she was so talented, and that that talent was never fully expressed. I remember hearing her dad phone into a talk radio show here (Radio 5Live if I remember correctly) just as she was getting famous. He was absolutely desperate, begging people NOT to buy her music, because she was spending the money on booze and drugs. All that potential, wasted. Sad, that she really did go to rehab and then lost it one evening in two litres of vodka (or whatever). Whitney had a longer run to show us what she could do, and she was absolutely a better singer than Amy, but her death wasn't as sad or as shocking as Amy's.

• Both deaths get the thumbs up from myself and most of the public, for that matter.

• Whitney because she couldn't be herself.

• It was a tie!

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• Kurt Cobain by seventy five miles.

• I was most saddened by the death of Debby Boone.

• At least I got a Lifestyle Lift, bitches!

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• Whitney. Amy was just a one-hit wonder.

• For me, it was Winehouse. I think because it happened so early in her career I somehow blocked out the idea that she could suddenly die.

• R2s link is exactly what I love most about Whitney.

• Amy, definitely. So much talent, singing and songwriting, that was never expressed. I think she was a genuinely sweet person who was not equipped to deal with commercial success or her addictions. A tragic waste. Whitney had a good voice.

• Out of the two, Whitney. If you were a fan at her peak, then you know just how far she really fell. There was a point where it seemed like she could have gone into Streisand territory. But it was never the same post 94 Grammys. (Although I enjoyed the PREACHERS WIFE movie and soundtrack.) Amy was an incredible talent, but only had a brief moment of true stardom in the states. Seemed like all the gays were into her one year, and then Gaga the next.

• The kind of career Whitney had can only be matched by a handful of stars in recording history. At the her peak, she was one of the biggest names on earth and had the world at her feet.She got as big as anyone possibly could then fell. So it was more shocking because people had literally grown up with her and her music. Like MJ, a much bigger fall. Amy is known for one hit and wasn't as famous. We don't know how big she would have become or if the kids would have moved on to Adele regardless.

• Whitney.

• I thought they were both kind of sad. And so many people said "so what - she was a druggie." Amy could have done so much more, she was talented and that was too young. Whitney was also talented - we all remembered her early years and how upbeat she was and that she really was a great singer. They were brought down by drugs, but also by the people around them. They both made me sad, but maybe the Whitney one a bit sadder, it made me think of early Whitney, the 80s, and I thought about all of the issues she was probably dealing with.

• OP, you are a necrophiliac.

• Amy and I liked them both. I cried for days about Amy. She was so young and I think it was because she current. Whitney was incredible and awesome but she hadn't had an album out in over a decade so she didn't to effect me as much. To me Whitney was like MJ, I felt like we got the best that they were going to do already. I feel like Amy was unfinished with her music.

• R22=Kelly Osbourne

  Cried for Days? REALLY?

• omg Debby Boone IS alive...I think I got her confused with Laura Branigan.

• yup

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• Donna Summer

• Winehouse was a junkie and Houston was a crackhead who couldn't stay sober long enough to take a bath. Oh poor them Funny if any thing like that happened to a poor person in Humboldt Park in Chicago, you 'mos would be all like, serves those junkies right. Now you're all sad because it happened to a rich person. I guess dead poor people deserve it huh? While Heath Ledger who went to a dozen doctors to get his drugs instead of a dealer in a park, is a victim. Typical 'mo behavior.

• Love is a losing game was my favorite song of the year right behind Tears dry on their own- and I miss her with deep heart pain yet know she was meant to go when and as she did

• If Whitney had never touched drugs her best years would still be behind her. At this stage she'd still have ceded the charts to the likes of Rihanna and Beyonce. She had a full, complete and successful career. With Winehouse, its a case of what could have been.

• I saw Whitney Houston, live once, she was amazing. Her talent was formed when singing was still considered a craft and singers had to be able to stand on stage and interpret a song with a life band backing them. She had it and then some. I think because of her religious belief she and the family around her she never took her addiction as serious as she should have, because to her it was always about God's will and not about her doing to get good treatment. I also think her fucked up family was too blame. Dionne (psychic network friends) Warwick and her mother being overly dominant. Although she looked like she was slipping more and more into irreversible addiction I was very shocked and sad by her passing.

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• Amy Winehouse hands down.

• Lindsay Lohan

  What?! ... Too soon?

• [quote]Honestly, it's not like either one of these people were Diana. Ross or Spencer, Princess of Wales?

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• who was Whitney's pussy fuck buddy?

• Donna Summer

• Whitney's death shocked me more. I've seen pics of Amy when she first started out at a normal weight and looking good, but by the time I got into her music she was already rail thin and looking out of it all the time. She looked on the verge of death for several years, so to me her death was inevitable. I don't know why, but I thought Whitney had cleaned up a bit. I also felt for the teenage daughter she was leaving behind.

• The age of true, great singers is over. The way the music industry is going, I don't think we'll ever see such a combination of talent, presence, beauty and elegance again. This woman needed no gimmicks to command the stage, just a mic, a band and her voice.

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• Whitney Houston's death shocked me. Anybody with half a brain could have predicted Amy's demise, it was obvious to all that she was spiraling downward.

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• Absolutely shocking r37. Breathtaking. Thanks for that.

• In both cases I was almost waiting for something to happen. You just had to know it would end that way. I felt terrible for Amy because she had so much potential and she had not yet realized it. She was phenomenal. Completely different style than Whitney. Whitney's tragedy is that she had damaged herself so that her voice was not the instrument it had been. If you look back on her career, her voice was just incredible, and she had amazing vocal control. It was her command of her instrument that separated her from everyone else. I loved them both, but for me, Amy was the saddest, because she had only just begun.

• Whitney Houston was a great artist, Amy Winehouse was a novelty act.

• Untrue, R41. At least Amy wrote some of her own stuff. And anyone who would call Kanye West a "cunt" on stage is a hero in my book.

• Writing your own stuff is overrated. Greats from Ella Fitzgerald to Frank Sinatra to Billie Holiday to Elvis Presley didn't write their own stuff.

• Houston by far as we "grew up together" and several of her songs bring back specific memories of people and places. As for who is more talented, no comparison.

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• My intuition always told me that Amy deliberately tried to create this "junkie musician" persona thinking she could control it and couldn't. Whitney, I felt, probably started drugs with her husband thinking it would help her relate to him or whatever and got addicted. Amy always flaunted her drug use, leaking photos to the tabloids of her doing drugs whereas Whitney always seemed deeply ashamed and wouldn't admit to anything. Either way it's really sad but they're both ultimately responsible for what happened to them.

• {quote]Whitney, I felt, probably started drugs with her husband thinking it would help her relate to him or whatever and got addicted. You felt wrong

  Whitney's Coke Silver Spoon, ca. 1985

• Winehouse was the greater loss. She might have had something in front of her. All Houston had was history, a washed up old drag queen with her frocks and sequins and wigs and tired bitchiness.

• I still can't believe the Queen of Disco is gone given the complete lack of media saturation on the subject. But when I try to come to grips with it it's much sadder to me than Whitney of Winehouse, an MOR diva and a one hit wonder both deteriorated by drug induced death wishes.

• Amy Winehouse, because as others have said she was only in her 20's and had a lot of creativity in front of her. She was a real talent and it's just too tragic that she had to go so young. Whitney's best years were behind her and while her early death is still tragic, of course, her voice was shot and she was never going to get it back. I was around when Whitney was at her peak and her downfall was all the more tragic because she was such a superstar and a real talent, to see her go down into the depths of addiction and crazy behavior was awful. I can't say I was shocked at all when Whitney or Amy died, we'd kind of been expecting that to happen for quite some time. In both their cases it seemed inevitable. Now Donna Summer's death, THAT one truly shocked me. I preferred Donna over Whitney or Amy any day and that morning I woke up and saw the headlines that she was dead really jolted me. Donna had no history of drug use or self-destructive behavior and her death seemed to come out of nowhere. She had apparently been terminally ill for almost a year and there was no news at all - her family kept it really quiet.

• Amy only put out one album I ever listened to. I wasn't invested in her enough to care. On the other hand, Whitney (in my mind) was always just about to OD, so my reaction was, "Well, of course!" Bottom line, so to speak: I didn't really care about either's death.

• Adele. That fat bitch stole my sandwich, phrasing, career. Now, where can I score some dope in heaven? Kurt? Jimi? Guys? Anyone?

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• I like them both.