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Celeb News: Whitney consoled Gaga at a 2008 awards show
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Whitney consoled Gaga at a 2008 awards show
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'For The Lovers' was one of the opening numbers on Whitney's 'Nothing But Love' tour. We went to the tour on a Sunday night in April 2010 and the first few songs, including 'For The Lovers', were incredible.
Unfortunately things quickly ran out of steam, and the rest of the show was rarely right or okay. We'd never seen so many people leave a venue while the show was still underway, but we stayed to the end because, well, it's Whitney, and you don't walk out on Whitney. Right until she left the stage there were flashes of brilliance from the superstar singer we fell in love with in the 80s, but it was sad to see Whitney struggle to hit notes. She seemed as relieved as we were when the show ended.
While we were driving home Lady Gaga phoned. At this point her last two singles had been 'Bad Romance' and 'Telephone', so she was in the brief untouchable stage of her career. It seemed quite poignant to us, parked up at the side of the road at midnight on a Sunday, that we were talking to a singer at the height of her powers, having just experienced the emotionally draining reality of a Whitney live show. While Lady Gaga was talking about plans for her next video, we were thinking about how fortunes suddenly change, and how you can't look at, say, a 22-year-old singer sitting at Number One today and predict with any certainty how things will pan out two decades from now. We were thinking about how fragile a pop superstar's period of greatness can be, and how astounding it is when someone manages to make that moment last for more than a few singles, let alone to keep it going for well over a decade as Whitney did. We started to feel a bit less sad about the Whitney show, and just felt happy we'd seen her perform the hits live. And what hits! Bloody hell, you can't argue with those hits. One of our favourite Whitney images is the audacious cover of her 2003 Greatest Hits collection: it's Whitney, up a stepladder with a drill (!?!), mounting yet another platinum disc on the wall of a room constructed entirely of platinum discs. It's a light hearted image but, even so, it's hard to think of many singers who could pull that off without looking like a dick. With Whitney, you just think, 'fair play, she's sold quite a few pretty good records in her time'.
Anyway the point of all this is that when Lady Gaga asked what we'd done that night we told her about the Whitney show, how it had been disappointing and pretty bad on the whole but it was still Whitney and blah blah blah. She told us a brief story which we hope we recall accurately, about an awards show she attended before she'd had any proper success. Maybe it was the 2008 Grammys or something like that. Anyway after the event an overwhelmed Gaga was lost in the room, just another wannabe singer with a deal and no hits in a big room full of twats. Whitney Houston saw this girl beckoned her over. "It's alright," Whitney told the young singer. "Momma's here."
It seems odd that Whitney should have picked out this girl from the crowd and felt the need to talk to her. Maybe that night Whitney was just as lost as Gaga. Maybe she wasn't lost - maybe she was just ****ing amazing. Maybe, like so many of the singers we lose too early, she was both in equal measures.
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Gaga idolized Whitney. Whitney was the reason that Gaga wanted to become a singer (along with Frank Sinatra and then Amy Winehouse in 2007). I hope I hear some statement from GaGa soon. 
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"It's alright," Whitney told the young singer. "Momma's here."
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2008 Grammy?
Please Gaga didnt exist by this time
you tried hard making this thread!
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Originally posted by Yooorsh
2008 Grammy?
Please Gaga didnt exist by this time
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Yes she did, she released Just Dance in 2008 and had her 1st performance in that year, i doubt about the veracity of this tho, and it's not his fault if it's a lie he just took it from Popjustice! 
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Queens. legends. Icons. 
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Originally posted by BORNTOSLAY
Yes she did, she released Just Dance in 2008 and had her 1st performance in that year, i doubt about the veracity of this tho, and it's not his fault if it's a lie he just took it from Popjustice! |
Grammy Awards are always at start of year, so, I dont think this its true!
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Originally posted by Yooorsh
Grammy Awards are always at start of year, so, I dont think this its true!
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She told us a brief story which we hope we recall accurately, about an awards show she attended before she'd had any proper success. Maybe it was the 2008 Grammys or something like that
Doesn't have to be the Grammy Awards, just an event in general. And "Just Dance" was released in the Spring of 2008, so it could have been during any time of that year.
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Originally posted by Yooorsh
2008 Grammy?
Please Gaga didnt exist by this time
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I think It might be the 2010 Grammy.
Therefore, she thanked her on the 2011 Grammy
This explains the out of the blue thankful speech toward Whitney that year.
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Not Gaga making **** up like she did with Madonna  except this time, Whitney's been silenced and can't expose her for lies
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Legend This explains Gaga's speech
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Not Gaga making **** up like she did with Madonna except this time, Whitney's been silenced and can't expose her for lies |
Are you serious? 
Amazing story.
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Originally posted by Radiance
Legend This explains Gaga's speech |
I know right
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If gaga don't sit down with all her fairy tails. Am sick of it. Gone somewhere nah Gaga.
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Ugh, this seems fake as hell and I will lose it if Gaga comes with some dumbass over dramatic sappy fable about Whitney.
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Is this real? Not sure if I believe it.
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Originally posted by Melancholic
Is this real? Not sure if I believe it.
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I came in here with my eyes rolling expecting a load of ******** from after Whitney died, but the fact she never released this info publicly and told someone about it almost 2 years ago suggests this could well have some truth in it.
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