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  • Ummmmm. Her voice changed from smoking Crack.... plain and simple.. not being mean, but it is what it is.

  • She struggled through opening night. She got through 2 songs before appearing breathless & exhausted, taking a break, carrying a towel for the next songs.After 6 songs, during which she coughed, she left for a break. Upon her return to the stage, she sat down for a gravelly version of some of her old hits.

    She looked disoriented. She then he croaked her way thru I Will Always Love You, pausing to drink & towel off as she was about to hit the song's high note, changing it to a soft coo.

  • Her voice started out great! Then it went down hill for a bit, then back up at the end! That's because it was healing. In time, though she wasn't 21 anymore, it may have come just about back to where it should've been for her at 48!

  • gawd this morning show is awful

  • RIP Whitney

  • Oh how I wish my headphones were not ON at 4:56...:D

  • I detest that news anchor that attended her show. He interviewed her a few short months before she toured Australia (via satelite) and it's as if he was being two-faced. I'm not denying her Voice wasn't all there and that this was the only it took place. No. However, there were many moments during this tour (i.e., Nottingham) when the Voice showed up and showed out! She can DEF still do it--you just won't see it night after night as if it were the 1999 world tour she did.

  • she should just let her background singers do the job

  • I saw her in Glasgow and she was out of this world amazing. You don't see that being reported though, all people want to know about is negativity.

  • it was a good concert. nobody likes every concert. theres always haters and theres always lovers. whitney sings for the lovers!

  • HATERS WORLDWIDE! LOL!

  • WOW its amazing how whitney undoubtedly the greatest voice of our time can fall on bad times and make a less than perfect comeback and people say all sorts of horrible mean things about her and her recovery yet britney spears who was never a great singer is making a horrendous comeback and people mostly have kind words of encouragement for her. why are people so stupid, biased and hooked on double standards?

  • never thought i'd hear whitney houston and auto-tune in the same sentence..i guess pigs can fly

  • dammit charlie sheen... I'm like was this today's news??? o_0

  • she is clearly lip singing...watch her mouth carefully at 1:44 when she says "you know it" her mouth shuts too early but her voice is clearly singing

  • WHITNEY HOUSTON, THE BETTER OF THE WORLD!

  • LA VOCE E' UNO STRUMENTO SE NEGL'ANNI non viene curato marcisce come il legno......

  • Easy people..... 2013 i am going to her concert.

  • Wait, why does Australia care about Charlie Sheen?

  • Where`s Matt Garrison?

  • as whitney fades a new star shines. charice will blow you away with her mind-boggling performances. standing ovation on almost all her performances, and thinking she is just a kid. check her out you won't regret it

  • @ollirac22

    ..... yes best singer in the world today.......

  • check charice pempengco here on you tube she is far way better tha whitney houston singing the OST of The Bodyguard

  • @thesydneyuni never can Charise be better than Whitney when she was never even the Philippines best singer lol... She can sing hard-hitting songs just like any other singers in the world but not extra-ordinary... Whitney's voice way back in the 80's is superb!

  • er... yeah she is lip syncing in the first clip! So obvious!

  • She is lip-synching!

  • oh my God, i feel sorry so sad for her....

  • She was great in Australia, I don't see the problem.

  • best1forward Obviously your not updated on the fact that George Michael was just arrested for on drug charges. I agree with what you said about Whitney, she should have just promoted the new cd only did a few live performances like on Oprah, American Music Awards and GMA. Her voice and health aren't well enough to have done a big tour, the damage to vocal chords is just too extensive for her to think she could tour like she did.

  • Hello Morons, She is lip sinking! Pure and simple. I would NOT want to pay big money for somebody that is not even singing. She should retire.

  • Those without sin cast the 1st stone!

  • I saw Whitney in 86 & 87, when she was at her very best... I saw in again in the mid 90's and she didn't sing the same... she was never a great entertainer, but she talked a little more and dragged out the songs, really not singing the songs as she did when she was younger. I feel that the media and people acted like she was the best voice ever, which just was never the truth ... and now she hasn't taken care of herself and it is gone, get real people and she'll have a easier time.

  • I agree with best1forward ... she is a delusional mess !

  • @yescanto She should do just do commercial acts. Her body looked good with the first alfit in gold. She could model and do songs that are not as straining on the vocal chords. For her to completey sing as she did maybe impossible due to her activities, not 'cause of age.

  • if u ask me..she should have just done SOME tour..not too much.. must have put her voice into too much strain..

  • Look at 0:24

  • @carolinebernardo34 yes,it's playback

  • Thank god her voice is much better now!! I guess this tour helped her regain her power! :)

  • I'm afraid her greed was a bad move by her team, it has cost her some fans. If she had charged about half what she did, it would have been more compromising. But Whitney today really makes you long for the '80s/'90s when she had it. I'm afraid she'll forever live in the shadow of her past glory. She needs to go BACK TO MOVIES, star in TV, or, better yet, go BACK TO FASHION! Music just won't cut it for Whitney anymore. Of course, she could very well have started her retirement after this tour.

  • @Doubtize

    But Whitney's all about the high notes. When you're a powerhouse soprano...people want to hear your high notes. Someone like Rihanna or Britney Spears...the high notes aren't a big deal, because they're not that type of singers. Hell...Britney's not even a singer at all :P

  • my moneyyyyyyyy backkkkkkkkkkk

  • I saw her the other night in Manchester (16/06/2010) and she was abslutely fantastic! when she reached the peek of i will always love U it was just magical! and u just felt the power in ur whole body !!! i was there and i know that she is still better then the rest! especially freeks like lady gaga who cant sing and has no real talent. she is stil better then beyonce, and dare i say it our very own (british) leona.

    Basically: SHE IS STILL AMAZING! AND SHE IS STILL THE BRILLIANT WHITNEY!!!!!

  • @dudleyowl

    Anybody that knows ANYTHING about music can spot her lip-syncing a mile away. I'm a musician from New Orleans and we have about 100 singers in local bands that can sing better than Whitney Houston right now. I'd say I feel sorry for her but she brought this on herself plus she's still getting top dollar for her fraudulant concerts. Please, somebody stop her.

  • @raymar316 Oh, and there's so much reverb and echo on her mic that my dog could fart into and sound good. Unfortunately, it still can't help her.

  • sit down gurl and take a DAMN long long nap!

  • Whitney is a racist bitch......this is payback from all of those cocaine years with Bobby Brown and blaming white people for everything......too bad !!

  • That clip he showed she's lip syncing. FAIL.

  • she was an addict this is her karma. . . only true good people remain one of which is mariah carey , , who stayed humble through the years. . . and can stil sing most of her hard songs lyk emotions. . she may nver sound as good as before but she could stil hit those very high notes and doesnt sound as awful as whitney is now

  • I love you Whitney she really needs some more rest gave her a break people!

    Wood of the L.A.Times, "Album Review: Charice's Self Titled Debut", (May 11,2010), writes that Charice has made the right friends and has recently released her self-titled debut album. Wood asks "Where has Whitney Houston's voice gone? It's the question on everyone's mind right now. Apparently, it may just have reincarnated itself in the body of a young Filipina girl named, Charice".

    For now search Charice sings IWALY

  • well celine dion she still sounds the same.... its because she smokes thats why she lost her voice....

  • i dont think mthat when you get older voices changed,,, well try to analyze about mariah carey,,,, ericka of mandaue city philippines

  • lip sync

  • the decline in her vocal ability is down to a disfunction in her nervours system the brain hast to tell your vocal cords to hit those high notes thats what drugs does.

    i know quite alot about this doing what i do. shes still good tho and will continue to improve in time.

  • My thing is Whitney has never really lipsynced unlike Ms. Spears. So if she wants to pretend to sing let her.

  • Move over whitney!! Hello Leona!

  • See pos.1:38: he says it sounds pretty good. huh? This mas has no clue. Watch closely, Whitney does not sing live, this is so obvious. In addition, Auto-Tune is used.

    I love Whitney, she is a great artist and I hope people would stop attacking her. But it's important that we see things objectively.

  • FRAUD...at the 1;42 mark of the video you can see that she is lip syncing... correct me if i am wrong!

  • @spg911

    She is!!

  • @spg911 why lip sync a lost voice? that just doesn't make sense

  • she also sopped in te middle of a song and told tem to turn off the air conditioning and kept stoping in te middle of sons as she cudnt reach te high notes tats wat drugs wil do to you !!!!

  • And speaking of Mariah ... Whitney can't sing anymore. Her voice is horrible. Her time has passed, no doubt ...

  • If she was a grey hound she'd have been sent to a food factory by now.

  • Lip singing :I

  • @Bananer10 i do look like it

  • whats the diff btween british and australian accent??

  • @xoelts What's the similarity? They're nothing alike.

  • @billsaintkilda mariah isn't sounding goog lately live either. that performance at obamas inaguaration was filled with off key notes. not as bad as whitney though. mariah was just flat

  • look she was always a manufactured, cheesy pop tart!!! What did you morons expect for chrissake! You have been ripped off. ha ha!

  • WTF!!! She should've stuck with the lip sync lol

  • It's just too sad to se what she's done to herself and hear her now, ouch! and what she used to be

  • Wanna hear a GREAT singer who is over 60 years of age, Listen to the Scorpions!!! Klaus Meine 's voice is phenomenal!!!!!! To bad they are retiring and this is their last tour. All good things must come to an end..  Whitney was just pitiful!!!!

  • The best you can say is what this blond aussie said "it's a different voice."

  • Lip sync, the first few songs were taped, the later stuff was live.......big difference.

  • I'm sorry but she has lost her voice. what she shud do is go back to acting, cause she was a really good actress

  • she is lip singing HELLO!!?? have u seen sydney?????? a shame i am sad she used to be a gr8 singer,.. and barbra didnt try drugs.. that is why she keeps her voice intact .... an example the same with cyndi lauper....

  • whitney houston back to puerto rico we need see you

  • Gotta say, I wouldn't go see Whitney in concert. I've always been a fan, but she's completely and utterly lost her voice. She can't sing anymore! I agree she's jumped on this tour way too soon, and is pissing off millions of people. She needs to just rest that voice more, and get vocal surgery, which would mean A LOT more resting, and then vocal training, etc. Unfortunately for the fans and the rec company, if she ever gets back any semblance of a voice, it'll be many years from now.

  • whitney is not what she use to be bt then again who is. aretha franklin is not was she was once her voice is not all there elvis lost his voice too, whitney no different age and self abuse has token its toll on her. but she still cans ing still ahs a beauty in her voice

  • um, that part they listened to on the play back..where they said she sounded pretty good...that was lip synch. Sigh we miss her. Losing a voice is natural even tho she lost it quicker than most. But people like streisand, shirley bassey are in their 60s and were able to still sound like they can sing. WH just cant. I am sad for her because she was a great voice

  • Whitney Houston is the best. Like they said, her voice is not what it was, but we will always have the memory of what it was, and i believe that we should enjoy who shw is now, along with who she was then!!!

  • I'm seeing Whitney in April Birmingham England and I'm sure shell be awesome. We love her like we loved Presley . She's an icon

    Sure she can't do what she used to people but can you still run 3 miles breathless So come on Dont knock the queen! God bless

  • WTF is whitney doing in her old ass daysss? dancers?

    Oh girl,you need to stop it.

  • Charlie Sheen BACK IN Rehab...and ya'll em effers wanna keep kicking Whitney...

  • She is amazing

  • OMG since when does whitney autotune?

  • Try harder, sit higher as that's what hardness demands: trial. Sit higher as do the demanding black-robed fat men who elevate themselves to the detriment of us. Let us sleep in postures not unlike those of Joey Heatherton lying dead drunk upon a Serta mattress.

  • Just do some coaching technique, even teh greatest Divas of the 60's like Streisand, Franklin, etc do it at age 60 and 70...she has to nurture, pamper that voice..it won't last forever

  • people should stop making excuses for whitney. her ego does not need it. these stars get to be so egotistical with all the yes people around them. she sounds shit and should be told. her comeback was way toooo soon. she needs to rest, be humbled a little and get her health right and her attitude right before she makes a real comeback. point in case..george michael. he was brilliant!!

  • I feel you on the she came back to sone. but People need to know it's never easy to come back when a person is on drugs. but yes she needs vocal rest. but you are right on some of what you said. but sounds like shit..lol No do you sing?

  • @jetit i agree i was a bit harsh on how she sounds...i too want her to get better and really wow us when she is fully ready. i am a bit worried that this tour of the world will only put more pressure in her diminished voice.

  • Well, Whitney will always be Whitney, The woman is doing her best and I mean all those years that she has damaged her voice by entertaining us! she had pylops removed in 2007. Everyone says drug use but no Nodules and the pylops treatment ravished her voice.

  • @best1forward i think she knows her voice is shit - acceptance is the key word here, people need to accept that she not gonna sound how she did - people seem to assume that "comeback" means the voice from 20 years ago

  • @best1forward You sound like a right spiteful b*tch, but you make a good point about her resting, so thanks.

    George Michael? Brilliant? at WHAT?! Smashing a car into a shop window?!

  • @best1forward i agree she wasnt ready to comeback , but arista and clive davis want There contract of albums fullfilled what she has been paid for, so they made out she was ready and healthy etc , when its obviious she wasnt ready ,

  • @best1forward

    Yeah i agree she sounds fucking horrible now, she use to be one of the best singers. Sad

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  • 0:18 This is autotuned!!!!!

  • GET OFF THAT CRACK WHITNEY

  • Whitney is a legend! I LOVE her! However her current tour is way to much on her fragile voice. She is not going to be able to sound great everynight and that makes some of her fans angry.

  • @TheTennis10 she shouldnt be on tour now at all.

  • @blksophisticado1

    Who, Whitney? Man, I read about her on the national enquirer book I bought today and some of her fans were not too happy about Whitney's singing performance and spent money on tickets they bought and said that she sounded horrible. Wow.

  • i love whitney, girl rest if u need to

  • He was b eing nice by saying her voice had changed - she croaked through a lot of her songs

  • he's a douche, i know that Down Under is miles away but surely they have seen/heard her since the comeback!!!! of course her voice has changed! duh!

  • 2:52 AMAZING!!!

  • you know world, let us all understand her, with voice or none, I still love her, she brought a standard of singing in the entire world. she still the goddess of the pitch notes. I still idolize her, i cannot wait for her to be here in the Philippines.

  • and I love her to sing with our very own charice pempenco. whitney, please take your time to rest your voice and show us what you still have. prove them wrong for judging you that way. you stillo holds the power, just step on as you stepped out from your mistakes. whitney is whitney, no replacement and no competitions.

  • You know all you bitches have done drugs at one time or another or had a crutch during a tough time. She has had nothing but hell...What gives you the right to judge her? She is and always will be a legend. How fast we are to judge at times. My advice to the bitches that know it all...snort a line, drink a beer or take your ass to church! I'm dissapointed with austrailians stupid comments, none of you should act like saints...even the fat ass news guy that thinks her voice is gone.

  • c'mon now. I did drugs LAST night. I've got nothing against it as long nobody gets hurt. She knowingly gives us performances that are sub par. A true artist would hear her own voice and say "no I won't sing right now" I don't know what her motivation is, but it's not pleasing the fans. Don't get me wrong I LOVE her! I'm just dissappointed.

  • Ursula took her voice in exchange for her sexy legs. Damn you Ursula!! It wasn't a fair deal for the fans!!!

  • It's hard to accept. Her time is fading. Time to retire. So sad.

  • Go fuck yourself

  • Oh my goodness, I'm just happy to see her doing music again. she could sync the whole show like Brit and some others but she didn't. Hey Aretha, Patti, Chaka and lots of the other great vocalist , can't sing some of their most powerfull songs in the key or arrangement as the first time they recorded it. So people give God's Daugther a break!

  • Haha at the reporter's sypmathy voice crack at the end:P

  • she did perform "For the Lovers" live, however she had a background track with her, so in certain moments it looks like she's lip-synching. But she was performing live

  • im going 2 the adelaide contect and am still goin no matter what the press say about the review OMG its bn like 1988 since her last time she was here and then i was like 2 young 2 go 2 a contect ........................... i can't wait

  • I Love You Whitney!

    You May Dissapointed The People From Sydney But You Dont Dissapoint Ur Fans Because We Luv U No Matter what Your Voice Will Come Back :D

    Endless Love<3xoxo

  • I wonder if there is some kind of surgery that might help her vocal chords that were obviously damaged from smoking.

  • @Branigan4ever I wouldn't doubt there is some kind of vocal treatments she could go through for help, but she's still smoking so it's not going to do her any good. She herself needs to decide that her voice is important enough to her to take care of it before she goes through expensive treatments.

  • She did have surgery to remove her nodules in 2007. That might be the problem with her voice? I don't know why the hell they have her doing a world wide tour? Her cords still haven't recovered. Julie Andrews had hers removed and it ruined her voice forever. Whitney never should have had them removed. She also needs to get in shape at 46. She really needs to rest her voice and do periodic concerts as opposed to world tours now. She can still sing when rested but should stay away from earlier hits

  • Nope..Its Age, and Emphazemia..Thats Clear...But I will say she still has an amazing voice..And very few artists today can touch her...Listen she's older now...And the Cigs didnt help..But she nailed i will always love you...Great job

  • Have you had your hearing checked lately, because you're clearly in the minority in thinking that she did a great job? As for Whitney having emphysema, there has been no press (that I am aware of) to back your claim.

  • You look great Whitney and you sound good. The dancers are HOT!! Keep going Whitney. Continue to believe in yourself. We support and appreciate you!!!

  • Whitney Houston is amazing!!!!!

  • like a huge cocaine fart.

  • OMG ppl! she sounds better in Sydney because she is LIP SYNCHING, she learnt her lesson in the live Brisbane concert... dah!

  • @chrismj1982 Were you there, that you accuse her of lip synching??? The first two songs were pre-recorded the rest was live!!!

  • She is getting better. Look at her singing "i will always love you" in january = SH*T! then it started to get a lil better.

    Then watch "i will always love you rome 2010" and her in germany too.

    BIG DIFFERENCE.

    Her voice is getting better, if she does another tour it will be so much better as she's ready now cause she's got used to performing again :)

    Sure she's not as amazing as before but i loved going to see her. So yeah, thanks WhitneY :) x

  • And sadly, the only reason why the first two songs in her show sound good are because they are lip-synched.

  • i stiil like whitney, no matter what...

  • Some people's voices hold up and some don't. Some of it is luck, some of it is abuse to the voice and some of it can be from illness or exhaustion. Sure Barbra Streisand still has about 80% of her voice (too bad her material sucks) which is incredible for her age, but Julie Andrews not a drug addict lost her voice years ago so you never know. Now Whitney accepting this is another story, I'm sure it must be difficult.

  • She cancelled her concert in New Zealand because of the bad feedback from Australia's...>=(

  • her tour was in NZ was cancelled very far before starting to sing in Australia. on 16/02

  • SHE SOUNDS AMAZING !

    GREAT CONCERT!

  • Oh F@#k you commentator Whitney is great she's aged and abused her body...Thank God she's not dead!! I love Whitney and for those to say it was a let down...You should have heard her latest cd it's not the same as she was when she was younger so get over it Australia...

  • Get over it?! She's forgotten!!!

  • you are really thick

  • And you are really UGLY!

  • I like Whitney very much, but how do people have the nerve to say she sounds good when she is clearly lip-syncing? ? ? ? ?

  • ANYONE SEEN THE TINA TURNER CONCERT LAST YEAR?????

    I DID AND SHE STILL HAS IT GOING ON THE VOICE THE LOOK EVERYTHING

    BUT SHE WASNT A DRUGGIE like whitney

    drugs have messed up whitney her voice her career !!!!!!!!!

  • I am grea fun of Tina and I saw Tina in London, she was not sounding like the old Tina but still great, you can say she was the same at least not in London. However concert was awsome. Aging changing people voice.

  • Are you stupid? she will never be the same voice, she is not 20ish anymore. She is 47 yrs old.

  • listen to Donna Summer sing at 61

  • did and she is not the same like when she was 20/30 and so on. Same Aretha, Tina. Whitney also went thru a lot and that s why her voice has changed and expecting she would sing like in her 20ish is absolutely ridicoulus. Performance overall awsome for what I see.

  • @Koendejonghe

    oh boy...donna summer please!! beautifull songs,but donna hasn't not great,no no no please!!! please!!!

    tina maybe is great than whitney, maybe,but the tina's concert isn't not live.

    whitney's concert it's live ,not perfect but live,not the first 2 song but the rest is all live.

    in europe whitney is the most popular female singer of all time past and now,no celine,no madonna,no mariah,no tina,nobody,just whitney!! all whitney!!

  • she's 46 :o)

  • Barbra Streisand was born in 1942, and when she was 47 in 1989 (same as Whitneys current age), Barbras vocalabilty was still tremendous!! Listening to Were Not Making Love Anymore released in that year, her vocal range, timbre and singing techniques were fully intact, pretty much identical to the way she sounded in her teens, 20s and 30s.

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  • Ok and your point? Whitney had a rough life .. BABS did not.

  • You compared WH with Barbara completely different music. Also Barbara she did not go thru anything comparing WH life. WH voice has changed and if i go to her concert I do not expect to c WH voice in her 20ish. Also 1999 I wanto go to see Barbara and minimum pice was 500 bucks, please give us a break then with that shit

  • Alex197824, please listen and learn.

    Barbra and Whitney are both Divas, while they may do different music, their main musical instrument is their voice, therefore, that make them COMPARABLE, you get it??!!

    "Barbara she did not go thru anything comparing WH life"

    So, what's your point? Stating the obvious?? Whitney made the decision to do drug and ruined, she need to live with the consequences!! Stop touring!!! He voice is so bad, she can't even do one song properly by ANY standard.

  • @CityRhythmPart1 i agreeeeeeeeeee i loved her b4 but now i get attacked for stating the fkn obvious the woman made a choice she chose a drug thug over her singin and she paid a price she should stop actin like she can sing get off the fkn stage stop hurtn her fans who have to lstn to a cracked off tune voice and do something productive with her life work in rehab i dunno anything but plz dont sing its over homegirl

  • Todays Whitney, well, theres really not much to say, youll be lucky if she can sing above C5 in chest voice or head voice competently, let alone trying to sing songs like You Give Good Love or Run To You. Even if she does sing those hits, she will sing them in a much lower key and let the background singers take all the high notes. WHATS THE POINT??? Its just SO WRONG that shes touring!

  • SO, she had a terrible show a day or two before, and now, she's doing lip synch, well, there now she is just like britney live

  • He said it sounds pretty good, but she was miming that part...

  • wata horri!!

    hahahahaha

    those fans wasted their money 2 see her sing like shit!!