As Whitney Houston continues her trek across Europe with her Nothing But Love Tour, the bad press continues to roll in. This time negative reviews are coming out of England where Whitney performed at the O2 Arena over the weekend. According to Georgina Littlejohn of The Daily Mail, Whitney’s voice completely failed her at the sold out concert which prompted hundreds of people to walk out of the show. Concert goers where treated to Whitney missing multiple lines in multiple songs, panting excessively while performing, and randomly pausing without any explanation.
Mrs. Houston apparently gave an awkward apology to audience members after she stummbled through her signature song “I Will Always Love You“;
“She don’t want to come, my soprano friend… Sometimes the old girl sings, but not tonight… I want to do it, but she doesn’t want to… She’s getting a little… temperamental, even.”
During another performance of her classic, “The Greatest Love of All,” Whitney reportedly only sang two verses and let her backups singers carry the rest of the song. Whitney blamed the air conditioning in the arena on her vocal woes. Some fans were so disappointed that they demanded a refund for their tickets. Poor Whitney… I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again; I think it’s time to hang up the towel and retire from touring all together.
Whitney Houston stopped in Dublin, Ireland this week with her Nothing But Love Tour and wowed her fans when she pulled a very special guest onto stage to perform “The Greatest Love of All“. Check out the heart warming (and adorable) video above…
Whitney Houston finally kicked off the delayed UK leg of her tour after suffering from an illness but the diva received a cold reception from critics who were not impressed by her performance. Just like her Australian tour, some critics paned the show because Whitney was out of breathe and could barley get through some of her big numbers. She apparently blamed her poor preformance on the cold and air conditioning. The audience became annoyed because when Whitney became breathless, she would stall with long water breaks and audience chat sessions to give her time to recoup. The final straw came when Whitney disappeared for 15 minutes as they played the music video for “One Moment In Time” for the arena. Concert goers apparently grew weary at this point and started booing.
If Whitney was smart, I think she would learn her lesson from this disaster of a tour and NEVER hit the road on such a large scale again. In the future, she may just want to put on one, very high priced special engagement in NYC, make a DVD out of it and call it a day.
Whitney Houston really should change the name of her tour to the “Nothing But BAD LUCK Tour.” Only a day after she was forced to cancel the opening night of the European leg of the tour in Paris for having a respiratory infection, poor Whitney has now been admitted into a hospital for the illness and has canceled 2 more dates that were set to take place in Manchester, England April 8th & 9th. Her label has released the following statement concerning the cancelations;
“Doctors visited Whitney late last night in Paris and confirmed that she was suffering from an upper respiratory infection. Upon medical advice, Whitney has been advised that she cannot perform to allow her time to recover.”
The Manchester dates gave been rescheduled for April 16th & 17th. Let’s hope Whitney has a speedy recovery.
Poor Whitney Houston just can seem to get a break these days. The r&b diva has been forced to postpone the start of the European leg of her Nothing But Love Tour due an illness. Here is the official statement that her promoter has made concerning the postponement;
“Whitney is suffering from an upper respiratory infection and after a consultation with her doctors has been advised to postpone her performance. Whitney and her band apologize that the show has to be rescheduled on such short notice.”
Love Whitney but this whole tour has been one big PR nightmare for her. First the über shitty reviews in Australia and now this. That promoter really has his work cut out for him…
Whitney Houston is currently on her Korean leg of herNothing But LoveWorld Tour and I happy to announce that looks and sounds AMAZING!!! FINALLY!!!! Check out these fan made clips… THE DIVA IS BACK!!! How I wish she would have toured in the US! Her US fans need to see her like this…
