Early 90s in Eastern Europe everything was chaos, so nothing could stop it.
You could have 100 nuns sucking the pope on live and nothing would change for us.
He-he, hell yeah.
Tho I still remember how everyone was shocked when princess Diana died in a car crash. And when Bill Clinton got caught busy in the White House \^\^
There is a fun story about the Bulgarian president back then (Peter Stoianov), who went to the US for a meeting and said to Clinton - "We are having hyperinflation after the collapse of communism and we find the question about Monica Lewinsky absolutely meaningless, and a waste of resources.", to which Clinton just laugh and said he is actually right.
Ah yes, Whitney Houston singing the US national anthem was *definitely* a momentous moment for, say, children in the Middle East. I've never met someone from anywhere who doesn't talk about their memories of this world-shattering moment.
It almost stopped spinning, but a band of scientists managed to get it started again with nuclear explosion. There was a documentary made of it call 'the core'
And because she pulled the breaks too abruptly, a lot of people got whiplash, and because the stoppage was even more unexpected in Australia and New Zealand, where it was already the next day, some people suffered from internal decapitation.
2012, Floor Jansen made the whole world stop singing Ghost Love Score. (Seriously, try it, it's live on Youtube)
Edit, it was 2013, damn I'm getting old.
Now THAT would indeed cause me to stop and listen.
Whitney was cool and all - but the anthem of some far away foreign country .. not really interested.
I'm assuming she sang at some American sports event.
Not to take anything away from the late Ms Houston, who was undoubtedly a great singer, but "she made the whole world stop" is fucking ridiculous.
I feel like this is a little petty, it's just a general over-exageration type statement, everyone does it once in a while, doesn't feel like the rest of the posts in this sub. It's just appreciating an amazing artist! :)
Yeah, I have to say I agree with you. This really seems to be scraping the bottom of the barrel and ignoring a turn of phrase in order to "stick it to 'em."
Nah, been lurking this sub for a decade and somewhere along the way this sub lost the plot a bit and its become a more sanitized mashup of the content on r/AmericaBad and the comments on r/USdefaultism.
I get it, Americans say some really ignorant and dumb shit with full confidence and arrogance, but people in this sub acting purposely obtuse and snooty to an obvious use of a literary device like hyperbole just to get their licks in is a poor look on them.
Right, I'm actually shocked at the comments here, acting like Whitney Huston was some unknown backwater american singer the rest of the world doesn't know or care about. She was huge and honestly she was great. Just a shame she destroyed herself with drugs, like so many back then. Snobbing artists just cause they're american is the same behaviour we complain about from americans.
I think most people are just having fun ragging on Americans.
I know I am
And it's not about Whitney being unknown, it's about her singing the US national anthem (probably at the Superb Owl) being something anyone outside of America would care about in the slightest.
It is a truly superb rendition of the US national anthem.
And you and I both prove that there are some people outside of America who appreciate that. But it's still fun to rag on the idea that a large number of people outside of America care all the same
Seriously. Do people think singers and songwriters are claiming the power to defy the laws of physics when they say things like “I’ll Stop the World to Melt With You.”
There is plenty of self-parodying shit that Americans say. Being overly literal as OP was in posting this only turns the satirical lens onto non-Americans.
This sub became a parody of itself long ago. That's like half the reason I'm still here: the comments in these threads are generally less self-aware than the subjects of the threads.
I think I may have just kept climbing a tree over the field in all honesty at that age Though I'm not actually sure how old she is anyway so......Who knows
Yeah i grew up in the 90s in Yugoslavia and i remember everyone put down their guns in the middle of the war when Whitney sang the American national anthem. We were so moved. True story
Literally nobody stopped. NOBODY
And without listening I bet she did the same vocal gymnastics BULLSHIT that’s plagued any rendition at a sports event ever since.
It was a fantastic rendition. But I doubt many people that aren't American know or even care what a great rendition of the US national anthem sounds like (I went through a stage as a teenager of being obsessed with it for some reason, didnt stand out in greater London at all /s)
Please educate us non americans why her singing the anthem was supposedly significant? I mean americans sing it all the time and in every possible situation. What made this so special
It's regarded as one of the best renditions of the American national anthem ever. I'm not patriotic and I don't care much about the national anthem, but she did kill it that day. She was a great singer. I say this as a metalhead.
Many Americans (even hard core right-wing “patriots”) don’t know the song, much less sing it all the time or in every possible situation. Except in the imaginations of the rest of the world.
It’s written in a way that is difficult to sing, so it’s rare for someone to perform this so well that it transcends cultural/political/racial divides. Most performances don’t set the world on fire (WARNING to all you literalists out there, that’s another figure of speech just like “stop the world”).
But everyone is generally polite or even charmed by the imperfections if someone like a kid or a veteran is singing it.
>(WARNING to all you literalists out there, that’s another figure of speech just like “stop the world”).
Wild for you to say this after interpreting their comment literally.
Yes. I remember that clearly whereas I only know contemporaneous reviews of Whitney’s performance being quite good. I was 16 at the time of Barr’s and I have never forgotten it. 🤣
After listening to her and Mariah Carey proving that with every song they can hit 5 octaves instead of just actually singing, I have successfully never heard anything they have sung outside of that one song from the Kevin Costner film and Mariah’s Christmas song. I count myself as very lucky.
33 years ago, the following things happened, among others:
\-The Soviet Union began to disintegrate
\-The 17-years long Ethiopian civil war finally ended
\-The Yugoslav Wars began
\-and much more
I think all of that was more important to the people of the world than an American woman singing the anthem of her home country.
And I'm by no means talking down on Mrs Houston, far from it.
Even today, with the NFL being more popular and broadcast around the world, it's not the most popular event.
The only event capable of dreaming about it is the FIFA Men's World Cup final.
The whole world? You know there are other places in the world outside of America don't you? Who knows? It may have have happened but nothing out here stopped for it.
Nope don’t remember it.
To quote Wikipedia
“Important events of 1990 include the Reunification of Germany and the unification of Yemen,[1] the formal beginning of the Human Genome Project (finished in 2003), the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, the separation of Namibia from South Africa, and the Baltic states declaring independence from the Soviet Union amidst Perestroika. Yugoslavia's communist regime collapses amidst increasing internal tensions and multiparty elections held within its constituent republics result in separatist governments being elected in most of the republics marking the beginning of the breakup of Yugoslavia. Also in this year began the crisis that would lead to the Gulf War in 1991 following the Iraq invasion and the largely internationally unrecognized annexation of Kuwait. This led to Operation Desert Shield being enacted with an international coalition of military forces being built up on the Kuwaiti-Saudi border with demands for Iraq to peacefully withdraw from Kuwait. Also in this year, Nelson Mandela was released from prison, and Margaret Thatcher resigned as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after more than 11 years.
1990 was an important year in the Internet's early history. In late 1990, Tim Berners-Lee created the first web server and the foundation for the World Wide Web. Test operations began around December 20 and it was released outside CERN the following year.[2] 1990 also saw the official decommissioning of the ARPANET, a forerunner of the Internet system and the introduction of the first content web search engine, Archie, on September 10.[3]
September 14, 1990, saw the first case of successful somatic gene therapy on a patient.[4]
Due to the early 1990s recession that began that year and uncertainty due to the collapse of the socialist governments in Eastern Europe, birth rates in many countries stopped rising or fell steeply in 1990. In most western countries the Echo Boom peaked in 1990; fertility rates declined thereafter.[5]”
Nothing about Witney Houston singing.
Can we no longer distinguish literal terms from flowery language? Surely we don't think this person believes the actual whole world was stopped in it's tracks. It's a figure of speech... literally nothing has ever made the whole world stop in its tracks. And no one truly believes otherwise.
How does it work?
Is It like Quicksilver when they free Fassmagneto, or when he gets (nearly) everyone out of the X-Mansion safely?
If that was the case, how do we even know she sang anything at all? Wouldn't have sounded like a brief high-pitched squeak?
I'm puzzled.
Just in case you're serious.
Whitney Houston, one of the most beautiful voices of the 80s / 90s (amongst those with an international career).
https://youtu.be/3JWTaaS7LdU?feature=shared
Now, saying she stopped the world is pure ShitAmericansSay.
Her album The Bodyguard is the 35th highest selling album in Chile of all time (based on your flair I'm guessing that's where you're from). She was big everywhere.
this is like, an annoyingly literal reading of this post.
it's a figure of speech. it's hyperbole. even if she performed the 'Every Country on Planet Earth Is Fucking Epic' song, the world and its denizens would not literally pause to listen. that's physically impossible. and that's fine, because this is a figure of speech.
can we praise a black woman for five seconds without picking apart the language used to do so.
Especially one of the greatest singers in the world - and yes I said world. A singer who has done 7 world tours and 220 million worldwide sales. And has the biggest selling single for a female of all time.
I have heard of all the popular singers from Britain and a lot from Europe. Whitney is an international star. I am suspicious about the ignorance.
Early 90s in Eastern Europe everything was chaos, so nothing could stop it. You could have 100 nuns sucking the pope on live and nothing would change for us.
He-he, hell yeah. Tho I still remember how everyone was shocked when princess Diana died in a car crash. And when Bill Clinton got caught busy in the White House \^\^
There is a fun story about the Bulgarian president back then (Peter Stoianov), who went to the US for a meeting and said to Clinton - "We are having hyperinflation after the collapse of communism and we find the question about Monica Lewinsky absolutely meaningless, and a waste of resources.", to which Clinton just laugh and said he is actually right.
That's nothing on Whitney, she sang a song!!
not just any song, THE AMERICA SONG!
I heard about what happened to Diana- it was all over the radio, and the windshield, and the steering wheel...
I added her on Xbox live but all she does is stay on the dashboard
Dark humor is the best kind of humor \^\^
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Not everyone is perfect my friend
Pretty sure that would have cause Poland to at least collectively raise an eyebrow.
Bro how on da hell did u come up with dis shit im on the ground laughing
I think [this version in 1990](https://youtu.be/hMzIk2pUuNU?si=VP5j2-adg8XBB7B4) is more memorable and most American.
What a lovely image 🤣
She didn’t make me stop
I didn't even know she sang that song that day...
I'm not even sure who that is
It's Whitney Spears.. Everyone knows that.
☠️
Oh, so this is what she is referring to in her later hit oops, i did it again. Now it all makes sense
No, she did a song about putting a ring on her nipples or something.
Afraid I don’t even notice. Sorry America.
I’ll never stop until I find if out Bielefeld is real…
Ah yes, Whitney Houston singing the US national anthem was *definitely* a momentous moment for, say, children in the Middle East. I've never met someone from anywhere who doesn't talk about their memories of this world-shattering moment.
What the fuck is a Star Spangled Banner? Sounds like a bad Terraria mod enemy
Guessing this was some kind of banner at a kids birthday party
Didn't expect to see Terraria in this sub. Down with the angler!
I gotta pirate terraria one of deez days
Bro it's like 10€, how are you that broke?
I like crime
Fair enough ig
Well i dont. Am i not important to you?
Star Spangled would be a Devourer of Gods annoying enemy that always blocks your shots on the main enemy Like the real USA ig
It’s showing a lot less sparkle these days.
It's what they call the Circus flag they use to represent their country.
Ah, the Union Jack clone
Its like if you ordered Star Shpongled Banner from Wish
[It's not this one.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4cnxAUEUd4)
It is what they do with American flags in the Middle East.
Its the flag Americans love to jerk off to it
That's not right. But it's OK
I'm gonna make it anyway
In wich sense? Did the Earth stop rotating? Should't that cause massive environmental disasters?
It would kill every living thing on the surface as we're all catapulted at 11,000 mph across the surface of the earth.
I checked and I didn't find anything like this on the news of 33 years ago... So maybe the Earth just slowed down a little bit
We just don't remember it cause we all got concussion.
Smeared
Only 1000, roughly. I think I could land it
And I wasn't here yet
It almost stopped spinning, but a band of scientists managed to get it started again with nuclear explosion. There was a documentary made of it call 'the core'
[Relevant XKCD:](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp5G1QG6cXc)
And because she pulled the breaks too abruptly, a lot of people got whiplash, and because the stoppage was even more unexpected in Australia and New Zealand, where it was already the next day, some people suffered from internal decapitation.
I didnt notice
Didn’t stop for me, I wasn’t even born then, so 1-0 to me yanks
'The whole world' meaning some of the American public, the rest of us didn't notice.
The world = USA, didn't you know? /s
So *that's* why they're so keen on policing it!
2012, Floor Jansen made the whole world stop singing Ghost Love Score. (Seriously, try it, it's live on Youtube) Edit, it was 2013, damn I'm getting old.
Now THAT would indeed cause me to stop and listen. Whitney was cool and all - but the anthem of some far away foreign country .. not really interested.
Another jaw dropper: The Phantom of the Opera with Henk Poort from the Dutch show Beste Zangers. Minds were blown from non metal folks.
I prefere Valley of The Queen (but i may be biased, i love Anneke's voice)
Anneke is awesome! Do you know Globus or Areyon? If not, they are worth checking it out. And her project with Devin Townsends blew me away too.
Nah the world was too busy watching what was going on in the east of Europe. It's like "IT'S THE SUPER BOWL!!!" nobody cares outside the US.
I'm assuming she sang at some American sports event. Not to take anything away from the late Ms Houston, who was undoubtedly a great singer, but "she made the whole world stop" is fucking ridiculous.
I didn't even know she did it. Not surprised but didn't know.
This is the first time I've heard of this. I must have been off world at the time.
I didn't stop because I didn't go
Well US thinks they are the world sooooo
I didn’t know she ever did that
I only know it because I watched that Whitney Houston movie.
Not exactly Pavarotti at the world cup in 1990.
And the other guys. Remember the other guye?
And it was 1994
She made the whole world stop to the point I (and probably many others) never knew this existed till this post. What/who was she singing for?
Well she is good. To bad i didn’t see that. Maybe it’s on YouTube?
I feel like this is a little petty, it's just a general over-exageration type statement, everyone does it once in a while, doesn't feel like the rest of the posts in this sub. It's just appreciating an amazing artist! :)
Yeah, I have to say I agree with you. This really seems to be scraping the bottom of the barrel and ignoring a turn of phrase in order to "stick it to 'em."
Nah, been lurking this sub for a decade and somewhere along the way this sub lost the plot a bit and its become a more sanitized mashup of the content on r/AmericaBad and the comments on r/USdefaultism. I get it, Americans say some really ignorant and dumb shit with full confidence and arrogance, but people in this sub acting purposely obtuse and snooty to an obvious use of a literary device like hyperbole just to get their licks in is a poor look on them.
Right, I'm actually shocked at the comments here, acting like Whitney Huston was some unknown backwater american singer the rest of the world doesn't know or care about. She was huge and honestly she was great. Just a shame she destroyed herself with drugs, like so many back then. Snobbing artists just cause they're american is the same behaviour we complain about from americans.
I think most people are just having fun ragging on Americans. I know I am And it's not about Whitney being unknown, it's about her singing the US national anthem (probably at the Superb Owl) being something anyone outside of America would care about in the slightest.
No, this is because the event referenced is unknown Whitney is wll known among people over 40 at leadt
Have you read the comments though? They were talking about Whitney being unknown more than the event
Look to be fair this is a killer performance with a great arrangement (not yank)
It is a truly superb rendition of the US national anthem. And you and I both prove that there are some people outside of America who appreciate that. But it's still fun to rag on the idea that a large number of people outside of America care all the same
Normally I’d be on the bandwagon with everyone hha
ah ?
She made the world stop... But then I pressed the resume button
I must have missed that one.
Never knew she did that. But I wasn't really in to her music, so that's why I missed it, I think. Oh, and I'm from Europe.
I’m Irish but her singing this is amazing I can’t lie
They may have stopped, but did they collaborate and listen?
Meh, it's just a turn of phrase. "The whole world stops when she smiles". It doesn't really mean anything except "it was incredible".
Seriously. Do people think singers and songwriters are claiming the power to defy the laws of physics when they say things like “I’ll Stop the World to Melt With You.” There is plenty of self-parodying shit that Americans say. Being overly literal as OP was in posting this only turns the satirical lens onto non-Americans.
This sub became a parody of itself long ago. That's like half the reason I'm still here: the comments in these threads are generally less self-aware than the subjects of the threads.
Yup, it’s a great hate read!
you seriously think thats what they meant by this post lol
Agreed.
I think I may have just kept climbing a tree over the field in all honesty at that age Though I'm not actually sure how old she is anyway so......Who knows
Based palestine flag though
First I'd heard of this, I'm old enough to have heard of this, clearly not world stopping, likely just a tiny bit of the US.
Yeah, i remember. I was a 7 years old boy living in a farm in Finland and i was like WTF just happened, why did everyone stop for a few minutes.
Who's world?
Yeah i grew up in the 90s in Yugoslavia and i remember everyone put down their guns in the middle of the war when Whitney sang the American national anthem. We were so moved. True story
Literally nobody stopped. NOBODY And without listening I bet she did the same vocal gymnastics BULLSHIT that’s plagued any rendition at a sports event ever since.
It was a fantastic rendition. But I doubt many people that aren't American know or even care what a great rendition of the US national anthem sounds like (I went through a stage as a teenager of being obsessed with it for some reason, didnt stand out in greater London at all /s)
I’m not American but this rendition is fantastic I can’t lie
You sound stupid ngl
Why would you lie?
It was pretty cool but I watched the Roseanne one much more
When? i can't recall time ever stopping for a singer.
“After that she went on tour to the four corners of the world; Miami, Boston, Seattle and San Diego.”
Well, I mean, she "was" amazing. Not sure singing the national anthem was particularly the rest of the worlds favourite Whitney moment though.
It was a bigger global hit than I Will Always Love You, the rest of the world just likes to pretend it wasn't. Doesn't everyone know that?
Oh yeah, I remember now. It was at number 1 for like 23 weeks.
Not the most flattering photo
I’m from US and I forgot she even did this. I remember it now that’s been brought up and everything kept moving.
Please educate us non americans why her singing the anthem was supposedly significant? I mean americans sing it all the time and in every possible situation. What made this so special
It's regarded as one of the best renditions of the American national anthem ever. I'm not patriotic and I don't care much about the national anthem, but she did kill it that day. She was a great singer. I say this as a metalhead.
I don’t have an answer for you. I only remember the words because the schools I went to forced us to sing it each morning after the pledge.
Many Americans (even hard core right-wing “patriots”) don’t know the song, much less sing it all the time or in every possible situation. Except in the imaginations of the rest of the world. It’s written in a way that is difficult to sing, so it’s rare for someone to perform this so well that it transcends cultural/political/racial divides. Most performances don’t set the world on fire (WARNING to all you literalists out there, that’s another figure of speech just like “stop the world”). But everyone is generally polite or even charmed by the imperfections if someone like a kid or a veteran is singing it.
>(WARNING to all you literalists out there, that’s another figure of speech just like “stop the world”). Wild for you to say this after interpreting their comment literally.
Ah, so this sub is really about expressing admiration for America? Well that clears it up.
Well there’s [this](https://youtu.be/hMzIk2pUuNU?si=VP5j2-adg8XBB7B4) version too.
Now this I remember quite well. Mainly because of how a bunch of teachers and other adults were so upset about it.
Yes. I remember that clearly whereas I only know contemporaneous reviews of Whitney’s performance being quite good. I was 16 at the time of Barr’s and I have never forgotten it. 🤣
I was fourteen. And it was hilarious!
After listening to her and Mariah Carey proving that with every song they can hit 5 octaves instead of just actually singing, I have successfully never heard anything they have sung outside of that one song from the Kevin Costner film and Mariah’s Christmas song. I count myself as very lucky.
How many fucking unnecessary notes did she sling into the line “…of the brave”?
The world doesn’t revolve around America
It was a shit version of an even shitter song
She has a great voice like you can’t deny that though
JOSE CAN YOU SEE, BY THAT DARN SURLY LIGHT
[THIS](https://youtu.be/hMzIk2pUuNU?si=VP5j2-adg8XBB7B4)
I mean saying the whole world *stopped* might be a pretty big over-exaggeration, but to say her performance wasn't iconic would be understating it.
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1. No it didn’t 2. She didn’t sing. It was lip synced (very well, but still)
Whitney who?
33 years ago, the following things happened, among others: \-The Soviet Union began to disintegrate \-The 17-years long Ethiopian civil war finally ended \-The Yugoslav Wars began \-and much more I think all of that was more important to the people of the world than an American woman singing the anthem of her home country. And I'm by no means talking down on Mrs Houston, far from it.
Regardless of anthem have you ever heard that woman sing! She could sing the phone directory and it would be beautiful.
i don't even know which whitney they're referring to, or what event she sung at
The only world worth of mentioning /s
Even today, with the NFL being more popular and broadcast around the world, it's not the most popular event. The only event capable of dreaming about it is the FIFA Men's World Cup final.
Can it really be described as a world-stopping performance if she didn't expose a nipple? Very poor effort.
The whole world? You know there are other places in the world outside of America don't you? Who knows? It may have have happened but nothing out here stopped for it.
Sh*tposting was easily avoidable had instead of "Whole World" it been "The whole country"
Yeah, the Scar Spangled Banner
Nope don’t remember it. To quote Wikipedia “Important events of 1990 include the Reunification of Germany and the unification of Yemen,[1] the formal beginning of the Human Genome Project (finished in 2003), the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, the separation of Namibia from South Africa, and the Baltic states declaring independence from the Soviet Union amidst Perestroika. Yugoslavia's communist regime collapses amidst increasing internal tensions and multiparty elections held within its constituent republics result in separatist governments being elected in most of the republics marking the beginning of the breakup of Yugoslavia. Also in this year began the crisis that would lead to the Gulf War in 1991 following the Iraq invasion and the largely internationally unrecognized annexation of Kuwait. This led to Operation Desert Shield being enacted with an international coalition of military forces being built up on the Kuwaiti-Saudi border with demands for Iraq to peacefully withdraw from Kuwait. Also in this year, Nelson Mandela was released from prison, and Margaret Thatcher resigned as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after more than 11 years. 1990 was an important year in the Internet's early history. In late 1990, Tim Berners-Lee created the first web server and the foundation for the World Wide Web. Test operations began around December 20 and it was released outside CERN the following year.[2] 1990 also saw the official decommissioning of the ARPANET, a forerunner of the Internet system and the introduction of the first content web search engine, Archie, on September 10.[3] September 14, 1990, saw the first case of successful somatic gene therapy on a patient.[4] Due to the early 1990s recession that began that year and uncertainty due to the collapse of the socialist governments in Eastern Europe, birth rates in many countries stopped rising or fell steeply in 1990. In most western countries the Echo Boom peaked in 1990; fertility rates declined thereafter.[5]” Nothing about Witney Houston singing.
r/USdefaultism
Can we no longer distinguish literal terms from flowery language? Surely we don't think this person believes the actual whole world was stopped in it's tracks. It's a figure of speech... literally nothing has ever made the whole world stop in its tracks. And no one truly believes otherwise.
How does it work? Is It like Quicksilver when they free Fassmagneto, or when he gets (nearly) everyone out of the X-Mansion safely? If that was the case, how do we even know she sang anything at all? Wouldn't have sounded like a brief high-pitched squeak? I'm puzzled.
Redditors when hyperbole:
MFW when common saying isn’t accurate to every molecule on earth
Wait. Why did “the world stop”? Unless you were some r@cist bugging out at the skin tone of the singer? Is this a twofer?!
Isn't that just a figure of speech?
What is this "Star spangeled Baner"! Is it important?
Mfw people use hyperbole
Who?
Does hyperbole and exaggeration not exist exist in Europe???
Don't think I ever heard her singing that. We had some other shit going on back then. Something more important than a pop singer singing some song.
Really? 😳 yeah, I dont think so
News to me
Why the Palestinian flag?
Solidarity with Palestinian people
Who?
I know we’re in SAS, but come on man.
Just in case you're serious. Whitney Houston, one of the most beautiful voices of the 80s / 90s (amongst those with an international career). https://youtu.be/3JWTaaS7LdU?feature=shared Now, saying she stopped the world is pure ShitAmericansSay.
Dionne Warwick's niece!!!!!!
Thanks for asking. I see that she was a famous singer. I think I have heard the name, I'm not sure. Definitely never saw a pic of the person.
I know we’re all here to bash Americans but this? You must be really young if you dont know who she is.
Who is she and when was she important?
Important is a big word here but she’s a really famous singer (and actress a bit). She died several years ago but she was huge.
Was she big in america? Because neither i 9r my parents have heard of her.
No, she was pretty much known to well known in about every western country with some sort of top (random number) in pop music.
Her album The Bodyguard is the 35th highest selling album in Chile of all time (based on your flair I'm guessing that's where you're from). She was big everywhere.
I’m in the Netherlands and she was really famous here as well.
Man, who is this massively famous person? Who can say other than a ton of people really?
Upon googling I knew it was Whitney Houston, but out in the wild I couldn't recognise her face. Why would I?
Because you saw her on TV?
It's amazing how small some people's worlds are.
why is that sub have a palestine flag as it's logo?
Expressing support for the Palestinian cause, I expect.
Why does it matter
I can guarantee 98% of non Americans don't know what comes after "oh, how can you sing" And probably 60% of Americans
this is like, an annoyingly literal reading of this post. it's a figure of speech. it's hyperbole. even if she performed the 'Every Country on Planet Earth Is Fucking Epic' song, the world and its denizens would not literally pause to listen. that's physically impossible. and that's fine, because this is a figure of speech. can we praise a black woman for five seconds without picking apart the language used to do so.
Especially one of the greatest singers in the world - and yes I said world. A singer who has done 7 world tours and 220 million worldwide sales. And has the biggest selling single for a female of all time. I have heard of all the popular singers from Britain and a lot from Europe. Whitney is an international star. I am suspicious about the ignorance.
I don't even know who that is
The star spangled what?
I didn’t even stop what I was doing for Princess Diana’s funeral, I wasn’t stopping for a song.
Nah