I despise R&B and I still think she was a tremendous loss. Finally, someone with talent, and she’s lost to something as stupid as a plane crash.
She will be missed.
Holy shit. It doesn’t matter who it is who dies, but when they die so suddenly and tragically as the way she did, it’s always a shock to the system.
I’d only ever heard of her from one of her songs, but it’s still a shock to me. I can’t imagine how her family must be feeling.
Yesterday I was just listening to “Try Again”.
My respects to her family and friends.
Wow… she was in Melbourne just a few months ago filming “Queen of the Damned”… this is not cool. Admittedly I wouldn’t know her or her music if I had breakfast with it, but it’s still a tragedy.
Let’s hope she and Selena are cutting a few new tracks with a really fine harp section backing them up. Maybe Pearl will drop in for a set. I’m listening to the report on CNN right now. An industry filled with half wit, no talent air head morons and her number comes up, where’s the justice in that?
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I wonder if they’ll release the video that she had finished before the plane crash.
What a loss.
Wow. I’m stunned by this.
Although, I haven’t seen any of her movies, and have only heard her songs on the radio, she was a public figure, someone who’s name I knew, due to her success. These people obtain a certain aura of “immortality”, I feel, as they represent a somewhat “superhero” like role to society.
Therefore something like this, despite the fact that I did not know this woman, kind of brings reality back a bit, which hurts.
I’ve never heard any of her songs, or seen any of her acting. But I did know her name, and a lot of people I know are fans of hers. I understand that she was indeed a very gifted individual. The fact that she was just so young is a damn shame.
My condolences to her family, friends, and fans.
Although I didn’t listen to a lot of Aaliyah’s music, I saw quite a few interviews and she seemed like a nice person. My first reaction when she died, was that I hoped she didn’t suffer. My second reaction was to buy a nice bottle of wine, chill it, and watch the sunset. You really can’t take it with you and you never know when you’ll be called home. I hope that every Doper who reads this thread will stop, do something nice for themselves, and offers a prayer for Aaliyah.
I wasn’t a raging fan, but IMHO, what she did for “life and how we live it” was contribute to our artistic and creative experiences with her multiple talents, and it’s sad that she’s gone.
MTV showed her episode of “Diary” this morning and it was very touching, just how sweet and fun and down to earth she was. She said that she “loved nothing more than laughing” so she tried to surround herself with friends and people who were more interested in enjoying life and riding rollercoasters than putting forth a ‘cool’ and ‘hip’ image.
So beautiful, so young. I’m sad.
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I was with my parents over the weekend, and last night the local news started doing their “This just in… a small plane has crashed on the way to a film shoot…” thing. They didn’t say who was on it, only that all or almost all aboard were killed, but the implication was that somebody well-known was among the dead.
As I was on the train back up to my apartment from the Port Authority I saw the headline on a the New York Post someone was reading across the aisle from me: “Aaliyah Killed in Plane Crash.” I’m sad, for the reasons previous posters have mentioned-- her youth, her genuine niceness, her talent, and I wasn’t even a huge fan, I just thought she was cool.
Who?
(sorry, not meant to sound disrepectful, it’s just I’d never heard of her until now).
I think it’s tragic that this young woman died in a plane crash. Yes, she was beautiful, talented, and the sort of person everyone wants to see succeed, even if you’re not a fan of the genres she worked in.
But home come, when these sorts of things happen, the media seems to totally forget about the other people who died in the crash? The other passengers and the pilots were also someone’s children, parents, sisters, brothers, etc. I understand that Aaliyah is the known name, but I would prefer there be some mention of them others beyond “and the other 7 people aboard”.
I dunno about you guys, but, have you noticed the lack of news stories about this event? I am not sure if it is cause it happened on the weekend, or what, but I haven’t heard that much about it, yet.
She was never my style, but she was definetly too young to die, and in such a stupid manner, it is definetly intolerable
Broomstick, I’ve noticed that every article I’ve read about the crash gives the names, ages and usually occupations of the others who were killed. One in fact shared a surname with some people I know in Jersey, and was from Jersey himself, so I was wondering if this had hit really close to home until I realized that the age wasn’t right for the family I was thinking of.
Also, just a thought along the lines of what Nocturne said-- a friend of mine once got very upset about how celebrity deaths were played up, in her opinion, while “normal” people got ignored (this was right after Gianni Versace was killed, and she was sick of hearing about it). Her boyfriend pointed out that it’s not that the famous person is more valuable, just that more people “knew” him or her, therefore more people are grieving, or simply troubled by an untimely passing. And more people want to know what’s going on, or at least the media assumes so, hence the coverage.
Those of you popping in to say “Who?” might want to run a Google search or check MTV or BET if you want to find out.
I was just talking about her with a friend on Friday evening, and how I was looking forward to seeing more of her in upcoming movies… How very sudden and tragic
That really is sad. Add me to the list of people who have never heard of her, in reading her obits, she sounded like someone who might have become what Whitney Houston almost did, till she ran off the rails.
Awfully sad—I will have to see what kind of notices she gets in the eerily-titled “Queen of the Dead” next year.
Not a fan, although I did like her “Journey to the Past” from Anastasia.