Far be it from me to write Whitney Houston's epitaph, but I do have a few brief thoughts.
Houston was one of the last great voices in American music. Today, we have few singers who can match her talent. None, virtually none of the stars who performed at the Grammy's were even close to her. I mean who are you going to compare to her, L'il Wayne?
Yet, Houston join the long list of great singing stars who have died young due to drug abuse (assuming that is the case). It is a tragedy of course, but her life was marked by substance abuse and a marriage to some guy named Bobby Brown, who everybody describes as a thug.
And inevitably, just as with Michael Jackson's deadbeat father, Houston's contemporaries showed a total lack of class by saying, "The party must go on" even in the same hotel where her body still lay.
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2012/02/13/celebrities-shamed-for-partying-at-clive-davis-soiree-while-whitney-houstons/
So American music, already having degenerated into Rap, Hip Hop, Heavy Metal and American Idol, has now lost arguably its greatest voice.
A tip of the hat to Miggie for sending me this video of Whitney singing the National Anthem at the 1991 Super Bowl.
Thank you and rest in peace, Whitney.
Thanks to you Gary and Miggie for this tribute to Whitney Houston. She had a very beautiful and commanding voice. It is truely too bad that she could not get past the demons in her life, as she used medication to put a wall between her and those demons. Her friends, if you call them friends, could not help her and the all the doctors did was to prescribe more meds. She must have lived a lonely life, as she struggled to find reasons to stay connected to the world. We will miss you Whitney and may you rest in peace.
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Not to speak ill of the recently dead, but I feel like Whitney Houston was all form and no substance. Sure she could do all sorts of vocal gymnastics, but the music was mediocre. There wasn't any depth or heart to what she did.
ReplyDeleteHow can anyone find anything wrong with such a suffering soul. I find comfort in that she is sleeping in death until she is resurrected in a new body, as Jesus was with the chance to keep belting it out, Also she has to be one of the most beautiful woman alive, wonderful to vent. Thank you for the opportunity.
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