[kj] OT OT - HOUSTON DEAD

[Alexander Smith]

Our own Todd "Fluw" Wulfmeyer wrote a nice little anecdote on his his  
Facebook page about once witnessing Houston perform from a rare  
backstage vantage point and it made me consider her talent in a  
different way.

I mean, personally speaking, I COMPLETELY DESPISED Whitney Houston's  
music. When her first album debuted back in the 198whatever, I was  
working as a luckless dishwasher at posh Long Island eatery, and that  
tape went into maddeningly regular rotation in the in-house stereo  
system. "Saving All My Love For You" and "The Greatest Love of All"  
were really enough to send me into fits of apoplectic rage after a  
while that a friend of mine and I actually scaled up the fridges to  
disconnect the speakers the fed the back kitchen.  I fucking HATED  
that overblown, syrupply hoary, needlessly melismatic bullshit. See  
also Mariah Carey and all the rest of that crap.

As was completely the same case with Michael Jackson, the music I  
sought out at the time (and, for that matter, still) served as the  
ANTIDOTE to the inescapable Whitney Houston. Did she have a powerful  
voice? Certainly, but that doesn't mean I have to like what she did  
with it. On other fronts, she also seemed to embody everything  
negative about the "DIVA" stereotype (although, our Jaz is kinda  
guilty of that as well, sometimes).

So yeah, I hated Whitney Houston's music. But Fluw's account  
underscored how very much joy Whitney's music DID bring to people. I'm  
usually of the mindset that people need to raise their standards and  
listen to what I'd consider to be better music, but really -- that's  
all ridiculous, fight-picking bluster (who ME?)

Whitney Houston's music -- as much as I may not have enjoyed it -- did  
mean a great deal to a lot of people, For that alone, it's a loss (to  
say nothing of the bizarre farce that her marriage to Bobby Brown  
evidently was). I can't imagine how her daughter has remained sane.

Alex in NYC


On Feb 12, 2012, at 6:18 AM, Jim Harper wrote:


> Quality Songstress? Not sure I can easily agree with that one.

>

> Jim.

>

>

>  From: sade1 <saulomar1 at yahoo.com>

> To: real gathering <gathering at misera.net>

> Sent: Sunday, 12 February 2012, 1:29

> Subject: [kj] OT OT - HOUSTON DEAD

>

> Whitney Houston was found dead, but cause and

> where are not being said, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hvg2Dcr7AFk

>

> She was from a long line of quality songstresses.

>

>

>

> Blessed are the Cracked for

>   they let in the Light,

>     others all are just a..

>       'nother brick in the Wall"

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