[kj] OT OT - HOUSTON DEAD

[jon chapman]

I'm feeling the same way about Whitneys death as i did Michael Jackson and the Great Princess Diana...................I couldn't give a fuck. Not only were her songs awful,her voice was too........... And who said Drugs are a bad thing for society ???  Rest in Peace Whitney,seriously.          ' underscored how very much joy Whitney's music DID bring to stupid fucking people ' 
 
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>
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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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