[kj] OT OT - HOUSTON DEAD

[Countessghoulita at aol.com]

My sentiments exactly, Alex. When Whitney Houston was releasing her music,  
I already had my Siouxsie and the Banshees, my Dead Can Dance, my Xmal  
Deutschland, my Cocteau Twins on heavy rotation, and no one could  change my 
music preferences and my love of different female vocalists in  the mid 80's 
already. 
  
I only feel very bad for the teenage daughter Whitney Houston is leaving  
behind. All the rest the media is going to stream will be  the crocodile 
tears and this tragedy will yield big business, as it is  usually the case when 
a mainstream star dies.
 
CG
 
 
 
In a message dated 2/12/2012 6:50:48 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
vassifer at earthlink.net writes:



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_ (mailto:saulomar1 at yahoo.com) >
To: real gathering <_gathering at misera.net_ (mailto: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_ 
(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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