What a bunch of nasty people we have on here! Regardless of who she is or what she has done it's still a person who has lost their life! Someone somewhere is heartbroken over this,left a child motherless,left her family with a big hole in it,for christ sake have some respect! whether you liked her music or not! Don't like to get personal but what a bunch of cynical dour sods you are!
Obviously because a crack addict is more deserving of life than thousands of innocent people living in horrendous circumstances
Very well put CBK, and we should all remember that. But I'll give you my experience [posted by me on my VFR forum]. I remember sitting in an almost empty, ice-cold cinema, where I lived in Gore NZ, with my wife, watching the newly released, The Bodyguard. There were a few kids running around, keeping the one usher occupied, and more than once we'd decided to leave early because of the poor behaviour, and then probably only staying because we wanted to support our newly restored, ancient local cinema. Then somewhere in the film, Whitney Houston gave her rendition of Dolly Parton's I Will Always Love You. Everyone stopped, the kids, the noise, everything. Her voice was simply astonishing. So powerful and yet so pure and flexible, with amazing range. I had/have never been a fan of the woman or her records, but I can't deny that she had a blazing talent.
Cant disagree with what you said, but one person does not deserve the media attention for sniffing coke, compared to people dying. In the comparison it is sick. But that is the world we live in. I guess being a drug addict is more important than fighting for your country Wahaaaayyyyy!!!
I suppose one of the reasons people don't get it is because it happened in the past, and not exactly the recent past at that. This was largely a mid 80s to 90s happening, so several people wouldn't know about the woman at all. There's no doubt that emotionally, Houston touched a lot of people's hearts, singing the songs she did, the way she sang them, and the quality and purity of her voice. Besides, people compartmentalise their emotions. We can remember Houston or Jackson's death, and we can remember those that died on the Titanic. It's a similar thing. Lest We Forget, and all that. It doesn't mean that we forget those who are dying in Syria, those that have died and are dying in Egypt, those that are dying in all parts of the world because of struggle and oppression and civil war. However, there is a difference, and it's a modern day commercial one. People who bought Houston's [or indeed Jackson's] records invested in them emotionally. And they paid money to be made excited, made happy, made sad, have memories imprinted. They didn't do that with the people of Syria, nor did they do that while people have been dying in the recent famine in Somalia. In fact, just to move the topic one, although many hundreds of thousands have died, because it hasn't been as bad a famine as was predicted, the western headline media effectively departed. You see..? We weren't told often enough to feel sad for those people. So when CBK rightly highlights the dying in Syria, he could have pointed out at least half a dozen other recent tragedies.. But in this stupid, stupid celebrity world, one person's death can be remembered more than a million others.
