Posted on 02/12/2012 1:31:47 PM PST by Perdogg
If she actually wrote some of her own songs, then I would say she had more impact.
Billie Holliday’s life was just as tragic, but at least she wrote some of her own songs, which ultimately became standards.
Drove thru Pigeon Forge a couple of summers ago......she’s single handedly responsible for a whole lotta successful businesses around that region!
“She killed herself with drugs and alcohol and she also ruined her voice. No need to idolize a woman who drove her her of self-destruction into the grave.”
In no way am I idolizing her. My big problem is what a waste of talent.
Even here in the Rep of Panama, Panamanians are shocked at her death.
When Jackson kicked off, I thought “good.”…One less pervert.
Unfortunately, Whitney, it appears, also died of overdoses.
Please do
LIKE
I bet that kid tickled his mommy on the way out
Cause I I I I I I I I I I I I, will alwaaaaaaaays, smoke craaaaaaaaaaaaaack!
Ethel Merperson preceded Whitney. Who was it that said this about Ethel: "That's not singing, that's typing!" ? Truman Copote?
And then Celine Dion took the torch from Whitney in the “Why sing one note when you can sing twenty” department.
Her death WAS sad. “One of the greatest” in our generation? Not hardly, IMO. Taste is subjective. Her national anthem rendition was kinda OK - typically “diva-overdid”, in Houston fashion.
She trashed Dolly’s “I will Always Love You” in the same way “All-4-one” butchered John Michael Montgomery’s beautiful COUNTRY (caps very much intended) ballad, “I Swear”. The REAL thing that irritates me is that some KIDS looked up to her and her lifestyle.
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