In defense of Bobby Brown
By: Me
Having been no real fan of either Bobby Brown or Whitney Houston (they both made decent music, but that’s it), I have been experiencing my normal state of frustration at America’s faux indignation at the latest so called ‘tragedy’.
What should be a time for self reflection has once again transformed into a mass-media spectacle. In the US of A, we have no official royalty, so royalty is created for us by a fawning media and people seeking to immunize themselves to the reality and consequence of real life.
In several interviews and media reports of the time Houston was said (and admitted) to having her own ‘issues’ prior to the ‘onset’ of Bobby Brown - a then 18 man who she herself pursued.
A quick search will reveal that Brown was notorious for his on and off-stage antics and so it should come as no shock that as ‘American Royalty’ he played and lived fully up to his image.
When Brown AND Houston paraded around the world with their respective ‘posses’ at their height, they were feted and celebrated FOR those ‘posses’. It was a status symbol of their great and mighty ‘celebrity’. Why is it that now, when the media is looking to create a villian to blame for the fairy tale downfall of their created Cinderella, that the ‘posee’ is now suddenly a bad thing? Why is it that Brown has gone from Prince Valiant to ‘Prince Valium’?
He is what he always was. And so was Houston. Too bad it happened, but our disgust should be aimed at the media that promoted the whole scenario to begin with. Nor Brown, or even Houston.
Because in a couple months, the whole process will just repeat...and millions among us will once again play Charlie Brown to Lucy’s football. We just don’t profit from it.
Great post.
Yes, that is a good post. I felt bad for Bobby, believe it or not. Don’t understand why he wasn’t going to be able to sit with his own daughter.
Talk about a shunning.