Great singer and such a tragedy. She wasted her incredible talent two ways: Singing awful pop songs and getting involved in drugs. All that money she made, the fame, and the only good songs she sang were the National anthem and Battle hymn of the Republic then it was back to utter horrendous garbage like “I wanna dance with somebody” or “How will I know” or the insanely overproduced “I will always love you” which comes across as sincere as Joe Biden in a lying contest. I really think having to do those songs drove her to drugs, it must have been torture having to sing them over and over on tour
You know as a major Whitney fan, I saw her live in 1991 in Denver Fiddler’s Green.
Her signature song was The Greatest Love of all. She always closed her concerts with this song.
The message is truly love and respect your self, because without this, you will abuse yourself. Not the conceded, all about me love, but the love that keeps you going, day in and day out. Because if you can’t love yourself, you can’t love others.
I thought she endured so much and while she had immense talent, she is also a human being. She is mortal. She once said, that “Success doesn’t change you, Fame does.”
We all have our crosses to carry. I would never want to be famous. Ever.
Success? Absolutely, but never fame.
Can you imagine that life?
RIP Whitney.