Houston was trapped in a state of assimilation inherited from her mother. She strived as a backup singer for Aretha Franklin, as a failed solo vocalist. It was an entire generation of singers who reached their creative ceilings. Whitney was the hammer for all of them. She was part cudgel, part Trojan horse too, a clapback to segregated radio and payola and silly beauty standards that said a nose was too wide or a butt too fat or a complexion just too dark to be worth marketing to white people.
She could sneak through the cracks of a tilted so-called meritocracy. Houston was the favored girl of the family. Her brothers and her father doted on her, while Cissy prepared her to soar out of Newark in a way that she could not. Joe Jackson, the patriarch who created the Jackson 5, charted a similar path for his children, especially Michael.
Born in , he and Cissy followed parallel trajectories, arriving as infants into a country that restricted where they could live, what they could learn, and who they could choose to represent and lead them.
So they trained their children to be escape artists. Cissy was the astute observer of the music business. It was she, more so than Davis, who possessed the cunning needed to make Houston a star. She took Houston to uncharted territory, and then what? There was no Whitney Houston before Whitney Houston. And for that she paid a terrific price: As long as she was in the public eye, she had to put Nippy in storage. Whatever you might have thought of Al Sharpton, he was a self-appointed spokesperson for black people.
Houston had to walk the tightrope that bedevils and ultimately dooms so many female pop stars, with madonna on one side and whore on the other. Female pop stars — especially young ingenues like the emergent Whitney, who released her self-titled debut album in at age 21 — must be sexy, but not slutty.
Knowledgeable, but not experienced. Wholesome, but also desirable, a blank slate onto which men can project their desires and kinks and fantasies. It is a story of repeated efforts to birth something new and breathtaking and profound into existence.
Whitney , on the other hand, required an entirely different set of intellectual muscles. In Whitney , Macdonald becomes an investigator unraveling a death that took place before our very eyes, over a series of decades, while we watched and laughed. Both Jackson and Houston were subjected to public displays of cruelty in the form of animated sitcoms.
Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the creators of South Park , gleefully mocked Jackson , while, in the hands of Seth MacFarlane, Houston became a minstrel-for-hire to be compensated with crack. But both Jackson and Houston became meal tickets and micro-economies before reaching adulthood. This is not to say that neither Houston nor Jackson was beyond reproach but rather that satire based on their lives rarely bothered to engage with more complex realities behind them.
White supremacy demanded that black pop stars of their era erase all but the most cursory indicators of blackness. Shocking Unexpected Star DeathS. Celebrities that are deceased that I love. Celebrity's that have past away. See all related lists ». Do you have a demo reel? Add it to your IMDb page. Find out more at IMDbPro ». How Much Have You Seen? How much of Whitney Houston's work have you seen? Won 1 Primetime Emmy.
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Even the rabbi in the cult is a violent psychotic and sex abuser. Harvey Weinstein is also one of the leaders of the cult. On the weekend of Clive Davis' Grammy party, Whitney was distraught, and as I was recently told "she was talking too much. This coupled with the fact she wanted to leave the cult, they feared she would start telling what she knew, resulted in her being killed. Years later when her daughter became agitated and angry over her mother's death, and wanted to break away from the Hollywood sect too, she was killed as well.
What also has me shaking my head is two of Whitney's friends, who are women, who shall remain nameless at this time, who were at her wedding to Bobby Brown, know she was killed by the cult, as they had joined the sect as well. They were hiding that week. They know she was killed, yet didn't say a word to the authorities. If someone killed one of my friends I'd do my level best for as long as it took, to get the culprit locked up for the crime and stripped of all their assets, within the scope of the law.
I'd be relentless and their worst nightmare. Yet, you two are in the cult, you two and your families are accepting favors from the sick sect, and you're tweeting out the madness they send you on social networking on a regular basis, and all after they murdered your friend, Whitney.
You two are frauds and owe Whitney more than silence regarding her murder and that of her child. Do you feel there has been justice related to her death? No, not yet. What does justice look like to you? If he was locked up somewhere where somebody can rape him. He raped me by taking my daughter away.
What do you think was the most misunderstood thing about her? What do you think it was? Whitney Houston On The Brink.
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