Wasted talent? Whitney Houston didn’t waste her talent. She sang and sang and sang and sang, and she sang some more, and acted and danced and shared with us more from her abilities then all her recordings measure. Her flickering image on the big and tiny screen, singing, has given, gives, and will continue to give us, goose bumps the size of caper’s.
To say Whitney Houston’s passing is “a waste of talent”, as some say, is both rude and rather not sensitive of a human life.
Wasted talent as Miss Houston’s epitaph? I don’t think so.
Do you mean you’re sad we won’t get new music from her? Oh, ok, I’ll buy that, but I’ve been tuning in to some coverage of her passing. From what I gather, from professional producers who had worked with and were fond of Whitney, her voice was waning fast. The Voice, they say, saw its day. And its day was tremendous regarding quality and quantity.
Was it the drugs and booze and lifestyle and hangers-on that precipitated her loss of voice? Was her realization her voice wasn’t what it used to be the reason for the further breakdown of her voice, and talent?
I should shut the heck up. I sound just as foolish as all the other media going on about her. We don’t know why she had the life she had, no one does. All that blabbing about Whitney’s death is ridiculous, really.
The talking heads are blaming it on show biz. That is to say, they assume had Whitney worked at the local elementary school cafeteria, she’d be alive today. Must be there aren’t any addicted cafeteria workers. Right. It ain’t show biz’iz fault folks. I’m bettin’ Ron Howard isn’t all drugged up right now, and he’s been a star since he was 4 or 5. Don’t blame it on show biz. Blame it on addiction and family upbringing to a point.
Rusty DeWees tours Vermont and Northern New York with his act “The Logger.” His column appears weekly. Reach him at rustyd@pshift.com.
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