Simply by scrolling down my Twitter timeline this morning, and not by making an effort to turn on a radio or a TV, I got what I consider to be the biggest news out of America in the past few weeks this morning: Whitney Houston, the legend, was found dead. Our thumbs are the new soldiers of the information army.
The first thing I thought was: “What? How?”. Then, I must admit, I thought of the Eddie Murphy “death scare” that we heard about a while ago, and I hoped this wasn’t the same thing. But no, it’s true. (News article from Reuters.com)
Apparently people are “blaming” Bobby Brown, like he killed her himself or something. But I suppose when someone you admired and respected so much dies unexpectedly, you look everywhere for explanations.
I don’t care what killed her- her personal life was never really any of our business. Her talent was. Whitney’s music entertained, inspired and uplifted many people- and for me it willl continue to do just that.
The first favourite song that came to my mind was So Emotional:
And then the memories just came flooding.
I loved the choreography, and just the entire concept of the mirror, in I’m Your Baby Tonight:
It must have been so much fun on the set of How Will I Know!
No one does love ballads quite like this anymore:
My sister and I made our own “remix” of the famous “shoo-be-do” chorus of this song- and we had so much fun putting the DVD on repeat until we “got it right”:
“…life never tells us the when’s or why’s…” indeed.
There are many more songs I could post here: Saving All My Love, Run To You; Didn’t We Almost Have It All; You Give Good Love; the ever-popular and brilliant I Will Always Love You, or Greatest Love Of All; My Love Is Your Love; the girl power anthem It’s Not Right, But It’s Okay; All At Once…but I’ll close with a happy song:
Goodbye, Ms Houston.
Nkhensani Manabe 