Whitney Houston divorced Bobby Brown and has been parading around town with music mogul Clive Davis the last couple of months, so I've wondered if something like a comeback was a-brewin'. Whitney was once a beloved diva with a phenomenal voice, but then drugs and other problems began to sink her career.
Yet, now there's news of an album in the works, on track for a holiday-time release. Collaborating artists include will.i.am, Sean Garrett and Akon, who sounds all kinds of confident in her ability to generate hits again:
"The voice is there; I don't think anyone could ever take that from her. As long as we apply that voice to hit records, she'll be right back where she left off."
She's been out of it for so long, I wonder if she's still relevant. On the one hand, her older hits are still loved by a younger generation even though they've only known her to be a tragic figure. What do you think? Can Whitney Houston can top the charts again?
It's interesting how Bobby gets blamed for it. The music industry is full of drunks and drug addicts, and Whitney grew up around that sort of behavior. He may have been a partial catalyst, but she's a grown-ass woman, who saw it all her life and knew better, and did it anyway.
I hope she has gotten it together enough to pull her career out of the crapper, but there's no way to know until she tries. Good luck to her.
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