@@mariecampbell3373can you kinda tell me more of what you mean? Respectfully asking. Not trying to be some jacked up way or anything. Just want to know what exactly does that mean. Also I thought her voice was Shakey saying that as if the pain of it was fresh and she had to hold back hear emotions and tears. This breaks my heart so. She didn't deserve that and I wish the black community as a whole had given her an apology to heal that pain. They owed her that.
As she took herself for granted, as in - drugging, smoking & other destructive behaviors ... Apple didn't fall far from tree with Kristina & hack BB ... We all have our path, some of which our choices strongly factor in ...
Tracie Henderson every beautiful woman has a period where they reach the height of their beauty I feel the early 90s was the height of Whitney’s beauty. She was utterly breathtaking and looked so healthy
Arsenio was the man back in the day, and Whitney, Damn she was fine and blessed with one of the most beautiful voices I have ever heard in my life! God rest her soul 🎶🎵😔
I do recall her being criticised by some for lacking soul due to the songs on her second album, but I noticed all critique of her singing style from the black community were quickly silenced once she did that bodyguard soundtrack. Its success was just so phenomenal taking her to another level both in terms of fame and respect. She conquered the world with that soundtrack, one of the best selling albums of all time. Twenty + years later (and despite all the bad press/craziness that happened in her life) people of all races are still singing her songs and will continue to- a true testament of her talent. She was and will always be a legend - as black people we should be proud of her accomplishments!
Yes indeed. Best selling album of the 90s. Best selling album of alltime by a female artist. Best selling soundtrack of alltime. The only other comparable album in terms of global impact is Thriller.
purkabe12 This is been one of the biggest problems we have is black people. And we don’t talk about it enough. I haven’t seen as much of it today in 2020 as I did growing up my whole childhood-it just goes to show the deep problems that arise because of other deep problems.
She wasn't only criticized by the Black community. She was criticized in the mainstream media as well. It was a different time and Black artists were put in a box.
@@bolder2009 Yeah Whitney & Mike were the last in their generations and all generations to come to have pure sales just off the strength of talent no gimmicks.
@@CHPYXO Literally not, are you daft? 😂 'African' is not a race. I'm South African, and 50% of our population (through multiple generations) are White. Guess what- They're Africans. And if/when they decide to move to the United States, they're also African American by default. Elon Musk is therefore South African. There are people who are not from Africa who are Black. The majority of people living on the continent of Africa aren't even Black, but rather of Middle Eastern decent. Guess what? They're Africans too.
@@TheEarthRealm Lmao you're clearly one of the slow ones so im going to make this as simple as I can; The prefix ''African'' in ''African-American'' means BLACK. African is used as a placeholder to refer to the fact that your kind snatched my people FROM Africa and dragged us in chains to the USA, thus we come from manny African countries. And no, y'all ain't Africans if you're just a colonizer in Africa, so im not going to refer to you as one. Y'all cave folk in South Africa are Dutchmen, and Dutchmen you shall be called, same with the Middle Eastern colonizers in North/East Africa. And no, a stray dog can't just move to America from Africa and suddenly morph into an African-American 🤣🤣. African-American literally refers to the *BLACK* people who were taken on slave ships from Africa to the USA, there's no loophole around it. But you see how easy it is for your people to rewrite history if we don't know ours? Like you really just sat there writing your own fantasy book expecting me to take you seriously LMFAO. I should've stopped when you said ''Elon Musk is an African-American'' cause you're probably just a dumb troll but hey 😂😂 And you're a cave person, so why are you even tryna dictate what black people should be called? lmfao.
Arsenio confirmed it, “I wish but he has to live the fantasy through friends!” Eddie Murphy was his best friend!!! Whitney and Eddie Murphy did indeed date!
Of course they did. Only one being coy & denying it is Eddie. I have never understood why. She was one hell of a beautiful woman. Best believe, if I ever had the privilege of dating her, everyone & I mean everyone would of known about it. I ain't lying! Love You, Whitney.
She was so beautiful. She looked amazing in her long dresses, but deep inside she was a woman that wore a shirt and jeans. She was so casual and down to earth despite her fame. :)
Man they were so hard on her back in the day... they basically called her gay and white bread for a white audience... even boo'ing her at 1989 soul train awards... i read that she cried a lot after the awards, thats why she came out with "im your baby tonight" album to appeal to a "urban" audience... im sure all of this had phycological impact on the mind
In this moment she didn't know her star spangled banner would be become the historical & the blue print. Not too mention her body gaurd success was imminent!
Which of course was a crock of shit. I've always hated the way we as a black community pull that shit anytime one of our own makes it big into the mainstream. We still see that even to this day in all facets of life. It's sickening how we tear each other down. No knock against any of those singers you mentioned because they're all extremely talented and I love them all, but Whitney was a bigger star on a larger scale. She shouldn't have to apologize for it. Michael used to get that same crap.
@Shandra Smith I'm agree with you. They were jealous and mean... How could they tell her she's not black enough??? There is nothing to do with a career!! Shame on them!!
@Shandra Smith true and let's not forget about her low self confidence !! Robyn and Kevin Costner used to say that she cares to much about what people thought about her, she used to ask sometimes "if she was good enough? If they will like her? If she was pretty enough? If people will come (before a live performance)!!! If you paid attention to her interviews from 1990 to... she became a little bit defensive, people thought it was because of fame. For me she was trying to protect herself from those people who were making jokes about her! They said she was too white (musically), they said she didn't know how to dance, they said she wore wigs (I'm black too and I wear wigs too like many American and African women). They said a lot of things to put her down. I call it JEALOUSY because she was talented, gifted and BEAUTIFUL and when someone had all those things some people will hate for no reason! She got bullied at the elementary school, at high school and then at the soul train awards! I think that's why she started to behave like she was from the hood, marry a black man like Bobby Brown so the black community would accepted her. I wish that she shouldn't listen to them and continued to do what she wanted!
She really looked like her cousin Dionne Warwick I saw and see that all in her eyes and face as well they could almost pass as identical twins if i didn't know any better I would have automatically thought that they were awww Whitney was and still is my favorite singer I will miss her dearly she is truly missed I love that lady she was the number 1 main star of the world and no one and I mean no will ever be able to touch her nor become her and I mean ever she was the one and only original there won't be another like her Ever RIP Whitney h and Bobbi k ☹😢
Seems like she is tearing up around 4:30! I know this was one of the major things that broke her spirit. Its just really disgusting. They went after the wrong one cause she was not a sell out (when other were) and here we are today, not only without Whitney but without a lot of talented AND successful AND positive music artists of color. There's never been anyone like her and will never be!
RememberTheTime09 I agree with you totally. I think people are just Jealous when somebody has a God Given gift for some reason. She was just herself and sang great music.
T.E. V. Being booed in front of thousands of people, BY YOUR OWN people for the one thing you do best. That’s major rejection! But you may have tougher skin then she had at this time.
People was jealous she was beautiful and can sing and a movie actress you had it going on you made your mark on the world god bless you 💘 april alexander
He really liked Whitney and always brought up the fact that she was dating Eddie Murphy ..... I love when she came on the show, them two together were so much fun!
Something I just noticed 0:57-1:04 When she said the song was about Arsenio, and he said it's not and he has to live the fantasy through "friends" He was referring to Eddie Murphy who she dated.
rest in beauty Whitney “Nippy” Houston 🕊 + I was a little kid in the late 1980s but I do remember that my older siblings, aunts and uncles were saying how Whitney sings “white pop songs”,,, so I think the black fans weren’t saying she sings white, but they were saying her songs sounded like white pop songs and not the black R&B songs
Yeah I never understood why some black ppl took issue with her songs. I mean I remember ppl saying they weren’t “black enough” or “R&B” enough. All I can say is I’m glad she knew who she was as a singer and person. She didn’t let other people define her
I remember the controversy from the Soul Train Awards. My bff and I were watching. We didn't hear the boos that night, but heard about them later.. We were really confused. Whitney always sang like a Black woman to us. Considering that Gospel is the basis of most r n b singing, it didn't make sense. We did not understand any of it. We surmised that basically folks were jealous of her success. Maybe we thought she had left the community. We thought it was strange and a little off.
Dear Whitney had a lot of swag...she's adorable and sassy and witty and so funny! such a huge huge loss...I think there was still a lot of music left in her.. She always maintained that her background was not R&B it was gospel! And that gospel gave her everything she knew about music and that's how she sings...there was no influence of R&B growing up as her Mom taught her the ropes, everything musically she alrways credited her mom and her family...
I hate that her brothers started her on the drugs that eventually killed this beautiful soul. Her family is evil and used this beautiful person up until she just couldn't take it anymore. Her brother Michael laughed in an interview about how he turned her onto coke and crack. He bragged about how he was her personal drug runner all over the world. They didn't do a damn thing to help her.
I believe she was an Angel that God allowed to come to earth for a moment in time. God looked down from Heaven and saw the struggles that Whitney was going through and said I have to bring her back home the earth is too sinful and corrupt for her. So after a little while God called his Angel, Whitney back to Heaven to sing in his glorious presence forever.
Whitney started out as a model, appearing on the cover of magazines such as Seventeen. But she didn't like being told what to do during the shoots. (We are not surprised to hear this about Whitney, right! ?!) She preferred pursuing her singing career and once she signed with Arista records, the rest is music and film acting history. The greatest performer of our time.
@2000coco Aretha, her mum and her cousin Dionne were her biggest inspirations, also Chaka Khan and Natalie Cole. Those were the singers she listened to most, and studied. As you rightly said, Gospel music is the source.
I hear it. Some people like to paint Whitney as some poor victim, but to have made it in the business as long as she did, you gotta have a tough skin. She had it to me, she didn't look phased at all. It's just like she said at 3:52, "I'd like to say that and some other things." Please, there's white people who are still hoping and wishing to sound half as good as Whitney, there's gospel and soul all in that woman's voice.
I always say why whitney is the blueprint of styles and singing. I know that she growup with gospel music and surround by greatest singers. But she has this aura of being a superstar. And her voice is not like a typical black singer who is just singing highnotes to etched the soul in their voice whitney is kindly different to them that's why she is relevant and her contribution to the world is phenominal. There is something that voice that is ORIGINAL not to copy other sound but i truelly tell this whitney vocal is a pivotal of what gospel voice is all about.
Man, oh man! Whitney has always been pretty, but looking at this old clip reminds me of fine she has been since I fisrt heard of her. She looks like a star of another era.
There was no bumping & grinding in the vidoes in those day, but there were so very many amazing R & B singers, and they sounded more urban. Anita Baker, Regina Belle, Patti Labelle, Melissa Morgan, Shirley Murdock, Mikki Howard, Karyn Whtie, Angela Winsbush.. to name a few , they also work with the black songwriters and producers. Whitney was a pop singer and work with Clive Davis, It was the crowd that booed her.. they probably felt she shouldnt have been nominated just she work in pop music.
My 2cents: I think the Soul Train Awards thing was blown outta proportion. In the 80's, Whitney was huge, and other than the gay rumors, there wasn't much the media had to really hound her on. They beat those to the ground, and then when this came around, they hopped on it too, kinda like, "Oh, the black community is against Whitney, run it!" The Soul Train Awards at the time weren't even 5 years old, so they were a fairly new deal. A big one, but a new one. I think it was just something to grab onto, but I won't lie: I Wanna Dance With video was probably a little jarring for some black people, cuz she is in a long blonde wig. Some black people probably felt that at that point, she'd picked a side, and maybe that affected them. I can't say it's stupid, cuz I wasn't around at that time. All I know is, every song released from that album charted in the top 5 of R&B charts, so someone was loving them songs whether they want to admit it or not. Even WDBHG, the song she was 'booed' for.
The Soul Train Awards issue is not blown out of porportion because it hurt her dearly. I was in highschool when this happened and some blacks turned their backs on her for all the success she had. They felt Janet Jackson was "blackier" than her. Craziness but this was a different time. Remember back then most black artist would have to have a number one hit on r&b stations before pop stations would play their music. Whitney and Michael changed all that. When they dropped music everyone listened.
rhocom89 Janet, ironically, experienced the same backlash circa 1989. I don't think they saw her as "blackier (a word? lol)". In Janet's case, there was backlash b/c she's crossed over to mainstream success and wasn't simply a fav of the black community as she was circa 1986 when her star turned. from what I read, the backlash Whitney experienced back then was b/c some felt like her image and her music was catering more to mainstream. But, hey, to crossover and have mainstream appeal, it's no secret that some artists have to (don't wanna say, sellout) de-emphasize any sort of racial divide. I don't believe Whitney or Janet ever sold out. I just think that's a painful price most minority artists pay whenever their success hits stride in a mass way, unfortunately. Kinda like with Hip Hop. Those who knew the culture before it hit MTV and crossed over will tell you it became something different (not all bad, but not as pure) when it went mainstream.
rhocom89 I'm glad you gave me some perspective, I could see that because Janet was definitely having success more in the R&B community, and I have to remember that music was not as intermixed as it is nowadays. There was a strictly black, R&B scene in the 80's. Hence why some black artists (Freddie Jackson, Miki Howard, Deniece Williams, Cameo, etc) are so famous to black people while white people and the general media don't know who they are.
+rhocom89 It was blown out of proportion, because no one wrote about; no one knew about it. She was booed because the Soul Train Awards were created to celebrate the black music industry. Whitney was a pop artist and always marketed as such. She was not with an R & B label, and really didn't work with the R & B community. She had a huge promotion and huge amounts of money were spent on her career. Almost a half million to make her debut album and over 3 million in promotion (completely unheard of even today). The reason she was booed was because they didn't feel she should be nominated - because she was with a major label - not a small R & B label - which the awards were created to celebrate. Here ... she and her friend are just bringing it up again and throwing a lot of BS into the wind (It happen in 88). For this particular album she work with songwriters and producer from the R & B community. Janet Jackson worked with Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis who were the SOS Band basically....that's were Janet's sound came from.They were GODS in the R & B community - so yeah her music was going to be played. What you are saying about the pop station is completely untrue - having to have a number one, before being played on pop radio - NOT TRUE. And Whitney didn't changed anything... Donna Summer changed everything...not only was she first female to dominate the pop charts, she transcend race and genre. Unfortunately people alway seem to try to tie MJ & WH... but MJ broke the colour barrier for men on MTV, Donna did it for women - both 1983. Donna was the first female to be played on MTV, the first to be played in heavy rotation (SWHFTM), and the first to be played in consistent heavy rotation. Followed by the Pointer Sister and Tina Turner. She was the first to be nominated for an MTV Award. Tina Turner was the first to win one. I say this because it is incorrectly credited to WH in her wiki bio and I have read many online article with the same incorrect facts. Her bio also claims she pave the way for other minorities like the lantinos...LOL.. Linda Ronstadt and Julio Iglesias were played in heavy rotation before WH debut in 1985, as was Sheila E, who was also nominated for 3 MTV Awards and 2 Grammys before WH. So there so-called facts, are so wrong !
+htownhomie06 I think you forget that Janet Jackson recorded 3 albums..before she started working with Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis and found charts success. That is why the R & B community would have felt Janet was theres. Whitney was marketed pop and was meant to be a pop star. They release certain songs only to R & B radio like Hold Me and Thinkin' Bout You.
She was SO Beautiful! I mean my god!!!!
simply gorgeous!
Marie Penn nigga.. natural hair no tats no piercings hair not green lipstick not blue. Yes she looks beautiful
I'm sitting saying the same thing!!!!!
Absolutely stunning 🙌🏾😍
She is beautiful always
Whitney is still my all time favorite singer. Love Whitney Forever!
koenhouse Aaliyah is mines
Ditto! There will never be another like “the voice”.
goshhh, Whitney is too beautiful, gorgeous.
Le Anh Quoc to me Aaliyah was like pure beautiful
@@wisediva9807 Her as well. They're both beautiful.
But you can see what drugs can do to someone as beautiful as Whitney.
My heart kinda melted when Whitney said "They booed me at the Soul Train Awards" She sounded so sincere like a little girl.
A source close to her said, "Whitney is two steps away from childhood."
@@mariecampbell3373that was so jacked up of the audience.
@@mariecampbell3373can you kinda tell me more of what you mean? Respectfully asking. Not trying to be some jacked up way or anything. Just want to know what exactly does that mean.
Also I thought her voice was Shakey saying that as if the pain of it was fresh and she had to hold back hear emotions and tears. This breaks my heart so. She didn't deserve that and I wish the black community as a whole had given her an apology to heal that pain. They owed her that.
We took her for granted on this Earth.
tipofmytongue1024 we didn’t realise what we had until we lost it
As she took herself for granted, as in - drugging, smoking & other destructive behaviors ... Apple didn't fall far from tree with Kristina & hack BB ... We all have our path, some of which our choices strongly factor in ...
@@notapplicable687 That usually happens when somebody we care about dies young.
Devine-ety exactly!!!! That’s one of the reasons why she is not here. Judgmental people
Honestly, Whitney took herself for granted. RIP.
She was so pretty here, rip Whitney.
Tracie Henderson Whitney was gorgeous period.
Tracie Henderson every beautiful woman has a period where they reach the height of their beauty I feel the early 90s was the height of Whitney’s beauty. She was utterly breathtaking and looked so healthy
Arsenio was the man back in the day, and Whitney, Damn she was fine and blessed with one of the most beautiful voices I have ever heard in my life! God rest her soul 🎶🎵😔
I do recall her being criticised by some for lacking soul due to the songs on her second album, but I noticed all critique of her singing style from the black community were quickly silenced once she did that bodyguard soundtrack. Its success was just so phenomenal taking her to another level both in terms of fame and respect. She conquered the world with that soundtrack, one of the best selling albums of all time. Twenty + years later (and despite all the bad press/craziness that happened in her life) people of all races are still singing her songs and will continue to- a true testament of her talent. She was and will always be a legend - as black people we should be proud of her accomplishments!
Yes indeed. Best selling album of the 90s. Best selling album of alltime by a female artist. Best selling soundtrack of alltime. The only other comparable album in terms of global impact is Thriller.
purkabe12 This is been one of the biggest problems we have is black people. And we don’t talk about it enough. I haven’t seen as much of it today in 2020 as I did growing up my whole childhood-it just goes to show the deep problems that arise because of other deep problems.
She wasn't only criticized by the Black community. She was criticized in the mainstream media as well. It was a different time and Black artists were put in a box.
@@bolder2009 Yeah Whitney & Mike were the last in their generations and all generations to come to have pure sales just off the strength of talent no gimmicks.
Now we criticize people for cultural appropriation. I cant wait for the next divisive thought-policing trend.
This woman is gorgeous you guys
Whitney was so elegant & dainty, I love it! Get into that posture!
Whitney Houston is such an 'ICONIC' popstar! She will always be remembered, especially her music. I will always love her! 😍😘😊
im miss her much..
+Fauziah Md Khalid nippy...rip..with daughter..😢😘👭
I can't believe she was criticized for singing white. She brings the African American church into soul music with high notes.
I know black people can becso hard on each other
*Black American church
@@TheEarthRealmsame thing, tf?
@@CHPYXO Literally not, are you daft? 😂 'African' is not a race. I'm South African, and 50% of our population (through multiple generations) are White. Guess what- They're Africans. And if/when they decide to move to the United States, they're also African American by default. Elon Musk is therefore South African. There are people who are not from Africa who are Black. The majority of people living on the continent of Africa aren't even Black, but rather of Middle Eastern decent. Guess what? They're Africans too.
@@TheEarthRealm Lmao you're clearly one of the slow ones so im going to make this as simple as I can;
The prefix ''African'' in ''African-American'' means BLACK. African is used as a placeholder to refer to the fact that your kind snatched my people FROM Africa and dragged us in chains to the USA, thus we come from manny African countries.
And no, y'all ain't Africans if you're just a colonizer in Africa, so im not going to refer to you as one. Y'all cave folk in South Africa are Dutchmen, and Dutchmen you shall be called, same with the Middle Eastern colonizers in North/East Africa.
And no, a stray dog can't just move to America from Africa and suddenly morph into an African-American 🤣🤣. African-American literally refers to the *BLACK* people who were taken on slave ships from Africa to the USA, there's no loophole around it. But you see how easy it is for your people to rewrite history if we don't know ours? Like you really just sat there writing your own fantasy book expecting me to take you seriously LMFAO.
I should've stopped when you said ''Elon Musk is an African-American'' cause you're probably just a dumb troll but hey 😂😂
And you're a cave person, so why are you even tryna dictate what black people should be called? lmfao.
Arsenio has the longest fingers on the planet.. DAMN!
omg you're right
Lol right
Lmao “in Living Color” did a skit on the length of his fingers before. Aah those were the days. I want my 90’s back 😂
I'm dyinggggg....When they did the parody of him on In Living Color they extended Keenan Ivory Wayans' finger when he was his character lmaooo
Arsenio confirmed it, “I wish but he has to live the fantasy through friends!” Eddie Murphy was his best friend!!! Whitney and Eddie Murphy did indeed date!
Of course they did. Only one being coy & denying it is Eddie. I have never understood why. She was one hell of a beautiful woman. Best believe, if I ever had the privilege of dating her, everyone & I mean everyone would of known about it. I ain't lying! Love You, Whitney.
Bobby was in full affect by this time. Arsenio knew exactly what he was doing
@@alessaaddae8436 Arsenio is petty 😆😆
Arsenio wanted her
He did it everytime she was on the show🤣clowning her
She was so beautiful. She looked amazing in her long dresses, but deep inside she was a woman that wore a shirt and jeans. She was so casual and down to earth despite her fame. :)
A gorgeous talented beauty who could NEVER be duplicated. She's the best... still & always
She sure is👍👍
Whitney was ravishing in the "All the Man That I Need" video. But I guess she usually was,..such a star.
She is SO cute when she goes into "How Will I Know." There will never be another Whitney...
Classic Whitney Houston back in the day!
R.I.P. Nippy
I love me some Whitney aka Nippy. May she rest in peace! God given talent!
The white version of How Will I Know had my ass in tears. 😆😆😆
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Same😭. I keep rewinding that part😂
She was a beautiful women!!
Her beauty and her voice was out OF THIS WORLD ✨
WHITNEY WAS A FLAWLESS BEAUTY!
Man they were so hard on her back in the day... they basically called her gay and white bread for a white audience... even boo'ing her at 1989 soul train awards... i read that she cried a lot after the awards, thats why she came out with "im your baby tonight" album to appeal to a "urban" audience... im sure all of this had phycological impact on the mind
Man, they treated her like shit.
They were jealous of her!!!! Instead of be proud of her, they treat her like a shit!!!!
But that’s not racist right. Black people booing a black female singer because she has a lot of white fans
Stop trying to compare that to white sysremic racism. The booing is an example of being ill informed.
That's when the song"my name is not Susan came in ,so I heard.
it's sad that shes gone she was so pretty!
In this moment she didn't know her star spangled banner would be become the historical & the blue print. Not too mention her body gaurd success was imminent!
Which of course was a crock of shit. I've always hated the way we as a black community pull that shit anytime one of our own makes it big into the mainstream. We still see that even to this day in all facets of life. It's sickening how we tear each other down. No knock against any of those singers you mentioned because they're all extremely talented and I love them all, but Whitney was a bigger star on a larger scale. She shouldn't have to apologize for it. Michael used to get that same crap.
He said "Unfortunately I have to live the dream through friends" Arsenio is so slick haha!
I wonder how many of y'all caught that??
I caught it but was it Eddie Murphy because in another interview she stated he stood her up
Quis Hunt true,that's what I'm thinking
+Quis Hunt No it Was Bobby Brown who she was referring to
Lakisha Holt
u think it fits the Bobby Whitney time frame?? I know they both were around at the time
radaprince yes I think so
Yea, she really sounded hurt because of the way she was treated on the Soul Train Awards......
Yup.... you can see her wipe her tears away. That's when the hurt began.
I remember that happening and I was hurt at the time, I didn’t understand.....I’ve always loved Whitney
@Shandra Smith I'm agree with you. They were jealous and mean... How could they tell her she's not black enough??? There is nothing to do with a career!! Shame on them!!
@Shandra Smith true and let's not forget about her low self confidence !! Robyn and Kevin Costner used to say that she cares to much about what people thought about her, she used to ask sometimes "if she was good enough? If they will like her? If she was pretty enough? If people will come (before a live performance)!!! If you paid attention to her interviews from 1990 to... she became a little bit defensive, people thought it was because of fame. For me she was trying to protect herself from those people who were making jokes about her! They said she was too white (musically), they said she didn't know how to dance, they said she wore wigs (I'm black too and I wear wigs too like many American and African women). They said a lot of things to put her down. I call it JEALOUSY because she was talented, gifted and BEAUTIFUL and when someone had all those things some people will hate for no reason! She got bullied at the elementary school, at high school and then at the soul train awards! I think that's why she started to behave like she was from the hood, marry a black man like Bobby Brown so the black community would accepted her. I wish that she shouldn't listen to them and continued to do what she wanted!
@Shandra Smith me too! That's why she gave her a Bible to break the relationship!!
She really looked like her cousin Dionne Warwick I saw and see that all in her eyes and face as well they could almost pass as identical twins if i didn't know any better I would have automatically thought that they were awww Whitney was and still is my favorite singer I will miss her dearly she is truly missed I love that lady she was the number 1 main star of the world and no one and I mean no will ever be able to touch her nor become her and I mean ever she was the one and only original there won't be another like her Ever RIP Whitney h and Bobbi k ☹😢
I love that Whitney has a sense of humor
Love the fact that Whitney had a sense of humour about Roseanne's controversial national anthem performance.
Yesss I agree
Seems like she is tearing up around 4:30! I know this was one of the major things that broke her spirit. Its just really disgusting. They went after the wrong one cause she was not a sell out (when other were) and here we are today, not only without Whitney but without a lot of talented AND successful AND positive music artists of color. There's never been anyone like her and will never be!
Well said
Well said @ Remember The Time09 and I think her biggest sell outs was someone close to her.
RememberTheTime09 I agree with you totally. I think people are just Jealous when somebody has a God Given gift for some reason. She was just herself and sang great music.
T.E. V. Being booed in front of thousands of people, BY YOUR OWN people for the one thing you do best. That’s major rejection!
But you may have tougher skin then she had at this time.
@Tev Whitney was a strong woman, but also a vulnerable person!! The bullied her!!
Aww the memories...I used to stay up past my bedtime as a kid so often just to watch Whitney on the Arsenio Hall show. She was the greatest!!!!!
People was jealous she was beautiful and can sing and a movie actress you had it going on you made your mark on the world god bless you 💘 april alexander
April Alexander while I appreciate you saying all those things...she hadn’t made any movies when this interview took place.
@@jobuck879 I don't think that April was limiting her comments to the time that the interview took place.
Whitney was beautiful sweet and down to earth! I love her! 😍❤❤❤
WHITNEY!! love you, rip beautiful
Wow ! So Beautiful...just Stunning !
He really liked Whitney and always brought up the fact that she was dating Eddie Murphy ..... I love when she came on the show, them two together were so much fun!
she always dressed like a church lady looooooooooooool Miss you Nippy
Her impression of "singing white" is hilarious haha
omg "how will i know if he really loves me"...so funny
She was an Angel. Talented and loved
She was such a beautiful woman
When she "sang white" 😂😂😂. Love this woman, God rest your beautiful soul Queen
Absolutely incredible voice
She was soooooo GORGEOUS!!!
4:35 Love it when she pulled a Julie Andrews version of How Will I Know. I guess that's what you call "white singing".
Damn she was gorgeous 🥺
She was Beautiful. My girl
Roseanne was soooo drunk lmao I love her. Oh and RIP Whitney.
bex Coventry and now she’s a racist pothead.....
Something I just noticed 0:57-1:04 When she said the song was about Arsenio, and he said it's not and he has to live the fantasy through "friends" He was referring to Eddie Murphy who she dated.
dsma06: You are spot on!
rest in beauty Whitney “Nippy” Houston 🕊
+ I was a little kid in the late 1980s but I do remember that my older siblings, aunts and uncles were saying how Whitney sings “white pop songs”,,,
so I think the black fans weren’t saying she sings white, but they were saying her songs sounded like white pop songs and not the black R&B songs
That's it in a nutshell
LEGEND 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
I never knew that Whitney Houston and Roseanne Barr met, let alone talked to each other.
Yeah I never understood why some black ppl took issue with her songs. I mean I remember ppl saying they weren’t “black enough” or “R&B” enough. All I can say is I’m glad she knew who she was as a singer and person. She didn’t let other people define her
She was always on the Arsenio show and Im here for it🔥🔥❤
she's always had so much swagg..before we even knew what that term meant.lol
she was first a model actually
I remember the controversy from the Soul Train Awards. My bff and I were watching. We didn't hear the boos that night, but heard about them later.. We were really confused. Whitney always sang like a Black woman to us. Considering that Gospel is the basis of most r n b singing, it didn't make sense. We did not understand any of it. We surmised that basically folks were jealous of her success. Maybe we thought she had left the community. We thought it was strange and a little off.
Wow, the caricature of Arsenio by Kennan on In Living Color is spot on accurate with all the weird movements Arsenio does when interviewing someone.
Dear Whitney had a lot of swag...she's adorable and sassy and witty and so funny! such a huge huge loss...I think there was still a lot of music left in her..
She always maintained that her background was not R&B it was gospel! And that gospel gave her everything she knew about music and that's how she sings...there was no influence of R&B growing up as her Mom taught her the ropes, everything musically she alrways credited her mom and her family...
R.I.P Whitney Houston! :'(
I hate that her brothers started her on the drugs that eventually killed this beautiful soul. Her family is evil and
used this beautiful person up until she just couldn't take it anymore. Her brother Michael laughed in an
interview about how he turned her onto coke and crack. He bragged about how he was her personal drug
runner all over the world. They didn't do a damn thing to help her.
I believe she was an Angel that God allowed to come to earth for a moment in time. God looked down from Heaven and saw the struggles that Whitney was going through and said I have to bring her back home the earth is too sinful and corrupt for her. So after a little while God called his Angel, Whitney back to Heaven to sing in his glorious presence forever.
A Beautiful Angel Whitney Houston,That Always Be An Angel With a Beautiful Golden Voice🤗
The Voice....
4:36 her mocking the haters lol
Whitney The voice Thank you for sharing your Beautiful Gift with US All RIP
So nice to see them flirting during the interview!
So classy
Whitney started out as a model, appearing on the cover of magazines such as Seventeen. But she didn't like being told what to do during the shoots. (We are not surprised to hear this about Whitney, right! ?!) She preferred pursuing her singing career and once she signed with Arista records, the rest is music and film acting history. The greatest performer of our time.
Vocalist* not performer
He didn't want to let go of her hand! LOLz
Arsenio go ahead now.
She was teary eyes and was trying to hide it. Im sorry baby💕 forever remembered
@2000coco Aretha, her mum and her cousin Dionne were her biggest inspirations, also Chaka Khan and Natalie Cole. Those were the singers she listened to most, and studied. As you rightly said, Gospel music is the source.
Miss the Arsenio Hall days...Whitney was da bomb then !! May she rest in peace...she is sadly missed can't believe she's gone...:)
Have never ever heard any white woman sing like her.
4:40-4:48 BAMMMM there it is!!!!!! HAHAHA RIP Whitney! So missed :-(
I hear it. Some people like to paint Whitney as some poor victim, but to have made it in the business as long as she did, you gotta have a tough skin. She had it to me, she didn't look phased at all. It's just like she said at 3:52, "I'd like to say that and some other things." Please, there's white people who are still hoping and wishing to sound half as good as Whitney, there's gospel and soul all in that woman's voice.
@@alexchen8565 She acted like a though outside ( she had to do it), but inside she was very vulnerable.
Beautiful WHITNEY Houston
she is SUCH a FLIRT ! lol
RIP nippy
You tell them haters Whitney she use it the way God bless her to use her voice. Much love sister! R.I.P. (they can't hurt you now)
I enjoy watching the Arsenio and Whitney clips. They had great friendly chemistry! 💯
I always say why whitney is the blueprint of styles and singing. I know that she growup with gospel music and surround by greatest singers. But she has this aura of being a superstar. And her voice is not like a typical black singer who is just singing highnotes to etched the soul in their voice whitney is kindly different to them that's why she is relevant and her contribution to the world is phenominal. There is something that voice that is ORIGINAL not to copy other sound but i truelly tell this whitney vocal is a pivotal of what gospel voice is all about.
Such a beautiful woman ❤️ and is that Roseanne😮😮
OMG, the two people that sung the worst and the best National Anthem sitting together on the same couch. LOL!
Gorgeous I say
The Voice of a generation!!!!
inspirational like nonother
Whitney Houston legend Quick With the comebacks
I will do anything for this full interview!!!!!!!
It’s fun seeing all of the 1990s interviews right before bodyguard
Man, oh man! Whitney has always been pretty, but looking at this old clip reminds me of fine she has been since I fisrt heard of her. She looks like a star of another era.
Good Lawd Whitney was fine as wine!
Beautiful 🥰 Whitney Houston
There was no bumping & grinding in the vidoes in those day, but there were so very many amazing R & B singers, and they sounded more urban. Anita Baker, Regina Belle, Patti Labelle, Melissa Morgan, Shirley Murdock, Mikki Howard, Karyn Whtie, Angela Winsbush.. to name a few , they also work with the black songwriters and producers. Whitney was a pop singer and work with Clive Davis, It was the crowd that booed her.. they probably felt she shouldnt have been nominated just she work in pop music.
My 2cents: I think the Soul Train Awards thing was blown outta proportion. In the 80's, Whitney was huge, and other than the gay rumors, there wasn't much the media had to really hound her on. They beat those to the ground, and then when this came around, they hopped on it too, kinda like, "Oh, the black community is against Whitney, run it!" The Soul Train Awards at the time weren't even 5 years old, so they were a fairly new deal. A big one, but a new one. I think it was just something to grab onto, but I won't lie: I Wanna Dance With video was probably a little jarring for some black people, cuz she is in a long blonde wig. Some black people probably felt that at that point, she'd picked a side, and maybe that affected them. I can't say it's stupid, cuz I wasn't around at that time. All I know is, every song released from that album charted in the top 5 of R&B charts, so someone was loving them songs whether they want to admit it or not. Even WDBHG, the song she was 'booed' for.
The Soul Train Awards issue is not blown out of porportion because it hurt her dearly. I was in highschool when this happened and some blacks turned their backs on her for all the success she had. They felt Janet Jackson was "blackier" than her. Craziness but this was a different time. Remember back then most black artist would have to have a number one hit on r&b stations before pop stations would play their music. Whitney and Michael changed all that. When they dropped music everyone listened.
rhocom89 Janet, ironically, experienced the same backlash circa 1989. I don't think they saw her as "blackier (a word? lol)". In Janet's case, there was backlash b/c she's crossed over to mainstream success and wasn't simply a fav of the black community as she was circa 1986 when her star turned. from what I read, the backlash Whitney experienced back then was b/c some felt like her image and her music was catering more to mainstream. But, hey, to crossover and have mainstream appeal, it's no secret that some artists have to (don't wanna say, sellout) de-emphasize any sort of racial divide. I don't believe Whitney or Janet ever sold out. I just think that's a painful price most minority artists pay whenever their success hits stride in a mass way, unfortunately. Kinda like with Hip Hop. Those who knew the culture before it hit MTV and crossed over will tell you it became something different (not all bad, but not as pure) when it went mainstream.
rhocom89 I'm glad you gave me some perspective, I could see that because Janet was definitely having success more in the R&B community, and I have to remember that music was not as intermixed as it is nowadays. There was a strictly black, R&B scene in the 80's. Hence why some black artists (Freddie Jackson, Miki Howard, Deniece Williams, Cameo, etc) are so famous to black people while white people and the general media don't know who they are.
+rhocom89 It was blown out of proportion, because no one wrote about; no one knew about it. She was booed because the Soul Train Awards were created to celebrate the black music industry. Whitney was a pop artist and always marketed as such. She was not with an R & B label, and really didn't work with the R & B community. She had a huge promotion and huge amounts of money were spent on her career. Almost a half million to make her debut album and over 3 million in promotion (completely unheard of even today). The reason she was booed was because they didn't feel she should be nominated - because she was with a major label - not a small R & B label - which the awards were created to celebrate. Here ... she and her friend are just bringing it up again and throwing a lot of BS into the wind (It happen in 88). For this particular album she work with songwriters and producer from the R & B community. Janet Jackson worked with Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis who were the SOS Band basically....that's were Janet's sound came from.They were GODS in the R & B community - so yeah her music was going to be played. What you are saying about the pop station is completely untrue - having to have a number one, before being played on pop radio - NOT TRUE. And Whitney didn't changed anything... Donna Summer changed everything...not only was she first female to dominate the pop charts, she transcend race and genre. Unfortunately people alway seem to try to tie MJ & WH... but MJ broke the colour barrier for men on MTV, Donna did it for women - both 1983. Donna was the first female to be played on MTV, the first to be played in heavy rotation (SWHFTM), and the first to be played in consistent heavy rotation. Followed by the Pointer Sister and Tina Turner. She was the first to be nominated for an MTV Award. Tina Turner was the first to win one. I say this because it is incorrectly credited to WH in her wiki bio and I have read many online article with the same incorrect facts. Her bio also claims she pave the way for other minorities like the lantinos...LOL.. Linda Ronstadt and Julio Iglesias were played in heavy rotation before WH debut in 1985, as was Sheila E, who was also nominated for 3 MTV Awards and 2 Grammys before WH. So there so-called facts, are so wrong !
+htownhomie06 I think you forget that Janet Jackson recorded 3 albums..before she started working with Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis and found charts success. That is why the R & B community would have felt Janet was theres. Whitney was marketed pop and was meant to be a pop star. They release certain songs only to R & B radio like Hold Me and Thinkin' Bout You.
this woman is perfect!
LOL , crazy ole Rosanne Barr singing the national anthem those poor people that had to listen to that , OMG hahaha