We Will Always Love You, Whitney Houston

Still Processing

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🗓️ 11 May 2017

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

It has been five years since Whitney Houston died. She was one of the biggest pop stars of her time and a glorious singer — but we don’t properly remember her for that. Instead, she is considered a tragic figure who sacrificed herself to drugs and her marriage. This week, we felt a reappraisal of Houston was in order. It’s a chance to argue that the music is much more important than any of the scandal. So we listen to some of her best recordings and live performances. And yes, we walk through the bad years, but only to remind ourselves of who we actually lost: the greatest singer of the rock ’n’ roll era.

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0:00.0	I'm Jenna Wortham and I'm Wesley Morris. We're two culture writers at the New York Times.
0:05.0	I'm mostly right about how humans relate to technology.
0:08.0	And I'm mostly right about how movies and popular culture relate to humans.
0:12.0	Nice. And this is still processing.
0:25.0	So hello.
0:26.0	Hello Mr. Morris.
0:29.0	How are you?
0:30.0	I'm really good.
0:31.0	I'm just going to immediately ask you, what's in your brain?
0:35.0	Oh my god. Okay.
0:36.0	Well, what's in my pocket is a piece of black termaline, which is a grounding stone that's used for carrying around and wording off negative energy, which was given to me by my raky healer.
0:44.0	And I've been carrying it around with me all week.
0:47.0	And it is giving me so much life and energy and a good spirit, which is why you see this giant grid on my face.
0:54.0	Oh my god. So over the weekend, Nicki Minaj started up her own version of the Pricewater's Clearing House and just starts giving away money to students who basically asked her to pay off their college loans.
1:05.0	So Nicki Minaj is out here. Someone tweets at Nicki Minaj and is like, help me pay off my college loan.
1:10.0	She's like, prove it to me that you need the help. And I will. She gave out like $20,000.
1:14.0	What? I'm not sure if that's what Betsy DeVos had in mind when she talks about vouchers for education, but Nicki Minaj is doing her own version of vouchers for education.
1:21.0	Amen.
1:22.0	And I've been thinking about Kate McKinnon on SNL. She roasted Morning Joe over the weekend. And I can't stop thinking about her strange alien face and the contortions that she's able to make with it. And I just practice eternal gratitude for her humor.
1:37.0	Okay. You're so I want to say, I'm just talking to the president is mentally ill.
1:40.0	Well, he has entered a state of psychosis.
1:43.0	Mika, Mika, you're being naughty. Okay. You're being very naughty.
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