March 2012
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February 2012
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On Whitney Houston, Black Middle Class Girls, and...
Forget her voice for a minute. Think about what she looked like. Rail thin, smooth skin, winning smile, mischevious almond-shaped eyes, high cheekbones — she looked like the model she had been. Conventionally and undeniably beautiful. Clive Davis recognized that those physical attributes would make it easier for her to be a cross-over success, as long as her beauty wasn’t sexualized....
Nippy
Whitney Houston’s funeral is going to be a circus to rival MJ’s. People may wonder why.
I mentioned to Britt that Whitney’s image was the crucial touchpoint for a whole generation of middle-class black girls. Not just her voice but everything about how she looked — that slim frame, that conventionally beautiful face — to how Clive Davis presented her in the glamour...
Berlin and the Artist by Robert Walser | NYRblog |... →
When people ask me why I live here.
