'Diva' Whitney, if you had a bodyguard to protect your life ... - 'Whitney's Whitney Houston

'Diva' Whitney, if you had a bodyguard to protect your life ... - ③ 'Whitney's Whitney Houston

 

A dark shadow behind a brilliant spotlight

 

Interpretation of natural voice, rhythm and music

Pop Queen for 10 years after his debut

The Super Bowl

 

Global success in film 'Bodyguard'

20th Century Most Sales Movie OST

A big supporter of self-esteem

 

Childhood sexual harassment, such as 'trauma'

The burden of being as heavy as wealth and honor

Some lines "white music imitation" blame

 

Known as 'drug addiction' in the early 2000s

Behind the boastful public criticism

The age of the world at the age of 48 in 2012

 

Sugar, a member of the Bulgarian Boy Scouts who are gathering around the world on a world tour, recently said in an interview with Time magazine, "I hope someday we can play in the Super Bowl." He meant a halftime show during the break, but the US national performance, which announces the start of the Super Bowl, is also the only order in which the best singers are invited. There was a man who made this a legendary performance, the first singer called 'diva', Whitney Houston. The Star-Spangled Banner, which he sang in 1991, became one of his hit songs, and afterwards the national performance of Super Bowl became a place to express the message of freedom and equality.

 

 

 

◇ Whitney Houston and "Whitney"

 

He has sold 25 million copies of his debut album, 200 million copies of cumulative worldwide record sales, won six Grammy Awards, topped Billboard single charts for seven consecutive years, and ranked first on the Billboard single chart for 14 weeks. The most awarded female musician in the world.

 

The way to quantify "popularity" is somewhat trivial in some ways, but no one will undervalue the records that follow Whitney Houston. Without doubt, his debut album "Whitney Houston" was his era for more than a decade since 1985. Though Mariah Carey made her first album debut in 1990, the media liked making the two rivals, but Whitney Houston, who made her debut five years earlier, already had a wide fan base and had a light as a diva at any stage I did not lose. He used a magnificent melancholy (melisma) to produce a variety of genres of music, from ballads to dances. Though many juniors have imitated his method since then, the intuitive rhythm and clear, deep and strong voice itself are simply innate, so a vocalist comparable to him does not come to mind. Whitney Houston, who has a talent as an entertainer as well as a singing voice, has worked as a model before his debut as a singer. The film 'Bodyguard', which starred in the cast, has also been a huge success and has also participated in several films as a producer. In the 2000s, he made several albums and continued his activities, but the burden of being as heavy as his wealth and honor led him to the world at the age of forty-eight, luring him to drug addiction.

 

Whitney, directed by Kevin McDonald, is a documentary devoted to the life of a man, from the exceptional childhood of Whitney Houston who grew up surrounded by singers such as moms, aunts and cousins, to splendid success, slump, and the morning of his death. Whitney Houston 's growth and contemporary political and social issues, while the juxtaposition of the edifice, but in chronological order are arranged in order to distinguish the existing documentary is not noticeable. However, I can feel that the ball is a lot of work in a frank interview with a huge amount of data screen and aides. Especially in the latter half of his life, his experience of victimization of childhood sexual abuse has shocked him. It makes his loneliness and early death more harsh than he would have been alone in a big stage, hiding traumatized trauma. Whitney Houston is a tragic piece of joy that meets the live stage like the gem of life and sorrow of the process that lost him.

 

◇ Whitney Houston and Super Bowl performances

 

Whitney emphasizes the comfort and pride that Whitney Houston has with his innate talents and his presence on the American black community. The unparalleled success of black women in the white-centric popular music scene, and even the entertainment market, has been a great hope for blacks in a difficult environment. However, from the beginning of his debut, he attacked him with "Not black enough" and refused to release his music on a black radio station. The nickname "Whitey Houston" also comes from accusing him of following white music. It was the time when British influential music magazine 'NME' was saying that hip hop was the authentic and future of the black music world (Bob Stanley, 'Modern Pop Story'). But in the history of pop, when white people imitated and absorbed the music of African Americans and eventually created their own sheep, Whitney Houston's moves were natural and, above all, I could not stop his success, or the symptom of his symptoms.

 

In 1991, Whitney Houston 's US nation was enthusiastically cheered over races, but his existing three - quarters of the songs were arranged for four - fourths of the time, often used in gospel, blues, and other black music, The addition of the space for the interpretation was effective. A month before the end of the Gulf War, he stood in front of the crowd in a lightweight sportswear with a headband. He emphasized the meaning by treating the word "free" in high pitch with a falsetto. Recalling that the lyrics of the United States were extremely militant, and that some of the violence in history was directed against the Negroes, his performance was enough to patriot the American people. Despite the controversy of lip-syncing, the song was released two months later as a single and became popular again, and re-released after the September 11, 2001 attacks. The two-minute performance by Whitney Houston later gave the Super Bowl a bigger impression: in the case of the Super Bowl in 2017, the players were kneeling on one knee as a sign of resistance to racial discrimination, There were also incidents that made President Trump's planting uncomfortable. "Whitney" puts Whitney Houston in the running of the Super Bowl national performance in the run-time, and then puts in public interviews to prove American love for him at the time.

 

 

◇ 'Bodyguard' and South Africa performance

 

'Bodyguard' (director Mick Jackson 1992) was a movie that made Whitney Houston a global star beyond the US. "I Will Always Love You", one of the best movie songs ever heard, is ringing all around the globe, and the bodyguard's OST is the best-selling movie of the 20th century It is recorded as a sound track. Whitney, in an interview with Kevin Costner, a counterpart in this section, reveals that Whitney Houston has played a role that was allowed only for white actresses in Hollywood history. Whitney is a famous entertainer who hired Costner as a bodyguard and has the advantage of a male social position like a female protagonist of a screwball comedy of the 1930s, and is more active and honest in the relationship between men and women. Particularly in the last scene, the black female character, who is romantically completing his romance with a man who loves to stop the plane, made a strong impression. Whitney Houston's performance and criticism of the film itself, but easily fade into the popularity of OST.

 

It is not a coincidence that Whitney Houston became the first major artist to perform in South Africa after Nelson Mandela won the election and the racist policy was abolished. In November 1994, in Johannesburg, he sang in a golden dress with African traditional costumes, breathing with numerous audiences, literally like a queen. The enormous performance at Ellis Park tells us that he has become a social figure who has the power to comfort and impress the world, and that was not possible with voice or singing skills.

 

 

◇ Mourning and memory

 

So recalling the downfall and death of Whitney Houston is not easy for anyone who has been singing along with his song in the 1980s and 1990s. He was a roll model of many people, his music is a piece of our youth, and it is a mise-en-scene that can not be separated from memories of precious memories. But in the early 2000s, the fact that Whitney Houston was drugged back to him after he was released was, in fact, not a comforting solution, but a cool boast and blame. The media completely caressed him, forgetting the joy he had given to the public for a long time. Whitney deals with this period as well as his success. In the second half of the film, which shows that the disagreements with the family such as husband, daughter, father, trauma of childhood, and popularity have made him hard, there is deep compassion. An anecdote of more than 2,000 people gathered at a prayer meeting for him in a New York Baptist church was also to show that the public, especially the black community, had a particular attachment to the end.

 

But despite such a desperate prayer, on February 11, 2012, Whitney Houston relocates to his heavenly home. Instead of blaming his death for his own weakness or the inability of others, the film ends with the mourning and acceptance of the fate of an artist who had a brilliant talent. The juxtaposition of funeral scenes where hundreds of crowds saw his last road and the TV show debut scene that sang "Home", the singing twenty-year-old Whitney Houston, was an excellent choice. Over time, we have two themes to remember and talk about Whitney Houston, his talent and love for him. The world is still full of oppression and violence, but like the words of 'home', someday "a peaceful and joyful world"