Feb 032022
So YouTube decided I needed to see a video from 2011, describing Whitney Houstons disastrous “comeback” tour in Europe. Like a lot of celebrities, her talent, such as it was, had turned to garbage due to drugs and ego, leading one critic to say (at the 37 second point) “she looked and sounded like a person who doesn’t have many years left to live.” Huh. I looked her up on Wikipedia: she died Feb 11, 2012 (in retrospect, that’s almost ten years ago, so maybe the YouTube algorithm is spooling up for the decade-festivities), about ten months after this piece originally aired. I hope the critic put in a bet at Lloyd’s of London about that…