Crazy post (Whitney Houston)

  With the exception of Sade, I simply don't like R&B music (and I consider 
her jazz btw >:P~,) but I was watching an old Steelers game I had taped 
from 2001 and I taped the follwing program which was a music special on 
accident. Whitney Houston was on there and I guess I was almost asleep when 
the game was ending while watching it again and didn't come out of that 
half-asleep stupor until she came on with an "I Will Always Love You" cover 
and I was smoked at her performance.  
  As I said earlier, I just don't care for R&B but even though Whitney is 
not a young woman anymore, I would put her up against any female singer of 
any format. I especially hate the vocal movements where the divas and wanna 
be divas climd or descend the chromatic scale to eventually get to the 
right note in an attempt to show their vocal gift, and though Whitney did a 
bit of that, it was quite conservative comparatively speaking. I don't own 
a single disc of hers, but I respect her deeply after seeing that 
performance. Though I wouldn't listen to her music if I owned it, Whitney 
Houston has worked as hard as any musician to hone her voice into what it 
is. 

   Bryant