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Whitney Houston in 1970
When she was 8?
(via Bobby Brown’s Prerogative: Knocking Up Karrine Steffans - The Hollywood Gossip)
You gals are pretty right about dudes. Man. (See!)
“Whitney Houston is the last female pop star I can think of who didn’t rely on a slutty sexpot image to sell records.” —
Lord. THIS IS DUMB.
“The way she took that simple song of mine and made it such a mighty thing, it almost became her song. Some writers say, ‘Ooh, I hate the way they’ve done that to my song or that version wasn’t what I had in mind.’ I just think it’s wonderful that people can take a song and do it so many different ways.” —
Dolly Parton on Whitney Houston’s version of I Will Always Love You (via apsies)
I have heard people say to other people about me: “He likes Dolly Parton. No. Really. Like He really likes her. Unironically.”
You internet strangers have let me down again. I’m talking about the ones posted to babycenter.com and other parenting websites, suggesting that Dumbo would be a good movie for a toddler. These are things that happen in Dumbo:
- A baby elephant is teased because he has big ears.
- His mommy spanks a mean man who teases him.
- The mommy is whipped, shackled, and placed in solitary confinement, away from her baby.
- The baby is shunned by the other elephants.
- The circus tent falls down and injures all of the elephants.
- Clowns are mean to the baby elephant.
- Clowns drink alcohol.
- Clown alcohol falls into the water that the baby elephant and his mouse friend drink, and they get drunk.
- Baby elephant and mouse friend have terrible, psychedelic dreams about marching elephants that bash into each other, which only makes more psychedelic elephants. The entire sequence is loud and upsetting.
- Black crows (depicted in a racist manner) tease the baby elephant.
You know what makes parenting hard? Modern culture is crass and sexualized, so you’re tempted to dig back into earlier culture, which is more sanitized. Except those old artifacts are imbued with the worst things about the culture they come from, so they’re awful on race, or ethnicity, or gender. Was there a short window of time when pop culture was both kid-friendly and politically correct? Maybe in the late 1980s, for a month or two?
It’s a really, really strange movie. He doesn’t fly until the last minute and then the movie ends. It’s almost surrealist.
Asshole.
“So far, the details surround Houstin’s death are unclear.” —
Whitney Houston — Dead at 48 | TMZ.com
Really, TMZ?
GO POP SOMEONE ELSE’S DOODY BUBBLES NOW YOU JERK!
Seriously, we need to get a team of doctor’s and bodyguards over to Paisley Park. We cannot have a rule of three on this one.