Whether Whitney Houston died this past Saturday as a result of crack cocaine isn't clear; but nobody can be in any doubt that her self-confessed crack addiction destroyed her career. She had learned about press hype and public misconceptions by observing her mother, gospel singer Cissy Houston, and cousin Dionne Warwick....but she was unprepared for the pressures of nonstop surveillance of her private life. I also suspect that she felt spiritually drained having sold out by using her gospel background and amazing soulfulness for rather banal pop songs in her later years.
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