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what happened to the audience at the 1989 soul train awards?
At the 1989 Soul Train Music Awards, when Houston's name was called out for a nomination, a few in the audience jeered. Houston defended herself against the criticism, stating, "If you're gonna have a long career, there's a certain way to do it, and I did it that way. I'm not ashamed of it".
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yeah, and she was slated for being a black woman doing pop, which is the ONLY way to have a very successful career long term and make a big impact, because r&b is dead outside of the black community. she was accused of 'selling out' when in fact she was doing more for black artists than other black artists had ever done. Same criticism that rihanna, alexandra burke, beyonce and kelly rowland get for having dance and pop tracks.
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At the 1989 Soul Train Music Awards, when Houston's name was called out for a nomination, a few in the audience jeered. Houston defended herself against the criticism, stating, "If you're gonna have a long career, there's a certain way to do it, and I did it that way. I'm not ashamed of it".
what happened was her music more pop than urban sound? She talks about it here in the link below for one minute from 3:35 . She gives a nice little acapella of the difference between singing "white" and singing "black" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4ahP...eature=related edit: She also spoke about it again in an interview where she again did some acapella and said "if black people don't hear you singing runs all over the place like this XXX, then you aren't singing black enough" etc etc |
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evident in this biography episode back in 2007
http://www.biography.com/people/whit...ode-2192386072 16:40 minutes when they talk about it |
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yeah, and she was slated for being a black woman doing pop, which is the ONLY way to have a very successful career long term and make a big impact, because r&b is dead outside of the black community. she was accused of 'selling out' when in fact she was doing more for black artists than other black artists had ever done. Same criticism that rihanna, alexandra burke, beyonce and kelly rowland get for having dance and pop tracks.
rihanna i think imo faces it. because she aint really r&b too much. shes more pop and i actually think shes more pop than beyonce, janet, mariah and whitney. but she did trend to r&b earlier in her career but just went the mainstream pop route for awhile now. |
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going back to whitney, it both her alot. so maybe the pressure of that made her go on an urban direction in her 3rd album im your baby tonight. it was a mixed reaction to some.
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At the 1989 Soul Train Music Awards, when Houston's name was called out for a nomination, a few in the audience jeered. Houston defended herself against the criticism, stating, "If you're gonna have a long career, there's a certain way to do it, and I did it that way. I'm not ashamed of it".
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Yes, that was the general feeling in the air. "Saving All My Love For You" , "I Wanna Dance With Somebody" etc were very pop songs but it got her famous because it was mainstream enough to be played on MTV and ALL the radio stations - as opposed to just the R&B stations which was more common for a black singer at that time because they would release more r&b songs (Aretha, Chaka etc etc).
She talks about it here in the link below for one minute from 3:35 . She gives a nice little acapella of the difference between singing "white" and singing "black" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4ahP...eature=related edit: She also spoke about it again in an interview where she again did some acapella and said "if black people don't hear you singing runs all over the place like this XXX, then you aren't singing black enough" etc etc |
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