REWIND - Whitney Houston: Cracks in the Mirror, Crack on the Mirror, and One Fateful Choice

DISGRACELAND

Jake Brennan

True Crime, Music, Society & Culture

4.6 • 13.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Whitney Houston was The Voice. A stunning beauty. An early MTV star and leading actress. But when she passed away in a hotel suite bath, the music industry gala downstairs that she was supposed to attend went on without her. How did it all come to this? The drugs and her husband Bobby Brown weren’t answers, just ways to avoid the question: what was the private tragedy of Whitney Houston? For a full list of contributors, visit disgracelandpod.com This episode was originally published on November 12, 2019. To listen to Disgraceland ad free and get access to a monthly exclusive episode, weekly bonus content and more, become a Disgraceland All Access member at disgracelandpod.com/membership. Sign up for our newsletter and get the inside dirt on events, merch and other awesomeness - GET THE NEWSLETTER Follow Jake and DISGRACELAND: Instagram YouTube X (formerly Twitter) Facebook Fan Group TikTok Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Double Elvis.
0:05.0	Disgras.
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0:30.5	show notes for this episode.
0:33.0	Disgraysland is a production of Double Elvis. The stories about Whitney Houston, America's Sweetheart, are insane. Among other outrageous anecdotes from her roller coaster life and career,
0:56.0	Whitney Houston smoked crack in the presence of her five-year-old.
1:00.0	Upstaged F-16 fighter jets with her powerful voice and free-based her way off the charts.
1:07.2	She was a natural talent.
1:08.7	Her voice, like her image, represented both power and grace. But behind that image, the truth was
1:14.7	another story entirely. Whitney Houston, despite her chart-topping glass ceiling
1:19.7	shattering success, lived a not-so-secret secret life of self-destruction, pining for true love,
1:26.2	unable to practice self-love and making great music along the way.
1:31.3	That music you heard at the top of the show. That wasn't great music.
1:35.0	That was a preset loop from my Melotron called Melo Royal Exit, MK2.
1:40.0	I played you that loop because I can't afford the rights to the look by rock set.
1:46.0	And why would I play you that specific slice of Swedish look sharp cheese could I afford it?
1:52.0	Because that was the number one song in America on April 13
1:56.1	1989 and that was the day Whitney Houston met Bobby Brown marking a pivot point in
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