Who’s in Charge of Telling Whitney Houston’s Story?

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The New York Times

Music Commentary, Music, Music Interviews

3.4 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2018

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Two documentaries have attempted to unpack the life of one of pop’s transformative figures, whose complex legacy is still riddled with questions. Guests: Naima Cochrane; Jezebel's Rich Juzwiak; Alan Light; and The Times's Joe Coscarelli.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the New York Times Popcast, your fall from Grace, but oh what grace it was of music news and criticism.
0:15.0	I'm your host, John Caramonica. Share my life, take me for what I am.
0:27.0	Because I'll never change all my colors for you.
0:37.0	Take my love, I'll never ask for too much
0:49.0	Just all that you are and everything that you do. I don't really need to look very much.
0:55.0	I don't really need to look very much further. I don't want to have to go where you don't follow. I will
1:08.9	hold it back again. This passion. Can't run from myself.
1:15.0	There's nowhere to heart.
1:20.0	But don't make me close
1:22.0	one mother. But don't make me close one my door.
1:25.0	I don't want to hurt anymore.
1:29.0	Stay in my arms if you there. That of course is Whitney Houston. I have nothing. We are in the middle of kind of an intense
1:41.5	period of Whitney Houston reexamination, scrutiny, and analysis.
1:47.0	Most recently there is a new documentary called Whitney which just came out in theaters a couple
1:51.7	weeks ago and hopefully will still be in
1:53.1	theaters by the time you were listening to this pop cast although I don't know and
1:57.3	Whitney is the second documentary that we've had on Whitney Houston in two years
2:01.5	the previous one was called Whitney,
2:03.2	Can I Be Me, came out last year,
2:05.2	it was unauthorized.
2:06.8	This one is made with the participation of her family.
2:10.9	Both of them are pretty unsparing in their assessments of Whitney
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