A Song for You: My Life with Whitney Houston

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A Song for You: My Life with Whitney Houston

A Song for You: My Life with Whitney Houston

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But when Houston started dating Jermaine Jackson in the mid-1980s, then Eddie Murphy, and rap star Bobby Brown, whom she married, Crawford admits it was tremendously difficult.

In the end, Robyn’s biases against all of Whitney’s potential partners and her impossible longing for the “old Whitney” made it hard for me to respect much of this book. There were Houston's first solo recordings, with the already-seasoned singer nailing the lead to "How Will I Know" in one take. At some points, especially in the later years, it feels like she was grasping at straws (mainly, secondhand stories from Silvia) to continue to tell Whitney’s life story in the years when they had drifted apart. I didn’t have Whitney Houston on my resumé but at work, sometimes, people would say, ‘You used to work with Whitney, how was that?

However, I think this book falls flat in large part because Robyn refuses to acknowledge this distinction. According to multiple witnesses, Brown allegedly continued to be violent towards Houston and her drug use accelerated.

Robyn talks about Whitney in a loving way, but also discuss both of their struggles with drug use and Whitney’s self-esteem issues (which we already knew). Viewed from the outside, the confusing thing about all this is that, for much of the time, the relationship appeared to be starkly uneven. I couldn't understand how a woman who seemed to have it all, spoke so strongly about God would become so addicted to drugs, destroy her talent and fail in saving herself and her only child.

More acutely, it is the story of two women who, for the entirety of Houston’s life, concealed the sexual origins of that relationship, amid intense and often prurient speculation. Robyn Crawford has been this mysterious woman that we’ve all seen by Whitney’s side from the very beginning of Whitney’s music career.



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