Originally Posted by
marv2
I was in the demographic that the record companies were catering to in the 80s.
Young and with money. Yep, I was a yuppie and Whitney Houston was MADE for yuppies with the type of music she was producing. I don't recall the 80s really being a racially tense time in particular having grown up in the 60s. The 80s were all about excess, everything was BIG aka the Big 80s. Everyone wanted everything and they wanted it NOW!
By the time Whitney came around in the 80s any barriers I was aware of were already broken down years earlier. What she did was hit you with 100% pure voice, pure talent, packaged in a high fashion model package! Those that booed her were full of shit, fake ghetto thugs. Yeah I said it. They were the ones that promoted black women as video, hoochie whores, where as Whitney presented pure class. They were jealous and they were scared of what Whitney represented. She proved that she didn't have to bend over and shake her ass to sell millions of records. Those punks that booed her wanted to take black culture back as in backwards and we weren't going. It hurt Whitney's feelings [[but not her bank account) because she knew she was down, Hell she was from Newark, NJ!