THIS IS ME....THEN!

This is Whitney Houston in 2000. She rocked this look in her video "Fine" which is one of my favorite WH songs. It is 2010 and a typical Celebrity Reality Check for WH is too late. She's has been given so many CRC's in her career and rejected them all. From Diane Sawyer in 1998 to the National Enquirer in 2005 and then Oprah in 2009. "Being Bobby Brown" was a weekly, self-evident CRC, but WH was too hazed to notice that train wreck. This woman is immune to normal CRC's and had the gall to go on tour in Europe in 2010 with a voice that sounded like a wounded animal. It is time for a Tony Celebrity Reality Check. I must do this, because I care.

Girl please, you cannot sing anymore. Your last album "I Look To You" was unbuyable. Not a beautiful, plush, high note anywhere on that $20 drink coaster. Now, to be fair, the National Enquirer already put your financial misdeeds on the newstands. The lesson here is, "No one can afford a ten year daily crack habit." The economics of not only using yourself, but treating the horny "entourage" in hopes of having a freaky after party has resulted in mortgages and debts you cannot pay from past revenue streams. So I understand churning out a "hitless", substandard, "I just need some quick money" CD. They call it a "Junkie" stunt. But really, your voice is unpleasant now so singing is no longer your blessing. It is now your curse. It is now a harsh sounding reminder that God giveth, and God taketh away. Anyway, I am agnostic, but you claim to be God-fearing even as you smoke geek joints the size of cigars. Stop the madness, WH!

My unprofessional advice to you is sell anything you own of value, hide the money, file for bankruptcy, and disappear quietly into England for five years. Do not sing at all, do not speak much, just find a quiet little church full of intelligent people. Join a step program and reclusively kick your Cocaine habit. Europe is so far away, no US paparazzi will bother you because it's expensive to fly intercontinental. Damaged voices are tricky. They never come back all the way, but they can heal enough to record again or sell overpriced tickets to suckers living in the past. Five years of vocal rest, may save you from complete legacy ruin. You need new people, places, and things in your life or you will die from self-abuse shortly.

With love, Tony.