I think everyone who reads these (now few and far between) Blogs will know of my utter resentment of award ceremonies. However, there is a special twist to this years award’s as there has been a death in the family! Goodness gracious! In case you didn’t know, a few days ago Whitney Huston did her best impression of Jim Morrison and bit the dust in the bath! (Please, no missing bodyguard jokes and they’re just not right and they’re certainly not ok!!) … sorry!
Her sad and rather premature (but hardly surprising) death was then, rather obviously, followed by The Grammy Awards were celebrity after celebrity like LL (I’ve suddenly appeared out of the blue after x amount of years because someone famous had died) Cool J stepped up to the podium and said their little piece about the sudden departure of Ms Huston with tear jerking embarrassment that would have woken the speaker of the House of Lords!
So, with so many do-gooders and ‘close friends’ getting up to the Grammy’s Stage and filling more Kleenex’s than a teenager in his bedroom with super fast broadband, I do have one question for these grief-stricken stars who “miss her so much” – where the fuck were you when Whitney Huston was in a dark place injecting drugs and drinking herself into oblivion? Where you with her then guiding her into rehab? = no! Where you arranging her to make a successful comeback and maybe clean up her act? = No!
So, cue the bandwagon-jumping and the money obtaining by association!
Whitney Huston is still warm and possibly kicking and no doubt her ‘close relatives’ are queuing up at the doors of publishers and newspapers to say how she was “so special to her” (ITV2 is even showing The Bodyguard tonight). And, of course, radio stations and TV Music stations will no doubt have a ‘Day of Honour’ coming soon! Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for people celebrating the lives of such talented singer songwriters, but I draw the line at the behaviour of certain Charlatans who barely knew Ms Huston by saying they were ‘close’ and know her last words if you want to hear them … for a price! blah, blah, blah!
Which finally brings us to her record label: Sony! Ah, lovely Sony! The all seeing and conquering Sony who have sparked fury and controversy this week by putting up the price of Huston’s albums by 60%! SIXTY PERCENT!!! This is nothing short of disgusting (you could even call it Grave Robbing)
So, like Jacko and Winehouse, the vultures are circling, the records are being pressed and the money is about to flow!
Welcome to the world of musicians who are worth more dead than alive
It’s certainly not right or ok!!!
Mol
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