15.2.12 Whitney Circus

After a terrible and tragic end to her life, there now follows mayhem and tackiness that would distress Whitney Houston if she could see it.  It is clear to everyone that her life was a mess in the latter stages, and she needed help.  Unfortunately those who might have been able to help were, in the main, getting on with their own lives and not interested - until it was time to praise her and lay a flower outside the hotel where she died.

Tributes count for shit, when they are expressed by people whose main intention in making tributes is to be recognised themselves!  Celebrities now want to be seen paying respects to the singer; most would not have been in touch with her at all for ages (or ever) despite her 'issues', and it's two-faced to flounce around now with kind words that will do no good to Whitney.

The 'Circus' is of course run by the media, hungry as fuck for every last detail about the last weeks, days, hours of her life, the details of who, how, when, why, and there will be a ton of speculative press space given to needless padding of a story.  There have been and will continue to be photos obtained (probably taken on mobile phones) showing who-knows-what.  Today in the newspaper there's a picture of the bath in which she was found dead, under the headline: "Whitney's Death Bath".  Disgusting 'journalism'.

Family arguments are all up and running, and someone thought it appropriate to move her body in a hearse that was gold!  No taste is afforded in these situations.  There will be fuel enough for 1000 chat shows for the next few weeks, and many thousands of 'articles' in newspapers and magazines.  Some will ask searching questions, to which there are no answers, and they will adopt various stances; most will be pompous, superior and damning in their editorial lines, but few will properly acknowledge the complete failure of everyone involved - and those who should have been involved but were not.  We will have the inside stories, the scandals, the tangential stories on drugs with links to so many others whose lives have ended ahead of time.  Doctors will be interrogated, and asked to explain how so many prescription drugs are filling celebrities' handbags these days. 

There will in simple terms be an undesirable circus around the death of Whitney Houston.  It's the way things are done, particularly in the USA, although it's perhaps unfair to criticise the country when it's the stars themselves who, if they don't live there already, flock to the country for opportunity and fame.  I am so glad that my own death will not inspire thousands to claim some link to me and litter the place with flowers outside a hotel, and I am happier knowing that there will not be a Spanish Inquisition after my death, or a 'media frenzy' - or a Circus in the worst possible taste.

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