Folks, this is lip sync all the way. Notice how her throat doesn't vibrate when she hits the big notes. Plus it's way too similar to the recorded version.
Agreed -- while the drugs certainly didn't help, she simply overused her voice. Celine was "fortunate" that her voice collapsed early on. She didn't sing or even talk for weeks and then learned how to protect her voice. Whitney kept pushing herself, including (or perhaps especially) that devas...
Amazing performance. Yes, you can hear the vocal damage, but this is 15 years into her career. The nodules started to appear in 1993-94. The miracle of Whitney is not that she collapsed so far, but that she managed to hold herself together as long as she did.
I really wish her 2010 tour was like this. Despite some roughness in her voice, this was a really good performance! She should have done 3-4 song sets for the 2010 tour, in small theaters and clubs ... it would've made her less money, but her voice and reputation would have remained intact. Al...
Terrific performance! I can't get enough of watching Whitney at her peak. But even here in 1990, the first signs of her decline were starting to show -- namely, the disappearance of her falsetto. Her ability to switch ("modulate" as she said in a TV interview) between falsetto and booming vibra...
Folks, this is lip sync all the way. Notice how her throat doesn't vibrate when she hits the big notes. Plus it's way too similar to the recorded version.