Whitney Houston's Angelic Image

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A star can only have a positive representation, if the means of media wasn’t so influential on the many fans who glorify their art. Although the media seeks to destroy this ‘glorified’ image that many fans have set in their minds. For Whitney Houston the media representation, destroyed her somewhat angelic image. Most of her negative features were exposed through emotive, figurative and colloquial language in Mark Seal’s article for Vanity Fair, “The Devils in Diva” written in 2012.
Drug addiction, false love and a gospel conscience were three parts of Whitney Houston. Seal seemed to think Whitney’s voice was almost angelic when he says, “the glory of Whitney Houston’s voice was evidence of the power of God.” Seal uses strong emotive language to represent innocence - Whitney Houston - ‘gospel singer’ with an angelic voice. …show more content…

On the flip side, no one really understood the reasoning for the loss of voice and heart. “Singing about her life”, The Daily Telegraph uses emotive and figurative language to draw on the heartstrings of her many fans, to make them feel as though she has reasons for her actions.
You would imagine a singer to be doing vocal warm-ups or maybe having a little social before a performance. Though it seems Houston defies all this when Daily Telegraph captures the picture shown, in their article titled “Whitney Houston looks exhausted prior to Hunter Valley’s Concert” in February of 2010. Houston was doing the bare minimum, even the photo could illustrate the lack of effort.
We can see through the visual features represented that she is overly exhausted. Houston’s stance shows her having little to no energy. Her hair is less then just wavy, it is dishevelled. The facial expression expressed portrays her as frazzled. The way she was dressed is not what could be considered Valentino, yet alone Kmart, it was … no words can really describe it but scruffy. “Puffy Houston “as Telegraph describes

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