>i KNOW you saw it...
>she was looking good as a (let me stop lol)

I saw her on Unsung w/Ray Parker Jr. and thought, "you know, Chaka looks a lil smaller"

then I saw her on Piers and was like, "damn, Chaka ain't looked like that in over a decade!"

(speaking of which, they had another '74 clip of her on that Unsung, from Soul Train... damn, damn, damn)


>but anyway,
>i could totally see her having some polyps and just
>never getting them treated properly.
>
>i mean, stevie and chaka and even aretha
>have certainly lost something in terms of their power
>over the years... but as their voice changed,
>they still figured out how to navigate through those changes
>and still put it down... even if they can't wail like they
>used to.
>
>
>
>i think whitney just tried to shout through
>the dammage, and she never got the surgury,
>and she was yelling at bobby brown,
>and she was smoking...
>
>so yeah.
>
>she just didn't take proper care of her voice.

yeah, that's what it boils down to.