The audience isn’t here to be reduced to a hushed awe.
Critics lambasted her for her hoarseness and fans departed as she coughed between and during songs.
The world could only allow themselves a flawless and unharmed vision of Whitney.
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While those shows received middling sales, Whitneys could be the companys greatest success so far.
On this tour, theres no chance of a fall, nor is there any relief in the not-falling.
The focal point of danger has shifted; the onus is now on the technology.
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Gone were any signs of age, wear, or deterioration.
But despite the holograms three-dimensional technology, this was a 2D duplicate of Whitney in every other sense.
But that only made the hologram seem more flat in comparison.
Yet this could never be mistaken for a live Whitney Houston show.
During her live shows, Whitney was enraptured.
Her eyes were often closed as though she was in communion with God.
None of that spiritual ecstasy was present during the Sheffield set.
to the unresponsive hologram just before her rendition of I Will Always Love You.
Of all the audience members I spoke to after the show, none of them had any serious criticisms.
I wanted to go up there and shake her hand.
It was faultless, said one.
Another wished the hologram was fatter, adding that surely she was never that skinny.
In that way, An Evening with Whitney Houston is a successful misremembering of the late Grammy winner.
