Whitney Houston Rocks Out Thousands of Fans in Central Park for GMA

Whitney Houston rocks Central Park

Whitney Houston is hot on the comeback trail and she has an increasingly anxious fan base awaiting her return to the pop diva throne.

Yesterday, she performed at Central Park in New York City for Good Morning America’s concert series and (though she only performed two songs — which was actually more than she guaranteed GMA (@gma)), her fans seem to like what they see and hear so far.

We’ve heard reports that her voice cracked more times than fans would’ve liked and that her pipes clearly aren’t what they were in her prime. But Ms. Houston has lived and to expect her to have the same songbird voice she had at the tender age of 21 (after battling an addiction to drugs that almost completely ruined her) is probably very unrealistic.

At this point in her long career, Ms. Houston’s legacy and ability to draw crowds to concerts and to iTunes to purchase her music depends more on her baring her soul and showing us how she’s grown and what her struggles have taught us than on her hitting mountain-high musical notes. It is also a harsh lesson in what years of drug abuse can do to raw, god-given talent. As Whitney has said herself (in the famous Diane Sawyer interview she gave years ago):

“Crack is WHACK!”

Crack may be whack, but Ms. Houston is back! Personally, I would rather hear her sing in a whispered tone if she were teaching me something about true life (love, struggles and all) than hear her belting and screaching standard, empty pop lyrics that litter the charts today.

Here is the legend herself singing (captured quite nicely by an adoring fan known only as MFeenz06 on YouTube). The second clip is of Houston and daughter Bobby Christina singing together on stage — enjoying each other and the moment.

It’s Whitney bitches!