The Devils In Diva Summary

Whitney Houston, had many negative connotations, which are erratically brought out through emotive and figurative 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 the innocent - Whitney Houston the ‘gospel singer’ with a voice from of an angel.
The dusky air, smoky smell and cancer warnings were not enough to keep Whitney Houston off the powder (Illicit substance – cocaine). You may be starting to think she was a hedonist, to be frank, you’re right. How does drugs affect famous stars? In more ways than you think. Well even Seal seems to think Whitney was all about the drugs, when he states, “Whitney Houston was a walking advertisement for the evils of drug abuse.”
The unaware Houston was sacrificing her career for her severe affliction with drugs. “Disjointed”, the only word Larry Shane, writing for the Washington Post under “Whitney Houston Gets Bad Press,” could find to describe Houston’s erratic and unruly behaviour. The use of verbs and adjectives in Shane’s article help to enforce how ridiculous Houston was
Her performance failed to regale the audience, but instead derailed them. Even Telegraph agreed, “her acoustic set of old favourites unfortunately could not hide the obvious problems with her voice, the strains and coughs”. Telegraph uses strong modality and emotive language to position the reader into a negative ideology of her as a singer. “It’s terrible “, “Houston rallied the final three songs”, the use of strong modality and colloquial language used by Telegraph in order to tug on the disappointed heartstrings further. Houston was becoming the singer no one thought she would