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African-americans in particular gave bhit ne a lot of flack for being a pop star. one time she was at the soul train awards and she was booed. they didn't like the fact she had crossed over into pop superstar.com. they like their black stars so sing r&b. they want these soul stories but whitney was a dressed-up diva. people had problems with it, and so she got alock of backlash for it. i think that's when she began to kind of revert back to her core. she wanted to say, hey, i am t girl from newark. >> in the mtv era, it was very difficult to say, i'm just going to stand here and sing. it's not...