Whitney's casket carried out to her singing of I Will Always Love You.....

[jsmirman]

9. Of course the song itself was powerful

it was definitely the overexposure, and the point at which, for all of us, liking the song had to be "ironic."

All of us singers at my college would whale the song at the top of our lungs at the beer and pizza joint next to campus near the close of most nights there. Underneath the "ironic" take on the song, you had to still like it at least just a little bit to trot it out so often.

But given time to rest up again, that song will always have its original power, and the wonderful drama of the silence split by the clear-throated proclamation that is the chorus.