A writer for the New York Post has caused uproar, due to an article he wrote that appeared in Friday’s edition of the newspaper with the headline “Sure her death’s tragic – but this is too much.” According to the Dow Jones Newswire, security at the building has been tightened because of a possible bomb threat.

Writer Rod Dreher declares “a traffic-snarling, horse-drawn cortege in honor of a pop singer most people have never heard of? Give us a break!” in his article that upset many Aaliyah fans and admirers.

Dreher compares lyrics of a poem written by Lord Byron, a great poet who died in 1824, to those of a song Aaliyah recently sang. The writer fails to realize times have changed since Lord Byron, and Aaliyah has more fans than he gives her credit for when he writes, “Most people – including, I would wager, 99 percent of those whose holiday-weekend travel will be delayed by her slow-moving equine hearse – first heard the singer’s name in connection with her death.”

He further upsets her supporters when he ends the column by writing the “public funerary gesture as dramatic as a horse-drawn cortege” was “tasteless” of her family. He describes Aaliyah as an “undistinguished singer of forgettable pop songs.” Tasteless can only describe the style in which Dreher expressed his thoughts. While some may believe Dreher is correct by saying a horse-drawn cortege that halts traffic is inappropriate for a singer, his argument, especially comparing her to a poet who died 177 years ago, is inadequate.






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