That's not cool to abandon what you said. Stand firm on your convictions as anything less is unbecoming. You'll piss people off, you'll have people agreeing with you and some in between. All of that doesn't matter as long as you stay firm in your beliefs. If someone else has an opinion that differs from yours, just be cool about it. I might not agree with you but I'm not going to be an asshole and belittle you for it (Not saying you did). That seems to be where issues start, aye?
I appreciate the advice, but to be clear, I wasn't backing away from what I said, but just saying.... forget that I said it because I wasn't in the mood to defend it. If someone agreed and wanted to continue with the debate, fine, but at that point, I was done. Then, I got a surge of energy (as you could tell). But, yeah, I was more saying, "whatever, believe what you want."
Back on topic, I think everything has the potential to instigate change. Peoples disposition changes, instigating alternate thought that leads to something suggested verbally differently than what would have been thought or said if she didn't die, thus having the potential to change from an original route before the modifier (Whitneys death). Will DT get less attention or more attention? Who knows and no one will ever be able to tell because there will be no point of reference to compare if the Grammys were to take place without the death of Whitney Houston. Based on that logic, its a safe bet that something will change but it's not going to have any sort of negative impact for the band imo.
Well, I don't even mean ONLY for their popularity, but it must suck to have something like this even happen the night before. I'd be bummed out, like I said.